'There is no telling where I may apply, if you turn me down'
And yet, despite a faultless letter of introduction, they turned her down
In March 1933, in an attempt to secure some writing work, 23-year-old Eudora Welty sent this impossibly charming letter to the offices of The New Yorker magazine and gently laid her cards on the table. It’s genuinely difficult to imagine a more endearingly written introduction to one’s tal…
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