Finding Aid to the Michael and Cynthia Horowitz Collection on Psychedelics
Lara Michels
The Bancroft Library
2024
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
bancref@library.berkeley.edu
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Michael and Cynthia Horowitz collection on psychedelics
Creator:
Horowitz, Michael, 1938-
Creator:
Palmer, Cynthia
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 2023/235
Physical Description:
3.5 linear feet
(2 cartons, 2 flat boxes, 1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1954-2006
Physical Location: Many of the Bancroft Library collections are stored offsite and advance notice may be required for use. For current information
on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language of Material:
English
.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Some materials in this collection were purchased from Michael and Cynthia Horowitz in 2023. Some materials were a gift of
Michael and Cynthia Horowitz in 2023.
Arrangement
Collection is arranged into 5 series: Correspondence and other related documents; Harvard Psychedelic Research Project reports;
Moksha materials; Lysergic World materials; and photographs.
Biographical / Historical
Michael Horowitz (b. 1938) is an historian, archivist, and writer. Raised in Brooklyn, he moved to San Francisco in 1967,
and then to Vancouver in 2006. He served as Timothy Leary's archivist from 1970 until Leary's death in 1996. This work involved
both preserving and disseminating Leary's works. Cynthia Palmer Horowitz (b. 1940) is a director and actress, known for The
Darwin Awards (2006) and AIDS Video Project (1987).
In 1970, Michael Horowitz merged his collection of psychedelic books and papers with those of Robert Barker and William Dailey
and created the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library in San Francisco--the largest library of psycho-active drug related material
in the world. Michael Horowitz and Cynthia Horowitz served as directors of the library. In 2003, The Ludlow Library became
part of the Ludlow Santo Domingo Library in Geneva, Switzerland.
Michael Horowitz is the co-author of the
High Times Encyclopedia of Recreational Drugs, and the
Annotated Bibliography of Timothy Leary. With Cynthia Palmer Horowitz, he is co-editor of
Moksha: Writing on Psychedelics and Visionary Experience, and
Sisters of the Extreme: Women's Writings on the Drug Experiece. Horowitz operates Flashback Books, an online bookstore specializing in printed materials on psycho-active drugs.
Preferred Citation
Michael and Cynthia Horowitz collection on psychedelics, BANC MSS 2023/235, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
Processing Information
Processed by archivist Lara Michels at the folder/item level. Archivist incorporated notes provided to The Bancroft Library
by Michael and Cynthia Horowitz throughout the finding aid (sometimes verbatim). The archivist judged these notes to be key
to understanding Michael Horowitz's and Cynthia Horowitz's own appraisal of the materials in the collection.
Content Description
The Michael and Cynthia Horowitz collection on psychedelics contains letters, manuscripts, inscribed offprints and photographs
of notable psychedelic scientists, researchers and counterculture figures associated with personal psychedelic drug experimentation.
See scope and contents notes throughout the finding aid for additional information.
Conditions Governing Use
Some materials in these collections may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction
of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions,
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that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Horowitz, Michael, 1938- -- Archives
Palmer, Cynthia -- Archives
Aldrich, Michael R.
Ram Dass
Beck, Jerome, 1957-
Bigwood, Jeremy, 1948
Beresford, J.D. (John Davys), 1873-1947
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997
Cohen, Ira
Di Prima, Diane
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
George, Jean-Pierre
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
Gips, Elizabeth
Golas, Thaddeus, 1924-
Halpern, John H.
Harris, Bob, 1946-
Hastings, Arthur (Arthur Claude), 1935-2014
Herman, Jan, 1942-
Hofmann, Anita, 1913-2007
Hofmann, Albert, 1906-2008
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963
Huxley, Francis
Jenks, Shepherd Martin, 1926-2014
Kesey, Ken
Krassner, Paul
Leake, Chauncey Depew, 1896-1978
Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996
Lee, Martin A.
Lewis, David C. (David Christopher), 1956-
Zinberg, Norman E., 1922-1989
McKenna, Terence
Metzner, Ralph
Meyerzove, Leland S.
Orlovsky, Peter, 1933-2010
Osmond, Humphry
Ott, Jonathan
Baker, Jeannine Parvati, 1949-
Poland, Jefferson F.
P-Orridge, Genesis, 1950-2020
Robbins, Tom, 1932-
Riedlinger, Thomas J.
Rudahl, Sharon
Savage, Charles, 1918-2007
Schultes, Richard Evans
Shulgin, Alexander T. (Alexander Theodore)
Shulgin, Ann
Wasson, R. Gordon (Robert Gordon), 1898-1986
Wilson, Robert Anton, 1932-2007
International Conference on Hallucinogenic Mushrooms
Harvard Psilocybin Project
Harvard University. Department of Psychology and Social Relations
Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library
Hallucinogenic drugs -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Psychotropic drugs -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Psychology, Experimental -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Hallucinogenic drugs -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Hallucinogenic drugs -- Psychological aspects
Correspondence and other assorted documents
1950-2005
carton 1, folder 1-3
Michael R. Alldrich--offprints and typescripts
1975-1988
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Drug historian; first cannabis PhD, a leader of Bay Area 1970s decriminalization
movement, founder of Amorphia, curator of Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library; folders include inscribed offprints and signed
typescript of "Master Addicts" with collage and signed typescript photocopy of "Tantric Cannabis Use in India;" photocopies
of typescripts of the following: A Walk Through Drug History; Dope Futures: Visions of Cyberpunk; Heterosexual Injecting Drug
Users; Pearls in the Pigsty: Dope in Film; Who Was Using It?; Cannabis; Marijuana Law Enforcement Costs; Role of Ethnography
in Substance Abuse Research; A Fable of the People of the Blue Planet (intro. to Robert Randall book); and Fitz Hugh Ludlow
Memorial Library newsletters and factsheets. 1975-1995. All inscribed to his Ludlow Library colleagues M & C. Horowitz.
carton 1, folder 4
Richard Alpert (Ram Dass): page of notes regarding child psychology
approximately 1961
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: On reverse are numerous notes regarding setting up of Harvard Psilocybin Project.
"Keep open the possibilities...who can use the subs[tances] under what conditions for what purpose?" "Potential to provide
major emot-intell. solutions...insights." "At present we know effect of set setting and pills major insight relearning and
delearning." Subjective reactions, research plan, "Sandoz" in large letters.
carton 1, folder 5
Richard Alpert (Ram Dass):
1961
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: "A Program of Research with Consciousness-Expanding Substances," Cambridge, 1961.
Purple mimeo, sections I and Ill (II presumably missing). Leary Bibliography LS ("not seen").
carton 1, folder 6
Richard Alpert (Ram Dass): three signed letters to Michael Horowitz
1973-1974
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: about writing something for Leary festschrift, asking for Tim's address in prison,
sending him love.
carton 1, folder 7
Richard Alpert (Ram Dass): assorted letters
approximately 1973
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Photocopy of Nov. 1973 letter from Michael Horowitz to Ram Dass inviting him to
attend opening of "At Folsom Prison," film interview with Leary and thanking him for his contribution to the festschrift for
Leary that Horowitz was editing (which was never published). Also, photocopies of autograph letters from Ram Dassto Hugh Hefner
and to Rosemary Leary.
carton 1, folder 8
Richard Alpert (Ram Dass): other
1954-1995
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Copy of Island Views, Vol. 2, no. 1 (Summer-Fall 1995). Issue dedicated to Alpert/
Ram Dass, with cover photo and 8pp article. Also 8pp Interview with Ann and Sasha Shulgin; Richard Alpert curriculum vita
(1954); Freedomland study guide by Richard Alpert and Timothy Leary (undated); two photographs (Laura Huxley and Ram Dass
in 1990 and Ram Dass with Jackie L., Deidre M., unknown, Rosemay Leary, and Michael Horowitz) (1996).
carton 1, folder 9
Jerome Beck: photocopied typescript of "Public Health Implications of MDMA Use"
1989
Scope and Contents
From Horowitz's notes: A forerunner of Beck's highly regarded book, The Pursuit of Ecstasy (1994), "the first serious study
of the use and effects of MOMA in the real world, as opposed to the pharmacological laboratory" (blurb). One of a few copies
circulated prior to book publication.
carton 1, folder 10
Jeremy E. Bigwood
1976-1977
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Photographer of psychedelic scene and co-author of Teonanacatl. Five letters and
four postcards regarding his drug plant research. Two of the postcards have Bigwood's original color photos mounted: one of
of psilocybin cubenisis mushrooms used on the cover of the McKenna's psilocybin home cultivation guide, the other of opium
poppies.
carton 1, folder 11
Bishop Berkeley letter (copy)
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Letter written by Bishop Berkeley to his friend, Nestor Ironside, editor of the
Guardian, and reprinted in Berkeley's Essays Moral and Polite, 1660-1714, pp. 252-263. (Selected and edited by John and Constance
Masefield. London: Grant Richards, 1906.) Photocopy. Regarding author's use of a snuff with "extraordinary properties" [possibly
opium or hashish?].
carton 1, folder 11A
John Beresford
1993
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: British psychedelic pioneer. Speech delivered at the 50th Anniversary of the Discovery
of LSD celebration at Santa Cruz, April 1993. 5pp typescript with a few corrections, in contemporary photocopy. Two photos
of author at top. Regarding LSD prisoners.
carton 1, folder 12
William Burroughs: "Points of Distinction between Sedative and Halucigen [sic] Drugs."
