And I can always go back to teaching English at Young Harris College. I think I've told you I was teaching there when I first broke down. I made the same mistake there as I always do in my teaching forays, let a student get too close to me, or vice versa, I've never figured which.
--BHR to Pratt Dickson, July 29, 1954

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Faithfully, Reece

Pratt Dickson Letters
1946-1958
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Pratt Dickson and Byron Herbert Reece became correspondents, and the letters Reece wrote Dickson are now part of the Young Harris College Reece Collection. The letters span the period from late 1947 until Reece's death.

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November 16, 1951 Reece explaining about keeping some items for Dickson. Critque Dickson's work. Parents ill.
March 8, 1953 Parents ill. Discuss Reece poems, writer's contracts, possible travel.
July 29, 1954 Had been in sanitorium 5 months. Season of Flesh done. Discusses love.
June 17, 1955 Mother died in August, 1954. His own health improving. Anger at Saturday Review. Hawk and the Sun to come out.
April 4, 1956 Taught at Emory. Likes the students when he teaches. Hawk and the Sun published.
May 5, 1957 Has been teaching at Young Harris for year. Has written nothing since 1954. New novel.
June 24, 1957 At Huntington Harford Foundation in California. Trying to arrange a meeting.
July 14, 1957 At HHF. Working on cantata. Feels stifled. Describes working in Georgia.
June 6, 1958 Pratt Dickson's last letter to Reece, returned marked "DECEASED"

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