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.
Transmitting carbon copies of letters 8 and 9 which were "apparently lost in the mail" and originals of letters 18 through 40.