Cassette Tape 17 Side B -- Carson McCullers to Oliver Evans Letters /Answers to Questions from the Atlanta Journal/Letter to "J"
Identifier
MC298-5-1-011b
Title
Cassette Tape 17 Side B -- Carson McCullers to Oliver Evans Letters /Answers to Questions from the Atlanta Journal/Letter to "J"
Original Format
cassette tape
Duration
00:30:41
Transcription
Margaret Sullivan continuing to read the letter from Oliver Evans begun on side a of tape 17 (side 1) with more questions, with Carson's comments about Capote and his copying her
dated Saturday AM letter from Oliver Evans saying "Dear Carson, I'm didn't mean to sound cross in my last letter. Perhaps the tension I've been under is beginning to show" describing his trip across the desert and getting settled in his new position. Had hoped to get the first 25,000 words off to the publisher, but was held up by her delay in answering his initial letter with questions. Understands that she had been ill and had not kept a copy of the letters . He reconstructed them and added other even more detailed ones not included above and her answers are written on his letter. Needs the answers to finish the 5th chapter. Had dinner with Gore Vidal and Christopher Isherwood recently
August 19, 1963 letter from Carson to Oliver with comments
July 17, 1963 letter from Oliver Evans about his biography of her and his research, including interviews with Floria Lasky and Edwin Peacock and asking many specific questions
[most of the rest of the tape is a series of letters and postcards with mostly more biographical questions and Carson's answers some inclosing photographs]
August 6, 1963 from Mrs. Margaret Rutherford of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution asking for information for an article timed to coincide with the opening of the Broadway play of the Ballad of the Sad Café, inclosing questions to which Carson replied on August 20th of 1963
September 3, 1959 letter from Carson thanking Jay for writing to the Ford Foundation about her possible grant.
dated Saturday AM letter from Oliver Evans saying "Dear Carson, I'm didn't mean to sound cross in my last letter. Perhaps the tension I've been under is beginning to show" describing his trip across the desert and getting settled in his new position. Had hoped to get the first 25,000 words off to the publisher, but was held up by her delay in answering his initial letter with questions. Understands that she had been ill and had not kept a copy of the letters . He reconstructed them and added other even more detailed ones not included above and her answers are written on his letter. Needs the answers to finish the 5th chapter. Had dinner with Gore Vidal and Christopher Isherwood recently
August 19, 1963 letter from Carson to Oliver with comments
July 17, 1963 letter from Oliver Evans about his biography of her and his research, including interviews with Floria Lasky and Edwin Peacock and asking many specific questions
[most of the rest of the tape is a series of letters and postcards with mostly more biographical questions and Carson's answers some inclosing photographs]
August 6, 1963 from Mrs. Margaret Rutherford of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution asking for information for an article timed to coincide with the opening of the Broadway play of the Ballad of the Sad Café, inclosing questions to which Carson replied on August 20th of 1963
September 3, 1959 letter from Carson thanking Jay for writing to the Ford Foundation about her possible grant.
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“Cassette Tape 17 Side B -- Carson McCullers to Oliver Evans Letters /Answers to Questions from the Atlanta Journal/Letter to "J",” Columbus State University Archives and Special Collections , accessed December 23, 2024, http://digitalarchives.columbusstate.edu/items/show/1927.