Original Typescript for Baird Bryant's "Souvenirs of the Beat Hotel", plus ephemera

as published by Beat Scene Press, 125 copies:

Idyllwild, CA.: Baird Bryant and Blair Murphy (original typescript + ephemera), 2004

The original typescript for "Souvenirs of the Beat Hotel" by Baird Bryant, published in 2023 in Kevin Ring's Beat Scene Press Pocket Book series as #77, 125 copies. This recollection affords some good insight into the personality and life of Burroughs and other Beat Hotel residents of the time.  Included with the typescript is a set of correspondence and photographs -- iterated below.

As recounted by seller Third Mind Books, Kevin Ring noted:

"'Souvenirs of the Beat Hotel' by Baird Bryant was sent to me in April 2004. It was sent on behalf of Baird by Blair Murphy who had organised events, very Beat Generation aligned, at the Grand Midway Hotel in Windber, Pennsylvania. Baird has been invited to one of these events. He had been encouraged to write down his memories. What you have here are excerpts from the quite substantial recollections Baird recalled of his time at the legendary 'Beat Hotel' in Paris. He was there for a number of years alongside Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and others. A filmmaker and photographer, he is known for his involvement in the 1969 film Easy Rider and controversially for his filming of the Rolling Stones concert at Altamont – his footage included the murder by the Hell's Angels of Meredith Hunter. He was born in 1927 and died in 2008. The text is exactly as Baird presented it."

This archive includes the following items:

• The 36-page (recto only) typescript, three-hole punched in red folder
• Letter from Blair Murphy to Kevin Ring that accompanied the typescript and photographs, April 12, 2004.
• Four photographs, high-quality matte prints, signed by Baird Bryant:
• "Dave Amram in New York"
• "Gregory Corso in Paris" [this was used for the cover of the Beat Scene Press chapbook]
• "Vali [Myers] in Paris" [Vali Myers is the heroine of Ed van der Elsken's Love on the Left Bank; the "witch of Positano"; muse to Patti Smith, Ira Cohen, and others]
• "Flea Market in Paris"
•  Cover letter from Baird Bryant for the following also-included items:
• "Biographical Notes" for Baird Bryant
• two matte printed photographs of Bryant, one a close-up headshot.
• A postcard from August 30, 2004 from Blair Murphy to Kevin Ring, sent from Kansas

Incidentally, the image of Corso in Paris, which is of him grinning behind two monks, was shared with Harold Chapman while they were living in the Beat Hotel together, and Corso asked Chapman to take more pictures of him standing behind nuns, monks, priests, etc. -- this is discussed by Harold Chapman (and the image is briefly shown) in the documentary The Beat Hotel

All acquired from Third Mind Books (Ann Arbor, MI.), who received this from Kevin Ring, who received this from Blair Murphy and Baird Bryant.

External Links: 

• RealityStudio: Baird Bryant