BIB_ID
288581
Accession number
MA 6426.35
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
after 1938 Sept. 8.
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.
Written after 8 September 1938 when, in a cable (MA 6426.34) to John Carter, Lorentz mentions that there is "no further family yet." The Steinbecks sold their house on 5 September (see his journal entry for that date in Working Days, ed. Robert Demott (New York: Viking Penguin, 1989), p. 66).
Written after 8 September 1938 when, in a cable (MA 6426.34) to John Carter, Lorentz mentions that there is "no further family yet." The Steinbecks sold their house on 5 September (see his journal entry for that date in Working Days, ed. Robert Demott (New York: Viking Penguin, 1989), p. 66).
Provenance
Sale (New York, Bonhams, 20 June 2007, lot 5233).
Summary
Sending, under a different cover, something for the new baby. Expressing anxiety over "The Grapes of Wrath:"Regional Information Adviser at the San Francisco office of the Farm Security Administration noting that "the work goes on" but that he gets "low about it sometimes" and that "maybe the job is too big for [Steinbeck]." Mentioning that the Steinbecks have sold their house.
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