A View from Sylvia Plath's "Day of Success"

Sylvia Plath wrote her short story "Day of Success" sometime in 1961. Most likely between February and August. She was living at the time in 3 Chalcot Square (based on the address on a typescript held by Smith College), the building that later thirty-nine years later was awarded a special English Heritage Blue Plaque. 

The seeds of the story had been fertilizing for some time as the story features a young married couple with a baby. The baby is six-months old. But it would be false, as I once did, to think that the story was composed circa October 1960 when Plath's daughter Frieda was that age. The story expertly merges events over several months, which is something Plath employed, also, in writing The Bell Jar. But it likely cannot have been written then because of a later scene in which Jacob Ross returns home very late from a business meeting with Denise Kaye to discuss a play of his. The even this may have been famously modeled from is the one where Ted Hughes returned home late from a meeting with Moira Dolan of the BBC. Hughes returned home to find his Shakespeare and manuscripts shredded to bits. Plath changed the ending to something much happier as this was a story written expressly for the women's magazine market. 

As time goes by and I think about this story, I think it may have been composed in late July or early August 1961 for the simple fact that it involves the couple, at the end, deciding to move out of the city into the deep country. Lots of people dislike reading Plath's creative works biographically, but I am not one of them. 

The typescript of the story, held by Smith College, has the Chalcot Square address typed in the top right. The typescript at Emory appears to be a copy, possibly typed after Plath's death.

In the story, Ellen Ross (possibly a name derived from her acquaintance with Eleanor Ross Taylor) stops for a moment to look out of her window at the square. 

from Bananas (1975)

I was privileged to see the inside of the flat on three occasions. This is the view she was seeing (photograph from 8 February 2014).

New Book with Sylvia Plath Chapter

Susan E. Schwartz, who has published a number of essays on Sylvia Plath, has a book coming out with Routledge entitled The Absent Father Effect on Daughters: Father Desire Father Wounds. Chapter 14 is called "Sylvia Plath's 'Daddy'". The publication date is scheduled for next Monday, 30 November 2020. 

The book description, from the Routledge website, reads:

The Absent Father Effect on Daughters investigates the impact of absent – physically or emotionally – and inadequate fathers on the lives and psyches of their daughters through the perspective of Jungian analytical psychology. This book tells the stories of daughters who describe the insecurity of self, the splintering and disintegration of the personality, and the silencing of voice.

Issues of fathers and daughters reach to the intra-psychic depths and archetypal roots, to issues of self and culture, both personal and collective. Susan E. Schwartz illustrates the maladies and disappointments of daughters who lack a father figure and incorporates clinical examples describing how daughters can break out of idealizations, betrayals, abandonments, and losses to move towards repair and renewal. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach, expanding and elucidating Jungian concepts through dreams, personal stories, fairy tales and the poetry of Sylvia Plath, along with psychoanalytic theory, including Andre Green's 'dead father effect' and Julia Kristeva’s theories on women and the body as abject.

Examining daughters both personally and collectively affected by the lack of a father, The Absent Father Effect on Daughters is highly relevant for those wanting to understand the complex dynamics of daughters and fathers to become their authentic selves. It will be essential reading for anyone seeking understanding, analytical and depth psychologists, other therapy professionals, academics and students with Jungian and post-Jungian interests.

Susan E. Schwartz is a Jungian analyst and clinical psychologist in Arizona, USA. As a member of the International Association of Analytical Psychology she has taught and presented at conferences and workshops in the United States and worldwide. She has several articles and book chapters on these aspects of Jungian psychology.

ISBN: 9780367360856. Hardback: $155.00. Paperback: $38.95. Kindle edition: $29.49.

All links accessed 9 August 2020. 

Sylvia Plath Collections: The Rosenstein Tapes

The Rosenstein tapes are getting use which is wonderful. I hope everyone accessing them is enjoying them and learning new information about Sylvia Plath and her life, times, experiences, and acquaintances. 

Many of the tapes are showing, right now in Emory's The Keep, as undated. This blog post addresses that by presenting the dates listed on Rosenstein's typed interview notes. Email the Rose Library if you want to eavesdrop, too. 

I am offering the interview date information two ways, first is alphabetical by last name of the interviewee. The second way is in date order. If so chosen, the latter way allows you to learn information in just the same fashion that Rosenstein did. It is interesting to see revelations, corrections of errors, and the like. 

