Max Perkins

by A. Scott Berg

  Argument over SN: TW to MP, Apr. 21, 1936; MP to TW, Apr. 22, 1936; TW to MP, Apr. 23, 1936.

  TW’s new objective book: HLB, pp. 274, 276; TW to Heinz Ledig, June 10, 1936; Car. Mag., p. 17; MP to EL, May 29, 1936.

  De Voto: Bernard De Voto, “Genius Is Not Enough,” Saturday Review of Literature, Apr. 25, 1936, p. 3ff.

  XVI. THE LETTER

  MKR and The Yearling: MKR to MP, ca. June 1, 1936; MKR to MP, Mar. 9, 1936; MP to MKR, Mar. 26, 1936; MP to MKR, Oct. 27, 1933; Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Reader, p. xvii; MP to MKR, Aug. 5, 1936; MKR to MP, ca. Jan. 31, 1937; MKR to MP, Sept. 22, 1936; MP to MKR, Sept. 24, 1936; MP to MKR, Mar. 3, 1937; MP to MKR, Dec. 13, 1937.

  MKR meets EH: MKR to MP, June 18, 1936.

  EH going strong on To Have and Have Not: EH to MP, Apr. 9, 1936; MP to Jonathan Cape, Dec. 11, 1936; EH to MP, Sept. 26, 1936; MP to EH, Oct. 1, 1936; EH to MP, Apr. 9, 1936.

  FSF hitting bottom: CS to FSF, July 10, 1936; FSF, “Financing Finnegan”: The Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald, ed. Malcolm Cowley (New York: Scribners, 1951), pp. 449-50; MP to John Terry, Nov. 20, 1945; FSF, “Afternoon of an Author,” Afternoon of an Author, p. 177; FSF to Bennett Cerf, Aug. 13, 1936; FSF, looseleaf page of Ledger, Apr., 1936.

  “Snows of Kilimanjaro”: EH, “Snows of Kilimanjaro,” Esquire, Aug., 1936, pp. 27, 195, 200; Arnold Gingrich to ASB (I), Dec. 3, 1971; FSF to EH, ca. Aug., 1936; EH to MP, July 23, 1936; FS to MP, Sept. 19, 1936; MP to EL, Aug. 15, 1936.

  FSF still depressed, receives visitors: FSF to MP, Sept. 19, 1936; MP to MKR, Sept. 24, 1936; MP to EH, Oct. 1, 1936; MKR to MP, Sept. 30, 1936; MP to MKR, Oct. 7, 1936; MKR to MP, Oct. 25, 1936; MKR to FSF, ca. Oct. 25, 1936; MP to MKR, Nov. 5, 1936; Hamilton Basso to TW, Oct. 12, 1936; FSF to MP, Oct. 16, 1936; MP to FSF, Oct. 6, 1936.

  TW writing about CSS: TW to Kent Roberts Greenfield, June 23, 1936; MP to John Terry, Nov. 9, 1945; Nowell, Thomas Wolfe, pp. 321-22; JHW to ASB (I), June 5, 1975; MP to John Terry, Dec. 18, 1945; TW to all publishers other than Scribners (unsent), July 15, 1936; TW to MP (postcard), Sept. 4, 1936; MP to SA, Sept. 14, 1937.

  MP to Quebec: MP to Elizabeth Perkins (his mother), Sept. 15, 1936.

  Zippy’s wedding: PK to ASB (I), Mar. 29, 1972; Turnbull, Thomas Wolfe, p. 244; Emily Perkins to ASB (I), Apr. 8, 1972.

  Disagreements between MP and TW: TW to Jonathan Daniels, Oct. 23, 1936; TW, “political note,” quoted in Richard S. Kennedy and Paschal Reeves, eds., The Notebooks of Thomas Wolfe (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1970), p. 915; MP to FSF, Nov. 7, 1936; MP to John Terry, ca. Nov. 20, 1945; TW, “No Door,” From Death to Morning, pp. 7—8; MP to John Terry, Nov. 23, 1945; MP to EH, Dec. 9, 1936; TW to Hamilton Basso, Oct. 14, 1936.