1961
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Ditto, 5 sheets, stapled. 1st printing; p. 3 is too faint to be read with naked
eye. It is noted on p. 1 that this is a speech given at the American Psychological Assoc. meeting in Sept. 1961 in NYC, invited
there by Timothy Leary. It was another three years before this text was published in the first LSD anthology, LSD: The Consciousness
Expanding Drug (1964) where Burroughs added a paragraph about marijuana. At about the same time it was published in Evergreen
Review. The style of printing is identical to papers by Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky and others run off on the Harvard Center
for Personality by the Leary team who distributed psychedelic drugs to some of the Beats. The print run was usually fewer
than 100 copies.
carton 1, folder 13
Ira Cohen
1976-1995
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Beat poet, publisher, psychedelic photographer & filmmaker . 4 postcards (1976-87),
2 photo-offset poems, signed and inscribed (early 1990s), "The Sign of the Werewolf" and another with "Majoon Traveler" flyer
attached; set of 6 postcards of his photographs (1988), 2 original mailing envelopes (2 from Kathmandu including one with
Cohen's portrait).
carton 1, folder 14
Diane Di Prima
1966-1977
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Autograph postcard (1977); Solstice poem (printed season's greeting, 1983); greeting
card letter to Cynthia Palmer regarding City Lights book launch of Sisters of the Extreme; photocopy of flyer for 1966 Leary
Defense Fund which she headed with Allen Ginsberg (2 autograph post it notes attached; flyer for her course in Sausalito;
autograph note on envelope enclosing flyer for her daughter's performance. Solstice Party invitation 1970s, with 5 lines in
her hand, signed.
carton 1, folder 15
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
1978-2009
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: 2 autograph letters signed and two postcards to Michael Horowitz, regarding Leary,
the City Lights edition of Ludlow's Hasheesh Eater, Journal for Protection of All Beings, Winona Ryder. With three typed letters
From Horowitz to Ferlinghetti, regarding the same. With copy of his "Populist Manifesto" distributed prior to official publication.
c. 1975.
carton 1, folder 15A
Jean-Pierre George
1978
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Typescript photocopy, 21 legal-size sheets, of the English translation of his account
of the Hallucinogenic Mushroom Conference held in SF in 1978, including a visit to the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library where
he met the directors along with Ginsberg, Ferlinghetti and Corso. Detailed account of the conference talks by Hofmann, Wasson,
Shulgin et al. George was a French novelist, journalist, and Sorbonne lecturer, one of the founders of the International Situationists.
This apparently unpublished account in English (it may have been published in a French magazine or journal) is inscribed by
the author to a woman he met at the Ludlow Library when she was on MDA and completely captivated him. Contemporary photocopy
of a unique document.
carton 1, folder 16
Allen Ginsberg: "Today"
1964
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Typescript pink carbon, 5pp., from Journals, July 21, 1964, with poet's signed
handwritten instructions {SO words) to the printer for setting the poem "in same typographical style as Howl"; with harsh
rejection note from Playboy chief editor ("David [Solomon, Playboy editor]-please reject"), probably never delivered to Allen.
This poem, a confessional piece on a day in his life was typed from his journals on July 21, 1964. Ginsberg references Kerouac,
Orlovsky, Fainlight and Samuel Beckett, and describes early sexual memories. The line, "I stuck a needle in my arm and flooded
my head with drowsy bliss," refers most likely to taking a shot of heroin. This poem first appeared in the Yale Literary Magazine
(April 1965), then in book form in Planet News {1968) and then in Collected Poems {1985).
carton 1, folder 17
Allen Ginsberg: "Have had experiences with Mescaline, LSD-25 and Psilocybin" statement
1961
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Written at behest of Timothy Leary and run off at the Center for Personality Research,
Harvard (Jan. 1961). Poet's descriptions of the three psychedelic substances and how they affected him. "Psilocybin seems
to me to be some sort of psychic godsend-it offers unaparalled opportunity to catalyze awareness." Poet's name and date January
1961 below the text. Rare ditto, one page. About 200 words. Likely the only publication of this text, but certainly the first
and only separate printing.
carton 1, folder 18
Allen Ginsberg: Declaration of Independence for Timothy Leary
July 4, 1971
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: San Francisco: Hermes Free Press for Bay Area Prose Poets' Phalanx, 1971. 8pp (2
folded leaves), self-wrappers. 1st Edition, limited 200 copies. This "model statement in defense of the Philosopher's Person
Freedom," with printed names of close to 40 Beat and Counterculture writers and artists, helped Leary get released from Swiss
Prison and thwarted Nixon's plan to extradite him back to the U.S. Authored by Allen Ginsberg For American PEN Club, together
with copy of 2pp press release same day as publication, and 8pp contemporary photocopy typescript of the text before printing.
Leary Bibliography HWS J238.
carton 1, folder 19
Allen Ginsberg: Letter to American Pen Center regarding David Solomon
approximately 1979
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Regarding the incarceration of the American writer David Solomon, editor of three
major anthologies, including LSD: The Consciousness-Expanding Drug (1964), The Marihuana Papers (1966) and The Coca Leaf and
Cocaine Papers (1975). Contemporary photocopy of typescript, 12pp, stapled. Ginsberg's description of Solomon's arrest and
imprisonment in connection with "Operation Julie,11 one of the most publicized LSD busts of the 1970s. Gives Solomon's literary
credentials and poor health in one of England's worst prisons; 2 letters from Solomon to Ginsberg detailing his situation
and suggesting avenues for help (3pp); press reports, including long article by poet and actor Heathcote Williams, "Acid Hunt:
How Julie Smashed LSD Ring: The Great Acid Bust," a detailed report on Operation Julie ("Half the World' Acid Supply") 4pp.
In addition, a one-page contemporary photocopy from Solomon in which he wrote out a lengthy letter of support from Lester
Grinspoon and James Bakalar, authors of key works on marijuana. Signatures of Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky and two further
one line notes by Ginsberg in photocopy. One of a small number of copies submitted to the American Pen Club to have them support
David Solomon as an important literary figure imprisoned by laws against LSD.
carton 1, folder 20
Allen Ginsberg: Naropa Summer Institute Calendar and Workshop program
1983
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Large foldout newsprint, with photos of faculty (Burroughs, Snyder, Creeley, Joan
Halifax) and with large photo of others posing in front of the center, including Ginsberg. Inscribed by Allen Ginsberg to
Michael Horowitz, Aug. 1983.
carton 1, folder 21
Allen Ginsberg: Program for Memorial Tribute
April 1997
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: With all the SF Beat writers present to read.
carton 1, folder 22
Allen Ginsberg: Autographed postcard to "Bodhisattva" Michael Horowitz
August 1970
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Autograph postcard to "Bodhisattva" Michael Horowitz, written at request of imprisoned
Tim Leary, introducing Ginsberg to his archivist, c. 250 words in a small but readable hand. Speaks of his preface to Leary's
Jail Notes and is introducing him to publishers sympathetic to Leary." Signed "Allen G." Unpublished.
carton 1, folder 23
Allen Ginsberg: Postcard poem
1976
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Postcard poem, printed on postcard issued by Unspeakable Visions of the Individual,
1976. "Returning to the Country for a Brief Visit," April 20, 1973, lamenting the deaths of Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac.
carton 1, folder 24
Allen Ginsberg: Note to Michael Horowitz and Robert Barker requesting copies of document
September 1971
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Autograph note (65 words) asking Leary's archivists Michael Horowitz & Robert Barker
to photocopy his attached typed letter to his attorney regarding submission of tracks for Ginsberg's Fantasy LP recording.
carton 1, folder 25
Allen Ginsberg: "I took some benzedrine type-methedrine-and ten mushrooms and sat down to write..."
