Series 1: Jack Kerouac's arrangement of his archive

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{"value"=>"<p>Drafts of novels, <span class=\"title\">The Town and the City,</span><span class=\"title\">On The Road,</span>notebooks, and letters 1938-1965, and undated, (bulk 1938-1965).</p>"}

{"value"=>"<p>Jack Kerouac devised an alphanumeric organizational system for his literary papers. Papers were arranged by Jack Kerouac and placed in folders labeled A1 through D9. The original order of these papers has been maintained in Series I, recording Kerouac's folder order in the entry for each item. Following Series I the Archive is divided into a further fifteen series, including literary manuscripts, journals, diaries, incoming correspondence, personal papers, artwork, photographs, contracts, financial papers, maps, and realia.</p> <p>Literary and personal papers 1930-1965, n.d. (bulk 1938-1952).</p> <p>Consists of Kerouac's working drafts for his novels, notebooks, journals, notes, sketches, poetry, and some incoming correspondence.</p>"}

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{"value"=>"<p>Arranged according to Kerouac's own arrangement, given as \"A1, f.1\", \"A1, f.2\" etc., after each item description.</p>"}

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1. Folder labeled "A1" with holograph notes on second recto "completed 6/3/91."
2. Holograph sketch of map of the United States of America. Verso titled "Organized Variations on a Theme on Existence."
3. Holograph "American Times," John Kerouac. Oct. 2, 3, 4. Titled: "On The Road I, II, III." Handmade newspaper format
4. Typescript "American Times." "On The Road I - The Night of September 27."
5. Holograph "Souls on the Road."
6. Holograph prose fragment "Souls on the road."
7. Typescript "Souls on the road" with holograph list of names on verso
8. Typescript, revised. "Chapter one. The Road."
9. Holograph Sketch. "Adventures on the road. As related by a boy of eight." Chapter one and cover design. "American Times series, Vol 1. Adventures on the road."
10. Holograph notes. (Begins: "American Times series to be narrated in the voices of Americans themselves . . .")
11. Holograph. "Down the night road. In the night on the road." By "Poor Kerouac."
12. Holograph prose fragment. "Last of the Old West." "Hector’s Cafeteria, Dec.7, 1950." Further notes on "Souls on the road."
13. Typescript prose fragment. "Last of the Old West."
14. Typescript, revised. "West on the Road." [Notes for chapter one, On The Road.]
15. Typescript and holograph draft, revised. (Begins "Kim was a Western Girl.") [First Chapter of Road Novel featuring twenty-year old Colorado woman.]
16. Typescript prose fragment, revised. "Streets of Life." Two versions of a prose fragment. (Begins: "The story of a middle-aged crippled newsboy.")
17. Typescript fragment, revised. "Return of Sam Horn."
18. Typescript, revised. "Night on the Road." Prose fragment with holograph notes on verso
19. Typescript fragments, revised. Variously titled "Hang Here No Longer," "Love on the Road," "The Martins of New England," "The Second Hour On The Same," "The Bad Dream." Numbered 2, 8, 9, 10, 15, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25. [Early draft of "The Town and th
20. Holograph notes. "The Wild Americans (Along the Wild Road), On The Road. Also - Hoodlum Saints, Hipster Saints." "Outline of first sev[eral] chapters" and "Cast of Road."
21. Holograph fragment, untitled, numbered "5". (Begins: "Ben Baloon rose from his sickbed & decided to live again.") Features characters named "Jack" and "Neal."
22. Typescript, revised. "Answers to 3 and 4" Re:On The Road
23. Holograph notes "Slochower" or "The Stream of the Epochs." Thoughts on Spengler and history
24. Typescript fragment, revised. Untitled. (Begins: "Se dur pour mue parle l’Angla (sic) parse je toujour parle le Francais Canadien.")
25. Typescripts, revised. "Term papers for the silly new school." (Views on Tolstoy, Whitman, Dreiser, Lewis.)
26. Holograph sketch "The Town & City - adaptation for drama." Notes and cast of characters on verso
27. Typescript, revised. "Motion picture treatment - idea for the Town and The City."
28. Holograph: "Adaptation from T & C for Screen," "George Martin and Son."
29. Typescript, revised. "Christmas (Love) in the City" Screen-story idea, 20th Century Fox
30. Typescript and Holograph fragment, revised. "Whither goest thou, America, in thy shining car at night?"
31. Folder labeled "A2" with holograph notes on second recto "completed 6/3/91."
32. Typescript, revised. "Cast of characters in 'On the Road' as reconceived Feb.15, 1950." Richmond Hill, NY
33. Typescript "On The Road "Prospectus" (27 chapters summarized for Feb. 15, 1950 version of On The Road.) Chapter outline
34. Typescript, revised. Story, signed by Kerouac. "Tales of the Mad Bop Night" [1950] Complete manuscript of Bop Story
35. Typescript, revised. Complete story "Flower that blows in the night" (retitled "Go Go Go" by Bob Giroux. March 1950.) (Story about Dean and Chad listening to jazz in a bar.)
36. Typescript, revised. Story "Flower that blows in the night." Typescript, revised. Story "Hipster. Blow your Top, A crazy tale by J.K."
37. Holograph and typescript, revised. "Private MS of Gone on the Road, complete first treatment and with minor artistic corrections." Signed Aug 1950/Sept 1950. [First seven chapters of first person version of On The Road, which opens in Des Moines, Iowa]. F
38. Typescript fragment, "Chapter Two." Holograph draft. "Chapter. III The Belief In Man" [Version of Road Book featuring "Chad Gavin in Jail." Annotated "God the Only Thing I live For is to Do This Thing as I should & Will and Now & Ever."]
39. Holograph notes, signed. Untitled notes For "On The Road" Titles. (List of nearly 100 Titles for work in progress - "On The Road."
40. Holograph and typescript notes and fragments, untitled. Various notes and fragments for "The Town and the City."
41. Holograph fragments, untitled. (Begins: "This is the confession of Earl Chadwick Gavin, known as Chad.")
42. Holograph fragment, untitled. "Wed. Dec. 20" [no year] (Begins: "One night in America when the sun had gone down.") [For version of "On The Road" with Jack and Neal]
43. Typescript, revised, signed. "Lines dedicated to Allen Ginsberg on the occasion of the presentation of my book to him."
44. Holograph/typescript poem fragment "A sonnet of sorts" and "Red is a saint."
45. Holograph "The shroudy stranger's older brother" and notes for "Road" novel
46. Holograph "Home and the Road" and chronology of Victor Duchamp's life
47. Holograph and typescript fragments and notes, revised, untitled. Includes: "The writing bum"; "The publishers show grave concern for one of their hacks"; "Craziness and health - idea"; "Human kinds"; "Across the great world night."
48. Holograph poem "I left New York."
49. Folder labeled "A3" with holograph notes on second recto "completed 6/3/91."
50. Holograph "Road" workbook, Mexico City, July 1950. With eight loose leaves. Notebook cover "Libreta America De - Perteneciente A Juan Kerouac"; inscribed on inside front cover "The world waits unsympathetically for this correct tone, this correct vision."
51. Holograph and typescript, revised. Untitled. Various prose fragments including a play
52. Typed letter, signed, from Bertram Bloch to Jack Kerouac (rejection letter), May 26, 1950. 2 leaves. Attached to typescript/holograph, revised, screen story outline "The Wild Galoots" by John Kerouac. 4 leaves. Holograph and typescript, revised. Untitled
53. Holograph and typescript screen story "The Last Gunfight." ("The Sins of the Fathers.") Two revisions of "The Wild Galoots," outline and notes
54. Typed letter, signed, from Jack Kerouac to Bertram Bloch, June 27, 1950. With typescript, revised screen story "The Last Gunfight" (or "The Sins of the Fathers.") 6 leaves. And a typed letter, signed, from Bertram Bloch (Twentieth Century Fox Film Corpora
55. Autograph letter, signed, from Jack Kerouac to "Dear Ed [White?]", undated; and autograph letter, signed, on verso to "Dear Justin [Brierly?]" Signed "Frank and Jack."
56. Autograph letter, signed, from Jack Kerouac to "Dear Alan (Harrington)."
57. Typescript fragment, revised. "Visions of Doctor Sax."(Doctor Sax poem and vision)
58. Typed letter, signed from John Kelly to Jack Kerouac, March 2, 1950. With Kerouac's annotation "All Soul's Night author and Virginia Gentleman."
59. Typed "Inscription on Town & City sent to collector." ("To Stuart Groves, Esq. - ")
60. Holograph fragments and notes
61. Photocopied typed letter, signed from Jack Kerouac to "Ian"
62. Folder labeled "A4" with holograph notes on second recto "completed 6/3/91."
63. Typescript, revised. "What the young French writers should be writing." Complete spontaneous prose sketch. (Begins: "Last night he was all attentive as he never really is.")
64. Typescript, revised. Untitled pages numbered 541, 542, 543 of ["Visions of Cody" manuscript]
65. Holograph fragments from notebook (excerpt from Peter Singletary notebook)
66. Holograph fragment "Mexican Fellaheen"; (Begins: "I am an antique priest...")
67. Holograph notebook, notes and fragments featuring characters "Earl, Dave, and Big Slim"
68. Holograph notes and fragments, untitled. (Begins: "Beneath haloes of eternity...")
69. Typescript fragment, revised. Untitled. (Possibly an early draft of Doctor Sax - contains description of river at Pawtucket Falls and near Little Canada in Lowell
70. Holograph note from Jack Kerouac to Neal Cassady, and holograph note from Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac
71. Typescript, revised. Untitled. (Notes for ideas for "On The Road" with Peter, Pomeray, Levinsky, Dennison and others.)
72. Typed note "Insertion (after "More gelatinous than terrifying")."
73. Typescript fragment, revised. "Gallows 1." (Translated from French of Genet). Seven lines with holograph note by Jack Kerouac
74. Sketch of a landscape, untitled
75. Typescript fragment "The energies of Dean Pomeray."
76. Typescript and holograph notes, lists, and a letter. Untitled. (Travel notes, notes on things to do; lists of residences and year of occupation; and copy of letter written to John Clellon Holmes, composed on Neal Cassady's birthday, February 8, 1952
77. Typescript fragment, revised. Untitled. (Possibly an early draft of Doctor Sax - contains description of river at Pawtucket Falls and near Little Canada in Lowell
78. Folder labeled "A5" with holograph notes on second recto "completed 6/4/91."
79. Holograph fragment "On The Road, écrit en Francais."
80. Holograph novel written on notebook pages. "Ben Boncoeur excerpt (written January Jan. 1951 in Richmond Hill (Good) (Influenced by ‘The Possessed’)"
81. Holograph fragment "On The Road" with note in French on verso of first leaf
82. Holograph fragment, untitled. (Begins: "When the sun's gone down..."; second leaf begins "Love and Sadness")
83. Typescript, revised. With holograph note "(Original Self-Instructions / list for composing / On the Road 1951 / (Sat at side of typewriter as chapter guide)."
84. Typescript, revised. "Untitled story by John Kerouac." (Complete fictional story about Neal and Carolyn Cassady as Mr. and Mrs. Fred Blue in San Francisco)
85. Typescript, revised. "(Opening Pete) His beautiful visage bends over the world." with other typescript drafts and fragments
86. Typescript, revised. (Begins: "In the days that followed the burial of his father . . .") Fragment of version of On The Road featuring Peter Martin
87. Typescript fragment, revised. Untitled. (Begins: "After his father died Peter Martin found himself alone in the world . . .")
88. Typescript fragment, revised. Untitled. (Begins: "Peter Martin took a few days rest and traveled to see his brothers . . . ")
89. Typescript fragment, revised. Untitled. (Begins: "One night in June ")
90. Typescript fragment, revised. Untitled. (Begins: "Dean Pomeray was born on the road.") (Early draft of On The Road with Dean Pomeray and Peter Martin)
91. Holograph notes "Secrets of [T & C?]" (Eight points on "Self imposed discipline - of plot, daily output, & instinctive deletion."
92. Holograph, untitled. (Outline of literary projects - books and dates)
93. Holograph and sketch, untitled. (Outline of activities of characters in The Town and the City from 1946 through 1951 for On The Road, and sketch of map of U.S.A
94. Holograph early drafts of On The Road, untitled. Drafts of "1951 October in the Pool Hall" and "On the Road with Dean Pomeray". (Begins: "Around the poolhalls of Denver . . ."). Note by Kerouac: "Working sheets (’51)"
95. Holograph fragment "Old Jack Kerouac."
96. Holograph poems "A Ditty" and other poems with Kerouac's note "1951 ‘Verses’"; with notes on "The East"
97. Holograph fragments and notes, untitled. "Marylou's from Star, Wyo." (story about little boy's ward and notes). Notes on future work, including The Town and the City, featuring Peter Martin, "Hip" featuring Sal Paradise, and On The Road featuring Victor D
98. Holograph fragments and typescript, revised. Untitled. Two notes and fragments
99. Book publication advertisement tearsheet: John Kerouac, The Town and the City. (English publisher). Image of dustjacket
100. Folder labeled "A6" with holograph notes on second recto "completed 6/7/91."
101. Typescript fragment, revised. "On The Road, projected fictional arrangement, 1954. / Revised careful prose, Jean Louis. (Description of Denver and the Wade White family)
102. Typescript prose sketch. "An example of non-spontaneous deliberated prose, written Oct. 11, 1954. Jack Kerouac."
103. Holograph notes. "If he can be called a failure who leaves 1 ½ million unpublished words at 32." (List of 22 works with word count from 1935 to 1954)
104. Holograph "Visions of America". (Begins: "‘It's going thru me like a wild prairie fire’ I tell Neal & Carolyn in the station wagon as it races across the Arizona night - ")
105. Holograph fragment "On the Path . . . by Jean-Louis." (Begins: "Being an explanation to his mother of his discovery of the path of the Buddhas of old . . . Part I, Discovery of the Path of the Buddhas of old.")
106. Holograph and typescript notes, fragments, and sketch. Revised. Untitled sketch signed by Kerouac. Various notes and fragments and a sketch of Buddha and Dharma (includes 2 draft leaves of "Some of the Dharma" and a signed sketch titled "The Novice Discip
107. Holograph notes and brief movie treatment. "Being a Tathagata" and "The Tathagata, a movie novel." (Movie novel note: "Let's make a lot of great movies for the lonely people of the world - ")
108. Holograph and typescript fragments, notes and quotations. Untitled. Various notes and fragments on Buddha and Dharma. Early Buddhist reflections and study materials. List of needs for travels, with Kerouac's notes to himself
109. Typescript fragment, untitled. (Begins: "A dream already ended. . ."). Philosophical thoughts with Buddhist slant on boyhood with Sebastian [Sampas] and in "mad dreamlike eternity."
110. Holograph and typescript drafts of story "cityCityCITY / a novel by Jean-Louis." Holograph draft and typescript of story published in Nugget Magazine, titled "The electrocution of Block 3838393938 . . ." with tearsheets of story published in Nugget
111. Typescript story "Saturday Manhattoes or, Saturday in New York." Story featuring mother's "Saturday morning shopping excitement, that I have never forgotten as an image of one of the few things in life . . ."
112. Holograph notes. "Life - I - March Twelfth Night." Cameo Hotel, Frisco. (Capsule history of Lowell up to the nineteenth century mill era
113. Typescript fragments, untitled. And "Confessions of the Father." (Material on earliest memories)
114. Typescript fragment, revised. "October on the railroad" and page 20 of draft with Kerouac's note "1954 attempt to continue railroad earth."
115. Holograph and typescript fragment and poem, revised. "Visions of America," "Winos in the railroad earth," and an untitled poem beginning "The universe is empty throughout, in and out."
116. Typescript "The voyage down the magic coast; a short story by Jean-Louis." (Story about a trip to the Mexican border with the Cassadys)
117. Holograph and typescript fragments. "Excerpts from ‘On The Road’ and ‘Joan Rawshanks in the fog’ an excerpt from ‘Visions of Neal’ by Jean-Louis." (With notes on Leo Duluoz in 1922)
118. Holograph and typescript, revised. "First book movie," "The French Night," "Paris by Night, TV Play," and six untitled items
119. Typescript and holograph, signed. Untitled. Poem begins: "These ignorant bastards."
120. Holograph sketch "Tree of Life". Sketch of tree with family and friends noted
121. Holograph, untitled. (Begins: "Le plu vieux des fils, Joseph . . .") Fragment in French-Canadian
122. Holograph fragments and notes, untitled. Various notes and fragments
123. Holograph sketch "Tree of Life". Sketch of tree with family and friends noted
124. Holograph and typescript, revised. Various notes, fragments and scraps. Includes "Jazz excerpts by Jean-Louis."
125. Railroad manual and timetable. Southern Pacific Company Coast Division Timetable 167. Effective Sunday, April 24, 1955. (Jack Kerouac's railroad timetable)
126. Typed letter from Jack Kerouac to Allen Ginsberg
127. Folder labeled "B1" with holograph note on second recto "Completed 6/7/91."
128. Holograph notebook, signed by Jack Kerouac. "Columbia, Oxford; working philosophy & minerva = stability; random notes . . . humanities, contemporary civilization, hygiene, science, French, and so forth, gleanings from interesting class discussions, with i
129. Typescript, revised. "The Journal of an Egotist, dealing with my activities and thoughts during my first years at Columbia University, by Jack Kerouac, Class of ’44. With a short introduction, New York City, 1940."
130. Typescript personal journal "Introduction." "(Continued 12 days later, Nov. 24)." (Journal on college life at Columbia University)
131. Typescript, revised. "‘Rasping smoke in a dry throat’ (and other early prose pieces), Jack Kerouac, Age 18, 1940. First lines of ‘Modernistic’ period." (Twelve stories and an autobiographical essay)
132. Typescript, revised. "Where the Road begins by Jack Kerouac, 1940." (Early philosophical essay, second person narrative experiment)
133. Typescript, revised. "Drop-kick Dreadnought, by Jack Kerouac, 1940." (Early football story)
134. Typescript, revised. "Raw Rookie Nerves, by Jack Kerouac." Chapter One. (Complete baseball novella)
135. Typescript, revised. "The Journalist and the Collegian." (Complete story about a subway adventure)
136. Typescript "Henry Fielding's ‘Tom Jones’" and ‘ Dante's ‘Inferno’". (Two essays for classes at Columbia University)
137. Typescripts "Casual papers" and three untitled fragments
138. Typescript "Confession to a cursed soul." (Early poem)
139. Holograph, untitled. List of books and notes
140. Typescript/holograph, revised. Untitled fragment by Leo Kerouac, with Jack Kerouac's note: "Pa's prose."
141. Typescript fragment, revised. "Excerpts" (with Kerouac's note: "By Geo. Apostolos.")
142. Folder labeled "B2" with holograph note on second recto "Completed 6/10/91."
143. Typescript synopsis of novel "Outline of subsequent synopsis ‘The Town and the City’ by John Kerouac." With Kerouac's signature on final page
144. Typescript notes, revised. "Some Town and City conclusions."
145. Holograph prose fragment. (Second paragraph begins: "I had a wonderful time in New York, Mike, but I too am glad to be coming back."
