A Descriptive Catalogue of the William S. Burroughs Archive II (2024)

Bonn, Germany and Basel, Switzerland: Expanded Media Editions (book, catalog, lettered, numbered, signed, slipcased), 2024.
10.25" x 7.625" x 0.875" (slipcase); 10" x 7.5" x 075" (book), 155 pages, hardcover without dust-jacket as issued in slipcase, ISBN 978-3-88030-055-2.

A Descriptive Catalogue of the William S. Burroughs Archive II, edited by Luzius Martin and (Barry) Miles, catalogued by Miles and Richard Aaron, as published by Expanded Media Editions (Boon, Germany and Basel, Switzerland) in 2024. Cover design by Brion Gysin. Book Design by Patrick Gloor. Photographs by Ian Sommerville. Printed by Longo SPA (Bolzano, Italy). This is an edition of 400 copies, of which twelve are numbered, and twenty-six are lettered, the remaining being trade copies.

This is the long-awaited second volume of the Burroughs archive, listing of known manuscripts, typescripts, letters, books, papers, periodicals, and other items once held by William S. Burroughs. Many of the items are in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library, and others are in other public and private hands.

The first volume of the Descriptive Catalogue was released in 1973, edited by Miles and published by Covent Garden Press in collaboration with Richard Aaron's Am Here Books. This was an edition of 226 copies, twenty-siz of which were lettered, signed, and originally contained a typescript page. In the copy I have in the archive – which previously belonged to Allen Ginsberg – Miles wrote that there "is much more to come in later editions..." 

This second volume contains the additional material compiled that was not present in the first.

This specific copy of the second volume, which was purchased from the project's Kickstarter page, is copy 11 of 12 numbered copies. This is signed by both Luzius Martin and by Barry Miles, and contains three 5" x 7" photographs of Burroughs taken by Ian Sommerville, all numbered "11". This copy is slipcased in a plain white slipcase.

In the archive, there is additionally letter 'H' of the twenty-six lettered copies, similarly signed and in slipcase. With this edition, there is a single photograph of Burroughs taken by Ian Sommerville, lettered 'H' on verso.

In the archive, there is additionally one of the 362 trade copies, no slipcase as issued, not numbered or signed.

Contents: 

