Folder 381: Contents of Pfeil’s folder marked “B”, Folder 3 of 4: Dated correspondence re: Pfeil’s literature, no specific title mentioned, 1977-1985, undated

Dated 1970s:

To Pfeil [presumed to be] from Gordon Lish, Esquire, New York, New York, dated February 11, 1977

To Pfeil from Gordon [presumed to be Gordon Lish], Esquire, New York, New York, dated April 12, 1977

To Pfeil from Jeffery Klein, Managing Editor, Mother Jones, San Francisco, California, dated April 28, 1977

To Pfeil from Helen Rogan, Associate Editor, Harper’s, New York, New York, dated May 5, 1977

On reverse, draft of letter to Lawrence D. Joiner, Dean, Joynes Center for Continuing Education, Winthrop College, Rock Hill, South Carolina, dated August 30, 1978

Work referenced: “The Quality of Light in Maine”

To Pfeil from John [illegible, possibly Bosilowitch], Carolina Quarterly, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, dated May 7, 1977

To Pfeil from Miriam Hease, TriQuarterly, Northwestern Unversity, Evanston, Illinois, dated October 4, 1977

To Pfeil from Richard Dodd, Executive Editor, Atlantic Monthly, Boston, Massachusetts, dated November 28, 1977

To Pfeil from Helen Rogan, Associate Editor, Harper’s, New York, New York, dated December 16, 1977

To Pfeil from Mark Pinis, Assistant Fiction Editor, The Antioch Review, Yellow Springs, Ohio, dated February 3, 1978

To Pfeil from Richard Dodd, Executive Editor, Atlantic Monthly, Boston, Massachusetts, dated February 13, 1978

To Pfeil from Douglass [presumed to be Douglass Messerili, founder of the Sun and Moon Press], Sun and Moon, presumed to be located in College Park, Maryland, dated February 13, 1978

To Pfeil from Michael McDonnell, TriQuarterly, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, dated July 20, 1978

To Pfeil from Richard Dodd, Atlantic Monthly, Boston, Massachusetts, dated February 2, 1979

To Pfeil from Donald J. Gray, College English, Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, dated July 14, 1979

Dated 1981:

To Pfeil from Michael Anderson, The Pawn Review, Walnut Creek, California, dated March 18, 1981

To Pfeil from Jon Sulkin, Stand, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, dated April 27, 1981

To Pfeil from Michael Anderson, The Pawn Review, Walnut Creek, California, dated May 13, 1981

To Pfeil from C. S. Gigumble, Epoch, A Magazine of Contemporary Literature, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, dated May 14, 1981

To Pfeil from Dolores Weinberg, Fran Katz, Janine Warsaw, Story Quarterly, Highland Park, Illinois, dated May 15, 1981

To Pfeil from Stanley W. Lindberg, The Georgia Review, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, dated June 15, 1981

To Pfeil from Richard Appignanesi, Writers and Readers, London, England, dated November 18, 1981

Dated 1982:

To Pfeil from Dave James, Department of English, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas, dated January 5, 1982

To Pfeil from Alice K. Turner, Playboy Enterprises [presumed to be located in New York, New York], dated May 28, 1982

To Pfeil from Reginald Gibbons, Editor, TriQuarterly, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, dated May 27, 1982

To Pfeil from [first name presumed to be “Chip”] Tucker, College of Arts and Sciences, English Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, dated June 15, 1982

To Pfeil from Speer [presumed to be Speer Morgan], The Missouri Review, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, dated July 17, 1982

To Pfeil from Peter Hero, Executive Director, Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, Oregon, dated August 24, 1982

To Pfeil from Reg [presumed to be Reginald Gibbons, Editor], TriQuarterly, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, dated September 2, 1982

To Pfeil from Reg [Reginald] Gibbons, Editor, TriQuarterly, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, dated December 27, 1982

Dated 1983:

Presumed mimeograph of a contract to Pfeil from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, c. February 1983 about a reading of his work

To Pfeil from Barbara B. Lamb, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, dated March 23, 1983

To Pfeil from Reg [Reginald] Gibbons, Editor, TriQuarterly, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, dated April 18, 1983

To Pfeil from James [illegible, presumed to be James Pidgeon, Assistant Editor], Mississippi Review, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, dated May 3, 1983

To Pfeil from Ray [last name unknown], Ploughshares, Cambridge, Massachusetts, dated July 15, 1983

