Collection of five typed letters, signed and unsigned, and one typed journal entry : place not specified, to Jack Kerouac, 1950 Feb. 3-1965 July 15.

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Collection of five typed letters, signed and unsigned, and one typed journal entry : place not specified, to Jack Kerouac, 1950 Feb. 3-1965 July 15.

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Collection consists of the following letters: typed letter signed "John" in pencil, dated Feb. 3, 1950 (3 leaves, 6 p.), titled "Re: The Afternoon of a Tenor-Man," with "JCH to JK" in pencil overlined in blue pen in Holmes's hand at top of first page; typed journal entry, dated Feb. 3, 1950 (2 leaves, 3 p.), titled "Re: The Afternoon of a Tenor-Man," with "JHC-journal entry" in Holmes's hand in pencil overlined in blue pen at top of first page; typed letter, dated May 28, 1952 (2 leaves, 4 p.); typed letter signed "John" in pencil, dated June 9, 1952 (2 leaves, 4 p.), with "JHC" in pencil at top of first page; carbon copy typed letter signed "John" in pencil, dated June 12, 1963 (3 leaves, 6 p., p. 2-6 numbered in pencil by Holmes); carbon copy typed letter signed "John" in type, dated July 15, 1965 (1 leaf, 2 p.), with pencil correction in Holmes's hand, and with "JCH to JK" in blue pen in Holmes's hand at top of first page.

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