BIB_ID
436485
Accession number
MA 23737
Creator
Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1948 June 15.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2021.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.8 x 21.5 cm
Notes
Kerouac does not list a place of writing, but he was living with his parents in Ozone Park, Queens, during this period.
Provenance
Purchased from James Cummins Bookseller, February 2021.
Summary
Reporting on bills, groceries, and other domestic matters; describing his efforts to find a publisher for his novel The Town and the City: "I called up my connection, Ed Stringham is his name, and he is arranging for me to meet the critic as well as the chief editor of Random House soon"; mentioning family members, including his sister Caroline Kerouac Blake (called "Nin") and her son Paul Jr.; saying that he is sending her some money and asking her to write; adding "And as for me I've got my typing, my baseball games, cool weather, my books, and my midnight snacks. And tell Paul I'm batting .340 as of today."
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