BIB_ID
318521
Accession number
MA 2581.12
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
[1967 Jan. 7].
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1967.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 31.1 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.
In a note at the top of p. 1 Steinbeck has written "Date line-- / Pundit Manor, Saigon."
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.
There is a note with this letter, on a small piece of yellow lined paper, indicating that Steinbeck is including something from the "Handbook for U.S. Forces in Vietnam;" saying that he doesn't believe it is restricted but that they should check in Washington; in a note at the end of the printed copy of this letter in "John Steinbeck and Newsday" by Robert B. Harmon on p. 95 (see publication details below), Harmon says that when this letter was published in Newsday it included drawings of three types of booby traps taken from a "booklet supplied to the armed forces."
Written on yellow legal pad paper.
In a note at the top of p. 1 Steinbeck has written "Date line-- / Pundit Manor, Saigon."
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.
There is a note with this letter, on a small piece of yellow lined paper, indicating that Steinbeck is including something from the "Handbook for U.S. Forces in Vietnam;" saying that he doesn't believe it is restricted but that they should check in Washington; in a note at the end of the printed copy of this letter in "John Steinbeck and Newsday" by Robert B. Harmon on p. 95 (see publication details below), Harmon says that when this letter was published in Newsday it included drawings of three types of booby traps taken from a "booklet supplied to the armed forces."
Written on yellow legal pad paper.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1967.
Summary
Criticizing those in the U.S. who are critical of the current U.S. foreign policy with regard to Vietnam; describing the torture tactics the Viet Cong are using to intimidate and punish the North Vietnamese people; saying he attended a "booby trap school near Da Nang."
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