Robert Morris papers

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Robert Morris papers

1972-1973 (majority 1973)

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/7852

Vice president of University National Bank, Robert Morris (1915-2001) came into contact with Katherine Anne Porter when she became a customer of the College Park, Maryland, branch at which he was the manager in 1971. Morris served as Porter's personal banker after she secured a loan from his bank. This collection of seven items of correspondence, six of which are Porter's letters to Morris, detail Porter's accounts and the progress on the loan she had taken during this time.

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

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

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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 ...

Morris, Robert, 1915-2001.

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Summary: Vice president of University National Bank, Robert Morris (1915-2001) came into contact with Katherine Anne Porter when she became a customer of the College Park, Maryland, branch at which he was the manager in 1971. Morris served as Porter's personal banker after she secured a loan from his bank. This collection of seven items of correspondence, six of which are Porter's letters to Morris, detail Porter's accounts and the progress on the loan she had taken during this time...