John Steinbeck’s personal journal, $70,000, Bonhams

Author John Steinbeck’s personal journal from 1949 (left), in which he details his despair at the loss of his best friend and the end of his second marriage, sold for $70,000, and a circa 1941 gelatin print photograph of Steinbeck (right) sold alongside two other photos for $4,500 at a sale of material dedicated to Steinbeck held on October 25th by Bonhams in New York. Also, a fragment of the original draft of Of Mice and Men, destroyed by Steinbeck’s dog Toby, gaveled for $13,000.