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Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1963-06-16
"...Next April I'm going back to Boston to talk at Boston College if I am living. I refuse any longer to set exact dates months in advance and just say the month, which cuts down somewhat on the nerve-racking end of it..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1963-09-16
"...I've just been going on about my fictional bidnis [sic] this summer, staying doggedly on the wrong track I think, but I suppose you have to pursue the wrong road long enough to be able to identify it and then you can/keep off it. Anyway, I'm in no hurry. Right now I've had to stop the fiction to work on a talk..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1963-11-05
"...Did you ever consider Wise Blood as a possibility for dramatizing? If the times were different I would suggest that, but I think it would just be taken for the super-grotesque sub-Carson McCullars sort of thing that I couldn't stand the sight or sound of..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1963-11-08
"The name Asbury don't interest me. What I had thought to do was use that story to help explain Walter's character (the thing in Esquire). I may not do it, I may go on and rewrite it as a story and use it in the collection..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1963-12-01
"I can't recollect if I answered your last letter or not and answered your question about the line in The River..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1963-12-10
"...The reviews are the worst part of it, whether they're good or bad..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1964-03-01
"I wish I could answer the questions now but I am in the hospital..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1964-05-19
"...That operation in February started up my disseminated lupus and I have been in the hospital again recently with that. I'm at home now..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1964-06-24
"...I've had four blood transfusions in the last month. The trouble is mostly kidneys - they don't refine the poisons out of the proteins and therefore you don't make blood like you should or you loose [sic] it like you shouldn't or something. As far as I am concerned as long as I can get at that typewriter, I have enough..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1957-05-19
"...It is fine to know that freshmen are being introduced to contemporary literature somewhere. I had never heard of K.A. Porter or Faulkner or Eurdora Welty until I got to graduate school, but so many do not..."