Kerouac, Jack | Autograph picture postcard signed
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
July 23 1960
Kerouac, Jack Autograph pictorial postcard signed ("Jack XXX") to his girlfriend Lois Sorrells (later Beckwith) in New York City One page (136 x 86mm), postmark dated July 23 1960; small marginal tears and 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 REFERENCE: Not in Charters, presumably unpublished PROVENANCE: Lois Sorrells Beckwith (Sotheby Parke Bernet, 23 May 1979, presumably part of lot 11, the Kerouac correspondence to Lois Sorrells Beckwith,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 Young’s widow (Sotheby’s, 15 June 1990, lot 79, the same correspondence)
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
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- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 0
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Physical characteristics
- Material (listing wording)
- pictorial postcard
- Dimensions or weight (listing wording)
- 136 x 86mm
Identification
- Source note
- Auction-house description published on Invaluable. Attribution and measurements are the auction house’s statements about the photographed example; independent type authentication remains research required.
- Listing object ID
- 185045824
Catalogue references
No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.
Research required
- Independent confirmation of type attribution and auction-house statements remains research required.