EFR/2/2/3/95 - Letters from Maude Meagher, Editor, World Youth Magazine, Los Gatos, California - Apr 1950-Aug 1957

Manuscript and typescript letters. Maude Meagher, Editor, explains how much she admires EFR's novelette Dear Devil, and the magazine cover illustrating the story, and how she would like him to contribute to World Youth; she outlines the editorial policy of the magazine, and tries to pers...

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Main Creator: Thayer, Tiffany
Other Creators: Fort, Charles, Palmer, Raymond
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Physical Description:30 items; 38pp
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Manuscript and typescript letters. Maude Meagher, Editor, explains how much she admires EFR's novelette Dear Devil, and the magazine cover illustrating the story, and how she would like him to contribute to World Youth; she outlines the editorial policy of the magazine, and tries to persuade EFR that he can write for the juvenile audience; Meagher would like to return a story by EFR called The Dreamers of Mars because it feels "watered down” in an attempt to reach a younger audience, but she bows to the opinion of her business partner C D Smiley that they should publish the story after all, and simply advises EFR to re-check the story's astronomical details; she also asks EFR for a short autobiographical article; Meagher says they will publish EFR's story The Big Dark, for which EFR has provided copies of photographs from a tourist agency [representing the Isle of Man]; Meagher discusses the merits of old-fashioned typewriters, and believes that EFR is being corrupted by his new Imperial 60, which replaced his old Remington, the survivor of an air raid; she asks EFR if he would contribute a special story to the magazine's Christmas issue, which turns out to be a story with an Irish setting; she mentions that one of the magazine's writers, Joy DeWeese Wehen, is a fan of EFR and would like to visit him when she is in England, and that a friend who is a retired air force colonel is a great admirer of The Big Dark; she reports how an English-language magazine, also calling itself World Youth, is being published from Budapest, and that she has written to J Edgar Hoover for advice; she describes the radio and television versions of World Youth; Meagher includes a letter from Harriet P Miller, who is a fan of EFR's Irish story; she discusses a proposed collection of juvenile stories that EFR is planning to call When the Sun Goes Down, and which he plans to dedicate to her; EFR also appears to have described a project to rewrite Mallory [Sir Thomas Malory ?], Chretienne de Troy and The Mabinogion in modern-day prose.

Date:Apr 1950-Aug 1957
Reference Number:EFR/2/2/3/95