BIB_ID
318143
Accession number
MA 2519.16A
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
[1966 Jan. 8].
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1966.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 32.3cm
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 white 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 white legal pad paper.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1966.
Summary
Describing his visit to the home of Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford; describing the library and a book they found, printed in 1582, relating the Arthurian legend and quoting "word for word the unknown manuscript we had just the day before discovered at Alnwick;" adding that we "read in the old records that it has never been easy, but we exist, which seems to mean that it is not hopeless."
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