Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Lyon, Nelson.
2. Southern, Terry.

Description

1. 5 leaves, 1 photographic print, 1 program, 1 poster, 2 leaves of clippings : ill.; 18x18 - 30x28 cm

Subject

1. Sellers, Peter, 1925-1980 > Portraits
2. Starr, Ringo > Portraits
3. Saturday night live (Television program)
4. Comic books, strips, etc > United States
5. Southern, Nile > Portraits
6. Sex customs > United States > Correspondence
7. Mead, Taylor > Anecdotes
8. Photographs > United States > 20th century
9. Hutton, Lauren > Anecdotes
10. Screw
11. Chambers, Whittaker > Comic books, strips, etc
12. Southern, Terry > Portraits
13. De Niro, Robert > Anecdotes
14. Hiss, Alger > Comic books, strips, etc
15. Trudeau, Margaret, 1948- > Portraits
16. Sex > Comic books, strips, etc

Genre/Form

1. Comic books, strips, etc. – United States.
2. Photographs – United States – 20th century.

Call number

1. Berg Coll+ Cased Southern A.l.s. to Lyon 1987

Note

1. Nelson Lyon and Terry Southern became friends when they wrote for the comedy television program Saturday Night Live, in the late 1980s.
2. Topics of letters include: sex; Saturday Night Live; celebrities known to Southern and Lyon; scripts; Screw magazine.
3. Southern collage assembled on mock personal stationery, showing bare breasted pornographic film star beneath word “Candy” opposite the men’s magazine description of her, which Southern has annotated in blue pen, characterizing Lyon as her fan.
4. First anonymous cartoon [ca. 1950], by the anonymous cartoonist dubbed “Mr. Dyslexic” by Art Spiegelman (see introductory essay to Bob Adelman’s Tijuana Bibles. New York: Simon & Schuster Editions, 1997), annotated by Southern in black pen, featuring the Communist spies Whittaker Chamber and Alger Hiss, is titled “Chambers and Hiss in Betrayed,” and shows them sexually engaged; second anonymous cartoon [ca. 1930], shows young man with gun entering apartment of young woman in sheer negligee, seeking food and finding sex, annotated by Southern in black pen.
5. Margaret Joan Sinclair Trudeau Kemper (b. 1948) is the former wife of Pierre Trudeau, the 15th Prime Minister of Canada. As her marriage disintegrated, she adopted an uninhibited lifestyle, which included scantily clothed appearances at El Mocambo nightclub in New York. Southern’s sexual annotation on Trudeau photograph as if written by Trudeau to Lyon.
6. Photograph of Southern, Sellers, and Starr taken when film The Magic Christian was being filmed (1969), starring Sellers and Starr, and based on Southern’s 1959 comic novel, and for which Southern wrote the screenplay.

Access (note)

1. Restricted access

Author

1. Southern, Terry.

Title

1. Collection of 3 autograph letters and 1 typed letter, signed, to "Nels" [i.e. Nelson Lyon, ca. 1987] ; accompanied by : Southern-constructed collage, annotated ; two Southern-annotated pornographic cartoons ; photocopied collage poaster (Colt .45 Negro), commented on by one of 3 autograph letters ; Southern-annotated vintage silver gelatin photograph of Margaret Trudeau ; Terry Southern funeral program, featuring photographs of Southern; his son, Nile Southern, and Southern walking with actor Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr, and with names of speakers, including David Amram, Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton, Richard Seaver, George Segal, Nile Southern, Kurt Vonnegut and Rip Torn.

Imprint

1. [New York : ca. 1987]

Local note

1. Magic Christian screenplay housed in the Berg Collection.

Access

1. Restricted access: request permission in holding division.

Connect to:

1. Request access to this item in the Berg Collection

Added author

1. Lyon, Nelson. Addressee
2. Southern, Terry. Annotator

Research call number

1. Berg Coll+ Cased Southern A.l.s. to Lyon 1987