Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Typed letter signed : Garden City, New York, to Elizabeth Otis, 1966 Mar. 10.

BIB_ID
318293
Accession number
MA 2519.44
Creator
Holdsworth, Dorothy J., 20th cent.
Display Date
1966 Mar. 10.
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1966.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.9 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.
Written on Newsday letterhead from the office of Harry F. Guggenheim, Editor and Publisher; Elizabeth Otis, the recipient, was the co-founder of McIntosh and Otis, literary agents for John Steinbeck.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1966.
Summary
Transmitting original copies of Steinbeck's letters numbered 24 through 29 and number 31; noting that "Number 30 is incomplete and Mr. Steinbeck has asked me to hold it until he can locate the last page or rewrite it."