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UNPUBLISHED LETTER ON 'PLATINUM SUMMER.' PLATH, SYLVIA. 1932-1963. Typed Letter Signed ('Sivvy')...
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UNPUBLISHED LETTER ON 'PLATINUM SUMMER.' PLATH, SYLVIA. 1932-1963. Typed Letter Signed ('Sivvy') to 'Dear mother...', unpublished, noting the submission of a 20 pp short story to Colliers, 2 pp, 203 x 155 mm, typed recto and verso, with pencil annotations by Plath's mother Aurelia, Wellesley, MA, Wednesday, August 10 [1955], with original typed transmittal envelope. A CHARMING LETTER TO HER MOTHER UPON SENDING OFF HER STORY 'PLATINUM SUMMER.' Plath began the story in earnest on July 19th, according to another letter to Aurelia. In letters, she refers to the story as 'flip' and 'a gay, silly lover story for the slicks.' She wrote to her brother Warren, on July 28, ' ... I am fast trying to lose said integrity by writing a story called 'Platinum Summer,' you guessed it, about a girl who dyes her hair. once I get that first professional story accepted, the gravy train will be in.' Here she tells her mother that she sent 20 pages to Colliers, and she is 'sure it must sell somewhere.' It didn't. Plath's own 'platinum summer' refers to the summer of 1954, when she did in fact dye her hair platinum, possibly an attempt at a kind of rebirth as she recovered from her 1953 suicide attempt and subsequent hospitalization. The story was relatively recently rediscovered, and was published in September 2024 in Peter Steinberg's Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath. The present letter was written towards the end of the summer following Plath's graduation from Smith, and directly preceding her moving to Cambridge on her Fulbright Scholarship. She was seeing on and off both Gordon Lameyer and Peter Davison, who she mentions here rather glowingly, 'enormously stimulating just to know him,' adding, 'I must never be away from that wonderful 'bookish' environment where everyone knows and loves writing and thinking.' She also notes resuming regular visits with Dr. Beuscher, her psychiatrist, which she hopes will be 'crystalizing' before her adventure abroad. Plath's mother Aurelia has annotated the letter, writing 'Ha!' next to Sylvia's assertion that she will pay for the dresses she purchased on her mom's account, a humorous, but also telling, indication of their complicated relationship. The letter last appeared at auction in 1982 (Sotheby's 6 April 1982, lot 109), and remains a rich, and unpublished, Plath letter to her mother with great content. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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UNPUBLISHED LETTER ON 'PLATINUM SUMMER.' PLATH, SYLVIA. 1932-1963. Typed Letter Signed ('Sivvy') to 'Dear mother...', unpublished, noting the submission of a 20 pp short story to Colliers, 2 pp, 203 x 155 mm, typed recto and verso, with pencil annotations by Plath's mother Aurelia, Wellesley, MA, Wednesday, August 10 [1955], with original typed transmittal envelope. A CHARMING LETTER TO HER MOTHER UPON SENDING OFF HER STORY 'PLATINUM SUMMER.' Plath began the story in earnest on July 19th, according to another letter to Aurelia. In letters, she refers to the story as 'flip' and 'a gay, silly lover story for the slicks.' She wrote to her brother Warren, on July 28, ' ... I am fast trying to lose said integrity by writing a story called 'Platinum Summer,' you guessed it, about a girl who dyes her hair. once I get that first professional story accepted, the gravy train will be in.' Here she tells her mother that she sent 20 pages to Colliers, and she is 'sure it must sell somewhere.' It didn't. Plath's own 'platinum summer' refers to the summer of 1954, when she did in fact dye her hair platinum, possibly an attempt at a kind of rebirth as she recovered from her 1953 suicide attempt and subsequent hospitalization. The story was relatively recently rediscovered, and was published in September 2024 in Peter Steinberg's Collected Prose of Sylvia Plath. The present letter was written towards the end of the summer following Plath's graduation from Smith, and directly preceding her moving to Cambridge on her Fulbright Scholarship. She was seeing on and off both Gordon Lameyer and Peter Davison, who she mentions here rather glowingly, 'enormously stimulating just to know him,' adding, 'I must never be away from that wonderful 'bookish' environment where everyone knows and loves writing and thinking.' She also notes resuming regular visits with Dr. Beuscher, her psychiatrist, which she hopes will be 'crystalizing' before her adventure abroad. Plath's mother Aurelia has annotated the letter, writing 'Ha!' next to Sylvia's assertion that she will pay for the dresses she purchased on her mom's account, a humorous, but also telling, indication of their complicated relationship. The letter last appeared at auction in 1982 (Sotheby's 6 April 1982, lot 109), and remains a rich, and unpublished, Plath letter to her mother with great content. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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