Correspondence : with Tram Combs, 1964 June 21-July 8.

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Correspondence : with Tram Combs, 1964 June 21-July 8.

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A carbon copy of letter from Combs to Whalen and a typescript copy of Whalen's reply (apparently mailed on a postcard), both concerning a collection of San Francisco Bay Area poets' works that Combs edited. Also included is a part-typed, part-holograph airmail postcard from Whalen to Combs listing his publications.

3 items (3 leaves) ; 28 cm. and smaller.

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7341800

University of California, San Diego, UC San Diego Library; UCSD Library

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Whalen, Philip.

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Philip Whalen was a Beat poet and a Buddhist Monk. From the description of Philip Whalen papers, [194-]-2001. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 57586331 Poet; associated with Gary Snyder, Lew Welch, San Francisco beat writers, and Charles Olson; ordained a Buddhist monk in the 1970s; b. 1923. From the description of Philip Whalen Collection, 1958-1977. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28418352 Philip Glenn Whalen w...

Combs, Tram, 1924-

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Elisha Trammel (Tram) Combs, Jr. was born September 25, 1924 in Riverview, Alabama. The son of Elisha Trammel, a cotton mill superintendent, and LaFaye Hunt Combs, Combs was educated in Southern schools until 1936, when his family moved to San Francisco. He became a writer and bookseller and lived in the San Francisco Bay Area until 1951 when he moved to St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, owning and operating a bookstore. He was associated with many well-known writers and was active in gay literary cir...