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Charles Bukowski note to Mr. Dawdy

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Description: A typewritten signed note typed on a half sheet of paper. In the note, Charles Bukowski declines an invitation to participate at the Los Angeles Book Fair, Books West.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1975 September 17.
Call number: mssHM 84416
Creator: Bukowski, Charles(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Greg Gazin, December 2025.
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Charles Bukowski Journal. no. 4

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Content: (2 copies; a journal dedicated to articles about Bukowski, this issue also assembled the obituaries of Bukowski printed in German newspapers)

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sure, the charles bukowski newsletter. no. 2

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Content: (numerous Bukowski illustrations, poems and articles about Bukowski, a questionnaire filled out by Bukowski, a black and white photograph of him)

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Charles Bukowski Periodical Collection

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This collection contains periodicals with content written by or about the poet, novelist, and short-story writer Charles Bukowski, covering a span from 1941 to 2009, and is a subset of the Charles Bukowski Printed Material Collection. The materials consist of nearly 400 issues of 248 periodicals that contain poems, short stories, interviews, excerpts, and drawings by Bukowski, as well as photographs of him, and articles or interviews about him, or in which he is mentioned. The materials span from Bukowski's first published short story "'Aftermath of a Lengthy Rejection Slip,"' which was published in Story magazine in 1941, to obituaries and articles about Bukowski and posthumously printed poems and short stories that appeared after his death in 1994. The items range from small literary journals to large weekly news magazines published in a number of countries and in a variety of languages including English, German, and French. Approximately 90 periodical titles received with this collection are not included in this finding aid but are instead cataloged individually; they may be retrieved by doing a keyword search for "Charles Bukowski Printed Material Collection" in the Huntington Library Online Catalog: catalog.huntington.org. The collection inventory below contains entries listing the periodical title, issue number, date, publisher and publisher location, language (if other than English), the titles, page numbers, and authors of the Bukowski-related pieces, and a short description of the content.

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Bottle. no. 5

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Content: "The drowning" (poem - collection of mini-broadsides with Bukowski's poem printed on a cream sheet of paper, then mounted on a larger red sheet and folded in half) Content author: Charles Bukowski

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Jahrbuch der Charles-Bukowski-Gesellschaft. no. 1

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Content: "Klassische Musik und ich" (poem - first article about Bukowski and music is a German translation of the English original which is printed as the second article; also, letter Sept. 22, 1998; article JungeWelt Aug. 26, 1998 "Gedenken ohne Tafel"), p. 22 Content author: Charles Bukowski

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New Lazarus Review. v. 2 no. 1

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Content: "the weather's been fair" ; "racetrack" (poems - accompanied by a black and white photograph of Bukowski), p. 67 Content author: Charles Bukowski

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Charles Bukowski note to Mr. Dawdy

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