Brown Paper Archive: Signed Letter from Burroughs to Daniel Lauffer, Dec 27, 1963

Tangier, Morocco: William S. Burroughs (signed letter and envelope), 1963.
12.125" x 8.25" (letter) and 4.125" x 8.75" (envelope), single sheet, one-sided, typed.

Letter dated December 27, 1963 from William S. Burroughs to Daniel Lauffer. This covers Burroughs’ use of Beckett in Cut-Ups, a mention of the Edinburgh Writers Conference, and receipt of “Exterminate the Exterminator”. He notes that there is both an enclosed page of Cut-Ups from works of Samuel Beckett as well as a Cut-Up page using the “Exterminate” material [both are included in the archive]. 

The Brown Paper Archive was acquired from the Estate of Daniel Lauffer through Derringer Books (Avon, CT.)

The Brown Paper Archive: 

• Exterminate the Exterminator by Daniel Lauffer 
• Letter from William S. Burroughs to Daniel Lauffer on December 27, 1963
• Cut-Ups by Burroughs from the work of Samuel Beckett (c.1963)
• Cut-up of Exterminate the Exterminator by William S. Burroughs (1963)
• Letter from William S. Burroughs to Daniel Lauffer on March 14, 1964
• Three-Column Typescript by William S. Burroughs for Brown Paper (1962/1964)
• Letter from William S. Burroughs to Daniel Lauffer on October 25, 1964
• Daniel Lauffer's copy of Brown Paper can be viewed at the Outskirts of the City link below.

External Links: 

• RealityStudio: Interview with Brown Paper's Daniel Lauffer
• Outskirts of the City: Brown Paper, 1965