Folder 380: Contents of Pfeil’s folder marked “B”, Folder 2 of 4: Letters Pertaining to Pfeil’s Writings, 1977-1985

“The Angel of Dad”

See also folders 89, 237, 278, 279, 280

To Pfeil from Reg [presumed to be Reginald Gibbons, Editor], TriQuarterly, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, dated May 11, 1985

Draft of letter to Reg [presumed to be Reginald Gibbons, Editor, TriQuarterly, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois] from Pfeil, c. May 1985

To Pfeil from Ruth Henrich, Mother Jones, San Francisco, California, dated November 7, 1984 along with a handwritten draft of a reply from Pfeil to Henrich “Bev’s Song”

See also folders 112, 170, 281

To Pfeil from David Ray, New Letters, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Office of the Editor, Kansas City, Missouri, undated

To David Ray, New Letters, from Pfeil, dated September 5, 1977 with handwritten reply from DR [presumed to be David Ray] on same sheet

Additional works referenced: “Collected works of Brown,” “Vet,” “Shine On”

“Collected Works of Brown”

This is a collection of short stories consisting of: “The Quality of Light in Maine,” “The Idiocy of Rural Life,” “The Fame of Price” “Plot Devices in the Occupation” and the short novel “Last Love”

This is the only mention of a collection of stories under this title.

Draft of letter from Pfeil to Richard Wentworth, Editor, The University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois

Draft to unknown editor incorporating C.V. into letter, undated

This draft is on reverse side of letter from the University of Illinois Press, Champaign, Illinois, unsigned and undated [presumed to be from c. March 1983 from postmark]. This draft could be a response to the Press’ form letter requesting collections of short stories

Reader’s report on manuscript, origin unknown, dated September 7, 1983

“The Collected Works of Brown” [also known as “Brown’s Life” and “Thou Good and Faithful Servant”]

Short Story

See also folders 13, 14, 190, 237, 238, 276, 277, 283, 373, 376, 391, 394

To Pfeil from Tom Parrett, TriQuarterly, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, dated April 20, 1977

To Pam Skeen, Story Quarterly, Rutgers University, Department of English, Camden, New Jersey, dated March 6, 1979 with handwritten reply from “The Editors” and initials “F. K.”

Press Release for The Minnesota Review, Bloomington, Indiana, dated April 7, 1981 announcing winners of their Fiction Prizes with handwritten congratulatory message from Roger [presumed to be Roger Mitchell, Editor, 1973-1982]

“Dirty Pieces”

See also folders 19, 234, 278, 279, 441

Draft of letter to David Hamilton, The Iowa Review, the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, from Pfeil, dated June 5, 1982

To Pfeil from Robert Shapard, Quarterly West, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

To Pfeil from Galbraith M. Crump, The Kenyon Review, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, dated March 29, 1983

Draft of form letter to “Fiction Editors” undated [c. 1987 from publication info in letter]

Draft of letter to Fran Katz, undated

Additional works referenced: an unnamed collection of short stories

On the reverse is an unrelated draft of a letter to George Core [presumed to be Editor, The Sewanee Review] from Pfeil, undated

Works referenced: “The Fame of Price”

Also on reverse is an unrelated draft of a letter to Daniel Menaker [presumed to be an editor with The New Yorker, New York, New York] from Pfeil, undated

Works referenced: “MLA”

“The Fame of Price”

See also folders 8, 190, 232. 233, 234, 238, 284

To Pfeil from Jay Neugeboren, Ploughshares, Cambridge, Massachusetts, dated May 13, 1983

To Gail Hochman, New York, New York, from Daniel Menaker, The New Yorker, New York, New York, dated March 13, 1981 with a handwritten note to Pfeil from Gail Hochman, dated March 16, 1981

To Pfeil from George Core, Editor, The Sewanee Review, The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, dated September 24, 1981

To Pfeil from George Core, Editor, The Sewanee Review, The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, dated December 9, 1981

Draft of a letter to George Core [presumed to be Editor, The Sewanee Review] from Pfeil, dated June 16, 1982

