BIB_ID
318246
Accession number
MA 2519.24
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
[1966 Mar. 5].
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1966.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 32.3 cm
Notes
At the top of p. 1 Steinbeck has written: "Dear Harry: There will be several letters about Israel. This is #1. I suggest that you hold the one about going home until after the Israel stuff is in and printed; Steinbeck numbers this letter "25 or 26", scratches it through and above it writes "24 or 25" and then underneath both sets of numbering writes "Let's call it 26 (shall we).;" this letter is cataloged as number 24 in the collection; in the note above, Steinbeck refers to this letter as the first of the letters about Israel, however, it was the 2nd letter from Israel that Newsday published; the first had a publication date of February 26, 1966 (MA 2519.23).
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.
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.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1966.
Summary
Discussing the attitudes of the student anti-war protesters in the U.S.; comparing them to the youth of England and France and to a young girl in Israel who is about to go into the army.
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