Ralph Morrisey Collection
Title
Ralph Morrisey Collection
Description
The Ralph Morrissey Collection contains hundreds of photographs of authors assembled by Morrissey, 1903-1956, a literary editor and award-winning photographer for the Nashville Tennessean newspaper and the Nashville Tennessean Magazine.
Identifier
MSS0305
Collection Items
[Portraits of Flannery O'Connor]
![[Portraits of Flannery O'Connor]](https://gallery.library.vanderbilt.edu/files/square_thumbnails/43/1023/MS0305-Flannery_Oconnor-001.jpg "[Portraits of Flannery O'Connor]")
A series of portrait photographs of Flannery O'Conner was taken at the Smyrna home of Brainard and Fannie Cheney. The Cheneys affectionately called their home "Cold Chimneys" and many of Cheney's letters to Flannery were written from there. By 1955,…