by Sylvia Plath
*Marc Connelly, The Green Pastures (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1930).
*Julia ‘Judy’ Gamble Kahrl and Stanley J. Kahrl. Judy Kahrl (1934– ); B.A. 1955, English literature and history, Radcliffe College. Stanley J. Kahrl (1931–89); B.A. 1953, English, Harvard College; B.A. English, 1958, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. Kahrl served on the USS Perry with Gordon Lameyer. Lameyer and SP attended the Gamble–Kahrl wedding on 20 June 1954 in Milton, Mass. Stan Kahrl studied at Cambridge on the GI Bill, not a Marshall scholarship.
*English writer John Press (1920–2007) and Janet Crompton Press (1920–2009).
*John Press, The Fire and the Fountain (London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, 1955).
*John Press, Uncertainties, and Other Poems (London: Oxford University Press, 1956).
*John Press, ‘Farewell’, London Magazine 3 (April 1956), 20; and John Press, untitled review of The Chatto Book of Modern Poetry, 1915–1955, New Lines: An Anthology, and New Poems 1956, London Magazine 3, October 1956, 71–7.
*English poet Hugh Sykes Davies (1909–84).
*English singer and actress Hedli Anderson (1907–90), second wife (1942–60) of the poet Louis MacNeice (1907–63).
*Erika Hedwig Mann (1905–69); wife of W. H. Auden, 1935–69.
*Spender was married to Agnes Maria (Inez) Pearn, 1936–9.
*MacNeice was married to Mary Ezra MacNeice, 1930–6; she left him for an American.
*South African poet Roy Campbell (1901–57).
*TH to SP, [18 October 1956]; held by Lilly Library.
*William Maxwell, ‘The French Scarecrow’, New Yorker, 6 October 1956, 38–44.
*William Maxwell, ‘The Writer as Illusionist’, given at the symposium ‘The American Novel at Mid-Century’, Smith College, 4 March 1955.
*Patricia Collinge, ‘Something Small’, New Yorker, 6 October 1956, 45–7.
*TH to SP, [19 October 1956]; held by Lilly Library.
*The definition stated in SP’s dictionary, Noah Webster, Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam & Co, 1949), 171.
*According to SP’s calendar, she mailed ‘How the Donkey Became’ to the Atlantic Monthly Press on 23 October 1956.
*‘The Observer Play Competition £800 in Prizes’, The Observer, 14 October 1956, 14. Errol John, Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, won the competition.
*According to SP’s calendar, she wrote ‘Spinster’ on 19 October 1956. The poem, if it was included, is no longer with the letter.
*German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860); his ‘On Women’ (1851).
*See Appendix 10, The Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000).
*Zahida Zaidi (1929–2011); B.A. 1948, Women’s College, Aligarh Muslim University; 1958, English, Newnham College, Cambridge.
*Benjamin Joliffe Nash (1935– ), British; B.A. 1958, modern and medieval languages, King’s College, Cambridge.
*Educator Michael Marland (1934–2008), British, B.A. 1957, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; president of the ADC. Married Eileen Lim (1934–68) in 1955.
*J. M Synge, Deirdre of the Sorrows (1910); performed at the ADC.
*One such review is ‘Cambridge Amateur Dramatic Club: “Deirdre of the Sorrows”’, The Times, 17 October 1956, 3.
*Nathaniel David Minton (1935–2012), British; B.A. 1956, natural sciences, Trinity College, Cambridge; friend of TH and contributor to Saint Botolph’s Review.
*TH to SP, [20–2 October 1956]; held by Lilly Library. Date assigned in Letters of Ted Hughes may be questionable.
*The swatch is held by Lilly Library.
*The enclosure is no longer with the letter.
*Date supplied from internal evidence.
*Ted Hughes, ‘Wind’, The Nation, 10 November 1956, 408.
*This poem does not appear to survive. TH comments on ‘Evergreens’ in his letter to SP, [23 October 1956]; held by Lilly Library.
*According to SP’s calendar, the second poem was ‘Sheen & Speck’. This poem does not appear to survive. TH comments on ‘Sheen & Speck’ in his letter to SP, [23 October 1956]; held by Lilly Library.
*Sylvia Plath, ‘Sketchbook of a Spanish Summer’, Christian Science Monitor, 5 November 1956, 15, with drawings captioned ‘Sardine boats and lights patterned the beach during daylight hours’ and ‘At sunup, the banana stand at the peasant market in Benidorm opened for business’; and 6 November 1956, 19, with drawings captioned ‘Palms and pueblos on the sea cliffs at Benidorm, Spain’ and ‘Arched stairway to Castillo, in Benidorm’.
*Georgie Yeats, née Hyde-Lees (1892–1968), wife of W. B Yeats.
*Peter Davison to SP, 2 October 1956; held by Lilly Library.