Add MS 89160/5/2

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);
• Indica Books and Gallery headed paper, featuring both addresses;
• clipping from an Italian magazine about the sarcophagus lid of Pakal the Great, Palenque, Mexico, which was the original inspiration for Indica bookshop headed paper, undated;
• Indica Books Limited headed paper, featuring the design by Peter Broxton;
• clipping of an article from London Life, featuring images of Miles and Sue Miles playing chess, 29 October 1967;
• clipping from Peace News of John Ball’s column, 3 June 1966;
• four press cuttings about Indica Bookshop, 1966;
• postcard from Sarah Pailikakou [Fenwick], Miles’s secretary, apologising for not getting in touch and asking if her job is still available, 11 September 1966 (she later ran away with the Angry Brigade and was never found);
• photocopy of article from Village Voice about Indica Books, undated;
• clipping of article Peter and Gordon Answer 30 Intimate Questions, undated;
• Indica Books and Gallery invoice and statement, May 1966;
• clipping of article The Art Game from The Observer, including a section about Indica Gallery, 14 May 1967;
• clipping of an article from Glamour including a picture of Miles, June 1967;
• clipping of article from the Evening Standard including an image of Peter Asher on a ladder at Indica Bookshop, 25 March 1966;
• clipping of article from Musik Parade with image of Peter, Miles and Pete Brown at Indica Books, 23 May 1966 (in German);
• clippings of articles from Swedish magazines about Peter Asher and Indica Books (in Swedish), undated;
• postcard from Criton Tomazos, [1967];
• five letters and four postcards to Miles at Indica Books, included by Miles in this file as examples of the times;
• note from Eddie Prévost of AMM relating to some leaflets, [1966];
• letter to Paul McCartney from Dick Alpert [later Baba Ram Dass] from India, sending blessing to the Beatles and suggesting they meet and take some STP together, undated;
• three letters from Bill van Petten relating to Indica Bookshop stock and the Mac Meda Destruction Company, February-June 1966;
• brief note to Lovebooks Ltd asking to supply a copy of Darazt anthology and the current issue of Tzarad from Karl Weissner, translator, 15 February 1966;
• letter from Fulcrum Press to the New Statesman relating to one of their articles by Donald Davie, 6 November 1966, including a copy of the article;
• two large size postcards to Indica Books, showing growth of underground culture, 1966;
• bill from Hotel de Seine, 30 December 1966, when Miles and John Dunbar went on a buying trip and bought the remaining stock of Gaït Frogé’s English Bookshop on the rue de Seine;
• four postcards and five letters from customers, 1966-1967;
• postcard from Carol Tinker and Ken Rexroth about their visit, 11 April 1967;
• flyer for DROP and other noises gig, circa 1967;
• Ambit poster, with pasted-on changes, taken from board at Indica Books, circa 1967;
• black and white photograph of Indica Books advert for International Times, used as artwork for plate, drawn by Miles;
• catalogue of pin badges with psychedelic slogans available from The Badge Shop in New York, 1967;
• letter from Miles to Roger Shattuck and his reply to Miles relating to purchases of material from Indica Bookshop for the University of Texas library, 1968;
• black and white photograph of Miles and Peter Asher standing outside Indica Bookshop at 102 Southampton Row, spring 1967 (copyright Betsy Doster, Peter’s girlfriend at the time);
• clipping from the first issue of OZ showing interior Indica Bookshop, February 1967;
• Christmas card from Michael Gray, political activist, showing Laurel and Hardy on front, 1968;
• postcard from Noel Lomer, psychedelic warrior, May 1968;
• seven postcards from Hugo Kasha, early manager of Indica Bookshop, March-December 1968;
• poster Michel Bakoenin back in town sent to Miles by Real Free Press, Antwerp, 1968;
• three typical customer communications (two postcards and one note), 1967-1969;
• letter from George Lawson at Rota asking Miles to put him on the mailing list for Indica catalogues, 7 July 1969;
• letter from Tina Fransen, whose daughter Monica ran away and showed up at Indica in 1967. Indica staff re-united her with her mother and found her a boyfriend, [1968];
• three postcards and one letter from customers, 1967-1969;
• address of Colin McCabe, undated;
• winding-up order for Indica Books Limited, 13 April 1970, with a breakdown of profit and loss, and observations, 1971;
• letter from H. M. Inspector of Taxes, relating to Miles, Asher and Dunbar Ltd. no longer trading, 27 February 1969;
• Indica Books rare Books Catalogue number 1, April 1966: draft and finished copy, and a second finished copy annotated with names of buyers;
• finished copy of Indica Books rare Books Catalogue number 2 (not issued as an American library bought most of the stock just before it came out), undated;
• list of books from the stock of Indica Books Limited (in print books catalogue), undated;
• flyer on Indica Books limited headed paper advertising The Ginsbergs at the ICA, a reading given by Allen and his father, 22 August 1967;
• Indica Books rare Books Catalogue number 3, July 1968;
• Indica Books rare Books Catalogue number 4, September 1968;
• Indica Books rare Books Catalogue number 5, October 1968;
• Indica Books rare Books Catalogue number 6, undated (two copies, one clean, one annotated with names of buyers);
• Indica Books rare Books Catalogue number 7, September 1969;
• Indica Books rare Books Catalogue [number 8], undated.