STEINBECK, JOHN. Autograph letter signed ("Father") to his son Thom, [Sag Harbor], 3 July 1956. 2 pages, folio, on both sides of a sheet of lined paper, slighltly wrinkled, a few very tiny holes (one just touching a letter). "MY BOOK IS CRAWLING TOWARD HOME PLATE" A charming, fatherly letter to his son away at summer camp. "... My book [The Short Reign of Pippin IV] is crawling toward home plate on its hand and knees. It is a jewel of literaure but one it will be difficult to pawn. It may also get guillotined. The wedding [to his third wife Elaine] goes on a week from Sunday. It is going to be only slightly less lavish and not much drier than the Aquacade. I protested against the bride and groom riding into the church on elephants but I was voted down... The bride will be encased in a sheathe--call it a scabbard of plastic Valenciennes, acid proof--wash and wear... After the ceremony the happy couple will march out under the arch of rolled uranium stock held up by the groom's men. Since the bride's father is in England (he says), it appears that I am losing a duaghter but gaining a library. I tell you these things because I know your interest in social minutiae..." Not in Steinbeck: A Life in Letters, ed. Elaine Steinbeck & Robert Wallsten, and presumably unpublished.
STEINBECK, JOHN. Autograph letter signed ("Father") to his son Thom, [Sag Harbor], 3 July 1956. 2 pages, folio, on both sides of a sheet of lined paper, slighltly wrinkled, a few very tiny holes (one just touching a letter). "MY BOOK IS CRAWLING TOWARD HOME PLATE" A charming, fatherly letter to his son away at summer camp. "... My book [The Short Reign of Pippin IV] is crawling toward home plate on its hand and knees. It is a jewel of literaure but one it will be difficult to pawn. It may also get guillotined. The wedding [to his third wife Elaine] goes on a week from Sunday. It is going to be only slightly less lavish and not much drier than the Aquacade. I protested against the bride and groom riding into the church on elephants but I was voted down... The bride will be encased in a sheathe--call it a scabbard of plastic Valenciennes, acid proof--wash and wear... After the ceremony the happy couple will march out under the arch of rolled uranium stock held up by the groom's men. Since the bride's father is in England (he says), it appears that I am losing a duaghter but gaining a library. I tell you these things because I know your interest in social minutiae..." Not in Steinbeck: A Life in Letters, ed. Elaine Steinbeck & Robert Wallsten, and presumably unpublished.
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