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190 “Borne home”: FOC to Maryat Lee, October 9, 1962, HB, 495.
190 “full of old rain crows”: FOC to Betty Boyd Love, December 23, 1950, CW, 888.
191 “He was a little fella”: Margaret Uhler, in discussion with the author, July 20, 2004.
191 “Internal medicine”: Dr. Zeb Burrell, in discussion with the author, October 1, 2004.
191 “Am in the hospital”: FOC to Elizabeth McKee, December 19, 1950, GCSU.
191 “Scientist Merrill”: FOC to Maryat Lee, March 27, 1962, GCSU.
191 “the Scientist”: FOC to Frances Neel Cheney, August 3, 1955, CC, 20.
192 “I stayed there a month”: FOC to Betty Boyd Love, April 24, 1951, HB, 24.
192 “She was already weak”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Sally Fitzgerald.
192 SLE: While women are ten times more likely to develop SLE than men, and black women three times more likely than white women, “kinship patterns” of lupus shared by family members, including father-daughter, are not uncommon. Dr. Michael Lockshin, Joan and Sanford Weill College of Medicine of Cornell University, e-mail to author, March 12, 2007.
192 “it comes and goes”: FOC to Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell, March 17, 1953, CW, 910.
192 “I have not had the rash”: FOC to Elizabeth Fenwick Way, May 2, 1957, HB, 217.
192 “When I was nearly dead”: FOC to Maryat Lee, August 2, 1961, HB, 448.
193 “In ’51”: FOC to Maryat Lee, May 15, 1964, CW, 1208.
193 “I owe my existence”: Ibid., February 11, 1958, CW, 1063.
193 “I was an intern”: Robert Coles, in discussion with the author, January 2, 2004.
193 “moon-like”: FOC to Janet McKane, April 2, 1964, HB, 572.
193 “I was five years writing”: FOC to Betty Hester, November 25, 1955, CW, 970.
194 “the large doses of ACTH”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, September 20, 1951, CW, 890.
194 “during this time”: FOC to Betty Hester, November 2, 1955, CW, 970.
194 “a subtle parody”: “Frustrated Preacher,” Newsweek (May 19, 1952): 115.
194 “I just unfortunately”: FOC to Carl Hartman, March 2, 1954, CW, 922.
195 “I have finished my opus”: FOC to Betty Boyd Love, April 24, 1951, HB, 24.
195 “Me & maw”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, September 20, 1951, CW, 890.
196 “You could, literally”: Robert Strozier, in discussion with the author, Septem-ber 14, 2004.
197 “Regina was very petite”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Mary Jo Thompson.
197 “With me, Flannery tended”: Jean Cash, Flannery O’Connor: A Life (Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 2002), 171.
197 “the cows are fat”: “Andalusia Farm Has Milk Production Plus a Varied Assortment of Stock,” Union-Recorder, June 19, 1958.
198 “Would you check”: FOC to Elizabeth McKee, April 24, 1951, HB, 24.
198 “I thought, Wow”: Robert Giroux, in discussion with the author, November 13, 2003.
198 “mighty pleased”: FOC to Mavis McIntosh, June 8, 1951, HB, 25.
198 “renascence”: “The aspirations for a Catholic ‘renascence’ were expressed in the journal of that title.” Paul Elie, The Life You Save May Be Your Own (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), 496.
198 “It is no accident”: Caroline Gordon to Brainard Cheney, December 31, 1951. Quoted in Cash, Flannery O’Connor, 207.
198 “This girl is a real”: Sally Fitzgerald, “A Master Class: From the Correspondence of Caroline Gordon and Flannery O’Connor,” Georgia Review 33, no. 4 (Winter 1979): 828.
199 “almost my mother”: Robert Lowell to Caroline Gordon, [n.d., fall 1945], The Letters of Robert Lowell, edited by Saskia Hamilton (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), 49.
199 “She presented herself”: Kenneth Silverman, in discussion with the author, March 8, 2007.
199 “vague”: FOC to Elizabeth McKee, February 17, 1949, CW, 880.
199 “a lady around here”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, September 20, 1951, CW, 890.
199 “spending the day”: Ibid., [n.d.] “Tuesday,” CW, 891.
199 “stout stake”: Gordon’s letter is printed in full in Sally Fitzgerald’s “A Master Class.”
200 “Johnsonian English”: Ibid., 838.
200 “All these comments”: FOC