[Rarebooks] FS: Superb Letter from Allen Ginsberg to William Burroughs about Seattle, a VW camper, backpacking, and the Beatles

[Charles Agvent]

One of about 75 wonderful items, including a number of archives, 
contained in our new internet-only Catalogue--20TH CENTURY LITERARY 
MANUSCRIPTS, LETTERS, AND PHOTOGRAPHS--scheduled to appear on our 
website this coming Monday or Tuesday.

GINSBERG,  Allen.  AUTOGRAPH  LETTER   SIGNED  (ALS)  to  William
Burroughs.  (Seattle): 28 August 1965. Superb AUTOGRAPH LETTER  SIGNED
on  the  verso  of a postcard of the Public Market Center  in  Seattle
using  City  Lights as a return address and sent to Burroughs care  of
Grove  Press.  In full: "Dear Bill-- out in Frisco awhile,  &  visited
Big  Sur, then spent $2000 and bought a Volkswagen 1964 Camper--like a
transisterized  trailer--  now I'm a householder!-- and went  up  here
thru  Crater  Lake  & 2 days backpacking on Mt. Rainer & we'll  go  on
foot  8  days  into Olympia or Cascade Mountains -- Seattle  a  lovely
1920s  America  city  -- great Goodwill Shops &  2'nd  Hand  Clothes &
Tamborine  [sp]  markets--  I'll weave with  Peter  [Orlovsky]  across
states  to  N.Y.  in  a month or more. I'm up here  with  Gary  Snyder
before  he  goes  to Japan again-- How long you be around? I  see  the
Heat  is  closing in on me(?)-- Love Allen. We saw Beatles Concert  in
Portland." Wow! Fine                                          $2500.00

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