March 13, 1961
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: "I took some benzedrine type-methedrine-and ten mushrooms and sat down to write..."
About 120 words with typed signature and date March 13, 1961.
Written for Leary's Harvard Psilocybin Project. Later photocopy of unpublished report.
carton 1, folder 26
Allen Ginsberg: Letter to Herbert Huneke
August 1867
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Autograph letter (later photocopy) to Herbert Huneke, 2pp, Aug.1967, advising him
of situation in London regarding heroin addiction treatment, with mentions of Trocchi, Laing, and others. Unpublished?
carton 1, folder 27
Allen Ginsberg: Mock-Sestina: The Conspiracy Against Dr. Timothy Leary by Allen Ginsberg (photocopy)
May 16, 1973
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of poem. On letterhead of rallying point magazine.
carton 1, folder 27A
Elizabeth Gips: Haight Ashbury Pilgrim flyers
1996
carton 1, folder 28
Thaddeus Golas: A Perspective on LSD
undated
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Typescript (contemporary photocopy), 6 pp. typed on rectos only. Golas was the
author of the underground classic, The Lazy Man/s Guide to Enlightenment (1973). Gualala (Mendocino) author.
carton 1, folder 28A
Gracie and Zarkov
1992-1993
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: "Gracie's Visible Language: Can a Psychedelic Show What Human Speech Is Really
Made Of?" Signed photocopy, 4pp article from Gnossis (Winter 1993). Also, "The Myth of Mental Illness." Signed photocopy.
4pp article from Liberty (July 1992).
carton 1, folder 29
George Greer and Requa Tolbert: MDNA research
1983-1990
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: 1. MOMA: A New Psychotropic Compound and its Effects on Humans. Privately printed,
1983. 15pp. One of the earliest papers on the subject. Inscribed. 2. Subjective Reports of the Effects of MOMA in a Clinical
Setting. Offprint from J. Psychoactive Drugs (1986). Inscribed. 3. The Therapeutic Use of MOMA. Photocopied chapter from the
book Ecstasy 1990). Inscribed.
carton 1, folder 30
Scott Hajiccek-Dobberstein article
1995
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: "Soma Siddhas and Alchemical Enlightenment: Psychedelic Mushrooms in Buddhist Tradition."
Offprint from Ethno-Pharmacology (Feb. 1995). Signed.
carton 1, folder 31
John Halpern
1996-2002
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Harvard psychiatrist and psychedelic scientist. 2 autographed letters, totaling
2pp (1998 and 2002). Together with 2 offprints, "The Use of Hallucinogens in the Treatment of Addiction" (1996); "Hallucinogens,
Anesthetic Agents and Amphetamines," both inscribed. With draft of book proposal on psychedelic healing.
carton 1, folder 32
Bob Harris letter and brochure
1978
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Mushroom grower and author of Growing Wild Mushrooms (on hallucinogenic mushrooms).
Typed letter and enclosed brochure for mushroom growing supplies (1978).
carton 1, folder 33
Kathleen Harrison
1997
Scope and Contents
Typescript: Roads Where There Have Long Been Trails: Spirit, Nature and Change in the Mazatec Terrain
carton 1, folder 34
Arthur C. Hastings typecript on MDNA
1993
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Pioneering figure in the field of transpersonal psychology. "Some Observations
on MDMA Experience Induced through Post-Hypnotic Suggestion." Typescript draft, 10pp. Unpublished?
carton 1, folder 35
Jan Herman letters
1973-1974
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Beat publisher, Nova Books, San Francisco Earthquake. 4 typed letters with lengthy
autograph postscripts regarding publishing Burroughs, Gysin, Leary. 1973-74.
carton 1, folder 36
Anita Hofmann letters
1970-1990
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: 2 typed letters, one attaching a list of hers and former husband Abbie's archival
pieces (1970-1990).
carton 1, folder 37
Anita Hofmann letter with attached copy of Timothy Leary letter
1990
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Autographed letter to Michael Horowitz and Cynthia Horowitz (1990), thanking them
for the "[psychedelic] treats we used at Harbin Hot Springs," and attaching a photocopy of a letter from Tim Leary to her
ex-husband Abbie in prison in 1981, full of praise and encouragement. "Do not doubt yourself. History will justify everything
you have done." All unpublished.
carton 1, folder 38
Anita Hofmann: letters to Michael and Cynthia Horowitz regarding Anita's death
1999
carton 1, folder 39
Anita Hofmann: interview by Daniel Waller
1998
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Unpublished interview conducted by Daniel Waller in Petaluma, CA in June 1998.
Typescript photocopy, 18pp. About the 60s counterculture, husband Abbie, anti-Vietnam War protests, birth of the Yippies and
their activities including the protest at the Democratic National Convention.
carton 1, folder 40
Anita Hofmann: clippings on death, obits
1999
carton 1, folder 41
Albert Hofmann: article
1961
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Die Workstoffe der Mexikanischen Zauberdroge." Offprint from Planta Medica (Stuttgart,
Dec. 1961). 1st Separate Printing of the discovery of lysergic acid amides in morning glory seed (thus, the first synthesis
of LSD from a higher plant). Hofmann's third greatest discovery, after his synthesis of LSD and of Psilocybin. Inscribed by
the author to Michael Horowitz.
carton 1, folder 42
Albert Hofmann: article
1963
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: The Active Principles of the Seeds of Rivea Corymbosa and lpomoea Violacea." Preceded
by: WASSON, R. Gordon. "Notes on the Present Status of Ololiuhqui and Other Hallucinogens of Mexico." Cambridge: Botanical
Museum Leaflets, Vol. 20, no. 6 (Nov. 22, 1963). 1st Printings of both papers. Hofmann paper inscribed by the author to Michael
Horowitz (1976). Last few leaves lightly creased.
carton 1, folder 43
Albert Hofmann: article
1970
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: "Notes and Documents Concerning the Discovery of LSD." Offprint from Agents and
Actions (Basel, 1970). Inscribed to the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library in 1977.
oversize_folder 1A
Albert Hofmann: article
1979
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: "Planned Research and Chance Discovery." In Sandoz International Gazette no. 23
(July 1979). Oversize journal, 3500-word article on his discovery of LSD, with 12 illustrations, some quite large, showing
Hofmann's lab and his fellow chemists, rare engravings of ergot of rye, and ancient physicians, etc. Printed complimentary
card from Sandoz with Albert Hofmann's name typed in, with original Sandoz mailing envelope to the Ludlow Library.
carton 1, folder 44
Albert Hofmann: article
1970
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: "Les Hallucinogenes" in La Recherche (July-Aug, 1970), pp. 239-262, printed in
double columns in large format magazine, profusely illustrated. Color cover photo of a highly magnified crystal of LSD. In
the white margin just above the photo, Hofmann has written "LSD" with an arrow pointing to the striking photograph. One of
his longest and most thorough articles to appears in a popular magazine, covering the history of hallucinogenic drug research
up to LSD and psilocybin. Includes 10 illustrations and 2 tables.
carton 1, folder 45
Albert Hofmann: LSD: A Generation Later colloquium brochure
1977
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Promotional announcement for colloquium, "LSD: A Generation Later," held at UC-Santa
Cruz, Oct. (1977). Photo of Albert Hofmann, "Father of the Psychedelic Age, Discoverer of LSD, Psilocybin and Psilocin." List
of invited guests include underground LSD chemist Owsley, Ram Dass, Ginsberg, Grof, Kesey, Leary, Lilly, Metzner, et al. This
was Hofmann's first visit to the U.S. to speak at a conference. Printed on stiff glossy paper, folded as issued.
