George and Toni Willison papers

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George and Toni Willison papers

1932-1996 (majority 1945-1993)

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1518

George (1896-1972) and Toni (1903-1998) Willison were long-time residents of Malta, New York. They purchased South Hill, the only home ever owned by Katherine Anne Porter, from Porter in 1946. The collection contains letters and cards from Porter to the Willisons concerning South Hill and other aspects of Porter's life. The collection also includes other Porter/Willison-related correspondence, notes, clippings, printed matter, and photographs.

0.75 linear feet

eng, Latn

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 6326448

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Wilkins, Fern.

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Willison, Toni

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Porter, Paul R. (Paul Robert), 1908-2002

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Novelist, short-story writer, essayist; born in Kyle, Texas. From the description of Katherine Anne Porter collection, 1958-[ongoing], (bulk 1958-1992) (Texas State University-San Marcos). WorldCat record id: 26597877 Paul R. Porter was born on January 12, 1908 in Drexel, Missouri. He received an A.B. from the University of Kansas in 1928. From 1935 to 1939 he was an editor for the Kenosha Labor, a labor newspaper in Wisconsin, and from 1939 to 1941 he was General Manager of...

Wilkins, W. R. (William R.)

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Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980

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Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) was one of the most brilliant practitioners of the art of the short story. Her literary reputation rests on the stories in her Collected Stories (1964) rather than on her best-selling novel Ship of Fools (1962). Born Callie Russell Porter on May 15, 1890, she was the fourth of Harrison and Mary Alice Porter's five children. When her mother died in March 1892, her father moved the four surviving children from his farm in the central Texas community ...

Bayley, Isabel, 1911-1993

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Isabel Bayley was born Isabel Levin on January 14, 1911, in Titusville, Pennsylvania. She graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology with a B. S. in 1931 and from the University of Pittsburgh with an M. A. in 1933. She married William Hewitt Bayley on October 17, 1940. During World War II, she served as First Lieutenant in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) in Buffalo, N.Y. In 1946 and 1947, she completed the first compilation from the journal of Arthur M. Young, inven...

Willison, George F. (George Findlay), 1896-1972

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Paul Porter

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Willison, George and Toni

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George and Toni Willison were long-time residents of Malta, a small village near Saratoga Springs in upstate New York, where they enjoyed country living and were respected members of the community. They came to Malta in 1946 at the invitation of Katherine Anne Porter to determine if they would like living in South Hill, the house Porter purchased and renovated in 1941. Their subsequent agreement to buy the house from her began a long friendship and correspondence. George Willison li...

Fern Wilkins

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Toni Willison

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W. R. Wilkins (William R.)

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