Series VI. Subject Files, 1749-2006, inclusive
Extent
3.08 Linear Feet in 4 manuscript boxes and 1 folder in 1 shared flat box
Extent
66 kilobytes in 1 Word document
Scope and Contents
This series includes printed material (articles, clippings, journals, and catalogs) on various topics of interest to Burroughs. Many of these topics, such as firearms, animals, drugs, and the occult, were frequent subjects of his writing. Additional subjects covered include the Illuminates of Thanateros and UFOs. Also included is writing by other authors (such as David Ohle and Spencer Kansa).
Aboriginal Boomerangs, 1988
Box: 49, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
AIDS, 1986
Box: 49, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Alcoholism, undated, inclusive
Box: 49, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed, Winter 1995
Box: 49, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Animal Shelters, 1986-1996, inclusive
Box: 49, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Animals, 1975-1998, inclusive
Box: 49, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Artwork by Unidentified Artists, circa 1983-1986, inclusive
Box: 49, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: Shared Fales 116, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Ballard, J.G., 1985
Box: 49, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Biosphere II, 1987-1992, inclusive
Box: 49, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Blount, Roy, 1984
Box: 49, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Bowden, Tom -- "William S. Burroughs as 'American Scholar'", circa 1987
Box: 49, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Breakthrough: The Newsletter of Innovation, 1986-1987, inclusive
Box: 49, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Cats, 1987-1994, inclusive
Box: 49, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Conspiracy Theories, 1996
Box: 49, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Count of Mirabeau, undated, inclusive
Box: 49, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Demon Imagery, undated, inclusive
Box: 49, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Dick Tracy, 1980
Box: 49, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Drug Traffickers, 1980
Box: 49, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Drugs, 1978-1997, inclusive
Box: 49, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Earthquakes, 1986
Box: 49, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Ewert, Mark and Kevin Killian -- "Secret Garden", undated, inclusive
Box: 50, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Fair and Circus Images -- 13th-19th Centuries, undated, inclusive
Box: 50, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Film, 1980-1990, inclusive
Box: 50, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gambling, 1997
Box: 50, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gay Rights, 1992-1994, inclusive
Box: 50, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Genet, Jean, 1986
Box: 50, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Goldberg, Jeffrey -- Writings By, undated, inclusive
Box: 50, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Gruesome Deaths, 1990-1995, inclusive
Box: 50, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Guardian Angels, 1981
Box: 50, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Harvard Medical School Health Letter, 1984-1989, inclusive
Box: 50, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Hathaway, Michael -- "Cecil", circa 1991
Box: 50, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Health and Medicine, 1982-1996, inclusive
Box: 50, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Heaven and Hell Images -- 16th-19th Centuries, undated, inclusive
Box: 50, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Hisardut, 1992
Box: 50, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Holden, Roger -- "3D Pyramid Scheme", 1994
Box: 50, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Hudson, Patrick -- "The Persistence of Memory", undated, inclusive
Box: 50, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"I, Spastic", undated, inclusive
Box: 50, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Illuminates of Thanateros, 1993-1995, inclusive
Box: 50, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Jesus Christ, undated, inclusive
Box: 50, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Joyriding, undated, inclusive
Box: 50, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Kansa, Spencer -- "Kim Carsons: A Mythic Western", 2006
Box: 50, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
LaRouche, Lyndon, 1986
Box: 50, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Lie Detector Tests, 1982
Box: 50, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Loompanics Unlimited Book Catalogs, 1983-1996, inclusive
Box: 50, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Mary Celeste, undated, inclusive
Box: 50, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Maugham, Robin and W. Somerset, undated, inclusive
Box: 50, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Mayas, 1984
Box: 50, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Men's Liberation Movement, 1982
Box: 50, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, 1995
Box: 50, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
New Age Movement, 1992
Box: 50, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Nusbaum, Arthur S. -- "Kerouac Meets Burroughs On the Road", 1994
Box: 50, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Occult, 1987-1994, inclusive
Box: 51, Folder: 1-3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Ohle, David -- Writings By, 1992
"Crank Calls" Scene 1 and "The Mortified Man"
Box: 51, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Crank Calls" Scene 2
Digital materials
"Crank Calls" Scene 2 (Material Type: Electronic Record)
Orgonauts -- Publications, undated, inclusive
Box: 51, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Plane Crashes, 1980
Box: 51, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Police Brutality, undated, inclusive
Box: 51, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Psychiatry, 1979
Box: 51, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Religion, 1990
Box: 51, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Resistance Movements, 1986
Box: 51, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Revenge, undated, inclusive
Box: 51, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Rockefeller, David, 1981
Box: 51, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Roehl, Joseph Clay -- "Poisons in Our Midst", undated, inclusive
Box: 51, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Schnabel, Julian, 1995
Box: 51, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Science, 1966-1985, inclusive
Box: 51, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scientology, 1965-1980, inclusive
Box: 51, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Sex and Pornography, 1981-1996, inclusive
Box: 51, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Scope and Contents
Content Warning: Many of the images in this file are sexually explicit.
Shark Attacks, undated, inclusive
Box: 51, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Shih, Daphne B.H., 1987
Box: 51, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Skateboarding, undated, inclusive
Box: 51, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Skerl, Jennie -- "The Wild Boys: The Demonology of William S. Burroughs", 1982
Box: 51, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Spirit of Crazy Horse: Newsletter of the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, 1995
Box: 51, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
SpyLetter -- Vol. 2, #1, undated, inclusive
Box: 51, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Street Kids" -- Tijuana, Mexico, 1991
Box: 51, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Subpoena Serving, undated, inclusive
Box: 51, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Sukenick, Ronald -- "The Crisis in Publishing", undated, inclusive
Box: 51, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Sukenobu Prints, 1749
Box: 51, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Tabloids, 1986
Box: 51, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Terminal City Publications -- "A Dada Political Manifesto", undated, inclusive
Box: 51, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Torture Devices -- Ancient Egyptian Times-19th Century, undated, inclusive
Box: 52, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Transcendental Meditation, undated, inclusive
Box: 52, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
UFOs and Extraterrestrials, 1988-1994, inclusive
Box: 52, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Uncle Zagnut Blows Up", undated, inclusive
Box: 52, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Village of the Dead: A Folktale", undated, inclusive
Box: 52, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Vivisection", 1992
Box: 52, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Weapons, 1960-1994, inclusive
Box: 52, Folder: 7-8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Weber, Bruce -- "Untitled", 1991
Box: 52, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Whistleblowers, 1987
Box: 52, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Windhausen, Wolfgang, 1993
Box: 52, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Wojnarowicz, David, 1991
Box: 52, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Writing by Unidentified Authors, 1996
Box: 52, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
