The Jack Kerouac Archive at UMass Lowell
The Kerouac Archive is made up of a number of different individual collections, listed below. At over 100 linear feet, Visions of Kerouac: The John Sampas Collection is one of the most comprehensive Kerouac collections in the world and our largest collection.
Searching the Archive
Mark Hemenway Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!
Francis J. Hess
The Kerouac Connection
Paul Marion Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!
Paul Marion Lowell Historical Preservation Commission
Francois Pelletier Beate
Visions of Kerouac: The John Sampas Collection
Note: the above pages are still in progress and will be updated regularly. We may need to disable page links at times, as inventory is on-going. Questions about the archive? Contact us.
Visiting the Archive
The Jack Kerouac Archive at UMass Lowell, located at the Center for Lowell History (CLH), 40 French Street, Lowell, MA, 01852, welcomes scholars and the general public who would like use our holdings for research. It is free and open to the public. Visits are pre-arranged by contacting us, as we cannot accommodate walk-in visitors.
The Kerouac Study Room within the Mogan Center, which is open to the public, contains CLH’s extensive collection of biographical archives, oral histories and rare print copies of Kerouac editions.
Language: Primarily English, some French, and a few other international editions of Kerouac works
Restrictions: Reproduction, copyright, and privacy rights
Access to the collections within the archive is funded in part by Mass Humanities, which receives support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Kerouac Center at UMass Lowell would like to thank Mass Humanities for helping make the collection available to the public through the above links.
