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by A. Scott Berg


  X. MENTOR

  Early stages of Of Time and the River: TW to MP, Dec. 9—29, 1930; TW to MP, ca. Dec. 25, 1930; MP to TW, Dec. 23, 1930; TW to MP, Jan. 7, 1931.

  TW’s unrest over AB: TW to MP, Jan. 19, 1931; TW to MP, Jan. 7, 1931; AB to TW, May 12, 1930; AB to TW, n.d. (summer, 1930); AB to TW, Oct. 2, 1930; AB to TW, Oct. 14, 1930; MP to TW, Jan. 30, 1931; TW to MP, Feb. 24, 1931; AB to TW, Mar. 24, 1931; TW to AB, Mar. 29, 1931; AB to TW, n.d. (ca. Apr., 1931); MP to EL, Mar. 16, 1931.

  FSF in limbo: FSF to MP, ca. Dec. 20, 1930; FSF to MP, ca. Sept. 1, 1930; RL to FSF, Jan. 22, 1930; MP to EH, Feb. 11, 1931; MP to John Peale Bishop, Feb. 25, 1931; FSF to MP, ca. May 15, 1931; Alfred S. Dashiell to FSF, May 22, 1931; Notes from Prangins (quoted in Milford, Zelda, p. 191).

  FSF and ZSF: “Show Mr. and Mrs. F. to Number—,” CU, p. 52; FSF, “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” CU, p. 22.

  Erskine Caldwell leaving MP: Caldwell, Call It Experience, pp. 88, 122—23; MP to Erskine Caldwell, June 18, 1932.

  MP on “present discouraging state”: MP to EH, June 11, 1931.

  EH’s accident: EH to MP, ca. Nov. 15, 1930.

  Ford Madox Ford: Ford to EH, Sept. 20, 1930; EH to MP, Sept. 28, 1930; MP to EH, Oct. 14, 1930.

  Archibald MacLeish: EH to MP, Dec. 8, 1930; MP to EH, Jan. 22, 1931; MP to EH, Nov. 25, 1931; MP to EH, Nov. 30, 1931; JHW to ASB (I), June 5, 1975; EH to MP, Dec. 9, 1931.

  Hard times: Harvard Class of 1907 Twenty-fifth Anniversary Report: 1932, p. 517; MP to EH, Dec. 5, 1930; MP to EL, Jan. 26, 1931; MP to TW, Jan. 30, 1931; MP to EL, Jan. 27, 1931.

  Death of Archibald Cox: MP to EL, Mar. 16, 1931.

  MP to Key West: MP to FSF, Apr. 3, 1931; MP to FSF, May 21, 1931.

  MP on Faulkner: EH to MP, Apr. 12, 1931; William Faulkner to Alfred Dashiell, ca. Dec. 20, 1928; MP to EL, Mar. 16, 1931; JHW to ASB (I), Apr. 3, 1972; EH to MP, Apr. 27, 1931.

  EH writing Death in the Afternoon: EH to MP, Aug. 1, 1931.

  Douglas Southall Freeman: MP to DSF, June 27, 1930; MP to DSF, Apr. 23, 1930; DSF to MP, Jan. 19, 1931; DSF to MP, Dec. 26, 1934; MP to DSF, Jan. 11, 1935.

  MP sees unpleasantness everywhere: MP to EH, Aug. 20, 1931.

  TW fed up with the writing game: MP to TW, Aug. 27, 1931; TW to MP, Aug. 29, 1931.

  XI. LAMENTATIONS

  RL’s illness: RL to MP, Feb. 13, 1931; MP to EH, Sept. 2, 1931; MP to RL, Feb. 16, 1931; Ellis Lardner to MP, ca. Sept. 19, 1931; Ellis Lardner to MP, ca. Sept. 25, 1931.

  FSF’s progress on Tender Is the Night: FSF and ZFS, “Show Mr. and Mrs. F. to Number—”: CU, p. 54; FSF to MP, ca. Jan. 15, 1932; FSF, “General Plan” for Tender; FSF to EW, Mar. 12, 1934.

