BIB_ID
318319
Accession number
MA 2581.1
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
[1966 Nov. 16].
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1967.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 31.9 cm
Notes
Part of a collection of letters from John Steinbeck to Alicia Patterson Guggenheim, written during his travels in Vietnam in 1967. 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 yellow legal pad paper.
Written on yellow legal pad paper.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1967.
Summary
Telling of his excitement at the prospect of traveling to "east Asia" with his wife; saying that he doesn't "much trust what I've read about it. The only way I've ever learned about anything has been by seeing, hearing, smelling, touching. I never get over excited curiosity.....I'll let you know what I find. It may not be any more accurate than others, but the errors will be mine own;" adding that they hope to see their son in Vietnam.
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