Postcard to Pfeil from George Core, Editor, The Sewanee Review, The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, dated July 8, 1982

To Pfeil from George Core, Editor, The Sewanee Review, The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, dated September 20, 1982

To Pfeil from Fred Robinson, The Massachusetts Review, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, undated

To Pfeil from Christine Neumann, The Nelson Algren Award Committee, Chicago Magazine, Chicago, Illinois, undated

Draft of letter to Jeffrey Klein, Mother Jones, [presumed to be San Francisco, California], undated

On the reverse is an unrelated draft of a letter to William V Spanos from Pfeil, undated

Works referenced: “MLA”

“Highway Safety”

See also folder 160

Draft of letter to Gordon Weaver from Pfeil, undated

“Herb’s Flood”

See also folders 14, 373, 387

To Pfeil from Richard Todd, Associate Editor, Atlantic Monthly, Boston, Massachusetts, dated March 28, 1977

To Pfeil from Margaret Hartley, Editor, Southwest Review, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, dated December 29, 1977

To Pfeil from Harold Schneider, KQ [Kansas Quarterly], Department of English, Denison Hall, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, dated November 7, 1978

Reader’s Report from Fred Robinson [presumed to be from The Massachusetts Review, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts], undated

“Icons for Clowns: American Writers Now”

See also folders 10, 112, 230, 272, 273, 309

To Pfeil from Jim Kates, Stand, United States Address: Jaffrey, New Hampshire, dated December 22, 1981

“The Idiocy of Rural Life”

See also folders 4, 97, 98, 170, 230, 233, 288, 289

Draft of letter to “Fiction Editor” from Pfeil with edits and handwritten notes, dated May 15, 1978

To Pfeil from Daniel Menaker, The New Yorker, New York, New York, dated May 25, 1978

To Pfeil from Suzanne Mantell, Executive Editor, Harper’s, New York, New York, dated June 14, 1978

To Pfeil from Jeffrey Klein, Mother Jones, San Francisco, California, dated September 7, 1978

To Pfeil from John Russell, Assistant Editor, Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, New York, dated April 11, 1980 requesting the opportunity to view novel “if not committed…” along with handwritten note presumed to be from Pfeil: “Robbie McCauley—has said he doesn’t want to print assume decline from Houghton Mifflin”

Draft of letter to “Fiction Editor” from Pfeil, undated

Additional works referenced: “The Collected Works of Brown” [also known as “Brown’s Life,” and “Thou Good and Faithful Servant”]

Also on draft is unrelated draft to Susan Dwyer [presumed to be Editor, Antaeus, Ecco Press] from Pfeil, undated

Works referenced: “The Collected Works of Brown” [also known as “Brown’s Life,” and “The Good and Faithful Servant”]

“In Touch”

See also folders 12, 373, 387

To Pfeil from Charlotte T Waley, Southwest Review, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, dated May 3, 1977

To Pfeil from R. S. Renchler, Assistant Editor-Fiction, Northwest Review, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, dated October 23, 1977

To Pfeil from DeWitt [presumed to be DeWitt Henry], Ploughshares, Cambridge, Massachusetts, c. March 1978 with handwritten note from DeWitt Henry

To Pfeil from DeWitt [presumed to be DeWitt Henry], Ploughshares, Cambridge, Massachusetts, dated March 11, 1978.

On the reverse is a draft of a letter by Pfeil, presumed to be a response to DeWitt Henry’s letter of March 11

Works referenced: “The Quality of Light in Maine,” “Requiem,” “Icons for Clowns,” “You, Fred Astaire,” and “Camerado [Goodman 2020]”

To Pfeil from S. [Stanley] W. Lindberg, Editor, The Georgia Review, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, dated June 16, 1978

To Pfeil from Steve Heller, Mid-American Review, Department of English, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, dated January 14, 1981

To Pfeil from Fred Robinson, The Massachusetts Review, undated

“Inventory”

