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The archive was organized during two periods of activity: by Burroughs in 1965, and then in 1972 by Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Barry Miles, who divided the manuscripts and typescripts of Burroughs's works and notes into 169 collections of papers which they placed in consecutively numbered folders and portfolios of various sizes, which they ...
The William S. Burroughs Papers contain manuscripts and galley proofs of some of Burroughs's novels, as well as experimental prose, including early examples of Burroughs's cut-up technique, and a small amount of correspondence.
The William S. Burroughs “Vaduz” Archive was organized during two periods of activity, in 1965, by Burroughs himself, and in 1972 by Burroughs and his friends Brion Gysin, the Swiss-Canadian painter,
William S. Burroughs papers (17 linear feet – 94 boxes) are held by the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. William Seward Burroughs Papers, 1957–1976 (2 linear feet) are held in the Columbia University Libraries.
Jul 24, 2009 · The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection has posted the finding aid for the William S. Burroughs Papers. A guide to the papers can now be accessed here (pdf).
Ownership: Owned by William S. Burroughs and sold by him to a financier in Liechtenstein, ca. 1973. Purchased by the Jacksons in the late 1980s. Acquisition: Purchased from Robert and Carol Jackson (Cleveland, Ohio), in 2005.
The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature purchased the weighty collection that is the William S. Burroughs Papers, 1951-1972 (94 boxes, 17 linear feet), in 2006.
