Spiral Notebooks, circa 1985-1990

This series includes eight spiral notebooks containing notes taken by Professor Walsh during the course of his research on Porter and Mexico. There are notes from Porter's manuscripts, correspondence, and personal library in the Papers of Katherine Anne Porter; from manuscripts and correspondence in the Carleton Beals Collection at Boston University; from the Genevieve Taggard Papers at the New York Public Library; from various Mexican newspapers of 1920-1921; from various critical studies of Porter; and from Porter's short stories. The most significant among these are those Walsh took from Anita Brenner's unpublished diaries and correspondence of 1923-1929; they were made during one or more visits to the Mexico City home of Brenner's daughter, Susannah Glusker, in summer 1986 and/or summer 1987.