BIB_ID
318236
Accession number
MA 2519.22
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
[1966 Feb. 19].
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1966.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 32.3 cm
Notes
Date of writing from the publication details of this letter in "John Steinbeck and Newsday" by Robert B. Harmon; see publication details below.
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.
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.
Written on white legal pad paper.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1966.
Summary
Reflecting on whether violence on television contributes to juvenile delinquency; citing an experiment in England in which thousands of youthful offenders will be interviewed to determine what television programs and movies they watch and charting that data against their social, domestic and financial backgrounds; speculating on whether a similar experiment should be tried in New York.
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