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Typed Letter, signed. 11x8½". With original envelope. Signed at close 'Buk' with sketch of little man and bottle. Also, two 7x5" black & white photographs of Bukowski, credited to Linda Lee Beighle on rear.

An early letter to Bukowski's European agent and German translator, Carl Weissner. The translations of Weissner were particularly important since along with the Black Sparrow Press editions, it gave Bukowski financial and artistic freedom the rest of his life and allowed him to be alienated from the literary establishment. Bukowski writes Weissner apologizing for an earlier letter and, as typical, lamenting his situation: "sorry I dropped the blues on you last letter, I've got the pieces together better now, still trouble, trouble with women and trouble inside my head..."; he does however goes on to see the other side of the coin: "actually, though, I do have my UPS. I sometimes sit around thinking, god, some people think that I am a writer. How did I ever fool them? I can't write a cat's turd. I am still alive. I can lay in this bed for 4 days and nobody will bother me. That's fine. I can masturbate, I can kill myself. dear god, I have all kinds of freedoms." The photographs show Bukowski walking up his driveway and shaking his cane at the shrubbery.