BIB_ID
318693
Accession number
MA 2581.25
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
[1967 Feb.].
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1967.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 31.8 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.
The date of this letter is inferred from its contents and its placement within the collection; Steinbeck has numbered this letter 25; this letter was not published in Newsday.
Written on yellow legal pad paper.
The date of this letter is inferred from its contents and its placement within the collection; Steinbeck has numbered this letter 25; this letter was not published in Newsday.
Written on yellow legal pad paper.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1967.
Summary
Enclosing a copy of a parody of the "be careful with our boys" letter, a form letter sent to the "Nears and Dears of young heros about to return home from a foreign clime;" saying that he does not know who wrote it; adding that "this parody is a documentation of a dark and dangerous and frustrating year. That a man can jeer at it is all to the good."
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