The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946

by Edward Burns

  Scheuber, Mrs. Charles, 417

  Schiaparelli, Elsa, 478n

  Schneider, Douglas, 821n

  Schnitzer, Rosalind B. (later Mrs. Rosalind Miller), 761, 762n

  Schwab, Charles, 133n

  Schwartz, Lucien, 182n

  Scott, William R., Inc., 603-4, 606, 616, 628-30, 632-34, 668, 680, 732n, 756n

  Scottsboro Boys, 463, 464n

  Scribner’s, Charles and Sons, 601-2, 603n, 668, 670, 684, 703

  Scudder, Janet, 154, 155n, 505n

  Seabrook, William, 222n, 273, 274n, 276, 283, 285-87, 414, 496, 498-99, 535, 708n, 739n

  Seabrook, Mrs. William, see Worthington, Marjorie

  Seckles, Alice, 380n, 393, 394n, 397

  Sedgwick, Ellery, 521, 531, 532n

  Segal, Vera (Mrs. Maurice Sterne), 161n

  Seilliére, Baroness J., 273n

  Selby-Bigges, Mr. and Mrs., 661n, 740, 741n

  Seldes, Gilbert, 342, 342n

  Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein (ed. Van Vechten, also referred to as “The Anthology” or “The Omnibus”), 505-7, 511-13, 516, 800, 801n, 804-5, 807-9, 811-15, 818-20, 823n, 828-29, 833, 838, 861

  Seltzer, Thomas, 71, 72n, 88n

  Sept, 307

  Serio-Comic Governess, The, 24n

  Sevareid, Eric, 759n

  Severance, Frank, Jr., 472, 473n

  Sforza, Count Carlo, 453, 454n

  Shaffer, Elizabeth (Van Vechten’s niece), 135-36, 286, 286n

  Shaffer, Emma Van Vechten (Van Vechten’s sister), 135-36, 151

  Sharp, Margery, 561, 562n

  “She and Her Brother” (Stein’s “Two: Gertrude Stein and Her Brother”), 464-65

  “She Bowed to Her Brother” (Stein), 4

  Sheldon, Edward, 128n

  Sherman, Mrs., 478

  Sherwin, Louis, 37n

  Sherwood Anderson/Gertrude Stein: Correspondence and Personal Essays (ed. Ray Lewis White), 860n

  “Sherwood’s Sweetness” (Stein), 723, 724n, 738

  Showers, Pearl, 347n, 352n, 360, 400, 412, 647n, 779, 784

  Showers, Mr., 779

  Shriner’s Temple (New York), 105

  Shulman, Max, 783-84, 786, 788

  Sidney, Sylvia, 410, 410n, 444, 444n, 451n, 475n, 476, 484, 498n

  Simonson, Lee, 30n, 54

  Simpson, Wallis Warfield, see Windsor, Duchess of

  Sister Dominga, 412n

  Sitwell, Edith, 111n, 126n, 174n

  “Sitwell Edith Sitwell” (Stein), 130n

  Sketch, The, 547-49

  Skinner, B. F., 289, 289n

  Skinner, Otis, 166n

  Sloane, W. &J., 643, 647

  Smallens, Alexander, 357, 360, 618, 618n, 717, 718n, 723, 724n

  Smith College, 727-28, 729n, 731, 734, 735n, 737, 740, 744

  Smith, Harrison, 485n

  Smith, Rita, 461n

  Smith, Υ. Κ., 859n

  Soil, The, 807-9

  Solomons, Leon, 289n

  “Some ‘Literary Ladies’ I Have Known” (Van Vechten), see Fragments from an Unwritten Autobiography

  Sorceress, The, 24n

  Sothern, Ε. Η., 21n

  “Souvenirs de Gertrude Stein: Vollard et le Premier Salon d’Automne” (Stein), 291n

  “Spain and Music” (Van Vechten), 58n

  Spider Boy (Van Vechten), 141n, 157n, 161n, 166, 169, 485n, 570n

  Stage Door Canteen, see American Theatre Wing

  Stagg, Hunter, 87, 87n, 101, 103-4, 107, 279, 280n, 282, 777

  Stanley, H. M., 861

  Stanzas in Meditation (Stein), 261n, 480, 481n, 493, 528, 528n, 531, 533, 533n, 537, 537n

  Stars and Stripes, The, 789n

  Stearns, Harold, 98n, 101

  Steffens, Lincoln, 6

  Steichen, Edward, 135

  Stein, Allan (Stein’s nephew), 217n, 835-37, 839, 839n

  Stein, Amelia Keyser (Stein’s mother), 492n

  Stein, Bertha (Stein’s sister), 169n, 492n

  Stein, Daniel (Stein’s father), 492n

  Stein, Fred (Stein’s cousin), 23n

  Stein, Gertrude, passim; Columbia University Exhibition (1941), 716-20, 722, 722n; Columbia University, recordings made for, 412n; lecture tour, United States (1934-35), first reference, 728 and passim in letters of 1934-35; “Love and Kisses,” poem for the Van Vechtens’ new apartment at 101 Central Park West, New York, 517-18; “Lovey” and “Pussy,” terms of endearment between Stein and Toklas, 352; printing (draft of a letter by Stein on the subject of printing), 549-50n; Stein’s review of Ernest Hem-ingway’s Three Stories and Ten Poems, 89n

  Stein, Julian (Stein’s cousin), 370, 371n, 531n

  Stein, Mrs. Julian, 370n, 371n, 531n

  Stein, Leo (Stein’s brother), 4, 6, 23n, 48n, 50, 50n, 54, 71, 161n, 169n, 277n, 300n, 489n, 492n, 576, 630, 696n

