Wednesday, 11 July 2012
posted in Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience
let me begin by not beginnin
Early-January of 1964, at which point his third studio album was soon-to-be released, 22-year-old Bob Dylan wrote the following letter to Sis Cunningham and Gordon Friesen — both founding editors of Broadside, a highly influential underground magazine of the period — and spoke of, amongst other things, his recent rise to fame, the money and guilt that came with it, and his love for Suze Rotolo. The letter was published in the magazine’s next issue.
Below is an image of its first page, followed by a full transcript; the original signed letter can be seen its entirety, here.
(Source: Broadside Magazine; Image: Bob Dylan, via Lost in the Cloud.)
Transcript
A LETTER FROM BOB DYLAN
for sis and gordon an all broads of good sizes
let me begin by not beginnin [click here to read more]
