ARCHIVE OF CORRESPONDENCE TO PARE LORENTZ, FROM THE PERIOD OF COMPOSITION OF “THE GRAPES OF WRATH.” 1. 8 Autograph Letters Signed (“John”), 9 pp, 4to, Los Gatos, March 3, 1938 to [March, 1939], to Pare Lorentz, on typing paper, pages creased, toned, thumbed, many corners creased. 2. 5 Typed Letters of Steinbeck, 6 pp, 4to, [Los Gatos], March 22 to April 24, 1938, to Pare Lorentz, creasing, toning, and thumbing. 3. Typed Carbon, 5 pp, 4to, n.p., [February 28, 1938], being an untitled draft of the article later published as “Starvation Under the Orange Trees,” with annotations in an unknown hand, together with Farm Security Administration correspondence transmitting the draft and excerpts from Steinbeck’s original letter accompanying, plus a second letter dated March 3, 1938 forwarding corrections to the director of the FSA, some creasing and toning throughout, correspondence and excerpts stapled to manuscript; together with a 5 pp typed copy with two carbons on yellow paper. The earlier draft of the Steinbeck article was probably produced under the aegis of Fred Soule at the Farm Security Administration, who forwarded it to his boss John Fischer who sent it to Lorentz in the hopes that the latter could place it with the New York Daily News. The second copy and carbons were likely produced under Lorentz’s supervision. A remarkable group of letters written to a close friend during the year Steinbeck was writing The Grapes of Wrath, along with an early copy of the article that galvanized his intention to write about the plight of the migrant workers. Steinbeck’s letters to Pare are full of details about the FSA and other New Deal agencies, but also about his novel. From a letter likely written in early summer: “I am working hard and will be until October. I’ll fight anything that takes me from this book. And so far I think it is a good book. And also I think when you see this book, you will be much more interested in it than in I.D.B. [In Dubious Battle.] But I must finish it and it is work, 200,000 words of work.” In another undated letter he writes: “… if I can only do the job well enough, a complete picture of a migrant family will emerge, from the Sallisaw tenant farm to the problem—relief or organization. And that is the problem as you well know.” In later letters, Steinbeck reports that the novel is finished, and that Viking is preparing for a best-seller. Together with a collection of Western Union telegrams between Lorentz, Steinbeck, and FSA officials, and copies of Lorentz’s correspondence to Steinbeck. See illustration.
ARCHIVE OF CORRESPONDENCE TO PARE LORENTZ, FROM THE PERIOD OF COMPOSITION OF “THE GRAPES OF WRATH.” 1. 8 Autograph Letters Signed (“John”), 9 pp, 4to, Los Gatos, March 3, 1938 to [March, 1939], to Pare Lorentz, on typing paper, pages creased, toned, thumbed, many corners creased. 2. 5 Typed Letters of Steinbeck, 6 pp, 4to, [Los Gatos], March 22 to April 24, 1938, to Pare Lorentz, creasing, toning, and thumbing. 3. Typed Carbon, 5 pp, 4to, n.p., [February 28, 1938], being an untitled draft of the article later published as “Starvation Under the Orange Trees,” with annotations in an unknown hand, together with Farm Security Administration correspondence transmitting the draft and excerpts from Steinbeck’s original letter accompanying, plus a second letter dated March 3, 1938 forwarding corrections to the director of the FSA, some creasing and toning throughout, correspondence and excerpts stapled to manuscript; together with a 5 pp typed copy with two carbons on yellow paper. The earlier draft of the Steinbeck article was probably produced under the aegis of Fred Soule at the Farm Security Administration, who forwarded it to his boss John Fischer who sent it to Lorentz in the hopes that the latter could place it with the New York Daily News. The second copy and carbons were likely produced under Lorentz’s supervision. A remarkable group of letters written to a close friend during the year Steinbeck was writing The Grapes of Wrath, along with an early copy of the article that galvanized his intention to write about the plight of the migrant workers. Steinbeck’s letters to Pare are full of details about the FSA and other New Deal agencies, but also about his novel. From a letter likely written in early summer: “I am working hard and will be until October. I’ll fight anything that takes me from this book. And so far I think it is a good book. And also I think when you see this book, you will be much more interested in it than in I.D.B. [In Dubious Battle.] But I must finish it and it is work, 200,000 words of work.” In another undated letter he writes: “… if I can only do the job well enough, a complete picture of a migrant family will emerge, from the Sallisaw tenant farm to the problem—relief or organization. And that is the problem as you well know.” In later letters, Steinbeck reports that the novel is finished, and that Viking is preparing for a best-seller. Together with a collection of Western Union telegrams between Lorentz, Steinbeck, and FSA officials, and copies of Lorentz’s correspondence to Steinbeck. See illustration.
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