  TW separating from MP: TW to MP, Nov. 12, 1936; MP to TW, Nov. 17, 1936; MP to TW, Nov. 18, 1936 (formal letter); MP to TW, Nov. 18, 1936 (personal letter); MP to TW, Nov. 20, 1936; TW to MP, Dec. 15, 1936 (personal letter); TW to MP, unsent letter, ca. Jan. 5, 1937; TW to MP (telegrams), Jan. 7 and 9, 1937; MP to TW (telegram), Jan. 9, 1937; TW to MP, Jan. 9, 1937; MP to TW, Jan. 13 and 16, 1937; MP to TW, Jan. 14, 1937; TW probably to Cornelius Mitchell, ca. Jan. 7, 1937; JHW to ASB (I), Oct. 20, 1971.

  XVII. A SAD FAREWELL

  EH to Spain: MP to EH, Jan. 7, 1937; MP to MKR, Jan. 28, 1937; MP to Evan Shipman, July 6, 1937.

  Martha Gellhorn: MP to Gellhorn, Jan. 25, 1937; Gellhorn to MP, Jan. 23, 1937; Gellhorn to ASB (I), May 10, 1972.

  Completion of To Have and Have Not: MP to FSF, Mar. 3, 1937; EH’s speech, quoted in Henry Hart, ed., The Writer in a Changing World (New York: Equinox Cooperative Press, 1937), pp. 69-73; EL to ASB (I), Apr. 14, 1972; EH to MP, June 10, 1937; MP to EH, June 17, 1937; MP to Waldo Peirce, July 6, 1937; MP to Waldo Peirce, June 24, 1937; To Have and Have Not, p. 225; MP to Waldo Peirce, June 28, 1937; JO to ASB (I), May 9, 1972; MP to Jonathan Cape, July 20, 1937; MP to John Terry, Nov. 21, 1945; EW, “Hemingway: Gauge of Morale,” pp. 230-31; MP to EH, Nov. 10, 1937.

  EH vs. Max Eastman: MP to FSF, Aug. 24, 1937; MP to EL, Aug. 28, 1937; FSF to MP, ca. Aug. 20, 1937; FSF to MP, Sept. 3, 1937; Carlos Baker, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story (New York: Scribners, 1969), p. 312.

  FSF’s catastrophe at 40: FSF to MP, late Feb., 1937; MP to MKR, Feb. 2, 1937; MP to FSF, Mar. 3, 1937; FSF to MP, ca. May 10, 1937; FSF to MP, ca. July 15, 1937.

  Marcia Davenport: Too Strong for Fantasy, pp. 138, 217, 223.

  Widening differences between TW and MP: TW to Hamilton Basso, Apr. 28, 1937; MP to John Terry, Nov. 13, 1945; MP to EL, Aug. 19, 1937; TW to all publishers other than Scribners (unsent), ca. Mar., 1937; EN, Thomas Wolfe, p. 375; TW to Hamilton Basso, July 13, 1937; MP to EL, Aug. 28, 1937; MP to TW, July 16, 1937; MP to TW, Aug. 13, 1937; FSF to TW, July 19, 1937; TW to FSF, July 26, 1937.

  CSS spruces up library: MP to EN, Sept. 16, 1937; Diarmuid Russell to ASB (I), May 18, 1972.

  TW’s final separation: TW to SA, Sept. 22, 1937; Bernard De Voto, “English ‘37—The Novelist and the Reader: IX,” Saturday Review of Literature, Aug. 21, 1937, p. 8; MP to John Terry, Dec. 18, 1945; Cass Canfield, Up and Down and Around (New York: Harper’s Magazine Press, 1971), pp. 143-44 ; Robert Linscott to TW, Oct. 8, 1937; Robert Linscott to TW, Oct. 22, 1937; TW to Robert Linscott, unsent, Oct. 23, 1937; MP to Fred Wolfe, Nov. 1, 1937; Fred Wolfe to MP, Nov. 3, 1937; TW to Fred Wolfe, Nov. 17, 1937; TW to MP, Nov. 19, 1937; MP to TW, Nov 20, 1937; TW to EN, Dec. 29, 1937; TW to Anne W. Armstrong, Dec. 27, 1937; MP to MKR, Feb. 9, 1938; MP to TW, Dec. 28, 1937.

