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Author: Kerouac, Jack
Title: Typescript letter from Jack Kerouac to Robert Giroux
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Date Published: 23333
Description: Original single-page typescript letter. 27x21 cm (10½ x8½ ).Typescript letter dated November 18, 1963 from Jack Kerouac to publisher Robert Giroux. The letter opens with “Dear Bob,“ and an inquiry into the status of a manuscript from poet Phillip Whalen, “The poet Phillip Whalen wondering what you‘re doing with his Collected Poems manuscript. If you can‘t publish them, would you mail them back to him...I know you enjoyed them if you read them...“ He goes on to mention the status of various current projects, “Sold a short story, ‘Good Blonde,‘ to Playboy magazine. And now am being asked to write about Shakespeare for Show Magazine...As for new novel about 1938-1946, Duluoz the football star is reading the Encyclopedia Brittanica and the New York Times in the Lowell High School sunny morning library...dreaming not only of New York but of Tristan the Sad.“ Kerouac concludes the letter, “Am writing to you on teletype paper I use for novels, not started yet. If you can come out here some time, I would like you to take back a one thousand page religious-philosophical tome ‘Some of the Dharma‘ just to read, if you want.“ The letter is signed “Jack“ in type only. Present as well is a Certificate of Authenticity from John Reznikoff, University Archives Founder.

Some light edgewear with a few small chips; else fine.