Historical/Biographical Note:
Camels Coming was a small literary magazine published in the mid to late 1960's by Richard Morris. Morris who has established himself in the arena of alternative presses and websites is also a poet. He also published Camels Hump coincident with Camels Coming, and started Camels Coming Press. Camels Coming Press published works by Charles Bukowski and Hugh Fox, among others. Later, Morris became the executive director of COSMEP (Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers).
Source:
Andre, Michael. "Tooth and Claw, Tums and Nicotine Patches: [review of] 'The Evolutionists' by Richard Morris." Exquisite Corpse, #11(2002). accessed 8 Jan. 2003. [http://www.corpse.org/issue_11/critiques/andre.html].
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The Camels Coming Archive is a part of the Avant Garde Collection at Fales Library, New York University. The Fales Library is the primary special collections division of the NYU libraries, housing over 170,000 volumes of English and American literature from 1700 to the present. Strengths of the collection include the development of the English and American novel, with an emphasis on the Gothic and the Victorian novel. The Avant Garde Collection comprises printed materials, archives, and other materials related to the avant-garde writing from the 1960s and early 1970s. The collection was built during that period by curators, including Mel Edelstein and Ted Grieder.
Camels Coming Archive is a collection of correspondence and manuscripts submitted to the editor, Richard Morris, during 1965 and 1969. Collection highlights include manuscripts/letters written by Clayton Eshleman, Carol Berge, Paul Blackburn, Robert Bly, Barbara Holland, Ted Enslin, Michael McClure, and Gary Snyder.
SERIES DESCRIPTION
Series I: Correspondence and Manuscripts: contains 2 boxes of correspondence and manuscripts submitted to the editor, Richard Morris. Noted correspondents and contributors include Clayton Eshleman, Carol Berge, Paul Blackburn Robert Bly, Barbara Holland, Ted Enslin, Michael McClure, and Gary Snyder. An inventory (box 1, folder 1) is included with more detailed information regarding the correspondence. Items from other small press publishers is also prevalent in the collection (i.e. Al Young, and Clayton Eshleman).
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Arrangement |
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Related Material at the Fales Library and Special Collections
Issues of Camels Coming, though not included in the Camels Coming Archive, are available to view at Fales.
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There is no information about materials that are associated by provenance to the described materials that have been physically separated or removed.
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Access Restrictions
Open to researchers. Appointments are necessary for the use of manuscript and archival materials.
Use Restrictions
The collection is subject to all copyright laws. Permission to publish materials must be obtained
in writing from the Director of Fales Library and Special Collections. For more information, contact
Fales Library and Special Collections
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-2596
Fax: (212) 995-3835
Email: fales.library@nyu.edu
URL: http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/fales/cdfa.htm
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Administrative Information
Provenance
The Camels Coming Archive was purchased from Gotham Books (New York) in 1970.
Preferred Citation
Published citations should take the following form:
Identification of item, date (if known); The Camels Coming Archive; MSS 9; box number; folder number; Fales Library and Special Collections
, New York University Libraries.
Container List
[The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.]
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