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“A couple of large mattresses”: CJ, “School Notes,” Newark Courier, Oct. 16, 1919.
a “second home” even: SS, 246.
“The six-ten trolley speaks the close”: CJ, “Elegy Written in Newark Churchyard,” Newark Courier, July 27, 1922, 1.
“high-brow”: SS, 252.
“I was always very fond of Allyn”: CJ to “Adelaide,” June 19, 1947, Rauner.
the figure of Justice’s “big buzooms”: CJ, “Don’t Call Me Sonny,” Esquire, July 1953, 42.
exhorted graduates “to keep themselves clean”: “Newark HS Graduates Twenty-Five—Hon. Charles G. Jordan Principal Speaker,” Newark Courier, June 13, 1921, 1.
Firemen’s Picnic a “Howling Success”: Ibid., Aug. 18, 1921, 1.
“The girl, reformed, wins the hand”: Ibid., Nov. 15, 1923, 5.
“with just a shade of swaggering”: CJ, Simple Simon: A Play in Three Acts, unpublished ms., Rauner.
“Where have I been today?”: CJ, “The Wind,” The Phoenix, Nov. 1922, 32, Syracuse.
“The Rubaiyat of Why-I-Am”: Ibid., Jan. 1923, 15.
“the vogue for masculine nick-names”: Ibid., Feb. 1923, 7.
“A Book of Curses”: Ibid., April 1923, 13.
“And here he is … Can you beat it?!!?!!?!!?!!”: CJ to Marion Fleck (c. early Dec. 1922), Rauner.
“Gee, I’m thrilled to tears!”: Marion Fleck to Betty Colclough (c. Dec. 1922), Rauner.
“continually rested, with keen enjoyment”: Native Moment, unpublished ms., Rauner.
“shocks, humiliations, accidents, failures”: Richard R. Peabody, The Common Sense of Drinking (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1931), 62.
“busted out of Syracuse”: Author int. Michael Kraham, March 13, 2010.
“is to the local theatregoer”: Newark Courier, Sept. 27, 1923, 1.
“She is never to escape”: CJ, Simple Simon: A Play in Three Acts, unpublished ms., Rauner.
“as leading a very gay and glamorous life”: Marion Fabry to CJ (c. Summer 1938), Rauner.
“I like [the wife] so much better”: Marion Fabry to CJ (c. March 1939), Rauner.
“It’s a wonderful picture”: Marion Fabry to CJ (c. late Oct. 1944), Rauner.
“how beautifully you write”: CJ to Marion Fabry, Nov. 3, 1944, Rauner.
“Look, your paintings”: Author int. Gene Farley, Dec. 1, 2009.
passing into “abler hands”: Newark Courier, May 1, 1924, 1.
“The time has come, the walrus said”: Quoted in Newark Courier, May 8, 1924, 1.
“Horrific (and lousy)”: CJ, “JAXON” notebook, Rauner.
share this “little-known book”: CJ, “Callow Comments,” Newark Courier, Dec. 4, 1924, 4.
getting “into serious trouble thereby”: CJ to DS, July 14, 1953, Rauner.
“Hey! What do you think”: CJ to FSJ, Oct. 16, 1940, Rauner.
Chapter Three • SOME SECRET SORROW
“everybody knew him and had always known him”: LW, 49.
“perfectly wonderful” birthday: SWJ to FSJ, April 1, 1925, Rauner.
“in charge of the French department”: CJ to T. S. Matthews, June 21, 1940, Rauner.
“the initial source of his great knowledge”: RBJ to Shirley Hood, June 21, 1969, Rauner.
“he’s a crotchety old bastard”: CJ to Ted Amussen, July 17, 1945, Rauner.
“sampling such Bohemian diversions”: LN.
fallen in with a group of “fairies”: Author int. Kerry Boeye, March 4, 2009.
“Don’t be afraid to be happy”: CJ to DS, Nov. 24, 1953, Rauner.
