- Box-folder 1:3
1983 September 6 James E. Breslin, University of
California, Berkeley, to Totem/Corinth Press, c/o Ted and Joan Wilentz,
Chevy Chase, Maryland, asks permission to quote, in full, two poems from
Empty Mirror for his book From Modern to Contemporary ; has Ginsberg's
signed permission "form" attached. ,
TLS, 1 page, and TDS, with AN on
bottom back from Ginsberg, telling him to also secure permission from
Totem/Corinth
- Box-folder 1:4
1962 September 28 Allen Ginsberg, Calcutta, India,
to Ted Wilentz, New York City, has been ignoring his correspondence
because of his work on a book for City Lights containing uncollected
magazine poems from 1953-1960, to be called Reality Sandwiches ; has no money worries at
this time; Durga holidays approaching; plans to go to Benares where he
will work on "another book mostly paranoiac poetry about
politics… writings over the last 4 years every time I wanted to
let off steam about Cuba [and] Laos." He also mentions correspondence
from Bertrand Russell warning about the faulty atomic network, and
Creeley concerning an invitation to a poetry seminar at Vancouver next
summer offering a free round trip ticket; the receipt of the
Totem/Corinth books; comments about Calcutta, India, "Yes people
sleeping in streets by millions. But everybody good natured in
suffering, compared to USA. Still there'll be an explosion here too
sooner or later. I guess. I wander around at night on streets a lot,
& taking photos of begging lepers etc. "; and discusses his article
Pa' Lante New Writing : Cuba/Ivan/USA,
1962.
TLS, 1 page, with envelope
- Box-folder 1:4
1962 November 3 Allen Ginsberg, Calcutta, India,
to Ted Wilentz, New York City, both he and Peter [Orlovsky] have
received checks; describes the week he spent in Tarapith, India, "lush
country village miles from road, center for Tantrik holymen pilgrimage,
to worship goddess Tara a form of Kali-used to be famous madman holyman
Bama Kape naked drunk & high on pot lived there -saddhus come from
all over India to meditate on his grave & smoke ganja all day. I
stayed high for 4 days running with gangs of half naked ascetics passing
the pipe around in their huts. Turns out that the whole holyman scene is
almost exclusively a hip pot smoking scene for the last 2,000 years,
that's all they do-some meditation, breathing exercises, austerities,
wandering, poverty, & good cheer-and continuous ritual pot
smoking-most lovely gang of hepcats I ever met. Just like North Beach
except carried to logical extreme. I should have known it all along. For
advanced yoga however ganja, sex,
meat, & travel is verboten." Ginsberg goes on to discuss events in
Cuba [the Cuban Missile Crisis?] and the Indo-China War of 1962,
summarizing "these crises are artificial nerve-wars organized by
government & mass communication."
TLS, 1 page
- Box-folder 1:5
1963 September 12 Allen Ginsberg, City Lights
Books, San Francisco, to Ted Wilentz, New York City, asks for an address
and sends regards to Esther and Kathy,
APCS, 1 page
- Box-folder 1:4
[1963] September 20 Allen Ginsberg, City Lights
Books, San Francisco, to Ted Wilentz, New York City, sends Peter's
address in Benares, India, where he will be until October 8 when he will
fly home; asks if they can borrow two hundred dollars if he needs it to
get home quickly; Robert Frank flying to San Francisco next week to work
on a movie of Kaddish ; and has found an
apartment in a basement on Horatio Street.
TLS, 1 page with envelope, on City Lights Books stationery
- Box-folder 1:5
1973 February 5 Allen Ginsberg, New York City, to
Ted Wilentz, Discovery Bookshop, New York City, asks about some book
orders, mentions his broken leg, and Lucian Carr (1925–2005), who
has a broken leg as well, suggesting books to be sent to him,
APCS, 1 page
- Box-folder 1:5
1973 March 21 Allen Ginsberg, New York, to Ted
Wilentz, Discovery Bookshop, New York City, asks him to bill the
Committee on Poetry for some books to be sent to Bonnie Bremah, who is
studying some Buddhist matters, APCS,
1 page
- Box-folder 1:5
1973 September 21 Allen Ginsberg, Teton Village,
Wyoming, to Ted and Joan Wilentz, New Haven, Connecticut, has heard
about their move to Yale, "They've always been slow literarily and it'll
be a blessing to have an intelligent bookshop there after all these
decades."
