Listed alphabetically by correspondent. Notes on senders have been provided where possible, largely for fellow writers and for agents, editors, and other notable figures.
Typed letter, Larry Ashmead, J. B. Lippincott, New York, N.Y., to Elise Sanguinetti, Anniston, Ala., August 4, 1978
Lawrence Peel Ashmead (1932-2010) was a successful book editor at several major firms, including Doubleday, Simon & Schuster, and HarperCollins.
Typed letter, Larry Ashmead, J. B. Lippincott, New York, N.Y., to Elise Sanguinetti, Anniston, Ala., October 6, 1978
Typed letter, Larry Ashmead, Executive Editor, J. B. Lippincott, New York, N.Y., to Elise Sanguinetti, Anniston, Ala., December 11, 1978
Typed letter, Larry Ashmead, Executive Editor, Harper & Row, New York, N.Y., to Elise Sanguinetti, Anniston, Ala., November 4, 1981
Typed letter, Larry Ashmead, Harper & Row, New York, N.Y., to Elise Sanguinetti, Anniston, Ala., October 30, 1984
Handwritten card, Barbara Bush to Elise and Phil Sanguinetti, circa 1980
Contains the following enclosure: Pre-printed card with picture of George H. W. Bush on one side and a thank you note on the reverse
Barbara Bush (1925-2018) attended Ashley Hall boarding school with Sanguinetti in the early 1940s.
Typed letter, W. E. Butterworth (W. E. B. Griffin), Fairhope, Ala., to Elise Sanguinetti, Anniston, Ala., July 20, 1969
William E. Butterworth (1929-2019), better known as W. E. B. Griffin, was the author of dozens of military and detective novels.
Typed letter, Bill Butterworth (W. E. B. Griffin), Fairhope, Ala., to “Rt. Honorable Elise Sanguinetti”, Anniston Star, Anniston, Ala., March 12, 1980
Handwritten letter, Sara (Newton Carroll) to Elise Sanguinetti, circa 1964
Handwritten letter, Sara Newton Carroll, Ozark, Ala., to Elise Sanguinetti, September 24, 1973
Typed letter, Virginius Dabney, Richmond Times-Dispath,, Richmond, Va., to Elise Sanguinetti, Pittsburgh, Pa., May 12, 1962
Virginius Dabney (1901-1995) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist.
Typed letter, Virginius Dabney, Richmond Times-Dispath, Richmond, Va., to Elise Sanguinetti, Pittsburgh, Pa., July 3, 1962
Typed letter, O. B. Emerson, Assistant Professor of English, University of Alabama, University, Ala., to Elise Sanguinetti, Anniston, Ala., April 16, 1964
O. B. Emerson was an English professor at the University of Alabama from 1946-1986.
Typed letter, O. B. Emerson, University, Ala., to Elise Sanguinetti, Anniston, Ala., September 16, 1965
Typed letter, O. B. Emerson, Past President, Alabama Council of Teachers of English, University, Ala., to Elise Sanguinetti, Anniston, Ala., May 28, 1965
Typed letter, O. B. Emerson, English Department, University of Alabama, University, Ala., to Elise Sanguinetti, Anniston, Ala., March 21, 1973
Typed letter, O. B. Emerson, University of Alabama, University, Ala., to Elise Sanguinetti, Anniston, Ala., April 26, 1973
Typed letter, O. B. Emerson, University of Alabama, University, Ala., to Elise Sanguinetti, Anniston, Ala., March 6, 1980
Typed letter, O. B. Emerson, English Department, University of Alabama, University, Ala., to Elise Sanguinetti, Anniston, Ala., March 23, 1981
Contains the following enclosures: (1) Course description for EH 300, Alabama Authors; (2) Typed letter, Patty Campbell Maxwell, Decatur, Ga., to O. B. Emerson, English Department, University of Alabama, March 3, 1981; and (3) return letter, Emerson to Maxwell, March 16, 1981
Typed letter, O. B. Emerson, University of Alabama, University, Ala., to Elise and Phillip Sanguinetti, Anniston, Ala., June 21, 1982
Typed letter, O. B. Emerson, University of Alabama, University, Ala., to Elise Sanguinetti, Anniston, Ala., March 28, 1983
Typed letter, Cathy (Louise) Crawford Feagin, Washington, D.C., to Elise Sanguinetti, February 15, 1977
Contains the following enclosure: Photocopied page from the forthcoming book Alabama White English: The Verb Phrase in Anniston, by Louise Crawford Feagin
Typed letter, Christine (Noble Govan) to Elise Sanguinetti, July 4, 1971
Christine Noble Govan was the author of dozens of mystery novels.