“The slogan to solicit subscriptions”: CJ to Maurice Friedman, Aug. 5, 1964, Rauner.
“compulsive excursions”: CJ, “An Afternoon with Boris,” Serif 10, no. 3 (1973), 8.
“[Thor] feels very sad”: BW to CJ, Nov. 20, 1930, Rauner.
Jackson “crashed her table”: CJ to Norma Chambers, Oct. 30, 1944, Rauner.
“wrapt up in … the Bohemian life”: CJ, The Royalist, unpublished ms., Rauner.
Stimson referred to his friend … Exquisite: Godfrey Hodgson, The Colonel: The Life and Wars of Henry Stimson (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990), 54.
an expert on “the scandals and mysteries”: Quoted in David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982), 69.
“easily entangled in worldly trifles”: Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1934), 96.
“Was Lady Macbeth a mother?”: CJ, Uncle Mr. Kember (alternative version of The Royalist), unpublished ms., Rauner.
“All through the Twenty’s Mr. Winthrop”: CJ to KWJ, June 30, 1964, JFC.
“It is pretty grand in its simplicity”: BW to CJ, Dec. 15, 1930, Rauner.
“fairly throttled [him]”: BW to CJ, n.d. (c. early 1931?), Rauner.
“truly magical charm”: F&W.
“very artistic bars” in the Village: CJ, The Royalist, Rauner.
“There’s nobody in the entire US”: CJ to FSJ, Sept. 15, 1949, Rauner.
“So far as I remember”: RBJ to Shirley Hood, June 21, 1969, Rauner.
“rais[ing] three mouthfuls of blood”: Dr. John J. Lloyd, “Resume of History of Mr. Charles Jackson,” June 24, 1938, Rauner.
“in the heart of the White Deer Mountains”: CJ, The Royalist, Rauner.
“Remember the night the three of us”: Harry P. Bodley to CJ, Jan. 2 [1944], Rauner.
“I didn’t tell her this last part”: CJ to RBJ, May 22, 1944, Rauner.
“She was an ideal researcher”: Bernard A. Drabeck and Helen E. Ellis, ed., Archibald MacLeish: Reflections (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1986), 80.
“a remarkably interesting woman”: CJ to Bennett Cerf, Jan. 19, 1946, Rauner.
they seemed “totally unrelated”: DS-Show, 78.
“their children often spoke of a gray-and-white number”: F&W.
“the finest woman [he] ever knew”: Max Wylie, “Charles Reginald Jackson,” Serif 10, no. 3 (1973), 30.
showering the two with “fantastic gifts”: CJ, The Royalist, Rauner.
“Come for him in the night”: CJ, “JAXON” notebook, Rauner.
“I kept a notebook on it”: Rochelle Girson, “TB Made a Writer of Jackson,” Tucson Daily Citizen, Oct. 18, 1953, 26.
deemed “highbrow” in a bad way: CJ, “Strictly Personal,” in The Stature of Thomas Mann, ed. Charles Neider (New York: New Directions, 1947), 45.
“You read Der Zauberberg”: Ibid., 46. The second part of this quote (“so krankhaft, so morbide”) appears in CJ’s unpublished story/memoir, “Arrival,” Rauner.
characterized as “a kind friend”: CBJ’s genealogy, JFC.
an old reprobate had “taken a shine”: Author int. Michael Kraham, March 13, 2010.
Chapter Four • MAGIC MOUNTAIN
“for emergencies or spending money”: CJ, Uncle Mr. Kember, unpublished ms., Rauner.
“Davos was a world to itself”: CJ, “Arrival,” unpublished ms., Rauner.
“You and Dorothy”: CJ to Marion (“Tom”) Holzapfel Faughner Wilson, Aug. 10, 1945, Rauner.
“characteristic assumption” around Davos: CJ, “Arrival,” Rauner.
“TO MY VALENTINE”: CJ, “JAXON” notebook, Rauner.
“like a child at a party”: CJ, Loving Offenders, unpublished ms., Rauner.
