Collection number: MC 59
Size:
(1 box)
(0.33 cu.ft.)
(A10 map drawer)
About Jack Kerouac
Jack (Jean-Louis Lebris de) Kerouac (1922-1969), American novelist and memoirist, was born and grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts. His family came from Nashua, New Hampshire, which he visited frequently as a child and described in his first novel, The Town and the City (1950). While attending Columbia College in New York City, Kerouac met Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, John Clellon Holmes, Neal Cassidy, and other founding members of the "beat" movement. Kerouac's second and most famous novel, On the Road, completed in 1951 and published in 1957, became the manifesto of the so-called Beat Generation. The Dharma Bums (1958), Desolation Angels (1965), Vanity of Dulouz (1968), and other late works are all more or less autobiographical and picaresque, and similar in style and content to On the Road.
About the Jack Kerouac Pamphlets, Broadsides, and Recordings
The collection consists mainly of pamphlets and broadsides, 1959-1986, featuring poems written by Kerouac, which supplement the Library's special collection of Kerouac books.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
This collection is open.
Copyright Notice
Contents of this collection are governed by U.S. copyright law. For questions about publication or reproduction rights, contact Special Collections staff.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], [Folder], [Box], Jack Kerouac Pamhplets, Broadsides, and Recordings, 1959-1986, MC 59, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, NH, USA.
Acquisitions Information
Purchased by UNH library between 1979-1986
Collection Contents
Series 1: Oversize Broadsides in Map Drawer A10
| Folder 1 | Hymn: God Pray for Me
New York, 1959. Pax Number 10. Issued by Jubilee, A Magazine of the Church and Her People | |
| Folder 2 | Rimbaud.
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1960. First edition. | |
| Folder 3 | Poem.
New York, 1962. Pax Number 17. Issued by Jubilee, A Magazine of the Church and Her People. Broadside. | |
| Folder 4 | Jack Kerouac/Hugo Weber
New York: Portents, 1967. Broadside. | |
| Folder 5 | Someday You'll be
Lying.
Pleasant Valley, New York: Kriya Press of Sri Ram Ashrama, 1968. Broadside. | |
| Folder 6 | A Pun for Al Gelpi.
Cambridge, Mass.: Lowell House Printers, 1966. Block print by Nicole Hollander. Broadside. | |
| Folder 7 | A Last Haiku.
New York: Portents, 1969. Broadside. | |
| Folder 8 | Neal in Court.
California, Pa.: Unspeakable Visions of the Individual, 1977. Portrait of Kerouac by Carolyn Cassady. Broadside. | |
| Folder 9 | Clark, Tom. Kerouac.
New York: Portents, 1969. Broadside. |
Series 2: Other Materials
| Box 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Box 1, Folder 1 | Hymn: God Pray for Me.
Lake Oswego, Oregon: Yes! Press, 1971. Broadside. | |
| Box 1, Folder 2 | The Scripture of the Golden
Eternity.
New York: Totem Press, 1960. First Printing. | |
| Box 1, Folder 3 | Not Long Ago Joy abounded at
Christmas.
New York: Oliphant Press, 1972. Holiday Card. | |
| Box 1, Folder 4 | Old Angel Midnight.
Booklegger/Albion, 1973. Pirated edition issued in England. | |
| Box 1, Folder 5 | Two Early Stories.
New York: Aloe Editions, 1973. | |
| Box 1, Folder 6 | Home at Christmas.
New York: Oliphant Press, 1973. Holiday Card. | |
| Box 1, Folder 7 | Take Care of My Ghost,
Ghost.
New York: [Berkley?]: Ghost Press, 1977. | |
| Box 1, Folder 8 | Woman.
California, Pa.: Unspeakable Visions of the Individual, 1976. Postcard. | |
| Box 1, Folder 9 | Junk.
California, Pa.: Unspeakable Visions of the Individual, 1976. Postcard. | |
| Box 1, Folder 10 | Three.
California, Pa.: Unspeakable Visions of the Individual, 1976. Postcard. | |
| Box 1, Folder 11 | The Alumni Poetry Center
Journal.
[Boston University], Spring 1980. Contains "Jack Kerouac Never Left Lowell" by Charles Jarvais. | |
| Box 1, Folder 12 | Holmes, John Clellon. Visitor: Jack
Kerouac in Old Saybrook.
California, Pa.: Unspeakable Visions of the Individual, 1981. Number 187 and 750 copies signed by the author. | |
| Box 1, Folder 13 | Kerouac's Lowell Places. A
Guide.
[Boston University], Spring 1980. Contains "Jack Kerouac Never Left Lowell" by Charles Jarvais. | |
| Box 1, Folder 14 | Ludd's Mill, No. 16/17, 1982.
Contains "A Visit to Jack Kerouac's Lowell" by Kevin Ring. | |
| Box 1, Folder 15 | Dear Carolyn: Letters to Carolyn
Cassady. Ed. by Arthur and Kit Knight.
California, Pa.: Unspeakable Visions of the Individual, 1983. | |
| Box 1, Folder 16 | New age Journal, November 1982. Jack Kerouac
Issue.
Main article is "Exile on Main Street: Jack Kerouac's Lowell" by Robert Poole. | |
| Box 1, Folder 17 | Kerouac, Jack. Celine and Other
Tales.
NP: Pacific Red Car, 1986. Pirated edition. | |
| Box 1, Folder 18 | Kerouac, Jack. American
Haikus.
Montclair, New Jersey: Caliban Press, 1986. This is the first printing of these poems. They were originally part of an album Kerouac recorded in 1958 with saxaphonist Zoot Sims and Al Cohn for Hanover Records. Printed and bound by Mark McMurray at the Caliban Press, May 1986. Number 31 pf 125 copies. | |
| Box 1, Folder 19 | Commemerative buttons. Set of three Kerouac portraits. | |
| Box 1, Folder 20 | Cassette Tapes | |
