Flannery (61 page)

289
“inordinate affection”: FOC to Betty Hester, May 5, 1962,
CW,
1162.

289
“had wonderful things to say”: Robert Fitzgerald, “Introduction,”
Everything That Rises,
xxiii.

289
“25% Bumbling Boys”: FOC to Maryat Lee, April 17, 1957,
HB,
215.

289
“intent upon it”: Robert Fitzgerald, “Introduction,”
Everything That Rises,
xxiii.

289
“unhappy combinations”: FOC, “The Fiction Writer and His Country,”
CW,
802.

289
“To the hard of hearing”: Ibid., 806.

289
“score”: Robert Fitzgerald, “Introduction,”
Everything That Rises,
xxiii.

290
“Quite soon”: Elizabeth Bishop, “Flannery O’Connor, 1925–1964,”
New York Review of Books
3, no. 4 (October 8, 1964): 21.

290
“I sat down with a six pack”: Cash,
Flannery O’Connor,
240.

290
“I tried reading them aloud”: Louise H. Abbot, “Remembering Flannery,”
Flannery O’Connor Bulletin
23 (1994–95): 61.

290
“I am very glad”: FOC to Louise Abbot, February 27, 1957,
HB,
205.

291
“we would have a few beers”: Louise Abbot to Maryat Lee, January 19, 1977, private collection.

291
“very expressive”: Abbot, “Remembering Flannery,” 63.

291
“
You
stay here”: Ibid., 65.

291
“famous writer”: Ibid., 63.

292
“where your treasure”: Ibid., 65.

292
“What in the wurld-d”: Ibid., 66.

292
“The following is good”: FOC to Maryat Lee, March 10, 1957,
CW,
1027.

293
“intense manner”: Donald Richie, letter to the author, October 15, 2007.

293
“bisexual”: Robert E. Lee, in discussion with the author, May 2, 2004; Fran Belin, in discussion with the author, November 12, 2004.

293
“Oh Flannery”: Maryat Lee to FOC [n.d., late May 1957], copies in FOC Collection, GCSU.

293
“Everything has to be diluted”: FOC to Maryat Lee, June 9, 1957,
HB,
225.

293
“I am not to be got rid of”: FOC to Maryat Lee, October 8, 1957,
CW,
1045.

293
“The Enduring Chill”: The story was published in
Harper’s Bazaar
91, July 1958, and was the fourth story in
Everything That Rises Must Converge.

294
“a closet with a toilet”: FOC, “The Enduring Chill,”
CW,
552.

294
“a play about Negroes”: Ibid., 551.

294
“suffered my remarks”: Lee, “Flannery, 1957,” 43.

294
“the orthodoxy”: FOC to Maryat Lee, January 9, 1957,
CW,
1020.

294
“But — the last paragraph”: Maryat Lee to FOC, July 9, 1958, GCSU.

294
“reminds me of my character”: FOC to Maryat Lee, May 6, 1959,
HB,
331.

294
“Wishing for an icicle”: Maryat Lee to FOC, August 22, 1958, GCSU.

294
“the pseudo-literary&theological”: FOC to Betty Hester, March 7, 1958,
HB,
271.

295
“theology in modern literature”: FOC to Father James H. McCown, Decem-ber 29, 1957,
CW,
1057.

295
“She really bore down”: Jean Cash, “Milledgeville 1957–1960: O’Connor’s ‘Pseudo-Literary & Theological Gatherings,”
Flannery O’Connor Bulletin
18 (1989): 25.

295
“not particularly scintillating”: Cash, “Milledgeville 1957–1960,” 20–21.

295
“Maryat read us a play”: Mary Barbara Tate, in discussion with the author, June 3, 2004.

295
“was doing anything”: Ted R. Spivey,
Flannery O’Connor: The Woman, the Thinker, the Visionary
(Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1955), 84.

295
“to show his little boy”: FOC to John Hawkes, July 27, 1958,
CW,
1075.

296
“My father tempted me”: Christopher Dickey, e-mail to the author, January 17, 2005.

296
“a black halter”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, April 14, 1958,
CW,
1069.

