BIB_ID
318327
Accession number
MA 2581.2
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
[1966 Dec. 10].
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1967.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 31.9 cm
Notes
Date of writing from the publication details of this letter in "John Steinbeck and Newsday" by Robert B. Harmon; see publication details below.
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.
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.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1967.
Summary
Discussing his reply to the public letter that Russian poet, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, published in a Russian literary magazine, chastising Steinbeck for not opposing the war in Vietnam; suggesting that it might help if both he and Yevtushenko, who became friends on a visit Steinbeck made to Moscow in 1963, both visited Vietnam together to see the situation first hand; discussing the role of governments, armies and poets in a time of war; saying that "governments are not about to let the two of us, Yevtushenko and me, just look around and write what we see. The south might let me and the north let him. And there we are, right back where we started....We both want peace and, you know, we're never going to have it until we bring in truth as a mediator."
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