The Ghost Dance Archive is a part of the Avant Garde Collection at Fales Library, New York University. The Fales Library is the primary special collections division of the NYU libraries, housing over 170,000 volumes of English and American literature from 1700 to the present. Strengths of the collection include the development of the English and American novel, with an emphasis on the Gothic and the Victorian novel. The Avant Garde Collection comprises printed materials, archives, and other materials related to the avant-garde writing from the 1960s and early 1970s. The collection was built during that period by curators, including Mel Edelstein and Ted Grieder.

The Ghost Dance Archive is a collection of correspondence and manuscripts submitted to or written by the editor, Hugh Fox, from 1967 through 1969. Collection highlights include letters written by Charles Bukowski, Richard Brautigan, Allen DeLoach, Clayton Eshleman, and Alain Robbe-Grillet. There are also notes by Isaac Asimov and Samuel Beckett both declining an invitation to contribute. The archive also includes the first 2 issues and manuscripts for issues 3-5 of Ghost Dance.

SERIES DESCRIPTION

Series I: Correspondence from Hugh Fox: contains six folders of correspondence from the editor, Hugh Fox.

Series II: Correspondence from others: contains correspondence to the editor, Hugh Fox. Notable correspondents include Isaac Asimov, Samuel Beckett, Charles Bukowski, Richard Brautigan, Allen DeLoach, Clayton Eshleman, and Alain Robbe-Grillet.

Series III: Publications: contains five folders devoted to issues 1-5 of Ghost Dance and includes issues 1 and 2. Manuscripts for issues 3-5 are collected here and contributors are noted on the outside of the folder. Manuscripts include material by Charles Bukowski, Richard Norris, and Ben Hiatt among others.

Series IV: Manuscripts: contains eight folders of writings by Hugh Fox, Sharon Asselin, Frederico Undiano.