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Collection of 3 autograph letters and 1 typed letter, signed, to "Nels" [i.e. Nelson Lyon, ca. 1987] ; accompanied by : Southern-constructed collage, annotated ; two Southern-annotated pornographic cartoons ; photocopied collage poaster (Colt .45 Negro), commented on by one of 3 autograph letters ; Southern-annotated vintage silver gelatin photograph of Margaret Trudeau ; Terry Southern funeral program, featuring photographs of Southern; his son, Nile Southern, and Southern walking with actor Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, and with names of speakers, including David Amram, Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton, Richard Seaver, George Segal, Nile Southern, Kurt Vonnegut and Rip Torn.

Title: Collection of 3 autograph letters and 1 typed letter, signed, to "Nels" [i.e. Nelson Lyon, ca. 1987] ; accompanied by : Southern-constructed collage, annotated ; two Southern-annotated pornographic cartoons ; photocopied collage poaster (Colt .45 Negro), commented on by one of 3 autograph letters ; Southern-annotated vintage silver gelatin photograph of Margaret Trudeau ; Terry Southern funeral program, featuring photographs of Southern; his son, Nile Southern, and Southern walking with actor Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, and with names of speakers, including David Amram, Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton, Richard Seaver, George Segal, Nile Southern, Kurt Vonnegut and Rip Torn.
Author: Southern, Terry.
Publication: [New York : ca. 1987]

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Mixed material	Permit needed	Berg Coll+ Cased Southern A.l.s. to Lyon 1987	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Additional Authors

Lyon, Nelson.

Description

5 leaves, 1 photographic print, 1 program, 1 poster, 2 leaves of clippings : ill.; 18x18 - 30x28 cm

Subjects

Genre/Form

Comic books, strips, etc. – United States.
Photographs – United States – 20th century.

Note

Nelson Lyon and Terry Southern became friends when they wrote for the comedy television program Saturday Night Live, in the late 1980s.
Topics of letters include: sex; Saturday Night Live; celebrities known to Southern and Lyon; scripts; Screw magazine.
Southern collage assembled on mock personal stationery, showing bare breasted pornographic film star beneath word “Candy” opposite the men’s magazine description of her, which Southern has annotated in blue pen, characterizing Lyon as her fan.
First anonymous cartoon [ca. 1950], by the anonymous cartoonist dubbed “Mr. Dyslexic” by Art Spiegelman (see introductory essay to Bob Adelman’s Tijuana Bibles. New York: Simon & Schuster Editions, 1997), annotated by Southern in black pen, featuring the Communist spies Whittaker Chamber and Alger Hiss, is titled “Chambers and Hiss in Betrayed,” and shows them sexually engaged; second anonymous cartoon [ca. 1930], shows young man with gun entering apartment of young woman in sheer negligee, seeking food and finding sex, annotated by Southern in black pen.
Margaret Joan Sinclair Trudeau Kemper (b. 1948) is the former wife of Pierre Trudeau, the 15th Prime Minister of Canada. As her marriage disintegrated, she adopted an uninhibited lifestyle, which included scantily clothed appearances at El Mocambo nightclub in New York. Southern’s sexual annotation on Trudeau photograph as if written by Trudeau to Lyon.
Photograph of Southern, Sellers, and Starr taken when film The Magic Christian was being filmed (1969), starring Sellers and Starr, and based on Southern’s 1959 comic novel, and for which Southern wrote the screenplay.

Access (note)

Restricted access

Call Number

Berg Coll+ Cased Southern A.l.s. to Lyon 1987

OCLC

933762896

Author

Southern, Terry.

Title

Collection of 3 autograph letters and 1 typed letter, signed, to "Nels" [i.e. Nelson Lyon, ca. 1987] ; accompanied by : Southern-constructed collage, annotated ; two Southern-annotated pornographic cartoons ; photocopied collage poaster (Colt .45 Negro), commented on by one of 3 autograph letters ; Southern-annotated vintage silver gelatin photograph of Margaret Trudeau ; Terry Southern funeral program, featuring photographs of Southern; his son, Nile Southern, and Southern walking with actor Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, and with names of speakers, including David Amram, Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton, Richard Seaver, George Segal, Nile Southern, Kurt Vonnegut and Rip Torn.

Imprint

[New York : ca. 1987]

Local Note

Magic Christian screenplay housed in the Berg Collection.

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Added Author

Lyon, Nelson. Addressee

Southern, Terry. Annotator

Research Call Number

Berg Coll+ Cased Southern A.l.s. to Lyon 1987

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