BIB_ID
318538
Accession number
MA 2581.14
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
[1966] Dec. 26.
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1967.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 31.2 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.
Place of writing from the publication details of this letter in "John Steinbeck and Newsday" by Robert B. Harmon; see publication details below; Steinbeck dated this letter December 26; the publication date of this letter in Newsday was December 31, 1966.
Written on yellow legal pad paper; the second page of this letter is a carbon copy on yellow legal pad paper.
Place of writing from the publication details of this letter in "John Steinbeck and Newsday" by Robert B. Harmon; see publication details below; Steinbeck dated this letter December 26; the publication date of this letter in Newsday was December 31, 1966.
Written on yellow legal pad paper; the second page of this letter is a carbon copy on yellow legal pad paper.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1967.
Summary
Saying that the Christmas truce is over and that the Viet Cong violated it; saying "They knew we would keep the truce. And they knew they would not;" saying that the U.S. forces have tried to be "fair and decent' and it has not worked; adding that the "enemy forces and the VC have no respect for honor or decency;" suggesting that we warn the VC that we will honor the New Year's truce but "with the first violation we will clobber them."
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