[Archive of Manuscripts and Correspondence Related to Accomplished Short-Story Writer Which Also Highlights the Career of a Female Literary Agent]
Edité par Various Places, 1940
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Collection contains 40 complete original short stories (approximately 1130 typewritten pages), 222 pieces of correspondence and a few items of ephemera. Generally very good or better. Our overly long title belabors that this collection has two focii: the short story author Richard M. Hallet and his agent, Ann Watkins. Watkins headed her own agency from 1910 to 1947 and represented authors such as Sinclair Lewis, William Saroyan, Edith Wharton, Roald Dahl, Carson McCullers and Ayn Rand. In 1947, she published an anthology of memorable passages from American fiction and she died in 1967. We learn much about Hallet from a 2022 Saturday Evening Post [SEP] online profile by Frederic B. Hill, who published an anthology of Hallet's stories the same year. Hallet was a native of Bath, Maine who was heading for a law career when SEP purchased one of his stories in 1912 for the equivalent of $7,000 in today's money. According to Hill, "Hallet then proceeded on a life of adventure and writing – working in copper mines in Arizona, lumber mills in Canada, and as a maritime officer on warships crossing the Atlantic with soldiers and horses during World War I in the face of German U-boats. All the while, he submitted short stories and an occasional article to the leading magazines of the day, including The Saturday Evening Post, Harper’s, Collier’s, The Atlantic, and others. He was being published more and more frequently. Hallet, whose literary heroes were Joseph Conrad, Jack London, and Willa Cather, first came to national attention in 1916 when his "Making Port" was selected as one of The Best Stories of 1916 by the anthologist Edward J. O’Brien. O’Brien, in fact, termed it the best short story of the year — out of 2,500 he reviewed. Like many of his tales, "Making Port" was drawn from Hallet’s personal experience about an old salt Hallet encountered during his very first shipboard adventure, a romantic but unlucky seaman who always seemed to choose the wrong ship in a long, Sisyphean struggle to return home to Liverpool. Hallet wrote more than 200 short stories in a long career (65 for the Post), five novels, and an entertaining autobiography, The Rolling World, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1938. Most of his fiction portrayed vivid tales of the sea, often built around shipboard tensions, and tales of Maine and New England and their small-town values and rivalries." Watkins' Letters There are 41 letters from Watkins (approximately 12,000 words). The letters reveal a bright, witty and at times acerbic literary agent who knew her business and worked hard for her clients. In February of 1913 she first wrote to Hallet, "enclosing one of my folders that you may know something of the scope and character of my service, and may I add that successful authors have generously recognized the worth of this service . . ." Just three days later she wrote again ("I suggest that you give me a chance . . ."). Many of Ann's letters lauded Hallet's work, and many made good on her promise to get his stories sold. Within a month of working for the writer, Watkins wrote: "Bearing in mind your wish, if not command, to adhere to the five cent a word rate . . . I trust you will feel that I have protected your interests as fully as it has been possible to do so . . . I think that I can get you a rate bigger than any you have thus received." By January of 1914 Watkins had doubled Hallet's earlier rate; one editor "nearly dropped dead when I sprung ten cents a word on him. But I think I convinced him that thirty or forty thousand words, which is all he could use, might be worth this price." She also noted that she "fixed the rate of ten cents a word as a precedent to govern the price of mss. to be submitted in the future." Watkins was clearly a no-nonsense type of woman; in October 1914 she confided in Hallet that she did not "permit editors to 'dine and wine' me" and boasted of selling two of his stories - "I made them pay four hundred for the story that they had. …
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- Titre
- [Archive of Manuscripts and Correspondence Related to Accomplished Short-Story Writer Which Also Highlights the Career of a Female Literary Agent]
- Auteur
- Hallet, Richard M.; Watkins, Ann
- Éditeur
- Various Places
- Année de publication
- 1940
- État de l'article
- Very good
- Signé
- Signé par l'auteur
- Reliure
- Couverture souple
- Catalogues du vendeur
- Literature, Publishing History, Women
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