Steinbeck, John Autograph Letter Signed ("John") to Burgess Meredith and Paulette Goddard,regarding his hospitalization, recent accident [New York City], may 26, [1947] UNPUBLISHED. On the even of his planned trip with Robert Capa to report on the state of postwar Europe, Steinbeck suffered a serious fall from his window. Writing to his friends Burgess Merdith and Paulette Goddard, he explains: "...I am in the Lenox Hill Hospital. Have been for two weeks and will be a minimum of one more and maybe two. I leaned out of our downstairs window and the iron guard gave way and I fell to the pavement. Broke my knee, tore ligaments in my back and had those things called internal injuries. I've been a sad sack but am getting better now. So I have to put off the trip I was going to make to let the knee get strong. Anyway here is what we plan to do. About the fifteenth of June Gwynn and I will go to Paris and stay there and thereabouts for about a month. Then she will go home and I will go on to Russia. Maybe we can spend some time together in France. Maybe Paulette could show Gwyn about in the lady dept. I'm supposed to have some francs - quite a lot. This is pretty wavery handwriting, but I have that fateful hospital weakness. By the way, Wallerstein has a play which the Schubert are opening here in the fall but it is opening in Glasgow soon. He is over there now. Maybe its something for you for in Dublin. Try to get in touch with him. It is a very funny and satiric comedy. It might be up your street. Very fine woman's part. Don't know about the man's. Might look into it. Tom [his baby son] has been exposed to mumps. I guess we'll have that next. This damnable sickness makes it hard to write for long...." [with:] MEREDITH, Burgess. Typed Letter (retained carbon copy), June 4 to Steinbeck in reply to the above, and one other,May 22, 1947), in which Meredith requests a copy of Pastures of Heaven. Meredith remarks humourously: "I don't know what philosophic remark to make about your guillotining yourself leaning out of your own downstairs window..." UNPUBLISHED 14 x 8-1/2 inches. 1-1/2pp. in ink on recto and verso of a single sheet of yellow ruled note paper. Slightly waterstaining. From the Estate of Burgess Meredith Price: USD 3,500.00 other currencies   order no. 29901    inquire

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