Kerouac, JackTyped letter signed (“Jack” in pencil), to his girlfriend Lois Sorrells (later Beckwith) in New York City
One page (215 x 140 mm), n.p., n.d. [Northport, New York, early January 1960]; single-spaced, integral blank leaf.
“Maybe my Mother is right when she says I'll end up with my ass in the straw.”
At the time Kerouac was living with his mother in Northport, on Long Island, hoping to start a new book he was calling Beat Traveller (later abandoned after 40,000 words). “... I stay home now for a thousand years [he had gone into Manhattan for New Year’s parties with Allen Ginsberg and friends] except to bring my mother to Radio City and Chinatown on her birthday Feb. 4th. And for the world premiere of Subterraneans movie [in June, based on his novel] ... Am sending a check for 40 to Allen [Ginsberg] to cover the long taxi fare, the food, bottles, taxis etc ... Maybe my mother is right when she says I’ll end up with my ass in the straw, which were better than taxes and death letters on desk. I used to say to my mother ‘I’m going to write now, I’ll be in the kitchen when I’m hungry’ but now all I say is ‘I’m going to write letters now’ ... O last night I dream’d a perfect page of prose, the ‘best of Eugene O’Neill’ it said in the dream, all about a freighter at dusk and men leaning on he gunwale smoking pipes. Like Coleridge, lost it ... call Tom Payne [at Avon Books] and tell him to pick up Tristessa, he wants it right away and everything [is] mixed up eightball [Avon would published the book later in the spring]. I walked in the rain and even Dody [Muller, another girlfriend] wouldn’t let me in — and I heard you laugh gayly over the phone. But I am too old and wise and I’m safe for 1000 years.”
REFERENCE:Not in Selected Letters, ed. A. Charters, and presumably unpublished.
PROVENANCE:Lois Sorrells Beckwith (Sotheby Parke Bernet, 23 May 1979, part of lot 11, the Kerouac correspondence to Lois Sorrells Beckwith, purchased by the Boston bookseller William Young — Unnamed consignor, but presumably Young’s widow (Sotheby’s, 15 June 1990, lot 79, the same correspondence) — Maurice Neville (Sotheby’s New York, 13 April 2004, lot 131)
Kerouac, JackTyped letter signed (“Jack” in pencil), to his girlfriend Lois Sorrells (later Beckwith) in New York City
One page (215 x 140 mm), n.p., n.d. [Northport, New York, early January 1960]; single-spaced, integral blank leaf.
“Maybe my Mother is right when she says I'll end up with my ass in the straw.”
At the time Kerouac was living with his mother in Northport, on Long Island, hoping to start a new book he was calling Beat Traveller (later abandoned after 40,000 words). “... I stay home now for a thousand years [he had gone into Manhattan for New Year’s parties with Allen Ginsberg and friends] except to bring my mother to Radio City and Chinatown on her birthday Feb. 4th. And for the world premiere of Subterraneans movie [in June, based on his novel] ... Am sending a check for 40 to Allen [Ginsberg] to cover the long taxi fare, the food, bottles, taxis etc ... Maybe my mother is right when she says I’ll end up with my ass in the straw, which were better than taxes and death letters on desk. I used to say to my mother ‘I’m going to write now, I’ll be in the kitchen when I’m hungry’ but now all I say is ‘I’m going to write letters now’ ... O last night I dream’d a perfect page of prose, the ‘best of Eugene O’Neill’ it said in the dream, all about a freighter at dusk and men leaning on he gunwale smoking pipes. Like Coleridge, lost it ... call Tom Payne [at Avon Books] and tell him to pick up Tristessa, he wants it right away and everything [is] mixed up eightball [Avon would published the book later in the spring]. I walked in the rain and even Dody [Muller, another girlfriend] wouldn’t let me in — and I heard you laugh gayly over the phone. But I am too old and wise and I’m safe for 1000 years.”
REFERENCE:Not in Selected Letters, ed. A. Charters, and presumably unpublished.
PROVENANCE:Lois Sorrells Beckwith (Sotheby Parke Bernet, 23 May 1979, part of lot 11, the Kerouac correspondence to Lois Sorrells Beckwith, purchased by the Boston bookseller William Young — Unnamed consignor, but presumably Young’s widow (Sotheby’s, 15 June 1990, lot 79, the same correspondence) — Maurice Neville (Sotheby’s New York, 13 April 2004, lot 131)
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