BIB_ID
323071
Accession number
MA 2581.32
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
[1967 Feb. 3].
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1967.
Description
1 item (3 p.) ; 31.1 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.
Steinbeck indicates at the top of p. 1 that this letter was written from "Mỹ Tho / F.A.C. Mission #2;" date of writing from the publication details of this letter in "John Steinbeck and Newsday" by Robert B. Harmon; see publication details below.
Written on yellow legal pad paper.
Steinbeck indicates at the top of p. 1 that this letter was written from "Mỹ Tho / F.A.C. Mission #2;" date of writing from the publication details of this letter in "John Steinbeck and Newsday" by Robert B. Harmon; see publication details below.
Written on yellow legal pad paper.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1967.
Summary
Continuing his description, from the previous letter (MA 2581.31), of his flight on a reconnaissance mission with the Forward Air Control; describing the afternoon mission (Mission #2) to "direct an air strike on a grenade factory;" describing, in detail, the strike which was carried out by the Vietnamese Air Force.
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