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===Wallace Stevens=== The poet [[Wallace Stevens]] is said to have been baptized a Catholic during his last days suffering from [[stomach cancer]].<ref>Maria J. Cirurgião, "Last Farewell and First Fruits: The Story of a Modern Poet". ''Lay Witness'' (June 2000).</ref> This account is disputed, particularly by Stevens's daughter, Holly,<ref>Peter Brazeau, ''Parts of a World: Wallace Stevens Remembered'', New York, Random House, 1983, p. 295</ref> and critic, [[Helen Vendler]], who, in a letter to [[James Wm. Chichetto]], thought Fr. Arthur Hanley was "forgetful" since "he was interviewed twenty years after Stevens' death."<ref>Chichetto/Vendler correspondence (8/24/09,8/28/09 and 9/2/09) concerning conversations with Dr. Edward Sennett, uncle of Chichetto's brother-in-law, W. J. Sennett. Dr. Sennett was a former head of the Oncology Dept. at St. Francis Hospital and in charge when Stevens was a patient there. Sennett knew Fr. Hanley and the nuns who worked at the hospital with Hanley. Archives of the Congregation of Holy Cross, American Province Archives Center, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana.</ref>
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