Subseries 2.10: Autobiographical prose

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1. Typescript, revised. "After me, the deluge." (For Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, July 19, 1969.) With single holograph page of couplets. Also includes original envelope
2. Holograph "Inebriated after night with Gina & Freddy:-" Partly written in French
3. Holograph "Liverpool Testament '43."
4. Holograph notebook "'60 Lonesome / Traveler / Fill-ins." Section at rear of notebook includes "Old Angel Midnight."
5. Typescript "Tics." (Note: Tics are involuntary shivers of memory) (these from 1953)." Includes prose dated 1956
6. Holograph notebook "Tics (1)." "Richmond Hill / Sunday June 28 '53." [See also later typescript "Tics," Box 47, folder 5.]
7. Typescript, revised. Untitled. (Begins: "Jack (alone): How beautiful can a woman be?"). Regards meeting Mary Carney
8. Holograph "Subtle daydream." Concerns relationships with Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg
9. Original black three-ring folder for holograph manuscript "Voyage to Greenland."
10. Holograph "Voyage to Greenland / 1942 / Growing Pains or A Monument to Adolescence." With later holograph note in ink, dated "1949 April 17." Includes poem and an account of seaman's overtime earnings between July 18 and September 4, [no year]. Poem title
11. Holograph "Waiting for Celene in Flynn's Bar on Broadway, Oct. 26, 1944. Verso has typed letter, signed, by Harry M. Durning, Treasury Department, October 18, 1944. The letter, to "Sir," states that Kerouac is to be permitted "to sign articles for one voy
12. Holograph notebook "Book of Dreams (1)." First page mutilated
13. Holograph notebook "DR (2) & (3)." First entry recorded at the "Cameo Hotel."
14. Holograph notebook "DR (4)." (Begins: "Gray Book / of / Dreams / Sad epic of the railroad, I am a brakeman . . .")
15. Holograph notebook "DR (5)."
16. Holograph notebook "DR (6)." "Vision of America."
17. Holograph notebook "DR (7)." Rear cover titled "Railroad." First entry in "Railroad" section at rear, dated "Feb. 5, [1953]
18. Holograph notebook "DR (8)." (Begins: "DR (2) II 'Blows and Dies'.")
19. Holograph notebook "DR (9)." (Begins: "Book of Dreams Oct. 14, '53.")
20. Holograph notebook "DR (10)." Entry titled "The Pathos of People."
21. Holograph notebook "DR (12)." Rear cover labeled "J K / V(1)." Includes material for "Book of Dreams" and "Book of Visions."
22. Holograph notebook "Book of Dreams / (13)." Ten leaves laid-in at front of this notebook removed to separate folder - see Box 48, folder 12. Rear cover labeled "1955 / Berkeley / Blues / etc."
23. Folder contains ten leaves removed from holograph notebook "Book of Dreams / (13)." Holograph draft "1960 Book of Dreams" and holograph "Book of Dreams Cont'd - Desolation Peak / July 1956."
24. Holograph notebook "DR(14)." (Begins: "Book of Dreams (Continued).")
25. Carbon typescript, revised "Book / of / Dreams." ("Partly Publish 'T / By City Lights / in 1961." With holograph title-page and leaf of pasted newspaper cuttings. Also includes color sketches. Paginated 1-153
26. Carbon typescript, revised "Book / of / Dreams." ("Partly Publish 'T / By City Lights / in 1961." With holograph title-page and leaf of pasted newspaper cuttings. Also includes color sketches. Paginated 154-293. [Continuation of carbon typescript in Box 4
27. Original black spring binder for carbon typescript "Book of Dreams."