  XVIII. BY THE WIND GRIEVED

  Dooher trial: TW to MP, Dec. 27, 1937; MP to John Terry, Jan. 3, 1946; MP to EL, Feb. 15, 1938; EN, Thomas Wolfe, p. 414; MP to John Terry, Nov. 9, 1945; MP to EH, Feb. 8, 1938; EH to MP, ca. Feb. 9, 1938.

  The Fifth Column; EH to Spain: MP to EH, Nov. 22, 1937; EH to MP, ca. Feb. 9, 1938; MP to EH, Feb. 3, 1938; EH to MP, Mar. 15, 1938; MP to EH (cable), Apr. 6, 1938; MP to EH, Apr. 7, 1938; MP to Pauline Hemingway, Apr. 7, 1938; EH to MP, Mar. 19, 1938; MP to FSF, Apr. 8, 1938; FSF to MP, Apr. 23, 1938.

  FSF in Hollywood: MP to EL, Jan. 22, 1938; FSF to MP, Mar. 4, 1938; FSF to MP, Apr. 23, 1938; MP to FSF, Mar. 9, 1938; MP to FSF, May 24, 1938.

  LSP’s conversion: Caroline Gordon Tate to ASB (I), Sept. 12, 1971; EL to ASB (I), Apr. 14, 1972; JHW to ASB (I), Oct. 20, 1971; BSF to ASB (I), June 5, 1975; NJ to ASB (I), Apr. 21, 1972; PK to ASB (I), Mar. 28, 1972; BSF to ASB (I), Mar. 5, 1972; MKR to MP, May 14, 1938; MP to EL, Oct. 18, 1934; MP to EL, Feb. 15, 1938; MP to EL, July 7, 1938; EEG to ASB (I), June 11, 1973; MP to EL, Aug. 23, 1938.

  Taylor Caldwell: CS to TC, June 26, 1947; MP to Nancy Hale, May 6, 1938; TC to MP, Mar. 9, 1938; MP to TC, Apr. 27, 1938; MP to TC, May 16, 1938; MP to Ray Stannard Baker, Aug. 30, 1940; TC to MP, Apr. 6, 1938; MP to TC, Apr. 9, 1938; TC to MP, May 14, 1938; MP to TC, May 17, 1938.

  TW and MP working apart: TW to Belinda Jelliffe, Apr. 11, 1938; TW to EN, May 3, 1938; TW to Edward Aswell, May 6, 1938; TW to Mabel Wolfe Wheaton, May 10, 1938; TW to EN, May 12, 1938; EN to William A. Jackson, Jan. 4, 1951; TW to EN, June 15, 1938; TW to EN, June 19, 1938; TW to EN, July 3, 1938; Edward Aswell to TW, July 1, 1938; TW to Edward Aswell, July 4, 1938; Edward Aswell to TW, July 6, 1938.

  TW’s illness: Dr. E. C. Ruge to Edward Aswell (telegram), July 12, 1938, 5:17 P.M. ; Dr. E. C. Ruge to Edward Aswell (telegram), ca. July 14, 1938; MP to Fred Wolfe, July 25, 1938; Fred Wolfe to MP, Aug. 1, 1938; MP to Fred Wolfe, Aug. 3, 1938; MP to TW, Aug. 9, 1938; MP to Fred Wolfe, Aug. 10, 1938; TW to MP, Aug. 12, 1938; MP to TW, Aug. 19, 1938; Fred Wolfe to MP, Aug. 22, 1938.

  EH home from Spanish war: MP to Waldo Peirce, June 2, 1938; EH to MP, June 11, 1938; EH to MP, July 12, 1938; MP to FSF, Sept. 1, 1938.

