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- 1963 - 1978 (Creation)
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William Burroughs, interviews: typescripts of Mottram interview with Burroughs, 'The Algebra of Need' recorded 18 Dec 1963 and transmitted 9 Mar 1964; one copy, with pencil corrections, appears to be a draft, from which three formal copies were made by the B.B.C. (British Broadcasting Company); letter from the B.B.C. on forwarding scripts to Mottram, 2 Jul 1963; manuscript postcard from Burroughs to Mottram, 28 Jan 1964, conveying his approval of the script; telegram of congratulations on the transmission, 9 Mar 1964, with Radio Times note of its transmission, and report of the programme in The Listener, 18 Mar 1964; two offprints of excerpts from interview in 'Rencontre avec William Burroughs' from Les Langues Modernes vol. 59 (Paris, 1965) 79-83; typescript note, undated but probably 1975, from Jim (Pennington) about publication of Snack, the full printed text of the interview (Aloes Books, London, 1975); three typescript letters, 1977-1978, from James Grauerholz, Burroughs' secretary, about the copyright of the interview in the case of the publication of a Spanish translation in Pre-Textos (Valencia, 1978); typescripts of interview with Burroughs for the B.B.C. by Gary Goldhill (1970), 2 copies, both with some measure of annotation; photocopy of typescript text, 1973 talk between Burroughs, Mottram, Jim Pennington and Graham Dawes, headed 'El hombre invisibile', also published in Snack