[Manuscript of Flannery O'Connor's essay "The King of the Birds"]
Creation: 1950
Housed with the Cheney Collection in Special Collections at the Vanderbilt University Library are a number of manuscripts written by friends and colleagues of the Cheneys. Here is presented a copy of Flannery O’Connor’s essay “The King of the Birds,” published in 1961. O’Connor spent her life raising peacocks on Andalusia Farm in Milledgeville, Georgia. This essay pays tribute to the regal and, at times, difficult birds.
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[Manuscript of Flannery O'Connor's essay "The King of the Birds"]
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Creation: 1950
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Housed with the Cheney Collection in Special Collections at the Vanderbilt University Library are a number of manuscripts written by friends and colleagues of the Cheneys. Here is presented a copy of Flannery O’Connor’s essay “The King of the Birds,” published in 1961. O’Connor spent her life raising peacocks on Andalusia Farm in Milledgeville, Georgia. This essay pays tribute to the regal and, at times, difficult birds.
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Copyright; use considered fair according to the ARL Code of Best Practices in Fair Use
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MS0004, Brainard Bartwell Cheney and Frances Neel Cheney Papers, Box 52, Folder 09
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“[Manuscript of Flannery O'Connor's essay "The King of the Birds"],” Gallery, accessed August 25, 2026, https://gallery.library.vanderbilt.edu/items/show/1020.