GINSBERG ALLEN Autograph Postcard Signed thrice to author Sa

Sale 2413 - Lot 275

Price Realized: $ 910

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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

"WE REALLY ARE IN NEED OF FOOD AS SWIFTLY AS POSSIBLE" GINSBERG, ALLEN. Autograph Postcard Signed, thrice, to author Sam P. Edwards, desperately pleading that he quickly send the money he owes. The verso, an image by Stournaras showing the West Pediment of the Temple of Zeus on display at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia. 1 page, 3 1/2x7 1/4 inches; some loss to lower right edge affecting only photograph, toning at side edges, four cancelled postage stamps showing the bust of Mohammed V of Morocco amounting to 50 francs at upper right recto. Tangier, 18 July 1961

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". . . I am absolutely broke, Orlovsky is sick in bed, & Corso starving in the room below me. Burroughs has been sending money but he has run out. Please air-mail . . . the check . . . for whatever you owe me. Also can you air-mail me a copy of 2d coming #2 which otherwise will reach me by slow boat to China only. Don't send the check via City Lights as we will all starve to death before it gets forwarded. . . . I am writing this card to you because we really are in need of food as swiftly as possible and hope you can send me the money right this minute. Forgive my importunity but I receive very little money and what little I can earn I need."