* RESERVED FOR  musicpromochick *
This letter was typed and signed by Jack Kerouac, for an old friend of his, David Grubbs of Edgewood, Pennsylvania. The envelope and postage are included in this sale. The letter was sent on May 22nd, 1957, and it was delivered from New York City. The excerpt of the letter reads: "On the Road hits in September. Six years of madness boiled down to 320 pages—Viking says it’ll sell, I say let the bastards try to read it in one sitting. Remember Altoona ’47? Rain, that busted harmonica, us laughing like two kids who didn’t know the world had teeth? I still don’t. Swing by the city sometime. We’ll drink rotgut and howl at the moon like old times.—JackP.S. Tell Henderson I’ll square that five bucks when Hollywood buys the rights. Or when hell freezes."