Typed Letter, signed Jack in type , to editor Robert Giroux Dear Bob

by Jack Kerouac

$12,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

1 p. 4to. Brown paper torn from teletype roll, tanned and chipped along one edge; recto only. Item #369113 An unpublished letter from Kerouac to Giroux that opens with his query about the status of poet Phillip Whalen's book, stating that Whalen was ...wondering what you're doing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? .

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