  FSF doing well in Hollywood: MP to FSF, June 29, 1938.

  EL’s new house: MP to FSF, Sept. 1, 1938; MP to EL, Aug. 23, 1938.

  TW’s final days: Mabel Wolfe Wheaton, Thomas Wolfe and His Family (Garden City: Doubleday, 1961), pp. 289-90; Dr. George Swift to Edward Aswell, Sept. 7, 193
8; Fred Wolfe to MP, Sept. 11, 1938; Mabel Wolfe Wheaton, recorded interview, Feb. 23, 1947 (Harvard) ; MP to John Terry, Nov. 13, 1945; MP to Paul Weiss, Sept. 30, 1940; MP to Elizabeth Perkins, Sept. 13, 1938.

  TW’s death and funeral: MP to Fred Wolfe, Sept. 15, 1938; MP to SA, Sept. 23, 1938; Car. Mag., p. 15; King Lear, V:3, 315; MP to EL, Sept. 19, 1938 ; HLB, p. 276; MP to John Terry, Nov. 13, 1945.

  XIX. TO EVERYTHING A SEASON

  MP’s reaction to TW’s death: MP to EH, Nov. 10, 1938; MP to EL, Sept. 30, 1931; War and Peace, Book XV: Chap. 1; Irma Wyckoff Muench to ASB (I), Feb. 18, 1972; MP to Elizabeth Perkins, Oct. 14, 1938; MP to John Creedy, Sept. 28, 1938; Car. Mag., p. 17; MP to EL, Dec. 12, 1938; FSF to MP, Sept. 29, 1938; MP to Paul Weiss, Sept. 30, 1940; EN to Mrs. Robert Armstrong, Oct. 17, 1938; MP to Mrs. Russell E. Vemnon, Oct. 11, 1938.

  Piecing The Web and the Rock together: Edward C. Aswell, “A Note on Thomas Wolfe,” in TW, The Hills Beyond (New York: Harper, 1941), p. 369.

  Reading about “The Fox”: MP to EH, Dec. 8, 1938; YCGHA, pp. 438, 439, 441, 446, 491, 493; MP to EL, Dec. 12, 1938.

  S. S. Van Dine’s final days and death: JHW to ASB (I), June 5, 1975; Claire Wright to MP, Apr. 26, 1939; MP, Preface to Winter Murder Case, p. ix.

  Chard Powers Smith: Smith, “Perkins and the Elect,” The Antioch Review, Spring, 1962, pp. 87-98; Chard Powers Smith to MP, Oct. 22, 1938; MP to EL, Dec. 12, 1938; MP to Chard Powers Smith, Oct. 5, 1938; MP to Chard Powers Smith, Nov. 14, 1938; MP to EL, June 21, 1939.

  EH preparing to write: EH to MP, Oct. 28, 1939; EH to MP, Dec. 24, 1938.

  MP’s saddest year: MP to FSF, Dec. 30, 1938; MP to MKR, Jan. 25, 1939; EEG to ASB (I), June 11, 1973.

  EH starts For Whom the Bell Tolls: MP to EH, Jan. 26, 1939; EH to MP, Feb. 7, 1939; MP to EH, Feb. 10, 1939; EH to MP, Mar. 25, 1939; EH to MP, May 10, 1939; MP to EH, Mar. 29, 1939; EH to MP, Dec. 8, 1939; EH to MP, ca. Jan. 13, 1940, quoted in MP to EH, Feb. 14, 1940.

  EH rereads Tender Is the Night: EH to MP, Mar. 25, 1939.

  FSF passes through NY: MP to EL, Oct. 26, 1938; MP to FSF, Jan. 18, 1939.

  FSF concerned about career, begins The Last Tycoon: FSF to MP, Dec. 24, 1938; MP to FSF, Jan. 18, 1939; FSF to MP, Feb. 25, 1939; FSF to MP, May 20, 1940; FSF to MP, Jan. 4, 1939; MP to EH, Apr. 27, 1939; EH to MP, May 10, 1939; FSF to MP, May 22, 1939.