146. Holograph notes "For ‘On the Road’"
147. Typescript fragment, revised. "I The Story Begins." (Earl John Moultrie version of ‘On The Road’ with notes on "Aspects of the hip")
148. Typescript, revised. "The hip generation. I. Early appurtenances (the hip generation), September 1949." (Earl John Moultrie start of On The Road with Dean Pomeray). Begins with "A sonnet dedicated to Red Moultrie."
149. Typescript fragment, revised. Untitled. (Begins: "Then they took the subway down to seventeenth street."). Features characters "Smitty" and "Red."
150. Typescript/holograph, revised. Untitled. (Begins: "Not far from the market along the New Orleans waterfront . . . ")
151. Photocopy of typed letter, signed, from Jack Kerouac to Mr. [Mark?] Van Doren. Letter includes synopsis of ‘Doctor Sax’. Cover letter for samples of ‘The Town and the City’ and ‘Doctor Sax.’
152. Holograph draft fragment "Arkansas man." (Lament on the certainty of death in the voice of "Arkansas man.")
153. Holograph essay and notes. "Notes on the sexual revolution" and "Oakland Again." (Brief essay on the sexual revolution and notes written while waiting for Neal in Oakland)
154. Holograph notes, untitled. Notes on "Shrouded existence." (Written on railroad notepaper; thoughts on existence with references to "Bill, Neal, Hunk, Allen, Lov, Hal, Me - ")
155. Holograph notes "N.Y. Dontlikes" and "Chaos at Dennison's." (List of New York complaints; Begins: "Benny Blues - meaningless soft jobs . . . ")
156. Typescript draft. (Begins: "A marvelous guy, just now, I saw him out my window here in Ozone. . . ")
157. Holograph and typescript essay, revised. "The minimization of Thomas Wolfe in his own time."
158. Folder labeled "B3" with holograph note on second recto "Completed 6/10/91."
159. Holograph "Final chapter of T &C ‘Après tous." (Pages numbered 1075-1086). minimization of Thomas Wolfe in his own time."
160. Holograph "T & C - Bk. Two" (Canceled title "An American Springtime" retitled "I. In the morning."). minimization of Thomas Wolfe in his own time."
161. Typescript, untitled. (Includes poem which begins "Whee Woe, I am weary, woeful.")
162. Holograph, untitled. Notes on ‘The Town and the City’ and Dostoevsky
163. Typescript, revised. "The Dream, the conversation, and the Deed - some of Peter Martin's frenzy."
164. Holograph and typescript prose fragment, untitled. (Begins: " It was N.Y. again."). Page numbered 1080
165. Holograph and typescript prose fragments and notes, titled "Scraps 1948." "
166. Typescript fragment, revised. Untitled. (Begins: "He wandered in the next room like a ghost on bare feet.")
167. Typescript prose fragment, untitled. (Begins: "And while the old men . . ."). Page numbered 176
168. Typescript and holograph draft, revised. "Mick."
169. Holograph draft "Peter on the sea."
170. Holograph and typescript draft, revised. Untitled. (Begins: "Peter came back East the following spring.") Pages numbered 1100-1103
171. Typescript, revised. "‘He knew how to live’ - Peter in ‘City.’"
172. Holograph draft "Final chapter of T & C." (Note on "More of vision"
173. Holograph "After (The Town and the City) (Roamings of a childlike man)." With more notes on "the ‘visions.’"
174. Holograph draft "George Martin's New York." With notes on "Total pages - 207 - 208 - 596 manuscript total."
175. Typescript "First night." Page numbered 620
176. Typescript, untitled. Kerouac's annotation: "(Town and City dialog)." (Begins: "But what I'm doing now you see is saving my money . . .")
177. Typescript personal journal. "Winter journal. Winter 1947-1948, New York (Ozone Park)." (Begins: "Just got home from California and all the hoboing and hunger and true adventure of the past three months . . . The purpose of this journal is to get down swi
178. Holograph notes "Characters for ‘Xmas on Earth’ A Christian novel." (Character list and outline, including "Michael Breton, a son, a loafer" and "Mickey McCarthy, 11, a boy in N.E." and "Gerald McCarthy, 22, young writer and counterman (some village acqua
179. Typescript draft, revised. "Fri. aft." Numbered "1". Draft for novel "Xmas on Earth." (Begins: "Mike was keeping his rendezvous.")
180. Typescript draft, revised. "4. Friday afternoon and supper" and others. Draft of novel ‘Xmas on Earth.’ Also includes typescript, revised "Friday Dawn."
181. Holograph draft (canceled title "So This is the World Itself." ). Titled "A novel - begun Sunday morning, 2am, Dec. 7." (Begins: "If I could write a letter to God, or someone like that . . .")
182. Typescript, revised. "A novel again. Begun Sunday morning, 2am. December 7, 1947." [See also Box 4, folder 55]
183. Autograph letter, signed. From Jack Kerouac to unknown recipient, incomplete. (Numbered pages 3-6; letter refers to Neal and moving to California to ranch)
184. Holograph and typescript drafts and notes, revised. "Sax" and other draft pages and notes for "Doctor Sax," including an early beginning of this novel. (One draft begins: "In the rainy night the bat flew across the river to the castle on Snake Hill . . ."
185. Typescript prose fragment, revised. "Suicide" [See also Box 4, folder 55]
186. Typescripts and holograph drafts, signed. "Gerald and Mike." (Draft of novel "Xmas on Earth," and an outline of sequence of events)
187. Holograph fragment "Discernment of another."
188. Typescript fragment, revised. "Clint." Page numbered 3
189. Typescript fragment, untitled. (Begins: " . . . haunted by the memory of her lean and terrifying girlhood.") Page numbered 37
190. Holograph fragment "Story - the Brooklyn Cat."
191. Holograph and typescript fragment. (Begins: "Of what pearles are made of . . .")
192. Typescript draft "Here they come."
193. Typescript draft "Notes typed before they're lost."
194. Holograph fragment "Sunday morning, Jan. 18, ’48" Page numbered 3
195. Holograph draft "The American Intelligentsia Self-Styled."
196. Typescript "Notes from a letter (to Temko, Dec. 13, ’48."
197. Typescript "(Written in the newspaper office.) Oct. 15, 1948. Hank Lambert."
198. Holograph fragment, untitled. "Dear Professor Van Doren / Allen Ginsberg."
199. Holograph, signed. Untitled. Copied lines of John Donne's poetry, signed "Me really ’48."
200. Typescript and holograph "Use experience / For Pequeta," and fragment from The Town and the City. (Kerouac's instructions to himself: "Just be a man, a lover - not a geek. Just a daddio."
201. Holograph "Storks go bragh!"
202. Cuttings and tearsheets of printed illustrations "The sleeping beauty" and "Gold at Sutter's Mill." Tearsheets of New York Times Magazine article "To understand France, study her clowns" by Joseph A. Barry, March 20, 1949
203. Folder labeled "B5" with holograph text on second recto. Note on inside rear cover of folder B5 commenting on "Peter" and "Mickey" [1940]
204. Holograph poem and notes, signed. "Thinking of Thomas Wolfe on a winter's night." (Written on U.S. Army notepaper)
205. Typescript "Note Dec. 8, 1940.c (Begins: "Upon the next page of this journal may be found a story that I wrote this evening, originally intended it for a fellow in High School.")
206. Typescript/holograph story, revised. "An evolution after dinner." Holograph note "Dear Oby." Typed note acknowledges influence of Thomas Wolfe
207. Typescript poem with holograph note. (Begins: "I know I am August."). With holograph note: "Whitman - me."
208. Typescript prose fragment, revised. "New York Nite Club."
209. Typescript, revised. "The money for the masterpiece." (Page 1-2 of an incomplete story)
210. Typescript novel, revised. "Juvenile football novel." Kerouac's holograph note: "1940 football novella." (Title page note: "Dear Margaret: This is the orig. ms. I wrote at sixteen and I leave it completely unchanged for you to read . . ." Features charact
211. Folder labeled "B6" with holograph note on second recto "Completed 6/11/91."
212. Holograph personal journal. "Journal, Fall, 1939." September 21-25, 1939. Brooklyn N.Y. (Begins: "Sept. 21. My name is John L. Kerouac, regardless of how little that may matter to the casual reader.") Journal covers early days at Horace Mann school, footb
213. Typed letter from Jack Kerouac to "GJ." (Letter concerns a "long strange dream.")
214. Newspaper cutting. "Coach Foye well-pleased with Kerouac."
215. Typescript story, revised. "English Quarterly / Mr. Blake / 'The White Paradox' / by Jack Kerouac." (Story about finding an 1895 diary by "Marlough.")
216. Typescript story, revised. Untitled story. (Begins: "You would hardly expect a day in September to be colorless, humid, and depressing.") Features characters "Richard Vesque" in "Galloway" walking home, and at home after school
217. "The Horace Mann Quarterly." Fall, 1939. "The Brothers" by Jack Kerouac. Kerouac's story, with corrections on page 28
218. "The Horace Mann Quarterly." Summer, 1940. "Une Veille de Noelle" ("One Christmas Eve") by Jack Kerouac
219. The Horace Mann Record. School newspaper article, front page (first column) about Jack Kerouac titled "Kerouac Kicks." ("Kerouac and Finelli were the big guns of the offense.")
220. The Horace Mann Record. School newspaper article, front page (first column) about Jack Kerouac. ("Finelli, Kerouac supply main offensive weapons for H.M. backfield.")
221. The Horace Mann Record. School newspaper article, front page (third column) about Jack Kerouac, with photograph of Kerouac and others in starting line-up. ("The 5' 9" Lowell High back can be counted on for a good performance.")
222. The Horace Mann Record. School newspaper article by Kerouac, signed. Front page article about game lost by Horace Mann team. Early sports article by Kerouac.)
223. The Horace Mann Record. School newspaper article about Kerouac with holograph note in pencil "Don't you recognize your son?" Front page photograph of Kerouac in football uniform accompanying article referring to Kerouac
224. The Horace Mann Record. School newspaper article by Jack Kerouac. "H.M. basketball prospects encouraging." (Early sports article by Kerouac.)
225. Folder labeled "B7" with holograph note on second recto "Completed 6/14/91."
226. Holograph story, signed. "Time: 2.30am. Date. August 14, 1941. Place: Bedroom of home on Gershom Avenue in Lowell, Mass." (Begins: "Listen to the song of the trees . . . ")
227. Typescript/holograph story, revised. "The sandbank sage"; with holograph note "Soc: stream of consciousness." Early story with note: "Stream of consciousness is too intelligent to come from the mouths of children; I use it in elaborate English to imply th
228. Typescript story, revised. "Rough draft:- Joe Doakes and the immortals by JK." (Early story with note: "This is horrible - I retain it for the sake of data."
229. Typescript short play. "I resort to another barroom." (Features characters "Zagg, Walter, Paul, Sebastian," and "Nick." Set in a "typical New England mill town barroom."
230. Typescript story, revised. "Story of a touchdown - ." With holograph note: "Homeric valor as a theme. Shorten. $100.00 cash."
231. Typescript story, revised. "Eighty-Eight Cents Worth of New York."
232. Typescript story, revised. "From Radio City to the Crown."
233. Typescript story, revised. "...The Little Cottage by the Sea..."
234. Typescript story, revised. "A Young Writer's notebook."
235. Typescript stories: "A Young Writer Must Laugh," and "The Juke-Box is Saving America."
236. Typescript story, revised. "A Young Writer Must Laugh."
237. Typescript story "The Father of my Father."
238. Typescript story, revised. "Today."
239. Typescript story "Life Drifts in Through the Flimsy Wall."
240. Typescript story, revised. "The Most Terrific Guy I Ever Knew."
241. Typescript "Sadness at Six by Jack Kerouac, CP*." (*CP Casual Poet)
242. Typescript draft "Farewell Song, Sweet From My Trees."
243. Typescript, revised. "...Red Sun Over the Prison."
244. Typescript story, revised. "...My Redhot Night Cut Short."
245. Typescript draft, revised. "...Hartford After Work."
246. Typescript draft, revised. "...Legends and Legends..." (Begins: "'The Kerouacs have always been the same;")
247. Typescript story, revised. "A Kerouac Who Turned Out Sublime."
248. Typescript story "...Contemporary Humor?..."
249. Typescript, revised. "...Hungry Young Writer's notebook..."
250. Typescript story "Fan-Mail (In Three Sections). (Letter to "Mr. Welles" and "Mr. Gable.") A story titled "Fan-Mail" appears on the list titled "Stories, 48 at 100 34,000 words". [See Box 5, folder 58]
251. Typescript, revised. Notes titled "...Lowell..." (Notes on writing about Lowell and the passage of the amendment to the Neutrality Act in Congress
252. Typescript, revised. Untitled. (Notes on writing and the beginning of a letter, dated November 9, 1941. Notes begin: "To write what is Hartford!" Continues later: "I shall be the best writer in the world, because my words will be closely associated with m
253. Typescript notes, untitled. (Begins: "I have seen many things in my time...")
254. Typescript introduction to collection of stories and a story "Atop an Underwood by Jack Kerouac / F.P. / Sixty Little Old Stories / Introduction." And "The Good Jobs." (Introduction begins: "Hello. This is Jack Kerouac F.P., a new writer. F.P stands for f
255. Typescript draft, untitled. (Begins: "Here I am at last with a typewriter, a little more the hungrier..."). Thoughts on preparing to write about "America's awful sickness."
256. Typescript poem "Oktober."
257. Typescript statement "Credo" on writing and art, with holograph note: "Hartford period." (Begins: "Remember above all things, Kid, that to write is not difficult, not painful, that it comes out of you with ease. . .")
258. Typescript notes, untitled. (Begins: "Idea for a movie ... 'You Can't Go Home Again' The Story of Thomas Wolfe.")
259. Typescript list of stories. "Stories for 'Blame It On The Heart.'"
260. Typescript list of stories with holograph note "Stories." Note reads "48 at 100 / 34,000 words" [48 stories] and on verso, holograph "Atop an Underwood." [25 stories]. ("Underwood" list includes "Pop," "Nin," "Ma," "Richard Vesque," and others.)
261. Typescript book list and comments/self-instructions
262. Typescript, revised. Notes "Ideas for a play" and "Young Writer's notebook." (Notes for a play set in "New England Milltown tavern" and observations on people's behavior.)
263. Holograph essay "Dante and Virgil." ("Term paper about 'Divine Comedy' '41."
264. Holograph poem, untitled. (Begins: "She was fourteen and I was nineteen.")
265. Typescript, revised. Untitled. Notes on work, socialism, slavery - with typed name: "Jack Kerouac, the Zagguth, the Zagg." (Final page titled "Kerouac's socialism, here is my system.")
266. Typescript, untitled. (Story set in a mill town with character "Ferdinand" who gets a ride to Boston in a truck."
267. Holograph prose draft "Old Love-Light."
268. Holograph draft of poem "Oktober." (Poetic draft of thoughts on October.)
269. Holograph prose draft "Woman Going to Hartford."
270. Holograph notes. (Begins: "Music - sound - on a train.") (Impressions of October and the railroad)
271. Typescript story "...On a cloudy day in December..."
272. Typescript draft, untitled. Numbered "4." (Begins: "Then you are good-naturedly buffeted into a cab.")
273. Holograph notes "Whitman." Notes on democracy, Aristotle, sea, night
274. Typescript fragment, revised. Untitled. Page numbered "14." (Begins: "Beginning of nothing.")
275. Typescript notes, untitled. (Begins: "Vast, soft song ... Starpacked heavens touching the proud tree-tops.")
276. Photocopied typed letter, signed, from Jack Kerouac to "Bill." Titled "A Midnight Letter to a Lost Friend."
277. Folder labeled "B8" with holograph note on second recto "Completed 6/17/91."
278. Holograph personal journal, signed. "Jack Kerouac: - Diary - Beginning June 1, 1941." Covers period June 1-19, 1941. (Summer activities in Lowell, plans for a novel, thoughts on the war, with later marginal notes
279. Holograph personal journal, unsigned. "Journal - (stupid)." (Also titled inside "The Stupid Journal"; Contains plans for "My life's design"; "The time has come " to begin working/writing seriously; "I have more or less renounced Bacchus, renounced Venus
280. Holograph story, signed. "Search by Night." (Dialogue in French Canadian. "Searching for the eye of the war"; written just after Pearl Harbor, set in New England mill town.)
281. Typescript story, revised. "Farewell Song, Sweet from my Trees." (Manuscript returned from Esquire Magazine with rejection note from Arnold Gingrich, editor, and comments by two other editors.)
282. Typescript story, revised. "Farewell Song, Sweet from my Trees." (Another draft of story found in Box 6, folder 5.)
283. Typescript story, revised. "Present Tense." (Football scene.)
284. Typescript play, revised. "There's Something About A Cigar." ("A little play in several acts and scenes" with characters "Nick, Young Fellow, Walter, Paul," and "Sebastian.")
285. Typescript story "God."
286. Typescript story, signed "Jack K (Age 19)." Titled "If I Were Wealthy." (Description of ideal existence with a shack, two dogs, books, and time to write and dream. With mathematical calculations on verso
287. Typescript draft, untitled. (Begins: "I am going to stress a new set of values, . . . ") ("The following stuff is not written with an eye to form, it is written with an eye to complete expression.") Early aesthetic statement on prose style. Self-descripti
288. Typescript draft, "Howdy." (Begins: "This is Jack Kerouac, speaking to you."). Description of Kerouac's room in Hartford, Connecticut, as well as his possessions and the city outside the window
289. Typescript notes. "A noble experiment / Subject: What will my books be about this summer?" ("Words written during a state of intoxication." Trying to write while drunk on port; theme of the book will be "Man is now a civilized animal, but he is no longer
290. Typescript story "Short History of a Thinking Mind (or of an Artistic Mind." (Story about the qualities of an artist's mind as opposed to "the average man" and the "use" of the artist
291. Holograph note and fragment, signed. From "No Door" by Thomas Wolfe, and fragment from Jack Kerouac's "My Redhot Night Cut Short." (Note under Wolfe's name: "America's greatest.")