APCS, 1 page
- Box-folder 1:5
1973 September 25 Allen Ginsberg, New York City,
to Ted Wilentz, New Haven, Connecticut, asks for help in finding an
article about psychoanalytical study of childhood.
APCS, 1 page
- Box-folder 1:5
1975 March 16 Allen Ginsberg, New York City to
Ted Wilentz, New Haven, Connecticut, just returned from a trip to
Chicago where he gave his first reading with William S. Burroughs,
APCS, 1 page
- Box-folder 1:5
1975 December 28 Allen Ginsberg, New York City,
to Ted and Joan Wilentz, New Haven, Connecticut, has been attending
various Buddhist retreats and Rolling Thunder Dylan Carnivals; has a new
apartment; First Blues now out from Full
Court Press; and will teach the Naropa Sumer Institute again with Anne
Waldman, A
PCS, 1 page, with copy of his poem "Returning to the Country
for a Brief Visit" on the other side
- Box-folder 1:4
1978 August 13 Allen Ginsberg, New York City,
to Ted and Joan Wilentz, New Haven, Connecticut, writes note on bottom
of typed letter from Erich Linder, International Literary Agent, to
Ginsberg requesting permission for Guanda to publish a small book
containing "Empty Mirror" and "Ankor Wat" which is addressed to the
Wilentz couple, giving permission as long as Fernanda Pivano translates
and he contacts them for the contract.
ANS, 1 page
- Box-folder 1:5
1980 March 10 Allen Ginsberg, Boulder,
Colorado, to Ted Wilentz, New York City, sends birthday greetings,
APCS, 1 page
- Box-folder 1:5
1982 September [18?] Allen Ginsberg, New York
City, to Ted Wilentz, Chevy Chase, Maryland, writes he will be at the
Folger Library in Washington on Feb 20-21, 1983, and is on return from
Kerouac Conference in Europe, "a happy gas."
APCS, 1 page
- Box-folder 1:5
1985 December 27 Allen Ginsberg, New York City,
to Ted and Joan Wilentz, Chevy Chase, Maryland, just back from month
-long trip to Vilna, Minsk, and Moscow, etc. saying, "Soviet [Union]
still a grudging nightmare bureaucracy but people full of soul like
200,000,000 Orlovskys. Working on next poetry book."
APCS, 1 page
- Box-folder 1:5
1989 December 22 Allen Ginsberg, New York City,
to Ted and Joan Wilentz, Chevy Chase, Maryland, writes about his new
temporary roommate, a 29 year old Chinese mainland doctoral student, and
"a new album "The Lion for Real" poetry, jazz, and me."
APCS, 1 page,
with printed poem "Homework" by Ginsberg on other side
- Box-folder 1:5
1990 May 11 Allen Ginsberg, New York City,
to Ted and Joan Wilentz, Chevy Chase, Maryland, has returned from Prague
to find their tape and furnishes his itinerary through August.
APCS,
1 page
- Box-folder 1:5
[n.y.] Christmas Day Allen Ginsberg, New York
City, to Ted and Joan Wilentz, Chevy Chase, Maryland, sends Christmas
greetings and inquires about his leg,
APCS, 1 page
- Box-folder 1:5
n.d. Allen Ginsberg, New York City, to Ted
and Joan Wilentz, Chevy Chase, Maryland, will go on reading tour March
15-May 1 and will ask his agent to send a list of the places he goes, in
case Wilentz can sell copies of his book, Empty
Mirrors to bookstores in those areas,
APCS, 1 page
- Box-folder 1:4
n.d. Allen Ginsberg and Peter [Orlovsky] to
Ted Wilentz, sends a greeting card designed by Ruth F. Sasaki, saying
"We played the Greek records - ate blintzes went to R.
