Kerouac, Jack

Autograph pictorial postcard signed ("Jack XXX") to his girlfriend Lois Sorrells (lat🔯er Beckwith) in New York City

One page (136 x 86mm), p🃏ostmark dated July 23 1960; small marginal tears an⛦d light soiling.

"Tonight I walk Frisco alone again, wine in coat, to Chinatown." A jovial note, describing clouds in Iowa that appeared to be kissing and saying 🅺he will write in September. Kerouac🐬 rode the California Zephyr west to California from Chicago, where he would summer with Ferlinghetti at Big Sur.

REFERENCE:

Not in Charters, presumably unpublished

PROVENANCE:

Lois Sorrells Beckwith (Sotheby Parke Bernet, 23 May 1979, presumably part of lot 11, the Kerouac correspondence to Lois Sorrells Beckwith, purchased by 🌸the Boston bookseller William Young) — Unnamed consignor, but presumably Younꦉg’s widow (Sotheby’s, 15 June 1990, lot 79, the same correspondence)