Letter to "Dear Anne" [manuscript], 1959 April 17.

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Letter to "Dear Anne" [manuscript], 1959 April 17.

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Porter, Lexington, Va., writes to her unidentified correspondent expressing her negative opinion of book jacket blurbs, confessing to having written one for Edith Sitwell, and relenting to the extent of allowing a sentence of praise to be used for Mr. [Walter?] Clemons.

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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 ...

Clemons, Walter

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Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964

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English poet, biographer, critic, and anthologist. Edited and contributed to the annual anthology Wheels. From the description of Edith Sitwell correspondence, 1942-1944. (Texas Woman's University Library). WorldCat record id: 28185434 English poet, critic, and novelist. From the description of Letter to an unknown recipient, ca. 1949. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647817483 From the description of Photoprint and letter, n.d. and 1981 Oct...