BIB_ID
323237
Accession number
MA 2581.48
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
[1967 Mar. 18].
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.
Place and 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.
Place and 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
Describing the importance of the northeastern provinces of Thailand as "the battlefront of methods and ideas, the true confrontation of our allies and ourselves with the Communist pressure for power. And it is in places like these that we will win or lose and the future of the world will be decided--not in Washington, or Moscow or Peking, but in the rice paddy, the hill village, the fishing boat and the conservers of weaving and pottery, and the thousand products of the bamboo. This is the heart;" describing their hotel; relating a conversation with a commander of a Seabee unit working in the village of Ban Nong Chon; relating a conversation with a young Peace Corps worker.
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