BIB_ID
317939
Accession number
MA 2519.2
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
[1965 Dec. 11].
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1966.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 31.6 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, Israel in 1965-1966. Alicia Patterson Guggenheim 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 letter "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 date of writing from the publication details of this letter in "John Steinbeck and Newsday" by Robert B. Harmon; see publication details below.
Written on yellow legal pad paper.
Place and date of writing from the publication details of this letter in "John Steinbeck and Newsday" by Robert B. Harmon; see publication details below.
Written on yellow legal pad paper.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1966.
Summary
Proposing a commission or agency, under the Bureau of Standards, with a cabinet level position of Secretary of Nonsense; relating his position as advisor to Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy and Johnson and to Adlai Stevenson in two unsuccessful presidential campaigns; saying that the "most difficult problem the new cabinet will have to face is the head-on collision of two or more opposing nonsensers."
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