Alphabetical

Alvarez, Al: 1970 August 8

Avery, John: 1970 August 3

Axworthy, Nancy: 1973 December 5

Bailey, Norman: circa 1975 February 1

Baskin, Leonard: 1971 December 16

Beuscher, Ruth: 1970 June 16

Blackwell, Connie Taylor: 1974 April 20

Booth, Susan O'Neill-Roe: 1973 December 5

Brody, Sally: 1971 December 30

Burton, Kay: 1973 December 11

Compton, David: 1973 December 7

Davies, Winifred: 1970 August 8

Davison, Jane: 1973 November 6 and 1974 August 4

Davison, Peter: 1973 November 6

Fainlight, Ruth and Alan Sillitoe: 1970 August 9

Gibian, George & Smith folks: 1971 December 15

Hayes, Ildiko: Undated, probably circa 1973 December 11-13

Horder, John: 1970 August 12

Jacobson, Dan: 1973 November 10

Jenkins, Alan and Nancy: 1973 December 4

Kane, Marvin: 1973 November 27

Klein, Elinor: 1971 October 11

Kopp, Jane Baltzell: 1974 July 16 and August 2

Lameyer, Gordon: 1974 May 12

Levy, Lisa: 1974 April 18

Lucie-Smith, Edward: 1970 July 28    

Macedo, Helder and Suzanne: 1973 November 27-December 1, and undated

Merwin, W. S.: 1974 April 15-16

Meshoulam, Iko & Felicity: 1973 December 3

Murphy, Richard: 1974 April 19

Norton, Perry & Shirley: 1974 April 12

Orr, Peter: Undated, circa 1970 July 28-29

Plath, Aurelia Schober: Undated (Mrs. Plath is giving a public talk on her daughter)