292. Typescript, revised. "The Birth of A Socialist." (Final page has typed name "Zagguth Kerouac." Story of Zagguth's first day of work in a cracker factory; he quits after one day and decides to write for a living.)
293. Typescript prose fragment/novel. "No Connection, A Novel That I Don't Intend to Finish." (Includes self-address concerning writing goals, poets, descriptions of sex, and definitions of a novel: "a novel is a story of a man's development, I think.")
294. Typescript story "Cate." (With character "Charles Engels," a billionaire in 1919 who gives up business to write "a tremendous novel" and later fathers a superhuman son, Cate, who dies while saving a harlot."
295. Typescript story, revised. "Farewell Song, Sweet from my Trees." With holograph note "Orig. MS. '41." [See also: Box 6, folders 5 and 6]
296. Holograph story and notes "Atop and Underwood" (list of stories with descriptions), and story "The Raw Boards Drip." (Written on verso of a flyer from Jim's Atlantic Super Service Station in East Hartford, Connecticut.)
297. Typescript story, revised. "On the Porch, Remembering."
298. Typescript, with sketch on verso. "Synopsis: Joe Doakes and the Immortals."
299. Typescript prose fragment "Yell, Rebel! / A Novel by Jack Kerouac." ("Chapter One, Cordeau, the Madman.")
300. Typescript story "See! The World . . . "
301. Typescript story, revised. "Love." With quotations from Whitman
302. Typescript story "Away, Winged Wordless World." (With holograph note on verso.)
303. Typescript draft story, revised. "On the Porch, Remembering." [See also Box 6, folder 21]
304. Typescript draft story, revised. "On the Porch, Remembering." [See also Box 6, folders 21 and 27]
305. Typescript draft story, revised. "On the Porch, Remembering." [See also Box 6, folders 21, 27, and 28]
306. Typescript fragment of story, untitled. Paginated "2, 3." (Begins: "Tragedy, a stroke of doom that renders you useless...")
307. Typescript fragment of story, untitled. Paginated "2." (Begins: "Oh! the unbearable boredom of it.")
308. Typescript essay "Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel" and "Milton's Paradise Lost."
309. Typescript prose fragment "Odyssey (continued)."
310. Typescript essay, untitled. (Begins: "I have to pull up my stakes and roll, Man.")
311. Typescript draft with holograph note on verso, untitled. (Begins: "One Sunday afternoon in July. . ."). Holograph note on verso: "Let's have no more of this Céline - ."
312. Typescript prose fragment "Strange." (Thoughts on Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Charles Thomas.)
313. Typescript poem "I tell you it is October!"
314. Holograph fragment/story "Story of Pop, Slop, 10 c, lefty" with "Midnight Dream" on verso
315. Holograph prose fragment "Depression."
316. Holograph notes "Definition of a poet."
317. Holograph stories "Sadness at Six," and "From Radio City to the Crown by Jack Kerouac, F.P." [F.P. = "Furious Poet."] Two short stories about the day Kerouac was born and memories of the Crown Theater in Lowell. Written on a service station flyer
318. Holograph poem "America in the night." (Six-stanza poem with heavy use of onomatopoeia as in "Sea" in Big Sur.)
319. Holograph notes, untitled. (Notes on novel and Thomas Wolfe.)
320. Holograph note, untitled. (Begins: "At 18 suddenly discovered the delight of freedom - . . .") Ends with a later note: "At 23, in 1945, what can I add? or perhaps at 74 in 1996?"
321. Typescript story, revised. "The Heart of the World. The Legend of Duluoz."
322. Folder labeled "B9 Assorted Prose Pieces" with holograph note "Complete 6/17/91."
323. Holograph journal, signed. Pages from "The Stupid Journal" "Reporter Reports - "; "GJ Goes to Washington," and other material. (January 4: "I am planning to begin my first novel, which will be autobiographical, but definitely not in the heroic tradition -
324. Typescript story, revised. "King Mazuma, by Jack Kerouac. (Rough draft: 3500 wds. app.) S.T.C., etc.) Story set in New York City
325. Typescript story, revised. ". . . [Famine For] The Heart . . . A Short Story . . . by Jack Kerouac." (With characters "Richard Vesque," and "Pepi Martin," set in jazz roadhouse in Mississippi.)
326. Typescript article, revised. "Defending the misunderstood Lew Ayres."
327. Typescript story "The Homeless Sea."
328. Typescript story "The Homeless Sea; Archipelagoes and Encantadas." (Draft of Box 6, folder 51.)
329. Typescript essay "Contrasting the Parthenon and the Sub-Treasury." (College paper for Humanities B1. Fine Arts. With Professor's comments, graded "C.")
330. Typescript essay "Cinema and the stage. For Advanced Composition." (College paper with Professor's comments, graded "B-".)
331. Typed letter, signed. From Jack Kerouac to the editor of the Lowell Sun. (Responding to a newspaper editorial titled "Russians Sweep On.")
332. Typescript note, untitled. [Notes for letter to the editor of the Lowell Sun, Box 6, folder 55]
333. Typescript play "Columbia Varsity Show." With holograph note "Saroyanism-Nonesense." ("This Varsity show is about a casual poet named Terrific.") Written, in part, on U.S. Army notepaper
334. Typescript note "Observations." (Ends: "I shall sing: I shall record the misery, observe on it, and point out how to abolish it. Blah.")
335. Typescript and holograph notes. "Notes: Joe Doakes and the Immortals." (The "Immortals" are Wolfe and the greater poets.)
336. Typescript, revised. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot." Advanced Composition, with notes. With Professor's comments, graded "B." [Second page of this essay was originally located in Box 7, folder 15.]
337. Typescript note "There are four kinds of people in the world." (Definitions of ignorant, poor, wise, rich.)
338. Typescript prose fragment "From a Letter."
339. Holograph "Shakespeare" and other school notes
340. Holograph notes, untitled. (Begins: "I find most valuable possession, desire to create beauty - above all else.")
341. Holograph, untitled. [Notes for a three-act play featuring John Cordeau, the rebel."] ("Snatches of dialogue" and scene outline - scene 1 set in "Moody St. apartment over whorehouse.")
342. Holograph, signed. Essay "The New Romanticism." (Notes on Goethe and Faust.)
343. Holograph notebook, signed. Untitled. (Various notes on Hinduism, writing, authors, and literary projects. (Begins: "Oct. '42. World has changed in father's time.") Lacks front cover
344. Folder labeled "B10 Assorted Prose Pieces."
345. Typescript introduction to a novel "The Joy of Duluoz." (Description of trilogy of novels on the life of Robert Duluoz, consisting of "The Vanity of Duluoz," "The Vexation of Duluoz," and "The Joy of Duluoz.")
346. Typescript novel "The Joy of Duluoz 1." (Beginning of novel featuring "Bob Duluoz.") [See also Box 7, folder 2]
347. Typescript, revised. Story "The Hero . . . "
348. Typescript story with holograph note "The Wastrel." (Remarks in ink "I must manage this style more.")
349. Typescript prose fragment "The Homeless Sea? Convoy Night? Road to Russian?" [Draft of Box 7, folder 7]
350. Typescript "The Homeless Sea." [See also Box 7, folder 6]
351. Typescript, signed. "To a soldier killed in Bataan." Dated "Friday night, 12 pm / Darkness and rain." (Includes Kerouac's logo or "stamp" in pencil. [See also "Letter to Bill," Box 5, folder 74.]
352. Typescript short story, revised. "Famine for the Heart (Final Draft)."
353. Typescript article "Lean and Loaf." (Article on Hollywood, cinema, and entertainment page columnists.)
354. Typescript essay, untitled. (Begins: "Ever since 'Look Homeward, Angel' people have been shouting that Thomas Wolfe was getting better . . .") Holograph note "Letter to Chips."
355. Typescript prose fragment, untitled. (Begins: "Life is a tired thing.")
356. Typescript prose fragment, untitled. [Thoughts on Joyce and modern writing.]
357. Typescript story "The Kid by Jack Kerouac." (Early football story typed on U.S. Army notepaper.)
358. Photocopied typescript fragment, "Jack on Eliot." [Numbered "-2-".] Notes on T. S. Eliot and "Prufrock". The original leaf has been reunited with the first and third leaf of this college paper. See Box 6, folder 60
359. Typescript poem "Tis the ancientstrife I see." (Typed on verso of letter from Kerouac to an unknown correspondent
360. Typescript story "Joe Doakes." Advanced composition college paper with Professor's comments, graded "B."
361. Holograph notes for story "Joe Doakes."
362. Holograph prose fragment "There's a dawn to every day." Written on U.S. Army notepaper
363. Holograph notes "This I do know." (Begins: "That I shall be influenced by Wolfe, Saroyan. . .")
364. Holograph notes. "Book One. The World Before Man (The self-education related in the novel 'Galloway.'") Also titled "Notes from H. G. Wells."
365. Typescript article, revised. "The leftist movement in the United States and the swing to the left" by Seymour Wise
366. Folder labeled "B11 Assorted Prose Pieces" with holograph note "Complete 6/24/91."
367. Typescript fragment "An introvert at sea (tentative title) At Sea." (Begins: "My name is Peter Martin.") Includes holograph list of common ship symbols, probably in the hand of Edie Parker
368. Typescript notes with holograph note on verso of first leaf. "Notes on the novel (sea novel" and "Chapter Plan for the sea novel." With "Peter Martin" character
369. Holograph notes "The Sea is my Comrade." (Chapter outline.)
370. Holograph notes for novel. (Begins: "Flashforwards.")
371. Holograph notes, untitled. (Begins: "Wesley arrives in Washington . . .") Outline for "Morning with Brother."
372. Typescript prose fragment "First draft of the novel Morning with Brother."
373. Holograph "Notes on Wesley." (Lists: "Compassion. Probity. Brotherhood. Weakness. . ." Notes on "Wesley Martin" character; and a note on Kerouac's fantasy baseball game.)
374. Holograph notes. "The Story of Wesley Martin. / Plans for novel." Holograph note on verso "Brother." (Notes for the novel "Morning with Brother." "I shall write in complete sincerity and trust in my own knowledge of life.")
375. Typescript notes "Morning with Brother." (Ideas for plot and character in the novel.)
376. Typescript notes "Edna Porter Martin Tate." (Scene from the novel "The Merchant Mariner" with "Wesley Martin" character, accompanied by fictional review blurbs.)
377. Typescript notes "The Brothers." (Plot and character notes for a novel; includes characters "Wesley Martin," "Slim Martin," and "Pete Martin.")
378. Typescript and holograph notes; "The neurotic goal - Zwecksetzung." (Begins: "Morning gray in Galloway. Dalouas stretched his legs . . .") And holograph note "- A synopsis: Finnegan's Wake."
379. Typescript fragment "Notes on Christopher of 'Galloway' (continued)." With "Mike Dalouas" character
380. Typescript story, revised. "Where The Road Begins." With holograph note "An experiment in Wolfeism." (Incomplete story)
381. Holograph short story "Two worlds for a new one. / Short story 12,000" (Paginated 1-22)
382. Typescript, revised. "A novel by Jack Kerouac. Chapter One. The Alien." (With "Wesley Martin" character). Paginated 1-9
383. Typescript story, with holograph note. "The Mystery by Jack Kerouac." (Holograph note: "Rejected by New Masses.")
384. Typescript story, revised. "The Mystery ... by Jack Kerouac." [See also Box 7, folder 40]
385. Typescript draft, untitled. (Begins: "One night, returning from work in the casual, squalid atmosphere of the railroad yards, warehouses, switch-towers, garages . . .")
386. Typescript story "Mood Interlude."
387. Typescript story "The Poet in my focastle."
388. Typescript story, revised. With holograph notes. "Over the hills and far away."
389. Typescript draft, revised. "The Wound of living." Washington D.C. Naval Hospital. (Begins: "Living necessarily presupposes and promises hurt, degeneration, and death. Living is death . . ."). Also includes thoughts on being a New Englander
390. Typescript story "Song of the Typewriter."
391. Typescript prose fragment, untitled. (Begins: "Just about the time we were steaming through Belle Isle Strait . . .") (Scene from sea novel.)
392. Typescript play/scene. "Scene: Moody Street." (Scene for a play with dialogue and characters "Kerouac, Shelley, MacDonald, Rabelais, Dostoevsky.")
393. Holograph story, "Wounded in Action." ("USN Hospital / P-13, Newport, R.I.") (Story set in a hospital; written on U.S. Naval Training Station notepaper.)
394. Holograph notes "For 'The Haunted Life.'" (Notes on war and its effect on soldiers and the cross-migration of peoples)
395. Typed note "The year to the leftward." (Notes on proposed books: "The Year to the Leftward," a Duluzian saga, and "Johnny Dreamer's America," a road novel.)
396. Holograph draft "The Return" and "The Earth-Roots of the Naive."
397. Holograph draft "The Moral Scoundrel." (Begins: "Exactly what was Richard V---?")
398. Holograph notes, untitled. (Begins: "A supreme reality weaves our lives. . ."). Written on U.S. Army notepaper
399. Holograph notes "Supreme Reality." (Begins: "A new literary form. A creative structure designed to further an artistic philosophy to a point or denouement, generously filled with lengthy analogisms.")
400. Typescript note, untitled. (Begins: "This would be a blank sheet . . ."). Written on U.S. Army notepaper
401. Typescript draft, untitled. (Begins: "I am sentimental, and I am proud to say so."). (Extract: "I think the main faculties of mankind and of man are sadly neglected in our present industrial ere. These are: meditation, rest and comfort, and happiness.")
402. Holograph draft, untitled. (Begins: "It is raining in Maryland tonight. . ."). On verso, titled: "Ellen Glasgow." Written on American Red Cross stationery
403. Holograph notes. (Begins: "There are no accidents . . .") Includes note on "The Sea is my Brother."
404. Holograph draft. "My Generation, my World." (Scene on a train: "'My generation,' he whispered, 'is making the sacrifice.'"
405. Holograph notes "Beauty as a lasting truth." (Thoughts on Joyce, Woolf, and beauty, with plot outline for "The Sea is my Brother.")
406. Holograph fragment "Columbia University."
407. Holograph draft "Regimented Heaven."
408. Holograph notes and poem, untitled. (Begins: "What are the words men write . . ."). Verso has holograph notes on rhetoric and words.) Written on U.S. Naval Hospital, Newport, R.I. notepaper
409. Holograph notes. Recollections. (List of memories from "Two weeks at John's farm, Nashua, N.H." to "Ebb & Tide of H.S. kids." Basis of early Duluoz legend
410. Holograph notes, untitled. ("Judge people from mind & spirit . . . keep a large notebook, filled with rambling essays on diverse themes.")
411. Typescript notes. "Beginning Monday at the Radio City Music Hall / 'America.'" (Fictional promo for a movie "From the pen of the great new writer Jack Kerouac." Written on U.S. Army notepaper.)
412. Holograph fragment, untitled. The address of "J. Thomas," with a note on the sound of waves heard on board ship
413. Photocopied typescript story with holograph notes. "Odyssey." Note: "Written in the madhouse."
414. Holograph notes, untitled. [List of books and authors.]
415. Holograph story, fragment. Author identified as "By Wm. Ryan of Lowell."
416. Typescript fragment of a scene from a play, author identified as "By Wm. Ryan - killed in the Pacific, 1945."
417. Autograph letter, signed. Love letter from "Doris" to Jack Kerouac
418. Autograph letter, signed. From "Doris" to Jack Kerouac
419. Notecard. Address "Glens Fall, NY." Holograph note on verso: "She said 'I feel a little guilty' after all ---."
420. Folder labeled "B12 Assorted Prose Pieces (including Merchant Mariner)."
421. Holograph chapter. "Merchant Mariner by John Kerouac. Chapter One."
422. Holograph chapter "The Sea is my Guardian. The Novel. The Sea is my Brother. Chapter One."
423. Holograph chapter "The Man and His Sea." (Begins: "Wesley woke up slowly . . .") With list of authors: "Marcus Goodrich, John Kerouac, Thomas Wolfe, William Saroyan. . ." Signed: "ThoreauEmersonKerouac, Ph.D., B.A., A.M."
424. Typescript notes. "Notes 'On the Sea is my Brother.'"
425. Typescript notes "Notes on 'The Sea is my Brother.'" ("Draft of first few pages: Attempt at Romantic-Realist style." July 25: "This is being written aboard the George B. Weems, A Liberty Ship."
426. Holograph prose fragments "The Sea is my Brother." With "Wesley Martin" character. Variously paginated
427. Typescript story "Heartbeat of the Sea."
428. Typescript story, signed. "The Boy from Philadelphia." ("Used by Lucian [Carr] in 1944 as a term paper in composition.")
429. Tyepscript story "The Boy from Philadelphia by Jack Kerouac."
430. Holograph fragment "Two Worlds for a New One. A Novel by John Kerouac. Chapter One." (Includes outline of plot for "Two Worlds for a New One.")
431. Typescript draft "Two Worlds for a New One by John Kerouac."
432. Holograph prose fragment "Galloway - Time 1942." (Begins: "Michael Duluoz is employed as a sports reporter on The Galloway Star.")
433. Holograph notes, untitled. (List of books to read, records to get, living expenses, and a list of book characters.)
434. Typescript draft "Two Worlds for a New One by John Kerouac." With "Wesley Martin" character
435. Holograph draft. "First draft of short novel. Proposed: 120 pages, approximately 50,000 words. 'Dedication: To Merchant Seamen.'"
436. Holograph play. "One-Act Play - JK - The Seaman."
437. Typescript fragment. "A novel by John Kerouac. Chapter One." With "Wesley Martin" character
438. Holograph draft "Chapter One. Morning with Brother." ["Merchant Mariner" novel.]
439. Holograph fragment of novel. (Begins: "Lord but a high school one at that. . ."). Includes section of a novel, paginated 7-34. "In my novel, you see, Everhart is my schizoid self, Martin the other; the two combined run the parallel gamut of my experience
440. Holograph fragment, notes and sketches. [Includes "Sea is my Brother," "Doctrine of Supreme Reality," "The Queues of Europe," "Love," and "Galloway." Also includes draft preface to "The Sea is my Brother" and a sketch of the S.S. George Weems
441. Typescript, revised. Autobiographical statement "My Biography (writ '43)."
442. Typescript autobiographical statement/story. "Background (written for employers) (6pp)" with story "The Two Americans," set in England. ("I wrote the following story on board a Liberty Ship on the way back from London."
