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Selected Letters of
Katherine Anne Porter

Selected Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

CHRONICLES OF A MODERN WOMAN

Edited by Darlene Harbour Unrue

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Copyright 2012 by University Press of Mississippi
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Porter, Katherine Anne, 18901980.

[Correspondence. Selections]
Selected letters of Katherine Anne Porter: chronicles
of a modern woman / edited by Darlene Harbour Unrue.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-61703-620-0 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-61703-621-7 (ebook) 1. Porter, Katherine Anne,
18901980Correspondence. 2. Authors, American
20th centuryCorrespondence. I. Unrue, Darlene
Harbour. II. Title.
PS3531.O752Z48 2012
813.52dc23

[B] 2011052326

British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available

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Editors Note

When Isabel Bayleys long-awaited Letters of Katherine Anne Porter appeared in 1990, it was received enthusiastically but with a concurrent awareness that it must eventually be supplemented. Bayleys collection covers Porters letter-writing life from 1930 through 1963 with an addendum of one 1964 letter and one 1966 letter. As George Hendrick, an early and respected Porter scholar, pointed out in a review of the Bayley edition in Choice, by 1930 Porter was forty years old, and her formative years, the period of experience that provided the sources for her highly acclaimed stories and novellas, lay behind her. We need those early letters, he wrote. He might have added that letters from the last seventeen years of Porters life, years in which she was evaluating her history, settling affairs and scores, and clarifying her aesthetic, were also needed to complete the personal record.

Because of the omissions, Bayleys edition does not approach a life in letters. Indeed, the equivalent of a full biography was not her intention. A devoted friend to Porter for many years and her literary trustee from 1974 until her death in 1993, she selected thirty-three years of letters that collectively would be a crown for Katherine Anne Porter in her one-hundredth-birthday year by revealing the mind and spirit of a much-admired woman Bayley found largely absent in biographies that appeared in the aftermath of Porters death in 1980.

With that specific aim, Bayley chose 271 postcards and letters for her collection, almost none of which, except the postcards, is presented in its entirety. Although the letters I have selected are half the number in Bayleys edition, they are complete, even when uncommonly long. I was guided in my selection primarily by my desire to present as much as possible of Porters view of her moment in history.

The letters here have been transcribed literally, preserving Porters misspellings, British spellings, and eccentric habits of punctuation, including her general avoidance of, or misuse of, apostrophes and the insertion of multiple points, dashes, or other typographical symbols that range from two to more than a dozen. There are no ellipses in these letters, a fact necessary to stress because the running points sometimes appear to represent editorial excisions. Anything in brackets is my own insertion. I silently corrected typographical errors, and I have not identified handwritten insertions as such in typed letters.

The following abbreviations in the headings describe the physical form of each letter:

AL

Autograph (handwritten by KAP) letter unsigned

ALS

Autograph (handwritten by KAP) letter signed

DALS

Dictated autograph (handwritten by someone else) letter signed

DTLS

Dictated typed letter signed

TL

Typed letter unsigned

TLS

Typed letter signed

The pages cited in each heading refer to the number of sides of pages on which the letter was written, regardless of size. The repository named refers to the location of the original letter. The following abbreviations indicate specific repositories:

BU

Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University, Boston MA

Columbia

Butler Library, Columbia University, New York City

Cornell

The Carl A. Kroch Library, Cornell University Library, Ithaca NY

Delaware

The University Library, University of Delaware, Newark DE

Harvard

The Houghton Library, Harvard University, Boston MA

HRHRC

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin

Mississippi

Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson MS

Newberry

The Newberry Library, Chicago IL

NYPL

The Berg Collection, The New York Public Library, New York City

Northwestern

University Library, Northwestern University, Evanston IL

Penn State

Fred Lewis Pattee Library, Pennsylvania State University, University Park PA

Princeton

Princeton University Libraries, Princeton NJ

Private

Privately owned

Stanford

The Green Library, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA

TSU

Texas State University, San Marcos TX

Vanderbilt

The Jean and Alexander Heard Library, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN

VPI

Virginia Polytechnic Institute Libraries, Blacksburg VA

W&L

Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington VA

Washington

The University of Washington Libraries, Seattle WA

WSU

Washington State University Libraries, Pullman WA

Yale

The Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven CT

Abbreviations of the names of amanuenses:

gw

Virginia (Ginger) Woolley, University of Maryland student

wrw

William Raymond Wilkins, retired naval officer KAP hired as a personal assistant

Because of her varied experiences and numerous acquaintances and friends, Porters letters are richly infused with names of people, events, and artistic works of all kinds. I have provided no notes for well-known names or those easily found online or in common reference works or current editions of standard collegiate dictionaries. For additional background beyond that provided in the chronology of Porters life, the identification of recipients, and notes, the following bibliographies and biographical and critical studies are recommended:

Kathryn Hilt and Ruth M. Alvarez, Katherine Anne Porter: An Annotated Bibliography (1990); annotated bibliographies in issues of the Newsletter of The Katherine Anne Porter Society

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