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Journalist Joe O Sullivan visited Timothy Leary s community in Millbrook, New York twice in 1966. Following these visits he released two interviews with Leary on the UPI Roto Service. This interview, unpublished and unrecorded in Leary s bibliography, is the second of the two interviews. The interview offers detailed descriptions of Leary s daily life and providing an ordinary context for his controversial work. Leary gives laconic answers to O Sullivan s questions about drugs, the counterculture, free love, Viet Nam [sic], and the communal life at Millbrook, occasionally proffering a bit of unasked for advice, including on the author s children. "Let them turn you on … Treat them as little gods and goddesses." The photos, taken to accompany the first interview, similarly reflect O Sullivan s interest in the mundane: e.g. poignant, detailed vignettes of a shrine to Rosemary Woodruff (soon to be Leary s wife) while she was doing jail time for marijuana possession. We find no evidence that either interview was ever published. The first article, "Man of Visions," is referenced in our typescript s caption and was "serviced to UPI Roto Service clients in the package of May 28, 1966," the same date as the present photo-series which presumably accompanied it. Both articles would have appeared before Leary s landmark Playboy interview was published in September 1966, which the annotated Leary bibliography lists as his first published interview [Horowitz, Walls, & Smith D1] . Surprisingly, there is no reference in Horowitz to either of the earlier O Sullivan UPI articles, though a short, third article, "God and Timothy Leary," was published in Dec. 1966 [Howoritz et al. D3]. Some of the photographs from "Man of Visions" are known from other sources, a few seemingly unpublished. Materials are in excellent condition with minimal wear. Photocopy of a typed manuscript, 8-½ x 11 in., 12 pp., printed recto only, sl. chipping and toning at edges; together with an additional copy of the typed manuscript; a License to Use Your Head order form for Leary s Future History book series, no date; and seven (of eight?) "Man of Visions" silver gelatin prints, 8 x 10 in., each dated May 28, 1966, with caption leaves and UPI Press stamps verso.
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