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Notes These notes and the illustration credits that follow use the following abbreviations: CCC Carvel Collins Collection of William Faulkner Research Materials , Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. CHRC Cammie G. Henry Research Center, Watson Memorial Library , Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, Louisiana. THNOC The Historic New Orleans Collection. LaRC Louisiana Research Collection, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University. JBP Joseph Blotner Papers, Louis Daniel Brodsky Collection of William Faulkner Materials, Special Collections and Archives, Kent Library, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Many of the notes refer to newspaper clippings from the files of these and other archives, often unsourced or undated, and even more often lacking page numbers. Since these were too rich a resource to ignore, I have gone ahead and used them, citing what information I have, hoping that scholars will understand and betting that other readers won’t care. I have also often cited secondary sources, even when I have examined the primary sources they draw on, believing that most normal readers will find it more useful to be referred to, say, Joel Williamson’s Faulkner and Southern History than 251 252 | Notes to the interviews archived in Joseph Blotner’s papers that Williamson used extensively. Either reference should establish that I didn’t just make something up, and it’s certainly easier to find and to read Williamson’s book than to forage in the Blotner papers in Cape Girardeau (although both experiences are remarkably pleasant). The vast trove of documents archived online at ancestry.com proved invaluable : manuscript census returns for addresses, occupations, ages, and family connections; draft registrations for more on occupations and addresses ; ships’ passenger lists for comings and goings; passport applications for addresses and even a few photographs; and much more. For those materials I have simply cited ancestry.com as the source, sometimes crediting the genealogical research of Dale Volberg Reed, who can really make those documents tell stories. Anyone willing to subscribe to that service can probably replicate the process by which Dale or I came to some conclusion. (Full disclosure , as they say in the media: I found ancestry.com to be so useful that I bought a modest amount of stock in the company.) Preface vii Noggle’s historiographical essay: Burl Noggle, The Fleming Lectures, 1937– 1990 (Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1992). INtroductIoN:two BIlls aNd a Book This chapter is based on Joseph Blotner, Faulkner: A Biography, vol. 1 (Random House, 1974), unless otherwise indicated. 1 “Sort of a private joke”: William Spratling, File on Spratling: An Autobiography (Little, Brown, 1967), 28. 2 Quotations from Natalie Scott: John W. Scott, “William Spratling and the New Orleans Renaissance,” Louisiana History 45, no. 3 (summer 2004): 313– 14 (at 314n, 1928 should obviously be 1926). Dog Latin epigraph: Email to author from Professor E. Christian Kopff, University of Colorado, 25 August 2010. 3 “I don’t think it’s very funny”: Spratling, File, on Spratling, 29. Had truly hurt Anderson: William Faulkner, “Sherwood Anderson: An Appreciation ,” in Ray Lewis White, The Achievement of Sherwood Anderson: Essays in Criticism (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1966), 196. Asked Spratling for another: A second-printing copy of Famous Creoles in the Louis Daniel Brodsky Collection of William Faulkner Materials at South- Notes | 253 east Missouri State University contains a note from Spratling to Anderson saying that the only two copies he has left are equally battered, and not to give this one away. 3 Upwards of $2,000: Bookfinder.com, 11 August 2011. “A mirror of our scene”: Spratling, File on Spratling, 29. 4 “Internationally famous locally”: Edward Dreyer, “Some Friends of Lyle Saxon,” epilogue to Lyle Saxon, The Friends of Joe Gilmore (Hastings House, 1948), 163. 5 Neither of the major museums: Confirmed by Kevin Grogan and David Houston at the Morris and Ogden museums of Southern art, respectively. Some of Spratling’s work is in the Historic New Orleans Collection, the Louisiana State Museum, and the Special Collections of the Tulane University Library . Native New Orleanians held themselves apart: Chance Harvey, The Life and Selected Letters of Lyle Saxon (Pelican, 2003), 86. A social circle: On the concept of social circle, see Charles Kadushin, The American Intellectual Elite (Transaction Publishers, 2005), esp. xiii, 9–12. Kadushin develops a concept introduced by Georg Simmel, in Conflict and the Web of Group Affiliations (1922; reprint, Free Press, 1955). “Grand Old Man”: Spratling, File on Spratling, 22. “Royal Personage”: Hamilton Basso, “William Faulkner, Man and Writer,” Saturday...
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