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Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1959-04-26
"Catharine Carver thinks my novel should be longer in the middle and I think she is right, so that is what I am fixing to do, make it longer in the middle. It'll probably tkae [sic] me all summer. We expect my editor from Farrar, Straus Monday week. Don't know what I'll do to entertain him. The translator was very easy to amuse and we enjoyed him..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1959-05-10
"...Several teachers came in and one of them said in a knowing voice, 'Miss O'Connor, why is the Misfit's hat black?' I said most countrymen in Georgia wore black hats. He looked crushed..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1959-05-21
"...The title don't do much for it. I can't remember if I told you what Jessie Stuart said to a friend of mine after I had read A Good Man is Hard to Find--at Vanderbilt. [sic] He said he didn't know why I ended it that way..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1959-06-07
"...In this story I get the feeling that you give them qualities which you have decide upon, that you have given them the qualities rather than that the qualities spring naturally out of them. (That sentence is an example of slithering tenses.)..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1959-07-17
"Well my novel is finished and on its way courtesy the US Postal Service to the publisher. Catharine Carver's final verdict was that it is the best thing I've done..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1959-08-23
"...I appreciate your noble intention to review my work with superlatives and I suggest you write the review before you read the book, then you will be even more reckless with them..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1959-08-25
"...I read a part of a Death in the Family in one of the Martha Foley collections and saw right then I didn't want to read any more of it. Agee is also the author of the worst story ever written by a man, something called A Mother's Tale. Also in a Martha Foley. You really ought to read it. It's unbelievable..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1959-09-16
"...Yes I finished my story and it is a a [sic] beauty but I can't use it. I used the occasion of a town pageant. We had one here in 1953, a sesquicentennial and a local fellow went beserk [sic] and shot the head of the pageant committee and a lawyer and them himself..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1959-09-22
"...Since I never emerge from these things sounding like anything but a cretin, I have written what I have to say to her down and I intend to present her with it. For the rest I will confine myself to comments on the weather..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1959-09-27
"...My galleys are on the way and I expect them to be here tomorrow and I dred [sic] having to read the whole thing again and face it in print. The first time is the worst..."