296
“plowed all over the yard”: Ibid., 1068.

296
“gracious”: Katherine Anne Porter, “Gracious Greatness,”
Esprit: Journal of Thought and Opinion
8, no. 1 (University of Scranton, Scranton, Pa., Winter 1964): 50.

CHAPTER NINE: EVERYTHING THAT RISES

297
“holy exhaustion”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, November 4, 1957,
CW,
1048.

297
“will of iron”: Ibid., February 26, 1958,
CW,
1064.

298
“I bet that’ll be real”: Ibid., November 4, 1957,
CW,
1048.

298
“7 into 17”: FOC to Betty Hester, December 14, 1957,
CW,
1056.

298
“Baloney Castle”: FOC to Ashley Brown, April 14, 1958,
HB,
277.

298
“Left for two minutes”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, February 26, 1958,
CW,
1064.

298
“where we were going”: FOC to Betty Hester, April 4, 1958,
CW,
1067.

298
“my cousin is certainly”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, November 4, 1957,
CW,
1048.

299
“Last Will”: “Last Will and Testament of Mary Flannery O’Connor,” April 18, 1958, GCSU.

299
“She is reading the Lourds”: FOC to Betty Hester, November 16, 1957,
CW,
1049–50.

299
“like Mr. Head and Nelson”: FOC to Maryat Lee, November 10, 1957, GCSU.

299
“I am properly back”: FOC to Robert Giroux, April 17, 1958,
HB,
278.

300
“our new important”: Roger Straus to Silvio Senigallia, April 22, 1958, FSG.

300
On spring days: The description of the Fitzgerald villa is taken from W. A. Sessions, “Sally Fitzgerald 1916–2000: The Gratitude Is Ours,”
Cheers!
8,
no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2000).

300
“wonderful”: FOC to Ashley Brown, May 26, 1958,
CW,
1072.

300–301
“Instead of seeing”: Ibid.

301
“almost unreadable”: Gabrielle Rolin, letter to author, September 26, 2007.

301
“She said to me”: Sally Fitzgerald, “The Invisible Father,”
Christianity and Literature
47, no. 1 (Autumn 1997): 7.

302
“clip-joint”: FOC to William Sessions, May 15, 1958,
CW,
1071.

302
“Aquéro”: Ruth Harris,
Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age
(New York: Viking, 1999), 5.

302
“a hemorrhage of bad taste”: Ibid., 173.

302
“the religious goods stores”: FOC to Ashley Brown, May 26, 1958,
CW,
1072.

302
“nowhere have I seen”: Harris,
Lourdes,
339.

302
“heart that never stops”:
The Official Guide of the Sanctuary,
Sanctuaires Notre-Dame de Lourdes, 18.

302
“The heavy hand of the prelate”: FOC to Ashley Brown, May 26, 1958,
CW,
1072.

303
“The sight of Faith”: Katherine Anne Porter, “Gracious Greatness,”
Esprit
8, no. 1 (University of Scranton, Scranton, Pa., Winter 1964): 56.

303
“I joined them for lunch”: W. A. Sessions, “Sally Fitzgerald 1916–2000,” 4.

304
as “a pilgrim”: FOC to Betty Hester, December 14, 1957,
CW,
1056.

304
“hyper-thyroid”: FOC to Betty Hester, May 17, 1958,
HB,
282.

304
les piscines:
The seventeen marble baths and stone portico were built in 1955.

304
“At least there are no societal”: FOC to Elizabeth Bishop, June 1, 1958,
CW,
1073.

304
“Nobody I am sure”: FOC to Betty Hester, May 17, 1958,
HB,
282.

305
“After lunch we left Barcelona”: “Diary of Eleanor and Marie Bennett,” Archives, Diocese of Savannah.

305
“There is a wonderful radiance”: FOC to Betty Hester, “Monday” [May 5, 1958],
HB,
280.

306
“Shrines to the Virgin”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, May 11, 1958,
CW,
1069.

306
“4 old ladies”: FOC to Betty Hester, April 19, 1958,
HB,
280.

306
“write up”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, February 26, 1958,
CW,
1064.

