BIB_ID
323334
Accession number
MA 2581.58
Creator
Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.
Display Date
[1967 May 13].
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1967.
Description
1 item (5 p.) ; 28.0 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 lined 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 lined paper.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1967.
Summary
Commenting on the dictatorship of Mao Tse-Tung; suggesting that we "should trade with China to the limit of our ability. We should sell them our things, haggle with them over prices not ideologies--the more trade the better, the more association, the better;" adding that "China is going to be China for a long time--not Mao--but China. I think trade restrictions with any country in the world are stupid and self-destructive."
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