In October 2012, at the Sylvia Plath Symposium at Indiana University, I presented on a number of things. One of them is this talk: "Sincerely yours: Sylvia Plath and The New Yorker". (Another of them will be presented in Zoomposium II on 6 June.)
In many ways this essay continued my interest and exploration in Plath's business correspondence which was first featured in the essays that went into These Ghostly Archives (those were the letters to and from the BBC). The correspondence is such a fascinating look into how a poem gets accepted and published, and the back-and-forth that sometimes takes place.
At any rate, this talk is now up on the Sylvia Plath Info YouTube channel and I hope that you enjoy it.
Note: While I am happy to present that talk (and its slides), I must inform you that this talk was significantly revised and published in Sylvia Plath in Context (2019).
All links accessed 13 May 2020.