LETTERS: 4 Typed letters signed and 1 Autograph letter signed, to William Claire.
Gordon [Tate], Caroline. Publishing correspondence with William Claire. 1968-69.
3 typed letters signed, 5 pages; and 1 Autograph letter signed, 2 pages.
Letters composed (Feb. 12, 1968, June 11, 1968, June 29th, 1968, December 30, 1968, March 3, [1969]) to William Claire, poet and editor of the literary magazine Voyages; with a 1968 holograph envelope.
Topics include the following:
How Gordon’s essay “Twiggy and the Well Connected Shoots” that she co-wrote with Cary Peebles is to be signed in the magazine (June 11)
That the “Twiggy ... piece is too long: “but I have little talent for that kind of writing.” She then comments about the fact that “Voyages” cannot pay its contributors: “My remarks about non-payment were sort of jolted out of me in the course of a conversation with Roger Hecht ... It doesn’t make any particular difference to a writer as old as I am but young writers can hardly afford to contribute to magazines which don’t pay. It’s mark of the professional to be paid for his work. It doesn’t matter how little the payment is but any kind of payment separates the magazines from the deadly abyss of “vanity publishing” - into which no professional writer wishes to tumble.” (December 30)
Requesting copies of the Voyages issue that published her article “for her files.” etc. (March 3)
Caroline Ferguson Gordon was a notable American novelist and literary critic who was the recipient of a 1932 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 1934 O. Henry Award. She was married to poet Allen Tate. Between 1934 and 1972, Gordon published nine additional novels, five of which were written during the late 1930s and World War II. Caroline Gordon’s marriage to Allen Tate ended in divorce in 1945, followed by a 1946 remarriage and an ultimate divorce in 1959.
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