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The feelgood phenom ; typescript and penciled autograph draft, 5 leaves.
- Title
- The feelgood phenom ; typescript and penciled autograph draft, 5 leaves.
- Author
- Southern, Terry.
- Publication
- [n.p., ca. 1975]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Berg Coll m.b. Southern F44 1975 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Gerber, Gail.
- Description
- [5] leaves; 29x22 - 32x22 cm
- Summary
- Condemns the unscrupulous prescription by a "handful" of physicians of mood enhancing drugs "to princes and presidents, movie stars and socialites [...]," and of the "firendly middle class neigjborhood doctor, doling out tranquilizers, psychic energizers, sedatives, depressants, diet-pills - something for every problem ... including life's ordinary stresses, amd his number is legion."
- Also condemns the pharmaceutical companies "deluding the average doctor with a veritable avalanche of mood-drugs," accompanied by advertising campaigns promising "gloom to varoom."
- Subjects
- Note
- Typed or handwritten on recto sides only.
- On white, three-holed paper and on yellow, lined, legal-sized paper, with numerous crossings out of typescript lines, and with white paper strips bearing autograph revisions over typed lines.
- Comprises an unpublished introduction to a book by Terry Southern: "Finally, the book is a story of my own adventures - and those of some interesting, amusing, and sometimes tragic, people ... all lost for a while, or forever, in the beckoning strawberry fields of Feelgood Land." -- Concluding sentence.
- With (note)
- Printed statement by Gail Gerber, Nov. 16, 2013, affirming the manuscript's authenticity ("from the estate of my late partner, Terry Southern") ; with original, coffee-stained file folder.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Call Number
- Berg Coll m.b. Southern F44 1975
- OCLC
- 890663774
- Author
- Southern, Terry.
- Title
- The feelgood phenom ; typescript and penciled autograph draft, 5 leaves.
- Imprint
- [n.p., ca. 1975]
- With:
- Printed statement by Gail Gerber, Nov. 16, 2013, affirming the manuscript's authenticity ("from the estate of my late partner, Terry Southern") ; with original, coffee-stained file folder.
- Access
- Restricted access; request permission in holding division.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Gerber, Gail. Former owner
- Research Call Number
- Berg Coll m.b. Southern F44 1975