Found 21 collections related to Leary, Timothy, 1920-1996

Terry Southern (May 1, 1924-October 29, 1995) was an American author, essayist, screenwriter and university lecturer, noted for his satirical style. The Terry Southern archive spans the years 1924 to 1995, with the bulk dated 1955 to 1995. The collection consists chiefly of autograph and typescript drafts of Southern's novels, stories, screenplays, television scripts; journals, diaries, and notebooks. Other materials include incoming and outgoing correspondence, photographs, personal and financial papers and documents (including passports, hunting license, mortgage documents, bank statements, and canceled checks), publishing contracts, newspaper clippings, and realia, including his typewriter. Also included in the archive is writing by others, including Peter Beard, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Jules Feiffer, Bruce J. Friedman, Allen Ginsberg, Henry Green, Southern's biographer Lee Hill, Mason Hoffenberg, Mick Jagger, Jonathan Marquand, George Plimpton, V.S. Pritchett, Larry Rivers, Richard Seaver, Jean Stein, Rip Torn and Alexander Trocchi, papers by his students, and dissertations and papers about his work. less

Correspondence between Timothy Leary and Playboy editors Michael Laurence, A.C. Spectorsky, and Murray Fisher relating to material submitted by Leary for publication, and Leary's reaction to Playboy's interview with Eldridge Cleaver. Also included is a letter to the editor of Playboy Forum from Michael Hollingshead praising the magazine's coverage of Leary and others less

Timothy Leary and Joanna Harcourt-Smith were partners in a common law marriage. The Timothy Leary letters to Joanna Harcourt-Smith consist of correspondence sent by Leary to Harcourt-Smith while he was in Folsom prison. Dating from 1973 to 1976, the collection documents Leary's time in prison, thoughts and ideas, and his feelings towards Harcourt-Smith. less

Michael Kennedy (1937-2016) was a criminal defense and civil rights lawyer known for defending radical political figures, drug smugglers, members of organized crime, and other people shunned by more mainstream legal counsel. An expert in First and Fourth Amendment law, his many notable clients included Huey Newton, Timothy Leary, Irish Republican Army and Weather Underground members, High Times magazine, the journalist Leslie Cockburn, and Mafia boss John Gotti. Kennedy's papers, dating from 1967 to 2014, document his legal career, mainly through case files, but also through writings, speeches, clippings, and biographical information. less

Rosemary Woodruff Leary (1935-2002), (also known as "Ro" and Sarah Woodruff), sought to educate people about the psychedelic experience. Woodruff lived for over twenty years as a fugitive for her role in assisting her husband, Dr. Timothy Leary, escape from prison in 1970. This collection documents her relationship with Leary and her twenty years as a fugitive through correspondence, photographs, ephemera, clippings, and drafts of her unpublished memoir, A Magician's Daughter. less

Michael Horowitz (1938- ), an archivist, author, and publisher, was Timothy Leary's archivist and safeguarded Leary's papers following his 1970 escape from prison. The Michael Horowitz collection on Timothy Leary reveals Horowitz's role as archivist, the history of the archive (most notably its seizure by the FBI in 1975), and his relationship with Leary. Horowitz's position on the role of archivists and archival neutrality is well documented. Much of the correspondence and other writings are attributed to Leary. less

The Timothy Leary arrest file was created by the Laguna Beach Police Department after Leary's 1968 arrest for possession of marijuana in Orange County, California. He was arrested with his wife, Rosemary Leary, and son John Leary. The file dates from 1968 to 1977 and contains a suspect information report on Leary; a pre-sentence report by a probation officer; Orange County prosecutor Ed Freeman's notes on the "continuing development of the case against the BEL [Brotherhood of Eternal Love] and Timothy Leary"; and news clippings. less

The "D.M.T: An Hallucinatory Bead Game" broadside was created by Jackie Cassen, Ralph Metzner, and Mary McKay, probably around 1966. The broadside has a short, typewritten text that gives a mystical, metaphorical description of a "strange journey" achieved through the use of DMT (Dimethyltryptamine). The bottom of the broadside states, "For Timothy Leary." less

The Timothy Leary Memorandum to the Supreme Court and related documents contain a copy of a memorandum Leary submitted in 1970 to Justice William O. Douglas, known as the "Eagle Brief." The copy includes Leary's handwritten notes to his lawyer, Michael Kennedy. The collection also contains statements of support for Leary, including one by Allen Ginsberg; a statement of purpose for a legal defense corporation established for Leary, called Holding Together; a statement announcing Justice Douglas' decision; and a copy of a 1971 letter by the PEN American Center requesting that the Swiss government grant asylum to Leary. less