“doubtless she had learned”: CJ, “Ping-Pong,” unpublished ms., Rauner.
“ardent supporters of Hitler”: CJ to Marion (“Tom”) Holzapfel Faughner Wilson, Aug. 10, 1945, Rauner.
“Walt Whitman’s Orchestra”: CJ, “Cousin Edith,” unpublished ms., Rauner.
“fell on each other’s necks”: CJ to RBJ, July 18, 1944, Rauner.
“I can’t look at another drink!”: Author int. Barbara Peech Streeter, June 21, 2009.
“ ‘Why do you only come to bed”: LW, 186.
“You are like a plant of slow growth”: CJ to KWJ, June 30, 1964, JFC. Also quoted in LW, 203.
his condition was “excellent”: Dr. John J. Lloyd, “Resume of History of Mr. Charles Jackson,” June 24, 1938, Rauner.
urged him to be “sensible just once”: BW to CJ, Dec. 15, 1930, Rauner.
“Tired and ill” by the time: CJ to DS (c. July 1951), Rauner.
“It is most distressing”: BW to CJ, Dec. 15, 1930, Rauner.
“it was his nature”: CJ, Uncle Mr. Kember, unpublished ms., Rauner.
Jackson described him as “rugged, athletic”: CJ to KWJ, June 30, 1964, JFC.
“A thrilling afternoon”: CJ, “JAXON” notebook, Rauner.
“blended into one prodigious note”: EC, 146.
“Alcohol had a place”: Forrest Glen Robinson, Love’s Story Told: A Life of Henry A. Murray (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992), 192.
“there was a barrier of ignorance”: CJ to KWJ, June 30, 1964, JFC.
“My life as a pedagogue is ended”: Transcribed in CJ’s “JAXON” notebook, Rauner.
“I should think that life in Russia”: BW to CJ (c. Feb. 1931), Rauner.
“I am afraid that what you have often”: BW to CJ, March 23, 1931, Rauner.
“Everything has been worth while”: BW to CJ (c. May 1931), Rauner.
Rhoda would later … “feverishly”: RBJ to Shirley Hood, June 21, 1969, Rauner.
took a job as a feeder in a jigsaw factory: Anne Rothe, ed., Current Biography 1944 (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1945), 325.
“Just when Eaton needed a tight rein”: Claire Douglas, Translate This Darkness: The Life of Christiana Morgan, the Veiled Woman in Jung’s Circle (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993), 209.
“It is our misfortune that frequently”: “Ralph Monroe Eaton,” Harvard Crimson, April 16, 1932.
“This seems to me—this kind of thing”: CJ to FSJ, July 1, 1953, Rauner.
“From the hot hell of life”: Transcribed in CJ’s “JAXON” notebook, Rauner.
Chapter Five • A DISEASE OF THE NIGHT
Charlie “liked the whole idea”: Reminiscences of Roger W. Straus, Jr., Jan. 11, 1978, on page 596, CUCOHC.
“Confirmed drunk—(myself)”: CJ, “JAXON” notebook, Rauner.
“an egomaniac with an inferiority complex”: John W. Crowley, Drunkard’s Rigadoon: A Study of Charles Jackson, unpublished ms., courtesy of author.
Alcoholics “are self-important”: CJ, “The More Social Disease,” unpublished ms., Rauner.
“the only paradise … never thrown out”: CJ, Arcadia USA, unpublished screen treatment, Rauner.
“I do not for a second … ‘excuse’ Fitzgerald”: CJ to family, June 10, 1964, JFC.
“deliberately prophetic”: CJ to RBJ, Jan. 7, 1966, Rauner.
“How much will you sell the plates”: Matthew J. Bruccoli, ed., F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters (New York: Scribner, 1994), 474.
Jackson found the manuscript “truly wonderful”: CJ to BB, Nov. 16, 1949, Rauner.
“Well, we met—”: CJ to Charles Brackett, July 12, 1945, Rauner.