Pratson, Patricia O'Neill: 1972 February 2

Roche, Clarissa: 1973 November 20

Roche, Paul: 1973 November 21

Rosenthal, Jon: 1971 December 1

Rosenthal, M.L.: 1971 November 9

Secker-Walker, Lorna and David: 1970 July 25

Shook, Margaret (interview and lecture): 1971 December 16-17

Sigmund, Elizabeth: 1973 December 3-4

Steiner, Nancy Hunter: 1971 October 10

Stern, Marcia: 1972 January 20

Thwaite, Anthony: 1973 November 21

Weldon, Fay: 1973 November 19

Wertz, Richard: 1971 September 29

Wober, J. Mallory: 1973 December 7

Woody, J. Melvin: 1972 January 1

Zorn, Carl: 1976 October 27

Unidentified friend of Assia Wevill: Undated circa 1970 July 28-29

Unidentified English couple (possibly the Frankforts or Secker-Walkers): Undated

Chronological

1970 June 16, Ruth Beuscher

1970 July 25, Lorna and David Secker-Walker

1970 July 28, Edward Lucie-Smith 

1970 July 28-29 (circa), Peter Orr

1970 July 28-29 (circa), Unidentified friend of Assia Wevill

1970 August 3, John Avery 

1970 August 8, Al Alvarez 

1970 August 8, Winifred Davies 

1970 August 9, Ruth Fainlight and Alan Sillitoe 

1970 August 12, John Horder 

1971 September 29, Richard Wertz 

1971 October 10, Nancy Hunter Steiner 

1971 October 11, Elinor Klein 

1971 November 9, M.L Rosenthal 

1971 December 1, Jon Rosenthal 

1971 December 15, George Gibian & Smith folks 

1971 December 16, Leonard Baskin

1971 December 16-17, Margaret Shook (interview and lecture) 

1971 December 30, Sally Brody

1972 January 1, J. Melvin Woody 

1972 January 20, Marcia Stern

1972 February 2, Patricia O'Neill Pratson

1973 November 6, Jane Davison 

1973 November 6, Peter Davison 

1973 November 10, Dan Jacobson

1973 November 19, Fay Weldon 

1973 November 20, Clarissa Roche

1973 November 21, Paul Roche

1973 November 21, Anthony Thwaite

1973 November 27, Marvin Kane 

1973 November 27-December 1, and undated, Helder and Suzanne Macedo

1973 December 3, Iko & Felicity Meshoulam

1973 December 3-4, Elizabeth Sigmund

1973 December 4, Alan and Nancy Jenkins

1973 December 5, Nancy Axworthy

1973 December 5, Susan O'Neill-Roe Booth 

1973 December 7, David Compton

1973 December 7, J. Mallory Wober

1973 December 11, Kay Burton

1973 December 11-13 (Undated, probably circa), Ildiko Hayes 

1974 April 12, Perry & Shirley Norton 

1974 April 15-16, W.S. Merwin 

1974 April 18, Lisa Levy 

1974 April 19, Richard Murphy 

1974 April 20, Connie Taylor Blackwell 

1974 May 12, Gordon Lameyer

1974 July 16 and August 2, Jane Baltzell Kopp 

1974 August 4, Jane Davison 

1975 February 1 (circa), Norman Bailey 

1976 October 27, Carl Zorn 

Undated, Aurelia Schober Plath (Mrs. Plath is giving a public talk on her daughter)

Undated, Unidentified English couple (possibly the Frankforts or Secker-Walkers)

Click here to see the collection's finding aid.  

One gets the impression that some tapes were lost or that some tapes were damaged irreparably, or that, even, some tapes were recorded over at some point. There are a lot more interview notes than there are tapes. And for some, like Ildiko Hayes,  there is an interview tape but no typed notes. Also, I guess one (me, and maybe others) gets the impression that material is missing from these papers. Where, for example, is Rosenstein's collection of Plath's publications? Are we to believe she was doing all this work and did not have a file of poems, stories, and other works? 

All links accessed 12 and 13 November 2020.

Sylvia Plath's Mutual of Omaha Insurance Card

One of the items in the Big Bonhams auction back in 2018 was a wallet containing seven membership cards (Lot 330) to various organizations such as the Boston Public Library, her drivers license, the Poetry Society of America, and an insurance card with Mutual of Omaha (see this post, if interested). The winner of the lot has been selling the cards off one by one. They have appeared in various auction houses (Nate Sanders last December for $1500), Barneby's for $7,500!, and ebay) and formats since that time. At one point some where being offered for obscenely unrealistic prices. Most have sold, I believe. 

Minutes ago, Plath's insurance card with Mutual of Omaha was offered for sale via Heritage Auctions. It is signed "Sylvia P. Hughes" and Plath has also filled in her husband's name. The back of the card was filled out by Aurelia Schober Plath as the emergency contact person and includes Sylvia Plath's religious affiliation and blood type which was O. As a straight-A student, I'm sure she was happy getting an O on her blood type, than a B. 

The card sold for $1,300 ($1562.50 including buyer's premium). Congratulations to the winner. 

My thanks to Jett Whithead for alerting me to the auction.

All links accessed 12 November 2020.

Sylvia Plath Collections: The Rosenstein Tapes

A few weeks back, Gail Crowther and I discussed a bit the Rosenstein audio tapes which have been digitized by Emory and are available to listen to from the comfort of your home or office. It was mentioned, as well, in my talk with Heather Clark and in this blog post. 

All one needs to do is write to the Rose Library, sign a waiver, and you will receive a login to access the materials in The Keep. The tapes are really interesting but must be listened to with the volume on high, but beware that occasional shouts and laughter and other noises (phones, babies, toddlers, airplanes, cars, motorcycles, sirens, matches being struck) frequently appear and thus you could blow out your eardrums. Please note there is Ted Hughes material in this as well. And, bonus material is digitized home video from Gerald Hughes' Christmas 1964 visit to England. There are two: one is centered in London and features, very briefly, Ted Hughes and Assia Wevill. Another one is from North Tawton, Yorkshire, and Ireland and features many Court Green, Hughes family members, The Beacon, and more. Elizabeth Sigmund (then Compton) appears twice. As well as Plath's cats Tiger-Pieker and Skunky-Bunks. 

