This is immense.  A letter from Jack Kerouac (via Dangerous Minds via Letters of Note):

It says:
Dear Lucien & Cessa — Writing to you by candlelight from the mysterious Casbah — have a magnificent room overlooking the beach & the bay & the sea & can see Gibraltar — patio to sun on, room [...]

Philip Heying, who I recently got in touch with again via a Facebook post about 2012, has a great post up on Reality Sandwich about his dispiriting stay in Kansas. I met him via a friend from Paris and we hung out a bit in New York. I remember a pretty strange birthday [...]