BIB_ID
316606
Accession number
MA 2519.1
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
[1966 May 7].
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Steinbeck, 1966.
Description
1 item (5 p.) ; 31.7 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from John Steinbeck to Alicia Patterson Guggenheim, written from New York and during his travels in Ireland, England and Israel in 1965-1966. She had died in 1963, and Steinbeck wrote the letters in this series as a weekly column for Newsday. Alicia was the editor and publisher of Newsday from 1940 until her death in 1963, and Steinbeck addressed his letters "not ... to someone who is dead, but rather to a living mind and a huge curiosity" (see MA 2519.39). Letters in the collection have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Place and year of writing from the publication details in "John Steinbeck and Newsday" by Robert B. Harmon; see publication details below.
Written on yellow legal pad paper.
Place and year of writing from the publication details in "John Steinbeck and Newsday" by Robert B. Harmon; see publication details below.
Written on yellow legal pad paper.
Provenance
Gift of Mr. Steinbeck, 1966.
Summary
Concerning his life as a smoker and recent decision to stop smoking. Remarking that his aversion to the withdrawal symptoms prevented him from quitting the habit, but describing the "paradox" of the entire lack of withdrawal symptoms once he did stop smoking. Noting that it was not a moral decision and that he may start smoking again, but that so far he has not felt the desire to do so.
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