Michael McClure letter, [manuscript], [1964?]

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Michael McClure letter, [manuscript], [1964?]

One undated holograph letter signed, written to Bob Wilson of The Phoenix Book Shop, New York, on an illustrated folded card (13 x 9 cm. which opens to 18 x 13 cm.) .

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SNAC Resource ID: 7598905

Indiana University

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McClure, Michael.

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Michael McClure was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist, and part of the Beat Generation of poetry. He was one of five authors who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading, and became close with Jack Kerouac, being immortalized as Pat McLean in Big Sur. He is known as the Prince of the Frisco Scene. From the guide to the Michael McClure letter to Diane di Prima, September 1968, (Ohio University) San Francisco-based ...

Wilson, Robert A. (Robert Alfred), 1922-

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Robert A. Wilson, playwright. From the description of Mother: typescript, 1963 September. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122596864 Robert A. Wilson was the third proprietor of the Phoenix Bookshop from 1962 to 1988. A great lover of literature, he not only sponsored new writers but collected rare books and manuscripts and published the work of many writers of his day. From the guide to the Robert A. Wilson slides, 1956-1969, (The New York Public L...

Phoenix Book Shop

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Independent bookstore located first at 18 Cornelia Street, then at 22 Jones Street in New York City, and operated by Robert Alfred Jump Wilson, 1922-, bibliographer and bookseller. From the description of Records, 1951-1989. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 52430052 From the guide to the Phoenix Book Shop mss., 1951-1989, (Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)) ...