Autograph letter signed : Galway, Ireland, to "Alicia," [1966 Feb. 5].

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.
Steinbeck has included a small note with this letter saying "I didn't know I was going to finish this today but I did so it might as well go with the others. It is the best known story in Galway."
Written from St. Clerans, Craughwell, Galway, Ireland.
Written on white legal pad paper.