William Faulkner, Intruder in the
Dust (1948), p. 8.
[2]
William Faulkner, Essays, Speeches
&
Public Letters, ed. James B. Meriwether (1965), p. 39.
[3]
See Joseph Blotner, Faulkner: A
Biography (1974), pp. 538, 1246, 1793.
[4]
All of the wills cited in this article are part of the
L. D. Brodsky Collection of William Faulkner Materials. An exhibit of the
Brodsky Collection is scheduled for October-November, 1979, at Southeast
Missouri State University.
[5]
In the 1951 and later wills Faulkner inserted
provisions for other black tenants of Greenfield Farm, employing words
reminiscent of Go Down, Moses in stipulating that these
blacks
"shall not be dispossessed" from their homes.