carton 1, folder 46
Albert Hofmann: High Times interview by Michael Horowitz
1976
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: High Times Interview conducted by Michael Horowitz, 1976. Proof sheets, 44pp +
2 pp. typed introduction, with corrections by drug historian Michael Aldrich. Together with: 2 typed letters signed by Hofmann
with mailing envelopes regarding the interview, photocopy of letter from Michael Horowitz to AH concerning same, photo of
Hofmann and Horowitz taken at time of interview and used in High Times, and small portion of the typescript of the
interview corrected in Hofmann's hand. Accompanied by a copy of the magazine, High Times no. 11, where interview (the first
to be published in the U.S.) appeared. See: Part I for a description of the photographs taken during this interview
carton 1, folder 47-48
Albert Hofmann: Letters to Michael Horowitz
1971-2005
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: 20 autograph and typescript letters, signed, to Michael Horowitz, between 1971
and 2005 (one in photocopy). Subjects include: LSD (scientific, sociological, political aspects), the Ludlow and Ludlow-Santo
Domingo Libraries, the Albert Hofmann foundation, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, his autobiography LSD: My Problem Child,
Michael Horowitz & CH's books Moksha (to which he contributed a Preface), Shaman Woman, Mainline Lady, Lysergic World (to
which he contributed the featured text), his interview in High Times magazine conducted by Michael Horowitz, psychedelic conferences,
misgivings about the Hofmann Foundation's fund-raising plan, 19th century German psychoactive drug pioneer Ernst von Bibra,
Fitz Hugh Ludlow and other historical figures in psychoactive drug history. Each with original mailing envelope.
carton 1, folder 49
Albert Hofmann: Photocopies of letters from Michael Horowitz
1971-2005
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Photocopies of about 25 Michael Horowitz's letters to Hofmann.
carton 1, folder 50
Albert Hofmann: Statement for the opening of the Ludlow Santo Domingo Library
2005
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Statement for the "Opening of the Ludlow Santo Domingo Library, 5 March 2005. The
L.S.D. Library, now at Harvard, is the largest in the world on mind-altering drugs. One page typescript, sent from Basel as
Hofmann was too ill to attend. Original photocopy, stamped "L.S.D. Library." A limited number of photocopies were made from
the original text. Unpublished.
carton 1, folder 51
Albert Hofmann: Miscellaneous
1970-2005
carton 1, folder 52
Michael and Cynthia Horowitz: Assorted incoming correspondence
1968-1979
carton 1, folder 53
Michael Horowitz: ARCANA (Archival Reality Conference Advocating Neutrality of Archivists
1975
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Documents pertaining to Horowitz' appearance before Leary Grand Jury and the formation
of ARCANA (Archivists Bill of Rights). Five pieces including press coverage. San Francisco, Aug. 6, 1975.
carton 1, folder 54
Aldous Huxley (essay by Alexander Birch)
2001
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Typescript, "Aldous Huxley and the Visionary Experience" (2001), 13pp. Inscribed.
carton 1, folder 55
Francis Huxley postcard
1990s
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Psychedelic anthropologist, nephew of Aldous, son of Sir Julian Huxley). Autograph
postcard (1990s), signed.
carton 1, folder 56
Shep Jenks
1995
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: An Analysis of Risk Reduction among Organized Groups that Promote Marijuana and
Psychedelic Drugs. Offprint (1995). Inscribed
carton 1, folder 57
Ken Kesey: Search for Communication with Higher Intelligence
1975
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Initial Probe. Agent: Kesey. Pleasant Hill, OR, Jan. 1, 1975. 17pp. photo offset
printed from typescript on thick paper in an edition of approximately 20 copies for circulation to friends and supporters
of the imprisoned Leary who had not been heard from for close to a year but was rumored to be in Federal custody. This copy
was sent to Michael Horowitz, Leary's archivist, with Kesey's holograph notes to Horowitz of approximately 100 words+ 35 further
words at end; Ken Babbs, holograph note, about 60 words. 16 recipients listed including Pres. Ford, the Wardens of Folsom
and Vacaville prisons where Leary had last been seen, the Director of the FBI, Burroughs, Ferlinghetti, Ram Dass. Bound with
keychain through holes punched in upper left margin of each sheet. Leary had promised to edit Kesey's and Babbs' journal,
Spit In the Ocean, No. 3 (1977) which he edited after he was released from prison. With original mailing envelope.
With additional letters from Babbs to Leary (4,totaling l0pp) and Horowitz, including signed photocopies, regarding publication
of the Leary-edited journal.
Leary Bibliography HS.
carton 1, folder 58
Ken Kesey: St. Timothy on the Freeway
1971
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: "St. Timothy On the Freeway." 2pp typescript, annotated by Allen Ginsberg (contemporary
photocopy) written for Allen to pass along to Michael Horowitz for his intended festschrift for Timothy Leary while Leary
was on the run from prison escape. 1971. "Dear Old Ginzy/ This is a thing I wrote on psilocybin after reading that old Oracle
issue with you and Tim and Snyder and Watts...." Unpublished as the festschrift was abandoned.
carton 1, folder 59
Mati Klarwein note to Michael Horowitz
undated
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Pre-eminent psychedelic artist. Autograph note to Michael Horowitz, asking if he
has copies of his own book God Jokes. approximately 25 words written on back of large postcard reproduction of one of his
paintings from a gallery exhibit in Majorca, where he lived.
carton 1, folder 60
Paul Krassner letters
1975-2002
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Yippie activist, publisher of The Realist. 2 typed letters {1975 and 1994), regarding
Tim Leary.
carton 1, folder 61
Chauncey Leake letter
1976
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Pharmacologist, medical historian, anaethesia pioneer. Autograph letter to Michael
Horowitz, Jan 1976, thanking him for the copy of the Ludlow Library edition of The Hasheesh Eater; compares De Quincey and
Fitz Hugh Ludlow.
carton 1, folder 62
Timothy Leary: Psychedelic Religious Celebrations
1966
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: 2pp, printed on both sides in green ink. 1966. Basically a press release/ flyer
giving a detailed account of the psychedelic theatrical events planned by the League for Spiritual Discovery at the Village
Theatre in New York in the fall of 1966. Background, Ceremonies, and Method. About 500 words. HWS L20.
carton 1, folder 63
Timothy Leary: League for Spiritual Discovery bibliography
1966
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: A Short Bibliography of LSD-Type Drugs and LSD-25 (Millbrook, 1966). 4pp mimeo,
stapled. 60 entries, many priced for sale.
carton 1, folder 64
Timothy Leary: Journal of Social Issues
1950
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Journal of Social Issues (1950). Leary and three colleagues jointly produced this
65pp issue on group psychotherapy. An early Leary journal publication, published on the cusp of receiving his Ph.D from UC
Berkeley. Leary's personal copy, with contemporary signature "Leary" on front cover. Covers lightly creased. Leary bibiography
HWS CS.
carton 1, folder 65
Timothy Leary: Program for Training in Creativity
1962
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: "Program for Training in Creativity." Center for Research in Personality, Jan.
1962. Purple mimeo, 3pp, stapled. A follow up to Barron and Leary's paper, "To Find and Foster the Creative," a side project
of the Leary team, whose members Alpert, Metzner and Littwin are named as working on the project. HWS AA28.
carton 1, folder 66
Timothy Leary: Concord Prison Rehabilitation Program, Freedom Center Incorporated
1962
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: [Concord Prison Rehabilitation Program] "Freedom Center Incorporated" Purple mimeo,
3pp, stapled. Center for Research in Personality, no later than June 1962. Report on the initial phrase of the Concord Prison
Psilocybin Experiment, and application for budget from June-Oct. 1962 to continue research program. One of the most significant
research projects of the Leary team, the first of its kind. Not in Leary bibliography, but see HWS AA 37.
carton 1, folder 66A
Timothy Leary: Ticket to Ride
1974
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: "Ticket to Ride..."Terra II." Rare Leary ephemeron, created by Michael Horowitz
and Dana Reemes. Promotional piece for the publication of Terra II, one of Leary's prison books, printed on blue paper, measuring
2-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches. With caricature of Leary by R. Crumb and Leary's facsimile signature. 1974. HWS L56
carton 1, folder 66B
Timothy Leary: Los Angeles Times statement
1992
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Statement for LA Times, written during the 1992 presidential campaign. 60 words
typed on computer, and signed "for LA Times, 9-9-92" in Leary's hand.
carton 1, folder 67
Timothy Leary: Summary of research projects executed by Harvard IFIF group between 1960 and 1963
undated
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: One page typescript (later photocopy) of the 7 projects with number of cases, ingestions
[of psilocybin], subjects, type of data and publications.
carton 1, folder 68
Timothy Leary: Religious Implications of Consciousness Expanding Drugs
1963
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Co-authored with Walter Houston Clark. Preprinted from Religious Education, May-June
1963. 8pp. Signed by Timothy Leary. HWS AA4lb.
carton 1, folder 69
Timothy Leary: Statement of Purpose of the International Federation of Internal Freedom
1963
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Co-authored with Walter Huston Smith. Cambridge, Jan. 1963. Leaflet, one folded
sheet making 4 pages. The organization, known as IFIF, was started while Leary was still at Harvard but foreseeing the need
for an organization apart from the university. Signers apart from Leary and Smith, include Richard Alpert, Walter Houston
Clark, Rolf von Eckartsberg, Paul Lee, Geoge Littwin, Ralph Metzner, Gunther Weil and Alan Watts. Written largely by Leary.
