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22 page typescript essay, with holograph corrections, about Miller's childhood friend, Jimmy Pasta, and school & young adulthood memories of his Brooklyn neighborhood. Accompanied by a carbon copy of the same.

Pasta attended P.S. 85 with Miller in Brooklyn, and later got him a job at the office of the Brooklyn Park Commissioner, where he began writing and eventually earned enough money for his passage to Paris. Pasta appeared as Tony Marella in Miller's Plexus & Nexus, and is referred to many times in Miller's notebooks of outlines for The Rosy Crucifixion. Holograph corrections are generally in the form of crossing out last names of people from Miller's youth that he is slandering (pedophiles, homosexuals, lusty female teachers at P.S. 85, etc.). He describes, as a 21-year old, hearing lectures given by Emma Goldman which changed the course of his life, his first marriage (rarely talked about) to his piano teacher: "I married her not because I was in love with her but to escape the draft. We quarreled almost from the very beginning. Sometimes we rolled on the floor struggling with one another. It was truly disgraceful the life we led..." (She eventually joined a nunnery after he left her for June). He details extra-marital affairs, asking his first wife to let his mistress come live with them (she said no), meeting and shacking up with June, June and Jean Kronski's lesbian affair, their collective pennilessness ("It was a cold winter and I had chopped all the furniture to pieces to make firewood..."), meeting Pasta on the street and getting a job with the Parks Commissioner, June and Jean leaving him for Paris, and the following years in brief.