To Absent Friends Sarah B. Drummond To the south

To the south

and also shows how the reader's interest in these texts is directed by libidinal investment

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To Absent Friends Sarah B. Drummond To the southWith over 350 complete or excerpted letters, most previously unpublished, To Absent Friends: Eudora Welty's Correspondence with Frank Lyell forms an epistolary narrative of Welty's writing life and her nearly fifty year friendship with Frank Lyell, a friend from Jackson, Mississippi. Also included in the text are extensive annotations to explain the letters' myriad, often telegraphic cultural references. Early letters show both correspondents'