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354 “made Mary Grace”: FOC to Betty Hester, May 17, 1964, HB, 578.
354 “a country female Jacob”: FOC to Maryat Lee, May 15, 1964, CW, 1207.
354 “How am I a hog”: CW, 652; I owe the insight about the connection between O’Connor’s reading of Shakespeare and Mrs. Turpin’s soliloquy to Paul Elie, The Life You Save May Be Your Own (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003), 353.
354 “gets the vision”: FOC to Maryat Lee, May 17, 1964, CW, 1207.
355 “Caroline was crazy about”: FOC to Betty Hester, January 25, 1964, CW, 1199.
355“blackest”: FOC to Betty Hester, December 25, 1963, HB, 554.
355 “I like Mrs. Turpin”: FOC to Maryat Lee, May 15, 1964, CW, 1207.
355 “half interest”: Ibid., May 21, 1964, CW, 1209.
355 “I emulate my better characters”: FOC to Betty Hester, January 25, 1964, CW, 1199.
355 “magnificent things”: Jean W. Cash, “The Flannery O’Connor–Andrew Lytle Connection,” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 25 (1996–97): 191.
355 “The breath was pushed out”: Maryat Lee to FOC, April 20, 1964, GCSU.
355–356 “I felt ‘Revelation’ marked”: Louise Abbot, in discussion with the author, June 2, 2004.
356 “Not enough blood”: FOC to Betty Hester, December 25, 1963, HB, 554.
356 “hitting this typewriter”: Ibid., November 23, 1963, HB, 549.
356 “frisking”: FOC to Cudden Ward Dorrance, January 5, 1964, UNC.
356 “round it out”: FOC to Robert Giroux, January 25, 1964, HB, 563.
357 “I have the Original Tin Ear”: FOC to Betty Hester, January 25, 1964, CW, 1200.
357 “straight up and down”: FOC to Thomas Stritch, February 11, 1964, CW, 1200.
357 “All I can say”: FOC to Betty Hester, February 14, 1964, HB, 566.
357 “Geritol”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, March 22, 1961, HB, 435.
357 “All commercial television”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, November 23, 1963, HB, 550.
357 “postponed my work”: FOC to Betty Hester, April 13, 1963, HB, 513.
358 “loaded with cortisone”: FOC to John Hawkes, February 20, 1964, HB, 567.
358 “didn’t seem so hot”: FOC to Betty Hester, March 14, 1964, CW, 1203.
358 “It was all a howling”: FOC to Robert Fitzgerald, March 8, 1964, HB, 568.
358 “not doing any brain work”: FOC to Maryat Lee, March 21, 1964, GCSU.
358 “I suspect it has kicked”: FOC to Betty Hester, March 28, 1964, HB, 571.
359 “we both want to locate”: FOC to Cudden Ward Dorrance, Easter, March 24, 1964, UNC.
359 “Monday I woke up”: FOC to Brainard Cheney, April 22, 1964, CC, 187.
359 “Jolly Corners”: FOC to Maryat Lee, May 3, 1964, GCSU.
360 “I think I’ll be able”: FOC to Elizabeth McKee, May 7, 1964, HB, 575.
360 “I am writing me this story”: FOC to Charlotte Gafford, May 10, 1964, HB, 576.
360 “I havent had it active”: FOC to Louise and Tom Gossett, May 12, 1964, HB, 576.
360 “My my I do like”: FOC to Maryat Lee, May 15, 1964, CW, 1207.
360 “very sorry story”: FOC to Robert Giroux, May 21, 1964, HB, 579.
361 “Going to Piedmont”: FOC to Maryat Lee, May 21, 1964, CW, 1209.
361 “he knows what he’s doing”: FOC to Maryat Lee, May 26, 1964, GCSU.
361 “By now, I know”: FOC to Betty Hester, June 10, 1964, HB, 583.
362 “breezed in”: FOC to Ashley Brown, June 15, 1964, HB, 584.
362 “After the nurse had left”: Caroline Gordon, “Heresy in Dixie,” Sewanee Review 76, no. 2 (Spring 1968): 266.
362 “I am sick of being sick”: FOC to Louise Abbot, May 28, 1964, CW, 1210.
362 “fourth or fifth”: Abbot, “Remembering Flannery,” 79.
362 “Mizz O’Connor”: Robert Coles, in discussion with the author, January 2, 2004.
362 “You will find here”: Robert Coles, “Introduction,” Flannery O’Connor’s South (Athens and London: Brown Thrasher Books/University of Georgia Press, 1993), xviii.
362 “too high so you can’t write”: FOC to Cudden Ward Dorrance, June 2, 1964, UNC.
363 “I have another in the making”: FOC to Catharine Carver, June 17, 1964, CW, 1210.
363 “like fabric”: FOC to Betty Hester, July 17, 1964, CW, 1217.
363–364 “I read my Mass prayers”: FOC to Janet McKane, April 2, 1964, HB, 572.
364 “little blocks”: FOC, “Parker’s Back,” CW, 667. Possible sources for this visual detail are: