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The Welty Collection: A Guide to the Eudora Welty Manuscripts and Documents at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History

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I wasn't that crazy about Dr. Marrs' biography of the troubled Southern writer, and I'm afraid I let her have it on [...].

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The book is handsomely illustrated with a selection of Welty's own fine, evocative photographs, reproduced adequately from the original negatives, which form part of the collection.

Her correspondence is annotated, so we can see that Welty was a favorite of many Broadway and Hollywood stars as early as the 1950s, and an autograph hound would have a great time reading this fan mail from such greats as Julie Harris, Una Merkel, Maurice Evans, John Houseman, and Geraldine Fitzgerald. I wonder if the estate couldn't actually create a small keepsake book based on her mail from famous actresses who loved playing eccentric Southern women in adaptations of Welty's work.

Good work, Dr. Marrs. I hope someday you expand your work here to include the complete range of Welty's writing, both published and not. Reading this book is like the promise of a new day, filled with strange smells and tantalizing glimpses of a mind both at its peak, and later, not doing so great, but still soldiering on valiantly.