STEINBECK, JOHN. Autograph letter signed ("John") to Harold Otis Bicknell and Grant McLean ("Dear Gabe and Mack"), models for two characters in Cannery Row ("Gay" was based on Bicknell), [New York], 13 November 1953. 1¼ pages, folio, on two sheets of lined yellow paper, creased from folding, some marginal fold tears, top margins slightly darkened, with envelope addressed by Steinbeck to Bicknell in Monterey, California. "I HAVE JUST FINISHED ANOTHER BOOK ABOUT THE ROW." A fine letter. "... I have just finished another book about the Row [Sweet Thursday]. It is a continuation concerned not with what did happen but with what might have happened. The one can be as true as the other. As a book, this will probably be out next summer or fall [it was published in June 1954]. Then Rodgers and Hammerstein are making a play with music [Pipe Dream] of it for late fall or early spring [the musical opened on Broadway in 1955]... Think it is a funny story--and sad too because it is what might have happened to Ed [his very close friend Ricketts, the character "Doc" in Cannery Row and the dedicatee of the book--see lot ###] and didn't. I don't seem to be able to get over his death. But this will be the last piece about him. Did you ever see the little biography I wrote about him for the second edition of the Sea of Cortez [ The Log from the Sea of Cortez, 1951]? ... I'm sad about Wing [closing?]. The old order clanges and it makes me feel old. And the best dies out and leaves only us bums. We're indestructible..." Not in Steinbeck: A Life in Letters, ed. Elaine Steinbeck & Robert Wallsten, and presumably unpublished.
STEINBECK, JOHN. Autograph letter signed ("John") to Harold Otis Bicknell and Grant McLean ("Dear Gabe and Mack"), models for two characters in Cannery Row ("Gay" was based on Bicknell), [New York], 13 November 1953. 1¼ pages, folio, on two sheets of lined yellow paper, creased from folding, some marginal fold tears, top margins slightly darkened, with envelope addressed by Steinbeck to Bicknell in Monterey, California. "I HAVE JUST FINISHED ANOTHER BOOK ABOUT THE ROW." A fine letter. "... I have just finished another book about the Row [Sweet Thursday]. It is a continuation concerned not with what did happen but with what might have happened. The one can be as true as the other. As a book, this will probably be out next summer or fall [it was published in June 1954]. Then Rodgers and Hammerstein are making a play with music [Pipe Dream] of it for late fall or early spring [the musical opened on Broadway in 1955]... Think it is a funny story--and sad too because it is what might have happened to Ed [his very close friend Ricketts, the character "Doc" in Cannery Row and the dedicatee of the book--see lot ###] and didn't. I don't seem to be able to get over his death. But this will be the last piece about him. Did you ever see the little biography I wrote about him for the second edition of the Sea of Cortez [ The Log from the Sea of Cortez, 1951]? ... I'm sad about Wing [closing?]. The old order clanges and it makes me feel old. And the best dies out and leaves only us bums. We're indestructible..." Not in Steinbeck: A Life in Letters, ed. Elaine Steinbeck & Robert Wallsten, and presumably unpublished.
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