"...We are all fixed up with a portable television. The Sisters that I got their book published for them gave it to me. We like to look at the news but the rest of it is pretty awful..."

"...I am thinking I will write a short foreword to Wise Blood, no an interpretation or anything, just a kind of oblique thing about this kind of novel..."

"...It is bad not to be able to write when you want to. I know the feeling and sometimes I feel I have written myself out and its sheer drudgery..."

"...We are thinking about building a fall-out shelter. The only trouble is I don't know how we'd get 35 peacocks, the bull and several cows, and ourselves all in it..."

"I hope you hear favorably from Sister B..."

Forwarded letter from Sister Marie to Flannery O'Connor "...Dear Cecil, This came Today. Well aint [sic] I going to have a gay old time? I sure am sorry. F."

"Well I didn't get within five hundred yards of a telephone. The good Sisters seemed to have the idea that I was some kind of an invalid..."

"Cheers to you and Betty for the season..."

"I was cheered to hear from you at length. You seem to be sick a lot, and I was somewhat concerned. I daresay you have the writer's stomach. I don't know no remedy..."

"I've just sent off a note to Granville Hicks about your wanting to go to Yaddo. Now this may do some good but you'll still have to have sponsors for the application as mine is just sub rosa..."