STEINBECK, JOHN. Autograph Letter Signed, "John," to Lorie Beecher, about pigs and mentioning his recent eye surgery. 2 pages, written across both sides of the interior of an 8vo card with an image of a pig on the front. With the original holograph

STEINBECK, JOHN. Autograph Letter Signed, "John," to Lorie Beecher, about pigs and mentioning his recent eye surgery. 2 pages, written across both sides of the interior of an 8vo card with an image of a pig on the front. With the original holograph mailing envelope Signed. Sag Harbor, 23 July 1963 [postmark] E1,500/2,500 "As one patient to another - salud! I hope you recognize my pig on the front. I got on Nick Kenny's Sacred Suckers List. Lots of them applied their pens in sun-shine which didn't improve their spelling and told me to look upward. This was one thing the doctors told me not to do. Anyway, I'm not writing with sunshine. This here is ink or as they say in Texas Ank. Elaine sends love and so do I . . . P.S. I just had a detached retina sewed back." Steinbeck has additionally written on the front cover under the image of the pig, "ad astra per alas porci."