Editing Frances Farmer (section)

===1965–1970: Final years===
During the early and mid-1960s, Farmer was actress-in-residence at Purdue University, and spent the majority of her free time painting and writing poetry.{{sfn|Agan|1979|pages=31–33}} She and Ratcliffe attempted to start a small cosmetics company, but although their products were successfully field-tested, the project failed after the man who handled their investment portfolio embezzled their funds.{{Sfn|Farmer|1972|pages=310–311}} In 1968, she formally converted to [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholicism]], as she claimed to have felt God in her life and sensed that she "would have to find a disciplined avenue of faith and worship."{{sfn|Lund|1980|p=28}} She recounted her experience: {{quote|I had never given great concern to organized religion, and I was like a wayfaring stranger until one day I found myself sitting in Saint Joan of Arc, the Catholic church of our neighborhood. I had passed the cathedral countless times, but that afternoon, as I was returning from marketing, I stopped and sat alone in the great hall. It was quiet and dark, and I studied the massive altar and understood, for the first time, the power and meaning of the Crucifixion.{{sfn|Lund|1980|pages=28–29}}}} Farmer had a great affection for the Saint Joan of Arc church and attended Mass there regularly in her last years.<ref>{{cite news|author=Rose, Rita|title=Frances Farmer, Part 4: Friends saw Frances as generous, loving|work=[[The Indianapolis Star]]|date=January 26, 1983|page=1}}</ref> During this period, she also gave up drinking,{{Sfn|Farmer|1972|p=309}} and began considering writing an autobiography. She negotiated a collaboration with [[Lois Kibbee]], who encouraged her to tape-record her life story.{{sfn|Agan|1979|pages=32–33}} The experience was emotionally jarring for Farmer, specifically the revisiting of medical records from her institutionalization.{{sfn|Agan|1979|p=33}} The book went unfinished, but Ratcliffe used its manuscript in compiling Farmer's posthumously released autobiography, ''Will There Really Be a Morning?''.{{sfn|Agan|1979|p=34}}