Typed letter signed : New York City, to John Steinbeck, 1943 Mar. 13.

Record ID: 
316854
Accession number: 
MA 3661.17
Author: 
Biddle, George, 1885-1973.
Credit: 
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1963.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.) ; 26.7 cm
Notes: 

Steinbeck was a member of the War Department Art Advisory Committee which Biddle chaired.
Written on letterhead from "War Department / United States Engineer Office / New York District / Room 601, 120 Wall St. / New York, N.Y."

Summary: 

Discussing the possibilities for a "writers project", under an army historian "who then will sent [sic] up his own group of writers, after which the writers and painters can get together and map out the way in which they will work."

Provenance: 
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1963.