Gysin, Brion, 1916-1986
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1916-01-19 - 1986-07-13
Biography
Painter, writer, sound poet, performance artist, and inventor.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Alice B. Toklas correspondence
Collection
Identifier: 1977-001
Scope and Contents
Consists of 89 handwritten letters and postcards, and 1 telegram to John E. Dobbin, Brion Gysin, and Sir Francis and Frederica Rose. Also included is one typed letter (as secretary to Gertrude Stein) to John Hinsdale Thompson.
Dates:
1933 - 1961
Anais Nin papers, 1969-1992
Item
Identifier: 1988-010
Scope and Contents
Consists of correspondence between Nin and colleagues and between her publisher, Peter Owen and others, particularly her literary agent, Gunther Stuhlmann. Also included is Nin's typescript draft of her essay, "On Writing, Writer and Symbols," a transcription of Nin's introduction to Anna Kavan's Ice, as well as draft introductions to Ladders to fire and Children of the albatross and a preface to Cities of the interior, all written by Gunther Stuhlmann.
Dates:
1969 - 1992
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- Subject: Authors, American -- 20th century X