Collection of short stories consisting of: “Quality…,” “Skeeter…,” “You, Fred…,” “Holding On,” “Idiocy…,” and “The Collected…”

This is the only mention of a collection of stories under this title Draft of letter to unknown by Pfeil, undated

Statement about the collection, play with the title, and a short handwritten table of contents

“Last Love”

Collection of short stories consisting of: “Last Love,” “A Buffalo, New York Story,” “You, Fred Astaire,” “Vet,” “Plot Devices in the Occupation,” and “The Idiocy of Rural Life”

See also folders 97, 98

To Pfeil from Domenic Stansberry, Lynx House Press, Amherst Massachusetts, undated

“Last Love”

Short Story

See also folders 33, 97, 98, 170, 232, 234, 290, 379

To Pfeil from Stanley W. Lindberg, Editor, The Georgia Review, dated February 24, 1981

To Pfeil from Robert Forrest, Editorial Assistant, Boundary 2, SUNY-Binghamton, New York, dated April 26, 1983

“Miss Olive’s Retreat”

See also folders 190, 276, 277, 291, 373, 385, 386, 387, 397

To Pfeil from Douglas Messerli, Sun and Moon, College Park, Maryland, dated January 28, 1979

In the upper right hand corner is a handwritten note by Pfeil: “MLA—Salmagundi, Shine On—Nimrod, In Touch, Himself—Harper’s New York, Poker Fugue—Northwest Review, Terminal—Omni?”

“MLA”

See also folders 231, 233, 244, 292, 395, 396

To Pfeil from Daniel Menaker, The New Yorker, New York, New York, dated March 12, 1979

To Pfeil from Daniel Menaker, The New Yorker, New York, New York, dated April 16, 1979

To Pfeil from Lewis H Lapham, Editor, Harper’s, New York, New York, dated December 20, 1979

To Pfeil from Daniel Menaker, The New Yorker, New York, New York, September 30, 1981

To Pfeil from Don J Gray, Editor, College English, Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, dated December 15, 1981 with handwritten note to “F” [presumed to be Pfeil] from “M”

“The Night Game”

See also folders 17, 379

To Pfeil from Daniel Menaker, The New Yorker, New York, New York, dated March 22, 1982

“One of Those Days”

See also folders 6, 231, 373, 387

To Pfeil from Dewitt [presumed to be Dewitt Henry], Ploughshares, Cambridge, Massachusetts, dated May 11, 1979

To Pfeil from Deb Casey, Northwest Review, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, dated September 20, 1980

Additional works referenced: “…Fugue” [Poker Fugue], “Rural Life” [The Idiocy of Rural Life] Draft of letter to Dewitt Henry [presumed address to be Ploughshares magazine, Cambridge, Massachusetts], from Pfeil, undated

On same sheet is a draft of a letter to Wayne Dodd, address unknown, undated Additional work referenced: “Idiocy of Rural Life”

On same sheet is a draft of a letter to Stanley Lindberg, [presumed to be Editor, The Georgia Review, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia], undated

Additional works referenced: “In Touch,” “Shine On”

“Plot Devices in the Occupation”

See also folders 7, 13, 97, 98, 272, 311

To Speer [presumed to be Speer Morgan, Editor, The Missouri Review] from Pfeil, dated May 5, 1982

Additional work referenced: “Last Love” (short story)

On reverse is unrelated draft to David Hamilton, [presumed Editor of the The Iowa Review], undated

Additional work referenced: “Dirty Pieces”

To Pfeil from Daniel Menaker, The New Yorker, New York, New York, dated April 24, 1984

“Poker Fugue”

See also folders 190, 276, 277, 294, 395, 396

To Pfeil from Dewitt [presumed to be Dewitt Henry], Ploughshares, Cambridge, Massachusetts, dated January 1, 1980

To Pfeil from Joel [presumed to be Joel Weinstein, Editor, Mississippi Mud], Portland, Oregon, dated April 29, 1981

Additional work referenced: “Snapshots of Grandpa”

