Typed Letter, signed ("Jack" in type), to editor Robert Giroux ("Dear Bob")
$12,000 · Offered by Biblio
1963. 1 p. 4to. Brown paper torn from teletype roll, tanned and chipped along one edge; recto only. 1 p. 4to. An unpublished letter from Kerouac to Giroux that opens with his query about the status of poet Phillip Whalen's book, stating that Whalen was "...wondering what you're doing with his Collected Poems manuscript. If you can't publish them, would you mail them back to him (since you have all the paraphenalia [sic] of stamp meters & such?). ...I know you enjoyed them if you read them...." He includes Whalen's San Francisco address. Kerouac goes on to mention various ongoing short projects of his own, from "Try to get the new Evergreen Review #31, on page 108 my contribution to the legal definition of 'salaciousness' in letters," to "Sold a short story, 'Good Blonde,' to Playboy magazine. And now am being asked to write about Shakespeare for Show Magazine." He then commences on a long, characteristically digressive, stream-of-consciousness description of his longer manuscript, which five years later would become the semi-autobiograpical novel Vanity of Duluoz: "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. When I say 'Tristan the Sad' I mean an actual vision I always had then of distant mist, of somehow horses, or Indians, on the pine horizons of New Hampshire, or Hampshire, or Cornwall, then com
- Year: 1963
- Binding: unknown
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