TLS, 1939 May 25 : Los Gatos, California, to Marshall A. Best.

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TLS, 1939 May 25 : Los Gatos, California, to Marshall A. Best.

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Steinbeck writes to Viking Press editor Best and explains the inscription "Viva la Huelga!" that Steinbeck had written in a copy of one of his books. He also writes: "I still don't understand Finnegan's Wake but more than that I do not understand a man who would spend seventeen years writing it."

1 p. ; 28 x 21.5 cm.

Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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Copley Press, J S Copley Library

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