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STEINBECK JOHN (1902-1968)
Lettre autographe signée adressé
à l’acteur Oliver BURGESS
MEREDITH
« Stockholm. Hôtel Plaza »,
25 juillet [1947], 1 page in-4
à l’encre signée « John » en anglais
2 000 / 2 500 €
Lettre inédite de Steinbeck qui, visitant l’Eu-
rope après la guerre, écrit de Stockholm
à l’acteur Burgess Meredith. La lettre est
également relative au photographe Robert
Capa.
Steinbeck précise que les Français sont un
peuple très immoral.
« Dear Burgess : Your letters were received
just before I left Paris
. The french are a
very immoral people.
But Honest Jake Puff
made Gwyn a very beautiful dress - walk
upstairs and save $5. Stockholm is a fine
town. There is a report here that you are
going to play Winterset here. Is this true? We
leave Monday for Uncle Joe’s cabin. I have
no idea what we will find there but I hope
it is all right. Capa is in good shape. Now
he is in the country photographing farmers
and farmers daughters I guess. I hope your
opening [WINTERSET at the Gaiety in Dublin,
Ireland] is triumphant and it is bound to be. I
wish it were my play [Steinbeck’s abandoned
play THE LAST JOAN]. For two days I have
been out amongst the archipelago sporting
about in a boat and I feel very good. Boats
are fine things. If you need to get word to me
it can be c/o Joe Newman, Herald Tribune
bureau, Moscow. Try it! It will be interesting
to see whether it gets through. Good luck
and love to Paulette [Goddard] ».