BIB_ID
318263
Accession number
MA 2519.27
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
[1966 Mar. 26].
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1966.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 31.7 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.
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 written "Letters from Israel" at the top of p. 1 of this letter.
Written on yellow legal pad paper.
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 written "Letters from Israel" at the top of p. 1 of this letter.
Written on yellow legal pad paper.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1966.
Summary
Complaining bitterly about seeing one of his books in a bookshop, in a format he did not recognize; telling of his anger when he saw that the book was printed in Moscow; relating the Soviet practice of "taking, translating and distributing any book they wish with no payment to the author;" discussing his frustrations with the countries who do not participate in the copyright league.
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