A Guide to the Letters of Mary McCarthy to Robie Macauley, 1972 & 1978 McCarthy, Mary, Letters to Robie Macauley, 1972 & 1978 10783

A Guide to the Letters of Mary McCarthy to Robie Macauley, 1972 & 1978

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Repository

Special Collections, University of Virginia Library

Accession number

10783

Title

Letters of Mary McCarthy to Robie Macauley 1972 & 1978

Physical Characteristics

This collection consists of two items.

Language

English

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Preferred Citation

Letters from Mary McCarthy to Robie Macauley, 1972 & 1978, Accession # 10783, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

These letters were purchased by the Library on August 30, 1988.

Scope and Content Information

These two letters from Mary McCarthy to Robie Macauley concern editorial work. The April 17, 1972 letter from Paris, France, finds McCarthy recovering from an eye disability and unable to do an essay that Macauley had suggested due to previous commitments. She does comment, however, that she has an idea "which isn't exactly a 'place' essay but does have to do with art and history," and will let him know when she has a little more time to work on it. In the August 17, 1978 letter, from Castine, Maine, she agrees to accept an offer concerning an advancement against the royalty on "the Philip Rahv anthology" which she says "is based purely on sentiment," expresses her pleasure at Macauley being with Houghton Mifflin, and comments favorably on his The Disguises of Love .