BIB_ID
318336
Accession number
MA 2581.5
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
[1966 Dec].
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1967.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 31.9 cm
Notes
Date of writing inferred from the placement of the letter within the collection; Steinbeck has indicated that this is letter #5 and we know that he was traveling to Vietnam in early December, stopping off in Hawaii for a military briefing.
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.
This letter was not published in Newsday as part of the "Dear Alicia" series.
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.
This letter was not published in Newsday as part of the "Dear Alicia" series.
Written on yellow legal pad paper.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1967.
Summary
Relating the military briefings he has been receiving from all four service branches; reflecting on the enormity of the operations in Vietnam and the candor with which his questions have been answered; comparing the candor to the secrecy surrounding the operations during World War II; expressing his excitement to be embarking on this assignment.
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