Upon listening to nearly all the tapes now, it is evident that the finding aid to the collection is wanting. As critical as that sounds, the finding is still very useful and it takes Plath specialists, sometimes, to really sort things out. Especially since it is clear the tape labels by Rosenstein are, well, fairly inaccurate. The following is a list of actual interviewees. It is organized by Emory's ID number for the audio recording. I have passed this along to them so hopefully the finding aid will be updated too. What is misleading is that though there are two tapes, for example, of Winifred Davies and one with Al Alvarez, there is no indication under their names (as of today) that there is any digital content for them. So please read the finding aid very carefully. I have been listening to the tapes in alphabetical order, but part of me wishes I had listened to them in chronological order. And frustratingly, most of the interview tapes are showing as "undated"; yet Rosenstein's typed notes are dated. The staff really should work with the paper part of the collection to enrich the audio part of the collection.  

I recommend strongly supporting the Rose Library if you take advantage of this opportunity to get archives fever remotely. Even a small amount of money can help and there are several bucket that are appropriate including Digitization (MARBL Fund for Excellence/Linda Matthews fund) and literary acquisitions (Literary Collections Fund).

OK, so, it might be kind of confusing and I am sorry about that, but below is a list of corrections. 

id v5zq0 & id v6mpw are Dr Ruth Beuscher, or, Barnhouse as is listed in the Finding Aid. Dr. Beuscher further exemplifies how dodgy she was as a psychiatrist by reading her therapy notes to Rosenstein. We know she read the McLean files into a tape (that tape was sent to Frieda Hughes), too.  In the finding aid, v6mpw is listed as "Miss Morton" which I think must be intentionally misleading. 

id v48t8 Nancy Axworthy also briefly features Elizabeth Compton Sigmund (who stopped by). Not sure this is worth adding but just thought I'd mention it.

id v79g6 is the second part of Winifred Davies (it continues v48qv).

id v549v is Norman Bailey Part 2. At 57:54 it ends and a couple of seconds later it begins the interview with Dan Jacobson to the end of the tape, about five minutes. 

Then, confusingly, v54jt continues the Dan Jacobson interview for nearly two minutes... but then switches to the beginning of the Norman Bailey interview. Very peculiar... I don't envy the cataloger who has to explain that in the finding aid! 

idv54jt concludes Dan Jacobson; but at about 1:46 in changes to Norman Bailey.

id v62p7 is Edward Lucie-Smith, not Peter Orr.

"Alda" Macedo is Helder Macedo.

In the finding aid under Roche there is an AV listing that reads "interview recording, part three, undated" but there is no [Digital/digitized copy] notation underneath it. Will that be digitized sometime? It's situated in the finding aid just above Box 3 Folder 14.  (It was determined that this tape was blank the whole way through.)

id v76xp is M. L. Rosenthal.

id v54c4 is Nancy Hunter Steiner (Part 1).

id v54b0 is Nancy Hunter Steiner (Part 2) to 3:57; then Richard Wertz to 38:03; then Lorna and David Secker-Walker to 39:06; then "Rudy" & HR making a test telephone recording to 45:57; and then an English man and woman to end.

idv77r3 is Marcia Brown Stern for the first 29 minutes; the rest of the tape is part of Sally Brody.

id v75v9 is definitely Faye Weldon.

id v78dt is J Melvin Woody to about 19:45 and then switches to a completely-unrelated-to-Plath Group Conversation.

id v7b52 is Carl Zorn.

id v7b4x is Carl Zorn until about 38:17 and then switches to a (probably bootlegged?) recording of Aurelia Schober Plath talking about Letters Home and The Bell Jar with an audience. Rosenstein and another woman listening to the recording and commenting.

Also, in the finding aid under Merwin, the reference number for the Lameyer portion of the tape reads id z52r4 but it should be v5zr4. Or vice versa.

And, under Peter Orr, id v6mq7 should be v6mq1. Or vice versa.

All links accessed 5 and 9 November 2020.

Sylvia Plath in TLS

Sylvia Plath published two poems in the 6 November 1959 issue of TLS (Times Literary Supplement). They appeared just at the end of her time at Yaddo, and mere weeks before she sailed from New York back to England, for good. The TLS is a large format periodical printed on newspaper paper. Back in 1959 the issues were very big, certainly much bigger than it is today.

This title is harder to come by, and indeed I believe its format also makes it more difficult to find in the original. But I was able to locate and acquire a copy recently with the help of some "tip" money a few kind people sent. See, I told you I would use it for Plath stuff! How I am going to store it is a question since it is a bigger item and the paper rather more fragile (acidic, brittle) than the kind used in magazines and journals.