HWS AA38.
carton 1, folder 70
Timothy Leary: Playboy Interview
1966
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Separate Printing, an offprint from the magazine.12pp, stapled, with 3 photos of
Leary. The famously controversial interview, in which Leary claimed LSD taken under the right conditions could be a powerful
aphrodisiac. 'Reprinted from the September 1966 issue" at end. Playboy rarely if ever published separate reprints of the articles
they published. HWS AA47.
carton 1, folder 71-73
Timothy Leary: LSD: The Consciousness Expanding Drug
1964
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Complete manuscript and mock-up of the first LSD anthology in the state before
galleys. 15 of the 16 chapters are present, as is Timothy Leary's introduction (28pp + authors corrected galleys) and the
previously published chapter, "How to Change Behavior." Other contributors include Burroughs, Watts, Huxley, Humphry Osmond,
Huston Smith and other pioneers of psychedelic research. Typescripts and original photocopies from publications submitted
by the contributors to the editor David Solomon. Additional material include mock-up of cover, publishing contract, and other
materials pertaining to the publication. The first book about psychedelics to reach mass market status. From the estate of
David Solomon.
carton 1, folder 74-75
Timothy Leary: The Berkeley Lectures
1969
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: School in Berkeley sponsored by FUB (Free University of Berkeley), Feb. 12-22,
1969. 194pp. Contemporary photocopy of typescript made from transcript of the lectures, copiously revised and corrected by
Leary (in the photocopy) on all but 30pp of Lecture I. Topics: Psychedelic Psychology, The Psychedelic Marriage, How To Drop
Out, The Hedonic Revolution, The Hedonic Society of the Future. With photocopies of FUB catalog listing the event, and coverage
in the Berkeley Barb. Differs greatly from the version published 30 years later in The Delicious Grace of Moving One's Hand
(1998).
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Timothy Leary: How to Use Your Head: II. The 21st Century Zodiac (typescript)
undated
Scope and Contents
Other title: The Game of Life: The Neurological Zodiac.
carton 1, folder 76
Martin A. Lee letter
1981
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Author of Acid Dreams, etc. Autographed letter, 2pp (1981) regarding Allen Ginsberg
and Ezra Pound.
carton 1, folder 77
David C. Lewis and Norman E. Zinberg writings
1964
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Harvard drug addiction experts; Zinberg wrote Drug, Set and Setting. "Narcotic
Usage," Pt. 1 and 2. New Eng. J. Med., May 1964. 2 papers, one inscribed to Michael Horowitz. Together with: "Heroin Chippers"
{1994). 8pp, typescript photocopy. "In press: Drugs and Society" in author's hand. 3 papers.
carton 1, folder 77A
George H. Litwin: Psilocybin session report
early 1960s
carton 1, folder 78
Terence McKenna letter to Michael Horowitz
1979
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Typed letter. Signed to Michael Horowitz, Nov. 1979. One page, giving permission
for Michael Horowitz to use the real names of the McKenna brothers in addition to their pseudonyms, Oss and Oeric, in offering
a first edition of their book, Psilocybin: Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide (1976). The catalog was W and V Dailey, Phantastica
(1979). With original mailing envelope.
carton 1, folder 79
Terence and Kathleen McKenna correspondence with Michael Horowitz
1986-1992
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Two typed letters from Hawaii on his personal letterhead of an octopus with a mushroom
perched on top, 1987, and one ANs., together with carbon copies of 4 letters from Horowitz, who had just started Flashback
Books and was quoting out titles to McKenna who comments on his interest in the books (M.C.Cooke's Fungi; Sanders' The Family;
Richard Horn's Encyclopedia; Voynich's The Gadfly, and a book on the satanic Church of the Process.
carton 1, folder 80
Terence McKenna flyer
1988
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Flyer for "An Evening with Terence McKenna on 'The Light at the End of History;"
In LA, 1988. A benefit for Botanical Dimensions, with note from Kat McKenna on a fractal postcard they are distributing. With
mailing envelope.
carton 1, folder 81
Terence and Kathleen McKenna issues of Plant Wise
1989
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Issues nos. 1 & 2 of Plant Wise, the Newsletter of Botanical Dimensions (Aug. 1989
& Winter 1989). Contains short articles by Terence and Dennis McKenna, Kat McKenna (the editor) and the renowned ethnobotanist
Richard E. Schultes, signed by Dennis McKenna.
carton 1, folder 82
Terence and Kathleen McKenna correspondence with Michael Horowitz
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Typed letter from Terence and Kathleen McKenna, fundraising for their organization,
Botanical Dimensions, giving detailed description of their aims: "To collect, protect, propagate and understand plants of
ethnomedical significance and their lore through the world." 3pp, signed in ink by both.
carton 2, folder 1
Ralph Metzner offprints
1964-1998
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: 7 signed offprints; some appear to be extracts. The earliest from Psychedelic Rev.
#4 (1964) has a brief note identifying his contributions. Journals sources include Eleusis,
Sphinx (2), Shaman's Drum (2) and MAPS Newsletter. The subjects are shamanism, psychedelic plants, long-term effects, controversies,
etc.
carton 2, folder 1A
Leland Meyerzove
1967
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Haight Ashbury counterculture figure and Be-In organizer. "A Psalm Upon The Gathering
Of All The Tribes." Iconic SO-line poem written for the first Human Be-In San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, Jan. 1967, contemporary
purple mimeographed printing, one page, includes quotes from Richard Alpert in the San Francisco Oracle, together with a 4-page
analysis of the poem by student-activist Elizabeth Hallett.
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Peter Orlavsky letter to Timothy Leary
1961
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Report on his psilocybin experiment addressed to Timothy Leary in the form of a
letter printed in purple mimeo. Dated Jan. 5, 1961. 350 words. A deep dive into the psychedelic experience written in prose
poetry....These reports by Beat writers and others were printed by Leary and associates on the office mimeograph machine at
Harvard in small numbers as part of the subjective records.
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Humphry Osmond transcript of talk
1967
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Psychedelic pioneer (coined term "psychedelic"), led the earliest North American
experiments, turned on Huxley, authored many classic works. Typescript, "My Contribution to the Conference of the Parapsychology
Foundation in May 1967 at Le Piol, France." 11pp, transcribed from a tape recording. Apparently unpublished. Contemporary
photocopy (one of only 4 copies made) inscribed by Osmond 13, Dec. 1973 to Richard [? from internal evidence, not Richard
Alpert] with 3 other names listed to whom he also distributed photocopies ("AH" likely Albert Hofmann; Alex Randall. There
are some minor corrections in the typescript, some in photocopy and some in ink. The conference proceedings were not published,
except for a book presenting a brief abstract of each of the talks. Deals with the history of the psychedelic movement from
Osmond's perspective, from 1960-1967, with much critical of Leary's role.
carton 2, folder 4
Jonathan Ott letters
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Author of half a dozen major works on sacred plants and psychedelic culture, including
the standard bibliography, Pharmacotheon. One autograph and 4 typed letters, sgd. Mostly about distributing his 4-volume work
and his book collecting interests. 1995-97.
carton 2, folder 5
Jeannine Parvati email (printed) to Michael Horowitz
undated
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Author of Hygeia: A Women's Herbal. Email to Michael Horowitz is response to receiving
Sisters of the Extreme to which she contributed a piece on giving birth while under LSD.
carton 2, folder 6
Torsten Passie letters and offprints
2002-2005
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Leading psychedelic scientist. Autograph postcard, sgd. with photo glued on. Undated,
but circa 2005. The Pharmacology of Psilocybin," 8pp, (2002); "MDMA and Sexual Function" (2012). 2 offprints, inscribed.
carton 2, folder 6A
Jefferson F. Poland
1972-1973
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: 3 typed letters. 1. To the Church of All Worlds, 19 July 1972. 2pp, c. 1,000 words.
