Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Zach Bryan has purchased Jack Kerouac’s original On the Road scroll, The Dharma Bums scroll and a collection of personal letters at auction, and is set to donate the literary treasures to a new museum in the author’s hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts. The items had previously been part of a massive pop culture collection amassed by billionaire Jim Irsay, who died last May. Kerouac typed his bestselling novel On the Road as a continuous manuscript scroll in 1951 without paragraph breaks or chapter divisions. It is 120ft long by 9in wide with hundreds of sheets of paper taped together end to end in a single roll. Irsay paid the equivalent of $3.2 million for the scroll in 2001. Earlier this week, Bryan bought it for $12,135,000. The 29-year-old country music star is a noted Kerouac fan, who last year purchased the …