Lot 431
Kerouac, Jack. One autograph letter and two typed letters signed ("Ti-Jean" "Jack" and "J."), all on postcards, Northport, N.Y., Sept. 22 and Dec. 16, 1959, July 18, 1960. To his girlfriend, Lois Sorrells. The first is written at the beginning of their affair, "I'll be in town [Sorrells lived in Manhattan] Friday, call you in the evening….I'll call you from Lucien's at suppertime. I'll stay the weekend. My Mexico trip is being infringed upon fast, now Steve Allen wants I shd be in Hollywood Nov 16 to read my winter fly before 30 million people….If Tom Payne [editor at Avon] calls tell him I'm bringing in that poor old battered typewriter….Not drinking today, feeling fine. I going to buy shack in Berkshires right soon, before Mexico trip, Lucien will drive me…Maybe I'll live…I mean, the bottle's got me down. Hell is oneself, dreamt it last night, the words I AM THE FLAMES. …" Dec. 16: "When you do come to Nport I'll give you that $10 I owe you, Am resting beautifully in my new attic…Just read Tristessa and will leave it as is, just like Lucien and Cessa say….getting ready for next spring, fixing my rucksack…gonna go dharmabummin agin….if get money, get jeepster like Lew's with snow tires…and drive off road in desert to arroyos ten miles away and cook over little fires…." On July 18, 1960, Kerouac was leaving for California, where he would borrow Lawrence Ferlinghetti's cabin in Bixby Canyon, and he writes: "When you read this I be gone on train. I be back in the Fall healed & in good shape. I no write nobody, no mailbox -- I think for first time in 3 years. I stay maybe till October--- It has been too much, these 3 years, pulled in everybody's direction till I don't know why I'm alive. I go sleep in Ti Jean heart."
Estimated Value $2,000 - 3,000.
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| Realized $3,000 |
