Letter from John Steinbeck to Harry Golden (detail)
1media/goldhar-ms0020-pt2-014-068-detail_thumb.jpg2024-09-13T08:05:25-07:00Dawn Schmitz058a3a82673b345aeb84d7969cae24e0a5c62dd1413244Brief excerpt from letter in which Steinbeck relates his views on the Civil Rights movement.Handwritten letter containing the sentence, "I am saddened but not surprised to see the edges of patience giving way to rage."plain2024-10-02T11:55:08-07:00Harry Golden Papers MS0020, J. Murrey Atkins Library, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte1973textThis Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). If you have additional information about any of the materials in this collection, or if you believe that you own the copyright, please contact us and include a specific description of the material in question.Steinbeck, John, 1902-1968.Dawn Schmitz058a3a82673b345aeb84d7969cae24e0a5c62dd1
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1media/caroisr-1958-02-19-Speeches.jpg2022-10-25T18:25:43-07:00John Steinbeck6plain2024-10-29T14:37:54-07:00Correspondence between Golden and John Steinbeck, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for literature, was warm and clever. A postcard sent by Steinbeck in 1963 about a soon-to-be candidate for president said only, “Barry Goldwater promises to lead us out of Egypt, and I believe he could do it too. Trouble is, we ain’t in Egypt.” In another letter, Steinbeck wrote movingly about the growing anger fueling the civil rights movement, saying that the “unbelievable patience and forbearance of the Negro [has] so far been unique in revolutionary history. I am saddened but not surprised to see the edges of patience giving way to rage.”