  FSF squabble with Harold Ober: MP to FSF, July 26, 1939; FSF to Harold Ober, Aug. 2, 1939; FSF to MP, Aug. 3, 1939; MP to FSF, Aug. 9, 1939.

  LSP as a Catholic: JO to ASB (I), May 8, 1972; MP to MKR, Mar. 11, 1939.

  Peggy’s marriage: MP to EL, Dec. 12, 1938.

  MP’s burdens as editor-in-chief: MP to EL, June 21, 1939; MC notes, BSF to ASB (I), Mar. 14, 1975.

  The Web and the Rock: MP to EL, June 20, 1939; MP to EL, June 21, 1939; MP to Norman Schrager, July 15, 1941; TW, The Web and the Rock, pp. 313-14; MP to MKR, July 28, 1939; MP to EH, July 14, 1939.

  YCGHA: FSF to MP, Feb. 25, 1939; MP to FSF, Feb. 27, 1939; dust jacket of YCGHA; MP to EL, May 4, 1940; MP to EL, May 22, 1940; Irma Wyckoff Muench to ASB (I), Feb. 18, 1972; HLB, p. 275; MP to Henry Volkening, Aug. 9, 1940; YCGHA, p. 743; EH to MP, ca. Nov., 1940.

  EH upon outbreak of war: EH to MP, Sept. 3, 1939.

  Churchill: MP to EH, July 29, 1939; MP to Charles T. Copeland, July 18, 1940; Irma Wyckoff Muench to ASB (I), Feb. 18, 1972; NJ to ASB (I), Apr. 21, 1972; Irma Wyckoff Muench to ASB, Sept. 14, 1974; MP to Alexander Woollcott, Oct. 9, 1940.

  Writing For Whom the Bell Tolls: EH to MP, Oct. 27, 1939; EH to MP, Nov. 12, 1939; MP to EH, Nov. 21, 1939; MP to EH, Jan. 18 and 19, 1940; EH to MP, ca. early Feb., 1940; EH to MP, Nov. 30, 1939; EH to MP, Feb. 18, 1940; MP to EH, Mar. 12, 1940; EH to MP, Apr. 21, 1940; MP to EH, Apr. 22 and 24, 1940; MP to EL, May 4, 1940; EH to MP, July 1, 1940.

  Editing For Whom the Bell Tolls: MP to MKR, Aug. 7, 1940; For Whom the Bell Tolls, p. 256; MP to EH, Aug. 28, 1940; EH to MP, Aug. 26, 1940; MP to EH, Aug. 30, 1940; MP to EH, Oct. 15, 1940.

  Sherwood Anderson: MP to SA, Aug. 1, 1933; SA to MP, Aug. 10, 1933; SA to MP, 1935, quoted in OMMB, p. 10; SA to MP, Jan. 2, 1936; SA to MP, early Sept., 1937; SA to MP, July 25, 1938; SA to MP, ca. Sept. 12, 1938; SA to MP, June 18, 1936; SA to MP, August 9, 1940; MP to SA, Aug. 12, 1940; MP to SA, Aug. 14, 1940; SA to MP, Aug. 16, 1940; MP to SA, Nov. 20, 1940; SA to MP, Nov. 30, 1940.

  Writers dying: EH to MP, Apr. 29, 1941.

  Writing The Last Tycoon: FSF to MP, Oct. 11 and 14, 1939; MP to FSF, Oct. 16, 1939; SG, The Real F. Scott Fitzgerald: Thirty-five Years Later (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1976), p. 71; FSF to MP, Oct. 20, 1939; FSF to MP, Nov. 20 and 28, 1939; MP to FSF, Nov. 30, 1939; FSF to MP, Nov. 29, 1939; MP to FSF, Dec. 7, 1939; MP to EH, Dec. 19, 1939; FSF to MP, Dec. 26, 1939; MP to FSF, Jan. 2, 1940; MP to EH, Jan. 11, 1940; FSF to MP, ca. Jan. 6, 1940; MP to FSF, Jan. 9, 1940; MP to Struthers Burt, Jan. 9, 1940; FSF to MP, Feb. 21, 1940; FSF to MP, May 20, 1940; FSF to Scottie Fitzgerald, Oct. 31, 1939; FSF to ZSF, June 14, 1940.

