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299 “I am properly back”: FOC to Robert Giroux, April 17, 1958, HB, 278.
300 “our new important”: Roger Straus to Silvio Senigallia, April 22, 1958, FSG.
300 On spring days: The description of the Fitzgerald villa is taken from W. A. Sessions, “Sally Fitzgerald 1916–2000: The Gratitude Is Ours,” Cheers! 8,no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2000).
300 “wonderful”: FOC to Ashley Brown, May 26, 1958, CW, 1072.
300–301 “Instead of seeing”: Ibid.
301 “almost unreadable”: Gabrielle Rolin, letter to author, September 26, 2007.
301 “She said to me”: Sally Fitzgerald, “The Invisible Father,” Christianity and Literature 47, no. 1 (Autumn 1997): 7.
302 “clip-joint”: FOC to William Sessions, May 15, 1958, CW, 1071.
302 “Aquéro”: Ruth Harris, Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age (New York: Viking, 1999), 5.
302 “a hemorrhage of bad taste”: Ibid., 173.
302 “the religious goods stores”: FOC to Ashley Brown, May 26, 1958, CW, 1072.
302 “nowhere have I seen”: Harris, Lourdes, 339.
302 “heart that never stops”: The Official Guide of the Sanctuary, Sanctuaires Notre-Dame de Lourdes, 18.
302 “The heavy hand of the prelate”: FOC to Ashley Brown, May 26, 1958, CW, 1072.
303 “The sight of Faith”: Katherine Anne Porter, “Gracious Greatness,” Esprit 8, no. 1 (University of Scranton, Scranton, Pa., Winter 1964): 56.
303 “I joined them for lunch”: W. A. Sessions, “Sally Fitzgerald 1916–2000,” 4.
304 as “a pilgrim”: FOC to Betty Hester, December 14, 1957, CW, 1056.
304 “hyper-thyroid”: FOC to Betty Hester, May 17, 1958, HB, 282.
304les piscines: The seventeen marble baths and stone portico were built in 1955.
304 “At least there are no societal”: FOC to Elizabeth Bishop, June 1, 1958, CW, 1073.
304 “Nobody I am sure”: FOC to Betty Hester, May 17, 1958, HB, 282.
305 “After lunch we left Barcelona”: “Diary of Eleanor and Marie Bennett,” Archives, Diocese of Savannah.
305 “There is a wonderful radiance”: FOC to Betty Hester, “Monday” [May 5, 1958], HB, 280.
306 “Shrines to the Virgin”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, May 11, 1958, CW, 1069.
306 “4 old ladies”: FOC to Betty Hester, April 19, 1958, HB, 280.
306 “write up”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, February 26, 1958, CW, 1064.
306 “revived as soon as”: Ibid., May 11, 1958, CW, 1069.
306 “The Freak in Modern Fiction”: A draft of the lecture intended for May 1958 is kept in the “FOC Collection,” GCSU, along with a draft of the variant lecture she gave on “The Freak in Southern Fiction” at Birmingham-Southern College on Novem-ber 25, 1958.
306 “My capacity for staying home”: FOC to Ashley Brown, May 16, 1958, CW, 1071.
306 “Ah, seeing the Pope”: FOC to Brainard and Frances Neel Cheney, December 2, 1958, CC, 81.
306 “experience is the greatest”: FOC to Maryat Lee, May 20, 1958, HB, 284.
307 “a beautiful child”: Sally Fitzgerald, “Chronology,” CW, 1251.
307 “I prayed there for the novel”: FOC to Janet McKane, February 25, 1963, CW, 1179.
307 “much better contract”: FOC to Betty Hester, April 19, 1958, HB, 280.
307 “The little vacation”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, May 22, 1958, HB, 284.
307 “Unfortunately not any 50”: FOC to Betty Hester, June 14, 1958, HB, 288.
308 “You have to push”: Ibid., July 12, 1957, HB, 229.
308 “Love is a struggle”: Flannery O’Connor’s Library: Resources of Being, edited by Arthur F. Kinney (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985), 19.
308 “I am the dense kind”: Maryat Lee to FOC, February 20, 1959, GCSU.
308 “colors”: FOC to Maryat Lee, March 15, 1959, GCSU.
308 “We don’t have that one”: FOC to John Hawkes, November 28, 1961, CW, 1157.
308 “I keep clear of Faulkner”: FOC to Betty Hester, March 20, 1958, HB, 273.
308 “That’s good stuff”: Sally Fitzgerald, “Flannery O’Connor: Patterns of Friendship, Patterns of Love,” Georgia Review 52, no. 3 (Fall 1998): 419.
309 “one-and-a-half”: Louise H. Abbot, “Remembering Flannery,” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 23 (1994–95), 77.
309 “with yellow hair”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, April 20, 1959, HB, 329.
309 “Tarwater’s final vision”: FOC, “On Her Own Work,” MM,