  ZSF and Save Me the Waltz: ZSF to MP, ca. Mar. 12, 1932; MP to EH, Apr. 19, 1932; ZSF to MP, Mar. 27, 1932; MP to ZSF, Mar. 28, 1932; FSF to MP, Mar. 28, 1932; ZSF to FSF, n.d. (ca. Mar. 1932) ; FSF to MP, ca. Apr. 30, 1932; FSF to MP, ca. May 14, 1932; MP to ZSF (telegram), May 16, 1932; MP to ZSF, June 25, 1932; ZSF to MP, n.d. (ca. May 19, 1932); ZSF, Save Me the Waltz (New York: Signet, 1968), p. 105; MP to ZSF, Aug. 2, 1933; MP to EH, Nov. 3, 1932; ZSF to MP, n.d. (ca. Oct. 22, 1932); ZSF to MP, n.d. (ca. Oct. 1, 1932); FSF to MP, ca. May 14, 1932; ZSF to MP, n.d. (ca. June 5, 1932); MP to EH, June 11, 1932.

  Bertha’s illness: FSF to MP, ca. Jan. 15, 1932; FSF to MP, ca. May 14, 1932; MP to ZSF, June 10, 1932 ; YCGHA, pp. 491—92.

  TW’s upsets: MP to Lawrence Greene, Mar. 14, 1935; MP to EH, Jan. 14, 1932; TW to Mabel Wolfe Wheaton, Jan. 27, 1932; MP to John Terry, Dec. 11, 1945; TW to AB, n.d. (spring, 1932).

  Completion of Death in the Afternoon: MP to EH, Jan. 14, 1932; EH to MP, Nov. 12-25, 1931; MP to EH, Nov. 12, 1931; EH to MP, Jan. 21, 1932; MP to EH, Jan. 25 and Feb. 5, 1932; MP to EH, Apr. 19, 1932; EEG to ASB (I), June 11, 1973; EH to MP, May 14, 1932; MP to EH, May 24, 1932; EH to MP (telegram), June 27, 1932; EH to MP, June 28, 1932; MP to EH, July 7, 1932.

  MP’s life seeming cursed: MP to EL, June 15 and 26, 1932; MP to EL, July 7, 1932; MP to EL, Aug. 10, 1934. Arthur H. Scribner died on July 3, 1932.

  MP’s trip to Baltimore: EL to ASB (I), June 6, 1973; EL to ASB (I), Apr. 12, 1972; MP to EL, July, 1932; MP to EH, July 22, 1932.

  EH comments on the Fitzgeralds: EH to MP, July 27, 1932; EH to MP, June 2, 1932; MP to EH, Aug. 1, 1932; MP to EL, Aug. 19, 1932.

  Publication of Save Me the Waltz: “Of the Jazz Age,” New York Times, Oct. 16, 1932.

  FSF at work on Tender Is the Night: FSF, Ledger, p. 186; ZSF to MP, n.d. (ca. Oct. 1, 1932); FSF to MP, Jan. 19, 1933; MP to FSF, Jan. 27, 1933.

  Sales of Save Me the Waltz: FSF to MP, July 27, 1933; MP to ZSF, Aug. 2, 1933; MP to FSF, Jan. 27, 1933; MP to FSF, Feb. 3, 1933; MP to FSF, Aug. 4, 1933.

  FSF completing Tender Is the Night: FSF to MP, Sept. 25, 1933; MP to FSF, Oct. 9, 1933; MP to EH, Jan. 12, 1934 (misdated: 1933); MP to FSF, Oct. 18, 1933; FSF, Ledger, p. 188.

  RL’s last days and aftermath: RL to MP, Aug. 18, 1932; MP to RL, Aug. 17, 1932; RL to MP, Feb. 3, 1933; MP to RL, Feb. 1, 1933; RL to MP, Feb. 3, 1933; Maxwell Geismar, Ring Lardner and the Portrait of Folly (New York: Crowell, 1972), p. 155; MP to EH, Nov. 28, 1934; MP to FSF, Oct. 6, 1933; FSF to MP, Oct. 7, 1933; Gilbert Seldes, Preface to RL’s First and Last, pp. v-vi.

