Jack Kerouac

Framed, autographed, signed letter and photograph of Kerouac to Lois Beckwith.

• Jack Kerouac (American).
• 1959–62.
• Inscribed: "Dear Lois—See you Friday—Got your beautiful letter about Gerard—We've got to go be quiet. Jack XXX" with a pencil drawing of a mountain or leaf outline above his signature. 
• Note torn from a notepad, with spiral perforations on the top edge.
• Framed note, matted, with a black & white photo of Kerouac holding a cat.

Lois Sorrells Beckwith married actor Robert Sorrells in California, 1955. They separated after a year, and she returned to Northport, where she met Jack Kerouac in 1958 and became Kerouac's poet girlfriend there from 1959–62. Four of her poems were published in the bilingual Beat anthology Poesia degli ultimi americani (1964), edited by Fernanda Pivano. She had a relationship with Lucien Carr from 1962 to 1964, before marrying the artist Jacques Beckwith in 1964. The character “Louise” in Big Sur (1963) is modeled after Beckwith.