Flannery O'Connor correspondence, 1957-1964.

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Flannery O'Connor correspondence, 1957-1964.

Consists of 8 autograph and 93 typescript letters (most with envelopes) from O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins between 1957 and 1964. Included with the letters are the program for the 1963 commencement exercises at Smith College at which O'Connor was awarded a Doctor of Letters degree and a photograph of O'Connor with Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, Smith College president.

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Dawkins, Cecil, 1927-

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Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin

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Noted physicist, professor at Ohio State University (1873-78) and Imperial University of Japan (1878-81), member of the U.S. Signal Corps (1884-86), President of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1894-1901), etc. From the description of T. C. Mendenhall letter to S. S. McClure [manuscript], 1893 Apr 13. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 318545603 Smith College President (sixth), 1958-1975. Born June 14, 1910. Yale University, B.A., 1932; Ph. D., 1938. Oxford Unive...

O'Connor, Flannery, 1925-1964

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Mary Flannery O'Connor (b. March 25, 1925, Savannah, Georgia-d. August 3, 1964, Milledgeville, Georgia), Southern American novelist and short story writer, the daughter of Edward Francis and Regina Cline O'Connor in Savannah, Georgia, on March 25, 1925. She attended parochial schools in Savannah before moving to Milledgeville after the death of her father in 1941. After finishing high school in Milledgeville, she attended the Georgia State College for Women, now Georgia College and State Univers...