  XII. THE SEXES

  MP as a “misogynist”: PK to ASB (I), Mar. 28, 1972; MP to James Boyd, Dec. 1, 1924; Struthers Burt, “Catalyst for Genius,” Saturday Review of Literature, June 9, 1951, p. 37.

  Marcia Davenport: Davenport, Too Strong for Fantasy, pp. 137-38, 183; MP to Alice Dixon Bond, July 17, 1944; Davenport to MP, July 16, 1931; Davenport to MP, July 18, 1932; Davenport to MP, Mar. 7, 1932.

  Nancy Hale: MP to EL, Jan. 22, 1938; MP to Nancy Hale, June 18, 1937.

  Caroline Gordon Tate: Allen Tate to ASB, Sept. 12, 1972; MP to Caroline Gordon Tate, Jan. 16, 1932; Caroline Gordon Tate to ASB (I), Sept. 12, 1971; MP to Caroline Gordon Tate, Nov. 12, 1931.

  CSS during the Depression: Charles Madison, Book Publishing in America (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966), p. 216; MC notes.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth: Alice Roosevelt Longworth to ASB (I), June 5, 1973; MP to EL, Oct. 23, 1933; Longworth, Crowded Hours, p. 325; MP to EH, Dec. 12, 1933.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: MKR to Robert van Gelder, quoted in Twentieth Century Authors, p. 1,150; MKR, Cross Creek, pp. 5, 9; MKR, quoted in The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Reader, ed. Julia Scribner Bigham (New York: Scribners, 1956), pp. ix, xi, xiii, xiv, xvi; MP to Alice Dixon Bond, July 17, 1944; Marcia Davenport, Too Strong for Fantasy, p. 299; MKR to MP, June 7, 1933; MP to MKR, Nov. 21, 1932; MKR, South Moon Under, p. 135; MKR to MP, Jan. 19, 1933; MP to EH, Jan. 20, 1942; MP to MKR, Nov. 15, 1933; MP to MKR, June 10, 1933; MKR to MP, June 12, 1933; MP to MKR, Oct. 10, 1933; MP to MKR, Feb. 1, 1934; MP to MKR, Oct. 27, 1933; MP to MKR, Mar. 5, 1934.

  Reactions to Death in the Afternoon: MP to EH, Aug. 26, 1932; Edward Weeks, Atlantic Bookshelf, Nov., 1932; Times Literary Supplement, Dec. 8, 1932.

  MP on FDR: MP to V. F. Calverton, Feb. 13, 1932.

  MP duck-hunting in Arkansas: EH to MP, Dec. 7, 1932; MP to ZSF, Dec. 23, 1932; MP to MKR, Jan. 5, 1940; MP to EL, Dec. 25, 1932; MP to Ann Chidester, July 15, 1943; MP to EH, Nov. 8, 1932; MP to TW, Dec. 23, 1932; EH to MP, Nov. 15, 1932; EH to MP, Feb. 23, 1933; EH to CS, Dec. 1, 1951; MP to TW, Dec. 23, 1932.

  Meeting of TW and EH: MP to James Boyd, Dec. 29, 1932; MP to John Terry, Nov. 21, 1945; MP to Earl Wilson(?), Dec. 31, 1940; EH to MP, late Jan., 1933.

  “Bull in the Afternoon”: Max Eastman, “Bull in the Afternoon,” New Republic, June 7, 1933, pp. 94-96; EH to MP, June 13, 1933; MP to EH, June 16, 1933; EH to MP, ca. July 15, 1933.

  “Winner Take Nothing”: EH to MP, ca. July 15, 1933; MP to EH, June 12, 1933.

  Gertrude Stein: Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1934), p. 265; EH to MP, July 26, 1933; MP to EH, Aug. 2, 1933; EH to MP, Aug. 10, 1933. In contrast to her remark about EH, Miss Stein writes on page 268, “She thinks Fitzgerald will
be read when many of his well-known contemporaries are forgotten.”

