BIB_ID
318072
Accession number
MA 2519.11
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
[1966 May 21].
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1966.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 33.4 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.
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
Discussing the student anti-war protests and their "right to speak or print four-letter words on the campus as well as off it;" saying that his "only reservation about this doesn't come from a censorious impulse, but one of conservation. We don't have many four-letter words of sturdy quality and when you use them up, there's no place to go. Also, overuse milks all the strength out of them;" relating the words of Ernie Pyle in Casablanca before he passed out.
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