KEROUAC, JACK. Typed letter signed (in full, in pencil) to Bob Stange of the publishers Little, Brown in Boston; "133-01 Crossbay Blvd., Ozone Park, L.I., N.Y." (the postal zone added by Keroac in pencil), 22 October 1948. One page, 4to, double-spaced. With: (1) Typed letter signed from Alan Harrington (novelist and friend of Kerouac's) to Bob Stange and his wife, New York, 12 September 1948, 1 1/2 pages, 4to, single-spaced, on tan copy paper, margins a little browned, nearly all about Kerouac and suggesting that Kerouac send Stange "his 5 best chapters" from the manuscript of The Town and the City for his consideration ("...I have recently become friends with a guy who is going to be terrific writer; is now touched with greatness here and there. His name is Jack Kerouac, one-time star halfback on the Columbia football team. He has just finished an 1100-page novel..."); (2) Carbon copy of a typed letter from Charles B. Blanchard of Little, Brown, 7 December 1948, one page, 4to, single-spaced, rejecting the manuscript of The Town and the City. "I HOPE SO MUCH THAT YOU'LL LIKE IT"A very early letter by the twenty-six-year-old Kerouac trying to find a publisher for his first book, the novel The Town and the City (eventually published in March 1950 by Harcourt, Brace). "Alan Harrington forwarded a letter of yours concerning the business of my novel Town & City which I'm sending to you right away, thankful that somebody takes interest in spite of its obvious bulkiness. I hope so much that you'll like it...Sometimes it may seem to you that a lot of the material is not getting anywhere, but if you read the whole thing you'll see that it all closes in again, and is actually knit together like a rug or anything like that. The plot of the novel follows the design I had made on a big chart, it never deviates, it only seems to because sometimes it deepens in structure, that is, it digs in wherever it's at, and goes on, always following that chartstructure. I'm only telling you all this...as a kind of self-defense for the size of it, but what I say is true..." (3)

KEROUAC, JACK. Typed letter signed (in full, in pencil) to Bob Stange of the publishers Little, Brown in Boston; "133-01 Crossbay Blvd., Ozone Park, L.I., N.Y." (the postal zone added by Keroac in pencil), 22 October 1948. One page, 4to, double-spaced. With: (1) Typed letter signed from Alan Harrington (novelist and friend of Kerouac's) to Bob Stange and his wife, New York, 12 September 1948, 1 1/2 pages, 4to, single-spaced, on tan copy paper, margins a little browned, nearly all about Kerouac and suggesting that Kerouac send Stange "his 5 best chapters" from the manuscript of The Town and the City for his consideration ("...I have recently become friends with a guy who is going to be terrific writer; is now touched with greatness here and there. His name is Jack Kerouac, one-time star halfback on the Columbia football team. He has just finished an 1100-page novel..."); (2) Carbon copy of a typed letter from Charles B. Blanchard of Little, Brown, 7 December 1948, one page, 4to, single-spaced, rejecting the manuscript of The Town and the City. "I HOPE SO MUCH THAT YOU'LL LIKE IT" A very early letter by the twenty-six-year-old Kerouac trying to find a publisher for his first book, the novel The Town and the City (eventually published in March 1950 by Harcourt, Brace). "Alan Harrington forwarded a letter of yours concerning the business of my novel Town & City which I'm sending to you right away, thankful that somebody takes interest in spite of its obvious bulkiness. I hope so much that you'll like it...Sometimes it may seem to you that a lot of the material is not getting anywhere, but if you read the whole thing you'll see that it all closes in again, and is actually knit together like a rug or anything like that. The plot of the novel follows the design I had made on a big chart, it never deviates, it only seems to because sometimes it deepens in structure, that is, it digs in wherever it's at, and goes on, always following that chartstructure. I'm only telling you all this...as a kind of self-defense for the size of it, but what I say is true..." (3)

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KEROUAC, JACK. Typed letter signed (in full, in pencil) to Bob Stange of the publishers Little, Brown in Boston; "133-01 Crossbay Blvd., Ozone Park, L.I., N.Y." (the postal zone added by Keroac in pencil), 22 October 1948. One page, 4to, double-spaced. With: (1) Typed letter signed from Alan Harrington (novelist and friend of Kerouac's) to Bob Stange and his wife, New York, 12 September 1948, 1 1/2 pages, 4to, single-spaced, on tan copy paper, margins a little browned, nearly all about Kerouac and suggesting that Kerouac send Stange "his 5 best chapters" from the manuscript of The Town and the City for his consideration ("...I have recently become friends with a guy who is going to be terrific writer; is now touched with greatness here and there. His name is Jack Kerouac, one-time star halfback on the Columbia football team. He has just finished an 1100-page novel..."); (2) Carbon copy of a typed letter from Charles B. Blanchard of Little, Brown, 7 December 1948, one page, 4to, single-spaced, rejecting the manuscript of The Town and the City.
"I HOPE SO MUCH THAT YOU'LL LIKE IT"

A very early letter by the twenty-six-year-old Kerouac trying to find a publisher for his first book, the novel The Town and the City (eventually published in March 1950 by Harcourt, Brace). "Alan Harrington forwarded a letter of yours concerning the business of my novel Town & City which I'm sending to you right away, thankful that somebody takes interest in spite of its obvious bulkiness. I hope so much that you'll like it...Sometimes it may seem to you that a lot of the material is not getting anywhere, but if you read the whole thing you'll see that it all closes in again, and is actually knit together like a rug or anything like that. The plot of the novel follows the design I had made on a big chart, it never deviates, it only seems to because sometimes it deepens in structure, that is, it digs in wherever it's at, and goes on, always following that chartstructure. I'm only telling you all this...as a kind of self-defense for the size of it, but what I say is true..." (3)