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Jack Kerouac typescript drafts for Beat Traveler.

Title
Jack Kerouac typescript drafts for Beat Traveler.
Author
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969
Publication
approximately 1960.
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TextPermit needed Berg Coll 24898Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Description
.17 linear feet (1 custom document box)
Summary
The collection comprises two untitled and undated typescript drafts written by Jack Kerouac, narrating his travel experiences in Europe in 1957, and his trip from Los Angeles, California to Mexico in 1956.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Scrolls (information artifacts)
  • Typescripts.
Note
  • Five leaves 35 x 22 cm or smaller rolled on a supporting tube 30 x 9 cm.
  • Text beginning: "What happened is always simply what happened,...." Two unlined sheets, the first torn across the top, 35 x 22 cm; the second, beginning "The world is sad enough....," trimmed, 29 x 22 cm.
  • Text beginning: "and so in october 1956 i had just enuf money to take a bus down to mexico city...." Three sheets of lined yellow loose-leaf paper, 32 x 21 cm.
Access (note)
  • Restricted access; Berg Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
  • Surrogates must be used in lieu of originals.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Available as digital images onsite at NYPL.
Source (note)
  • Purchased from Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2019.
Call Number
Berg Coll 24898
OCLC
1124929241
Author
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969, author.
Title
Jack Kerouac typescript drafts for Beat Traveler.
Production
approximately 1960.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
sheet
Restricted Access
Restricted access; Berg Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
Surrogates must be used in lieu of originals.
Biography
Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was an American Beat novelist, essayist, and poet. Kerouac mentioned plans to write a novel called Beat Traveler as early as 1958, but it was only in January 1960 that he began working on it in earnest. His letter of February 20, 1960 to poet Allen Ginsberg noted that he had made four "false starts on Beat Traveler, about 40,000 words in all, rolled them up and put them away...." A collection of travel writings, some previously published, appeared as Lonesome Traveler later that year.
Additional Formats
Available as digital images onsite at NYPL.
Source
Purchased from Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2019.
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Research Call Number
Berg Coll 24898
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