Speaking of literary archives, you never know what will turn up. This letter from a half-century ago, for instance: It was discovered the other day by Richard Aaron at Emory University about two literary projects, one of which came to fruition — twice, in fact (Brion Gysin Let the Mice In and Brion Gysin Let the Mice In) — while the other never did (Un-American Express).
According to papers held at Northwestern University, Carl Weissner and I exchanged a series of letters about “Un-American Express,” which we were working on as the editors. And here we are, below, many years later in Paris at Le Zeyer, a brasserie favored by Henry Miller when he was possibly the most celebrated un-American American of his era.
Where would this UnAmerican text now be?
Beats me. I’m as confused as you.