306
“revived as soon as”: Ibid., May 11, 1958,
CW,
1069.

306
“The Freak in Modern Fiction”: A draft of the lecture intended for May 1958 is kept in the “FOC Collection,” GCSU, along with a draft of the variant lecture she gave on “The Freak in Southern Fiction” at Birmingham-Southern College on Novem-ber 25, 1958.

306
“My capacity for staying home”: FOC to Ashley Brown, May 16, 1958,
CW,
1071.

306
“Ah, seeing the Pope”: FOC to Brainard and Frances Neel Cheney, December 2, 1958,
CC,
81.

306
“experience is the greatest”: FOC to Maryat Lee, May 20, 1958,
HB,
284.

307
“a beautiful child”: Sally Fitzgerald, “Chronology,”
CW,
1251.

307
“I prayed there for the novel”: FOC to Janet McKane, February 25, 1963,
CW,
1179.

307
“much better contract”: FOC to Betty Hester, April 19, 1958,
HB,
280.

307
“The little vacation”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, May 22, 1958,
HB,
284.

307
“Unfortunately not any 50”: FOC to Betty Hester, June 14, 1958,
HB,
288.

308
“You have to push”: Ibid., July 12, 1957,
HB,
229.

308
“Love is a struggle”:
Flannery O’Connor’s Library: Resources of Being,
edited by Arthur F. Kinney (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985), 19.

308
“I am the dense kind”: Maryat Lee to FOC, February 20, 1959, GCSU.

308
“colors”: FOC to Maryat Lee, March 15, 1959, GCSU.

308
“We don’t have that one”: FOC to John Hawkes, November 28, 1961,
CW,
1157.

308
“I keep clear of Faulkner”: FOC to Betty Hester, March 20, 1958,
HB,
273.

308
“
That’s
good stuff”: Sally Fitzgerald, “Flannery O’Connor: Patterns of Friendship, Patterns of Love,”
Georgia Review
52, no. 3 (Fall 1998): 419.

309
“one-and-a-half”: Louise H. Abbot, “Remembering Flannery,”
Flannery O’Connor Bulletin
23 (1994–95), 77.

309
“with yellow hair”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, April 20, 1959,
HB,
329.

309
“Tarwater’s final vision”: FOC, “On Her Own Work,”
MM,
117.

310
“stumbling block”: FOC to John Hawkes, October 6, 1959,
CW,
1109.

310
“gotten right”: Richard Gilman, “On Flannery O’Connor,”
New York Review of Books
13, no. 3 (August 21, 1969): 26.

310
“RUIN MY EYES”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, [n.d., “Saturday,” 1951],
CW,
892.

310
“thousands of little kids”: J. D. Salinger,
The Catcher in the Rye
(New York: Little, Brown, 1951), 173.

310
“can drive me nuts”: FOC to Betty Hester, April 4, 1958,
CW,
1066.

311
“Younglady”: FOC to Rebekah Poller, June 27, 1958,
Flannery O’Connor Bulletin
12 (1983): 70.

311
“swan of old cars”: Robert Lowell to FOC, [n.d., December 1953],
The Letters of Robert Lowell,
edited by Saskia Hamilton (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), 203.

311
“hearse-like”: FOC to Betty Hester, August 30, 1958,
HB,
294.

311
“my Jung friend”: Ibid., April 30, 1960,
HB,
394.

311
“She certainly found him”: Louise Abbot, in discussion with the author, June 2, 2004.

311
“When I knocked”: Ted R. Spivey,
Flannery O’Connor: The Woman, the Thinker, the Visionary
(Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1955), 15.

312
“could sense certain deep”: Ibid., 16.

312
“I have just finished”: FOC to Dr. T. R. Spivey, September 9, 1958,
HB,
294.

312
“Now on a first-name basis”: Spivey,
Flannery O’Connor,
24.

312
“dialogic”: FOC to Dr. T. R. Spivey, November 16, 1958,
CW,
1079.

313
“He has a very fine mind”: FOC to Betty Hester, November 8, 1958,
CW,
1078.

313
“I only have to bear”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, January 1, 1959,
HB,
315.