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239 “They had what were called”: Al Matysiak, in discussion with the author, July 27, 2004.
240 “The boys in white”: “Sacred Heart School News,” Union-Recorder, November 5, 1953.
240 “In the American and British”: “DP’s,” Life, July 30, 1945, 13.
240 “subversives”: Permitting Admission of 400 Displaced Persons into the United States. Hearings Before Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization on the Judiciary. HR 2910, 80th Congress, 1st sess., Washington, DC, 1947, 405–6.
240 “It is our Christian”: Ibid., 190–91.
240 “Displaced Family”: Polly Brennan, “Displaced Family Arrives on Farm from Poland,” Union-Recorder, July 21, 1949.
241 “who has no teeth”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, [n.d.,] “Thursday,” CW, 894.
241 “Miss O’Connor could not believe”: Al Matysiak, in discussion with the author, July 27, 2004.
241 “They need much less”: Rudolf Heberle and Dudley S. Hall, New Americans: A Study of Displaced Persons in Louisiana and Mississippi (Baton Rouge: Displaced Persons Commission, 1951), 3–4.
241 “If I talked with her”: Alfred Matysiak, in discussion with the author, July 27, 2004.
242 “We did speak about faith”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Erik Langkjaer.
243 “long-legged”: FOC, “The Displaced Person,” Sewanee Review 62, no. 4 (October–December 1954): 634.
243 “perfectly round”: Ibid., 637.
243 “The two colored people”: FOC to Betty Hester, May 19, 1956, HB, 159.
243 “endlessly”: Alice Walker, “Beyond the Peacock: The Reconstruction of Flannery O’Connor,” In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens (New York: Harcourt, 1983), 42.
243 “Her mother was probably”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Erik Langkjaer.
244 “I remember standing”: Kitty Martin, in discussion with the author, January 30, 2005.
244 “What to Do”: The information on the March of Time newsreels is taken from Leonard M. Olschner, “Annotations on History and Society in Flannery O’Connor’s ‘The Displaced Person,’” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 16 (1987): 63–64.
244 “suspicion”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, [n.d.] “Wednesday,” CW, 895.
245 “following my nose”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, October 27, 1957, CW, 1046.
245 “O Raphael”: FOC to Janet McKane, July 14, 1964, HB, 592.
245 “He leads you”: FOC to Janet McKane, July 1, 1964, CW, 1214.
245 “The prayer had some imagery”: FOC to Betty Hester, January 17, 1956, CW, 983–84.
245 “frightened by the grey”: FOC, “The Displaced Person,” 654.
245 “The Displaced Person” was published in Sewanee Review 62, October 1954, and was the final story in A Good Man Is Hard to Find.
246 “novella”: FOC to Caroline Gordon, November 14, 1954, CW, 926.
246 “The Atlantic”: FOC to Brainard and Frances Neel Cheney, April 11, 1954, CC, 15.
246 “self-portrait with a pheasant”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, [n.d.] “Friday,” HB, 61.
246 “He has horns”: FOC to Janet McKane, June 19, 1963, CW, 1187.
246 “stunned”: Louise Abbot, e-mail to author, June 11, 2007.
246 “I praised it”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Erik Langkjaer.
247 “her kinsman”: FOC to Betty Hester, June 15, 1957, HB, 226.
247 “She loved to talk about”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Erik Langkjaer.
247 “rather careful in her movements”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Ashley Brown.
247 “She was using a stick”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Erik Langkjaer.
247 “I am doing very well”: FOC to Caroline Gordon, November 14, 1954, CW, 926.
248 “A Circle in the Fire” was published in Kenyon Review 16, Spring 1954; was reprinted in Prize Stories 1955: The O. Henry Awards, edited by Paul Engle and Hansford Martin, and in The Best American Short Stories 1955, edited by Martha Foley; and was the seventh story in A Good Man Is Hard to Find.
248 “Baby Born”: Atlanta Journal, November 14, 1952.
248 “He remarked that in these stories”: FOC to Betty Hester, November 25, 1955, CW, 971–72.
249 “passion”: Ibid., December 8, 1955, CW, 973.
249 “Baldwin Faces Forest”: Union-Recorder, September 27, 1951.
249 “The reformatory”: FOC to Maryat Lee, July 5, 1959, HB, 339.
249 18.23: Statistical Abstract of the United