ALS, one page, 8.5 x 11, February 7. Letter to Mr. Simmons. In part: “Enclosed an essay I wrote on Tuning & Recording Blake’s Songs of Innocence & Experience…Recording was done last last summer and will be issued in early March—I know the essay is perhaps long; but I would like it intact or not at all except for any minor errors you might inform me of. I don’t know your schedule, I wonder if it would be possible to publish it sometime soon (or in the month) the record comes out?” In fine condition. Accompanied by an unrelated original mailing envelope sent to the book review section of Time Magazine, filled out in Ginsberg’s own hand and signed in the return address area. Ginsberg believed William Blake’s poems were originally intended to be sung, and that he could approximately replicate them by studying their rhyme and meter. In 1969, he conceived, arranged, directed, sang, and played piano and harmonium for an album of this music, which was released in 1970. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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