STEINBECK, JOHN. Autograph letter signed ("J.S.") to Dennis Murphy, n.p. [Sag Harbor], 21 September 1956. 1 page, folio, in blue ink on lined yellow legal-pad sheet, a few light stains, a bit rubbed at a folds; with typed transcript . "I STILL HAVE NOT BEEN FORGIVEN" "I'm sorry you had an argument with your father. But...You must finish this book and then you must finish another. If anything at all saving your own death, stops you, except momentarily, then you are not a writer anyway...the one important thing for you is to get your work done. If anyone gets hurt in the process, you cannot be blamed. But don't think for a moment that you will ever be forgiven for being what they call 'different'...I still have not been forgiven. Only when I am delivered in a pine box will I be considered 'safe.' After I had written The Grapes of Wrath and it had been to a large extent read and sometimes burned, the librarian at Salinas Public Library, who had known my folks -- remarked that it was lucky my parents were dead so that they did not have to suffer this shame..." Printed in Steinbeck: A Life in Letters , ed. E. Steinbeck and R. Wallsten, pp. 538-39; the other six letters to Dennis Murphy offered in this sale are not in A Life in Letters and are presumably unpublished.
STEINBECK, JOHN. Autograph letter signed ("J.S.") to Dennis Murphy, n.p. [Sag Harbor], 21 September 1956. 1 page, folio, in blue ink on lined yellow legal-pad sheet, a few light stains, a bit rubbed at a folds; with typed transcript . "I STILL HAVE NOT BEEN FORGIVEN" "I'm sorry you had an argument with your father. But...You must finish this book and then you must finish another. If anything at all saving your own death, stops you, except momentarily, then you are not a writer anyway...the one important thing for you is to get your work done. If anyone gets hurt in the process, you cannot be blamed. But don't think for a moment that you will ever be forgiven for being what they call 'different'...I still have not been forgiven. Only when I am delivered in a pine box will I be considered 'safe.' After I had written The Grapes of Wrath and it had been to a large extent read and sometimes burned, the librarian at Salinas Public Library, who had known my folks -- remarked that it was lucky my parents were dead so that they did not have to suffer this shame..." Printed in Steinbeck: A Life in Letters , ed. E. Steinbeck and R. Wallsten, pp. 538-39; the other six letters to Dennis Murphy offered in this sale are not in A Life in Letters and are presumably unpublished.
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