William S. Burroughs beside typewriter on kitchen table, getting in condition to edit his South American "Yage Letters" and "Queer" epistolary mss. to be published decades afterward - immortality comes later! We slept in striped wallpaper'd tiny rear bedroom, my wooden wardrobe visible behind his shoulder. 206 East 7th Street, Apartment 16, Lower East Side Manhattan October 1953.
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subject_titleLance Hendrickson, Tangier, 1961. We met in street, he was hiking thru Europe, stayed a week, chaste, but allowed me to photograph him thus. Saw him again in San Francisco 1963 w/ a motorcycle.
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