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117 Credits text credits Excerpts from the following letters are reprinted by permission of the Eudora Welty Collection–Mississippi Department of Archives and History and of Russell and Volkening, Inc., as agents for Eudora Welty, LLC, copyright © Eudora Welty, LLC, 1921, 1929, 1936, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1959, 1963, 1964, 1967, 1973. from eudora welty: To Mary Lou Aswell: 25 March 1964 To Frank Lyell: 16 January 1950; 3 November 1952; n.d. (January) 1959; 10 December 1963; 18 February 1967 To Ken Millar: 30 March 1973 To John Robinson: 13 July 1944 To Diarmuid Russell: 31 May 1940; 5 November 1940; 20 September 1941; 30 September 1941; 13 August 1945; n.d. (late December) 1945; 2 January 1946; 20 July 1953; 25 September 1957 to eudora welty: From Katherine Anne Porter: 25 October 1938 From John Rood: 19 March 1936 From Diarmuid Russell: 3 June 1940; 2 January 1946 From J. H. W______, Mackie Pine Oil Specialty Co., 29 August 1921 118 Credits other: Ricardo Quintana, 3 September 1929 Excerpts reprinted by permission of the publisher from One Writer’s Beginnings by Eudora Welty, pp. 3, 5, 8–9, 13, 14, 17, 21, 22, 23, 25–26, 47, 51, 52, 68–69, 77, 80, 81, 87, 92–93, 104, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, Copyright © 1983, 1984 by Eudora Welty. Excerpts from Eudora Welty: A Biography copyright © 2005 by Suzanne Marrs, reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Excerpts from Eudora Welty: Photographs are reprinted by permission of University Press of Mississippi. Excerpts from the introduction to Early Escapades by Eudora Welty are reprinted by permission of the editor, Patti Carr Black. Excerpts from letters and papers in the private collection of Suzanne Marrs are reprinted courtesy of the owner: Eudora Welty to Berenice Abbott, 9 August 1934;“The Perfect Garden,” Chestina Welty; Eudora Welty to Bill Smith, n.d. illustration credits Illustrations on the following pages are reprinted by the permission of the Eudora Welty Collection–Mississippi Department of Archives and History and of Russell and Volkening, Inc., as agents for Eudora Welty, LLC, copyright © Eudora Welty, LLC: 2, 4, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 21, 22, 29, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40, 41, 42 (bottom right), 44, 46, 60 (top left), 88, 94 Illustrations on the following pages are reprinted by the permission of Russell and Volkening, Inc., as agents for Eudora Welty, LLC, copyright © Eudora Welty, LLC: 18, 21, 22, 24, 26, 29, 31, 41, 42 (middle and left bottom), [3.14.70.203] Project MUSE (2024-04-16 14:25 GMT) 119 Credits 43, 51, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 60 (top and bottom right), 61, 68, 69, 74, 76, 78, 81, 87, 92, 93 The photograph of Eudora Welty in the Meh Lady yearbook is reprinted courtesy of Mississippi State College for Women and Eudora Welty, LLC. The photograph of Eudora Welty on the campus of Mississippi State College for Women was taken by Norma Cox. The photograph of Eudora Welty from the Badger Yearbook is reprinted courtesy of the UW Madison Archives and Eudora Welty, LLC. The photograph of the night-blooming cereus is reprinted courtesy of Mary Alice Welty White. The photograph of Eudora Welty in Italy was taken by Barbara Howes and is reprinted courtesy of Gregory Smith and Eudora Welty, LLC. The photograph of Chestina Welty in the 1950s was taken by Rollie McKenna . The photograph of Medgar Evers is reprinted courtesy of University Press of Mississippi. The photograph of Eudora Welty working with a student at Millsaps College is reprinted courtesy of Millsaps College Archives. The photograph of Eudora Welty’s copy of E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India and the photograph of Eudora Welty’s painting of the Mississippi State Fair are reprinted by permission of the Collection of the Museum Division, Mississippi Department of Archives and History. The photographs of Eudora Welty on her way to Europe, in Paris, and at her eightieth birthday party are reprinted courtesy of Patti Carr Black. 120 Credits The photograph of Eudora Welty and Jim Lehrer was taken by Chuck Allen and is reprinted courtesy of New Stage Theatre and EudoraWelty,LLC. The photographs of the crowd paying their respects to the Welty family at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson (photographer Suzi Altman) and of Eudora Welty’s living room (photographer Gretchen Hain) are reprinted by permission of the Collection of the Office...

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