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Contains book manuscripts, correspondence, literary periodicals, sound recordings (audio cassettes), video cassettes, manuscripts sent to Ann Charters, print ephemera regarding Beats and Beat events, clippings.

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Contains manuscripts, typescripts and galley proofs for books 'Beat Down to Your Soul' and 'Brother Souls' by Ann Charters.

Contains book manuscripts, letters, journals, notes, proofs, audiorecordings, photographs, publications and newsclippings relating to several books authored and edited by Ann Charters including Nobody: the Story of Bert Williams (1970), Kerouac: A Biography, I Love: The Story of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lili Brik, Beats and Company: Portrait of a Literary Generation, The American Short Story and Its Writer, Beat Down to Your Soul: What Was the Beat Generation?, the Beat Reader, The Portable Beat Reader, Howls, Raps & Roars: Recordings of the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance (audio recording, Fantasy Records, 1993), The Kerouac Reader, Selected Letters of Jack Kerouac, 1940-1956, and Selected Letters of Jack Kerouac, 1957-1969.