• Preface by Luzius Martin
• Preface by Barry Miles
• Introduction by Barry Miles
• Folio Number 170 Port of Saints
• Folio Number 171 Joujouka Jan 17-21 1973
• Folio Number 172 Exterminator – 1st Drafts & Source Material
• Folio Number 173 Operation "Soft Machine" / Cut
• Folio Number 174 Playback / From Eden to Watergate
• Folio Number 175 Marie Celeste
• Folio Number 176 1st Drafts, Cut-Ups, 2nd & 3rd Drafts Source Materials Red Desert
• Folio Number 177 Smell Brain 1st Drafts & Cut-Ups
• Folio Number 178 The Revised Boy Scout Manual Bulletin 23 Revolutionary Weapons and Tactics
• Folio Number 179 Soft Machine Dream Calendar
• Folio Number 180 Greek Notes
• Folio Number 181 The Royal Family
• Folio Number 182 Ah Puch Is Here – Hart Episodes
• Folio Number 183 G.O.D. first drafts and Cut-ups for end for Ah Pook Is Here and "Smell Brain"
• Folio Number 184 Scout Manual & Ah Puch First Drafts with Unpublished Material
• Folio Number 185 David Bowie and James Taylor Cut-Ups
• Folio Number 186 Carson Family
• Folio [Number] 187 Pages from Chaos
• Folio Number 188 Miscellaneous Material
• Folio Number 189 Miscellaneous Cut-Ups and First Draft Material
• Folio Number 190 Wild Boy[s] Film Ideas
• Folio Number 191 Misc. Material Charles Gatewood
• Folio Number 192 Naked Lunch Film Script
• Folio Number 193 Script by Don Saunders for Naked Lunch Stage Production in Chicago 1979
• Folio Number 194A "Numero Uno"
• Folio Number 194B Last Words of Dutch Schultz
• Folio Number 195 Miscellaneous File
• Folio Number 196 Dream Notes & Cut-Ups
• Folio Number 197 Scientology Notes
• Folio Number 198 Postcard File
• Folio 199 Miscellaneous Material
• Folio 200 Floods, Tornados, Earthquakes, Air-Crashes
• Folio 201 Miscellaneous
• Folio 202 St. Louis
• Folio 203 Clark Street
• Folio 204 Miscellaneous
• Folio 205 Miscellaneous
• Folio 206 The Dutchman
• Folio 207 Looking Back
• Folio 208 Micellaneous
• Folio 209 Clippings Used in Tapes
• Folio 210 Miscellaneous
• Folio 211 Death
• Folio 212 Miscellaneous & Nudes by D. H. Lawrence
• Folio 213 Miscellaneous
• Folio 214 Miscellaneous
• Folio 215 Miscellaneous
• Folio 216 Newspeak
• Folio 217 Miscellaneous
• Folio 218 Miscellaneous: Nova Express Evergreen The Second Coming
• Folio 219 Exterminator & Minutes to Go
• Folio 220 Intersections Specials
• Folio 221 What Sort of El Called Retreat 23? The El & Co-Ordinates
• Folio 222 Newspeak
• Folio 223 Bellevue
• Folio 224 Miscellaneous
• Folio 225 Miscellaneous
• Folio 226 Miscellaneous
• Folio 227 Miscellaneous
• Folio 228 Miscellaneous
• Folio 229 Bills and Receipts
• Folio 230 Miscellaneous
• Folio 231 Annotated Clippings
• Folio 232 A St. Louis File
• Folio 223 Letters from the Editor
• Folio 224 Reviews File
• Folio 235 All Members Are Home A Centuary
• Folio 236 Misprints
• Folio 237 Title Illegible
• Folio 238 Miscellaneous Newspaper Pics and Articles
• Folio 239 23
• Folio 240 52
• Folio 241 Intersections and Specials
• Folio 242 Book
• Folio 243 The Frisco Kid and Large Pics
• Folio 244 Miscellaneous
• Folio 245 Miscellaneous
• Folio 246 Miscellaneous
• Manuscript Section of the Archive 1938-1973:
• Junkie
• "Twilight's Last Gleamings"
• Routines
• The Naked Lunch
• The Yage Letters Material
• A Collection of William S. Burroughs Manuscripts and Related Material
• Folios of Mss by William S. Burroughs:
• "Apomorphine Article and Misc Pages"
• "Virus B-23; Dr. Lee's Notes o Audrey's Diary. Charting Audrey's Case, SCIENTOLOGY FILES CORRECTION."
• "Descriptions of the Archives"
• "Reviews Unfavorable"
• "Hamri"
• "Flat 22"
• "Friendly Films Notes and Projects"
• "N. L. Film Papers"
• "Hart Copies"
• "Ah Puch Duplicates"
• "Adam and Eavesdropping and Academy Copy Notes"
• "Night Dream Notes"
• "Typed Dream Notes"
• "Port of Saints William S. Burroughs"
• "First Drafts Port of Saints"
• "Book of Breathings"
• "Book of Breathings Copies"
• "Bob Gale Drawings"
• "Exterminator"
• "Exterminator Copies"
• "Wild Boy Hard Core Porm Movie and Chinese Bongsal Film Idea. District File"
• "Two Copies Each Page W.S.B. 1st Draft and Copy Material for Academy Prospectus"
• "Misc. Material & Communications
• "Assorted pages of Manuscript"
• "A Miscellaneous File"
• "US"
• "Writers"
• "People"
• "Riots"
• "A Miscellaneous File"
• "Letters to the Editor"
• "Disaster"
• "Intersections"
• "A Miscellaneous File"
• "A Miscellaneous File"
  
