BIB_ID
323090
Accession number
MA 2581.36
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
[1967 Feb. 20].
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.
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.
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.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1967.
Summary
Describing a visit to the Venerable Thich Tam Giac, leader of the moderate Buddhists and head chaplain of the army of South Vietnam; describing the judo classes held at the school Giac founded which he observed with the Venerable Giac; describing the dinner he and his wife attended hosted by the Venerable Giac and attended by young members of the South Vietnamese army; quoting Giac as saying "I would like ideally to create a nation of secure men, men and women who knowing they can defend themselves, do not have to."
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