My personal comments upon CAW's "Open Communique To All Members of the Council of Themis, referencing The Church of the Eternal
Source, Delphic Fellowship, Dancers of the Sacred Circle, Rainbow Coven." Signed "Jefferson Fuck, beggar." Stamp of Psychedelic
Venus Church; 2. To the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library, 14 Jan. 1973, enclosing a file of inquiries received in 1968 by
the California Branch of the Neo-American Church, with description of the contents. Signed "Jefferson Clitlick." Typed letterhead
of Committee on Religious Cannabis; 3. To the doctor in charge of the Co-Op Pharmacy, Ashby and Telegraph, undated but c.
1973. One page. Asking that rather than discarding his expired Marijuana tax stamp, he give it to the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial
Library. Signed "Jefferson Fuck." Typed letterhead of the Psychedelic Venus Church, Sather Gate Station, Berkeley.
carton 2, folder 7
Genesis P-Orridge
1994
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: British Composer/musician/activist-Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV. 3 letters to
Michael Horowitz of which two are typed and one handwritten, 1994-1999. Thanking him for a copy of Leary's Chaos and Counterculture
which Horowitz edited, and other personal matters of his life in the US post-Acid House. Color photo of him performing at
the Knitting Factory in a Free Winona [Ryder] t-shirt, c. 2002
carton 2, folder 8
Tom Robbins letter
1989
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: American novelist and close associate of Leary and McKenna. Typed letters to Michael
Horowitz, enclosing 2-page typescript of his introduction to the 2nd edition of Leary's The Politics of Ecstasy (Berkeley,
1990), inscribed to Michael Horowitz, the editor of that edition. On Robbin's personal letterhead of "The Union of Mad Scientists."Robbins
compares Leary to Galileo. Together with a handwritten postcard introducing himself.
carton 2, folder 9
Tom Riedlinger letter and research materials
1985-1994
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Psychedelic scholar, Wasson biographer. Printout for workshop "Existential-Transactional
Psychology: A Founder's Forum with Timothy Leary." 8pp, inscribed. 1993; "Psychedelic and Entactogenic Drugs in Treatment
of Depression." Offprint (1994) with wife June. Inscribed by both authors; signed letter regarding upcoming MOMA testimony
of wife June in DEA hearings, 1985.
carton 2, folder 10
Sharon Rudahl
1986
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Author of classic drug erotica, Acid Temple Ball, excerpted in Shaman Woman, Mainline
Lady, and underground cartoonist aka "Mary Sativa." Autograph letter signed "Sativa," 2 greeting cards, and a postcard signed.
carton 2, folder 11
Nick Sand
approximately 1967
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Psychedelic chemist for the Brotherhood of Eternal Love; co inventor of Orange
Sunshine LSD, one of the most famous undergound brands. Later photocopy of typed document by Timothy Leary on League for Spiritual
Discovery letterhead, asking for safe passage for Sand as emissary for the League. c. 1967.
carton 2, folder 11A
Charles Savage offprint ("Psychedelic Therapy")
1968
carton 2, folder 12
Richard Evans Schultes
1978-1994
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: "Father of Modern Ethnobotany," and psychedelic plant explorer, co-authored books
and papers with Wasson and Hofmann, eg., Plants of the Gods, Botany and Chemistry of Hallucinogens, Where the Gods Reign,
Vine of the Soul. etc. Seven autograph letters signed, and two typed letters signed, all with original mailing envelopes,
to Michael Horowitz, 1978-1994. regarding Horowitz' gift of Huxley's Moksha; the 2nd Hallucinogenic Mushroom Conference in
San Francisco; the Harvard Botanical Museum; his own books and those of Wasson's; orders from Flashback Books catalogs. Two
invitations to events honoring Schultes and one publisher's prospectus for Vine of the Soul and Reign of the Gods. With carbon
of letter from Horowitz to Schultes, with original mailing envelopes. Together with a 23-page New Yorker profile extract from
mag.
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Alexander T. and Ann Shulgin correspondence
1974-1979
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Pre-eminent psychedelic chemist, developed MOMA; discovered 2C-B and synthesized
close to 200 psychoactive compounds. 1. Typed letter to Robert Barker, Ludlow Library co-director. July 1974. News about
a new edition of Ethnopharmaco/ogic Search for Psychoactive Drugs 1967 edition to which Shulgin was a contributor and the
Ludlow Library was considering to reprint (Raven Press reprinted in 1979). Planning visit to Ludlow Library "to get the Huxley
material" for research for his introduction to 1977 edition. 2. Typed letter to Michael Horowitz, Feb. 1976. More details
concerning the Raven Press reprint of Ethnopharmacological Search. Bo Holmstedt visited and "promised to cooperate" on a new
edition if the Ludlow Library published it (which did not happen). Holmsted, distinguished Swedish drug researcher, was a
major contributor to the book. "Hope all is going well with Moksha which was published one year later with Shulgin's intro.
Signed "Sasha." Margin darkened on one side not affecting text. 3. Typed letter to Michael Horowitz, Sept. 1978. regarding
Huxley letters at auction, Wasson's new book, Ludlow Library reception for psychoactive drug conference, and their proximity
on Medocino coast to location of Michael Horowitz's home. With mailing envelope. 4. Typed letter (photocopy) from Michael
Horowitz to Shulgin (May 1979), regarding Moksha, Shaman Woman, Mainline Lady and transmitting message from Tim Leary regarding
financial backing for Shulgin.
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Alexander T. and Ann Shulgin correspondence
1983-1987
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Typed letter (photocopy, 2pp) Michael Horowitz to Shulgin (Sep. 1983), describing
in detail the experience of himself and his wife Cindy with MOMA, and referencing the Santa Barbara conference. Typed letter
from both Sasha and Ann to Michael Horowitz, Feb, 1987, regarding a peyote book unknown to Shulgin which he would like, and
thanks for the convivial evening spent at the Shulgins, references to CH's accidental LSD overdose and the value of knowing
how she was not damaged by it. With mailing envelope. Autographed note to Michael Horowitz 1987, enclosing 8 x 120's Adam
(MOMA no longer present). "Use them with a good heart." Written one year after the drug became illegal.
carton 2, folder 15
Alexander T. and Ann Shulgin correspondence
1991-1993
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Typed letter (carbon copy) from Horowitz to the Shulgins. Will distribute flyers
for their book Pikhal; enclosed audiotape of UK band The Shamen because of their mdma music, references famous Mayhew MP mescaline
trip, and enclosed something called "moonlight" for Sasha to analyze in his lab.
Post-it stuck on: "You'll get your copy [of Pihkal) after Oct. l5t. c. 1992. Signed by Ann "Ann & Sasha." Autographed letter
to Michael Horowitz, seeking Ram Dass's address to forward him a cartoon with his name in it found in a local Bay Area newspaper.
"PIKHAL goes on and on quite steadily. We are now into a second printing... I feel we are achieving our goal-to get it so
widely scattered that it cannot ever be effectively censored. Work proceeds apace on TIKHAL, the tryptamine counterpart."
Oct. 1992 with mailing envelope. Autographed letter to Michael Horowitz, enclosing an article by Art Hoppe about Tim Leary
from the SF Chronicle and commenting on it ("a thinly disguised, bitter column"), May 1993. With mailing envelope.
carton 2, folder 16
Alexander T. Shulgin manuscripts and writings
1983-1986
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: "Drugs of Perception," 11 pp contemporary photocopy of famous talk given by Shulgin
at the Psychedelics II Conference, Santa Barbara, May 1983. Inscribed on p. 1 by Timothy Leary: "This inspiring lecture was
delivered at the Santa Barbara LSD Conference by Sasha Shulgin, May 1983." Signed in full. Stapled as issued. Some minor wrinkling
at front and back. This was inscribed by Leary (who attended the talk, and was given it by Shulgin) for Horowitz, to whom
he gave it at the conference. Superb association copy of this unpublished talk, one of Shulgin's most eloquent, in which he
spoke of the world-saving potential of both psychedelic and empathogenic drugs. Also, offprint of "A Protocol for the Evaluation
of New Psychoactive Drugs in Man," photocopy of offprint from Clin. Pharmacol. (1986), 8pp, signed by Sasha Shulgin and L.
