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Chronicles the adventures of a teenager as he accompanies a newspaperman assigned to describe the building of the Union Pacific westward in 1867.
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Letters and postcards written by Jack Kerouac to editor, writer, and critic Patricia MacManus, who at the time was Kerouac's editor and the publicity director for Viking Press. Also postcard to MacManus from Kerouac's longtime friend Henri Cru. Also included are nine photocopies of letters and postcards from Kerouac to MacManus (these cannot be copied). In these letters and postcards he talks a lot about his books, including Dharma bums and On the road, and future writing projects, religion, other editors at Viking Press, his plans for his personal life and his mother. Also included with these letters is a sketch done by Kerouac of the Virgin Mary and infant as well as a "Holy picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe" card that Kerouac carried in his wallet.
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Content: "the lost and the lonely" ; "open here" (poems - On inside of front cover: "Bouillabaisse is a combination of the Cokefish and Alpha Beat Soup magazines, published by Alpha Beat Press as a subtitle"; fragments of a newspaper stuck to the front cover), p. 52 Content author: Charles Bukowski
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Content: "The Great Coffee Houses of Los Angeles: Where the Beat Went On" (article - a long article about coffee houses in Los Angeles as the epicenter of beat poetry, with a mention that The Bridge coffee shop was supposedly the first place Bukowski did a reading; p. 13-20 are missing) Content author: Lionel Rolfe
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The collection contains J. Goldsborough Bruff's oversize revised version of his journal (c. 1853) which documents his journey across the American plains in 1849 by way of Lassen's Trail. Also included in the collection are 264 drawings of scenes from his overland journey, of various places he visited in California, and of his sea voyage to the Eastern United States via Mexico and Panama. Many of Bruff's drawings are in pencil, but thirty-eight of them were drawn with pastels and are in color.
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The collection has several strong subject points for the purpose of research including journalism and the writing process and the history of Los Angeles. There are many letters written during World War II that discuss life in America as well as abroad, especially Iwo Jima. The bulk of the collection includes correspondence to Smith from his readers, many of whom were persons of note, and Smith's own subject files of topics often discussed in his columns. The manuscripts include a number of Smith's notebooks as well as drafts of essays and monographs. The ephemera includes appearances of Smith's columns, photographs of Smith's work and family, and printed materials related to Smith's work and family life.
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