• "The Flesh"
• "23 and 52"
• "Rub Out the White Word"
• "Art and Silence"
• "Drugs"
• "Drugs"
• "Review File"
• "Crime"
• "Virus"
• "A Miscellaneous File"
• "Auditing"
• "W.B. re F.H."
• "Bio Feed Back Material"
• "Dream Machins Technical File"
• "Book of the Dead"
• "Liz Strickland"
• "A Miscellaneous File"
• "Photographic File"
• "A Miscellaneous File"
• "Literary File"
• "Literary File"
• Brion Gysin Materials
• Scrapbooks:
• Scrapbook Number One
• Scrapbook Number Two
• Scrapbook Number Three
• Letters from William S. Burroughs to Allen Ginsberg 1953-1957
• 1953
• 1954 [- 1955]
• 1956 Year of the Cure
• 1957
• Fragments of Letters to Allen Ginsberg or Unclassifiable
• Letters from WSB to Others
• Letters to WSB from Others:
• Letters Group One:
• Alan Ansen
• Antony Balch
• J.G. Ballard
• Sinclair Beiles
• Ted Berrigan
• Paul Bowles
• David Budd
• Anthony Burgess
• Burroughs Family Letters
• Calder and Boyars
• Ira Cohen
• Gregory Corso
• Charles Henri Ford
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Allen Ginsberg
• Grove Press
• Letters Group Two:
• Brion Gysin
• Jack Kerouac
• Donatella Manganotti
• Bill McArthur
• Michael Moorcock
• Jeff Nuttall
• The Olympia Press
• Ron Padgett
• Claude Pélieu & Mary BEach
• Letters Group Three:
• Michael Portman
• Ed Sanders
• Ian Sommerville
• Jake Schwartz
• Alexander Trocchi
• Tom Veitch
• Jonathan Williams
• Letters Group Four:
• Mark Wexler
• Letters Group Five
• [no "Letters Group Six" is noted]
• Letters Group Seven
• Letters Group Eight
• Letters Group Nine
• Letters Group Ten
• Letters Group Eleven
• Leter Files:
• File One: Letters from Udo Breger
• File Two: Completed Action Cycles – Choukri and Richard Goodman, Bob Wilson, John Schultz, Julian Stein, Seyour Halpern, Member of Congress.
• File Three: Completed Action Cycles – Roy Pennington
• File Four: Completed Cycles of Action – Fred Halstead re. "Wild Boy" (sic)
  
• File Five: Correspondence Personal and Literary: David Budd, Carl Weissner, Terry Southern, Eric Mottram, Claude & Mary Pélieu [sic], John Giorno & others
• File Six: Correspondence Relative to the Archive – Richard Aaron, Miles, Andreas Brown, Alan Ansen & Bob Palmer
• File Seven: Correspondence Relative to the Archives – Part II
• File Eight: File Under Coum – Genesis P.Orridge [sic]
• File Nine: File Under Coum – Part II
• File Ten: Genesis P.Orridge [sic]
• File Eleven: Allen Ginsberg
• File Twelve: Allen Ginsberg – Part II
• File Thirteen: James Grauerholz – George McFadden
• File Fourteen: Correspondence with Brion Gysin
• File Fifteen: Letters Answered
• File Sixteen: Letters from Ginger, Oscar Alameda, and Mustapha Kemal
• File Seventeen: Material Sent by Sofeico
• File Eighteen: Tommy Trantino
• File Nineteen: Family Letters, & Papers
• File Twenty: Literary Agents
• File Twenty-One: Literary Agents – Part II
• File Twenty-Two: Publishers and Magazines
• File Twenty-Three: Publishers
• Photographs from the Collection of William S. Burroughs
• The WSB Tape Collection of Am Here Books
• Claude Pélieu Archive:
• William Burroughs
• Brion Gysin
• Minutes to Go
• Michael Portman
• Sinclair Beiles
• George Andrews
• Carl Weissner
• Claude Pélieu