In 1970, Timothy Leary and Rosemary Leary traveled to Algeria, where they stayed as the guests of Eldridge Cleaver and the Black Panther Party. This collection contains a transcript of a tape-recorded statement titled "Cleaver from Algiers," made on Pacifica Radio in 1971. In the statement, Cleaver renounced any alliance between the Black Panthers and Leary, and also renounced involvement with psychedelic drug culture as a whole. Also included is a copy of a typed letter from Leary to Jann Wenner, publisher of Rolling Stone, written from Algiers on December 27, 1970. less

Barry Miles is a British writer. He was one of the publishers of the underground newspaper, International Times (IT), founded in 1966. The Barry Miles file on Timothy Leary contains five letters from Leary to Miles dated 1969, and carbon copies of two of Miles' letters to Leary. The correspondence discusses legal cases that Leary was involved in and opportunities for promoting Leary and his message. The file also contains clippings that Miles collected on Leary, dating from 1966 to 1996. less

Joanna Harcourt-Smith (or Joanna Leary) met Timothy Leary when he was a fugitive in Europe after escaping from prison in 1970. She traveled with him to Afghanistan where he was apprehended by American authorities in 1973. Harcourt-Smith subsequently administered the Starseed Information Center, which published Leary's writings and advocated for his release while he served in prison from 1973 to 1976. The Joanna Harcourt-Smith papers related to Timothy Leary contain publications, correspondence, court documents, and ephemera related to Leary's life and work in the 1970s. A scrapbook created by Dennis Martino contains clippings, ephemera, and photographs, most of Harcourt-Smith. The collection also contains Harcourt-Smith's address book. less

Michael Standard (1935-2014) was an attorney who represented Timothy Leary in court proceedings and also acted as his agent for publishing projects. The collection contains multiple draft manuscripts of Leary's book It's About Time, with handwritten changes. The book was published in 1973 as Confessions of a Hope Fiend. Correspondence and contracts related to Leary's publications date from 1968 to 1973 and include letters from Timothy and Rosemary Leary. The collection also contains correspondence and court documents related to legal cases in New York, Texas, and California; transcripts and notes on interviews with Dennis Martino; documents related to archivist Michael Horowitz's grand jury testimony in August 1975 regarding Leary's archives and their seizure by the FBI; a 1970 manuscript titled Millbrook Thanksgiving by Walt Schneider; and a 1997 letter from Leary biographer Robert Greenfield. less

The Holding Together records represent the activities of Joanne Ziprin and the household she managed in Berkeley, California where Timothy and Rosemary Leary resided between 1968 and 1970. Holding Together was established to support Leary's legal defense after his arrest for marijuana possession. The collection contains audio recordings dating from 1966 to 1973. Recordings include lectures and public appearances by Leary from 1966 to 1969, interviews with Rosemary Leary, benefits for Timothy Leary, and om sessions. Holding Together's fundraising activities are further documented by notes, correspondence, artwork, mailing lists, donor lists, and other records. The collection also contains publications and statements produced by Timothy Leary and organizations supporting Leary's work. less

Timothy Francis Leary, Jr. (1920-1996), a psychologist and writer, became known as an advocate for the use of psychedelic drugs and a counterculture icon. David Clarence McClelland (1917-1998) was an American psychologist, noted for his work on motivation Need Theory. McClelland published a number of works during the 1950s and the 1990s and developed new scoring systems for the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) and its descendants. The majority of the collection (1959-1962) consists of letters written to David and Mary McClelland during the period Leary was living in Denmark with his family. He discusses his work; personal life and family; his travels; and arrangements for moving back to America and working at Harvard University. There are also two undated reports on the effects of psilocybin written by subjects. less

The collection contains correspondence, ephemera, publications, offprints of clinical studies, audio recordings, and other items documenting or commemorating the work of Timothy Leary, and a number of his associates and related entities, including the Castalia Foundation, Kriya Press, Freedom Center and Psychedelic Enterprises, and the house in Millbrook, New York, which served as Leary's main base of operations between 1963 and 1967. less

Joel J. Finer was a lawyer who served as defense attorney for Timothy Leary, a psychologist and psychedelic drugs advocate, after Leary's 1966 conviction for marijuana possession. The Joel J. Finer papers related to the defense of Dr. Timothy Leary consist of correspondence, legal documents, research files, and a few photographs collected by Finer during his work to appeal Leary's conviction. less