Series 3: Journals

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1. Holograph notebook "1940." Entries from 2:00 am, November 3, 1940 - July 22, 1941. Notes on love, beauty, romanticism, Kant, Wolfe, Joyce's "Ulysses," and thoughts on art and religion
2. Holograph notebook "1943 - ?44 Journals." Includes "A Study of Disorganization - The Problem of Myself" (December 1943 - January 1944), and "Problem of Myself," and other essays and poems
3. Holograph notebook [The / Spiral / Composition / Book] Includes "I bid you love me - workbook," November 10, 1944, Warren Hall. Also includes dialogues with Allen Ginsberg and others, "The Song of Rebirth," reading lists, thoughts on style, literature
4. Holograph notebook [The / Spiral] "1945." July 24, 1945. Includes "The Artist of Today", "My Dying City," "The Mystical Experience," and other essays, poems, miscellaneous notes, notes on Dostoevsky, and other prose work
5. Holograph notebook "1945 Journals." Entries from July 24, 1945 - November 6, 1945. Includes thoughts on The Town and the City
6. Holograph notebook "1945 Journals." Contains: "My / Big Book / Begun Nov. 8 1945 and Abandoned Nov. 9" [Early version of "The Town and the City."] Includes "The Extension of my Actuality" (February 11-13, 1946), and "Anecdotes to Remember."
7. Holograph journal "1946 Journals." First entry dated "Feb. 25, '46." Includes notes for "The Town and the City."
8. Holograph notebook "1946 Journals." Includes "After a hike at Sundown - May 6, 1946." Also includes essays "Tolstoi," "On Frank Sinatra," "The Homosexual Intelligentsia in America," and notes for "The Town and the City." (1 laid-in leaf, begins: "The natu
9. Holograph journal "1946 Journals." Essays on other authors, including Fitzgerald, Burroughs, and Joyce's "Ulysses." Also essay titled "America in World History," and drafts of "The Town and the City." (1 leaf laid-in, begins: "Oct. 9, '46.")
10. Hologrpah notebook "1946 Journals." Includes "Scenes and sequences from "The Town and the City," essays, and journal entries from May 1946
11. Holograph notebook "1947 Journals." Feb. 24, 1947 - May 5, 1947. Includes "Mood Log" [from March 1 - May 5] recording progress on "The Town and the City." Also includes essays: "On Big City Libraries," [on Kerouac's experience at the Boston Public Library
12. Holograph notebook ("The Champion Line") dated "Aug. 10 '47 / California." Includes short story "Barnmaking," notes on "The Town and the City," prose fragments, and lists of events in cities such as Chicago, Denver, Fresno
13. Holograph notebook "1947 Journals." "Sept. 1947 - Oct. Notes written in California" and notes for "The Town and the City." [Laid-in holograph draft "California Swan Song Oct. 11, 1947," removed to separate folder, see Box 54, folder 4.]
14. Holograph draft "California Swan Song Oct. 11, 1947." Removed from "1947 Journals." ("Sept 1947 - Oct.") [See Box 54, folder 3]. Paginated 1-3; [1]-17
15. Holograph notebook "1947." Titled "California / ('Frisco) 1947 / Oct. 5."
16. Holograph notebook "1947-1948 / Notes / Journals." "John Kerouac / 1947 N.Y. / June - December." Includes "10-Day Mood Log, June 16-26, '47." Essays "On The Teaching of Jesus," "Down South (194&)," thoughts on "The Town and the City," map of "hitch-hiking
17. Holograph notebook "1947-'48 / Further Notes / Journals" inscribed "Well, this is the forest of Arden - " Includes "Notes Continuing the Aria," "America and Russia," "God as the Should-Be (The Huge Guilt)," "Notes on the Despair of 'Thinking Men'," "State
18. Holograph notebook "Journal 1939-1940." Dated "(1947)." Includes a number of "Psalms," and "Composing Diary" November 1, 1948 - November 29, [1948]. Also includes "Whitman: A Prophet of the Sexual Revolution," Dec. 1, 1948," and journal entries for 1950
19. Holograph notebook "1948." Includes notes on Russian writers, music, "Tartak." Journal entries dated Dec. 2, 1948 - Feb. 28, [1949]
20. Holograph notebook "1948." Includes notes and undated recollections
21. Holograph notebook. Includes thoughts, doodles and phone numbers
22. Holograph "Journals 1949-50." ("RAIN AND RIVERS / The marvelous notebook presented / to me by Neal Cassady / in San Francisco / - Which I have Crowded in Words - / Jan. 31, 1949 / (Begun) 'Frisco - " Includes travel essays through 1954, mainly 1949-1952
23. Holograph notebook "1949 Journal." Road Log, April 27, 1949 - July 24, 1950. Journal entries on writing "On The Road," and a few images and poems. Newspaper cutting laid-in at page 105. Laid-in "Early 1950 Notebook" removed to Box 55, folder 3. [Front cov
24. Holograph "Early 1950 Notebook." Removed from "1949 Journal." (Road Log). [See Box 55, folder 2]
25. Holograph notebook "Private Philologies / Riddles / and a Ten-Day Writing Log. / May 1949 "On the Road." May 22, 1949 - June 2, 1949. Includes "Odd Notes / March 1950," and "Notes of 1950 February" (Feb. 1 - Feb. 18). Also includes "A Simpletons Christmas
26. Holograph notebook "1951 Journals and More Notes." Journal entries Feb. 18, 1950 - March 10, 1950 detail a period of concentrated writing and reading after the publication of "The Town and the City."
27. Holograph notebook "1951 / Journals / More Notes." August 28, 1951 - November 25, 1951. Includes material for "On The Road," first mentioned as "Road Epic." Ends with a page of racing notes and "Epilogue." Typescript tipped-in (pages 29 and 30 of journal)
28. Holograph notebook "1957 / Notes / Orlando." Journal entries from November 9, 1957 - February 5, 1958. Includes "Play Act III Beat Generation," and poems, prose, and colored sketches
29. Holograph sketch pad [Cuaderno de Dibujo]. Contains one journal entry "1959 Northport, Late Summer." With the observation: "V.S. Pritchett sounds like a big fat assed 50 year old sophomore."
30. Photocopy of transcription of a lost Kerouac journal (July 22 - July 28, 1962), and correspondence between George Rood (former owner) and Viking Press relating to transcription of notebook and its loss