ABSTRACT
Editor’s Note: Once Peter and Allen were both back in New York City and settled into a new apartment on East 5th Street, they became actively involved in the coffee house/poetry reading scene that had recently developed on the Lower East Side. Many of Peter’s notebooks are filled with the dates of appointments and reading schedules for his growing circle of poet friends. These activities took up a good deal of his time, as did his use of drugs, which did not stop after his return from India. He also spent time with his family on Long Island, where Julius was in the Central Islip Hospital and Lafcadio and Marie were living at home with Kate. With so many distractions, the amount of time he spent on creative writing diminished, and since he was living with Allen and seeing his family frequently, he had few reasons to correspond.