  EH, under attack, goes to Africa: MP to EH, Aug. 14, 1933; EH to MP, Aug. 31, 1933; MP to EH, Nov. 6, 1933; MP to Evan Shipman, Nov. 24, 1933; EH to MP, Jan. 17, 1934.

  Getting TW to surrender Of Time and the River: MP to EH, Feb. 10, 1933; MP to TW, Feb. 16, 1933; MP to EL, June 29, 1933; TW to Mabel Wolfe Wheaton, Feb. 9, 1933; MP to TW, Aug. 9, 1933; A. S. Frere-Reeves to MP, Feb. 27, 1933; A. S. Frere-Reeves to MP, Sept. 5, 1933; HLB, p. 275; Car. Mag., p. 15; MP to John Terry, Dec. 11, 1945; MP to A. S. Frere-Reeves, Sept. 25, 1933; MP to EL, Oct. 23, 1933; MP to EL, May 26, 1934; TW to AB, fragment, Oct. 3, 1933; MP to CS, Apr. 18, 1933.

  Bertha’s marriage: MP to EL, June 29, 1933; BSF to ASB (I), Feb. 22, 1972.

  Moving to NYC and MP’s quotidian routine: MP to EL, June 29, 1933; Elizabeth Youngstrom to ASB (I), Apr. 4, 1972; JHW to ASB (I), June 5, 1975; Struthers Burt, op. cit., pp. 8, 36, 37; MP to Ann Chidester, Apr. 20, 1944; Irma Wyckoff Muench to ASB (I), Feb. 18, 1972; MC notes; Robert Ryan to ASB (I), Jan. 13, 1973.

  MP and LSP’s marriage: NJ to ASB (I), Apr. 21, 1972; EL to ASB (I), Apr. 14, 1972; EL to ASB (I), June 5, 1973; PK to ASB (I), Mar. 29, 1972; JHW to ASB (I), Oct. 20, 1971; Betty Bigelow to ASB (I), Mar. 14, 1972; Irma Wyckoff Muench to ASB (I), Feb. 18, 1972; MP to EL, Aug. 22, 1935; EL to ASB (I), Apr. 12, 1972.

  MP and money: Herman Scheying to ASB (I), Mar. 22, 1972; MP to EL, Oct. 23, 1933; PK to ASB (I), Mar. 28, 1972.

  MP on women and the arts: MP to EL, Oct. 19, 1932; PK to ASB (I), Mar. 29, 1972; NJ to ASB (I), Apr. 21, 1972; JHW to ASB (I), Oct. 20, 1971; PK to ASB (I), Mar. 28, 1972; MP to EL, Aug. 10, 1934 and July 7, 1932.

  XIII. TRIUMPHS OVER TIME

  Finishing Tender Is the Night: FSF to MP, Oct. 19, 1933; MP to James Gray, Jan. 10, 1934; MP to EH, Jan. 12, 1934; FSF to MP, Mar. 4, 1934; MP to FSF, Jan. 15, 1934; FSF to MP, Jan. 18, 1934; FSF to MP, Feb. 1, 1934; FSF to MP, Dec. 3, 1934; FSF to MP, Jan. 13, 1934; FSF to MP, Apr. 2, 1934.

  ZSF’s exhibition: Matthew Josephson to ASB, Apr. 17, 1976; MP to EH, Feb. 7, 1934; EL to ASB (I), Apr. 8, 1975.

  Publication of Tender Is the Night: FSF to MP, Mar. 4, 1939; Morley Callaghan to MP, Apr. 10, 1934; EH to MP, Apr. 30, 1934; MP to EH, May 3, 1934.

  FSF’s difficulties over “Taps at Reveille”: MP to EL, May 26, 1934; FSF to MP, May 11 and 21, 1934; FSF to MP, Aug. 24, 1934; FSF to MP, Dec. 17, 1934; FSF, Ledger, p. 188; FSF to TW, Apr. 2, 1934.

