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- Creator
- Carroll, Jim
- Call number
- MssCol 24209
- Physical description
- .08 linear feet (1 volume)
- Preferred Citation
- Jim Carroll letters and publishing documents, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives Division
- Access to materials
- Request an in-person research appointment.
Jim Carroll was an American poet, diarist, and rock musician associated with the downtown arts scene in New York City. This collection contains four documents: a 1987 letter from Carroll to Gerald Howard, his editor at Penguin Books, about changes to the proofs of Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries, 1971-1973; a completed 1973 biographical questionnaire sent to Carroll by Grossman Publishers; a postcard to Barbara Preminger at Grossman, written in 1974 while Carroll was in Bolinas, California; and a 1981 agreement between Viking Penguin and Carroll regarding the publication of a paperback edition of Living at the Movies.
Administrative information
Source of acquisition
Purchased from Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2017.
Processing information
Compiled by Kit Fluker, 2017.
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Location
Manuscripts and Archives DivisionStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Brooke Russell Astor Reading Room, Third Floor, Room 328