BIB_ID
323081
Accession number
MA 2581.34
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
[1967 Feb.].
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1967.
Description
1 item (1 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.
Place and date of writing of this letter inferred from its placement within the collection; Steinbeck has numbered each of the letters.
Written on yellow legal pad paper.
Place and date of writing of this letter inferred from its placement within the collection; Steinbeck has numbered each of the letters.
Written on yellow legal pad paper.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1967.
Summary
Discussing the use and effectiveness of leaflet drops over North Vietnam; saying he is enclosing examples of the leaflets, however, there are no leaflets in this collection of letters.
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