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280 “A View of the Woods”: The story was published in Partisan Review 24 (Fall 1957), reprinted in Prize Stories 1959: The O. Henry Awards, edited by Paul Engle and Constance Urdang, and in The Best American Short Stories 1958, edited by Martha Foley. It is the third story in Everything That Rises Must Converge.
280 “breathless”: FOC to Betty Hester, October 20, 1956, Emory.
280–281 “While they make hash”: FOC to Betty Hester, September 8, 1956, CW, 1004.
281 “history of horror”: FOC to Betty Hester, October 31, 1956, Emory.
281 “men and men’s ideas”: Bo Emerson, “The Secret Life of Betty Hester,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 28, 1999.
281 “confirmed”: Allan Berube, Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two (New York: Free Press, 1990), 263.
281 “unbearably guilty”: FOC to Betty Hester, October 31, 1956, Emory.
281 “I can’t write you fast enough”: Ibid.
282 “I wish you could come”: FOC to Betty Hester, November 18, 1956, CW, 1007.
282 “Simone Weil but even more”: Ibid., December 28, 1956, CW, 1017.
282 “in some odd ways”: Betty Hester to Greg Johnson, November 20, 1996, private collection.
283 “Strike the Tent!”: “GSCW President Is Speaker for R. E. Lee Program,” Union-Recorder, January 24, 1957.
283 “The people who burned the cross”: FOC to Maryat Lee, January 9, 1957, CW, 1019.
283 “the institution of higher”: FOC to Betty Boyd Love, [n.d., postmarked September 20, 1952], HB, 44.
284 “Maryat was the ultimate bohemian”: Mary Dean Lee, in discussion with the author, January 18, 2005.
285 “I remember that I was feeling”: Maryat Lee, “Flannery, 1957,” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 5 (1976): 39.
285 “My, aren’t you smaht”: Maryat Lee, unpublished memoir, private collection.
285 “Just as I opened”: Lee, “Flannery, 1957,” 40.
285 “the soft long swinging”: Lee, unpublished memoir, private collection.
285 “She was so awkward”: Ibid.
286 “the croupy cry”: Lee, “Flannery, 1957,” 41.
286 “The parental presence”: FOC to Maryat Lee, January 9, 1957, CW, 1020.
286 “Her words had theological”: Lee, “Flannery, 1957,” 43.
286 “I was excited”: Ibid., 44.
286 “In Care of the Henhouse”: Georgia A. Newman, “A ‘Contrary Kinship’: The Correspondence of Flannery O’Connor and Maryat Lee — Early Years, 1957–1959 (PhD dissertation, University of South Florida, 1999), 35; Lee never sent the letter so addressed.
287 “kinship between us”: FOC to Maryat Lee, May 24, 1960, HB, 398.
287 “I thought now this is a mighty”: Ibid., January 31, 1957, HB, 200.
287 “on and off”: FOC to Maryat Lee, February 24, 1957, CW, 1022.
287 “the reek of Baldwin County”: FOC, unpublished version of “The Fiction Writer and His Country,” delivered at GSCW, “FOC Collection,” GCSU; included in file of correspondence with Mrs. Rebekah Poller, daughter of the GSCW social science professor Herbert Massey; Poller attended the lecture, and recommended the talk to her friend Granville Hicks.
287 “a real morality play”: FOC to Maryat Lee, January 31, 1957, HB, 200.
287 “If the writer is successful”: FOC, unpublished version of “The Fiction Writer and His Country,” GCSU.
288 “by Ronald Re-gan”: FOC to Betty Hester, September 8, 1956, CW, 1004.
288 “a tap-dancer”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, December 10, 1956, CW, 1009.
288 “disliking it heartily”: FOC to Denver Lindley, March 6, 1957, HB, 206.
288 “Children now point”: FOC to Maryat Lee, March 10, 1957, CW, 1027.
288 “better judgment”: FOC to Granville Hicks, March 3, 1957, HB, 205.
288 “I begin to feel”: Ibid., 206.
288 “designed for a student audience”: Ibid., February 24, 1957, HB, 202.
288 “Cathlick”: FOC to Brainard and Frances Neel Cheney, March 5, 1957, CC, 52.
288–289 “She seemed frail”: Robert Fitzgerald, “Introduction,” Everything That Rises Must Converge, xxiii.
289 “inordinate affection”: FOC to Betty Hester, May 5, 1962, CW, 1162.
289 “had wonderful things to say”: Robert Fitzgerald, “Introduction,” Everything That Rises, xxiii.
289 “25% Bumbling Boys”: FOC to Maryat Lee, April 17, 1957, HB, 215.
289 “intent