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227 “One of the few signs”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Louise Abbot.
227–228 “None of my paintings”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, [n.d.] “Friday,” CW, 912.
228 “Never saw such long”: FOC, “The King of the Birds,” CW, 837.
228 “I go to bed at nine”: FOC to Betty Hester, August 9, 1957, CW, 1042.
228 “I read it for about twenty”: Ibid., August 9, 1955, CW, 945.
228 “I read a lot of theology”: FOC to Cudden Ward, March 29, 1964, UNC.
229 “I can with one eye”: FOC to Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell, March 17, 1953, CW, 910.
229 “I stayed away”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, July 16, 1957, CW, 1037.
229 “a Dane”: Ann Waldron, Close Connections: Caroline Gordon and the Southern Renaissance (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1987): 350.
229 “After checking out”: Helen I. Greene, “My Flannery O’Connor,” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 19 (1990): 47.
229 “She was sure that Flannery”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Erik Langkjaer.
230 “He and Mary Flannery”: Greene, “My Flannery O’Connor,” 47.
231 “I never heard of Conversations”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, May 7, 1953, HB, 58.
231 Danish-British accent: Some of the background details of the account are taken from a personal interview with Erik Langkjaer, on May 7, 2007, as well as several e-mail exchanges.
231 “that I had come to the U.S.”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Erik Langkjaer.
232 “You wonder how anybody”: FOC to Erik Langkjaer, April 1, 1955, private collection.
232 “practically bald-headed”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, January 25, 1953, CW, 907.
232 “a little bloated”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Erik Langkjaer.
232 “the saint everyone”: Ibid.
233 “Was he ever handsome”: Mary Jo Thompson, in discussion with the author, May 25, 2004.
233 “I used to go with her nephew”: FOC to Betty Hester, August 28, 1955, CW, 949.
234 “the most melodramatic”: FOC to Maryat Lee, October 14, 1959, CW, 1113.
234 “I remember there were cowbells”: Pete Dexter, in discussion with the author, January 21, 2005.
234 “The Partridge Festival” was published in the Critic 19, March 1961.
235 “my mother still didn’t”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, August 10, 1960, HB, 405.
235 “Quincy State Hospital”: FOC to John Hawkes, June 22, 1961, CW, 1151.
235 “She liked to point it out”: Erik Langkjaer, in discussion with the author, May 7, 2007.
235 “The Cheneys said”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, May 7, 1953, HB, 58.
235 “theologically weighted symbolism”: Brainard Cheney, review of Wise Blood, Shenandoah 3 (Autumn 1952): 57.
235 “eventful”: FOC to Betty Boyd Love, October 18, 1951, HB, 29.
236 “Mrs. C.”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, May 7, 1953, HB, 58.
236 “the petit cercle”: Caroline Gordon to Sue Jenkins, [n.d., mid-January 1958], quoted in Ashley Brown, “An Unwritten Drama: Sue Jenkins Brown and Flannery O’Connor,” Southern Review 22 (Autumn 1986): 729.
236 “Cleanth Brooks and others”: Ashley Brown, “Flannery O’Connor: A Literary Memoir,” Realist of Distances, 19.
237 “At that stage”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Ashley Brown.
237 “I’m no Georgia Kafka”: FOC to Ashley Brown, May 22, 1953, CW, 911.
237 “She was intelligent”: Ashley Brown, in discussion with the author, April 30, 2007.
237 “Whatever do you want”: Brown, “Flannery O’Connor,” 23.
237 “I consider Caroline”: Brainard Cheney to FOC, March 2, 1953, CC, 5.
237 “We just hit it off”: Jean Cash, Flannery O’Connor: A Life (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002), 212.
238 “She seems a very solid”: Brainard Cheney to Robert Penn Warren, August 24, 1953, CC, 8.
238 “This seems to me her”: Brown, “Flannery O’Connor,” 22.
239 “I heard a lot of Tennessee”: FOC to Robie Macauley, October 13, 1953, CW, 914.
239 “most agreeable”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, [n.d.] August 1953, HB, 62.
239 “we liked to read”: Cash, Flannery O’Connor, 212.
239 “I asked the steward”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, [n.d.] August 1953, HB, 62.
239 “the D.P”: FOC to Brainard and Frances Cheney, June