Letters : to Eila M. Kokkinen, 1971-1987.

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Letters : to Eila M. Kokkinen, 1971-1987.

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Includes 9 letters from Herbert Huncke to Eila Kokkinen, written between 1971 and 1972, along with three postcards (1971) from Huncke to Kokkinen, three postcards from Rlene Dahlberg (wife of Edward Dahlberg) to Kokkinen (1971), and a copy of Huncke's GUILTY OF EVERYTHING (Hanuman Books, 1987), inscribed to Eila Kokkinen.

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Dahlberg, Rlene.

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Kokkinen, Eila

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Huncke, Herbert

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Huncke is credited with introducing the term "beat". He met Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs in the 1940s and introduced them to the "seamier" side of life. Huncke appears as a character in Kerouac's On the road, Burrough's Junkie, and John Holme's Go. From the description of Herbert Huncke papers: [ca.1989-1992] (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 36572397 Author and friend of Allen Ginsberg. Huncke was born 9 January 1915. ...