{"id":700,"date":"2019-09-20T21:04:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T21:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/sanguinetti\/?page_id=700"},"modified":"2020-03-06T15:42:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T15:42:00","slug":"early-career","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/sanguinetti\/correspondence\/early-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Career Correspondence (1940s-1950s)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Materials related to Sanguinetti’s early career come in two spurts.<\/p>\n

Her work of the late 1940s, prompted by her studies under Dr. Hudson Strode at the University of Alabama, included the novel Thorland’s Son<\/em>. It was often entered in collegiate writing contests, meeting with promising responses but ultimately rejected. One reader suggested she move on from her student work and start afresh.<\/p>\n

The mid 1950s saw a burst of writing and attempts to sell her short stories to magazines, for which she received stock rejections letters as well as more personalized — and more encouraging — notes from editors.<\/p>\n

Some of those rejections were for pieces she ultimately sold in one form or another, including “To You, Frere ‘Twig'”<\/a> and “The New Girl,” which were precursors to her first two novels. Each was pitched to both Mademoiselle<\/em> and Ladies’ Home Journal,<\/em> despite previous rejections from those publications.<\/p>\n

Sections<\/h4>\n

Early Novel (1940s)<\/a>
\nVarious Short Stories (1950s)<\/a>
\n“The New Girl” & “To You, Frere ‘Twig'” (1959-1960)<\/a><\/p>\n

Clicking any of the images below will allow you to read the correspondence at full size.<\/p>\n

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Early Novel (1940s)<\/h3>\n

Typed receipt of manuscript, submission for Intercollegiate Contest, Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, N.Y., to Elise Ayers, Anniston, Ala., March 26, 1946<\/h6>\n

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Typed letter, Curtis Dahl, Director of Fellowships, Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, N.Y., to Elise Ayers, Anniston, Ala., June 6, 1946<\/h6>\n

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Typed letter, Elizabeth Lawrence, Harper and Brothers, New York, N.Y., to Elise Ayers, Anniston, Ala., August 14, 1947<\/h6>\n

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Typed receipt of manuscript, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, N.Y., to Elise Ayers, Anniston, Ala., April 15, 1948<\/h6>\n
Typed letter, Blanche W. Knopf, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, N.Y., to Elise Ayers, Anniston, Ala., May 17, 1948<\/h6>\n