To Pfeil from Ray [presumed to be Ray Carver, Guest Editor, Fiction Issue] Ploughshares, Cambridge, Massachusetts, dated July 15, 1983

To Pfeil from Ann Lowry Weir, Senior Editor, University of Illinois Press, Champaign, Illinois, dated September 20, 1983

Dated 1985:

To Pfeil from Debbie [Deborah] McGill, Associate Editor, Atlantic Monthly, Boston, Massachusetts, dated January 4, 1985

To Pfeil from Julia Wendell, Telescope, The Galileo Press, Sparks, Maryland, dated February 21, 1985

Month and Day but No Year Given:

To Pfeil from Tom [presumed to be T. [Tom] Coraghessan Boyle, Contributing Editor/Fiction Editor], The Iowa Review, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, dated March 1

To Pfeil from Daniel [illegible, presumed to be Perkin], Chouteau Review, Kansas City, Missouri, dated April 11

To Pfeil from Hal [no last name given], Sag Harbor, New York, dated June 17

To Pfeil from Rosellen Brown, [location not given], dated December 14

Undated and Form letters:

To Pfeil from the editors of Antaeus with handwritten note, unsigned and undated

To Pfeil from the editors of Antaeus, undated

To Pfeil from the editors of Antaeus with handwritten note signed by S. Dwyer [presumed to be Susan Dwyer, Editor], undated

To Pfeil from the editors of Antaeus with handwritten note signed by S. Dwyer [presumed to be Susan Dwyer, Editor], undated

To Pfeil from the editors of Antaeus with annotation “Sorry,” unsigned and undated

To Pfeil from the editors of The Antioch Review, unsigned and undated

To Pfeil from the editors of the Carolina Quarterly, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, signed by Robert [illegible last name], undated

To Pfeil from the editors of The University of Denver Quarterly, Denver, Colorado, unsigned and undated

To Pfeil from Nancy Holyoke, Fiction, City College, New York, New York, undated

To Pfeil from [illegible] in the Trade Editorial Department, The Houghton Mifflin Company, undated

To Pfeil from the editors of The Hudson Review, New York, New York, with handwritten note, unsigned and undated

To Pfeil from Douglass Glover, Assistant Editor of The Iowa Review, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, undated.

To Pfeil from Nancy [last name unknown], The Louisville Review, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, undated

To Pfeil from John Clayton, The Massachusetts Review, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, undated

To Pfeil from the editors of The Massachusetts Review with handwritten note “Sorry”

To Pfeil from the editors of The Massachusetts Review with handwritten note “Sorry-Please try us again.”

To Pfeil from the editors of The Massachusetts Review with handwritten note “Sorry”

To Pfeil from Joel Weinstein, Editor of Mississippi Mud, undated and unsigned

To Pfeil from Rie Fortenberry, Managing Editor, The Mississippi Review, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, undated

To Pfeil from R. Stewart, New Letters, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, undated

To Pfeil from the editors of The New Yorker with handwritten note “Sorry, and thanks,” undated

On reverse of this rejection slip is list of works and where sent. See folder 378a for photocopy of this list

To Pfeil from the editors of Nimrod, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, undated

To Pfeil from J. D. Brown, Northwest Review, University of Oregon, undated

To Pfeil from R. S. Renchler, Northwest Review, University of Oregon, undated

To Pfeil from the editors of The Ohio Review, Ohio University, Athens Ohio with handwritten note “Sorry, not this one.”

Postcard to Pfeil from the editors of The Paris Review, unsigned and undated

To Pfeil from Jamie Benjamin, The Paris Review, undated

To Pfeil from the editors of The Paris Review, unsigned and undated

To Pfeil from the editors of the Praire Schooner, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, unsigned and undated

To Pfeil from Brian Bedard, Quarterly West, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, undated

To Pfeil from the editors of the Virginia Quarterly Review, unsigned and undated

Undated, unknown magazines:

To Pfeil from B. Targan [presumed to be Barry Targon], magazine, location and date unknown

To Pfeil from Barry Targan, magazine, location and date unknown

Drafts and assorted letters:

Note to Pfeil from “C.” Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon letterhead, undated

Draft to “Reg” [presumed to be Reginald Gibbons, Editor, TriQuarterly, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois], unsigned and undated

Covers—without letters:

To Pfeil from Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative Society Limited, Camden High Street, London, England, postmarked November 18, 1981