Box 1

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The brief correspondence between Walsh, a former Jesuit priest, and Walker Percy began in 1980, shortly after Walsh read Percy's Lancelot. Walsh, an Irish-Catholic New Orleanian born in 1925, joined the Society of Jesus in 1942. He left the order in 1973, but remained ambivalent about his decision to enter secular life. The collection consists of three letters and one postcard.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The brief correspondence between Walsh, a former Jesuit priest, and Walker Percy began in 1980, shortly after Walsh read Percy's Lancelot. Walsh, an Irish-Catholic New Orleanian born in 1925, joined the Society of Jesus in 1942. He left the order in 1973, but remained ambivalent about his decision to enter secular life. The collection consists of three letters and one postcard.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The brief correspondence between Walsh, a former Jesuit priest, and Walker Percy began in 1980, shortly after Walsh read Percy's Lancelot. Walsh, an Irish-Catholic New Orleanian born in 1925, joined the Society of Jesus in 1942. He left the order in 1973, but remained ambivalent about his decision to enter secular life. The collection consists of three letters and one postcard.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The brief correspondence between Walsh, a former Jesuit priest, and Walker Percy began in 1980, shortly after Walsh read Percy's Lancelot. Walsh, an Irish-Catholic New Orleanian born in 1925, joined the Society of Jesus in 1942. He left the order in 1973, but remained ambivalent about his decision to enter secular life. The collection consists of three letters and one postcard.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The brief correspondence between Walsh, a former Jesuit priest, and Walker Percy began in 1980, shortly after Walsh read Percy's Lancelot. Walsh, an Irish-Catholic New Orleanian born in 1925, joined the Society of Jesus in 1942. He left the order in 1973, but remained ambivalent about his decision to enter secular life. The collection consists of three letters and one postcard.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The brief correspondence between Walsh, a former Jesuit priest, and Walker Percy began in 1980, shortly after Walsh read Percy's Lancelot. Walsh, an Irish-Catholic New Orleanian born in 1925, joined the Society of Jesus in 1942. He left the order in 1973, but remained ambivalent about his decision to enter secular life. The collection consists of three letters and one postcard.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The brief correspondence between Walsh, a former Jesuit priest, and Walker Percy began in 1980, shortly after Walsh read Percy's Lancelot. Walsh, an Irish-Catholic New Orleanian born in 1925, joined the Society of Jesus in 1942. He left the order in 1973, but remained ambivalent about his decision to enter secular life. The collection consists of three letters and one postcard.

Abstract Lancelot moved Walsh as a study of evil and rebirth. He particularly empathized with the character of the priest who listens silently as the novel's central character, Lance, recounts a story of jealousy, deceit, and vengeance set in south Louisiana. The priest and Lance are old acquaintances, having grown up and gone to school together. Lance ascribes literary and religious persona to the various stages of the unresponding priest's life: Harry, Harry...