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BERG COLLECTION, NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
Fifth Avenue & 42nd Street
New York, NY 10018 (212) 930-0802
http://www.nypl.org/reseach/chss/spe/brg/berg.html
brgref@nypl.org
This important Kerouac collection, acquired since 1993, holds more than 70 notebooks. They contain raw material from which the writer created his published work, more than six typescripts, and many letters to his sister, his editor, Robert Giroux, and to other correspondents. The highlight of the collection is the On the Road typescript scroll, on deposit from the Kerouac literary estate.

RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Butler Library, 6th Floor
535 West 114th Street
New York, NY 10027 (212) 854-5153
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/rare
Letters from Kerouac to Ginsberg and other acquaintances; letters from William Burroughs to Kerouac; proofs for the novels Desolation Angels and Tristessa ; incomplete manuscripts of other published works; as well as short prose, poems, and artwork make up the extensive Kerouac papers held at Columbia.

HARRY RANSOM HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
PO Box 7219
Austin, TX 78713
(512) 471-8944 (512) 471-9646 (fax)
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu
Within the major collections of Beat writers are proofs for Desolation Angels and Visions of Cody , Kerouac's journal from the time period related in the first pages of On the Road , excerpts from Visions of Cody proofs, and more than 200 letters to and from Cassady, Ginsberg, and others. Also of interest is the complete archive of Jack's Book : An Oral Biography , which includes more than 50 hours of taped interviews with Kerouac's friends and colleagues.

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, NEWBERRY LIBRARY
60 West Walton Street
Chicago, IL 60610
(312) 943-9090
http://www.newberry.org
The Malcolm Cowley collection contains more than 25 Kerouac letters, most to Malcolm Cowley, along with a few brief manuscripts.

DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305
(650) 725-1022
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc
Kerouac's correspondence with Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg and two student papers written for a twentieth century literature course at the New School are among the Kerouac items held at Stanford.

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, GENERAL LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS
Davis, CA 95616
(530) 752-1621
http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/specol
The Gary Snyder Papers contain more than 30 letters written by Kerouac to Snyder.

CENTER FOR LOWELL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELLPatrick J. Mogan Cultural Center
40 French Street
Lowell, MA 01852
(978) 934-4997 (978) 934-4995 (fax)
http://library.uml.edu/clh
Oral history interviews with family members and childhood and adult friends comprise this collection in Kerouac's hometown.

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