Jack Kerouac Letter to Granville Jones with accompanying typescript

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{"value"=>"186409", "type"=>"local_mss"}

{"value"=>"Berg Coll MSS 186409", "type"=>"local_call"}

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unitdate

{"value"=>"1961 April", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1961-04"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Jack Kerouac Letter to Granville Jones with accompanying typescript"}

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repository

{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature</span>"}

abstract

{"value"=>"This collection is a letter and annotated typescript sent by author and poet Jack Kerouac to Granville (Pete) H. Jones in 1961. Jones received Kerouac's letter and several editorial suggestions written into the margins of Jones' essay \"Jack Kerouac and the American Conscience.\""}

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{"value"=>"English"}

origination

{"value"=>"Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was an American author and poet who was recognized by academics in the 1960s for his writing about the Beat Generation. Granville (Pete) H. Jones (1932-1998) was a scholar who received his Columbia University graduate degree in the early 1960s. Jones's work was focused on contemporary poetry, and he began exchanging letters with Jack Kerouac about his writing.</p> <p>After finishing his graduate work, Jones continued studying poetry and his correspondence with Kerouac. In 1961, Jones sent the author a draft of his essay, \"Jack Kerouac and the American Conscience.\" Kerouac responded and shared his feedback and line edits for the essay. These exchanges with a living author would inform Jones' scholarship, and Kerouac is often directly quoted in Jones' writing.</p> <p>Kerouac's work would continue to be the subject of poetry analysis, and Jones' work is an example of early scholarship on the topic.</p>"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>The Jack Kerouac Letter to Granville Jones with accompanying typescript, contains a letter from Kerouac discussing the points of Jones' essay \"Jack Kerouac and the American Conscience.\" The letter explores Kerouac's writing in the context of modern poetry and his views on Buddhism. There is also a typescript of the essay, with line edits by Kerouac.</p> <p>Kerouac's letter is dated April 13, 1961, and the envelope indicates that Kerouac was living in Northport, New York.</p> <p>A photocopy of Jones's essay, published in <span class=\"title\">Lectures on Modern Novelists through the Carnegie Series in English—Number Seven</span> in 1963 is also inlcuded. This version of the essay quotes Kerouac's letter and details the changes Jones made to the 1961 text.</p>"}

acqinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Purchased in 2023.</p>"}

processinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Processed by <span class=\"name\">Emily P. Dunne</span> in <span class=\"date\">2024</span></p>"}

date_start

1961-04

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1961-04

date_end

1961-04

date_inclusive_start

1961

date_inclusive_end

1961

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0.01 linear feet (1 folder)

prefercite

{"value"=>"Jack Kerouac Letter to Granville Jones with accompanying typescript, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library"}

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