To Pfeil from S Dwyer [presumed to be Susan Dwyer, Editor, Antaeus, Ecco Press], undated

To Pfeil from [illegible], Canto, Review of the Arts, Andover, Massachusetts, undated

Draft of a letter to “Pam” from Pfeil, undated

“The Quality of Light in Maine”

See also folders 190, 230, 231, 232, 238, 276, 277, 295, 296, 379, 381, 398

To Pfeil from Elizabeth McKee, Harold Matson Company, Inc., associates of McIntosh, McKee, and Dodds, Inc., New York, New York, dated June 2, 1977

To Pfeil from Daniel Menaker, The New Yorker, New York, New York, dated March 3, 1978

To Pfeil from Richard Dodd, Executive Editor, Atlantic Monthly, Boston, Massachusetts, dated October 10, 1978

Additional works referenced: “The Idiocy of Rural Life”

To Pfeil from Gail [Hochman], Paul R Reynolds, Inc., New York, New York, dated June 22, 1979

“Reliably at Home”

Collection of short stories [presumed to include “Bev’s Song,”

“Holding On,” “Skeeter’s Last Reflections,” and 6 others]

This is the only mention of a collection of stories under this title Carbon copy of letter to Richard L. Wentworth, Associate Director and Editor, The University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois, from Pfeil, dated April 4, 1978

To Pfeil from Harriet P. Stockanes, Assistant to the Director, The University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois, dated April 7, 1978

On same sheet is a draft to Stockanes from Pfeil in reply, undated

To Pfeil from Harriet P. Stockanes, Assistant to the Director, The University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Illinois, dated April 17, 1978

“Requiem”

See also folders 10, 13, 170, 297, 387

To Pfeil from Jon M. Healy, former editor of Calliope, New York, New York, dated November 15, 1977

“Shine On”

See also folders 190, 238, 240, 276, 277, 298, 373, 387

To Pfeil from Stanley W. Lindberg, Editor, The Georgia Review, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, dated December 15, 1978

To Pfeil from Joel Weinstein, Editor, Mississippi Mud, Portland, Oregon, dated June 25, 1980

On same sheet is a draft presumed to be to Weinstein from Pfeil in reply, undated

To Pfeil from Carol Burnes, Dark Horse, address unknown, undated.

Note presumed to be in Pfeil’s hand: “Jane Burnes”

“Shopping Mall Article” [presumed to be “Center of the Dream: Mass Culture in the shopping Mall”]

See also folders 114, 169, 233

To Pfeil from Gail Hochman, Paul R. Reynolds, Inc., New York, New York, dated March 31, 1980

“Story”

See also folders 7, 300

To Pfeil from Jamie [illegible, presumed to be Barnstein], Editorial Assistant, The Paris Review, Flushing, New York and Paris, France, undated

“Terminal Illness”

See also folders 13, 301, 387

To Pfeil from Deb Casey, Northwest Review, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, dated March 10, 1981

“Upon a Wheel”

See also folders 371, 372, 387

Anonymous reader’s notes, publisher and date unknown

“Vet”

See also folders 13, 97, 98, 112, 170, 303

To Pfeil from Brian Stonehill, The Chicago Review, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, dated February 11, 1977

To Pfeil from “TCB”, [presumed to be T.(Tom) Coraghessan Boyle, Contributing Editor/Fiction Editor], The Iowa Review, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, dated June 13 c. late 1970s

“You, Fred Astaire”

See also folders 97, 98, 170, 231, 238, 331, 387, 395, 396

To Pfeil from Scott Saunders, The Minnesota Review, Bloomington, Indiana, dated May 13, 1979

Additional work referenced: “Poker Fugue”

To Pfeil from Naomi Sachs, New York, New York, dated November 11, 1983

To Pfeil from “TCB” [presumed to be T. Coraghessan Boyle, Contributing Editor/Fiction Editor], The Iowa Review, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, dated April 18, c. late 1970s

To Pfeil from Nancy Holyoke, Fiction Magazine, Department of English, City College of New York, New York, New York, undated