Ann Shulgin, the two principal authors. regarding the evolution of the Shulgin's experimental protocols for studying the effects
of drugs, esp. MDMA, on their subjects.
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Alexander T. Shulgin arrrest materials
1994-1996
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: "Halloween Night, Oct. 31, 1994." Typescript copy, l0pp. Detailed account of the
shocking DEA bust at the Shulgin's home, with typed note attached asking people to burn the earlier copy as it might be used
against them. Together with: Typescript {1996) detailing the Shulgin's 1994 drug raid by federal agents, terminating his work
and assessing him a fine of $2SK, and the setting up of a fund (Shulgin Trust) to help them pay additional legal costs of
$1SK. Written by Bob Wallace who ran the Fund. There is a separate typed & photocopied PS by Ann Shulgin about the Shulgin's
concerns regarding people's fear that their personal papers were seized by the DEA during the raid, but assures people they
weren't taken. With mailing envelope. A limited number of copies were made and distributed to friends of the Shulgins.
carton 2, folder 18
R. Gordon Wasson correspondence
1978-1984
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Typed letter to Michael Horowitz on letterhead, March 1978. 1 page. Mentions Huxley's
Moksha, his late wife Valentina's article, "I Ate the Sacred Mushroom," Estrada's book on Maria Sabina ("the first time that
a text of a shaman is being given to us by someone who spoke her language") and his own recent publications, The Road to Eleusis
and Maria Sabina and the Mazatec Mushroom Velada. Also, autographed letter (Jan. 1984), thanking Michael Horowitz for the
check (enclosed, endorsed by RGW), the documents and the copy of Shaman Woman, Mainline Lady. Refers to an edition of Etidorhpa
(a mushroom allegory) he did not know. Is working on his final book [Persephone's Quest].
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R. Gordon Wasson typescript and correspondence
1979
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Typescript of Wasson's foreword to Dailey Rare Books book catalog no. 13 (1979)
Phantastica: Rare & Important Psychoactive Drug Literature 1700 to the Present, submitted in photocopy with copious annotations both in the photocopy and directly in ink, signed in ink with initials at
the end. Sept. 1979. Together with: correspondence relating to the publication, consisting of two typed and one autograph
letter from Wasson to Horowitz, carbons of two letters from Horowitz to Wasson, and about 12 letters between Horowitz and
the Daileys, largely concerning Wasson's introduction and issues around it with Wasson also referring to his published works.
This typescript is the first draft and is notable for a paragraph advocating drug legalization to end the war on drugs, about
which Wasson rarely wrote or spoke. This paragraph was left out of the printed version, and only appears in this typescript.
carton 2, folder 20
Robert Anton Wilson draft typescript
1978-1984
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Berkeley novelist, Leary collaborator and co-author. Original typescript of what
appears to be the first draft copy of the three-volume novel, heavily revised in the author's hand, with sheets of text inserted
or pasted in. 116 leaves. The Schrodinger's Cat trilogy (1979-1981) is one of Wilson's most ambitious and beloved novels.
It consists of three volumes: The Universe Next Door, The Trick Top Hat, and The Homing Pigeons. Wilson set the three books
in differing alternative universes, and most of the characters remain almost the same but have slightly different names and
different careers and background stories. The books cover the fields of quantum mechanics and the varied philosophies and
explanations that exist within that science. The single volume edition (1984) is self-described as a magical textbook and
a type of initiation.
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Robert Anton Wilson typescript
1977
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: The Cosmic Trigger: Final Secret of the Illuminati, photocopy of late draft, 228
pages, bound in blue wrappers, incorporating corrections and revisions by the author and the copyeditor in the photocopy.
[Berkeley: And/Or Press 1977.] The book was published that year, with a foreword Timothy Leary. Publisher's typewritten sticker
on front cover, has, in addition to title, author, and copyright date, the following: "This copy for Tim Leary. Manuscript
in Progress." This copy was sent to Leary for the purpose of writing the foreword, which Leary provided, as well as a back
cover blurb. Leary figures very prominently in the book-one of Wilson's most widely read and loved. Other than Joanna Leary
and his archivist Michael Horowitz, Wilson was the closest person to Leary during his imprisonment following his capture in
Afghanistan and return to the US in Jan. 1973. He went on to become an important literary collaborator, as well as being an
indefatigable public defender of Leary as one of the most important political prisoners in recent American history. Cosmic
Trigger is the story of their relationship, in which ideas played perhaps the largest part. Wilson was also the most articulate
interpreter of Leary's ideas from Neuro/ogic (1973) through Terra II (1974) to Exo Psychology (1977). In addition, the two
co-authored a full-length book, "The Periodic Table of Energy." integrating classic occult systems with theories of contemporary
physics and biology, which was never published. Tim Leary probably received this copy shortly after he was released from prison
under a cloud in 1976, living underground for awhile before emerging in the LA milieu. His blurb appears on the back cover
of the published edition of Cosmic Trigger.
carton 2, folder 20A
Zvi Zemishlany article typescript ("Effects of MDNA ('Ecstacy') on human sexual function)
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Harvard Psychodelic Research Project reports
1961
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Reports from 46 individuals (some of multiple sessions, about 150 pages in all)
in group trips with psilocybin, LSD and mescaline as part of the Harvard Psychedelic Research Project. The locations are a
private residence in Cambridge, MA and a hotel on the beach in Zihuatanejo, Mexico. The groups typically numbered 4 to 6 persons,
and usually included an observer who did not dose. The doses were nearly always strong, as was the common practice during
the '60s era. At the time these drugs were legal for investigative study. All the reports are original purple mimeos, with
the exception of those by Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, Ralph Metzner and Allen Ginsberg, which are photocopies. Among the
notables there are reports by members of the project, including Gunther Weil, Rolf von Eckartsberg, Paul Lee and Sara Kinne;
noted psychedelic research pioneers Stanley Krippner and William McGlothlin, film composer Lalo Schifrin, novelist B. H. Friedman,
and underground press pioneer John Wilcock.
Moksha materials
1957-1977
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Materials relating to
Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Writing on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience. Edited by Michael Horowitz and Cynthia Palmer. 1977; 1982. Correspondence, working files and some printed materials used
in the production for this anthology.
carton 2, folder 24
Humphry Osmond correspondence
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Osmond and Michael Horowitz on Leary, Huxley and Osmond's foreward to Moksha.
carton 2, folder 25
Humphry Osmond drafts of forward to Moksha
1981
carton 2, folder 26
Alexander Shulgin correspondence
1974-1976
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: One autograph note and two typed letters to Michael Horowitz, 1974-1976, regarding
Huxley's Moksha, to which Shulgin contributed an introduction.
carton 2, folder 27
Laura Huxley correspondence
1976-1997
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Folder of correspondence with Michael and Cynthia Horowitz, the editors of Moksha.
