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Creator
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Kerouac
Physical description
91 items
Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

Repository
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Access to materials
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This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, and an undated notebook.

Biographical/historical information

Jack Kerouac was an American Beat novelist, essayist, and poet.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence by the author and an undated notebook. The manuscripts include fragments and excerpts of stories. The correspondence, dating from 1943 through 1969, includes letters from the author to his sister Carolyn Blake, Robert Giroux, Alfred Kazin, Philip Whalen, and others. There are letters to Kerouac from his mother, Gabrielle, dating from [1942] to [1943].

The Jack Kerouac collection of papers are arranged in two series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. The correspondence with Robert Giroux was a gift of Robert Giroux.

Source of acquisition

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. The correspondence with Robert Giroux was a gift of Robert Giroux.

Processing information

Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.

Related Material

The Berg Collection also holds Jack Kerouac's personal archive. Items from the archive may be viewed by appointment with the Berg Collection's curator.

Using the collection

Location

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 320

Conditions Governing Use

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