![]() Besides, it’s about time for me to grow up.” Moving to Denver is part of this feeling. “I should like to explore another kind of life for a change. “As for me, I quit, I retire,” he writes. First thing you know they stole $10,000 worth of stuff from a retired detective’s house, and second thing you know they’re all in jail, including innocent too-kindhearted Allen.” Meanwhile William Burroughs had been arrested for guns and narcotics in New Orleans. ![]() ![]() Kerouac then gives a detailed account of an episode that was to become a famous bit of Beat history: “Vicki the redhead, and Hunkey, and a guy called Little Jack moved in on Ginsberg’s apartment in New York. yet? Let me know when you are, I’ll meet you at the pier with a case of beer.” He was doing revisions on The Town and the City with his editor, and also writing On the Road “at night, till dawn.” The letter also makes the ill-fated announcement: “My family and I have decided to move to Denver this summer.” In this letter “from the New York front,” Kerouac responds to White's description of the “great times” he, Bob Burford, and Frank Jeffries were having in France: “To think that I sit here sober, woman-less, angling away my time.” “Are you homesick for U.S.A. Reporting on The Town and the City, On The Road, William Burroughs, and more. ![]() With envelope addressed in type, postmarked Jamaica, New York. ![]() Single leaf both sides browned and brittle a few closed tears. Typed letter signed (“Jack”) to “Ed et al”, 29 April 1949. ![]()
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