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Letter from Flannery O'Connor, Milledgeville, Georgia, to Alfred Corn, 1962 August 12 : typescript signed.

BIB_ID
413509
Accession number
MA 22137.4
Creator
O'Connor, Flannery.
Display Date
Milledgeville, Georgia, 1962 August 12.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 28 x 21.6 cm
Notes
Signed in blue ink "Flannery O'Connor."
Addressed to "Mr. Corn."
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Discussing characters, Rayber and Tarwater, and the psychology behind them; addressing priests and laity and who decides religious questions in the Catholic Church; giving advice on "determinism" and saying "I think the more you write, the less inclined you will be to rely on theories like determinism. Mystery isn't something that is gradually evaporating. It grows along with knowledge."