The two poems were "The Hermit at Outermost House" and "Two Views of a Cadaver Room". Plath submitted them sometime in 1959; just when is not known. They were accepted, however, in a 6 July 1959 letter to her from editor Alan Pryce-Jones. When the letter was received, Plath and Hughes were on their cross country trip of North America; and it must have been welcome news when she received it (as were all publication acceptances).

See a gallery of covers of publications in which Plath's work appeared on A celebration, this is.

All links accessed 24 February 2020.

Collected Writings of Assia Wevill manuscript submitted

 

Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick and I are very happy to say we submitted our manuscript for The Collected Writings of Assia Wevill to the published, LSU Press, last Monday, 26 October. We are very excited to see it in their hands. 

The manuscript, including more than twenty photographs and scans of documents we will use for illustrations, stretches to 298 pages. In it, you will read Assia Wevill's life and experiences in her own words with contextual annotations that bring color and information to her texts.

We began this project with a vision to assemble Selected Writings back in the spring of 2018 and it is so thrilling to see it to this point, where we of necessity had to elevate it to something as comprehensive as a Collected Writings. 

It was an honor and a privilege to work on this project---Julie's third book; my fifth book (the sixth is done, nearly, too)---with Julie, and our contacts at the Press have been marvelous. Thank you, Julie! And, as well, thank you to any who have an interest in this book. 

If all is fair and equal the book should be published in about a year.

Books authored by Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick:

 

Modernist Women Writers and War: Trauma and the Female Body in Djuna Barnes, H.D., and Gertrude Stein (LSU Press, 2011)

Reclaiming Assia Wevill : Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the Literary Imagination (LSU Press, 2019)

Books authored/edited by me:

 

Sylvia Plath (Chelsea House, 2004)

These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath with Gail Crowther (Fonthill Press, 2017)

The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-1956 with Karen V. Kukil (Faber, 2017)

The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume II: 1956-1963 (Faber, 2018)

Heather Clark's Sylvia Plath Biography Red Comet Published in the US

Heather Clark's Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath is published officially in the US today by Knopf. 

The ISBN is 978-0307961167. The cover price is $36.The book is an outstanding 1,152 pages, with a comprehensive index and exhaustive, not to be missed notes.

The reviews have been appearing since the summer. Due to delays in printing because of the world situation, the publication was pushed back several times. But now the book is officially out and readers will now get up to date with the most current life details on Sylvia Plath. 

Here is a list of reviews:

• Kirkus Review, 1 July 2020
  
  
• Michelle Renee Kidwell, Medium, 25 July 2020
  
  
• Publisher's Weekly, 14 August 2020
  
  
• Anna Spydell, Book Page, October 2020
  
  
• Hamilton Cain, Oprah Magazine, October 2020
  
  
• Andrew Wilson, Evening Standard, 8 October 2020
  
  
• Lyndon Gordon, Daily Telegraph, 10 October 2020
  
  
• J.P. O'Malley, Irish Independent, 11 October 2020
  
  
• Laura Freeman, The Times, 15 October 2020
  
  
• Anna Leszkiewicz, New Statesman, 14 October 2020
  
  
• Hamilton Cain, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 16 October 2020
  
  
• Claire Lowden, Sunday Times, 25 October 2020

Red Comet has been mentioned, also, as an anticipated Fall publication in the the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, Minneapolis Star Tribune, USA Today, LitHub, Bustle, Entertainment Weekly, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and other news sources. 

And if you have an hour to spare, please consider watching last Friday night's event sponsored by Washington D.C. bookstore Politics and Prose.

All links accessed 12, 16, and 26 October 2020.

Last Night's Sylvia Plath event with Heather Clark

Last night I was privileged to have a conversation with Heather Clark, author of the imminently published (in the US) Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath hosted by Washington D.C. independent bookstore Politics and Prose. 

The event was recorded and broadcast live on YouTube and is available now for consumption. Hope that you enjoy the hour long program. I really lovely every moment of it. I did not have the chance (or concentration ability) to see the full list of attendees but thank you to all who attended, and, as well, to all who watch it now.

Buy the book from Politics and Prose!

