BIB_ID
318620
Accession number
MA 2581.18
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
[1967 Jan. 21].
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1967.
Description
1 item (5 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.
It is unclear whether this letter is written in pencil or, perhaps, a carbon copy.
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; Steinbeck, at the top of p. 1, writes that Can Tho is 70 miles southwest of Saigon.
It is unclear whether this letter is written in pencil or, perhaps, a carbon copy.
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; Steinbeck, at the top of p. 1, writes that Can Tho is 70 miles southwest of Saigon.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1967.
Summary
Recounting his assignment on a river patrol boat during an inspection trip on the Mekong River looking for contraband arms supplies.
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