Notes
Interviews and letters are cited in the notes, as are newspaper articles contained in archives. The first time a letter to a recipient is cited, I indicate the archive. Since Steinbeck did not date most of his early letters, I have not included notes for letters when the recipient is clear in the text and when no further information can be given. If a Steinbeck letter is included in A Life in Letters, I cite only the page number in that text (LL). Letters from John Steinbeck to his sister Mary Dekker are from the Dekker archive and are quoted with permission from Toni Heyler. Letters and notebooks of Edward F. Ricketts in the Ed Ricketts Jr. collection are quoted by permission of Ed Ricketts Jr. The material attributed to Joseph Campbell's journals comes from an unpublished manuscript for a work of fiction developed by Campbell and is quoted under license by the Joseph Campbell Foundation. When an interviewer is not identified, the interview is by me. For these I have included the name of the person interviewed, if not identified in the text, and the date(s) of the interview only the first time the person is quoted. All interviews conducted by others are identified as such. These are generally from two sources: Benson interviews housed at Stanford University Special Collections, and the Pauline Pearson/George Robinson interviews housed at the National Steinbeck Center, Salinas.
Material quoted is from the following archives, identified briefly in the notes as follows. I wish to thank each library, as well as Steinbeck's literary agents, McIntosh and Otis, and his longtime publisher, Viking Penguin, for permission to quote from published and unpublished material.
Bancroft: Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Albee Papers: George Sumner Albee Papers, BANC MSS C-H 120
Jackson Papers: J. H. Jackson Papers, BANC MSS C-H 40
Steinbeck: John Steinbeck Letters and Manuscripts, 1938â1963, BANC MSS 70/124
CB archive: Carol Henning Brown archive, Center for Steinbeck Studies, San Jose State University
CSS: Center for Steinbeck Studies, San Jose State University
Morgan: Pierpont Morgan Library Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts
NSC: National Steinbeck Center, Salinas
Powell Papers: Lawrence Clark Powell Papers Concerning John Steinbeck, 1935â1941, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Ransom: Harry Ransom Center Book Collection, University of Texas at Austin, John Steinbeck Collection, 1926â1977. HCR, MS, Steinbeck, John
Small: Papers of John Steinbeck, MS 6239, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia
Stanford: Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries
Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo Steinbeck Collection, M1063
JS: John Steinbeck Collection, MO263
S-A: Steinbeck-Ainsworth collection, MO263
ER Papers: Edward Flanders Ricketts Papers, M0291
JJB: Jackson J. Benson, True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer research materials, 1935â1980, MO522
Williams: Annie Laurie Williams Collection, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Butler Library, Columbia University
Wulf: William A. Wulf historical papers, private collection
ABBREVIATIONS
AA: | America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction |
ER: | Edward Ricketts |
GOW: | The Grapes of Wrath |
JS: | John Steinbeck |
LL: | A Life in Letters |
LSOC: | Log from the Sea of Cortez |
LVL: | Long Valley Ledger |
TC: | Tom Collins |
The page numbers below refer to the print version of the text, not the electronic version.
INTRODUCTION
1 âhad a blockbusterâ: Viking files.
1 âpurchase it for circulationâ: French, Companion, 130.
1 âwrathyâ: Frank Taylor, âCalifornia's âGrapes,ââ 232.
1 âline must be drawn somewhereâ: Bob Work, âEditorially Speaking,â Spartan Daily, May 29, 1939, 2.
1 âunfit for patronsâ: ââGrapes of Wrathâ Under Library's Ban at San Jose,â San Jose Mercury News, June 29, 1939, Carol Henning Brown archive (uncatalogued), Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, San Jose State University (hereafter cited as CB archive).
1 âletter to the Kansas City school boardâ: See Rick Wartzman, Obscene in the Extreme, 10.
2 âdistorted mindâ: French, Companion, 125, 126.
2 âwhat I am going to doâ: JS to Tom Collins, n.d. JJB, author's files (hereafter cited as JS to TC; letters fr...