BIB_ID
288601
Accession number
MA 6426.38
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
ca. 1938 Nov. 9.
Credit line
Purchased on the John F. Fleming Fund, 2007.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.9 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters and telegrams primarily between John Steinbeck and Pare Lorentz.
Steinbeck completed "The Grapes of Wrath" on 26 October 1938. See his journal entry for that day in Working Days, ed. Robert Demott (New York: Viking Penguin, 1989), p. 93.
Steinbeck completed "The Grapes of Wrath" on 26 October 1938. See his journal entry for that day in Working Days, ed. Robert Demott (New York: Viking Penguin, 1989), p. 93.
Provenance
Sale (New York, Bonhams, 20 June 2007, lot 5233).
Summary
Noting that Steinbeck finished his book ["The Grapes of Wrath"] "two weeks ago," and that Carol is typing the manuscript. Mentioning that they are "camping in the old house while the new one is being finished," and that Elizabeth Otis will visit for New Years. Inquiring after Lorentz, noting that Steinbeck hasn't heard from in some time.
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