Subseries 2.8: 1949

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1. Folder labeled "1949."
2. Typescript essay, revised. "Writing for Yourself." Essay on the problems of writing. [A fantasy article for Reader's Digest]
3. Typescript "Story idea - 'Return of Sam Horn.'"
4. Typescript, revised. "Spring Feelings." Holograph postscript note reads "A Lunar Bowery, Allen called this."
5. Typescript, revised. "Article on youth movements." Signed "Jack Kerouac / A Rebel Reactionary."
6. Typescript poem "Neal is Dead."
7. Typescript, revised. "The Hassel of Earth, Work - or perhaps the Gift of Givers." Holograph note on final verso: "This general fleshly Hassel / Oct. 30, 1949."
8. Typescript, revised. "The Fable of Ling's Woe."
9. Sketch/cartoon "The Town (unconscious vigour) produces the City (conscious weakness)."
10. Typescript poem, revised. First line "Thoughts more lay, more fleece."
11. Ink sketch. Signed on verso of invitation to the first Antiquarian Book Fair, 1960
12. Sketches/cartoons with dialogue
13. Cartoon sketches
14. Holograph dialogue between Jack and Carolyn concerning Neal
15. Holograph fragment. [Begins: "Slim (to Sheila & Pic)"]. Transcriptions of Slim's saying, songs, and jingles
16. Holograph note (in Gabrielle Kerouac's hand). With Kerouac's holograph note: "Ma on Bullfights."
17. Holograph poem "Old Hornet Me . . ." with a holograph note by Allen Ginsberg on verso
18. Holograph notes "Little Ernie - Notes." And note, on verso, on a version of "Decide," and essay on psychoanalysis and Christianity
19. Holograph notes. (Begins: "The frozen ecstasy was not.") Adjacent text begins: "Every moment of life is precious - now - for Pic."
20. Holograph "Plot of 'Adventures On The Road.'"
21. Holograph "Herbert E. Huncke ("Junkey"). With Kerouac's holograph note: "Huncke's famous 'Penn. Station Notes.'"
22. Holograph poem "The rose of the rainy night."
23. Holograph poem "Of what pearls are made of, soft."
24. Holograph poem "The stars hide their eyes."
25. Cartoon sketch "Bowery Bijou Presents a Community Sing."
26. Holograph short story "Peote Fantasy."
27. Original folder labeled "Orpheus Emerged (1945)."
28. Carbon typescript "Orpheus Emerged." Labeled "Orpheus / Emerged / Juvenalia / John Kerouac." 86-page typescript novel is one of the longest of Kerouac's early works