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39 “I wrote a book”: FOC to Maryat Lee, March 9, 1960, GCSU.
40 “We heard stories”: Brown, “Savannah Years,” 18.
40 “We were a rough”: Ibid.
40 “the strictness of a certain nun”: Jean Cash, Flannery O’Connor: A Life (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002), 16.
41 “It reminded me”: Sister Jude Walsh, in discussion with the author, June 5, 2006.
41 “They were strict”: Patricia Persse, in discussion with the author, September 15, 2004.
41 “prissy”: Sister Jude Walsh, “We Remember Mary Flannery” panel, February 11, 1990.
41 “genteel Victorian ladies”: FOC to Cudden Ward Dorrance, March 29, 1964, UNC.
42 “Mary Flannery was at dancing”: Odom, “Childhood Friend,” 18.
43 “He was so tall”: Kitty Smith, quoted in Alice Alexander, “The Memory of Milledgeville’s Flannery O’Connor Is Still Green,” Atlanta Journal, March 28, 1979.
43 “swept into office”: “E. F. O’Connor, Jr. Commands Legion,” Savannah Morning News, June 28, 1936.
43 “aloof”: Cash, Flannery O’Connor, 9.
43 “I am never likely to romanticize”: FOC to Betty Hester, July 28, 1956, HB, 168.
43 “More likely”: Sally Fitzgerald, “Invisible Father,” 11.
43 “He was quite an orator”: Angela Ryan Dowling, in discussion with the author, October 12, 2004.
44 “Head of Legion”: Savannah Morning News, November 11, 1936.
44 “in tones not usually”: FOC to Betty Hester, July 1956, HB, 166.
44 “Last year I read”: Ibid.
44 “My father wanted”: Ibid., July 28, 1956, HB, 168.
44 “I suppose”: Ibid., August 11, 1956, HB, 169.
45 “at that time”: FOC to Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell, March 17, 1953, CW, 909.
45 “Oh I don’t know”: Sally Fitzgerald, “Invisible Father,” 11.
45 “Tried to get in touch”: Edward O’Connor to Erwin Sibley, December 23, 1937, GCSU.
46 “When I was twelve”: FOC to Betty Hester, February 11, 1956, CW, 985.
46 “She never knew”: Newell Turner Parr, “We Remember Mary Flannery” panel, February 11, 1990.
47 “MF”: FOC, untitled story, GCSU.
47 “I know some folks”: FOC, memorabilia, GCSU.
47 “First rate”: Sally Fitzgerald, “Chronology,” CW, 1238.
48 “read those books”: MFOC to Helen Soul, undated letter, Emory.
48 “Awful”: Sally Fitzgerald, “Chronology,” CW, 1238.
48 “Peculiar but I never could”: FOC to Betty Hester, June 14, 1958, HB, 288.
48 “wasn’t a literary”: Ibid., June 28, 1956, HB, 164.
48 “was stiff already”: FOC, untitled fragment, GCSU.
49 “Can’t tell you”: Edward O’Connor to Erwin Sibley, January 4, 1938, GCSU.
49 “Cousin Katie”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, February 15, 1959, HB, 318.
49 “My papa”: FOC to Elizabeth Fenwick Way, August 4, 1957, HB, 233.
50 “I think you probably”: FOC to Maryat Lee, February 24, 1957, CW, 1023.
CHAPTER TWO: MILLEDGEVILLE: “A BIRD SANCTUARY”
51 “the glad news”: Nelle Womack Hines, ed., A Treasure Album of Milledgeville and Baldwin County, Georgia (Macon, Ga.: Press of J. W. Burke, 1949), 48.
52 “It was well”: FOC to George Haslam, March 2, 1957, CW, 1023.
52 “Why don’t you”: FOC to Maryat Lee, May 20, 1960, HB, 396.
52 “Mrs. E. F. O’Connor”: “Social and Society,” Union-Recorder, July 1926.
52 “Mr. and Mrs. Ed O’Connor”: “Social Highlights,” Union-Recorder, November 11, 1937.
52 “a styling epicenter”: Padgett Powell, “Andalusia Is Open,” Oxford American, (July/August 2003): 30.
52 “We have a girls’ college”: FOC to Ben Griffith, February 13, 1954, CW, 919.
53 “A thing like this”: Carson McCullers, Clock Without Hands (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1961), 217.
53 “probably has the distinction”: Hines, Treasure Album, 8.
53 “a town of columns”: Cynthia Parks, “Flannery O’Connor,” Florida Times-Union and Journal, September 2, 1984.
53 “Milledgeville Federal”: Robert J. Wilson III, “A Brief Sketch of Milledgeville,” unpublished essay, private collection.
53 “idealistic”: Ted R. Spivey, Flannery O’Connor: The Woman,