PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::viu03095::Papers of Katherine Anne Porter)//EN" "viu03095.xml" A Guide to the Papers of Katherine Anne Porter, 1962, n.d.Porter, Katherine Anne, Papers of 6339-d Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library © 2002 By the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia. All rights reserved.

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 Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word 2000, created by niyi, 8/23/2002 Description is in English Feb 20, 2004 PUBLIC "-//University of Virginia::Library::Special Collections Dept.//TEXT (US::ViU::viu03095::Papers of Katherine Anne Porter)//EN" "viu03095.xml" converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Feb 27, 2004 converted to conform to eadVIVA.dtd by vivastrict.xsl A Guide to the Papers of Katherine Anne Porter, 1962, n.d. A Collection in Clifton Waller Barrett Library The Special Collections Department 6339-d

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library 2002 Special Collections Department Web version of the finding aid funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Special Collections, University of Virginia Library Descriptive Summary Special Collections, University of Virginia Library Papers of Katherine Anne Porter 1962, n.d. 6339-d This collection consists of 4 items. English Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Papers of Katherine Anne Porter, Accession #6339-d, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

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This collection was purchased on 1992 January 29.

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In postcards, 1962 January 28 and September 7, to George Marion O'Donnell and S. Roysce Smith, Porter refers to preoccupation with business concerns [re publication of "Ship of fools?], a reading at Yale, and a recent hopitalization.

With the postcards are two undated photographs of Porter.

 Contents List Letters Katherine Anne Porter, Washington, D.C., to George Marion O'Donnell, New Haven, Connecticut. 1962 Jan 28 APCS. 2 p. (front and back of postcard)

[refers to her preoccupation with her business concerns, presumably those associated with the upcoming publication of Ship of Foolsand mentions her reading at Yale in February]

 Katherine Anne Porter, Washington, D.C. to S. Roysce Smith, Jr., New Haven, Connecticut. 1962 Sep 7 APCS. 2 p. (front and back of postcard)

[Discusses the contrast between care in the hosptial during an injury and being on your own grappling with reality, "which by definition is anything that hurts or makes you unhappy." Porter is referring to her stay in the hospital after her fall down a flight of steps at her home when she broke six ribs.]

 Photographs Two photographs of Katherine Anne Porter, seated upon a couch, one with a bookcase in the background, the other with a small coffee table in the foreground n.d. black & white photographs