  Delivery of Of Time and the River ms.: Elizabeth Nowell, Thomas, Wolfe (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1960), pp. 222-23; JHW to ASB (I), Apr. 3, 1972 ; MP to John Terry, Dec. 18, 1945; Car. Mag., p. 15; SN, pp. 73-76; TW to Julia Wolfe, Dec. 15, 1933; TW to MP, Dec. 15, 1933.

  Editing Of Time and the River: SN, pp. 77-83; MP to EH, Jan. 12, 1934 (misdated: 1933); MP to A. S. Frere-Reeves, Jan. 18, 1934; MP to A. S. Frere-Reeves, Feb. 23, 1934; MP, “Outline for Of Time and the River” (Houghton Library call number (46 AM-7 [24m]) ; MP, Note [24j]; MP to John Terry, Oct. 22, 1945; John Chamberlain, Books of the Times, Mar. 8, 1934; TW to Robert Raynolds, Feb. 2, 1934; Arnold Gingrich to ASB (I), Dec. 3, 1971; TW to EN, Feb. 2, 1934; MP to A. S. Frere-Reeves, Apr. 6, 1934; HLB, p. 272; TW to Robert Raynolds, June 5, 1934; TW to EN, June 2, 1934; MP to MKR, June 14, 1934; MC notes; Car. Mag., pp. 15-16; TW to Robert Raynolds, June 8, 1934; MP to Peter Monro Jack, Sept. 29, 1938; MP to EH, June 28, 1934; Poyntz Tyler, “Puritan in Babylon,” ms. of article for Town & Country, p. 13; MP to EH, Nov. 28, 1934; JHW to ASB (I), June 5, 1975; Irma Wyckoff Muench to ASB (I), Feb. 18, 1972; MP to John Terry, Oct. 29, 1945; NJ to ASB (I), Apr. 21, 1972; MP to MKR, Oct. 18, 1935; MP to Paul Weiss, Sept. 30, 1934; TW to Catherine Brett, July 12, 1934.

  MP’s family scattered: MP to EL, Aug. 10, 1934.

  MP and FSF to Welbourne: MP to EL, July 16, 1934; TW to EL, July 27, 1934; EL to ASB (I), May 25, 1975; MP to EL, Mar. 7, 1925; MP to EL, July 31, 1934; TW to EL, Sept. 14, 1934; FSF to MP, July 30, 1934; EL to ASB (I), Apr. 24, 1975; EL to ASB (I), May 24, 1975; FSF to MP, Oct. 17, 1934; MP to EL, Oct. 15, 1934; EL to LSP, n.d. (ca. June 20, 1947); EL to ASB (I), Apr. 8, 1975; EEG to ASB (I), June 11, 1973; EL to ASB (I), Apr. 12, 1972; FSF to MP, July 30, 1934; MP to FSF, Aug. 24, 1934; MP to EL, Oct. 15, 1934.

  FSF struggling over “Taps at Reveille”: MP to FSF, Oct. 17, 1934.

  Final editing of Of Time and the River: MP to FSF, Aug. 24, 1934; MP to A. S. Frere-Reeves, Sept. 5, 1934; MP to EL, Oct. 18, 1934; MP to FSF, Dec. 6, 1934; SN, pp. 85-86; HLB, p. 273; MP to EL, Oct. 16, 1934.

  TW and EL: EL to ASB (I), Apr. 12, 1972; EL to ASB (I), Apr. 24, 1972; TW to EL, Nov. 8, 1934.

  AB and MP over TW’s ms.: AB to MP, Oct. 17, 1934; MP to AB, Oct. 22, 1934; AB to MP, Oct. 23, 1934.

  End of editing of Of Time and the River: MP to EN, Oct. 23, 1934.

  Completion of Green Hills: EH to MP, Oct. 3, 1934; EH to MP, Nov. 16, 1934; EH to MP, Nov. 20, 1934; MP to EH, Nov. 28, 1934; MP to FSF (postcard), Jan. 31, 1935.

