On letterhead stationery.
Envelope with postage stamp and postmark; date is from postmark.
Envelope is addressed to "Prof. Matthew J. Bruccoli / BC Research / 3020 Devine St., Suite 203-A / Columbia, S.C. 29205."
Part of a collection of correspondence and photocopies of typescripts and page proofs related to the 1979 publication of Welty's afterword to E.P. O'Donnell's The Great Big Doorstep.
Thanking him for sending "the offprint of the entry of [her] work in First Printings of American Authors"; wondering if he can omit the last entry, "John Rood: Exhibition of Recent Sculpture"; explaining that she "knew far too little about sculpture to write about it" but felt obliged "to try it anyway" since Mr. Rood printed the first story she ever wrote.