"The repair of the Eudora Welty House foundation is in progress, according to Elbert R. Hilliard, MDAH director. Some years ago Welty had contracted with Bob Ewing of Jackson to oversee partial repairs to the foundation. Ewing, who has come out of retirement to serve as the structural engineer for this project, reports that, at the bottom of their earlier contract, Welty had written a small note: “Please do not do violence to my house.” "

— Mississippi History Newsletter, September 2004