[Postcard from Eudora Welty to Peter Taylor]

Peter Taylor must have sent Eudora Welty a review copy of his novel A Summons to Memphis, since she wrote this encomium in June 1986, and his novel wasn’t published until October. In her note, Welty praises Taylor’s craft, writing that his words are like a frozen lake, “so thin the ice and so dark & deep below.”