Jack Kerouac, Villa Mouneria Garden Wall, Tangier—he’d preceded me & Peter O. on Yugoslav freighter by a month to help Type Burroughs’ Interzone “word-board” manuscript assembled for Naked Lunch. Jack left for Paris a week and a half later, On the Road published earlier that year—he’d already written twelve books, Visions, Dreams, Blues, in the “Legend of Duluoz” series, up to Desolation Angels Part I, late 1957., 1957, printed later

Inscription

signed and captioned by artist, across bottom in black ink: Jack Kerouac, Villa Muneria Garden Wall, Tanger—he’d preceeded me & Peter O. / on Yugoslav freighter by a month to help Type Burroughs’ [underline] Interzone “word-board” / manuscript assembled for [underline] Naked Lunch. Jack left for Paris a week and a half later, / On the Road published earlier that year- he’d already written twelve books, Visions, / Dreams, Blues, in the “Legend of Duluoz” series, up to [underline] Desolation Angels Part I, late 1957. / Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by artist, across center: Kerouac / Tanger / 1957 / [strikethrough] Bk5 # 26 neg 5 / negs rolled; by unknown hand, top left in graphite: #14VE; top right circled: #124 / MS; right center: EP; bottom center: GD-AG-249; bottom right: #4/708 / GDC-256

Provenance

Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2011.

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