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Steinbeck's copy of The Hymnal, signed and dated on his fourteenth birthday (entry 409). (Courtesy of John Steinbeck Library, Salinas, Cali­fornia)

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PROMETHEUS BOUND

H EPH,\);5TUS

Let us go hence; his legs are firmly chained.

STRENCTH (Tv I'RmIETHIWS)

Aha : there play the insolent, and steal, For creature. 0( a day, the rights of gods! o deep delusion of the powers that named thee Prometheus, the F ore·thinker: thou hast need Of others' forethought and device, whereby Thou may'st elude this handicraft of ours !

[Ere .. '" HEPHAESTUS, STRtoNGTH, IIl1ti FORCE.-A pauu.

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,Y 0 Sky divine, 0 Winds of pinions swift, , 0 fountain·heads of Rivers, and 0 thou,

'. Illimitahle laughter of the Sea ! ~ . ;;y ~ Earth, the Mighty Mother, and thou Sun,

,v,\' ;", ... ' liIi Whose orbed light surnyeth all-attest, " . .J-"" oF What ills I suffer from the gods, a god !

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iY i, IJehold me, who must here sustain , The marring agonies of pain,

\Vrestling with torture, doomed to bear I Eternal ages, year on year!

.~ h "",",-'-I Such and so shameful is the chain \ " ..J ........ Which . Heaven's new tyrant doth ordain

..... < " .. ,- v.i" . ..-:I- To bind me helpless here. " Woe ! for the ruthless present doom!

\Voe! for the f·uture's teeming womb! On what far dawn, in what dim skies. Shall star of my deliverance rise ?

Truce to thb. utterance; to its dimmest verge I do foreknow the future, hour by hour,

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Nor can whatever pang may smite me now Smite with surprise. The destiny ordained I must endure to the best, for well I wot That none may challenge with Necessity. Yet is it pallt my patience, to reveal, Or to conceal, these issues of my doom. Since I to mortals brought prerogatives, Unto this durance dismal am I bound: Yea, I am he who in a fennel-stalk, By stealthy sleight, purveyed the fount of fire, The teacher, proven thus, and arch. resource Of every art tbat aideth mortal men.

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Such was my sin: 1 eam its recompense, Rock.riveted, and chained in height and cold.

[A pa .. ". Listen! what breath of sound, what fragrance sofl

bath risen Upward 10 me? is it some godlike essence, Or being half-divine, or mortal presence? Who to the world's end comes, unto my craggy

prison? Craves he the sight of pain, or whal would he

behold? Gaze on a god in tortures manifold, Heinous to Zeus, and scorned by all Whose fool steps tread the hea"enly hall, Because too deeply, from on high, 1 pitied man's mortality ! . Hark, and again ! Ihat lIu:tenng sound Of wings that whirr and Circle round, And their light rustle thrills the air­How :Ill things that unseen draw near

Are 10 me Fear! (Elltel'tllt CHORUS 01' OCliANIDliS,

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Annotations in the Steinbecks' copy of Aeschylus (entry 10). (Courtesy of Arthur Ring, Campbell, California)

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:tHIS BOOK BELONGS TO CAROl. AND

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Books ordered by Edward F. Ricketts through John Steinbeck and The Viking Press. (Courtesy of Webster Street, Carmel, California)

Mr. Paul C8IIwell SALIl'IAS.:.CALIPORllIAJ Salinas, Calitornia

Dear Mr. Caawelll

I sa gathering material tor a novel, the set­t1ng ot wh1ch 1s to be the region between San Luis Obispo and S~nta Cruz, partioularly the Sal1nas valley; the time, between 1900 and the present.

An exceedingly important part ot the research necesaary will involve the tiles ot the Salinas papera; will it be possible tor me to consult these files? Do you know what has hE,ppened to the tUes ot the INDEX­JOURNAL and vould it be possible for you to arrange my .a,cceaa to them?

I expect to be in Monterey soon after January 20th; could you let me know as soon as possible (by col­lect wtre it necessary) it these tUes can be thrown open to me.

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Very truly yours

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Steinbeck's letter of request to Paul Caswell. (Courtesy of Paul Caswell, and John Steinbeck Library, Salinas, California)

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Steinbeck reading back files of Salinas Index for his research on East of Eden. (Courtesy of John Steinbeck Library, Salinas, California)

"Sometimes, but not often, a rain comes to the Salinas Valley in November. It is so rare that the Journal or the Index or both carry editorials about it." (East of Eden, Chapter 46)

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Steinbeck's application for reader's privileges at The Pierpont Morgan Library. (Courtesy of The Pierpont Morgan Library)

"The Morgan Library has opened its arms and its great manu­scripts to me ... :' (John Steinbeck to Alexander Frere, 18 January 1957)

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Gustave Dore's illustrations for Dante's Paradisio (entry 225). (Courtesy of Sterling Library, Yale University)

"He [Aron Trask] has no idea where he got this picture of academic life-perhaps from the Don~ illustrations of Dante's Inferno [sic] with its massed and radiant angels." (East of Eden, Chapter 47)

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