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The November notebook contains numerous poems of various lengths (some several pages) by Corso, with his holograph deletions and corrections. The October notebooks contains several poems and the formation of some autobiographical prose prefaced with a list of events to include and beginning with an account of his first shot of heroin: "The American trumpet player I had met in Paris in 1957 gave me my first shot of dope (I had snorted it the year before in N.Y.C.) but this was my first experience with the "needle" - and what an experience it was!" Corso goes on to describe a trip to Rotterdam with his friend to "cop" heroin, his being shot up on the train station platform and finding himself in a bar in Amsterdam 5 hours later. The notebook continues with a description of Holland and brief mention of his writing of "Bomb" while in Amsterdam. It is unknown if any of the content of these notebooks has ever been published. Provenance: From the collection of Nathan May, editor of Beatitude Magazine, #32.