Typed letter signed : Garden City, New York, to Elizabeth Otis, 1966 Jan. 17.

Part of a collection of letters from John Steinbeck to Alicia Patterson Guggenheim, written from New York and during his travels in Ireland, England, Israel in 1965-1966. 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 from the office of Harry F. Guggenheim, Editor and Publisher; Elizabeth Otis, the recipient, was the co-founder of McIntosh and Otis, literary agents to John Steinbeck.