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[STEINBECK, JOHN.] Typescript copied by Carlton A. Sheffield from the original typescript of The Green Lady. A Novel by John Steinbeck and Webster Street. 106 pages, plus title-page, 4to, carbon copy, with occasional corrections in ink by Sheffield. With a typed statement, "Notes on the Manuscript," dated 6 May 1972, 1 page, 4to, carbon copy, explaining how the original typescript of The Green Lady had been given to him by Steinbeck--a close life-long friend--in the late 1920s and how he had prepared the copy offered in this lot.
Steinbeck began working on The Green Lady draft in the summer of 1928. It was a novelistic treatment of a short play by his friend Webster ("Toby") Street, who, unable to finish his drama, had turned over his material to the interested Steinbeck. The Green Lady is actually the first draft of what eventually became, after numerous rewrites and title-changes, To a God Unknown, Steinbeck's third published book (1933). Aside from the original Steinbeck typescript (given to Sheffield and now at Stanford University) and this present typescript copy made from it by Sheffield, no other copies are apparently known of this unpublished embryonic version of the novel that evolved into To a God Unknown. See Jackson J. Benson, The True Adventure of John Steinbeck, Writer (New York: Penguin Books, 1990), pp. 108-110 and 138-141.
Steinbeck began working on The Green Lady draft in the summer of 1928. It was a novelistic treatment of a short play by his friend Webster ("Toby") Street, who, unable to finish his drama, had turned over his material to the interested Steinbeck. The Green Lady is actually the first draft of what eventually became, after numerous rewrites and title-changes, To a God Unknown, Steinbeck's third published book (1933). Aside from the original Steinbeck typescript (given to Sheffield and now at Stanford University) and this present typescript copy made from it by Sheffield, no other copies are apparently known of this unpublished embryonic version of the novel that evolved into To a God Unknown. See Jackson J. Benson, The True Adventure of John Steinbeck, Writer (New York: Penguin Books, 1990), pp. 108-110 and 138-141.