Overview

• Your Own Museum says it acquired the two-page manuscript from a private sale tied to Paul Castellano’s Long Island estate in November 2024.
• The typewritten work, titled The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing, features Kerouac’s recurring characters and bears his green-ink signature.
• Reporting differs on chronology, with one account citing a title-page date of April 15, 1957 before On the Road’s publication and another describing it as written shortly afterward.
• The seller reports lab analysis and verification by third-party firm Proper & Verified, stating the materials and signature align with known Kerouac examples.
• The item has been published online and is offered for private sale at $8,500, with a Kerouac scholar calling the find very significant.