LETTERS: 8 TLS and 1 ALS to her agent, Joan Daves.
TO HER AGENT
Porter, Katherine Anne. Nine letters to her agent Joan Daves, 1975-76; 11 pages total.
A collection of nine letters – eight typed and one autograph – regarding her work, publishers, and an
upcoming reading. Highlights as follows:
TLS, July 16, 1976, in part: “The plans for a reading of ‘The Jilting of Granny Weatherall’ by the
Canadian Broadcasting Company also are acceptable. It is an old and good story and I would love to be
able to hear it. Are you interested in pursuing the possibility of my doing the reading for them? In the
same vein I have thought for many years of the possibility of doing a recording of a book of several
stories.”
TLS, January 22, 1976, in part: “I have gone over and over and over these hundreds of pages of
manuscript of the Sacco-Vanzetti book I am writing, or indeed have written, and it is coming out really
page by page because I have written several things more than once in my effort to get everything in that
needs to be there, cut down to the essentials. It takes time and energy...I have not read a single book on
this subject by anyone. I intended to read several, but I never did and my story is exactly personal without
any intention on my part. I had meant to consult the feelings and views of persons who had been at the
very center of this tragedy, but I never have until now.”
Accompanied by three unsigned hardcover works by Porter: A Christmas Story; A Defense of Circe; and
Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte. In 1977, Porter would publish The Never-Ending Wrong, an account of the
notorious trial and executions of Sacco and Venzetti, which she had protested at the time of their trial.
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