Barry Miles books and periodical appearances: 'C Periodical Appearances - C7 Horde'
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Typed copy of Horde 1, December 1964, co-edited by Miles with Johnny Byrne, Lee Harwood and Roger Jones. Miles contributed Hill Street Poem No. 2 and designed and drew the cover.
Reference material used by Miles and others. The files were originally arranged year-by-year but Miles later reorganized them by subject content and used them to house material which he used most often. For example: memorabilia and photographs needed for shows, including exhibitions at the Tate,...
Papers relating to Indica Gallery, including: black and white photograph of Marianne Faithfull’s apartment block at 29 Lennox Gardens, March 1967 (copyright Pictorial Press) (203 x 254 mm); programme for the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Peter Weiss’s Persecution and Assassination of M...
Papers relating to Indica Bookshop, including: photograph of Indica Bookshop, 102 Southampton Row, 1967; clipping about Miles at Indica Bookshop from Town magazine, 1966; contact strip with five shots of Miles and John Dunbar building the bookshop at Mason’s Yard, 1965 (copyright John Hopkins); ...
Barry Miles reference folders: '1961 Until the 1965 Albert Hall Poetry Reading'
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Letter from the Bristol Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament asking Miles to invite the Cheltenham people to a demonstration in Western-super-Mare on the August Bank Holiday, 17 July 1961. Postcard from Geoffrey Hazard mentioning his contribution to Tree, 25 October 1961. Envelope addressed to ...
Barry Miles reference folders: 'International Times and the Underground Press'
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Black and white photograph of Alberto Giacometti, intended for IT, c 1965 (copyright Graham Keen). Cover letter from Random House sending Allen Ginsberg’s article for IT, 13 January 1967. Clipping of article by James Cameron from the Evening Standard, with handwritten note by Miles 'See if Camero...
Barry Miles reference folders: 'London Underground Scene'
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Flyer for the first Spontaneous Underground event, Marquee Club, 30 January 1966. Flyer for the second Spontaneous Underground event, consisting of a promotional insert for ESP Records with a faint two-colour Roneoed message overprinted, Marquee Club, 1966. Black and white photograph of Harry Fai...
Barry Miles reference folders: 'Paul McCartney – First folder'
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Address label, on MPL headed paper, undated. Handwritten note from Paul McCartney regarding books he bought from Indica Bookshop, [August 1965]. Map drawn as a flyer to advertise Indica Books and Gallery, Mason’s Yard (ink on orange paper). Postcard from Paul McCartney and Jane Asher from the ski...