BIB_ID
318278
Accession number
MA 2519.30
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
[1966 Apr. 16].
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1966.
Description
1 item (10 p.) ; 31.7 cm
Notes
A penciled notation, in an unknown hand, at the top of p. 1, indicates that this is letter 31, however, this follows letter 29 in the collection and should be letter 30.
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.
This letter was divided into two parts and published on two separate dates, Saturday, April 16, 1966 and Saturday, April 23, 1966.
Written on yellow 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.
This letter was divided into two parts and published on two separate dates, Saturday, April 16, 1966 and Saturday, April 23, 1966.
Written on yellow legal pad paper.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1966.
Summary
Reflecting on two symbols of Israel, the Memorial to the Martyrs and Masada; describing, in detail, a visit to Masada with an Israeli archaeologist Yigael Yadin; relating the three-year battle between 20,000 Roman soldiers and 960 Jews at the fortified mesa of Masada; commenting on the symbolism of the loss in that battle as a "weapon for the soul of the nation Israel."
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