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Papers of Katherine Anne Porter, Accession #6339-d, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
This collection was purchased on 1992 January 29.
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.
[refers to her preoccupation with her business concerns, presumably those associated with the upcoming publication of Ship of Fools and mentions her reading at Yale in February]
[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.]