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 for John Steinbeck.
Transmitting original copies of Steinbeck's letters numbered 24 through 29 and number 31; noting that "Number 30 is incomplete and Mr. Steinbeck has asked me to hold it until he can locate the last page or rewrite it."