  MP thinking of EL: FSF to MP, May 20, 1940; EL to ASB, Feb. 15, 1973; EL to ASB (I), Apr. 24, 1972; MP to EL, May 4, 1940.

  EH and Martha Gellhorn: MP to FSF, Aug. 20, 1940; EH to MP, May 10, 1939; MP to FSF, Sept. 19, 1940; FSF to MP, Oct. 14, 1940.

  For Whom the Bell Tolls, publication and reaction: MP to EL, Oct. 24, 1940, EH’s inscription recorded in SG, College of One (New York: Viking Press, 1967), p. 159; FSF to EH, Nov. 8, 1940; FSF, “Notebooks,” CU, p. 181.

  FSF plans to finish The Last Tycoon: FSF to MP, Dec. 13, 1940; MP to FSF, Dec. 17, 1940.

  XX. DIMINUTIONS

  FSF death and postmortem: SG, The Real F. Scott Fitzgerald, p. 214; ZSF to MP, ca. Dec. 23, 1940; MP to ZSF, Dec. 26, 1940; ZSF to MP, ca. Dec. 31, 1940; MP to John Peale Bishop, Dec. 28, 1940; Margaret Turnbull to ASB (I), July 24, 1971; MP to EH, Dec. 28, 1940; Frances Kroll to MP, Dec. 26, 1940; Andrew Turnbull to MP, Dec. 28, 1940; MP to ZSF, Jan. 3, 1941; Scottie Fitzgerald to MP, Jan. 12, 1941; MP to Scottie Fitzgerald, Jan. 15, 1941; MP to Scottie Fitzgerald, May 15, 1941; ZSF to MP, Jan. 27, 1941.

  Salvaging The Last Tycoon: ZSF to MP, Jan. 27, 1941; MP to EH, Apr. 14, 1941; SG to MP, Jan. 1, 1941; FSF to Norma Shearer (unsent letter), n.d.; FSF, undated note to himself; MP to SG, Jan. 31, 1941; SG to MP, Feb. 4, 1941; MP to Gerald Murphy, Feb. 7, 1941; MP to John Biggs, Mar. 4, 1941; MP to Scottie Fitzgerald, Feb. 15, 1941; MP to John Biggs, Mar. 25, 1941; EW, Foreword to FSF’s The Last Tycoon, pp. x-xi; MP to John Biggs, June 11, 1941.

  MP securing FSF’s reputation: MP to John Biggs, Apr. 4, 1941; Matthew Josephson to ASB, Apr. 17, 1976.

  EH getting short shrift: EH to MP, ca. late Mar., 1941; MP to EH, Apr. 4, 1941; MP to EH, Apr. 22, 1941.

  EW and Maxwell Geismar; disputes over EH: EW, “Hemingway: Gauge of Morale,” p. 239n; EH to MP, Aug. 26, 1941; MP to William B. Wisdom, Aug. 19, 1941; MP to Maxwell Geismar, June 19, 1941; Caroline Gordon Tate to MC,n.d. (MC notes) ; Maxwell Geismar to ASB, Aug. 22, 1974.

  MP and nonfiction: JHW, Introduction, Editor to Author, p. 7; JHW to ASB (I), June 5, 1975; MP to Dixon Wecter, May 6, 1941; MP to Dixon Wecter, Dec. 4, 1940; David Randall, Dukedom Large Enough (New York: Random House, 1969), p. 93; MP to EH, Aug. 13 and 21, 1942; James Truslow Adams, The American (New York: Scribners, 1943), p. 356; PK to ASB (I), Nov. 23, 1974; Martha Gellhorn to ASB (I), May 10, 1972.

