BIB_ID
323355
Accession number
MA 2581.62
Creator
Holdsworth, Dorothy J.
Display Date
1967 Apr. 11.
Credit line
Gift of John Steinbeck, 1967.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 28.0 cm
Notes
Dorothy J. Holdsworth was secretary to Harry F. Guggenheim, Editor and Publisher of Newsday.
Elizabeth Otis was a co-founder of McIntosh & Otis, Inc, literary agents to Steinbeck.
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 Newsday letterhead.
Elizabeth Otis was a co-founder of McIntosh & Otis, Inc, literary agents to Steinbeck.
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 Newsday letterhead.
Provenance
Gift of John Steinbeck in 1967.
Summary
Transmitting originals of letters 41 through 57; indicating that there is "no letter #53. We received several letters ending with #52 and when the next group came in they started with #54 so he evidently just skipped a number."
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