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Dancigers, Oscar, d. 1976. Typed letter signed : Mexico City, to John Steinbeck, 1948 July 6.

Title: Typed letter signed : Mexico City, to John Steinbeck, 1948 July 6.

Enclosing (not present) "the rest of the story that was told to us by General Carranco;" also enclosing (1 p.) a "plan de trabajo" listing appointments for July 5-12. Noting that he has not yet received the Pinchon book, but will show it to the people Steinbeck suggested once it arrives. Reporting that Zapata's brother died before him and that the story about his sister being a tortilla vendor is false; also reporting that the film Steinbeck mentioned does not exist either, as the negative and all the prints burned up. Asking when Steinbeck will come to Mexico and noting he will be in California the following week.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 27.7 cm

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/776910900 View

William Hobart Royce papers, 1941-1943.

Title: William Hobart Royce papers, 1941-1943.

Collection consists of Royce's correspondence with Edgcumb Pinchon regarding Royce's research for Pinchon's book: Dan Sickles, Hero of Gettysburg and Yankee King of Spain (1945).

ArchivalResource: .4 linear foot (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86164277 View

Cassius Cook papers, 1908-1950.

Title: Cassius Cook papers, 1908-1950.

Include correspondence of Cook and his wife Sadie, essays, articles, a letter from Tom Bell's daughter, Maisie Bell, to Max Schuster, and a notice To the wage workers of Canada by Robert Gosden. Concern business dealings; the [Rudolf] Rocker Publications Committee, particularly publication of T. Bell's Oscar Wilde without whitewash; Cook's participation in libertarian, rationalist, labor union, and co-operative organizations; family matters, including 15 letters from Clyde Cook while living in St. Petersburg, Russia (May 1914-Sept. 1915); and various friends and acquaintances, including T. Bell, Henry Olerich, and Rudolf Rocker.

ArchivalResource: 228 items.

https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog/record/990008031320106381 View

Schley, Eugene K. Typed letter signed : New York, to John Steinbeck, 1948 July 30.

Title: Typed letter signed : New York, to John Steinbeck, 1948 July 30.

Reporting that the Gotham Book Mart has located copies of Pinchon's Zapata the Unconquerable, and asking by return post whether he still wishes to acquire them.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 17.3 cm

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/777245452 View

William Hobart Royce papers, 1941-1943

Title: William Hobart Royce papers 1941-1943

William Hobart Royce (1878-1963) was a book collector and bibliographer of Brooklyn, N.Y. Collection consists of Royce's correspondence with Edgcumb Pinchon regarding Royce's research for Pinchon's book: Dan Sickles, Hero of Gettysburg and Yankee King of Spain (1945). Also, several accounts and miscellaneous items.

ArchivalResource: .4 linear foot (1 box)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/2639 View

Dancigers, Oscar, d. 1976. Preservation photocopy of a telegram : Mexico City, to John Steinbeck, 1948 July 2.

Title: Preservation photocopy of a telegram : Mexico City, to John Steinbeck, 1948 July 2.

Reporting that the three-volume Zapata the Unconquerable is out of print and asking him to send copies.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 28 cm

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/776910738 View

Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968. Preservation photocopy of a carbon copy of a typed letter : [New York], to Oscar Danziggers [i.e., Dancigers], 1948 June 29.

Title: Preservation photocopy of a carbon copy of a typed letter : [New York], to Oscar Danziggers [i.e., Dancigers], 1948 June 29.

Asking him to acquire three copies of Edgcumb Pinchon's book Zapata the Unconquerable and bring them to three experts on Zapata (Magana, Sote y Gama, and "the little man who is the curator of the State of Morelos library") and to ask them how much of the biography is true and how much is "the invention of Pinchon." Remarking that Pinchon "uses a number of highly dramatic scenes" which he would like to incorporate in the film Viva Zapata! if they are accurate.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 28 cm

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/776721927 View

Bonilla, Jewel B. de. Preservation photocopy of a telegram : [New York], to John Steinbeck, 1948 Aug. 3.

Title: Preservation photocopy of a telegram : [New York], to John Steinbeck, 1948 Aug. 3.

Reporting that she has located copies of Pinchon's book on Zapata in Wisconsin, and asking how many copies she should have sent to Steinbeck.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 27.9 cm

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/777244492 View