The letters of Allen Ginsberg

1941

December 28 To The New York Times

1942

June 11 To The New York Times

1943

May 17 To Benson Soffer

December 17 To Eugene Brooks Ginsberg

1945

September 4 To Lionel Trilling

1946

January 7 To Lionel Trilling

1947 ca. March 11 To Wilhelm Reich ca. November 19 To Neal Cassady

1948

June 1 To Lionel Trilling ca. November To Jack Kerouac ca. December To Mark Van Doren

1949 ca. April 21 To Neal Cassady ca. May To Jack Kerouac

June 15 To Jack Kerouac

June 16 To John Clellon Holmes

July 14 To Jack Kerouac

1950

February 24 To Jack Kerouac

July 8 To Jack Kerouac

October 12 To Helen Parker

November 18 To Neal Cassady

1951

March 15 To Neal Cassady ca. May To Ezra Pound

September 7 To Neal Cassady

1952

February 15 To Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady

June 12 To Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs

July 3 To Neal Cassady

1953

February 19 To Jack Kerouac

February 24 To Jack Kerouac

May 13 To William S. Burroughs ca. June 16 To Dwight Eisenhower

1954

January 12 To Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, and Carolyn Cassady

July 10 To Louis Ginsberg, Edith Ginsberg, and Eugene Brooks

August 14 To Eugene Brooks

September 5 To Jack Kerouac

November 9 To Jack Kerouac

December 29 To Jack Kerouac

1955 mid-August To Jack Kerouac

August 16 To Eugene Brooks mid-September To John Allen Ryan

December 26 To Eugene Brooks

1956 ca. April To Louis Ginsberg

May 18 To Richard Eberhart

August 3 To Robert LaVigne

August 11 To Rebecca Ginsberg

September 10 To Carolyn Kizer

December 7 To Lawrence Ferlinghetti

December 11 To Robert Creeley

December 20 To e.e. cummings

1957

April 3 To Lawrence Ferlinghetti

June 8 To Robert LaVigne

June 10 To Lawrence Ferlinghetti

August 13 To Jack Kerouac

November 13 To Jack Kerouac

1958

January 20 To Peter Orlovsky

February 22 To Herschel Silverman

April 2 To Gary Snyder ca. April 20 To Eugene Brooks ca. April 20 To Louis Ginsberg

June 20 To Hannah Litzky

June 26 To Jack Kerouac

July 7 To Neal Cassady late-July To William S. Burroughs and Gregory Corso

September 7 To John Hollander

1959 ca. January 15 To Robert LaVigne

January 23 To Lawrence Ferlinghetti

February 17 To Time

May 11 To The New York Times

May 20 To Louis Ginsberg

October 20 To Richard Eberhart

1960

January 24 To Peter Orlovsky

June 2 To Eugene Brooks

June 10 To William S. Burroughs

June 21 To Louis Ginsberg

December 8 To Gregory Corso

1961

February 2 To Kennett Love late-April To James Laughlin

June 12 To Louis Ginsberg ca. July 18 To LeRoi Jones

August 2 To Peter Orlovsky

September 7 To Philip Lamantia

October 21 To Peter Orlovsky

November 25 To Eugene Brooks

1962

January 27 To Eugene Brooks

February 25 To Lawrence Ferlinghetti

April 19 To Gregory Corso

June 6 To Peter Orlovsky

July 5 To Lawrence Ferlinghetti

September 9 To Jack Kerouac

October 4 To Bertrand Russell

November 3 To Robert Creeley

December 5 To The Harvard Crimson

1963 ca. January 15 To Lucien and Francesca Carr

April 29 To Arno Hormia and Pentti Kapari

May 5 To Gregory Corso

June 17 To Louis Ginsberg

October 6 To Jack Kerouac

October 14 To Poetry Magazine

November 1 To Peter Orlovsky

1964

January 30 To Robert Morgenthau

April 16 To The Wichita Beacon

June 16 To Richard H. Kuh

August 29 To Michael McClure

September 30 To Lionel Trilling

1965

August 20 To Nicanor Parra

November 19 To Louis Ginsberg

December 5 To Herbert Huncke

1966

August 20 To Philip Lamantia

December 3 To Leo Cherne

December 3 To Monarch Notes

1967

January 24 To The New York Times ca. May 29 To Richard Helms

May 29 To Whom It May Concern

July 26 To Gary Snyder

August 10 To Peter Orlovsky

October 7 To Peter Orlovsky

November 28 To Robert Creeley

1968

May 9 To Mrs. LaSalle

July 8 To Gary Snyder

1969

February 16 To Herbert Huncke

July 16 To David Kennedy

1970

February 15 To Louis Ginsberg

February 19 To Carolyn Cassady

August 24 To Gary Snyder

September 22 To Ed Koch

November 26 To C.L. Sulzberger

December 22 To Donald Maness

1971

January 20 To National Book Award Committee

1972

January 2 To Norman Moser

1973

August 29 To Gerald Lefcourt

1974

January 6 To Jean Jacques Lebel

January 28 To Timothy Leary

July 10 To Louis Ginsberg

1975

July 11 To Gary Snyder

November 4 To Louis Ginsberg

1976 ca. May 10 To Barry Miles

June 12 To Gregory Corso

June 29 To Bob Dylan

August 27 To Antler

1979

January 15 To Diana Trilling ca. March 10 To W.S. Merwin and Dana Naone

October 26 To Jimmy Carter

1982

November 5 To Philip Whalen

November 13 To Charles Rothschild

1983

September 28 To Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Nancy Peters

1984 ca. January 18 To Berenice Abbott

December 20 To Tom Pickard and Joanna Voit

1985

August 6 To Lucien Carr ca. 1986 To Norman Podhoretz

1987

June 29 To Peter Orlovsky

December 21 To Gary Snyder

1988

September 8 To Harry Smith

November 13 To Gregory Corso

1989

January 10 To Al Aronowitz

August 29 To Michael Oreskes

September 21 To Thom Gunn

1992

February 11 To Nanao Sakaki

December 23 To Paul Bowles

1993

December 22 To Peter Orlovsky

December 22 To William S. Burroughs

1995

January 12 To Gary Snyder

April 4 To Randy "Duke" Cunningham

June 22 To Gary and Carol Snyder

1997

February 18 To Bob Wilson

March 17 To Luca Formenton ca. April 1 To Bill Clinton.