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"DIPLOMATIC PASSPORT" ISSUED TO AND SIGNED BY STEINBECK. STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968. Typed Document Signed ("John Steinbeck"), declaring Steinbeck to be a citizen of California and asking that he be treated with kindness when traveling within and outside the state, 1 p, legal folio, [Sacramento, CA], April 6, 1938,
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"DIPLOMATIC PASSPORT" ISSUED TO AND SIGNED BY STEINBECK.
STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968. Typed Document Signed ("John Steinbeck"), declaring Steinbeck to be a citizen of California and asking that he be treated with kindness when traveling within and outside the state, 1 p, legal folio, [Sacramento, CA], April 6, 1938, also signed by Frank C. Jordan, California Secretary of State, with gold foil seal tied with blue and gold ribbon, sheet tipped at edges to silver legal sleeve, light creasing and toning, adhesive remnants to verso of sleeve.
Interesting document issued to Steinbeck by the California Secretary of State just as he is beginning to write The Grapes of Wrath: "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: / THIS IS TO CERTIFY that JOHN STEINBECK is a resident of the city of Los Gatos in the state of California. / Mr. Steinbeck is a prominent author and is highly respected. He frequently visits in the several Counties of the State and the several states of the Union, and this is to ask that, wherever he may be, he be extended every courtesy to the end that upon his return to his home he may always remember with pleasure the kind treatment he received while absent therefrom." I find no reference to this document in any of the Steinbeck biographies. It was issued (April 6, 1938) just as he was hunkering down to write The Grapes of Wrath, and so did very little traveling until after the novel was completed. It may have been issued to him after word of some of the difficulties he experienced in researching Grapes reached the ears of California politicians.
Interesting document issued to Steinbeck by the California Secretary of State just as he is beginning to write The Grapes of Wrath: "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: / THIS IS TO CERTIFY that JOHN STEINBECK is a resident of the city of Los Gatos in the state of California. / Mr. Steinbeck is a prominent author and is highly respected. He frequently visits in the several Counties of the State and the several states of the Union, and this is to ask that, wherever he may be, he be extended every courtesy to the end that upon his return to his home he may always remember with pleasure the kind treatment he received while absent therefrom." I find no reference to this document in any of the Steinbeck biographies. It was issued (April 6, 1938) just as he was hunkering down to write The Grapes of Wrath, and so did very little traveling until after the novel was completed. It may have been issued to him after word of some of the difficulties he experienced in researching Grapes reached the ears of California politicians.