Saturday, April 2, 2011

Johnnie visits the Library at Douglass College in New Brunswick NJ in the late 50's

Warren C. Fry: "Ah Ha!  Apparently Johnnie made some visits to the library at Douglass College in New Brunswick NJ in the late 50's.  Five years ago I was leafing through an old copy of 'Les Chants de Maldoror' at Douglass library and found some interesting marginalia on a page marked with a very old, pressed yellow alder (turnera ulmifolia).  The passage detailed Maldoror's coupling with a shark and the note, scrawled in a faded purple ink, read  "compare to Bruno Franklyn meeting of Ippolit Wheeden, Nov. 11 1925, Zurich".  I put in a request to see the old card check-out lists from the past three decades and found that the book was checked out from Oct 31, 1959 to Dec 2nd 1961 (!) by one A. Kaprow and a note scrawled in the same faded purple ink next to this entry read "con J.R."  Mystery solved!"

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