443. Holograph personal journal and essay, signed. "Free Love" and other notes. Also includes a description of a novel, "Peter," written at age 11 in "native technique."
444. Typescript prose fragment "The Doctor Sax Papers by Adolphus Asher Ghoulens. Part Two. The Wife of Doctor Sax."
445. Typescript drafts. "July 29, 1943. (Begins: "I've often watched the way a cat lives."). Continued on second page: "Pertaining to the cat, et al." (Observations on cat and human behavior, includes references to Emerson and Shakespeare)
446. Typescript draft "Post-Fatilism - Bastille Day, July 14, 1943." (Ends: "Human love can make it doubly certain that we are not alone. Thus I write of Wesley Martin.")
447. Typescript draft, untitled. (Begins: "All of the walking on endless streets reminded me once more of home."). Refers to story "Joe Doakes and the Immortals."
448. Typescript essay "The Power of the Subconscious Mind (JK) Sept. 1, 1943. S.S. Geo. B. Weems" with holograph note "Written at sea at night (heavy seas in Atlantic." Includes description of dreams. (Begins: "Dreams are the product of the subconscious mind."
449. Typescript and holograph essay "The Criticisms of Kenneth Burke, or Modernism in Conflict with Faith."
450. Typescript story "After Brutality, a short story by Jack Kerouac." (Early road story set in New England.) Paper torn at top of leaf
451. Typescript story, revised. "The Man Who Had Nothing."
452. Typescript "For 'The Haunted Life,' The Odyssey of Peter Martin." (Plan for a novel about the effect of the War on "an average American youth in an average and beautiful American town" with "Peter Martin" and "Wesley Martin" characters.)
453. Typescript prose fragment, untitled. (Begins: "There was a heavy fog when the ship pulled into the slip."). With "Peter Martin" character
454. Montage of pencil sketches. "My 1943 drawing style - Dave Kammerer & Lucian Carr depicted here."
455. Holograph and sketch. "My idea (1943) for 'Haikus'?" (Sketches of stick figures with phrases like "I don't care what you do.")
456. Holograph notes "Supreme Reality ('New England' - the four seasons in New England, in the city, in the country, touching all 'walks of life.' This is suggested. No philosophical implications needed.)"
457. Holograph prose fragment "Life is a lonely and desperate adventure."
458. Typescript prose fragment with sketches on verso. (Begins: "Being at sea, a man remembers the land.") Verso: "Sex," with drawings of "screwing positions." Drawings do not appear to be in Kerouac's hand. [Possibly Frankie Parker's hand.]
459. Holograph poem. (Begins: "She was thirteen and I nineteen . . .")
460. Holograph poem, signed. Untitled. (Begins: "The perishing green of May."). Verso: "The ghoul-thoughts."
461. Holograph poem "'Columbia University' Free Verse." (Begins: "Sensitive to surroundings, to atmosphere. . . ")
462. Holograph fragment (Begins: "When E. T. writes, from the navy.") Mentions Mark Van Doren and Thomas Wolfe
463. Holograph notes. (Begins: "Peter Martin: He is taken with the brooding desire to be everywhere at the same time doing everything with everybody on earth.") With note for an introduction. Peter is "Home in Galloway for a weekend from his job in a Hartford
464. Typescript notes "'The Romanticist.' September 23, 1943. S.S. Geo. B. Weems, Liverpool, England. (With holograph note: "Add. Jail.") Written on Moore-McCormack Lines notepaper. [Catalogs Kerouac's diverse activities]
465. Holograph poem and notes. "Birth of a cynic. Verso: "Who is the least moral"? (the capitalist of the Communist). (Begins: "Life is a stupid interruption of death."). Verso: "Sebastian, Sebastian, Sebast."
466. Autograph letter from "Melvin" to Jack Kerouac. Annotated by Kerouac "From Ward-partner in USN madhouse '43."
467. Holograph notes "Philosophy." (Thoughts on God, religion, and the Church.)
468. Holograph draft "Mood Interlude - scene with dialogue." (With "Pete" character)
469. Folder labeled "B13 Letters and assorted prose pieces."
470. Typescript "God's Daughter." Note on title page "Friday 2, '44, trying to blend realism with symbolism - Trilling / Traveler needs distinction - Mark Van Doren."
471. Holograph fragment of diary "1942, 1943, Jan. 1 - Jan. 10, 1944."
472. Holograph fragment. (Begins: "Imagination - that which the bourgeoisie lacks.")
473. Typescript, revised. "Lost at land."
474. Typescript, untitled. (Begins: "Weave a delicate pattern of frustration.")
475. Holograph notes "The Palaeolithic symbol: Fire is life."
476. Typescript "New Orleans."
477. Typescript "Beginning. March 21, 1944. Ozone Park, L.I." (Begins: "God is said to have created man in his own image.")
478. Holograph poem "Flee, my friend, into thy solitude!" With quotation (not in Kerouac's hand) from Nietzsche
479. Two holograph poems. "Morphinea" and "Ideas." With note: "(Under the influence of a first morphine shot, in Syrette, 1/2 grain, Dec. 1944)."
480. Holograph draft "An epic of the new artist - who is caught in the transition between art and the act."
481. Holograph notes "How to make the B.N. Biog. novel an artistic revelation rather than just a report on growth."
482. Holograph outline of an autobiographical novel with notes
483. Typescript "I am a son of life in life."
484. Typescript (carbon). "Sailor in Galloway story."
485. Typescript (carbon) short story. (Begins: "Corporal Michael Breton had been overseas for a year and a half.")
486. Typescript poem and holograph poem (in Allen Ginsberg's hand) to Jack Kerouac. Typescript poem titled "Pure Death." Signed by Allen Ginsberg
487. Typescript (carbon) "Over the Hills and Far Away."
488. Folder labeled "B14 Assorted Prose Pieces."
489. Holograph notebook. "Notes on 'Galloway' and 'An American Passed Here'" with annotations. Cover titled "1945 Daoulas 'Galloway.'" Notebook with blue paper covers (cover detached). Title page: "The plan for the novel 'Galloway' (forming a large part of boo
490. Typescript, revised, of incomplete novel. "Chapters from Phillip Tourian novel"). Several starts on chapter four, "Phillip's rebuff to Al: scene at apartment 32: Phillip moves." "At Dennison's apartment house."
491. Typescript fragment of novel, untitled. (Begins: "There's no use denying it.") Another start on 'The Town and the City,' featuring "Bill Dennison" and "Alexander."
492. Holograph/typescript fragments. (Prose fragments, notes, and outline of early version of 'The Town and the City.')
493. Sketch "Motley old devil" by Jack Kerouac, and note on "Elements of 'City' episode."
494. Typescript and holograph fragment. (Begins: "If a man is unshaven.")
495. Holograph poem "In Re Christians."
496. Folder labeled "B15 Letters and Assorted Prose Pieces - 1945."
497. Holograph "Notes for 'An American Passed Here.'" (Notes for a novel set in Lowell, New York, Los Angeles, and other cities, with characters "Paul Breton," "Peter Martin," and "Michael Daoulas." The time frame is 1936-1945.)
498. Typescript, revised. "Notes on last chapters of Phillip Tourian novel, 'Things Towards the Darkness.'"
499. Holograph notes, untitled. (Begins: "Where is this expression and preservation of awareness to begin? let's not be uselessly ponderous.") With trial dedications "To Sebastian Sampas" and "For Mother and Father."
500. Holograph notes, untitled. (Begins: "I. 'Michael's anti-climactic return."). "Dec. 27, '45. Apt. 51." (Outline of chapters I-XI for Michael Daoulas book, with characters "Gerard Breton," "Dennison," and others.)
501. Holograph draft "Part One: I. 'Michael's anti-climactic return.'" (For Michael Daoulas novel.)
502. Holograph, untitled. (Begins: "Sitting trying to shake off the influence of Thomas Wolfe.") Notes for Michael Daoulas novel on verso
503. Holograph poem "After the Storm."
504. Holograph notes, untitled. (Begins: "I have my own private God . . . my private God is my art."). Aesthetic manifesto/statement: "October to me is more than a month, it's an ecstasy" . . . "I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being."
505. Holograph "Outline of plan for 'Galloway.'" ("'Galloway' is the one supreme objective - ")
506. Holograph draft chapter. "Friday Morning." (With "Mr. Breton, Mike Breton, Gerard," and "Tom Seward." The action involves smoking marijuana.)
507. Typescript diary. "Diary (August 21 - September 3)." Includes thoughts on Céline, Kerouac's sick father, American-ness, and art. Mentions the Tourian novel
508. Holograph diary. "Diary 1944-1945". Includes Edie, Seymour, Lucien Carr, script work for Columbia Pictures, quitting Columbia, New Orleans trip, Lucien's murder of Kammerer, marriage to Edie, Grosse Pointe, writing a novel with Burroughs, and, added later
509. Holograph notes, untitled. (Begins: "That ambiguous seeming term 'American life.'")
510. Holograph notes, untitled. (Begins: "I know nothing of geology.") Written in "Hal Chase's room, Livingston Hall, May 1945, 5 am."
511. Typescript "Notes and excerpts on Christopher of 'Galloway.'" (Christopher and Mike Daoulas.)
512. Holograph notes "Fate-natures" (of Hal Chase and Lucien Carr)
513. Typescript and holograph draft, untitled. (Begins: "In the winter of 1936, in America, a man named Emil Daoulas lived with his family in a wooden frame house in the suburban area of Galloway, Massachusetts . . .") With holograph list of works written and
514. Holograph draft, untitled. (Begins: "In the winter of 1936 . . .") Chapter I. [Possibly holograph draft of typescript in Box 9, folder 26?]
515. Typescript and holograph poem. Chapter outline of novel, numbered 1-24, featuring "Dennison, Lucien, Burroughs." Poem on verso "Song of Amenemhet."
516. Typescript essay. (Begins: "The technological revolution has finally produced the technological man.")
517. Typed letter, signed. From Robert N. Linscott (Random House) to Madeline Brennan (Ingersoll and Brennan). Comments on Kerouac's manuscript
518. Holograph fragments. Notes on "The form of 'Galloway' or more accurately its architecture."
519. Typescript "Excerpt." (Begins: "And one night they were sitting in the apartment . . .")
520. Holograph notes. (Begins: "The interesting thing about a 'Portrait of the Artist' . . .")
521. Typed letter, signed. From Beatrice Aronson (Columbia Pictures) to Jack Kerouac. Verso has notes on artistic and ethical themes. The notes on art as a means of survival are related to the dedication in Box 9, folder 37
522. Holograph poem and notes. "I have returned from the Fars." Verso has note on Sunday night depression
523. Holograph prose fragment. (Begins: "Who was he? - Himself!")
524. Holograph notes "The novel by John Kerouac." Verso: "Theme dedication." "Containing parts of 'The Vanity of Duluoz;" the poem "Supreme Reality," and notes from the pile." (Ends: "Michael Daoulas Galloway Ecce Homo.")
525. Holograph play scene. "The Last Deities." (Dialogue between the God of Death and God of Life on a March night in a marshy birch forest in New England.)
526. Holograph fragment, notes. (Begins: "It's come to the point now that you don't know really what attitude to take towards life or anything in or about it.")
527. Typescript with holograph notes. Story "Rapid draft of 'The Rooming House, I.'" (With holograph note: "Amuse toi!" and an epigraph from St. Augustine
528. Holograph prose fragment, untitled. (Begins: "One must never think of dying . . . I must henceforth conceive as I proceed . . .") Related to "Theme Dedication" in Box 9, folder 37
529. Holograph dramatic dialogue/lyric poem. "A Dialog, Lyric & Technic." Verso, untitled poem (Begins: "Voluptuous names for our silent / Disregard.")
530. Holograph essay "Written on a wintry night." (Begins: "The greatest sins in Dostoevsky are the virtues.")
531. Typescript chapter, revised. "Moi, c'est l'état." ("Part One - the Brothers - Michael's anti-climactic return.")
532. Typescript scene from a novel, untitled. (Begins: "The pages of Beethoven and Dostoevsky are drenched with the strong wash of their suffering.")
533. Typescript, revised. "Skeleton of story." Short story for Ingersoll/Brennan
534. Holograph account of a dream, with fragment on verso about French-Canadian morality
535. Typescript notes, with holograph emendations. "Notes on Chapter Eight." (Notes on Bourgeois and Bohemian.)
536. Typescript essay, revised. Untitled. (Begins: "It was Jean Cocteau, the French eclectic, who perhaps most fortuitously coined the phrase . . .")
537. Typescript "October had come again and he was leaving once more" with "conversation piece" between "Bill" and "Joan."
538. Typescript novel, revised. Untitled. Begins with headnote (canceled) in French. Features characters "Paul Dubreton" and "Michael Daoulas." (Begins: "Paul Dubreton stood in the Book store facing a shelf of books.")
539. Holograph poem, untitled. (Begins: "By and for itself . . .")
540. Typescript fragment of novel, untitled. (Begins: "Now on this night he had become wrenched from within . . .") End note is an excerpt for "An American Passed Here," including characters "Michael Daoulas, Emil Daoulas," and "mother."
541. Typescript prose fragment "Sea Brothers - The Martins." With characters "Big Slim Martin, Wesley Martin," and "Peter Martin."
542. Typescript notes, untitled. Notes on American life
543. Typescript notes, untitled. (Begins: "The man I'll eventually be, the modern man, is the man of a thousand desires and of one way of life.")
544. Typescript "Chapter Two" with holograph note "'45 scraps - Mike Ryko."
545. Holograph story "Story (1945) Millerton, N.Y." ("Boy suicide in Millerville" - "Story of Julian Haines.")
546. Holograph outline/notes. "Outline." Character outline for 500,000 word novel "The Town and the City," written on Ingersoll and Brennan stationery. (With characters ""Peter Martin, Francis Martin, Joe Martin, Jr., Joseph Martin, Sr., Alexander Panas, Charl
547. Holograph prose fragment "Flowers in their eyes." (With characters "Peter" and "Hardboot.")
548. Holograph outline/notes. "Outline of plot." Verso: "Free association - concentration in limited field." ("Like 'Ulysses' the plot in 'Galloway' is only symbolic.")
549. Typescript with holograph emendation. "Typing exercise." (Self-doubt, genesis of 'Galloway;' comment on Ginsberg's writing methods.)
550. Holograph notes, untitled. (Notes on form and substance of 'Galloway.')
551. Typescript and holograph notes. (Begins: "I have been torturing myself uselessly."). Verso: Holograph statement on the artist's work
552. Typescript and holograph poem. "Outline for 'Toby's Day and Night' (Prem. titl.)" (Notes for a story set in the New Hampshire woods - "Toby is a 12-year old boy . . .")
553. Holograph fragment of story. "Angel." (Related to "Toby's Day and Night." See Box 9, folder 65.)
554. Typescript story, revised. "You who own the earth." Ingersoll and Brennan return address stamp. Typed name "Jack Kerouac."
555. [B16 not received with archive; not on Inventory]
556. Folder labeled "B17 letters, sketches, fiction pieces."
557. Holograph draft written on four different types of paper, paginated 1-99. "Screen story. Christmas in New York. Written in Marin City, Calif - 'Potboiler' Sept. 1947."
558. Holograph fragment. (Begins: "Once on a July morning . . ."). Verso titled "The Doubletalker and the Daemon."
559. Holograph notes written on verso of blank police report. (Begins: "The essentialities of a writing which will be as powerful as life itself.")
560. Holograph draft essay "The Freedom."
561. Holograph notes on notecard. "Various views of decadence." On Dickens, Balzac, Dostoevsky. Berkeley, Calif
562. Holograph notes on American society and manners
563. Typescript prose fragment "The cloud-scudded gray north."
564. Typescript essay "Theme for an article on Mel Torme." (With holograph note: "In 1959 I paid absolutely no attention to Mel Torme in the studio - I was drunk, & sore at TV producers!")
565. Holograph notes "XVII - Rain."
566. Typescript fragments titled "New Year's Eve." Paginated "81;" "Fri. Eve." paginated "2;" "Fri. & supper" paginated "2," with holograph note "For tone poem."
567. Holograph fragment "Book Five - 'The City' - Chapter One."
568. Holograph notes on Mel Torme
569. Holograph and typescript notes/essay "On American classical & jazz music."
570. Holograph draft "XVI Peter's schooling." Paginated "105, 106." With Kerouac's later note: "Example of what I did when machine broke down."
571. Holograph draft "Proud etc. the funeral in New Hampshire."
572. Holograph fragment/notes. "T & C the three martin brothers as 'capacities' of American man."
573. Holograph fragment. (Begins: "And so the young lovers.") With sketch on recto
574. Holograph poem. (Begins: "If all the world were love.")
575. Holograph draft "Peter lvs college." Written on lined notepaper and U.S. Army stationery. Holograph note: "Full MS." Paginated "3-31."
576. Holograph draft "We Thronged." First page written on verso of a form from the Housing Authority of the County of Marin, in two columns. Holograph note: "Full MS."
577. Holograph draft "The Wizard night - June's wizard night." Written on U.S. Army stationery. On verso: ""The Town and the City." (List of chapters with word count for each.)
578. Holograph draft. (Begins: "The gall and the stupidity of our intelligentsia is sickening."). On U.S. Army stationery. Verso: "If I were a peasant."
579. Holograph notes/fragment "Art must not suppress."
580. Autograph letter, signed. From Jack Kerouac to Aunt Louise Michaud. ("Cher tante Louise.") Written in French on U.S. Army stationery
581. Holograph draft "XV. Francis' education." On verso: "Hello little goddess - "
582. Holograph notes. (Begins: "My father leads a foolish life as far as I'm concerned.")
583. Typescript, revised. "T & C notes - Martin and his Galloway associates & enemies," and "The development of jazz in America."
