Carol and John Steinbeck: Portrait of a Marriage

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263 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 The material attributed to Joseph Campbell’s journals comes from an unpublished manuscript for a work of fiction developed by Campbell and is quoted under license by the Joseph Campbell Foundation.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agents, McIntosh and Otis, and his longtime publisher, Viking Penguin, for permission to quote from published and unpublished material.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, 1938–1963, 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 Notes 264 n o tes Morgan: Pierpont Morgan Library Department of Literary and Historical Manuscripts NSC: National Steinbeck Center, Salinas Powell Papers: Lawrence Clark Powell Papers Concerning John Steinbeck, 1935–1941, Houghton Library, Harvard University Ransom: Harry Ransom Center Book Collection, University of Texas at Austin , John Steinbeck Collection, 1926–1977. 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, 1935–1980, 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 introduction 1 “had a blockbuster”: Viking files. 1 “purchase it for circulation”: French, Companion, 130. 1 “wrathy”: Frank Taylor, “California’s ‘Grapes,’” 232. 1 “line must be drawn somewhere”: Bob Work, “Editorially Speaking,” Spartan Daily, May 29, 1939, 2. 1 “unfit for patrons”: “‘Grapes of Wrath’ Under Library’s Ban at San Jose,” San Jose Mercury News, June 29, 1939, Carol Henning Brown archive notes 265 (uncatalogued), Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies, San Jose State University (hereafter cited as CB archive). 1 “letter to the Kansas City school board”: See Rick Wartzman, Obscene in the Extreme, 10. 2 “distorted mind”: French, Companion, 125, 126. 2 “what I am going to do”: JS to Tom Collins, n.d. JJB, author’s files (hereafter cited as JS to TC; letters from 1936 to 1939 are not dated). 2 “period of my research”: JS, LL, 202. 2 “Migrant John”: Tom Cameron, “‘Grapes of Wrath’ Author Guards Self from Threats at Moody Gulch: Dust Bowl Book Brings Trouble,” Los Angeles Times, July 9, 1939, in Fensch, Conversations, 18–20. 2 “Carol’s book”: JS, LL, 180. 4 “rather than to undergo it”: Weinstein, Nobody’s Home, 146. 4 “rejection slips”: W. J. Weatherby, “From Monterey: John Steinbeck Writes as He Talks—Painfully, Simply...