  TC and historicals: MP to TC, Oct. 17 and 26, 1939; TC to MP, Nov. 4, 1939; MP to TC, Nov. 17, 1939.

  Cross Creek: MKR to MP, May 13, 1939; MP to MKR, Sept. 20, 1940; Cross Creek, p. 1.

  MP and troubled writers: MP to “anonymous,” Mar. 11, 1941; Nancy Hale to ASB, Aug. 27, 1974; MP to Nancy Hale, Feb. 20, 1940.

  Valley of Decision: Davenport, Too Strong for Fantasy, p. 297; MP to MKR, Nov. 13, 1942; MP to Marcia Davenport, Mar. 30, 1942; MC notes.

  Pearl Harbor; nebulous idea for EH: MP to EL, Dec. 23, 1941; MP to EH, Sept. 25, 1941; MP to EH, Oct. 29, 1941; EH to MP, Nov. 15, 1941.

  Reaction to The Last Tycoon: SG to MP, Nov. 9, 1
941; ZSF to MP, Oct. 31, 1941; Stephen Vincent Benét, Saturday Review of Literature, Dec. 6, 1941, p. 10; EH to MP, Nov. 15, 1941; AMF, p. 147; MP to EH, Nov. 24, 1941.

  Men at War: MP to EH, Feb. 25, 1942; EH to MP, May 30, 1942; MP to Alexander Woollcott, Oct. 22, 1942; EH to MP, May 30, 1942; MP to EH, June 8, 1942; MP to EH, Sept. 4, 1942.

  MP’s concern with the war: MP to EL, July 21, 1943; PK to ASB (I), Mar. 28, 1972; Corinne Cornish to ASB (I), Jan. 20, 1972; Edward Thomas to ASB (I), Apr. 9, 1972.

  XXI. PORTRAIT IN GRAY AND BLACK

  MP running down: NJ to ASB (I), Apr. 20, 1972; MP to EL, July 17, 1942; MP to Viola Irene Cooper, Oct. 12, 1945; MC notes; JHW to ASB (I), Oct. 20, 1971; Ann Chidester to MP, ca. Aug. 3, 1943; MP to Ann Chidester, Aug. 5, 1943; JHW, Introduction, Editor to Author, p. 5; Wallace Meyer to ASB (I), Apr. 1, 1972; EH to MP, Sept. 7, 1942; MP to EH, Sept. 17, 1942.

  Alexander Woollcott: MP to Alexander Woollcott, Jan. 18, 1942.

  MP’s “newspaper” and political views: JHW to ASB (I), Oct. 20, 1971; EEG to ASB (I), Dec. 3, 1972; MP to Raymond Thompson, Feb. 18, 1943; MP to EN, Aug. 1, 1945 ; Mark Aldanov, The Fifth Seal (New York: Scribners, 1943), p. 482.

  Spectacular 1943 book season: MP to EL, July 21, 1943; Marcia Davenport to MP, Oct. 20, 1942; Marcia Davenport, Too Strong for Fantasy, pp. 298, 309, 369; Marcia Davenport to ASB (I), Apr. 10, 1972; MP to EL, Oct. 5, 1942; MP to Nancy Hale, Oct. 21, 1942.

  MP as negotiator: George Schieffelin to ASB (I), Apr. 3, 1972.

  Christine Weston and other women: Christine Weston to ASB, June 31, 1972; Elizabeth Youngstrom to ASB (I), Apr. 4, 1972; MP to Charles T. Copeland, Jan. 3, 1940; Gunther Stuhlmann, Introduction, The Diary of Anaïs Nin: 1931-1934 (New York: Swallow Press, 1966), p. xi; Anonymous source to ASB (I), Nov. 25, 1971.

  Scottie Fitzgerald’s wedding, ZSF’s reaction: MP to EH, Apr. 2, 1943; ZSF to MP, ca. late Feb., 1943; ZSF to MP, ca. Nov., 1944.