BIB_ID
318200
Accession number
MA 2519.21
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
1966 Jan 25.
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1966.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 32.3 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.
This is one of the few "Dear Alicia" letters on which Steinbeck has provided the date and the place of writing; the printed letter, in the Robert B. Harmon publication noted below, gives the publication date of the letter in Newsday.
Written on white legal pad paper.
This is one of the few "Dear Alicia" letters on which Steinbeck has provided the date and the place of writing; the printed letter, in the Robert B. Harmon publication noted below, gives the publication date of the letter in Newsday.
Written on white legal pad paper.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1966.
Summary
Relating the story of his great-grandfather's move to Israel from Massachusetts, with his wife and three daughters, to convert the Jews to Christianity; adding that he has the story of their time in Israel from the diaries of his grandmother and great-aunt.
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