A Guide to Herbert Gold Letters to Robie Macauley, 1969-1979
A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 8517-a
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Herbert Gold Letters to Robie Macauley, 1969-1979, in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library, Accession #8517-a, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
The Library purchased these items from Bev Chaney Jr. Books, on August 30, 1988.
Scope and Content Information
In a series of letters, 1969-1979, Gold writes to Robie Macauley about his books; the possibility of Macauley speaking to the Squaw Valley Community of Writers; his work with Unesco; his "addiction" to magazine writing; Anatole Broyard's review, and a movie version of, "Waiting for Cordelia"; and the "Herbert Gold Day" sponsored by the San Francisco Historical Society and Library.
Arrangement
Arranged by date.
Contents List
Discusses his progress with his novel The Great American Jackpot to be published in late January.
Apologizes for trying to "lean" on Macauley in his last letter and informs him that he isn't including "Zoya" in the collection of stories [ The Magic Will: Stories and Essays of a Decade ?] because it may be the germ of a novel and it doesn't lit the book's American theme.
Writes how pleased he was to have lunch with Macauley and encloses the story "Paternity" with its new pages and changes.
Tries to entice Macauley into a visit to the isolated writers of the West by offering him an opportunity to meet Western writers, the possibility of speaking at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, and fun.
Discusses Macauley's arrangements with Blair Fuller for his upcoming visit to the Squaw Valley Community of Writers in San Francisco.
Welcomes Macauley to stay at his condominium in Squaw Valley and expresses pleasure that Playboy can use his story "Paternity."
Gold writes of his being honored on October 25 by the San Francisco Historical Society and the Library with a "Herbert Gold Day," and about his story "Lady Spain." He also says that his next publication will probably be a collection of stories about the varieties of love in San Francisco, tentatively entitled "Tales of San Francisco."
Expresses his regret at missing Macauley's visit due to his teaching duties at the University of California, Davis.
Writes of family news and is glad that Macauley liked his story "Stages;" an "extrapolation of what would have happened if I had gotten deeply involved with that lovely lady Kathy...Stories are sometimes, for me at least, warnings, putting the future into the past."
Talks of his personal life since his divorce from Melissa, mentions his Paris trip to the International Symposium on behalf of UNESCO, and speaks of his prospective movie, Waiting for Cordelia .
Discusses Anatole Broyard's review of Waiting for Cordelia .
Mentions that Playboy rejected his story "Stages" because it did not fit its new format.