BIB_ID
318174
Accession number
MA 2519.16B
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
[1966 Jan. 7].
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1966.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 32.3 cm
Notes
Date of publication and place of writing from the publication details of this letter in the Daily Mail in Robert B. Harmon's publication, "John Steinbeck and Newsday," San Jose, California: Privately Printed, 1999, p. 186.
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.
This letter was not published in Newsday as part of the "Dear Alicia" letters; the salutation of the letter is "Dear Alicia."
Written on white 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.
This letter was not published in Newsday as part of the "Dear Alicia" letters; the salutation of the letter is "Dear Alicia."
Written on white legal pad paper.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1966.
Summary
Comparing women and automobiles; describing his purchase of a Land Rover and his visit to the Land Rover factory.
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