Handwritten letter, Christine Noble Govan, Lookout Mountain, Tenn., to Elise Sanguinetti, Anniston, Ala., August 8, 1971
Typed letter, Wade Hall, Bellarmine-Ursuline College, Louisville, Ky., to Elise Sanguinetti, May 20, 1971
Wade Hall (1935-2016), a native Alabamian, was an English professor at Bellarmine University (Kentucky) and a non-fiction author.
Typed letter, Wade Hall, Bellarmine-Ursuline College, Louisville, Ky., to Elise Sanguinetti, June 15, 1971
Typed letter, DeVene Harrold, T. R. Weathersby Agency, St. Augustine, Fla., circa 1964
Handwritten card, DeVene Harrold, T. R. Weathersby Agency, St. Augustine, Fla., to Elise Sanguinetti, December 2, 1969
Typed letter, Sally (Sara Henderson Hay), Pittsburg, Penn., to Elise Sanguinetti, Jan. 31, 1962
Sara Henderson Hay (1906-1987) was a poet, with pieces published in periodicals like The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, and Saturday Review. She lived in Pittsburgh, Pa., which is probably how she came to know Elise. She often writes on the stationery that uses her married name, Mrs. Nikolai Lopatnikoff.
Typed letter, Sally (Sara Henderson Hay), Pittsburgh, Pa., to Elise Sanguinetti, March 12, 1963
Typed letter, Sally (Sara Henderson Hay) to Elise Sanguinetti, September 2, 1963
Typed letter, Sally (Sara Henderson Hay) to Elise Sanguinetti, May 18, 1964
Typed letter, Sally (Sara Henderson Hay), Pittsburgh, Pa., to Elise Sanguinetti, September 27, 1964
Typed letter, Sally (Sara Henderson Hay), Pittsburgh, Pa., to Elise Sanguinetti, October 25, 1964
Typed letter, Earle Hill, Griffin, Ga., to Elise Sanguinetti, November 30, 1971, and December 1971
Earle Hill was a novelist, known for Quietly Crush the Lizard (1972). Earle Hill was the pen name of Ronny Earle, and he used those names interchangeably with Elise, sometimes within one piece of correspondence. Where he has signed his name simply as “Earle,” that has been retained — it could be short for either or both.
Typed letter, Earle Hill, Griffin, Ga., to Elise Sanguinetti, February 5, 1972
Handwritten letter, Earle Hill, Griffin, Ga., to Elise Sanguinetti, March 9, 1972
Contains the following enclosures: (1) Black and white photograph of Earle Hill and (2) Promotional material for Quietly Crush the Lizard
Handwritten letter, Earle, Griffin, Ga., to Elise Sanguinetti, April 3, 1972
Typed letter, Ronny Earle, Griffin, Ga., to Elise Sanguinetti, April 18, 1973
Typed letter, Ronny Earle, Joanne, Kim, and David, Macon, Ga., to Elise Sanguinetti, January 29, 1975
Handwritten letter, Earle to Elise Sanguinetti, circa February 7, 1975, written at the top of a typed letter, Martina D’Alton, Editorial Department, Viking Press, New York, N.Y., to Earle Hill, Macon, Ga., February 7, 1975
Handwritten card, Knox Ide to Elise Sanguinetti, January 20, 1986
Contains the following enclosures: (1) Handwritten message, O. B. (Emerson) (to Elise Sanguinetti); (2) Pre-printed card with memorandum regarding the retirement of O. B. Emerson, January 23, 1986; and (3) Photocopied newspaper article, “University brightened by changes,” by Jack Wheat, regarding O. B. Emerson
Typed letter, Claudia Durst Johnson to Elise Sanguinetti, August 10, 1993
Claudia Durst Johnson was a literary scholar, especially known for her work on To Kill a Mockingbird. She was also close friends with its author, Harper Lee. She was also a professor of English and chair of the department at the University of Alabama.
