Thursday, September 28, 2017

Letter That Inspired Kerouac's 'On The Road' Reaches Its Final Destination

The 16,000-word, 19-page (single-spaced!) letter that Neal Cassady sent to Jack Kerouac in 1950 - and which, as reporter Jennifer Schuessler puts it, was "(allegedly) dropped off a houseboat, misfiled at a small Bay Area publisher, nearly tossed out with the trash, and then fought over by two literary estates' - has ended up in Emory University Library's Beat collection.



Article source here:Arts Journal

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