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Lot #1415
Allen Ginsberg

“I am here all summer...with a whole gang of poets - Corso, Burroughs this week.”

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“I am here all summer...with a whole gang of poets - Corso, Burroughs this week.”

ALS, one page both sides of a sheet of notebook paper, 8 x 10, June 18, 1975. Letter to Jonathan Roberts, written from the Naropa Buddhist Meditation and Studies Institute, encouraging his friend to come and try it. In part, 'I am here all summer...with a whole gang of poets - Corso, Burroughs this week. Your poems were real, high true poetry. I showed them Gregory C. and Burroughs and Aldman and Philip Whalen.' In fine condition, with a couple pencil notations and light show through. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, addressed in Ginsberg's hand, with his full signature appearing in the return address area. RRAuction COA.

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