Starving writers: you are not alone! Have you ever wondered how to plea with your editor for payment tout de suite? American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay did it the classy way. Here’s her letter for an advance from the editor of Poetry magazine, in 1918 – about the time the photo above was taken. (And if you’d like to see her rather fancy shoes, try here. and if you’d like to hear about her plummy vowels, try here.)
Those shoes must have cost a bunch. They didn’t come from Payless.
Those were from her “bunch” days, I expect.
She and Wiley have an “edge” that I’ve never discovered in Teasdale.