The Habit of Being: Letters Chapter Summary & Analysis - Chapter 6, Part II Continued, pages 250 -300 Summary

Chapter 6, Part II Continued, pages 250 -300 Summary and Analysis

Page 250 is mostly filled with the remainder of a letter to 'A' and then, three quarters of the way down the page, the next begins. It is to Maryat Lee and is dated 31 January 1957. There are fifty-two epistles across this fifty page long stretch of text. As usual, there are a handful of recipients of her letters. Who these are shows both consistency and some change over the course of many years. During this section of Part II, Flannery O'Connor sends letters to the following: William Sessions, Granville Hicks, Elizabeth and Robert Lowell, 'A', Cecil Dawkins, Thomas Gossett, Sally & Robert Fitzgerald, Caroline Gordon Tate, Father John McCown, Elizabeth McKee, Marayat Lee, Elizabeth Bishop, Alice Morris, Ashley Brown, Robert Giroux, John Hawkes, Dr. T. R. Spivey. Of these, the Fitzgeralds and Lowell couples have been with Miss O'Connor from the...
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