584. Typescript, revised. "Why girls leave home."
585. Typescript, revised. "Conversation in Towards Galloway."
586. Typescript fragment, revised. Paginated "336." (Begins: "Elizabeth awaited them, and Ruth and Peter . . .")
587. Holograph draft "Rain - Grave music of rain."
588. Typescript essay, revised. "The new music. Modern progressing Jazz: the new 'Bebop.'"
589. Typescript chapter, revised. "Towards Galloway I." Paginated 1-14
590. Typescript, revised. "IV. Christmas Eve." Paginated 42-54
591. Holograph notes "Keep in mind."
592. Holograph draft "Forge-fires, the ring of words a-shaping."
593. Holograph draft "George Martin World-Buried."
594. Holograph draft "p.376 - Family in New House."
595. Holograph fragment "Martin of the ships."
596. Holograph fragment, "Episode for Peter."
597. Holograph fragment. (Begins: "That name 'Dizzy' Gillespie, the name of the founder of the most Dionysian jazz yet, is so apt and full of destiny . . .")
598. Holograph draft "The Town and the City, all these things." With list of excerpts
599. Holograph poem. (Begins: "The bottomless continental cracks of fjords as brooks, . . .")
600. Typescript draft novel "October life. Another 'experimental' novel. J.K. California, September 12, 1947
601. Typescript story. (Begins: "When Peter realized that his father. . ."). With holograph note: "Written in Hal's apt. on E.118."
602. Typescript, untitled. (Begins: "Again I know that I have no talent. . .")
603. Holograph fragment. (Begins: "How Peter thinks of the central essence of his life . . .")
604. Holograph draft "'American atmospheres' chapters." List of characters with hand-made calendar for January-February 1948 on verso
605. Holograph fragment. (Begins: "Peter and Gretchen.")
606. Typescript fragment. (Begins: "Who has cast away these laws and marched on triumphant?")
607. Typescript fragment, revised. (Begins: ". . . cried Peter out of his mind, . . ."). Paginated "44."
608. Typescript draft, revised. "Peter's Sea" with holograph notes on verso
609. Typescript fragment, revised. (Begins: "And then, disentangling themselves. . ."). Paginated "2."
610. Typescript draft, revised. "V. 1. The boredom of Francis Martin." Paginated "56-59" and "70- B of FM."
611. Typescript, revised. "V. 1. The boredom of Francis Martin (and of the reader)." Paginated "56-70."
612. Holograph schematic diagram of novel. "Rough diagram of novel" on verso
613. Folder labeled "B18 notes and odds & ends."
614. Holograph notes "Notes & odds & ends, etc." (Includes "The Montanans," "New Criticism," "Eliot," and "On Thoreau.")
615. Typescript essay, revised. "The minimization of Thomas Wolfe in his own time." [See also Box 4, folder 31.]
616. Holograph notes "Readings." (Includes "Eliot on Dryden," "Eliot on Blake.")
617. Holograph draft story "Sea Change."
618. Holograph and typescript draft "On the Road. Adventures Thereof, as related by Nicholas Breton, Esq. Mute."
619. Typescript, revised. Continuation of "Adventures On The Road as written by Nicholas Breton." With holograph "Notes on Sunday Apr. 16" on verso. Paginated "3."
620. Holograph draft "The Hip Generation, I 'Early Appurtenances.'"
621. Holograph draft. (Begins: "Chapter One. I am writing this in a little room in the Ace Hotel in Times Square.")
622. Typescript "The people who live in the three houses on the Moultrie land one time or another
623. Holograph and typescript draft "A Poem of the American Night." (Typescript begins: In American downtown streets at noon.")
624. Holograph sketch "Route 'On the Road' 13,000 miles - hitch-hiking, freights, car, bus."
625. Holograph and typescript drafts related to "On the Road." Typescript "The story just begins - on the road."
626. Holograph draft fragment. (Begins: "Combining intensification of the play with scope of the novel. . . Epiphany.") Relates to "On The Road."
627. Holograph list with holograph notes on verso
628. Holograph draft fragment. (Begins: "The universe is a limited space-sphere suspended in the infinity of time.")
629. Holograph and typescript fragment, untitled. (Begins: "Why, or where he was going. . . ")
630. Typescript fragment, revised. (Begins: ". . . anyone, for great knowledge of the world such as he had . . ."). Paginated "2."
631. Typescript fragment, revised. (Begins: "(Red's chiefest confession, which involves an epiphanal view of his boyhood . . ."). Paginated "21." [Refers to "the Moultrie main house."]
632. Typescript fragment, revised. (Begins: ". . . wherein deep at the peaks, . . ."). Paginated "3." [May follow typescript in Box 11, folder 18.]
633. Holograph fragment, untitled. (Begins: "This is the confession of Earl Chadwick Gavin . . .")
634. Typescript fragment of essay. Begins with a quotation about Dostoevsky
635. Holograph notes. (Begins: "Chapt. I - Who I am, what I am.")
636. Holograph notes. (Begins: "Red - Born Nov. 1927 on the farm.")
637. Typescript and holograph fragment. "Beginning of pilgrymage." Features character "Red."
638. Holograph notes. "The novel - a testimony of life and a treasuring of the fear and love of it."
639. Holograph fragment of dialogue. (Begins: "Aren't we all.")
640. Typescript, revised. (Begins: "VI. On the dawn of the Fourth of July 1936."). Paginated "17." Features character "Little Red," and "Chuck Moultrie."
641. Holograph draft "Shades." Paginated "22" (or "72"?)
642. Holograph draft fragment. (Begins: "That morning at 9 downstairs.") Features character "Red."
643. Holograph draft notes. "Elements." Refers to characters "Red," "Old Bull," and "Old Moultrie."
644. Holograph and typescript draft "The book of the myth of the rainy night: or, The crazy-book of Doctor Sax."
645. Holograph notes "Is anybody going to take Red back?"
646. Holograph draft "I have heard that the flaming soothsayer has come for my soul."
647. Autograph letter from Sara Yokley to Jack Kerouac. (Begins: "Jack - you're miles away in sleep . . .")
648. Folder labeled "B19 notes for 'On the Road' & other sketches."
649. Holograph notes "On the Road - Notions."
650. Holograph note "Butte Montana." (Possibly note on character in "On The Road.")
651. Holograph draft outline and narrative "On the Road - Itinerary of travels." The novel is divided into five sections. One of the longest and earliest attempts by Kerouac to write "On The Road." (Begins: "On the Road. One Sunday evening in May, in New York
652. Holograph map of the United States of America for "On The Road." Verso has brief draft of an early chapter of the novel
653. Typescript "About Us All (Problems & materials for use in On the Road)."
654. Typescript "Cop theme in On the Road."
655. Holograph notes for an early chapter of the novel "On the Road."
656. Holograph draft fragment of early version of "On the Road." (Begins: "Built around the old Green mob in Cleveland 1934, right pop?"). Paginated "21-22."
657. Typescript short story, revised. "A good heart."
658. Typescript draft, revised. "Reader's Digest article (autobiog) - autobiography of a second novelist."
659. Holograph draft ["On The Road."] (Begins: "Finally handsome Eddy dim and pale from many jails . . . ")
660. Holograph draft "Beginning of pilgrimage - 25,000 words along the line." ["On The Road."]
661. Holograph draft "2. Smitty at the gate." ["On the Road" chapter.]
662. Holograph draft "On the Road [A complete buildup to the 'sunset' last night."]
663. Holograph draft outline of an unused idea for "On the Road." "The boys in Paris."
664. Typescript, revised. "On the Road. The Confession of Earl John Moultrie."
665. Holograph draft of early version of the opening of "On The Road." "On the Road. Chapter One." (Begins: "Many years ago my grandfather stopped at a bend of the river.")
666. Holograph outline of novel "On the Road, a story of the beat generation."
667. Typescript, revised. "Sequence of events" [for "On the Road."]
668. Holograph "The Plot of On the Road - a doodle."
669. Typescript poem "The Angels's Harp." "Denver." Note reads: "By Nancy Johnson, Angels Harp."
670. Holograph notes "for On the Road."
671. Holograph draft "Red arrives at a decision." ["On the Road."]
672. Holograph draft "Little Red." ["On the Road."]
673. Holograph "Mine and Allen's poem." (Begins: "Pull my daisy.")
674. Typescript fragment, revised. (Begins: "Last page . . . could be Joe, as he walks from his father's graveside.")
675. Folder labeled "B20 - On the Road sketches & chapters."
676. Typescript draft, revised. "The bebop night by Jack Kerouac - Neurotica." With holograph draft version of the story, paginated 1-11. (Begins: "And what's your story Maxie Boo?")
677. Holograph draft, untitled. (Begins: "when you consider the beatness of much American life these things do shine in an almost miraculous light.")
678. Typescript, revised. "Pilgrymage." [Early version of "On the Road."]
679. Typescript, revised. "Hip Gen." [Fragment of "On the Road."]
680. Holograph draft of early version of "On the Road." (Begins: "And Red finally said that night . . .")
681. Holograph draft fragments. (Begins: "This is the confession of Earl John Moultrie."). Two versions, from "On the Road."
682. Holograph schematic outline of "On the Road;" with holograph notes on verso
683. Holograph notes. (Begins: "Notes from p. 11. He had to go back home.")
684. Holograph fragment ["On the Road."] Paginated 19-20. (Begins: "A buzzing, busy tier in the jail.")
685. Holograph draft of early version of the opening section of "On The Road."
686. Holograph poem. "Mysteries."
687. Holograph fragment of "On The Road." (Begins: "Yet on the Saturday afternoons when the huge crowds were in the stadium bowls.")
688. Holograph poem. "Poem #1." (Begins: "The soul is dead.")
689. Holograph draft notes. (Begins: "The mystery of the world.") With quotation from Sebastian Sampas "Life is mal, life is earnest."
690. Holograph fragment notes. (Begins: "Were wild with perplexities and griefs.") Paginated "1070."
691. Folder labeled "C1 A Trip on Mescaline & other sketches."
692. Holograph notes, untitled. Includes references to Neil Cassady, Phil Whalen, and Mark Van Doren; note to Joel Oppenheimer; poems, plot and character outline for a novel. (Begins: "Football - BC, Leahy, Sullivan shit - ")
693. Typescript, untitled. Autobiographical statement. (Begins: "I was born in 1922 in March in Lowell Mass. at five o'clock in the afternoon . . .")
694. Holograph/typescript "Henri." Draft with Henri Cru and Jack on the street; titled "Henri" in holograph on verso
695. Photocopied typescript "Mescaline of Oct. 15, 1959." With holograph note on final page "It's been new all along." (Description of mescaline-induced visions)
696. Typescript (carbon), revised. "A trip on mescaline, Jack Kerouac." [Revised version of typescript in Box 12, folder 5.]
697. Holograph notes "For book DR." (Begins: "Digging graves in the yard . . .")
698. Royalty statement for "Visions of Cody." (From New Directions)
699. Photocopied typed letter, unsigned. "Letters to Myself (1) Nov. 21, 1960." (Includes thoughts on Buddhism, politics, America, Cat Timmy, fame, writing, etc.)
700. Folder labeled "C2."
701. Typescript poems. "Long Island Chinese Poem Rain," "Poor Sottish Kerouck," "To Li Po and Hsieh An."
702. Holograph poems/notes. "Long Island Chinese Poem Rain," "Poor Sottish Kerouac," To Li Po and Hsieh An." Also notes on Doctor Sax in his declining years
703. Holograph poems "Song of the new Chinese," Further Animals Poem," "Poem for a reason," "Poem," "Pome," "Poem." On verso of final page: "Silly goofball poems."
704. Holograph poem "Goofball sillypomes." Three haiku
705. Holograph poem "Goofball & wine sillypome." Three haiku
706. Typescript poem "Anecdote."
707. Holograph poem, untitled. (Begins: "White story/story in white.")
708. Typescript fragment. (Begins: "I got no language left in me heart.")
709. Typesript, untitled. (Begins: "The strangest man I know in the world today is seventeen.")
710. Photocopied typed letter from Jack Kerouac to Allen [Ginsberg?]
711. Folder labeled "C3."
712. Holograph, untitled. (Begins: "Suddenly I woke up and there was Avalokitesvara.")
713. Typescript poem with holograph notes. "Sea (sound of sea waves)." Pacific ocean at Big Sur, California. (Typescript of long poem concluding "Big Sur," with holograph margin notes erased but visible - "Afternoon," "Night."
714. Typescript poem. "From 'Sea' JK." (Early page 5 from "Sea" typescript; re-typed so that entire lowest stanza fits on following page.)
715. Tearsheet poem. "Jack Kerouac. Sept. 16, 1961. Poem." From 'The Outsider,' I, 2 (Summer, 1969)
716. Holograph poem "Goofball Blues."
717. Typescript poem "Goofballs & wine silly poem."
718. Typescript draft "Run." (Begins: "Always liked old Garver.")
719. Typescript poem. Possibly draft of poem "Sept. 16, 1961." Signed "Jack."
720. Typescript fragment [or letter?], revised. Reply to book critic regarding "Dharma Bums."
721. Photocopied typescript. "For Book of Columns entitled '500-word columns.'" (Begins: "Thinking about Carl Sandburg . . .")
722. Typed letter with holograph corrections and notes. From Jack Kerouac to the editor of Time Magazine. (Begins: "Referring to a strange letter from a Manning McDonald . . .")
723. Photocopied typed letter from Jack Kerouac to Jacqueline Stephens. (Recipe for "Quebecois Cortons, Johnny Cakes, and favorite soup; with note on verso about steaks.)
724. Folder labeled "C4."
725. Typescript article, revised. "For Playboy - Rejected by me (too troubly)." [Later version of Box 12, folder 36, written with Gregory Corso.]
726. Typescript article "The State of the Beat Generation: As Gathered by Jack Kerouac and Gregory Corso, April 1963."
727. Typescript story "Voyage of the Noisy Gourmets."
728. Typescript article, revised. "Jack Kerouac on Shakespeare (for Show Magazine)." Draft of 1964 article in Show Magazine, IV, 2 - "Shakespeare and the Outsider."
729. Typescript, revised. "History of the Theory of Breath as a Separator of Statements in Spontaneous Writing by Jack Kerouac." (Rebuttal of Allen Ginsberg's statement on breath and spontaneity in 1959 "Howl" recording notes.)
730. Typescript autobiographical statement "Answers for David McCullough for Farrar, Straus Publicity Dept." (Reply to FS for publicity for "Visions of Gerard;" comments on Catholicism in his books; Duluoz legend.)
731. Holograph notes. Character list and identification for Duluoz legend and various books. Duluoz legend dramatis personae, and a list of girlfriends/lovers and sexual encounters from 1939 to 1963. Kerouac's own list of characters and identifications in book
732. Typescript "Some Collected Poems of Lois Sorrells." Introduction essay by Jack Kerouac
733. Typed letter signed, from John Holmes to Jack Kerouac. 28 questions posed to Kerouac for use in a non-fiction book. [See also Box 12, folder 44.]
734. Typed letter signed (and notes) from Jack Kerouac to John Holmes. "Answers to John Holmes' questions for use in his non-fiction book, to be quoted in their entirety each one." [Reply to letter in Box 12, folder 43.]
735. Holograph notes, untitled. (Notes for response to John Holmes' question - and other material, including draft answers for Farrar Straus questionnaire and plot outline for "Vanity of Duluoz.")
736. Autograph letter/notes "To the Italian judge." (Explains substance of "The Subterraneans." Form is confessional; comments on obscenity.)
737. Typed letter. "Written address to the Italian judge from Jack Kerouac, May 23, 1963. (Statement on style, form and intent of "The Subterraneans.")
738. Holograph prose fragment. On playing football in New England. Includes five character Chinese poem
739. Holograph "Book of Prayers." [Prayers offered to Jesus Christ.]
740. Holograph notes. Notes on jealous writers, Kennedy, Nixon, Khruschev, and politics; Proust and memory. Includes a haiku
741. Spiral-bound holograph notebook. Notes on pro-football, including thoughts on Gabrielle L'Evesque's family lineage, and Leo Kerouac's family lineage
742. Typescript draft, revised. (Begins: "In the old days of College football . . .")
743. Typescript fragment. (Begins: "I'm the only writer in the world who ever lived on top of Desolation Peak . . .")
744. Typescript fragment. (Begins: "I thank God that, in brining me to birth in this world . . .")
745. Typescript fragment "No good (attempt at 'restraint')." [Possible start on "Vanity of Duluoz."]
746. Holograph fragment, untitled. [Notes for "Vanity of Duluoz."]
747. Typescript "Notes for 'Vanity of Duluoz.'" (Outline and chronology with actual names and events.)
748. Holograph numbered list of women's names. Numbers appear alongside some names. List also includes dates, locations, and brief comments for some entries. List numbered 1-85. Related to chart of female names in Box 12, folder 41. [Possibly a cumulative list
749. Holograph chart of years 1939-1947. Lists "jobs, girls, drunks."
750. Holograph notes, possibly by Kerouac's mother. With newspaper cutting about Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg in San Francisco
751. Typescript "Draft of Supreme Court brief on 'Tropic of Cancer / Interest of Amici." (Jack Kerouac and more than one hundred other writers, editors, and publishers as amici in court case on 'Tropic of Cancer' sale and banning in New York.)
752. Typescript "Draft of Statement on New York Censorship of 'Tropic of Cancer.'" (Copy of statement for signature.)
753. Typed letter draft from Jack Kerouac to Dr. Condon, with holograph revisions. (Expresses interest in the welfare of Lafcadio Orlovsky.)
754. Typed letter, signed from Jack Kerouac to John Holmes. (Cover letter for answers to Holmes's questions.) [See also Box 12, folder 44.]
755. Typescript notes, revised. (Comments on Melville and "Billy Budd.")
756. Holograph poem "Sonnet." (Begins: "Since nettled was my being, . . .")
757. Sketch, signed. Design for a bookcase, with dimensions
758. Holograph draft and sketch. "Sermonette - Dog spelled backwards is God."
759. Typed letter, signed from Jack Kerouac to Sterling [Lord]. Concerns Playboy article on "the beat generation."
760. Photocopied typed letter, signed from Jack Kerouac to Marie Lazar
761. Photocopied typed letter (incomplete)from Jack Kerouac to Phil [Whalen]
762. Photocopied typed letter from Jack Kerouac to Bob [Giroux]
763. Fragment of a Sampas poem clipped from a newspaper
764. Folder labeled "C5."
765. Photocopied spiral-bound notebook. Personal journal/diary, Summer 1962. ("Legend of Duluoz" is "a series of gallery portraits." Includes thoughts on alcoholics, writing, seasons of a man's life; notes on a trip to Maine.)
