[Includes note in hand of [ Eugene Solow ] "added scene for picture version of Of Mice and Men -cut out of picture."]

[Discusses returning the boys [ John Steinbeck IV and Thom Steinbeck ] to Gwyndolyn Conger \Steinbeck , The Wayward Bus [a screenplay]; briefly discusses Cup of Gold ; mentions A. L. [ Annie Laurel Williams ], Solow's man [ Charles Feldman ], New York City , Florida , Sanchez , and The Wayward Bus characters Van Brunt, [Ernest] Horton, Johnny/Juan Chicoy, Pimples [Ed "Kit" Carson], [Elliot] Pritchard and Mrs. P [Bernice Pritchard].]

[Discusses "this tie" [to Elaine Anderson Scott ], the picture [ The Wayward Bus ], [Elia] Kazan and Viva Zapata! , a pen; mentions E. [ Elaine Anderson Scott ], Russ.]

[Discusses Solow's ailment, the script [ The Wayward Bus ], moving and starting the play [ Burning Bright ]; mentions [ Charles Feldman ], Jack [Wagner] , Rio , A. L. W. [ Annie Laurie Williams ], Elaine Anderson Scott , and the kids [ John Steinbeck IV and Thom Steinbeck ].]

[Discusses life with Elaine Anderson Scott ; briefly discusses weather, the play [ Burning Bright ], the picture [ The Wayward Bus ], a planned trip to Sweden with the boys [ John Steinbeck IV and Thom Steinbeck ], and As You Like It ; mentions Stockholm , [ The New York] Times , Of Mice and Men , [ New York Herald] Tribune , and California . ]

[Discusses [Charles] Feldman 's business dealings regarding the [screen] play [ The Wayward Bus ], the play [ Burning Bright ] and plans to work with Gadg [Elia Kazan] and [Darryl Francis] Zanuck on Viva Zapata! ; briefly discusses Solow's spirit taking a beating, the relationship between Zachary Scott and Shelley Winters and Annie Laurie [Williams] plans to talk to Feldman; mentions The Viking Press , Mexico , New Orleans , and Elaine Anderson Scott . ]

[Discusses as trip to work with [Darryl Francis] Zanuck on Viva Zapata! , a possible conference with him, [Charles] Feldman , and [ Jack Wagner and Max] Wagner ; mentions Annie Laurel [Williams] , Beverly HIlls Hotel , and Rio . ]

[Discusses the picture [ The Wayward Bus ], the purchase of his play [ Burning Bright ] by [Richard] Rodgers and [Oscar] Hammerstein [II] , work with [Elia] Kazan on Viva Zapata! , Elaine Anderson Scott having the flu, going to The Wisteria Trees , rain making, "red hunts", and Solow's town as "a sink-hole of sex"; mentions [ Charles Feldman ].]

[Discusses love, cancellation of a trip to Sweden , and Annie Laurel [Williams] ; briefly discusses the play [ Burning Bright ], Elaine Anderson Scott and work with Gadg [Elia Kazan] on Viva Zapata! ; mentions the kids [ John Steinbeck IV and Thom Steinbeck ], [ The Wayward Bus ], Texas and Scandinavia . ]

[Discusses the play [ Burning Bright ], Cup of Gold , the stage version of Cannery Row , someone [ Gwyndolyn Conger Steinbeck ] who made "a fool of herself"; briefly discusses Solow being "drowned in spit," Jerry Wald , [Humphrey] Bogart , " Nothing So Monstrous " from The Pastures of Heaven as film material, his long novel East of Eden and Elaine Anderson Scott ; mentions Jules Buck , [ Twentieth Century] Fox , Annie Laurie [Williams] , Boston , New Haven , New York City . ]

[Discusses [ The Wayward Bus ] script; mentions [Charles] Feldman . ]

[Discusses Solow's need to "get out of there," the play [ Burning Bright ], Elaine Anderson Scott , the boys [ John Steinbeck IV and Thom Steinbeck ], and weather [in New York City ]; briefly discusses [Jo] Mielziner , moving back to town and Annie Laurie [Williams ]; mentions Gwyndolyn Conger Steinbeck , [Guthrie] McClintic , New Haven , Boston , and The Feldman Festival . ]

[Discusses how "the critics murdered us" [regarding the play Burning Bright ] and its effect upon him; briefly discusses the play's chances in Europe and [Robert] Garland 's notice.]

[Discusses weathering the killing of the play [ Burning Bright ], starting his long novel [ East of Eden ], the book [ Burning Bright ], plans to marry Elaine Anderson Scott , [Jack] Wagner and Max Wagner ; mentions New York City . ]

[Discusses Annie Laurie [Williams] handling "the business in hand," Solow's girlfriends, buying a house, The Wayward [movie], [ Humphrey Bogart ], plans to marry Elaine Anderson Scott ; briefly discusses Burning Bright [the play and the book], and article ["Critics, Critics Burning Bright] which he wrote for Saturday Review of Literature , Betty, the phone strike, [Elia] Kazan 's problems with A Streetcar Named Desire , Viva Zapata! , a trip [to Bermuda ], Jules Buck , starting his long novel [ East of Eden ], Solow and Joan Crawford as sponsors of his relationship with Elaine, attending the ballet [by Le Grand Ballet du Marquis] de Cuevas , seeing Gadg [Elia Kazan] , weather; mentions Harold [Kleinert] Guinzberg , New York City , Broadway , Denmark and Vienna ; two notes to John Steinbeck and Elaine Anderson Scott , are on the back of the envelope in [ Eugene Solow 's ] hand.]

[Discusses a new house, a trip, the Viva Zapata! script, [ Louella Parsons ], and work on his new book [ East of Eden ].]

[Discusses a film Solow is doing and giving him more stories, a trip to Spain , plans to see the other two films and "a new deal" involving narration on John Steinbeck 's part; mentions Europe . ]

[Discusses Jack Wagner and Author's Playhouse, Inc. ; mentions Charlie and New York City . ]