A Guide to the Katherine Anne Porter Collection, 1958-1959 #6339-e

A Guide to the Katherine Anne Porter Collection, 1958-1959

A Collection in
Clifton Waller Barrett Library,
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 6339-e

Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
USA
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968
Reference Request Form: https://small.lib.virginia.edu/reference-request/
URL: http://small.library.virginia.edu/

Funding: Web version of the finding aid funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Processed by: Special Collections Department

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

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

Acquisition Information

This collection was purchased on 1994 November 17.

Scope and Content Information

While writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia, Porter writes about her hectic schedule that prevents a visit and mentions a request to speak to a local literary club for a small fee. Two letters written from Martha Jefferson Hospital, where Porter was hospitalized for pneumonia, thank Moore for gifts. A final letter discusses making up speaking engagements her illness forced her to postpone and mentions a stay at the English Dept. of Washington and Lee.

Contents List

Katherine Anne Porter, University of Virginia, to Virginia Moore, Scottsville, Virginia. 1958 Oct 6

TLS. 2 p. on 1 l., w/env.

[writes that she is unable to spare the time for a personal visit due to her hectic shedule as a writer in residence at the University of Virginia and expresses shock at the request of a local writer for her to speak at a literary club for a small monetary consideration when she usually is paid between five hundred and a thousand dollars depending on the circumstances]

Katherine Anne Porter, Martha Jefferson Hospital, Charlottesville, to Virginia Moore, "Cliffside," Scottsville, Virginia. 1958 Dec 6

APCS. 1 p.

[writing while hospitalized for pneumonia, Porter thanks Moore for the persimmons and the book on the text of Meleager [the 1st century B.C. Greek epigrammatist ?], and tells her "go on being beautiful and loving the human race. I don't love it at all, except just a few I couldn't live without!"]

Katherine Anne Porter, Martha Jefferson Hospital, Charlottesville, to Virginia Moore, Scottsville. 1958 Dec 10

ALS. 4 p. on 1 l., w/env.

[thanks her for the thoughtful note and flowers, believes she is getting better, and writes, "What a germ can do to the soul is what bothers me!"]

Katherine Anne Porter, Charlottesville, Virginia, to Virginia Moore, Washington, D.C. 1959 Jan 26

ALS. 3 p. on 1 l., w/env.

[regrets that she has missed seeing Moore during her convalescence and the time she spent making up missed engagements because of it, and mentions packing for a stay at the English Department, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, and a trip to the Polytechnic Institute at Auburn, Alabama, for a reading the next night]