766. Typescript, in French. "Commentaire sur Louis-Ferdinand Celine."
767. Typescript article "About Eddie Gilbert." With holograph note "For Life Mag. June 19 '62."
768. Holograph and typescript list "Jack's whereabouts since 1951."
769. Holgograph, untitled. Calendar of days from 1962 with notes on activities. (Includes trip to New York for blood test concerning "Joan and Janet.")
770. Holograph notes. Titled "Hugo."
771. Autograph letter, signed. From Jack Kerouac to Jim Curtis (attorney). Complaint regarding "Route 66" television program infringing on "On The Road" and the damage to Kerouac's intellectual property
772. Photocopied typed letter, signed. From Jack Kerouac to Robert Giroux. Annotated by Kerouac: "1962 drunken letter to Giroux never mailed." Includes holograph notes and sketch
773. Photocopied typed letter, signed. From Jack Kerouac to Tom Guinzburg. Annotated by Kerouac: "Unmailed letter to Tom Guinzburg."
774. Folder labeled "C6 notes on Brittany."
775. Typescript, revised. "Notes on Brittany."
776. Typescript article, revised. "The Last Word - Escapade."
777. Typescript "A Dream."
778. Typescript response to interview questions; responses to questions for Paris Review interview. Holograph note: "Paris Review."
779. Typescript article with holograph notes. "My favorite comedians."
780. Typescript article "Are movie television ratings as accurate as they should be? or I watch movies on television / that s better shithead" [sic]
781. Holograph haikus and other poems. "Haiku."
782. Typescript fragment. (Begins: "Autumn night in Massachusetts before the war . . .")
783. Typescript and holograph draft notes, with holograph note: "Writ by me (drunk in bar) for motorcyclists' movie (rejected). Written on Department of Defence notepaper
784. Typescript poem "Jimmy Durante."
785. Typed letter from Jack Kerouac to [William] Buckley
786. Autograph letter, signed. From Jack Kerouac to [William] Buckley
787. Holograph notes. On copyright infringement on title of "On The Road." (Begins: "DJK = (Jim Kirk lawyer)".)
788. Photocopied typed letter, signed. From Jack Kerouac addressed "to the Soviet Union on the occasion of the death of R. Kennedy and also in reply to Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem about 'Shoot'." [Inventory states that there should be a typescript poem with thi
789. Typed letter from Jack Kerouac to Ellis Amburn. With note: "Not mailed."
790. Typed letter, signed. From Jack Kerouac to Sterling [Lord]. (Begins: "Here's what I'll do with spotlight.")
791. Photocopied typed letter, signed. From Jack Kerouac to "Nanda." (Complaint regarding political activity of Ginsberg and Corso.)
792. Folder labeled "C7 notes."
793. Holograph autobiographical statement. "Biography." (Genealogy, early years and schooling, travels, writing plans.)
794. Tearsheet with holograph notes. "The Last Word." Holograph note: "For Escapade's anniversary issue, Aug. 1966; (from old Escapade column 1959 or '58.)"
795. Typescript draft, revised. (Begins: "As pure minded as an icicle . . .") Begins with a description of sitting in Miss Mansfield's class in 1934 and continues with thoughts on Cornwall. Typed on teletype paper
796. Typescript fragment. (Begins: "The cause of the world's woe is negative gloom.") [Related to Escapade article, see Box 13, folder 31.]
797. Typescript self-interview. "Statement by Jack Kerouac."
798. Typescript "Roughly translated from the French of Madame Périer, sister of Pascal and quotes from his 'Separate papers Papiers Sépareé.'"
799. Holograph and typescript drafts, revised. For essay "Hugo Weber." (Three versions of and a fourth typed version and holograph notes on the painter and his "Imaginary Portraits.")
800. Typescript notes "Eve of flight to Paris" with holograph note "Explaining properly."
801. Typescript note "To Harvard Crimson." (Complaint to the Crimson)
802. Holograph "Poem of 1956 N.J. Turnpike 'Allen and Peter.'"
803. Holograph notes and chart for "Gigantic novel of America." (With characters named "Jack, Kells, Jim, Bill, Edie, Lou," and "Cess.")
804. Holograph and sketch of stick-figures
805. Holograph notes "Nanda." (Includes French phrases and expressions.)
806. Holograph notes, untitled. (Begins: "Left New York nineteen forty nine.") [Possibly a draft of a poem.]
807. Holograph notes. (Begins: "My mind is endless - why bother me with waking it up?")
808. Holograph notes. "February 1966." (Begins: "Two really magnificent new singers.")
809. Holograph notes on thoughts on his youth. (Begins: "Let the worm's slug away / The worry warts'll win.")
810. Holograph notes, untitled. (Begins: "You know very well, my Saviour, that when I was a little boy . . .")
811. Holograph poem "English poem by Jack Kerouac (A Cornish descendant)."
812. Holograph, untitled. (Begins: "Aye, the visions of our lady make us drop on our knee.")
813. Typed letter from Jack Kerouac to "Dear John" [Holmes?]. (Includes thoughts on the political activities of Ginsberg and Snyder, epic Lebris de Kerouac story, and ancestry.)
814. Typed letter from Jack Kerouac to Phil [Whalen?]. (Expresses worries about conversation with Gary Snyder; includes poems.)
815. Folder labeled "C8."
816. Holograph notes "Hyannis - June 1966." (Thoughts on youth, football, writing, formation, and friends.)
817. Tearsheet "A curse at the devil." (From "Red Clay Reader II; later collected in Scattered Poems.)
818. Newspaper cuttings mounted on paper. Titled: "Krech?" (Article on scientist Krech and memory research)
819. Newspaper cutting mounted on paper, with holograph notes. "Boston, hub of culture." Clipping from Boston Record American, Daily Quiz - where would you find these people?" With corrections and comments by Kerouac
820. Magazine and newspaper articles mounted on white paper, with holograph note. "Bumbling Bunyan." (Time Magazine review of "Desolation Angels" and "Bellow Honored." Photo caption: "The man as parody of the boy." With Kerouac's note "The man as parody of the
821. Typed letter, signed. From Jack Kerouac to Jim Curtis. (Refers to analysis of a pill at Lowell Technological Institute's Research Foundation.)
822. Typescript draft "In the Ring." (Account of a remembered wrestling match in Lowell in 1931, typed on teletype paper.)
823. Folder C9 not received with Archive
824. Folder labeled "C10 Letters, notes, etc."
825. Holograph journal, notes, and letters. Loose leaf notebook pages with notes on Brittany, Bretons and ancestry; letters; poems; letter on film rights for "On The Road" with observation that "Beatles is spelled Beatles;" Also includes remembrance of boyhood
826. Holograph notes/letter, untitled. Notes for "After me, the deluge." Includes draft letter to Sterling Lord requesting return of five manuscripts (July 10, 1969), and another letter to Lord regarding "Pic."
827. Typed letter, signed. From Fr. Vincent C. Donovan, O.P. to Jack Kerouac
828. Typescript, revised. Untitled. [Draft of "After me, the deluge."]
829. Holograph notes, untitled. (Begins: "Last night near the shores of the cruel blue lake . . .")
830. Typescript fragment "Sleep Phrases." In French and English
831. Typed letter (incomplete) from [Jack Kerouac?] to John [Holmes?]
832. Three tearsheets of poem "A curse at the devil." (From "Red Clay Reader II, later collected in "Scattered Poems.")
833. Photocopied autograph letter, signed. From Jack Kerouac to Keith [Jennison]. Requests return of "On The Road" manuscript
834. Blue folder, untitled. No content. [Not listed on Inventory.]
835. Folder labeled "C11."
836. Tearsheet [or proof?] of poem "Rimbaud." With holograph note: "1958 (written)" and notes to typesetter. [This is either a tearsheet from "Yugen 6" (1960) or proof for "Rimbaud" broadside published by City Light in 1960.]
837. Novel excerpt/essay tearsheets, from Pageant Magazine. [Excerpt from "On The Road" - "You're all invited" and "Lamb, no lion." Published as "Beat."]
838. Typed letter, signed from John Wieners to Jack Kerouac. With typed copy of poems from "San Francisco Blues" and "Mexico City Blues" and an order form from Measure Magazine
839. Typescript draft "Part of a blue movie, from A.J.'s Annual Smoker: Interzone - The word by William Seward Burroughs
840. Typescript story "Story by Neal Cassady, 1953."
841. Typescript (carbon). Preface, with poems. "Preface to the Poems of Han Shan by Lu Ch'iu Yin." With holograph note "Gary Snyder." (Attached: "Seventeen poems by Han Shan." - Introduction to "Cold Mountain Poems." See "Riprap" and "Cold Mountain Poems" by G
842. Typescript (carbon). Poems. "Han Shan Poems." Eleven poems with holograph note "Trans. Gary Snyder."
843. Typescript/holograph note. (Poem begins: "The sun breaks over the eucalyptus.") Holograph note: "'56 Gary Snyder."
844. Tearsheets "From Denver Doldrums - Suicide waltzes for the Denver birds." Holograph note: "Ginsberg early poems '47" and identifies "Oedipus Eddie" as "(Neal Cassady)." Tearsheet from "Columbia Review."
845. Tearsheet with image of (young) Allen Ginsberg
846. Copy of "The Gutman Letter" newsletter, featuring article "Should Allen Ginsberg be invited to the White House?"
847. Tearsheets "Abstraction in Poetry" by Allen Ginsberg. [From "It Is"?]
848. Typescript poem with holograph note. "By Allen Ginsberg - last part of Howl."
849. Typescript poem with holograph note. "The End" by Allen Ginsberg
850. Typescript poem, signed. "The Reply." With holograph note "Allen Ginsberg poem."
851. Typescript poem, signed, with holograph note by Ginsberg. "Nightmare on a battleship." With holograph note in Kerouac's hand: "Ginsberg". Typescript also has a holograph note, signed, in Ginsberg's hand
852. Typescript poems with holograph note. Poems by Robert Creeley. "Half a hat is better than none," "Not now," "The Kid," "Pride," "The Memory." Holograph notes by Kerouac and Creeley
853. Typescript poems by Edward Dorn. "Geranium," and "The Air of June Sings." Holograph revision by Dorn and holograph note by Kerouac
854. Typed letter, signed. From Gregory Corso to Jack Kerouac. Includes poem and Kerouac's holograph note "Corso original 'Power' lines!"
855. Typed letter, signed. From Allen Ansen and Gregory Corso to Jack Kerouac, Venice, Italy. Includes poem "God heads down" by Corso and Ansen. ("Our heroin chain poem . . . written in alternate passages.")
856. Typescripts, poems, notes and postcards by Bob Lax
857. Typed note with holograph note "Phil Whalen." [Possibly a typed poem.]
858. Old comic-strip style sketch/artwork, four panels of color illustration. "The whole world is one fire - beginning today!! A new story by our sensational fabricator the gentleman from France Jean Louis Kerouac."
859. Scheme for arrangement/location of home-made tapes, each recording identified by a symbol assigned by Kerouac. In pencil and colored crayon
860. Typed and autograph letter and artwork from Beto (R.F. Thomson) to Jack Kerouac. "The night of the city is the day of its beauty." Colored drawing on blue construction paper with letter on verso
861. "Drawings of Ginsberg and Burroughs, 1953." (Four sketches by Ginsberg and two by Burroughs. Depicts figures, symbols, hearts, ships, houses, etc.)
862. Sketches: (1) "Colored-pens hell"; (2) "The lay," signed; (3) "Figures" and "Lovers," signed; (4) "Three laughters" and "Looking down on death an eternity in a bed," signed; (5) "Horse and rider" and "White fighters with black referee," signed; (6) "Brown
863. Holograph postcard, signed. From Lucien [Carr?] to Jack Kerouac
864. Holograph postcard, signed. With Kerouac's note: "(Crank letter to Ferlinghetti, '62)." Card is signed "Jack K."
865. Typescript notes "The Method." (Ten points about "The Method - for Buddhist practice.")
866. "Spiritual gift from a friend." "The Franciscan Brothers have been requested to offer the holy sacrifice of the Mass for the spiritual and temporal welfare of Jack Kerouac."
867. Western Union telegram from Kenneth Tynan to Allen Ginsberg; with holograph note "Pfui!"
868. Typescript quotation from John Betjeman's review of Kerouac's "The Town and the City."
869. Typescript poems with Kerouac's holograph note "Lois Sorrells poems."
870. Broadside poem "Goddess" by Philip Whalen. With holograph note "This copy is for Jack Kerouac with love Philip Whalen 31 XII 64."
871. Photocopied poem "Jack Kerouac: Sept. 16, 1961, Poem." With holograph revision by Kerouac
872. Court citation against Jack Kerouac for "voluntary intoxication." St. Petersburg, Florida
873. Chapbook - Grecourt Review. "4 Haikus" by Jack Kerouac
874. Tearsheets of poems with holograph note "Poems by Andrade - Trans. from the Portugese by Robt. Stock."
875. Invitation card from Mr. Sherman Billingsley with holograph note "(I didn't answer)."
876. Holograph and sketch "The Dress" by Robert Creeley. On verso of book announcement card for story collection "The Dress," by Creeley
877. Typed letter, signed. From Al [Gelpi] to Jack Kerouac, Lowell House, Cambridge, MA. Two autograph letters, signed, from Michael Kammen to Jack Kerouac
878. Holograph transcription of five poems by Basho, Joso, Jaha, and Hanshin. Not in Kerouac's hand
879. Typescript "On the meaning of numbers: Opus I; A treatise on symbols by Ernest Ross Hartsoc (Dedicated to poets, wherever they are.)"
880. Photocopied newspaper articles. "Les intellectuels dans la sociéte Américaine par Pierre Dommergues," inscribed to Jack Kerouac. From Le Monde
881. Various letters and poems to Jack Kerouac from fans and admirers
882. Tearsheets of "The philosophy of the beat generation" by John Clellon Holmes. Esquire Magazine
883. Autograph letter, signed. From George Glass to Jack Kerouac
884. Typed letter, signed. From D. Bratton to Jack Kerouac. Holograph note by Kerouac: ". . . letter (contributed to my Big Sur fear)."
885. Tearsheet "Homage to Grampa" by Sheri Martinelli. Kerouac's holograph note on verso: "Sheri Martinelli on Pound."
886. Typescript "'A year in our land' cantata for soloists, mixed chorus, and orchestra . . . music composed by David Amram." (Includes the selection "Summer in the West" by Kerouac. From "Lonesome Traveler.")
887. Typed letter, signed. From Scott Arden to Playboy Magazine. Complaint about Kerouac's use of the term "spade" in "The Origins of the Beat Generation." With typed letter, signed, (carbon) reply from A. C. Spectorsky (Playboy Associate publisher) to Arden
888. Sketch/holograph note "Les Dieux de Monde gardent l'artiste." By Victor Wong
889. Folder labeled "D1 Parable of America, Heritage of the Hip Generation, Old Bull in the Bowery."
890. Typescript draft of novel, revised. Incomplete. "Duluoz - Parable of America novel." Holograph titles, canceled: "They Brought Me Out of the Night," and "I'll Make My Home in That Pit."
891. Typescript, revised. "The History of the Hip Generation (First seven chapters) - Book One: The Hip Generation Went on Strike Against Man."
892. Typescript, revised. "On the Road - Old Bull in the Bowery (1952, Mexico City) [Written in French patoi]." Features characters "Dean Pomeray, Uncle Bull Balloon, Little Neal/Cody Deaver, Rolfe Glendiver, Leo Duluoz, Ti Jean," and "Pictorial Review Jackson
893. Holograph diary. "1953. Notes again." (Notes from November 20 to December 3, 1953, on "Lucien Midnight," book movie form, great hidden American poets, 4-level writing activity, switching agents, and "American story (a super duper T & C)."
894. Holograph prose fragment. "The De-Activators." With note: "False begin again, modern prose now -" On verso of third leaf: "The Kerouac fairy tale" (in French)
895. Holograph essay "In America." (Thoughts on the negroes as original Fellaheen people of Africa; thoughts on society, nations, Beat generation, and jazz.)
896. Holograph notes. "The trap of the world - Apocalypse of the Fellaheen, Listen People" (in French)
897. Holograph prose fragment "(October in the railroad earth)."
898. Holograph prose fragment, untitled. (Begins: "Grandpêre Levesque, Louis' father, was on the porch . . .") [Duluoz family origins and scene.]
899. Holograph prose fragment. (Begins: "Ah beautiful Vicki - the gastank's almost empty.") Louis and Gaby in Nashua; fragment of "Old Bull in the Bowery;" some fragments in French; holograph note "Neal didn't let me be myself."
900. Holograph diary fragment. "Saturday Aug. 23, 1952 - Got up at quarter to seven . . ." ("This is the shortest diary ever kept.")
901. Holograph notes. "New York notes, the apple, Dec. 25, '52, Xmas night."
902. Typescript fragment. "The Brevets and the Fortiers, so called. (No stars we shall use this)."
903. Autograph letter with holograph note by Kerouac: "Sad Mexican letter I found on the dump in Watsonville, Calif. '52 among piles of discarded work clothes." (Letter is written in Spanish, signed "Mechi."
904. Typescript fair copy of "San Francisco Blues."
905. Box labeled "San Francisco / Blues / Jack Kerouac." Formerly contained the typescript of "San Francisco Blues." [See Box 15, folder 16.]
906. Folder labeled "D2 1951 Scraps and My 'Tourian' version."
907. Typescript "I wish I were you (1945) Philip Tourian story" with later holograph note: "'45 Ryko Tourian novel." By Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. Second draft, August 25, 1945. Early draft of "And the Hippos were Boiled in their Tanks." Paginated 1 -
908. Holograph draft novella "La Nuit Est Ma Femme - Winter/Spring 1951." (Alternate title: Les Travaux de Michel Bretagne." Written in French with some English dialogue
909. Typescript story "Michael Bretagne." English translation of excerpts from "La Nuit Est Ma Femme." Relates to Box 15, folder 20
910. Holograph drafts, titled "Tom Watson," "Old Bull Lewis," "Old Bull," "Road - Chapter 2 - Tom Watson, " "Watson's House."