Includes 10 letters, both written and typed from Laura and 17 letters {photocopies) to her, all but one from the 1970s dealing
with the writing and production of Moksha (1977). Also, photocopy of telegram and AL.s. (pp. 2 and 3, lacking p. 1) to Timothy
Leary, 1960. On back of telegram, also in photocopy, Leary writes an A.N.s., to someone else (?), seeming to be in code about
bringing drugs when he comes to visit.
carton 2, folder 28
Aldous Huxley correspondence
1957-1963
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Photocopies of letters to Oscar Janiger, 1957 regarding his first LSD trip, and
one to a Mr. Spicer (1941) about mysticism. Also, autograph letters to Paul Lee at Harvard, 3/3/63. 4pp, discussing psychedelics
(written "psychodelics,"), Huxley's prefered spelling. With carbon copy of Lee's letter to Huxley, 2/25/63. Also, photocopies
of 2 autograph letters to Timothy Leary, 1961, with photocopies of four of Leary's typed letters to Aldous and Laura, 1960-61,
all concerning LSD and/or psilocybin.
carton 2, folder 30
Moksha illustrations
approximately 1977
Lysergic World materials
1993
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Lysergic World, No. 1. Archive of materials for the production of this 16-page
large format one-shot tabloid newspaper, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the discovery of LSD (April 1993), with approximately
40 illustrations and contributions from Albert Hofmann, Timothy Leary, Terence McKenna, Sasha Shulgin, and Genesis P-Orridge,
and with a colored centerfold of a unique map of the world with captions of key locations of LSD discovery, research and cultural
settings by Kathleen Harrison (McKenna), Michael Horowitz and Dana Reemes. Contains a wealth of information in the form of
essays, lists of books, movies and songs, humor, treating the cultural history of LSD from the Eleusinian Mysteries to the
current day. This copy inscribed by LSD discoverer Albert Hofmann, who wrote the featured article, to the editor and publisher,
Michael Horowitz.
carton 2, folder 30A-53
Assorted files
approximately 1993
box 1, folder 1-4
Assorted files
approximately 1993
flat_box 2
Copies of the Lysergic World Archive newspaper
1993
Physical Description: 10 copies.
box 1, folder 5
Ken Kesey bus
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From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: Color photographs of the original bus "Further" driven by Neal Cassady with passengers
Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on their epic journey across the U.S. in 1965. The photos were taken several decades later
when the bus, which has been stashed for years on Kesey's property in Oregon, was repainted and driven to the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame Museum. With letter from Janice Stone (wife of novelist and Kesey '60s associate Robert Stone) certifying photos
with original bus painter Roy Sebern. 3-1/2 x 5-1/2 in.
box 1, folder 6
Michael Horowitz and Albert Hofmann
1976
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: In Dr. Hofmann's library in Switzerland, 1976. Photo: Christian Wenger.
box 1, folder 7
Copies of photographs of Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, and others
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1. Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley, Laura Huxley At International Congress Of Applied Psychology, Copenhagen, 1961; 2. Allen
Ginsberg, Peggy Hitchcock, Timothy Leary, Lawrence Ferlinghetti Dining At Sinaloa, North Beach, Sf, C. 1965; 3. Michael Horowitz
In Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library, C. 1973. Photo: Michael Aldrich; 4. Michael Horowitz With William Burroughs, San Francisco,
1975 (2 Photos): Michael R. Aldrich; 5. Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library Directors Cynthia Palmer, Michael Horowitz, Michael
Aldrich, With Writer-Photographer Jeremy Bigwood (Far Left) In Ludlow Library Below Portrait Engraving Of American Cannabis
Pioneer Fitz Hugh Ludlow. 1975. Photo: Robert Barker; 6. Albert Hofmann & R. Gordon Wasson At Hallucinogenic Mushroom Conference,
Olympia, Washington, 1976. Photo: Jeremy Bigwood; 7. Albert Hofmann & Michael Horowitz In Dr. Hofmann's Library In Switzerland,
1976. Photo: Christian Wenger; 8. Michael Horowitz In Front Of Albert Hofmann's House Where He Lived in 1943 And Experienced
The World's First LSD Trip. Photo: Dieter Hagenbach, circa 1993; 9. Cynthia Palmer With Anita & Albert Hofmann At
Their Home In Switzerland, C. 1990; 10. Nina Graboi, Author Of One Foot In The Future, Was A Holocaust Survivor Who Emigrated
To The U.S. And Became Director Of The Center For The League For Spiritual Discovery, Tim Leary's Psychedelic Organization
In 1967. Photo: Dean Chamberlain; 11. Cynthia Palmer With Dennis & Terence Mckenna In San Francisco, circa late 1990s.
Photo: Michael Horowitz; 12. Cynthia Palmer & Michael Horowitz At Mindstates Conference Berkeley, 1990s. Photos: Jon Hanna;
13. Michael Horowitz With Robert Anton Wilson At His Home In Capitola, Ca., Early 2000s. Photo: Cynthia Palmer; 14. Ludlow
Library Directors (I Tor) Robert Barker, Michael Aldrich, Michelle Aldrich, Michael Horowitz, William Dailey, Cynthia Palmer
(Below). San Francisco, 2003. Photo: Suzette Burrous; 15. Ludlow Library Directors. Top Left: Michael Horowitz In Stacks,
1981. Right: Horowitz Holding Son Yuri, With Robert Barker, 1977; Below: Barker, Horowitz And Aldrich In Flashback Books Office,
Mill Valley, 1998. Photos: Cynthia Palmer; 16. Winona Ryder. Color Photo Of The Actress In City Lights Bookstore Holding A
Copy Of Bill Morgan's Book The Beat Generation In San Francisco In A Scene From The Movie, The Darwin Awards (2006); 17. Eugene
Schoenfeld (Dr. Hip[Pocrates] (Berkeley Barb Columnist), Michael Horowitz (Fhlml Director, Leary Archivist), Robert Altman
(Counterculture Photographer). At 40th Anniversary Of Human Be-In, San Francisco, 2007; 18. Michael Horowitz Lecturing On
Ancient Goddesses Associated With Psychoactive Drugs In Vancouver, 2012. 19: Michael Horowith and Robert Barker with archives
of Timothy Leary. Luzern, Switzerland, February 1972. Photo: Timothy Leary. 20. Michael Horowitz with Timothy Leary. Folsom
Prison, 1973.
box 1, folder 8
Photographs (some copies) of Albert Hofmann, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and others
1950-1980
Scope and Contents
From Michael and Cynthia Horowitz's notes: 1. Albert Hofmann in his laboratory at Sandoz Pharmaceuticals in Basel, Switzerland,
holding a large plastic model of the LSD molecule. This appears to be a contemporary photograph made from the original negative
shortly after his discovery of LSD. Presented to Michael Horowitz at the time of his Hofmann interview, 1976. 2. Albert Hofmann
with his wife and Ludlow Library Directors, Fairmont Hotel restaurant, San Francisco. 5 x 7 in. Signed by both Hofmanns and
dated 1977, on their first trip to San Francisco. Unique photo mounted in Fairmont Hotel photo holder. 3. Albert Hofmann in
his library holding a stalk of ergot on rye encased in plastic, taken in 1976. 8 x 10 in. Photo: Christian Wenger. 4. Albert
Hofmann with Ludlow Library directors Cynthia Palmer and Michael Aldrich at 2nd Hallucinogenic Drug Conference, SF, 1978.
8 x 10 in. Photo by Susan Katz. 5. Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library Reception For The Speakers At The 2nd hallucinogenic
Mushroom Conference, San Francisco, 978. Pictured are Albert and wife Anita Hofmann, Richard E. Schultes, Ralph Metzner, with
Ludlow Library directors Michael Aldrich, Michael Horowitz, Robert Barker, and Cynthia Palmer, who took most of the photographs.
4 color photos, 3-1/2 x 5 in. 6. 5 b & w photos from day of Aldous Huxley during his first mescaline experience, while
under the effects, taken by Humphry Osmond outside Huxley's home in the Hollywood Hills, May 6, 1953. Wife Maria is in two,
one with Aldous looking at flowers and one alone. 8 x 10 in. Made from the original negatives of the photographer, Osmond,
who journeyed to LA to introduce Huxley to psychedelic drugs. 7. Alexander (Sasha) Shulgin with book collectors Julio Santo
Domingo and Aymon de !'estrange, looking at a high school educational drug sample kit in San Francisco after sale of Ludlow
Library. March 2003. 8 x 10 in. Photo: Michael Aldrich. 8. Gordon Wasson, the father of Ethnomycology. Color photo taken at
his home in Danbury, CT by Ralph Metzner's father, c. 1980. 8 x 12 in. 9. William Burroughs, group of b & w photographs
of Burroughs in Tangier from the 1950s when he was writing Naked Lunch. One on a street in Tangier (handwritten on back "Tangier
March 1954" in WSB's hand), one taken indoors in his Tangier apartment, and one of him viewed through a window ("Invisible
Hombre" style), from same time and place. Group of photo collages he was working are shown learning against a wall, may have
been intended for use as cut-ups. Total of 12 photos, some cut small to use in collages. Photos range in size from 2x2 to
1-1/2 x 1-1/2 inches. It is likely that Burroughs took all these photos, except for the three of which he is the subject.
10. Allen Ginsberg, three photos of Ginsberg giving an outdoor poetry reading as USC, 1967. Photos© Jim Coke. Unpublished.
11. Doc Ellis, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher who famously threw a no-hitter on LSD in June 1970). 8 x 10 in. Signed photo in
baseball uniform.