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Timothy Leary Signed Letters and Documents. Timothy Leary Signed Letters and Documents.

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Timothy Leary Signed Letters and Documents. Timothy Leary Signed Letters and Documents.
<B>Timothy Leary Signed Letters and Documents.</B></I> '60s guru Timothy Leary was introduced to readers of <I>Playboy</B></I> magazine in 1963, through a package of articles on hallucinogens. This began an uneasy relationship between Leary and the magazine that lasted for nearly a decade. <I>Playboy</B></I> often championed Leary and his causes, but eventually the magazine became disenchanted with the man, and discarded him. This large selection of letters and manuscripts by Leary, as well as <I>Playboy</B></I> interview material, includes the following: A typed letter (signed "Tim") to Murray Fisher, dated March 27, 1967. With it Leary enclosed three chapters of his memoirs for consideration by <I>Playboy.</B></I> It did not run because the material overlapped with with an interview from the previous year; carbon and typed manuscript (32 pages) of chapters 1, 2, and 15 of Leary's memoir, <I>High Priest</B></I> with corrections in Leary's hand; typed letter signed from Leary to <I>Playboy</B></I> editorial director A. C. Spectorsky. With that Leary forwarded a brochure on a lecture in psychedelics -- "As you probably know, all communication is tremendously intensified, complicated, energized during the LSD experience ... "; and an archive of materials relating to Leary's September 1966 interview with <I>Playboy</B></I> that includes two carbon typescripts of the interview; a lengthy carbon typed manuscript of the interview with taped inserts and editorial amendments throughout; a typescript of the introduction with editorial corrections; two lists of notes from the interview; various cut sections rejected from the interview; proof sheets; and galley sheets of the interview with editorial corrections. <I>With COA from PSA/DNA.</B></I>