Jack Kerouac letter, regarding "On the Road"
Maker
Jack Kerouac
(American, 1922 - 1969)
Subject
Edward D. White, Jr.
(American, 1925 - 2017)
Date1950
ClassificationsHistory
DescriptionA typed letter signed from Jack Kerouac (“Jack”) to Ed White, December 29, 1950. Quarto, on one leaf with both sides and additional text running perpendicular in margin of verso. Together with an envelope addressed in autograph, postmarked Jamaica, New York.In the letter, Jack Kerouac writes to Ed White about his work on what would become his seminal novel, "On the Road."
The letter reads:
Dear Ed,
Comme tu est joli, mon vieux, m'envoyer des presents et des belles cartes et sentiments de toutes sotres; il n'a pas un autre homme dans le monde comme toi; c'est un honneur d'etre ton ami et une grand sagesse de mon ame mortelle simplement te connaitre. Just received a dandy letter from Frank who married a girl galled Alice very recently...just Before Dec. 19, thus clinching the year 1950, which has been a year of strange, tragic, controversial events. I guess he wrote you too. It leaves you & the guinea yet to be accounted for; but don't hasten, don't rush (Tom's mother has in fact anticipated Tom by building him a bachelor apartment in the Lynbrook house, extending his "rooms" over the garage, private bath and all.) D
