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B-Correspondence: family correspondence, including a large collection of letters between Highsmith and her Texan first cousin
Dan O. Coates, and letters between Highsmith and her mother Mary Coates Highsmith, father Jay B. Plangman and step-father
Stanley Highsmith. Correspondence with publishers. Correspondence with friends, including a large number of letters to her
life-long friend Kate Kingsley Skattebøl, and to Charles Latimer and Barbara Ker-Seymer, as well as copies of letters to Alex
Szogyi, Phyllis Nagy and Bettina Berch. Letters from (and occasionally to) fellow writers, especially Graham Greene, Paul
Bowles and Gore Vidal (for other established names in the Arts and Letters with a smaller number of letters see list below).
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