Subseries 2.9: Miscellaneous Writings - essays, notes, literary fragments

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1. Notebook "SK(1)." Book of Sketches. (Begins: "Route 64 West.")
2. Notebook "SK(2)." Book of Sketches. (Begins: "Denver.") (Rear section begins: "ON THE ROAD - / Three Parts / I. Lucien Love Murder / II. Allen Arrest / III. Spring 1953.")
3. Notebook "SK(3)." Book of Sketches. (Begins: "Dream - ") Includes "For (DR) Dreams," "On the Road / by / Jack Iroquois," "Obra Privata," and "Jews." Also incl. "More SK California," and lists daily expenses Oct. 4 - Oct. 11, 1952
4. Notebook "SK(4)." Book of Sketches. (Begins [on second page]: "Night of the Fellaheen Dogs.") Also includes "American Legend."
5. Notebook "SK(5)." Book of Sketches. (Begins: "En route Montreal Bus Mar. 20, '53.")
6. Notebook "SK(5)." Book of Sketches. (Begins: "Say what you want or drop dead."). Also lists daily expenses May 5 [no year] - May 25 [no year]
7. Notebook "SK(7)." Book of Sketches. (Begins: "Apr 28 '53 / San Luis Obispo.") Lists daily expenses April 24, 1953 - May 8, 1953
8. Notebook "SK(8)." Also titled "(SC 1)." (Begins: "July 1953.") Includes "For DR" and "For SC 1." Also includes "East River," "Black Tanker," and "New York Panorama."
9. Notebook "SK(9)." (Begins: "For DR(1)I."). Includes "SK(8)," and "For OBB(1)." Also includes "For DR(1)II," and several sketches and portrait sketches. Sept. - Oct. 1953
10. Notebook "SK(10)." Also titled "OBB". (Begins: "Old Bull in the Bar - Sept. 13, 1953."). Includes "SK(10) / (The Angel of the Road) Title for Road."
11. Notebook "SK(11)." Book of Sketches. (Begins: "SK means Sketchings.") Includes "For DR(3)II," and "Death of Gerard." Also includes sketches of mushrooms, plants, insects, and maps
12. Notebook "SKETCHES SK(O-A) / Book of Sketches." Book of Sketches. (Begins: "Rocky Mt - Aug. 7 '52.") Rear cover labeled "DR(3)."
13. Notebook "SK(O-B)." Book of Sketches. (Begins: "Aug. 5 '52."). Also includes "Oct 11 '54 Duluoz Legend."
14. Notebook "SK(O-C)." Book of Sketches. (Begins: "Rocky Mt."). Includes "Tics," and "Character List for 'The American Story' - The Armstrongs and the Brights (A Tolstoyan Novel of the Middlewest." Also includes "Notes from May 11 '53," and "Mexico December
15. Notebook "SK(O-D)." Book of Sketches. (Begins: "The Woods.") Incl. "For DR(2) California, November 1952." Also includes "Sax Revisions." Rear of notebook lists expenses from November 1 [no year] - December 19 [no year]
16. Typescript "BOOK OF SKETCHES / Jack Kerouac / (1952-53)." Holograph note "Book of Sketches / Jack Kerouac / (Proving that sketches / aint Verse) But Only What Is." Paginated 1-228
17. Carbon typescript, revised. "Aunt Caroline Kerouac's life story as a nun." Written in French. Paginated 1-5
18. Typescript, revised. "Bed thoughts at 3 a.m. January 3, 1962." Paginated 1-3
19. Typescript "Berkeley Way." "(1957 in Berkeley, Calif.)." Holograph note: "Printed in Escapade 1959 as 'Dharma Philosophy.'" Paginated 1-4
