JACK KEROUAC (1922-1969) American novelist whose publication of On the Road made him the foremost figure of the Beat generation of the Fifties and Sixties. Very fine content T.L.S. "Jack ", 1p. 4to., [Lowell?], Aug. 25, 1966 to to his psychiatrist and close friend, Daniel DeSole. In small part: "...thanks moreso for Everard Mercurian's PINK HEARTS, a study of the Jesuit order...Jack R. was here and just tell him I finally found that brochure about the Indian tinkling bells...they don't explain in typical Indian fashion which are the elephant bells and which are the Holi bells...Please don't give my address to anyone, Danny, especially [his friend and psychiatrist, Jack] Singer: I don't want to be psychoanalyzed another instant. I wouldn't have 16 books translated into 40 different countries if I didn't know what I was doon, huh?...My Ma is trying to rest, she's getting old now...too many visitors spoil the settled ways of domestic tranquility...don't give my address to any 'poets' or artists...I'm working in my study now, look forward to a winter of writing, and would just as soon stay home with the beginning chapters...My thoughts have to get down on paper and not go flying off into socializing aethers and that's what's really been making me sick... [When] nobody knew who I was or cared I used to be engrossed day and night in my thoughts, putting them on paper, and was never so happy, because IDLENESS is the cause of feeling lousy. Physical illness never bothered me because it's the nervous center that really drearies up our living effort under mortal conditions. My psychic center of equilibrium and Joy is plumb in the center of the solitude of my studies...Haud longis intervallis... " Very good condition. Kerouac's last book was dedicated to DeSole. $1,500-2,000