Neal Cassady is best remembered today as Jack Kerouacโs muse and the basis for the character โDean Moriartyโ in Kerouacโs classic On The Road, and as one of Ken Keseyโs merriest of Merry Pranksters, the driver of the psychedelic bus โFurther,โ immortalized in Tom Wolfeโs The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. This collection brings together more than two hundred letters to Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, John Clellon Holmes, and other Beat generation luminaries, as well as correspondence between Neal and his wife, Carolyn. These amazing letters cover Cassadyโs life between the ages of 18 and 41 and finish just months before his death in February 1968. Brilliantly edited by Dave Moore, this unique collection presents the โSoul of the Beat Generationโ in his own wordsโsometimes touching and tender, sometimes bawdy and hilarious.ย Here is the real Neal Cassadyโraw and uncut.