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Typed Letter, signed. 11x8½". With original envelope. Signed 'Hank' at close, with small sketch.

Letter to fellow poet Henry (Hank) Malone. A rare letter if only because it is not signed with the usual “Buk” but the first name he seldom used, “Hank”, perhaps used in this instance because he was writing to a fellow poet with the same first name. Includes line drawing ink cartoon of his little man next to a bottle. Letter begins with positive and critiquing remarks about a Malone chapbook he received earlier, and compares Malone’s settled life to his own eternal problems "mostly via the female". He also speaks of re-working the screenplay that was to become “Barfly”; he speaks of the difficulties and director Barbet Schroeder: "If you ever see my stuff on the silver screen you can barf up your popcorn."