BIB_ID
318127
Accession number
MA 2519.14
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
1965 Dec. 13.
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1966.
Description
1 item (5 p.) ; 30.0 cm
Notes
Original most likely written on legal pad paper.
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.
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.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1966.
Summary
Relating his visit to Alnwick Castle with Professor Eugene Vinaver of Manchester University; relating the reasons for their visit and their search for an early manuscript version of 'Morte d'Arthur' within the library's collection; relating their discovery of what they believe is an "unknown manuscript, our pot of gold....now if we find nothing else in our quest, we have years of work on this, our private holy grail."
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