Frank's"
- Box-folder 1:6
n.d. Allen Ginsberg and Louis Ginsberg to
[Ted Wilentz?] , writes "We came by to pay our respects respecting your
worship"
ANS, 1 page
- Box-folder 1:7
1963 February 1 Louis Ginsberg, father of Allen
Ginsberg, Paterson, New Jersey, to Ted Wilentz, Eighth Street Bookshop,
New York City, asks him to omit his order for The
Sullen Art and send him Allen's copy instead, as he is
"storing his things here for him until he returns. I surmise he'll make
his base of operations here until he gets restless for new horizons." He
then mentions a few of his recent published poems. Enclosed is a copy of
a news clipping about Louis Ginsberg,
TLS, 1 page with
envelope
- Box-folder 1:8
1962 February 17 Cordula [Koschembahr?], Embassy
Hotel, New York City, to Ted Wilentz, apologizes for not mailing the
enclosed photographs sooner. ALS, 1 page with one photograph of Allen
Ginsberg playing the bongo drums with a friend [Amiri Baraka, formerly
LeRoi Jones?] dated December 1959
- Box-folder 1:9
1983 July 2 Bill Morgan, New York City, to
Ted Wilentz, Chevy Chase, Maryland, former proprietor of the Eight
Street Bookshop in New York, asks Wilentz to contribute something new
about Ginsberg and his accomplishments, for a festschrift in honor of
Allen Ginsberg's 60
th birthday, organized
by himself and Bob Rosenthal. Their purpose was "to show Allen how much
his efforts - poet, political activist, gay pioneer, songster, mediator,
etc., -- have been appreciated over the years. Your participation will
help insure that this festive anthology pays tribute to a significant
voice in American Poetics."
TLS, 1 page with envelope
- Box-folder 1:9
1984 February 23 Bill Morgan, New York City, to
Ted Wilentz, Chevy Chase, Maryland, reminds him about the upcoming
festschrift and its deadline of June 1, 1984. He also mentions they have
heard from more than seventy-five people already.
TLS, 1 page with
envelope
- Box-folder 1:9
1984 July 28 Bill Morgan, New York City, to
Ted Wilentz, Chevy Chase, Maryland, again urging him to send in his
piece about Ginsberg or at least to let him know if he was going to
contribute so he can reserve space for him and go ahead with the book's
layout and design.
TLS, 1 page with
envelope
- Box-folder 1:9
1984 August 6 Bill Morgan, New York City, to
Ted Wilentz, Chevy Chase, Maryland, thanks him for his piece to be
published in the tribute anthology honoring Ginsberg, saying that it
fits in well with what they have received so far. He also typed in up
and mailed a copy back to him for any corrections or changes.
TLS, 1 page with
envelope
- Box-folder 1:9
1986 May 20 Bill Morgan, New York City, to
Ted Wilentz, Chevy Chase, Maryland, informs him that the tribute is near
completion and asks if he has the most current address to mail his copy
of the book, published as Best Minds: Festschrift
for Allen Ginsberg (anthology ed. Bill Morgan and Bob
Rosenthal. New York: Lospecchio, 1986).
TLS, 1 page with
envelope
- Box-folder 1:9
1991 May 17 Bill Morgan, New York City, to
Ted Wilentz, Chevy Chase, Maryland, lets him know how much he enjoyed
meeting him finally at Allen's photograph exhibit; has been working with
Allen on a detailed bibliography for the past eleven years and would
like to talk to him about the Totem/Corinth publication of Empty Mirror in 1961. Morgan wants to be
able to establish the order of printings and asks if he saved one of the
original press runs. If so, does the ad on the last page, page 48,
include a short description of each book or a mere list of each book? He
also has questions about the publication date and number of copies
printed.
TLS, 1 page with
envelope
- Box-folder 1:10
n.d. Charles Plymell and Ann, to Allen
Ginsberg, brief penciled note asking him to call him, ANS,
1 page
- Box-folder 1:11
1984 January 31 Bob Rosenthal, Secretary to
Allen Ginsberg, New York City, to Ted Wilentz, New York City, asks if he
can send a copy of the contract for Empty
Mirror , because Harper & Row will be bringing out
Allen's collected poems in the Fall of 1984,
TLS, 1 page with
envelope
- Box-folder 1:12
1968 July 3 Theodore Wilentz to Allen
Ginsberg, New York City, asks about the farm and Peter Orlovsky and
tells him to stop by the Sierra Club office if he is ever in the
neighborhood,
TLS, 1 page, carbon copy
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