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Huxley, Aldous

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Aldous Huxley correspondence

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 20100416

Aldous Huxley papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 83
Scope and Contents

This collection contains three letters.  Two letters concern Huxley’s novel Island, and are addressed to L. Rust Hills, who was the fiction editor at Esquire magazine from 1956 until 1963. One letter concerns the clinical availability of LSD and references the pharmaceutical companies that were manufacturing LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin in 1961.

Dates: 1961

"LSD-Assisted Psychotherapy and the Human Encounter with Death," The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, Vol. 2, 1972

 Item — Box 1: Series MSP 1, Series 1; Series MSP 1, Series 2; Series MSP 1, Series 3, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSP 1, Series 1, Sub-Series 2, Item 52
Scope and Contents

Co-authored with William Richards

Dates: 1972

Sanford Unger papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSP 69
Scope and Contents

The Sanford Unger papers (1961-1974; 0.2 cubic feet) contains writings exploring the therapeutic potential of psychedelic substances. The collection also contains the correspondence between Aldous and Laura Huxley and Sanford Unger, and an excerpt from the 1966 CBS Reports feature, “LSD The Spring Grove Experiment.”

Dates: 1961 - 1974