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Author: Steinbeck, John
Title: Letter from John Steinbeck to "Florence," about a night of passionate discussion and a lovely coat left in his room
Place Published: New York
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Date Published: Wednesday morning, no date [c.1965]
Description:

11 lines, in red ink, on printed letterhead with Steinbeck's 190 East Seventy-second Street, New York, address. Signed "John"

John Steinbeck, in the last decade of his life, writes to Florence, whom we have not been able to trace. "Dear Florence: After our time of passionate discussion last night you left a very pretty coat in my room. I am soon starting to leave and I shall deposit same with the hall porter because I wouldn't want your husband to suspect anything. Yours, John." Beneath this, someone has written in black ink, "OK, Freddi?"

Old folds, very good