Erskine Caldwell letter, 1947 April 26.

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Erskine Caldwell letter, 1947 April 26.

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The collection consists of T.L.S. to Mr. Sumner dated April 26, 1947 on his personal stationery. In this letter, the American writer of novels and short stories about the South answers and inquiry about one of his works. The story "Daughter," Caldwell explains, is purposely vague "as that was my conception of a situation where such things could happen to anybody ... In my mind, a man, black or white, could find himself in such a jam regardless of class or color, and become the innocent victim of mass feeling. In this particular case, I would say he was a white man and that he was freed. It could be otherwise, depending upon an individual's own mental attitude towards society."

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Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987

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Erskine Preston Caldwell was born in White Oak, Coweta County, Georgia, the son of Ira Sylvester Caldwell, a minister, and Caroline Bell, a teacher. Caldwell much later believed that being brought up as a minister's son in the Deep South was "my good fortune in life," for his family's frequent moves to different congregations in the region gave him an intimate knowledge of the people, localities, and ways of life that would inform his fiction and documentary writing. As a youth he observed, with...