Once Barbara walked into my room and she had something in her hand - hidden behind her back. Very gradually she got her hand in front of me and it was a gray book with two letters in gold on the cover "EW". I took the book and opened the front page and read Eudora Welty One Writer's Beginnings and then written in a shaky hand :
With my best thanks for her interest, to Olga Spachil.
Eudora Welty
April 1944
Jackson, Mississippi
I was thrilled and very, very grateful. Where and how did she get the book autographed for me!? It was not really easy, since by that time (being 85 years old) Eudora Welty hardly autographed any books - arthritis introduced its limitations. So Barbara asked her long-time friend she wet to college with and the friend asked Miss Welty and now I have a book I treasure!
With my best thanks for her interest, to Olga Spachil.
Eudora Welty
April 1944
Jackson, Mississippi
I was thrilled and very, very grateful. Where and how did she get the book autographed for me!? It was not really easy, since by that time (being 85 years old) Eudora Welty hardly autographed any books - arthritis introduced its limitations. So Barbara asked her long-time friend she wet to college with and the friend asked Miss Welty and now I have a book I treasure!
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