Typed letter, Claudia Durst Johnson to Elise Sanguinetti, September 27, 1993
Typed letter, Claudia Durst Johnson to Elise Sanguinetti, October 12, 1993
Typed letter, Tom King to Elise Sanguinetti, November 2, 1986
Typed letter, Tom King, East Haddam, Conn., to Elise Sanguinetti, May 10, 1993
Typed letter, Tom King to Elise Sanguinetti
Typed letter, George Lang, Tuscaloosa, Ala., to Elise Sanguinetti, September 21, 1964
Contains the following enclosure: Obituary for Dr. George Lang
Typed card, George Lang to Elise Sanguinetti, Anniston, Ala., January 15, 1969
Card with handwritten note, James Merrill, Stovington, Conn., to Elise Sanguinetti, May 5, 1965
James Merrill (1926-1995) was a Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning poet
Typed letter, Marguerite Miller to Elise Sanguinetti, Anniston, Ala., April 13, 1962
Handwritten letter, Claudia Moffett, St. Augustine, Fla., to Elise Sanguinetti, May 10, 1971
Typed letter with handwritten note, Langston and Claudia Moffett, St. Augustine, Fla., to Elise Sanguinetti, September 14, 1983
Handwritten letter, Phyllis Nuneo to Elise and Philip Sanguinetti, October 15, 1968
Handwritten letter, Hellen Plummer, Atlanta, Ga., to Elise Sanguinetti, March 15, 1967
Handwritten letter, Hellen Plummer, Atlanta, Ga., to Elise Sanguinetti, 1970s
Handwritten note, Hellen Plummer to Elise Sanguinetti, written at the bottom of an invitation to a poetry reading by James Merrill at Atlanta Public Library, Atlanta, Ga., October 13, 1980
Handwritten letter, Jimmy Plummer, Atlanta, Ga., to Elise Sanguinetti, 1980s
Typed letter, Hellen Plummer, Atlanta, Ga., to Elise Sanguinetti, September 25, circa 1980s
Handwritten letter, Archibald Rutledge, Poet Laureate, South Carolina, Sharpsburg, S.C., to Elise Sanguinetti, circa 1968
Archibald Rutledge (1883-1973) served as Poet Laureate of South Carolina for nearly 40 years.
Handwritten letter, Archibald Rutledge, McClellanville, S.C., to Elise Sanguinetti, circa 1971
Contains the following enclosures: Typed poems by Archibald Rutledge: “A Song of Hope,” “Music in the Night,” and “Out of the Valley’s Shadow”
Handwritten letter, Archibald Rutledge, Spartanburg, S.C., to Elise Sanguinetti, August 11, c. early 1970s
Contains the following enclosure: Handwritten poem, “The Compass,” by Archibald Rutledge
Typed letter, Celestine Sibley, Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Ga., to Elise Sanguinetti, circa 1964
Celestine Sibley (1917-1999) was a longtime journalist and a prolific author.
Typed letter, Celestine Sibley, Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Ga., to Elise Sanguinetti, 1960s?
Typed letter, Celestine Sibley, Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Ga., to Elise Sanguinetti, January 19, 1979
Typed card, Celestine Sibley, Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Ga., to Elise Sanguinetti, 1970s
Typed letter, Hudson Strode, University, Ala., to Elise Sanguinetti, Anniston, Ala., April 1, 1963
Hudson Strode (1892-1976) was Elise’s creative writing teacher at the University of Alabama. He was a writer of nonfiction, including travelogues about Scandinavia and the Caribbean and a three-volume biography of Jefferson Davis.
Handwritten letter, Hudson Strode, University, Ala., to Elise Sanguinetti, November 2, 1964
Picture postcard with handwritten message, Hudson Strode, Tuscaloosa, Ala., to Elise Sanguinetti, Anniston, Ala., February 3, 1965
Handwritten letter, Hudson Strode, University, Ala., to Elise Sanguinetti, July 30, 1965
Picture postcard with handwritten message, Hudson Strode, Greece, to Elise Sanguinetti, Anniston, Ala., late 1960s?
Typed letter, Therese Strode, Tuscaloosa, Ala., to Elise Sanguinetti, August 30, 1974
Contains the following enclosure: Typed letter from Doug Bailey, Dothan, Alabama, to Hudson and Therese Strode, 1964
Handwritten letter, Hudson Strode, Tuscaloosa, Ala., to Elise Sanguinetti, circa 1973
Typed letter, Suzanne Wile, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, N.Y., to Elise Sanguinetti, Pittsburgh, Pa., May 9, 1962
Suzanne Wile Samson was a young adult book editor. She was one of the editors at Mademoiselle to reject “The New Girl,” but she evidently remembered Elise and her writing.
Typed letter, Suzanne Wile Samson, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York, N.Y., to Elise Sanguinetti, Anniston, Ala., August 14, 1964
