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Published on: 4/16/2006
Last Visited: 4/16/2006
Carter, Capote's cousin, donated the collection to the museum for its permanent collection. (AP Photo/Garry Mitchell) (Garry Mitchell - AP)
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Carter said there has been a "lot of static" in his family about turning over the family memorabilia, but he said he's making it public so people will learn more about his famous cousin.
"I'm the only one that tried to accumulate the stuff that related to Truman and put it in a scrapbook," Carter, 79, a retired crop-duster pilot, said in an interview at the museum.
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Capote, who died in Los Angeles at age 59 in 1984, had close emotional ties to his aunt, Carter's mother, Mary Ida Faulk Carter, a younger sister of Capote's mother.
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As Carter, who took the photo, recalled in an interview: "He was just bubbling over.He was telling all of us he had created a new style of writing.I don't know whether he did or not, but it was an impressive book."
As boys, Carter and Capote played together.
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He was also pretty stingy," Carter recalled.
On visits home, Carter said Capote loved to brag about where he had been and what he had done."Half of it was lies, I'm sure," Carter said, laughing at the memory.