20. Holograph essay "A Brief Essay: Creation and Criticism."
21. Typescript, revised. "Composition - Jackie Kerouac - 6B." Paginated 1-6. Pages 2-3 titled "On the Road."
22. Holograph notes on T.S. Eliot, Spenser, Hawthorne. Includes lists of words
23. Typescript notes "Gleanings from Thomas Wolfe's letters."
24. Typescript prose fragment. (Begins: "He couldn't remember when, or where in the annals of his dreamlife . . .")
25. Holograph "Jail notes '44 - Bronx Jail 1944."
26. Typescript "J.K's theory of the universe."
27. Index card with holograph notes regarding Kerouac's name - "Kerorikan"; with quotation from Blyth, Buson, and Basho
28. Typescript pornographic short story "The Love Beast."
29. Typescript, revised. "New England in Wintertime." Published in Glamour Magazine as "Home at Christmas" (1961). Paginated 1-11
30. Typescript, revised. "Old Bull in the Bar." (Experimental drinking prose). Paginated 1-9
31. Typescript essay, revised. "On Drinking." Paginated [1]-5
32. Offprint "The Origins of the Beat Generation." Reprinted from Playboy Magazine
33. Typescript, revised. "Robert Frank Introduction (to his photo book Nov.6, 1957)." Verso has an autograph letter, signed, from Henri [Cru] to Jack Kerouac
34. Typescript "Secret Mullings About Bill (Burroughs)." Paginated 1-9
35. Holograph note "Selected prose scraps."
36. Typescript prose draft "Sketch made Oct 20." (Begins: "Cunt in front of me with green sweater, red lips, gentle thin cold fingers at her hair . . .")
37. Typescript introduction for "Some Collected Poems of Lois Sorrells."
38. Typescript, revised. "Statements on Modern Prose." Holograph note: "Sweet miscellanies = plus: - 'Wake Up' at end (prose)." [Refers to story "Wake Up."
39. Holograph fragment "The story of the big male hero . . ."
40. Typescript essay, revised. "Sun-Conviction, A Reading."
41. Typescript, revised. "Telling the world off (Feb. 28, 1962. N.Y.C.)." Holograph note states: "Written in hotel room off Broadway - Hotel Ashley, West 47th."
42. Typescript, revised. "Term paper for 'Great Books' #8 Fischoff."
43. Holograph draft essay, untitled. (Begins: "There is absolutely no reason in the world why a man in America may not write exactly what he feels . . ."). [Written on verso of calendar pages March-May 1951]
44. Holograph draft, untitled. (Begins: "Things being as they are - the triumphant darkness . . .")
45. Typescript and holograph fragment. (Begins: "Thinking about Carl Sandburg and how.") "For book of columns entitled as a book '500 word columns."
46. Holograph "Visions of Bill." With tearsheet "Aftermath: the philosophy of the Beat Generation." Esquire magazine, March, 1957
47. Holograph list of questions, typescript on verso. (Begins: "What is Croesus fabulous for?")
48. Holograph fragment notes on U.S. Army stationery. (Begins: ". . . Energies, A. Question.")
49. Holograph fragment "A.D. Peters & Co. 10 Buckingham." Signed with note on verso regarding atheists
50. Miscellaneous typescript and holograph notes
51. Holograph recipe for cortons. With recipe for ice cream and crepes on verso. Mutilated
52. Typescript "Tableau Genealogique de Jack Kerouac." Genealogical tree with holograph note: "Copied down in British Museum, out of the French heraldic volume, by Jack Kerouac. With copy of two pages of untitled printed reference work, with Kerouac's hologra
53. Typescript fragment play or screenplay dialogue, revised. (Begins: "(Music ends abruptly.)" Features characters "Fan," "Boy," and "Oktober." Paginated 4. Signed Jack Kerouac (typed signature). Came with Kerouac's letters to Sebastian Sampas
54. Holograph notes (photocopy). (Begins: "Au revoir a l'art . . . Period 394.") With schematic outline of "Periods of my life" on graph paper
55. Holograph fragment (photocopy). Regarding William Burroughs and satire. (Begins: "Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.")
56. Folder with holograph notes by Jack Kerouac. (Begins: In the interests of furthest human knowledge . . .")
57. Typescript (photocopy) "Notes to myself November 28, 1960."
58. Holograph fragment (photocopy). (Begins: "Sunday morning Jan 18, '48 / 'Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow?'")
59. Typescript (photocopy) "To a soldier killed in Bataan."
60. Typescript (photocopy). "To the Soviet Union on the occasion of the death of R. Kennedy and also in reply to Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem about 'Shoot.'"
61. Typescript draft and holograph note "Ture Magazine Article."