  Dedication of Of Time and the River: MP to TW, Jan. 21, 1935 ; JHW to ASB (I), Apr. 3, 1972; MP to TW, Feb. 8, 1935; TW, “To a Friend,” torn fragment, n.d.

  XIV. GOING HOME AGAIN

  Acceptance of Green Hills: EH, Green Hills of Africa, p. 71; MP to EH, Feb. 4, 1935; EH to MP, ca. Feb. 7, 1935; MP to EH, Feb. 15 and 16, 1935; EH to MP, Feb. 22, 1935.

  FSF on the wagon, drifts from EH: MP to EH, Feb. 5, 1935; FSF to MP, Feb. 26, 1935; FSF to EH, June 1, 1934; MP to EH, Feb. 27, 1935; EH to MP, ca. Apr. 5, 1935; FSF to MP, Apr. 15, 1935.

  FSF vs. TW: FSF to MP, Feb. 26, 1935; FSF to MP, Mar. 11, 1935.

  EW rift: MP to EH, May 15, 1941; MP to V. F. Calverton, Feb. 13, 1932 ; EW to MP, Oct. 18, 1938; EW to ASB, Apr. 11, 1972; MP to EH, Apr. 2, 1935; FSF, “Handle With Care,” CU, p. 79. A fourth friend, Thomas Boyd, author of Through the Wheat, had just recently died of a brain tumor at 37.

  FSF uninspired: MP to EL, Oct. 18, 1934; MP to EL, Mar. 30, 1935; FSF to MP, Apr. 15, 1935; FSF to MP, Apr. 17, 1935.

  FSF, “Notebooks”: CU, p. 177.

  FSF argues with MP about TW: FSF to MP, Apr. 15, 1935; FSF, “Notebooks,” CU, p. 178; FSF to MP, May 11, 1935; FSF to MP, ca. June 25, 1935; MP to EH, June 5, 1935; MP to FSF, Apr. 25, 1935.

  Before publication of Of Time and the River: MP to A. S. Frere-Reeves, Jan. 16, 1935; VWB Auto, pp. 32, 571; EH to MP, Mar. 30, 1935; YCGHA, p. 620; HLB, p. 270; MP to AB, Mar. 6, 1935; AB to MP, ca. Mar. 23, 1935; MP to AB, Mar. 25, 1935; AB to MP, Mar. 31, 1935; MP to AB, Apr. 3, 1935.

  Of Time and the River, publication and reactions: MP to TW, Mar. 8, 1935; TW to MP, Mar. 13, 1935; MP to TW (cablegram), Mar. 14, 1935; MP to TW, Mar. 14, 1935; PK to ASB (I), Mar. 27, 1972; Fanny Cox to ASB (I), May 20, 1972; TW to MP, Apr. 7, 1935; Of Time and the River, pp. 243, 308-09; Mark Van Doren, The Nation, Apr. 25, 1934; Burton Rascoe, New York Herald Tribune Books, Mar. 10, 1935; TW to MP, Apr. 4, 1935; MP to TW, Apr. 20, 1935.

  MP’s lonely summer of 1935: TW to LSP, Apr. 18, 1935; MP to EL, May 18, 1935; David Randall to ASB (I), Mar. 23, 1972; MP to EL, June 28, 1935.

  VWB’s recovery: MP to EL, Aug. 10, 1934; MP to VWB, July 6, 1931; MC to ASB (I), May 18, 1972; Lewis Mumford to Eleanor Brooks, Jan. 3, 1929; JHW to ASB (I), June 5, 1975; VWB to MP, Wednesday (ca. Oct., 1931).

  TW in Germany: YCGHA, p. 620; TW to MP, May 23, 1935; TW to MP, May 20, 1935.

  TW’s return to trouble at home: AB to MP, ca. June 19, 1935; AB to MP, ca. June 12, 1935; MP to AB, June 12, 1935; MP to EL, June 28, 1935; MP to John Terry, Nov. 1, 1945.