911. Holograph draft "To Poolhall gang."
912. Holograph draft "Watson's Gang." (Begins: "[canceled text] In the poolhall the . . ")
913. Holograph essay. (Begins: "It used to be that many chicken coops were built against a tree . . ."). "Kinston, NC, March 13, '51." Includes list of Kerouac's works
914. Typescript "On the Road - Prospectus." ("To me it's primarily a novel about America, its unwritten energies, in the midst of official bigtime fluff-offs its secret voice crying in the Wilderness.")
915. Holograph draft, untitled. (Begins: "That ineffable grace that came into their hands . . .")
916. Typescript, revised. Various draft fragments of "On The Road."
917. Typescript, revised. "Cody - or Neal - in Denver in '42'." (About Jim Watson's gang.)
918. Holograph fragment, untitled. (Football scene with Dean.]
919. Holograph draft "Football Field." (Football scene with Dean. [Draft of Box 15, folder 28.]
920. Holograph, untitled. (With characters "Dean" and "Marylou.")
921. Holograph, untitled. (With "Dean" and "Watson.")
922. Hologaph, untitled. (Begins: "If she barters on that business . . .")
923. Holograph, untitled. (With character "Dean.")
924. Holograph fragment, untitled. (Begins: "Bold noble Dean.")
925. Autograph letter from Jack Kerouac to Neal [Cassady]. (Begins: "All of a sudden I remember a sunset . . ."). Letter describes activities, thoughts, and feelings for Neal and plan to visit Neal in San Francisco
926. Typescript, revised. Novel fragment, notes, and letter. "Plot of 'On the Road' (or The Road of Dean Pomeray) Aug. 7, 1951." (With "Tom Charity, Dean, Pomeray.) Page 6 is titled "The Sea is my Brother," and includes four paragraphs on this subject. Also in
927. Holograph and typescript draft "Visions of 'Neal' worksheets '51." (Includes list of friends and purpose of 'On the Road.'")
928. Holograph draft, untitled. [Notes for "On The Road" and "Visions of Neal."] (Proposed frontispiece quote)
929. Holograph and typescript draft, untitled. (Draft of "On The Road" and "Visions of Neal," with note on Jack St. Louis.)
930. Holograph "Potboiler 'Hip' Sat. Aug. 25, 1951. Kingsbridge, VA. Hosp. Bronx." (With "Cody Deaver, Buddy Black," and "Sal Paradise.")
931. Holograph, untitled. Fragment/notes. (One page dated Saturday "Saturday, Aug. 25, 1948.)
932. Holograph fragment, untitled. (Begins: "L'ouvrage de ma vie . . ."). Written in French, with "Neal" as a character
933. Holograph diary "And still more notes: Monday, November 26, 1951." Extends to Thursday, November 29, 1951. With sketches. Refers to writing "Dean's Road," scripts for money, and "Dusty."
934. Holograph notes. "For Journal." (Memories of sitting on grass watching Horace Mann graduation; pages numbered 3 and 4.)
935. Holograph "On the Road (revisions)" and "Doctor Sax."
936. Holograph fragment. "God didn't make the world for satisfaction."
937. Typescript fragment. (Begins: "The beautiful action of the typewriter machine . . .")
938. Folder labeled "D3 for 'Prose Scraps.'"
939. Typescipt draft, revised. Untitled. (Begins: "The diningroom of Carolyn Hardy . . ."). With holograph note: "Also appears in 'Book of Sketches' as short lined orig., not this prose, as here. . ."
940. Typescript draft "Prose from Book of Sketches."
941. Typescript "The Old Green Hornet." With "The time I screwed Delilah" on verso
942. Typescript and holograph poem. (Typescript begins: "The word in the beginning was dark.) Holograph poem on verso. (Begins: "'Their sword is gone out unto all lands.'")
943. Typed note, signed. From Andreas Brown to Jack Kerouac. Also includes a typed postcard from Brown to Kerouac
944. Holograph/typescript and sketch of cover design for "On the Road, a Modern Prose Novel, by John Kerouac." With typed note on sketch from Kerouac to "Mr. Wyn" regarding the cover design. [A. A. Wyn was the owner of Ace Books.]
945. Photocopied typed letter from Jack Kerouac to [John] Holmes
946. Folder labeled "D4 1953 Poems & sketches."
947. Typescript "Poems." Unattributed. [By Jack Kerouac?]
948. Typescript poems, signed. "The Sea is my Brother" and "Eskimos in Greenland."
949. Typescript draft "3rd Avenue Bar." With holograph note: "1953 sketch."
950. Typescript poem. "Jack Kerouac and One Short Poem / Bug."
951. Typescript poem. "Poem." (Begins: "Strange cemetery in Jamaica."
952. Typescript poem "America." With additional holograph note: "(In verse lines of dashes.)"
953. Holograph fragment, untitled. (Begins: "Children crying in a sad dream."). With notes on family origins and Levesque name
954. Holograph draft letters to "Dear Mary," "Dear Pete," and "Dear G.J." (G.J. letter signed "Old creaking legs Zaggus J. Kerouac / Kid Memory Babe.")
955. Typed note, signed. From Jack Kerouac to "Solomon."
956. Typescript, revised. (Begins: "Quand tu rencontre un homme superieur . . ."). Written in French, with text partially translated into English. Features characters "Jack Duluoz" as a writer, and "Salvattore Paradies" as character name
957. Eight sketches/cover designs for a Road novel by Jack Kerouac, Jack Duluoz, or Duluoz. (1) "Road to the Last Coast"; (2) "Last Road West"; (3) "Madroad Driving Men Ahead" - 2 sketches; (4) "Mad Road to the Last Coast"; (5) "Saints on the Road"; (6) "Hipst
958. Holograph list "Records." (List of nine records by Stan Goetz, Miles Davis, and others.) With numbers on verso
959. Holograph "to-do" list. (Includes "Buy French dictionary" and "Take Visions of Neal to Cowley.")
960. Holograph fragment of dialogue. Between "Clerk and Jansen."
961. Holograph poems and fragments. (Begins: "The dim gray hallways.")
962. Holograph draft "Licorice)." [Possibly a letter to Neal Cassady? (Begins: "Greetings / I finally got my railroad check voucher . . .") Signed "Jocko."
963. Two portrait sketches, signed "J.K."
964. Holograph draft, untitled. (Begins: "Here we are sitting around a fire in the pure open night of America.")
965. Typescript and holograph draft. "1953 Orig. MS. of Essentials of Modern Prose / - (in pencil below)."
966. Typescript "Prospectus - On the Road." ("To me it's primarily a novel about America.") [See also Box 15, folder 26.]
967. Hologaph draft, untitled. (Begins: "Every line universal, simple, clear & necessary."). Includes characters "Wm. Hubbard, Herbert Huck, Joan Evans, Lucien Love, Allen Goldfinger, Neal Pomeray," and "Jack Duluoz." Paginated 1-8
968. Holograph notes. (Begins: "Life is like the NY Times, you can't read it all that kind of futility.")
969. Typed note with holograph annotation: "To Rebecca West."
970. Holograph poem. (Begins: "Thru the skeleton of the night.")
971. Holograph poems. "Poem 43, Poem 44, Poem 45, Poem 46."
972. Holograph "Visions of America." (Begins: "Walking along Atlantic Avenue in Long Island.")
973. Typescript fragment with holograph notes. Kerouac's annotation: "Original reject pages from Subterraneans manuscript (Orig. MS. in hands of Alene) ('Mardou')." Both leaves paginated "25."
974. Holograph notes. "Notes for Literary." Numbered 1-5. Typescript title on verso: "Bookmovie One."
975. Holograph "Death of Gerard" with holograph note. "San Luis Obispo '53."
976. Holograph "Chapbook of Poesies."
977. Holograph notes. (Begins: "Easier to live lighthearted.")
978. Holograph sketch, unfinished comic strip with six panels. "Doctor Sax."
979. Typescript poem "Saturday afternoon window." [Stapled to blank second leaf.]
980. Typescript fragment of prose and poetry, signed. Titled "Some of the Dharma."
981. Typescript "Visions of Deni by Jack K, Pub. in 'Lonesome Traveler.'" (Original draft of "Piers of the Homeless Night" in "Lonesome Traveler.") (Begins: "Visions of America / All that hitchhikin / All that railroadin / All that comin back / to America / Vi
982. Holograph "Notes for 'Maggie Cassidy' '53." Includes names of characters, quotes, situations, and ideas for the novel
983. Photocopied autograph letter, signed. From Jack Kerouac to his mother. San Luis Obispo, California. ("California is beautiful and ideal and will be our home . . .")
984. Folder labeled "D5 1953 Scraps." holograph note lists: "1953, Sea Brother, Gerard, Kallaquakus, Snow wintertime, Drawings, Execrable South America, History of Bop, Pornography, 2 reject pages of Subterraneans."
985. Holograph draft "Sea is my Brother."
986. Holograph fragment. (Extract: "The happiest and most hidden man in the world.") [Note on Gerard?]
987. Typescript poem, revised. "Junk by William Lee - John Kerouac."
988. Typescript story, revised. "The Idiot with the Books."
989. Holograph fragment, untitled. (Begins: "In the month of October 1935, a car came from the West . . .") With characters "Dean Pomeray" and "Dean Pomeray Jr."
990. Holograph draft erotic prose narrative. Untitled. (Begins: "She cries O . . .")
991. Typescript draft, revised. "Hip." Pages written in English and French. Final leaf is a holograph draft
992. Holograph list of important places, people, work; list of Kerouac's book titles and notes on "Phebe Ave."
993. Holograph list. "Portraits, novels, novelettes, and shorts." (List of book projects based on family and friends.)
994. Holograph sketch/chart. "Wheel of Life." (Diagram of Kerouac's relationships to family and friends.]
995. Typescript draft "Execrable American Spain."
996. Typescript draft and holograph poem. (Begins: ". . . a little room . . .") Holograph poem on verso, titled "Sailor in the Hospital.")
997. Typescript/holograph "Bookmovies." (Definition of "bookmovies" and "why I write.")
998. Holograph fragment, untitled. (Begins: "The gray day walking down 84.") With typescript fragment on verso
999. Holograph fragment "Yuri Gligoric / Yuri Petrosian / (Auerbach)." [Fragment of "Book of Dreams"?]
1000. Holograph book outline. "The American story."
1001. Typescript prose fragment "The American Story." (Begins: "Roaring America I would like to introduce myself.")
1002. Holograph fragment. (Begins: ". . . before the thrusts and bang bang of this teethshowing old maniac with toy guns and badge . . .") Paginated "135."
1003. Typescript and holograph draft, revised. "Kallaquackus." (With character named "Nick Kallaquackus, football player. Draft for "On The Road.")
1004. Holograph notes/outline of novel. "A vision of America - American story - 1000 pages." (Featuring "Leo Duluoz, Neal Pomeray Sr.," and others during the years 1935-1953.)
1005. Holograph and typescript draft, revised. "The love beast - a pulp pocketbook by old hand Jack Lewis."
1006. Typescript draft "Railroad." (Extract: "Neal and I, old buddies of the road, are sitting in his 1933 Pontiac the 'green hornet' he'd call it . . .")
1007. Holograph "On the Road." List of characters with dates of birth and death
1008. Photocopy of holograph "Visions of Neal." List, numbered "Pages 1-23."
1009. Typescript prose fragment, untitled. (Begins: "It was a cold afternoon in the winter in Kansas city, 1932 . . .")
1010. Photocopied typescript, revised. Draft of beginning of Maggie Cassidy, with character name "Mary Carney." (Begins: "How beautiful can a woman be?")
1011. Holograph and typescript fragments and notes
1012. Holograph fragment "Bop, blow bop." Written in French. Partial translation of Box 17, folder 24
1013. Holograph notes. "Blow!" (Begins: "Charley Parker in his mother's woodshed in Kansas City . . ."). With note: "Lucien Midnight the monolog of the world."
1014. Holograph and typescript draft letters to Malcolm Cowley and an unidentified person. (Lists books written to date with a note about each one, and requests assistance.)
1015. Holograph and sketch "Railroad Bum." (With list of equipment and supplies.) Sketch titled "Beggarless American Brahmana." With photocopy of this item
1016. Photocopied typescript letters, revised. Two drafts of a letter from Jack Kerouac to "Dear Carl, Mr. Wyn, Miss James." (Original not in D5 file.) Kerouac's response to rejection of "On The Road" manuscript, and the dismissal of it as "a thoroughly incoher
1017. Photocopied typed letter, signed. From Jack Kerouac to "Dear Allen and sirs." Original not in D5 file. (Extract: ". . . I deny permission to place my name next to Clellon Holmes as a co-expert on the Beat generation."
1018. Holographs, typescripts, and sketches. "Army - McCarthy hearings 1954 T. V. notes, Army - McCarthy." Title page: "Notes on Army - McCarthy hearing, Spring 1954 by Jean-Louis." Cardboard cover and loose leaves
1019. Typescript "San Francisco Blues." (Different version of poems than "San Francisco Blues" in "Book of Blues" manuscript, and different ending than "San Francisco Blues" in "Pomes All Sizes" manuscript. Poems not titled by numbered chorus, but some poems or
1020. Holograph sketch "Annals - Mind is given another body." Comic-strip style sketch
1021. Holograph aesthetic statement. "Writing. 1. Clear. 2. Short. 3. Complete. In microscopic hand print in notebooks in silence & neatness & purity of economy."
1022. Holograph notes/outline for a writing project and daily regimen. "Writing, story of myself, the young are sincere."
1023. Holograph, untitled. Draft letter and scraps. (Draft letter from Jack Kerouac to "Mr. Cowley" regarding jazz excerpts accepted by New World writing; Kerouac retitled "On The Road," "Beat Generation."
1024. Autograph letter, signed. From Jack Kerouac to Jack Kerouac
1025. Typed letter, signed. From Stanley L. Colbert to Jack Kerouac. With holograph note on verso: "Big Benny letter to Allen."
1026. Folder labeled "D7 Bull Balloon."
1027. Typescript story, revised. "cityCityCITY by Jean-Louis." Verso of final leaf has holograph note to "Allen."
1028. Newspaper cutting about Horace Mann football game (13-0 loss to Blair.) (Lists Kerouac as "Kerouac F.B.")
1029. Sketch of trucks and ships on paper towel by "Jack Elliott, folksinger."
1030. Folder labeled "D8 Prose & Poetry."
1031. Holograph "Notes on the first teaching and Buddhist principles." Written on an envelope mailed from Allen Ginsberg to Jack Kerouac in Mexico City
1032. Typescript, revised. "Visions of Neal. An excerpt from 'Visions of Neal' (a 500-page novel) by Jean-Louis (John Kerouac)." (Begins: "I met Neal in 1947 when he first came to New York from Denver.")
1033. Holograph/typescript, untitled. Notes on Buddhism and on verso a typed fragment which mentions "Peter Martin" in October. Paginated "4." [See also Box 18, folder 7.] "The City and the Path."
1034. Holograph notes for a letter about a critical fan. (Mentions story "Ditph" [or "Oitph".] Possibly in reply to the Paris Review which published "The Mexican Girl" in 1955
1035. Typescript, revised. Untitled. (Buddha story with holograph notes for "cityCityCITY" on verso. Paginated "119." Possibly a draft of "Wake Up."
1036. Typescript, revised. "The City and the Path."
1037. Typescript poem. (Begins: "Tathata is Essence Isness.") holograph note "Originally prose."
1038. Holograph draft "On the Path, Aug. 19, 1955, Mexico City." (Begins: "All life is suffering."). With holograph draft "Last life for everyone (by my wish) a play movie in acts and scenes by Jack Kerouac." ("The long long story of Jack Duluoz the kid from Lo
1039. Typescript poem. (Four choruses from "Mexico City Blues.") With holograph revisions and additions
1040. Prose fragments. "Some of the Dharma" excerpt, and draft "Twin Tree Grove March 5 1956 (spontaneous)."
1041. Typescript poem "Sitting under tree number two."
1042. Tearsheets of "The statue of Christ" from Jubilee Magazine, VI, 9 (June 1958). holograph note "Written 1955."
1043. Photocopied typed letter and photocopied typed letter, signed. From Jack Kerouac to "Cher Alain" and "Dear Bob."
1044. Folder labeled "D9 Jack File 1."
1045. Autograph letter, signed. From Allan Ginsberg to Jack Kerouac. Written on Mexican Air Mail card
1046. Typed letter, signed. From Jack Kerouac to John Holmes
1047. Holograph fragment play/dialogue "Dramatis Personae." (List of characters and dialogue, set in "United State, a mental ward.")
1048. Typescript, revised. "Book of Dharmas." Paginated "349." "Trip to New York."
1049. Holograph notes, untitled. (Begins: "Rivers usurp us, I can't go on.")
1050. Holograph draft novel, untitled. (Begins: "Begin Here. I. I remember the morning my father got up and found some baby mice in the closet . . ."). ("June 1943 to May 1949 . . Pa Ma & the writing & acceptance of T & C . . . Edie, Lucien murder, Bill, Detroi
1051. Photocopied typed letter from Jack Kerouac to Gary [Snyder]
1052. Typed letter from Jack Kerouac to [Philip Whalen and Gary Snyder]
1053. Typed letter from Jack Kerouac to Gary [Snyder]. With photocopy of letter
1054. Folder labeled "D10 Jack File Prose & Poetry."
1055. Holograph notebook "The Diamondcutter of Perfect Knowing - A Transliteration from the English and Sanskrit (divided into daily readings) by John Kerouac."
1056. Magazine tearsheet "Hymn, Jack Kerouac." (Begins: "And when you showed me Brooklyn Bridge in the morning."). Kerouac's annotation: "'56."
1057. Typescript "Vajra Chedika Prajna Paramita / The Diamondcutter Vow of God's Wisdom." (Typescript of pages 6 and 8 of Box 18, folder 26, with revision.)
1058. Typescript "Sketches in North Carolina." (Set in "Rocky Mount woods" with "Paul Hardy.) (Ends: "Cont'd later.")
1059. Typescript notes "Book of Dharmas." Page 336. "I am the mother of all things." Includes list of books in the Duluoz legend
1060. Holograph novel "The Martin Family - a novel - The Martin Family by John Kerouac. The sequel to 'The Town and the City', Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy." (Begins: "After the death of Mr. George Martin in the city, his family moved back home to Galloway.")
