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Contains 76 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence, 1988-1997

 Series — Box: 1 1
Scope and Contents This series consists almost entirely of letters to and from Janis P. Stout, primarily requests for permission to quote from correspondence cited in Katherine Anne Porter: A Sense of the Times (1995) and replies to the requests. There are individual files for persons (Isabel Bayley, Joan Givner, Paul Porter, etc.) and institutions (Houston Chronicle, Library of Congress). For some of the correspondents, the name of the author whose work is...
Dates: 1988-1997

Book Proposal Evaluation, 1991

 Series — Box: 1 2
Scope and Contents

This series consists of an evaluation written by George Garrett on Stout's proposal for an intellectual biography of Katherine Anne Porter for the University Press of Virginia's Minds of the South Series. The resulting book was published as Katherine Anne Porter: A Sense of the Times in 1995.

Dates: 1991

Scholarly Work, 1990

 Series — Box: 1 3
Scope and Contents

This series includes Stout's "Porter as Distiller: A Liquor Never Brewed," a paper delivered at the Georgia State University Centennial Celebration for Katherine Anne Porter on November 9, 1990.

Dates: 1990

Research Materials, undated

 Series — Box: 1 4
Scope and Contents

This series contains some of Stout's research materials for Katherine Anne Porter: A Sense of the Times (1995). It includes both her notes and photocopies of archival materials. The series is arranged alphabetically.

Dates: undated