Sally Harrison
AGENT AND EDITOR

Sept. 22, 1941.

Mr. Cleanth Brooks, Jr.,
Southern Review,
Louisiana State University Press,
Baton Rouge,
La.

Dear Mr. Brooks:

After several years, Margaret Shedd has begun to show the type of writing career I picked her for. She has had a first novel accepted for Spring publication by Harper Brothers, and the independent Harper's Bazaar has sort of adopted her too. They are planning to take a section from the novel, once revisions are all in, and to feature a non-fiction article by Miss Shedd immediately besides: at the moment scheduled for the November number.

This is quite a personal vindication for me, and I am also plenty humble about the special good luck that made it all come about just now. After all, Miss Shedd is nothing, unless she is a creative writer of the highest rank. It wasn't any of it certain.

I'd like to offer you a short story of hers entitled "The Garden Swing". Later on, I shall probably have one or two others. This one is a Berkeley, California locale, but the ones she is working on are from her former British Honduras jungle setting. She is at the moment with her husband and family in Kingston, Jamaica.

She ought to be rounding out some shorter non-fiction pieces for me soon, too.

I am very grateful for your attention.

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MAY 2, 1941

DEAR MR. PIPKIN:

HERE ARE SOME NEW POEMS BY HILDA VAUGHAN (MRS. CHARLES MORGAN), WHICH I HOPE YOU WILL SEE FOR THE SOUTHERN REVIEW. I SHALL LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU SOON.

COULD YOU LET ME HAVE SOME WORD ON THE FOLLOWING SCRIPTS, WHICH YOU HAVE HAD FOR SOME LONG TIME?

WALTER BERNSTEIN - COUSIN HANS

CAROL BACHE - MOST PREVAILING TINSEL

ARTHUR MILLER - CROSS COUNTRY

VERNA CARLETON MILLAN - MEMORY OF FELISA

MILLEN BRAND - THEN WE'LL BOTH EAT THE DINNERS.

CHARLES NOYES - THIS MATTER OF DEBT

I WOULD APPRECIATE HAVING YOUR DECISION ON THESE MANUSCRIPTS VERY SOON.

FP:LB
ENCLS.

MR. CHARLES PIPKIN
SOUTHERN REVIEW

P.S. I ALSO ENCLOSE A STORY BY JEANNE SINGER, SAFELY A HERO, WHICH I THOUGHT MIGHT INTEREST YOU.

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MONICA McCALL

April 18, 1941

Mr. Charles W. Pipkin
The Southern Review
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Dear Mr. Pipkin:

I am sending you herewith
a short story by a new young
writer, Jess Gregg, whom I believe
has real talent. I do hope that
you will agree with me, and that
you will find the story of interest
for your magazine.

MM:jb

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June 5, 1941.

Dear Mr. Brooks:

I don't think I had much to show you by my newest
discovery, Edward Havill, but I do think he's good
and think this story especially might be a fine bet
for you. If necessary, the man and girl could be
married and on their honeymoon, instead of just
starting a love affair. However, I don't believe
that is necessary, do you?

I think you may remember Havill as the winner of one
of the O.Henry prizes this past year, or perhaps you've
seen other stories of his in Harper's Bazaar, Redbook,
Story, or the like. He's just now making a few final
revisions on his first novel, which already has been
sold to Harper's, and which will be published in the
spring of 1942.

One more little thing: do you suppose you could keep
this hunk of cardboard with the story and ship it back
for protection of the manuscript? I don't know why it
is, but the mail from Louisiana seems to be treated
very very roughly. The last few scripts I got back
from you have been so crumpled that I've had to have
them retyped altogether. I'm enclosing postage to
cover the extra cost (the cardboard as well as the
script) in case you can't use it. But I really hope
and think that perhaps you can.

EN:ek

Mr. Cleanth Brooks
Southern Review

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Mr. Cleanth Brooks
The Southern Review
Baton Rouge
Louisiana.

October 14, 1941.

Dear Mr. Brooks:

I am enclosing a batch of five stories by Mary Lavin who is generally reckoned as one of the best of the younger Irish authors--though Miss Lavin was, as a matter of fact, born in this country. These five stories--with the exception of SARAH--are going to be published in Ireland and in England some time this fall (The author left SARAH out not because she thought it less good but because she wanted it for another collection in the future.) In this country the collection is going to be published in February by the Atlantic Monthly Press so if you should want any of them, we would have to be published before that time. As far as I know all the stories are going to be published over here. One story THE FABLE has been published by the Dublin Magazine. All the others have not been published in magazines.

We would like an especially quick decision if you could manage it on account of the shortness of time. Is two weeks a possibility? You may have noticed one story of Mary Lavin's in the October Atlantic and I think Harper's Bazaar are going to take one. I think she is a good writer and worthy of attention and I would like to beg that if you can't give a quick decision you should return the stories as I have so little time in which to work that I can't be gracious and give you the time you should have.