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GINSBERG, ALLEN. Four autograph letters signed, three typed letters signed, one typed letter (name typed), fourteen autograph postcards signed, one typed postcard signed, and one typed postcard (name typed) virtually all to Carolyn Cassady, wife (and later) widow of Neal Cassady, but including one autograph postcard signed to Neal Cassady and two to the Cassady son John, nearly all addressed to the Cassady home in Los Gatos, California; written mainly from New York and Ginsberg's farm in Cherry Valley, N.Y., but some from elsewhere (Mexico, San Francisco, and the Gary Snyder cabin near Nevada City, California, etc.), 15 September 195[?] to 11 November 1977. Together 8 letters, 10 pages, virtually all 4to, and 16 cards, 16 pages, oblong 12mo, a few signed twice, some signed in full, two letters on versos of advertisements of Ginsberg poetry readings, the letters with envelopes. With: Typescript signed of Ginsberg's (apparently unpublished) poem "Los Gatos," one page, 4to, carbon coyp, 20 lines, a few deletions, with typed date "4 June 1967," inscribed by the poet at bottom: "For Carolyn Cassady, Feb. 19, 1970." "JACK'S [KEROUAC] FUNERAL VERY SOLEMN" Ginsberg's friendship with Neal Cassady -- the Dean Moriarty of Kerouac's On the Road -- lasted from the period of the "Beat Generation" beginnings in New York in the 1940s until Cassady's death in Mexico around 1968 (Ginsberg's Planet News the following year was dedicated to him). In this important correspondence Ginsberg writes of Kerouac (one letter describes his funeral) and Neal Cassady; mentions other authors: William Burroughs, Philip Whalen, Gary Snyder, Ken Kesey, Gregory Corso, John Clellon Homes, Lawrence Ferlinghetti et al ; advises Carolyn Cassady on her book, Heart Beat: My Life with Jack and Neal , and on the movie eventually made of it; and talks of his own writing, publications, lectures, travels, interests, and friends, among various subjects. 19 February 1970 (enclosing "Los Gatos" typescript and describing Kerouac's funeral, at which Ginsberg was a pallbearer): "A few months quiet home [at Cherry Valley] & been typing old notebook poems, enclosed a page from Los Gatos, I guess notes the time Ansen came thru on grayhound buss...& Neal drove [Ken] Kesey's bus down...Jack's funeral very solemn, I went with Peter [Orlovsky] & Gregory [Corso] & John [Clellan] Holmes in Holmes' car, saw Jack in coffin in Archambault funeral home on Pawtucketville St, Lowell [Mass.], same name & funerary home from Jack's own memory -- & pallbore thru high mass at St Jean Baptiste Cemetary -- Jack in coffin looked large headed, grim-lipped, tiny bald spot top of skull begun but hair still black & soft, could skin make up chill to finger touch on his brow, fingers wrinkled, hairy hands protruding from sportsjacket holding rosary, flower masses around coffin, 7 shaped wrinkle-furrow familiar at his brow, eyes closed, mid-aged heavy looked like his father had become from earlier dream decades -- shock first seeing him there in theatric-lit coffin room as if a Buddha in Parinirvana pose, come here left his message of Illusion-wink & left the body behind..." 27 March 1976: "...If they're serious about making a serious movie [of her book about life with Neal and Jack] they'll have no need to hustle you. Ken Kesey was hustled or negligent about his original contract for Cooko movie [ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , 1975] & thus lost aesthetic control and got only $20 thousand for what now is a 6 million dollar profit...& is now suing them for violation of ORAL reassurances 'they' gave him...make sure you get percentage of profits on sliding scale (this isnt HYwood this is common sense) as well as an advance...Aspect of Neal of benevolent energy is worth mythologizing or hollywoodyising & has real National usefulness...You know I dont know still what is the size shape & extent of your book on Neal, & what its exact fate had been. Ideally it should be done up as mss. in final form as you w