One of the topics we discussed was the Harriet Rosenstein archive which is held by Emory University. You may remember in January and February this blog featured a lot of posts about the recently opened collection. Between then and maybe the summer, sometime, Emory was digitizing the audio cassette tapes that came with it. Due to the times, with a lot of places being closed or with limited abilities, Emory is offering online access to these recordings. Contact the Rose Library for access instructions. 

The medium of the cassette tape is fairly stable, but the quality of the recordings takes some getting used to what with muffled voices, background noises, dogs, tea cups, cars honking, etc. In fact the recording of Al Alvarez appears to be literally have been conducted in the flight path of Heathrow Airport. One of the more amazing things about this is hearing the younger voices of Plath's friends and acquaintances like Elizabeth Sigmund, Winifred Davies, Nancy Axworthy, Lorna and David Secker-Walker, Elinor Klein, Perry Norton, Marcia Stern, and many, many more.

I have listened to most of the tapes at this point and have sent a list of corrections---which I am sure is annoying---to Emory that I hope they make to the finding aid. There are about 76 hours or so.

If you do take advantage of this opportunity, I recommend considering sending Emory's Rose Library a financial donation of appreciation.  

All links accessed 24 October 2020.

Sylvia Plath Collections: Poetry at the Lilly Library

The following post was drafted in 2018! As October is American Archives Month is seems rather appropriate to dust and thus polish this post off in the middle of it. 

The Poetry archive is split between the University of Chicago and the Lilly Library. At the same time, the journal's headquarters in Chicago maintains an archive itself of documents and books that are likely very valuable resources. This post is specifically about the holdings at the Lilly Library, which I received copies of as part of some of the last minute and tangential work I was doing on The Letters of Sylvia Plath. The post from 2013 about the holdings at the University of Chicago can be read here.

The Poetry materials at the Lilly Library can be broadly classed into three categories: correspondence, typescripts, and proofs. First up, the correspondence, with brief annotations about the content of each letter:

1. Henry Rago to Sylvia Plath, 27 December 1962: accepting three poems "Eavesdropper", "Fever 103°", and "Purdah".

2. Ted Hughes to Henry Rago, circa late January/early February 1963: Written at 110 Cleveland Street, sending corrections to "Heatwave" and "Era of Giant Lizards" and submitting additional poems. Published in December 1963 Poetry along with "Poem to Robert Graves Perhaps", "On Westminster Bridge", "After Lorca", and "Small Hours".

3. Henry Rago to Ted Hughes, 12 February 1963: Thanking TH for sending new poems and saying they'll publish them with some other poems already accepted.

4. Julie McLauchlin to J A McLaren, 23 April 1963: Providing biographical and bibliographical information about Sylvia Plath.

5. Waddell Austin to Elizabeth Wright, 6 May 1963: Asking permission to reprint poems in the Borestone annual volume, including SP's "Face Lift".

6. Elizabeth Wright to Waddell Austin, 8 May 1963: Granting permission.

7. Julie McLauchlin to Ted Hughes, 24 June 1963: Enclosing proofs of SP's three poems for the August 1963 issue of Poetry. Sent to 110 Cleveland Street.

8. Sherman Conrad to Henry Rago, 3 September 1963: Commenting favorably about SP's poems in the August issue of Poetry as well as The New Yorker.

9. Ted Hughes to Henry Rago, circa November 1963: Asking about payment for SP's poems from the August issue and sending in some corrected proofs. Sent from Court Green.

10. Henry Rago to Ted Hughes, 20 November 1963: Replying to TH's undated letter above confirming they had sent a check for SP's poems on 6 August 1963. Asking that TH check very carefully for this check, sent to Court Green.

11. Charles Cox to Henry Rago, 10 August 1964: Asking about permission to print Hughes' "After Lorca" in a Critical Quarterly shilling anthology.

The typescripts are Plath's original poem submissions with editorial markups throughout: "Face Lift", "Heavy Women", "Love Letter", "Stars Over the Dordogne", and "Widow" and then "Eavesdropper", "Fever 103°", and "Purdah".

The proofs take various forms and shapes and are for Plath's poems in the March 1962 and August 1963 issues, and for Hughes' December 1963 appearance. Included are Plath's author's proof corrections for the March 1962 issue with her corrections and signature.

All links accessed 4 and 21 May 2018 and 19 October 2020.