BIB_ID
318627
Accession number
MA 2581.21
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
[1967 Jan. 12].
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1967.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.0 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; this letter is written on a 1/2 sheet of yellow legal pad paper which appears to have been cut.
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; this letter is written on a 1/2 sheet of yellow legal pad paper which appears to have been cut.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1967.
Summary
Enclosing a poem he received from a Vietnamese writer which he had translated; saying that "even in translation I find so sharp and moving that I can't resist sending it to you. There is a fury in it and at the same time a trust;" saying he has also received an open letter from a "young and respected writer" who wrote to him and Yevtushenko which, once translated, he will send on to her.
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