“[Jackson and I] talked of Scott”: Sheilah Graham, The Rest of the Story (New York: Coward-McCann, 1964), 215.
He “lacked prudence”: Quoted in CJ, “The Critics and Fitzgerald,” New York Times Book Review, April 29, 1951, 3.
“nightmare weeks”: CJ to Harry Kemp, Oct. 19, 1945, Rauner.
“Remember … the applejack closet?”: CJ to Thorborg Ellison, Sept. 17, 1943, Rauner.
“was absolute perfection in every detail”: CJ to Henry Ginsberg, Jan. 21, 1946, Rauner.
“Send me some money at once”: CJ to FSJ, April 23, 1936, Rauner.
“my favorite joint”: CJ to Ross Evans, June 23, 1944, Rauner.
a scene “written directly … experience”: CJ to RBJ, Jan. 7, 1966, Rauner.
“thoroughly competent cast”: Quoted in Frank Rich, “Tomorrow’s Monday,” New York Times, Oct. 21, 1985.
“I thought they were all gay”: Author int. Margot Wilkie, Jan. 16, 2010.
“I began as leading man”: John Becker to Jerome Hill, May 17, 1935, Minnesota Historical Society Library.
“At considerable expense I went”: CJ, “The More Social Disease,” Rauner.
“He could almost gauge the length”: LW, 53.
“fancy psycho-analytical labels”: CJ to William W. Wister, Dec. 19, 1936, Rauner.
“Childish he was, but not that childish”: LW, 55.
“Dear [Paul]—Look what I found”: CJ to [“Paul Spofford”], Oct. 3, 1937, Rauner.
“Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage”: Quoted in Laura Z. Hobson, Laura Z.—A Life: Years of Fulfillment (New York: Donald I. Fine, 1986), 285.
“By my lack of generosity”: CJ to John Becker, Jan. 22, 1944, Rauner.
“I could write a book … fraternity”: CJ to BB, June 23, 1943, Rauner.
“so wise, so witty, so good-humoured”: CJ to FSJ (c. Feb. 1936), Rauner.
“[Native Moment] has received more than the usual attention”: Alan C. Collins to CJ, Dec. 23, 1936, Rauner.
“if not the week and the month”: CJ, “The More Social Disease,” Rauner.
he’d been there “twice as a patient”: CJ to James van Tour, Nov. 9, 1942, Rauner.
“like butter rum Life Savers”: Author int. SJP and KWJ, Sept. 10, 2008.
responded with “perfect lucidity”: LN.
“Did you know that Nancy”: CJ to SWJ, April 22 (1936), Rauner.
his days as an “incurable inebriate”: Quoted in CJ to Stanley Rinehart and BB, Dec. 3, 1945, Rauner.
“absolutely untrue in every aspect”: Irving Hoffman, “Tales of Hoffman,” Hollywood Reporter, Jan. 28, 1946, 3.
“I have found it hard to write”: Lewis Titterton to CJ, May 6, 1936, Rauner.
“It was the week of the Gideon [sic]”: Leonard Lyons, “The Lyons Den” (syndicated column), Sept. 25, 1968.
“For years Charlie was here”: RBJ to FSJ (c. April 27, 1936), Rauner.
“I would sing you a clever song”: CJ, “JAXON” notebook, Rauner.
“they lost everything in Scotland”: RBJ to FSJ (c. late Jan. 1953), Rauner.
“in a perverse and childish way”: CJ, “The More Social Disease,” Rauner.
“prevented by his habit”: Richard Peabody, The Common Sense of Drinking (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1931), 67.
“Gary Cooper … Jean Arthur so much”: CJ to FSJ, April 30 (1936), Rauner.
“I didn’t want to live this way”: CJ/AA-59.
“That’s the last drink I’ll ever take”: LN.
Chapter Six • SWEET RIVER
“Philadelphia Main Line Wisters”: Jim Bishop, A Bishop’s Confession (Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown & Co., 1981), 185.
