Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. .17 linear feet (1 custom document box)

Summary

1. 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.

Subject

1. Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969 -- Travel
2. Authors, American -- 20th century
3. Beats (Persons)

Genre/Form

1. Scrolls (information artifacts)
2. Typescripts.

Call number

1. Berg Coll 24898

Note

1. Five leaves 35 x 22 cm or smaller rolled on a supporting tube 30 x 9 cm.
2. 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.
3. 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)

1. Restricted access; Berg Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
2. Surrogates must be used in lieu of originals.

Additional formats (note)

1. Available as digital images onsite at NYPL.

Source (note)

1. Purchased from Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2019.

Author

1. Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969, author.

Title

1. Jack Kerouac typescript drafts for Beat Traveler.

Production

1. approximately 1960.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. sheet

Restricted access

1. Restricted access; Berg Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
2. Surrogates must be used in lieu of originals.

Biography

1. 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

1. Available as digital images onsite at NYPL.

Source

1. Purchased from Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2019.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections
2. Request access to this item in the Berg Collection
3. Finding aid

Occupation

1. Authors.

Research call number

1. Berg Coll 24898