BIB_ID
288569
Accession number
MA 6426.29
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
shortly after 1938 June 20.
Credit line
Purchased on the John F. Fleming Fund, 2007.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.8 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters and telegrams primarily between John Steinbeck and Pare Lorentz.
Provenance
Sale (New York, Bonhams, 20 June 2007, lot 5233).
Summary
Thanking Lorentz for his assistance in placing Ernest Albee in the publicity position in the Information Division of the Farm Security Administration (see MA 6426.26-27). Discussing in detail his as yet unnamed "The Grapes of Wrath," mentioning that he is hard at work, and noting that if he "can only do the job well enough, a complete picture of a migrant family will emerge." Mentioning that the "Associated Farmers [of California] have started their red scare" and that many migrants think "that the bloody fight will come this fall when the cotton is ready." Noting that "the book should be done by cotton time," and stating: "so far it's a pretty good book, I hope."
Catalog link
Department