Anderson and Faulkner

I first saw Bill Faulkner when he came to my apartment in New Orleans. You will remember the story of Abraham Lincoln's meeting with the Southern commissioners, on the boat, on the Potomac in I864. The Southern commissioners had come to try to negotiate some sort of peace and among them was the Vice-President of the confederacy, Alexander Stephens. He was such a small man and wore a huge overcoat. Did you ever see so much shuck for so little nubbin? Lincoln said to a friend. I thought of the story when I first saw Faulkner. He also had on a big overcoat, it being winter, and it bulged strangely, so much, that at first glance, I thought he must be in some queer way deformed. He told me that he intended to stay for some time in New Orleans and asked if in the meantime, while he was looking for a place, he could leave some of his with me. His things consisted of some six or eight half gallon jars of moon liquor he had brought with him from the country and that were stowed in the pockets of the big coat.'

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