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162 “enGuggenheimed”: Ibid., December 27, 1948.
162 “sentence by sentence”: Robert Lowell, Recommendation for Flannery O’Connor, Fiction Category, [n.d., fall 1948], Archive of the J. S. Guggenheim Foundation.
163 “I introduced him to”: Robert Lowell to T. S. Eliot, January 18, 1949, Letters, 130.
163 “It was not gin”: FOC to Robert Lowell, December 28, 1958, CW, 1086.
163 “high moral tone”: Wright, “Diary,” December 5, 1948.
163 “ingeniously funny”: Ibid., December 27, 1948.
163 “perfect”: Ibid., December 21, 1948.
163 “grotesque”: Ibid., January 27, 1949.
163 “My suggestion”: Robert Lowell to Elizabeth Bishop, December 8, 1948, Letters, 120.
163 “aloud to the two”: Ibid., December 24, 1948, Letters, 122.
163 “It would be nice”: Jean Wylder, “Flannery O’Connor, A Reminiscence and Some Letters,” North American Review 225, no. 1 (Spring 1970): 62.
164 “please show”: FOC to Elizabeth McKee, January 20, 1949, HB, 8.
164 “a pretty straight”: John Selby to FOC, February 16, 1949, GCSU.
164 “He too thought”: FOC to Paul Engle, April 7, 1949, CW, 882.
164 “Send me, please”: Paul Engle to FOC, May 16, 1949, GCSU.
164 “Please tell me”: FOC to Elizabeth McKee, February 17, 1949, CW, 880.
164 “kind of aloneness”: John Selby to FOC, February 16, 1949, GCSU.
164 “I am not writing”: FOC to John Selby, February 18, 1949, CW, 881.
164 “the hardening of the arteries”: John Selby to Paul Engle, May 9, 1949, GCSU.
165 “seemed to be attending”: Kazin, New York Jew, 314.
165 “dimpled agreeable”: Wright, “Diary,” December 5, 1948.
165 “Lizzie Hardwick”: Ibid., January 27, 1949.
165 “Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick”: Kazin, New York Jew, 313.
165 “Most of all”: Elizabeth Hardwick, “Flannery O’Connor, 1925–1964,” New York Review of Books (October 8, 1964): 21.
165 “She was a plain”: Elizabeth Hardwick, in discussion with the author, Octo-ber 31, 2003.
166 “pious”: Robert Lowell to Peter Taylor, October 22, 1948, Letters, 113.
166 “It was a gloomy”: Kazin, New York Jew, 312.
166 “the agrarian–little magazine”: Wright, “Diary,” January 27, 1949.
167 Agnes Smedley: Her most recent biographer, Ruth Price, discovered, to her dismay, through recently released papers in Soviet archives that Smedley was indeed “as cunning and crafty an operator as her detractors on the right ever alleged.” “Introduction,” The Lives of Agnes Smedley (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 9.
167 “She idolized”: Jim Shannon, in discussion with the author, May 25, 2005.
167 “fantastic idea”: Wright, “Diary,” February 14, 1949.
167 “I had refused”: James Ross to Elizabeth Ames, July 16, 1949, “James Ross Guest File,” Yaddo.
168 “I shall compare”: Robert Lowell, “Minutes of Special Meeting of the Directors of the Corporation of Yaddo,” February 26, 1949, 15, Yaddo.
168 “Molotov cocktails”: Elizabeth Hardwick, “Minutes,” 28.
168 “They frequently came”: Elizabeth Ames, “Minutes,” 57.
168 “some of the excitement”: Edward Stonequist, “Minutes,” 5.
168 “very pleasant”: FOC, “Minutes,” 31.
169 “It wasn’t as much”: Elizabeth Hardwick, in discussion with the author, October 31, 2003.
169 “When I look at my birds”: FOC to Elizabeth Ames, February 9, 1958, Yaddo.
169 “The guests departed”: Malcolm Cowley to Louis Kronenberger, March 8, 1949, “Malcolm Cowley Papers,” Newberry Library; quoted in Ian Hamilton, Robert Lowell (New York: Random House, 1982), 148.
169 “We have been very upset”: FOC to Elizabeth McKee, February 24, 1949, HB, 11.
169 “There’s too many people”: FOC, “The Peeler,” The Complete Stories (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971), 69.
170 “There is one advantage”: FOC to Betty Boyd, November 5, 1949, HB, 19.
170 “very nice girl”: FOC to Betty Hester, April 21, 1956, HB, 152.
170 “I think Elizabeth is a lot”: Ibid., January 12, 1957, HB, 196.
170 “But mine was upper”: Elizabeth Hardwick, in discussion with the author, October 31, 2003.
170 “an unopened Bible”: FOC to Jean Wylder, March 1949, quoted in Cash, Flannery O’Connor: A Life (Knoxville: University