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Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1958-12-09
"Thanks for the clippings. No one there sent them to me so I wouldn't have seen them otherwise. I don’t exactly remember telling the lady the writer didn't need inspiration. At interviews I always feel like a dry cow being milked. There is no telling what they will get out of you..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1958-12-13
"I've like each one better than the last but this is absolutely the best. It is inconceivable to me that a story this good will remain unpublished..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1959-01-14
"I told you Eudora Welty was coming to the University of Chicago this year. She isn't. I am. Her brother got sick and they called me up and asked me to take her place and I foolishly accepted..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1959-01-29
"...I read my novel over and decided it isn't finished. False alarm. If I live through this Chicago episode, I shall reapproah [sic] it at my leisure..."