The New York Public Library has purchased some 335 boxes of papers, videotapes, photographs and other items from the estate of Timothy Leary.
The material documents the evolution of the tweedy middle-aged academic into a drug guru, international outlaw, gubernatorial candidate, computer software designer and progenitor of the Me Decade's self-absorbed interest in self-help.
The archive will not be available to the public or scholars for 18 to 24 months, as the library organizes the papers. A preview of the collection, however, reveals a rich record not only of Leary's tumultuous life but also of the lives of many significant cultural figures in the '60, '70s and '80s.
(thanks, Pesco!)
- Timothy Leary videos at Archive.org – Boing Boing
- Timothy Leary's 1985 software Mind Mirror – Boing Boing
- Timothy Leary and William Gibson promoting a Neuromancer film …
- Timothy Leary's 90th birthday today – Boing Boing
- Timothy Leary coloring book – Boing Boing
- Timothy Leary postcard from 1970 – Boing Boing
- Timothy Leary and Ram Dass in conversation – Boing Boing
- Video: Timothy Leary at Folsom Prison – Boing Boing
- White Hand Society: The Psychedelic Partnership of Timothy Leary …
- Rare Timothy Leary document on eBay – Boing Boing
- Donate to the Timothy Leary Digitization Project – Boing Boing
- Timothy Leary and JD Power & Associates? – Boing Boing
- Boing Boing: Scan of Timothy Leary's Neurcomics
- Joi Ito remembers Timothy Leary – Boing Boing
- VH1 documentary on Timothy Leary Boing Boing
- RU Sirius teaches Timothy Leary course – Boing Boing
- Boing Boing: Tim Leary wristwatch
- Remembering Timothy Leary on his birthday – Boing Boing
- Boing Boing podcast: interview with Timothy Leary biographer John …
- Interview with editor of new Timothy Leary book – Boing Boing
- Boing Boing: Timothy Leary: ten years gone
- An article about Cary Grant's fondness of LSD – Boing Boing
- Leary's 8-circuit brain model — the musical – Boing Boing