“one hundred per cent licked”: Jim Bishop, The Glass Crutch: The Biographical Novel of William Wynne Wister (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1945), 215.
appropriated by Bill Wilson: Mel Barger, New Wine (Center City, MN: Hazelden, 1991), 118.
“A fairly exhaustive inquiry”: Richard Peabody, The Common Sense of Drinking (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1931), 82.
“He never mentioned the moral aspects”: Bishop, The Glass Crutch, 222–23.
he “attended all large fires”: “Richard R. Peabody; Psychologist and Writer Made Study of Drinking Habits,” New York Times, April 27, 1936.
“A truly great man had left the scene”: Bishop, The Glass Crutch, 241.
“Dr. Peabody … first authority to state”: Katherine McCarthy, “The Emmanuel Movement and Richard Peabody,” Journal of Studies on Alcohol 45, no. 1 (1984); posted at http://www.aabibliography.com/historyofaa/reco1.htm.
“We regard each other as two average”: CJ to Wister, Dec. 19, 1936, Rauner.
“I consider that you are cured”: Wister to CJ, Sept. 16, 1937, Rauner.
a “big slug psychiatrist” threatened: Wister to CJ, April 23, 1943, Rauner.
“neither nurse nor servant”: Bishop, The Glass Crutch, 292.
“Oh well, I guess I’ve out
grown Bill Wister”: CJ to Stephen H. Sherman, Oct. 4, 1943, Rauner.
“[It] was simply … comprehension”: CJ to Wister, Jan. 29, 1945, Rauner.
“Mr. Jackson’s unusual ability”: Wister to Stanley Rinehart, n.d., Rauner.
“The smiler turned out to be strange”: Bishop, A Bishop’s Confession, 184.
“the man who cured Charles Jackson”: Nila Mack to CJ, n.d., Rauner.
“I thought your letter”: CJ to Wister, Jan. 29, 1945, Rauner.
“a lay witch-doctor”: Wolcott Gibbs, “The Rover Boys on a Bender,” New York Times Book Review, Nov. 18, 1945, 4.
“By the way,” he wrote: CJ to Isabel Leighton, Feb. 14, 1946, Rauner.
“Alone and lonely”: Jim Bishop, “Jim Bishop: Reporter” (syndicated column), Jan. 12, 1975.
“after a brief illness”: “William Wynne Wister,” New York Times, Jan. 5, 1947, 53.
“the skepticism I meet on all sides”: CJ to Wister, Dec. 19, 1936, Rauner.
“trembling like a whippet”: CJ to Max Wylie, May 11, 1945, Rauner.
“No, but I should have been published”: Max Wylie, “Charles Reginald Jackson,” Serif 10, no. 3 (1973), 29–30.
“Where have you been!”: LN.
“Without any doubt Charles Jackson”: Quoted in CJ to Wister, Sept. 28, 1941, Rauner.
“He had inspired that work”: Author int. Norman Corwin, June 9, 2009.
“Do I know Norman Corwin indeed!”: CJ to Leonora Schinasi, April 7, 1945, Rauner.
“a rare and superior person”: Howard Lindsay to CJ (c. late Jan. 1953), Rauner.
“To this day”: Nila Mack to CJ, n.d., Rauner.
“three-sheets to the wind”: CJ to DS, March 22, 1951, Rauner.
“In the early years we”: CJ to SJP, Aug. 2, 1964, JFC.
“she is one of FORTUNE magazine’s”: CJ to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Oct. 22, 1942, Rauner.
“A mother’s prayers … answered”: SWJ to CJ, Oct. 15, 1942, Rauner.
“it’s the same excitement … addiction”: RBJ to FSJ, July 3 (1947), Rauner.
“If you should write the story”: CJ to “Stan [Rinehart], Bernice [BB], and Company,” Feb. 27, 1948, Rauner.
“The irony of it!”: Charles P. Weston to FSJ, April 4, 1953, Rauner.