1061. Holograph notes, untitled. (Begins: "The shack of desolation is dirty.")
1062. Holograph draft "Desolation Peak, Centerville, The Literature of the Beat Generation."
1063. Typescript poem "2 choruses from Orizaba Blues." (Begins: "Fantasm Crazam crazam.")
1064. Typescript poems "Prayer," "Idiot," and "Desolation Pops." ("Desolation Pops" includes six pages numbered 3-8 with a note: "Note: Desolation is the name of the mountain . . . Pops are American free-syllable'd Haikus . . ." Includes 72 numbered haikus.)
1065. Holograph poem "Desolation Blues in 12 choruses." "Desolation Peak July - August - September 1956."
1066. Holograph poem "A Sudden Sketch Poem." (Begins: "Gary's sink has a shroudy burlap . . .")
1067. Typescript poem "Later Mexico City (1956) - (Poems written on morphine) - Washington DC (1956)." Both titles appear to have the word "Blues" canceled
1068. Folder labeled "D11 Poems, Sketches."
1069. Holograph draft novel "Beat Generation. Tangier. March 26, 1957." (Begins: "This story begins in 1951 . . . The sequel of my adventures on the road with Neal."). Includes characters "Allen, Neal, Burroughs, and Kerouac."
1070. Typescript "Beat Generation" with holograph note "Tangiers 1957 (yellow notepad (pages missing McGraw Hill has them)." [Partial typescript of Box 19, folder 2, with Kerouac's name changed to "Duluoz," Neal's to "Zeal." Numbered pages 1-3.]
1071. Holograph poem "Old Angel Midnight." (Section of "Old Angel Midnight.")
1072. Holograph poem, notes, sketches. "Lucien Midnight" and various sketches and notes. Tangiers, March 1, 1957. (Includes a sketch of Burroughs by Jack Kerouac.)
1073. Typescript poem. "Lucien Midnight (Selections)." Pages numbered 1-3; sections numbered 42-43
1074. Holograph draft "The Dharma Bums. Chapter One. L.A. Yards." (Begins: "Because I had worked on the railroads before . . . ")
1075. Typescript "A Dharma Bum in Europe." (Begins: "Gastank cities of America fading beyond the waves . . .")
1076. Typescript story with holograph notes. "Dharma Bum in Europe." With holograph note: "This is original official beginning of prose story about my 1957 trip to Morocco and Europe - JK."
1077. Copy of magazine "Grecourt Review" with holograph note "Jack Haikus." Published April 1959
1078. Typescript essay, revised. "Christmas Eve not long ago." With holograph note: "For Leslie Hanscom World-Telegram and Sun Christmas Books - 1957."
1079. Typescript story "Ronnie on the Mound." Holograph note: "Sold to Esquire & published 1957."
1080. Typescript draft "Visions of Europe, June 11, 1957." (Begins: "Lying on the bed beside my girl in the middle of the night . . .")
1081. Holograph notes, untitled. (Begins: "People all know but're afraid to believe that the mind, not the external world, is their refuge . . .")
1082. Holograph notes "Life List. Memory Lowell (Duluoz myself)." Written on an envelope
1083. Holograph notes, untitled. (Begins: "And wasn't there ever a time when flies didn't seek the sun through forbidden window panes?")
1084. Holograph notes/poems. "Berkeley Way - June 1957." (Begins: "Because none of us want to think that the universe is a blank dream . . ."). Notes on the four noble truths, and golden eternity and three haikus
1085. Typed letter, signed. From Jack Kerouac to William Hogan. Description of "On The Road." Notes on background, goal, destiny. With holograph notes on verso
1086. Holograph draft notes "The Mahoun Nightmares." (Begins: "Just had a series of nightmares . . .")
1087. Holograph poem "Pure Mahoun Blues."
1088. Typescript essay, revised. "America's new trinity of love: Deane, Brando, Presley (written at instigation of the two Helens, Weaver & Elliot 1957)."
1089. Holograph poem "I Strike At That Snake Heart That Hurt my Family."
1090. Holograph poem, untitled. (Begins: "You, beautiful, don't pose at me . . .") Unsigned
1091. Sketch. 1957. [Inventory states two sketches and notes. Tangiers (and notes). "I am now hi on Mahoun."]
1092. Typescript poem "Kerouac: A Poem." Paginated "4."
1093. Typescript poem "Kerouac: A Poem." Paginated "4." Variant draft of poem found in Box 19, folder 25
1094. Typescript prose fragment, revised. "Roll - Faw - Log." (Begins: "I had been working in the railroad diner in Des Moines . . .")
1095. Typescript "Wine letter to Gregory." With sketch on verso
1096. Holograph notes written on an envelope addressed to James F. Matthias. (Begins: "Bring me the natural daughters . . .")
1097. Autograph letter, signed. From Carolyn Cassady to Jack Kerouac
1098. Tearsheet from "Escapade" magazine. "The Last Word." holograph note "Written 1957." [Relates to Box 19, folder 17.]
1099. Photocopied typed letter, signed. From Jack Kerouac to Gregory [Corso?]
1100. Two photocopies of typescript essay, revised. "'Robert Frank' Introduction to his Photo Book, Nov. 6, 1957."
1101. Photocopied autograph letter, signed. From Henri [Cru] to Jack Kerouac
1102. Folder labeled "D12 Beat Generation, Memory Babe, et al."
1103. Typescript play, revised. "Beat Generation Play. Orig. MS." with additional title "Play. Kerouac Three-Act Play ('Beat Generation' or 'Beat in Time') (or something)."
1104. Typescript draft novel, revised. "Memory Babe." Chapters I-IV
1105. Carbon copy typescript draft, revised. "Memory Babe." With holograph note "A nostalgic review of the good old days meant to be read simply for the pleasure of reading." Carbon copy of Box 19, folder 37
1106. Typescript screenplay "Blood and Paper or Lunchtime Wake (provisional titles)." Screenplay by Jack Kerouac, original story by Henri Cru
1107. Typescript poem "Orlando Blues. February 1958." Ten choruses with holograph note on verso of final page "Perms."
1108. Typescript draft "The Beat Traveler." (Begins: "To be beat is not to be able to enjoy a trip like a tourist, or anybody else.") 1957 - first trip to Europe and Africa
1109. Holograph prayer "Sleep in your Church, Mother - Sleep in your Mother, Church." Signed "Adeste Fidelis Jack."
1110. holograph note, signed. (Begins: "Meier Schwarz, Northport bookstore owner . . .")
1111. Two sketches by Jack Kerouac, one original and one photocopy
1112. Holograph/typescript/sketch. "Memory Babe." (List of residences, 1928-1939, and story outline. On verso, a sketch titled "The vision of the darling child," with list of characters and persons on whom they are based.)
1113. Typescript letter from Jack Kerouac to Gary [Snyder], revised. holograph note: "Life Mag. (rejected)." [Letter to Snyder is an account of a car trip to Florida with photographer Robert Frank; on teletype paper.]
1114. Typescript Sutra, signed. "Northport Sutra." With photocopy
1115. Photocopied tearsheet, untitled haiku
1116. Photocopied typescript poem and sketch. "Old Angel Midnight."
1117. Typescript, untitled. (Begins: "When the lord enlightener came down to the world . . .")
1118. Photocopy of autograph letter (in French), signed. From Henri [Cru] to Jack Kerouac. With photocopy of sketch, signed "Jack K."
1119. Holograph poem and prose fragment. "Visions of Paradise." Poem on verso with note "Spontaneous speech Mark 13:11."
1120. Holograph prose fragment, untitled. (Begins: "Anyway the time has come to explain / the golden eternity.")
1121. Typescript, revised. "Escapades column not sent in." With photocopy
1122. Holograph poem "God." With photocopy
1123. Typed letter from Jack Kerouac to Bill [Burroughs]. Sent from 34 Gilbert Street, Northport, N.Y. With photocopy
1124. Tearsheets "Tangier to London: A Beatnik Pilgrimage." With holograph note: "Tangier to London. Jack Kerouac. Pub. Feb. 1960. Holiday Magazine."
1125. Folder labeled "D13 Assorted Letters & Prose Pieces."
1126. Autograph letter, signed. From Jack Kerouac to his mother. Mostly in French, with later holograph note "From Jack in Frisco."
1127. Autograph letter, signed. From Jack Kerouac to his mother. Regards Robert Giroux's response to "The Town and the City" manuscript
1128. Autograph letter, signed. From Jack Kerouac to "Paul and Nin." (Nin is Jack Kerouac' sister)
1129. Autograph letter, signed. From Jack Kerouac to himself, with holograph note "Letter written to myself '46."
1130. Holograph notes "My analyst and I" with quotation from Goethe on the verso
1131. Holograph notes "T & C."
1132. Holograph essay "Traumatic Trains of Affect."
1133. Typescript draft, untitled. (Begins: "This guy George was from my home town . . .") On verso: "Monsieur Lecoq."
1134. Holograph draft notes. Definitions of literature and synopsis of "The Town and the City."
1135. Holograph notes, untitled. (Begins: "In order to get away from what now seems (to me) to be destructive scatological tendencies . . .")
1136. Typescript notes, revised. "Movie story idea (preliminary draft)" with holograph notes on the verso of the final two leaves
1137. Typescript story outline, revised. "General sequence of events - Christmas story." (Outline of story set in 1940s post-war New York involving the Breton family and characters including "Tom Seward, Michael Breton, Junkey, Liz Martin, Gerald McCarthy, and
1138. Folder labeled "D14."
1139. Telegram from Edith Parker to John L. Kerouac
1140. Typescript prose fragment "Part of a Blue Movie, from A.J.'s Annual Smoker: Interzone - The Word by William Seward Burroughs."
1141. Typescript poem "A Line of Points" by G. Shayne Weir
1142. Typescript draft, untitled. holograph note: "Benedict Schwartzberg (tea head) brilliant linguist & theological didacticist (1966)."
1143. Autograph letter, signed. From Thomas M. Anderson to Jack Kerouac, with holograph note by Kerouac on second verso
1144. Photocopied typescript "Chanson D'Introduction a Jack Kerouac." With holograph note: "Montreal radio Canada song (sung on TV March 5 or so) 1967."
1145. Typed letter, signed. Recruitment letter from Frank Leahy (Boston College Athletic Coach) to Jack Kerouac
1146. Typescript prose fragment "Word / by Wm. S. Burroughs / Tangiers 1957."
1147. Tearsheet from Reader's Digest. Mentions Jacqueline Kennedy reading Kerouac
1148. Newspaper cutting review of "On The Road," from The Times (London)
1149. Magazine tearsheet "When the Mode of the Music Changes The Walls of the City Shake" by Allen Ginsberg
1150. Tearsheet, untitled. Photographs of Kerouac, Arthur Miller, John F. Kennedy, James Garner, Anthony Perkins, and Billy Graham
1151. Magazine tearsheet "Some Thoughts on The Science of Onanism" by Mark Twain. From Fact magazine
1152. Typescript poem, untitled. (Begins: "Modern Barber College Kerouac eyes closed.") holograph note identifies author as Gary Snyder
1153. Typescript poem, untitled. (Begins: "It started just now with a hummingbird.") Cypress cabin. With holograph note identifying the author as Gary Snyder, with notes and numbers on the verso
1154. Typescript note to Jack [Kerouac] from John Montgomery
1155. Newspaper cutting "Philosophy Splits Staff of Movie. Clash on 'Subterraneans' causes M-G-M to drop the Sanders Brothers" by Murray Schumach. New York Times
1156. Newspaper cutting "The 'Beat' Man Digs His Sports" by Stan Isaacs in New York Newsday. (Article about Kerouac and sports, including Kerouac's own baseball game.)
1157. Telegram from Lucien Carr to Jack Keronac" [sic]
1158. Typescript letter, signed. Fan letter from Norman Money to Jack Kerouac, with photograph attached. Refers to "The Dharma Bums."
1159. Holograph draft "The Four Vows." (In Japanese and English). By Gary Snyder
1160. Typescript poem "God's Song." By Gary Snyder
1161. Typescript poems, revised. "Old Winespattered Berkeley Goofs (1955) with Gary Snyder." Includes "Han Shan," "Climbing up the Cold Mountain Path," MacDougall Street Blues (2)," and "Two Hundred and Ninth Chorus" from "Mexico City Blues."
1162. Postcard from R.L. [Robert Lax?] to Jack Kerouac
1163. Two typescript poems by Bob Lax
1164. Carbon typed letter, signed. From Stannage & Simon (Kerouac's lawyers) to Marjorie Thorsen (Metro Goldwyn Mayer). Issues warning not to use "Beat Generation" as 'title for projected motion picture. Mutilated
1165. Proof sheet of Kerouac's biographical outline for "Who's Who in America" (35th Biennial edition
1166. Typescript prose fragment "Mad Murphy Excerpt - Jack Fitzgerald."
1167. Anniversary card from Stella Kerouac to Jack Kerouac
1168. Telegram from "Gregory, Allen, Lucien, Peter" to Jack Kerouac
1169. Carbon typescript poem "Cassady's Demise" by Richard Roberts
1170. Typescript prose fragment "Bill Burroughs, 1952. Mexico City." (Begins: "I drift here unborn in green transfusion the junk mouth . . .")
1171. Tearsheets "In the Ring." Article from "The Atlantic" (pages 110-111)
1172. Tearsheet "The Last Word" [on Zen]. Published in "Escapade" magazine
1173. Tearsheet "The Last Word" [on Jazz]. Published in "Escapade" magazine
1174. Tearsheet "The Last Word" [on Dharma Philosophy]. Published in "Escapade" magazine
1175. Tearsheet "Three Choruses from 'Mexico City Blues,'" published in "Isis" magazine. (50th, 103rd, and 40th choruses.)
1176. Tearsheet "The Last Word." Published in "Escapade" magazine
1177. Tearsheet "The Last Word." Published in "Escapade" magazine
1178. Tearsheet "Home at Christmas." Published in "Glamour" magazine (pages 72-73, and 145)
1179. Tearsheet "Letter from Jack" from "Notes from Underground." (Pages 22-25.) Letter to Neal Cassady
1180. Tearsheet "Dreamed in my Sleep." (From "Book of Dreams.") Published in "Swank" magazine
1181. Tearsheets "2 Poems" from "Berkeley Bussei."
1182. Tearsheet "Are Writers Made or Born?" Published in "Reader's Digest."
1183. Tearsheet poem "To Harpo Marx." Published in "Playboy" magazine
1184. Tearsheet "Three Haiku" from "Berkeley Bussei" magazine
1185. Carbon typescript story, revised. With holograph note identifying author text as "by Bill Burroughs." (Begins: "And Joselito who wrote bad poetry began to cough . . .")
1186. Portrait sketch "Drawing of Dody Mueller by Mary Frank '58." Signed by Mary Frank
1187. Typed letter, signed. From Philip [Whalen] to Jack Kerouac
1188. Mimeographed typescript poem "Sourdough Mountain Lookout." By Philip Whalen
1189. Typescript "Gasoline Preface" by Allen Ginsberg. (Ginsberg's preface for Corso's book of poems.]
1190. Photocopied correspondence between Jack Kerouac and Jerry Wald, concerning a motion picture based on "On The Road." (1) Typed letter, signed, from Jerry Wald to Jack Kerouac; (2) Typed letter, signed, from Jerry Wald to Jack Kerouac; (3) Typed letter, sig
1191. Folder labeled "D15."
1192. Press cutting "Beatnik Bard Admits He's Pop." Article regarding the paternity of Janet Michele [Kerouac], daughter of Kerouac and Joan Kerouac Aly. With Kerouac's holograph note: "What they forced on me at Supreme Court, J.K."
1193. Tearsheet "The Beginning of Bop." Published in "Escapade" magazine. With an editor's note from the same issue. holograph note: "Written 1953."
1194. Tearsheet "Campus Fugit" from 1944 Columbia "Jester." Second tearsheet (page 13) has two poems by Ginsberg
1195. Magazine cutting "A Translation from the French of Jean-Louis Incogniteau . . ." holograph note: "My first published poem Columbia Jester 1944 (Jack K)."
1196. Newspaper cutting "Not Long Ago Joy Abounded at Christmas." New York World-Telegram & Sun." By Jack Kerouac
1197. Tearsheets "Time Magazine" with holograph note "Football card game."
1198. Newspaper cutting "More Kerouac - On the Road Back." San Francisco Examiner. Review of "The Dharma Bums" on page 17, and an interview with Kerouac on page 18
1199. Tearsheet review of "Maggie Cassidy" by John Ciardi
1200. Tearsheet "Ronnie on the Mound." By Jack Kerouac. "Esquire" magazine
1201. Mimeograph copy of Holmes's New York Times article "This is the Beat Generation." (Incomplete.)
1202. Tearsheets "Alone on a Mountaintop." "Holiday" magazine
1203. Shields & Company Weekly Market Letter
1204. "The Week in Literature - Robert Lowry's Book U.S.A. #1." Features article "Jack Kerouac Tells The Truth."
1205. Copy of the "Grecourt Review."
1206. Miscellaneous press cuttings
1207. Typescript "From a letter by Louis Marker to Bill Burroughs." With holograph notes on verso
1208. Hologaph list of Kerouac's book titles. Not in Kerouac's hand
1209. Holograph draft and carbon copy of "Priere." With typed copy
1210. Typescript copy of poems by other poets with Kerouac's holograph note "Bill Bissett is good poet."
1211. Typescript copy "The Ballad of the Wild Boar." By Willie Reader. Inscribed to Kerouac from Reader
1212. Telegram from Moscow Literary Gazette to Jack Kerouac. With holograph note by Kerouac
1213. Christmas card from the nuns of Regina Laudis, Bethlehem, Connecticut
1214. Typescript poem "Ablution." Signed by Lionel Kearns
1215. Washington Bulletin. Page 242 has autograph note, signed from Allen [Ginsberg] to Jack Kerouac
1216. Four tearsheets of "The Last Word." With holograph dates by Kerouac
1217. International Federation for Internal Freedom Newsletter. Volume 1, Number 1
1218. Typed letter, signed, from John E. Schroeder (President, Key Productions, Inc.) to Jack Kerouac. With two pages of sheet music attached. Letter regards the song "The Beatnik Fly."
1219. Typed letter, signed, from Irwin Drake Bingham to Jack Kerouac. With Kerouac's holograph note "MS. thesis on me 1965."
1220. Typescript student essay, revised. Kerouac's holograph note: "Japanese Girl's analysis of Subterraneans (1963)."
1221. Holograph poem, untitled. Kerouac's holograph note: "Lois '65."
1222. Holograph notes on slips of orange-colored card, with character names and locations