Subseries 2.6: Notebooks

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1. Holograph notebook "The Diamond / Vow / of God's Wisdom." Includes "Vow of Charity." Paginated 1-9
2. Holograph notebook "Visions of Bill" [essay on William Burroughs], and "Duluoz Legend Personae Names." Covers detached
3. Holograph notebook "Rings Talking." Random notes, thoughts, including the phrase "Took me 47 years to grow up - Long time no see."
4. Holograph notebook (marbled black "Compositions") with names written on front cover: "Joan Adams / Kerouac / Edith Parker." Includes "Essayettes," short stories titled "Two Americans," "Charley 4-F," and "O Lost!" Also includes two poems, and two laid-in
5. Holograph notebook "French 'Old Bull in Bowery'" and "On the Road." "On the Road" notebook, including one page cartoon
6. Holograph notebook "1944 Book of Symbols." Includes notes, essays, poems, and "Notes written on the occasion of feeling the need to write 'An American Passed Here.'"
7. Holograph notebook (Blue "Compositions" exercise book). Signed on front cover "Donna Leonard / Kindergarten." "1945 notes / 1949 notes AFTER." Includes "Evocations of American Life for 'An American Passed Here.'" Notes for an autobiographical novel, list
8. Holograph notebook ("The / Spiral / Composition / Book"). Includes "Claude Breton," assorted prose and journal entries dated December 20, 1945 to February 8, 1946; and stories of "Michael" from "The Town and the City." [Three leaves recounting dreams laid
9. Holograph "Dreams of Tuesday Jan. 29," and four pages of holograph notes. Removed from holograph notebook ("The / Spiral / Composition / Book."]
10. Holograph notebook "Old Bull." Includes "On the Road by Jack Lewis," and "Sur Le Chemin - Jack Lewis Dec. 16, 1952," and "Workbook Mexicay." 5 Laid-in leaves of "On the Road Dec. 26" (paginated 1-4) and a fragment note, untitled and unpaginated. [See Box
11. Holograph "On the Road Dec. 26" (p. 1-4) and fragment note, untitled and unpaginated. [Removed from holograph notebook "Old Bull," Box 39, folder 10.]
12. Holograph notebook "Benzedrine Vision / Mexico / City 1952. Early entry "Benzedrine Vision / Mexico Thieves Market / Memoirs of a Bebopper / I."
13. Holograph notebook "DDr(1) Daydreams." First entry: "Book of Daydreams San Luis Obispo / May 11, '53." Also includes materials "for Night of the Fellaheen Dogs."
14. Holograph notebook ["The / Spiral / Note / Book"] numbered "10." Contains "Peter and the Beat Generation / Cameo Hotel / San Francisco / Thanksgiving 1955." [Rear cover missing.]
15. Holograph notebook "Mill Valley / '56 / Notes to / Music." Includes various doodles and sketches
16. Holograph notebook "1958 / Gilbert St." [Marbled black "Compositions" notebook]. "Memory Babe workbook / April 22, '58 / Northport." Also includes "Tangiers to London Midnight May."
17. Holograph notebook "Sea." [Spiral notebook "Chart of Brief Forms."] Draft of poem "Sea" dated "Aug. 21, 1960 / Big Sur." At rear of notebook is another poem titled "Sea." Includes "Old Angel Midnight - Big Sur / Aug. 13, 1960."
18. Holograph notebook "Supreme Reality." Poem begins "Supreme Reality / I / March." Followed by "Notes for general revision," "Additions," and notes on the poem's "motif," and "notes on themes." Also includes a second version, and various other poems and tho
19. Holograph notebook, untitled. [Joredco / Quality / Note Book."] Various notes, addresses, telephone numbers, and miscellaneous jottings
20. Holograph notebook [Green Memo / Book]. Only one page used, with text: "I / I know what the Truth / Is But I Don't Want / To Live up to it" [all underlined]
21. Holograph notebook "MacDougal / St. / Blues / '55 / Spring." The rear cover is titled "Berkeley / Blues / 1955."
22. Holograph notebook "San / Fran / Blues / 1954." Poems and prose
23. Holograph notebook "CCC (A) / SK (13) / Lowell 54 / 1954 / Lowell / Sketches / Malunkya / putta." Prose draft concerning "Lowell," dated October 22, 1954. Includes prose draft "DR (12)," beginning at the rear of the notebook
24. Holograph notebook "1951." "Offcoast Mexico June 5, 1953. Includes draft titled "Gnashing phantoms and hot ports" and prose poem "The Waves are Chinese."
25. Holograph notebook "1953 WM(1)." Wesley Martin, Sept. 8, 1953. Two holograph draft leaves laid-in: "Wesley M" and "Wesley WM" (paginated 1 -5) [removed to Box 41, folder 6]
26. Holograph draft "Wesley M" and "Wesley WM." Paginated 1-5. Removed from holograph notebook "1953 WM(1)" [Box 41, folder 4]
27. Holograph notebook "Gnashing phantoms and hot ports (2)." Alternately titled "Slobs of the kitchen sea." First 13 leaves are detached and laid-in at the front of the notebook
28. Holograph notebook "1953 Richmond Hill Blues Sept. '53." "First Bk of Drinking Poems." Thoughts for "Book of Dreams." Includes other poems and prose drafts
29. Holograph notebook "A 1961." Miscellaneous notes, quotations, draft letters, including some addressed to Allen Ginsberg regarding a review of "Kaddish."
30. Holograph notebook "B 1961." Miscellaneous notes and thoughts. "Some Holy Notes Taken Down on Sacred Mushrooms Especially for Timothy Leary."
31. Holograph notebook "C." Begins with "Author's Note" dated "Nov. 21, 1963." Includes notes on Shakespeare, Joyce, Balzac, "Vanity of Duluoz," autobiographical prose regarding football, and draft of "Voyage of the Noisy Gourmets" for Holiday Magazine. Also
32. Holograph notebook "F." "Reading Notes / 1965." Includes "Notes on 3rd person epic + panoramic "Vanity of Duluoz." Rear cover titled "MDR(1)." Includes "(18 pages on) More Dreams (1)." "Dec. '67 Lowell." Also includes "Letters as composed / (& later typed
33. Holograph notebook "G." [Sketch of baseball on cover.] Includes notes on the derivation of the Kerouac name, lists of names, including "Lowell names," "Hyannis names," and "St. Petersberg names." Also includes letter to Gregory Corso, sketch, and recipe f