BIB_ID
288021
Accession number
MA 6426.15
Creator
Bledsoe, Ruth.
Display Date
1938 Apr. 7.
Credit line
Purchased on the John F. Fleming Fund, 2007.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.8 x 21.3 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters and telegrams primarily between John Steinbeck and Pare Lorentz.
Telegram is in response to one sent by Lorentz the previous day (MA 6426.14).
Telegram is in response to one sent by Lorentz the previous day (MA 6426.14).
Provenance
Sale (New York, Bonhams, 20 June 2007, lot 5233).
Summary
Noting that Stone from Scripps Howard is returning the manuscript [of Steinbeck's "Starvation Under the Orange Trees"]. Mentioning that Stone has "seen same article in various papers," and that Steinbeck is "apparently peddling story independently to labor and liberal press." Also noting that the St. Louis Dispatch accepted the story from the Farm Security Administration to run on Sunday [10 April 1938].
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