  XV. CRITICAL TIMES

  TW vs. AB: MP to FSF, July 12, 1935; AB to MP, July 11, 1935; AB to TW, July 11, 1935; MP to EL, July 12, 1935; MP to John Terry, Oct. 22, 1945; AB to MP, ca. July 14, 1935; MP to AB, July 16, 1935; AB to TW, July 25, 1935.

  TW’s trip west: TW to MP, Aug. 12, 1935; MP to Fred Wolfe, Aug. 19, 1935; MP to TW, Aug. 30, 1935; TW to MP (postcard), Aug. 26, 1935; TW to MP, Sept. 1, 1935; TW to MP, Sept. 12, 1935; MP to A. S. Frere-Reeves, Sept. 16, 1935
.

  MP and EL, trip to Welbourne and description of typical day: MP to LSP, July 22, 1935; EL to ASB (I), Apr. 12, 1972; MP to EL, Aug. 15, 1936; MP to EL, July 29, 1935; Henry Roth, Call It Sleep (New York: Pageant Books, 1960), pp. xxv, xlv; MP to Henry Roth, Nov. 6, 1939; Henry Roth to MP, Nov. 1, 1939; TW to MP, Aug. 12, 1935; MP to TW, Aug. 20, 1935; MP to EL, Aug. 29, 1935; Irma Wyckoff Muench to ASB (I), Feb. 18, 1972.

  TW back at work: TW to Mabel Wolfe Wheaton, Oct. 16, 1935; Elizabeth Nowell, Thomas Wolfe, p. 292.

  FSF’s crack-up: MP to EH, Dec. 14, 1935; EH to MP, Sept. 7, 1935; CU, pp. 71—72; MP to EH, Feb. 11, 1936; MP to EH, Feb. 27, 1936; EH to MP, Feb. 7, 1936.

  Critical reaction to EH: EH to MP, ca. Aug. 15, 1935; MP to EH, Sept. 10, 1935; EH to MP, Sept. 7, 1935; EH, Green Hills of Africa, pp. 21, 23-24, 65; EH to MP, Nov. 16, 1934; EH to MP, Apr. 21, 1928; EH to MP, Apr. 8, 1933; MP to FSF, Sept. 28, 1935; EH to MP, ca. Dec. 30, 1935; Charles Poore, New York Times, Oct. 27, 1935; MP to FSF, Oct. 26, 1935; MP to EH, Dec. 14, 1935; EW, New Republic, Dec. 11, 1935, p. 135; EW, “Hemingway: Gauge of Morale,” The Wound and the Bow (Boston: Houghton Miffiin, 1941), p. 226; MP to EH, Dec. 20, 1935; OMMB, p. 39; MP to EH, Feb. 27, 1936; MP to EH, July 9, 1935; EH to MP, ca. Dec. 30, 1935.

  JHW breakdown: MP to EH, Dec. 14, 1935; MP to VWB, Feb. 3, 1936; JHW to MP, Dec. 12, 1935; MP to JHW, Dec. 14, 1935; MP to EL, Nov. 30, 1935; VWB to MP, Jan. 30, 1936; MP to VWB, Feb. 3, 1936.

  TW acting up: MP to EL, Nov. 30, 1935; MP to JHW, Dec. 14, 1935; MP to John Terry, Nov. 13, 1945; EEG to ASB (I), Dec. 15, 1971; MP to John Terry, Dec. 18, 1945; SN, p. 1; MP to John Terry, Oct. 29, 1945; AB to TW, Apr. 3, 1936; AB to TW, Jan. 21, 1936; LSP to TW, Mar. 26, 1936.

  LSP vs. MP: JHW to ASB (I), Oct. 20, 1971; EL to ASB (I), Apr. 14, 1972; CS IV to ASB (I), Feb. 14, 1972; EL to ASB (I), June 6, 1973; NJ to ASB (I), Apr. 20, 1972; LSP, “Pauline Bonaparte,” unpublished ms., Scenes I:6, II:12, V:16, VI:16; Katharine Hepburn to ASB, Oct. 28, 1972; PK to ASB (I), Oct. 12, 1974.

 

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