BIB_ID
317983
Accession number
MA 2519.8
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
[1965-1967].
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1966.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 33.5 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 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). Steinbeck wrote the letters in this series as a weekly column for Newsday. Letters in the collection have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
Possible year of writing from range of publication dates for the "Letters to Alicia" column in Newsday; the first letter was published in Newsday on November 20, 1965 and the last letter was published May 20, 1967.
Written on yellow legal pad paper.
Possible year of writing from range of publication dates for the "Letters to Alicia" column in Newsday; the first letter was published in Newsday on November 20, 1965 and the last letter was published May 20, 1967.
Written on yellow legal pad paper.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1966.
Summary
Discussing a televised account of the burning of a Vietnamese village by American soldiers; relating his own war experience to the issues these soldiers would have faced in this situation; relating a letter he received from the sister of a solider who was in that Vietnamese village and wrote to his sister defending the actions taken; saying "Nobody likes or wants war. The ones who want it over more than any are those fighting it. They would get out tomorrow if they could;" defending those who are protesting the war saying "it takes a lot of courage to disagree with your country when it is at war;"
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