Oxford: Post Office in Sanctuary (Location)

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University Post Office
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Context (text, as interpreted)
X: 
1702
Y: 
275
Description: 

The U.S. "postoffice" (Faulkner's spelling) that Horace visits looking for information about Temple is a branch office on the grounds of the University of Mississippi (171). In the world outside the fictions, for a time during the 1920s Faulkner himself worked in this branch, which was located inside a part of the University Store Building. He may have been tempted to write himself into the novel, but the postal "clerk" with whom Horace speaks bears no obvious resemblance to Faulkner (171).

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Site of Event
Status: 
Continuous
Types: 
Post Office
True X: 
2360
True Y: 
312

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