ALS, one page, 8.5 x 11, personal letterhead, February 2, 1965. Letter to editor and artist Byron Dobell, in full: "Thank you for your invitation to participate in the Esquire Symposium. I can't do it but I am deeply sensible of the compliment of being asked." In fine condition, with a light diagonal crease to the left side. The managing editor of Esquire during the 1960s, Dobell invited Steinbeck to participate in the Esquire Magazine Literary Symposium scheduled as part of the 1st Annual Fine Arts Festival at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, between March 30-April 5, 1965. Steinbeck would have been part of a two-panel discussion examining 'The Novelist as Journalist.'
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