BIB_ID
323318
Accession number
MA 2581.55
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
[1967 Apr. 22].
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1967.
Description
1 item (6 p.) ; 26.7 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 white lined 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 white lined paper.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1967.
Summary
Describing the beauty of Bali; reflecting on what he has seen and heard in his travels in Southeast Asia; commenting on the freedom he has been given to travel and report without any restrictions; chastising Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, John Updike, Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee for their opposition to the war without having been to see it firsthand; concluding by saying that "one thing I will promise any fellow writers. If they will come out and associate with the war they detest, they will not hate war the less, but at least they will know what they are talking about and that is a valuable thing to a writer, as well you know Alicia."
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