  Stein, Michael (Stein’s brother), 4, 169n, 217, 217n, 277n, 287n, 300n, 462n, 502n, 558, 576, 580

  Stein, Roubina (Mrs. Allan), 839, 839n

  Stein, Sarah (“Sally,” Mrs. Michael), 169n, 217n, 277n, 287n, 462n

  Stein, Simon (Stein’s brother), 169n

  Stein, Pauline (Mrs. Solomon, “Auntie”), 58n

  “Stein Says Americans Lack Spiritual Courage of French” (Stein GI lecture), 789n

  “Stein Song, A” (Van Vechten), 815, 818, 822-23, 826n, 829, 838

  Steiner, Wendy, 859, 860n

  Steloff, Frances, 392-93, 649, 722, 722n, 775-77, 779-80; see also Gotham Bookmart

  Sternberg, Sadie Hope, 125n

  Sterne, Mabel, see Dodge, Mabel

  Sterne, Maurice, 4, 23n, 63n, 103, 160, 161n, 485, 485n, 522

  Stettheimer, Carrie, 67n, 190-91, 761

  Stettheimer, Ettie, 67n, 190-91, 237, 365n, 507, 761

  Stettheimer, Florine, 67, 67n, 190-91, 251n, 288, 295, 299n, 305, 342, 364, 365n, 369, 373, 422, 427, 509n, 556, 558, 558n, 562, 761, 762n, 769, 815

  Stevens, Wallace, 38n

  Steward, Parker, 164n

  Steward, Samuel, 566-67, 572, 660n

  Stieglitz, Alfred, 30n, 31, 33n, 35, 35n, 37, 56n, 59, 252, 366, 367n, 719

  “Stieglitz” (Stein), 367n

  “Still More About Money” (Stein), 509n, 511n

  Stockton, Frank, 684-85

  Story, 738, 739n

  Story of Ferdinand, The (Munro Leaf), 649, 649n

  Strauss, Richard, 538, 539n, 850

  Stravinsky, Igor, 696, 697n; see also Balustrade; Le Sacre du Printemps

  Street, Mary Dallas, 87n

  Stribling, T. S., 303n

  “Subject-Cases: The Background of A Detective Story” (Stein), 81n

  Sullivan, Noël, 399, 400n, 423

  “Sundays and Tuesdays” (Stein), 683-84; see also “The Winner Loses A Picture of Occupied France”

  “Superstitions, Les” (Stein), 640n, 649, 671

  “Superstitions of Fred Anneday, Annday, Anday; a Novel of Real Life, The” (Stein), 468, 472, 473n

  “Susie Asado” (Stein), 30n, 53n, 196n, 507

  Sussex, 51, 52n

  Sutherland, Donald, 409, 410n, 506, 506n, 509, 645, 645n

  Sutherland, Gilberte (Mrs. Donald), 645n

  Sutherland, Graham, 617n

  Sutro, John, 500n

  Svidko, 764n

  Sweet Briar College, 419n, 425, 425n

  “Sweet Tail (Gypsies), A” (Stein), 812

  Sze, Mai-Mai, 476

  Szold, Bernadine, 114n, 145, 151, 151n

  Tailleferre, Germaine, 138

  Tamayo, Rufino, 801

  Tanner, Allen, 366, 367n, 524

  Taras, John, 819n

  Tashman, Lilyan, 237

  Tatler, The, 488, 547, 548n

  Tattooed Countess, The (Van Vechten), 79n, 93, 95, 99-100, 104-5, 107, 138n, 570n, 792-94

  Taylor, Captain Henry Ashworth, 475n

  Taylor, Laurette, 779

  Taylor, Prentiss, 263, 264n

  Taylor, Colonel Redvers, 189n

  Tchelitchew, Pavel, 136, 137n, 205n, 208n, 2
26n, 366, 367n, 369, 431, 431n, 487, 507, 524, 697n

  Tecumseh, 367, 368n

  Tellegen, Lou, 51n

  Temple, Shirley, 645

  Tender Buttons (Stein), 5-6, 22, 23n, 31, 40, 42n, 159n, 284, 289n, 505, 511, 521, 606, 606n, 616n, 619n, 626, 777, 800, 803, 805, 861-62

  Testimony Against Gertrude Stein, 404n, 409, 412, 414

  Thaw, Harry, 215

  Thénevaz, Paulet, 57, 57n, 60

  They Must. Be Wedded. To Their Wife (Stein), 478n, 481n, 487, 513

  Things As They Are (Stein), 10, 33n, 862; see also Fernhurst Q.E.D. and Other Early Writings

  Thomas, Edna, 471, 498, 503n

  Thompson, Anita, 204, 539n

  Thompson, Helen, 614

  Thompson, Paul, 24n

  Thomson, Virgil, 6, 10, 67n, 158, 159n, 163n, 177n, 181-85, 187-97 passim, 201, 205n, 208n, 213, 223-27, 231, 232n, 233, 234n, 263n, 266n, 283-84, 290, 290n, 293n, 295, 298, 396, 449, 454, 455n, 468, 468n, 471, 471-72n, 498-99, 507, 522, 527, 558, 562, 568, 570, 572-73, 582, 583n, 591, 591n, 598n, 604, 640n, 687, 687n, 692, 692n, 698n, 707, 712, 717, 718n, 718, 720-21, 723, 724n, 740, 741n, 744, 748, 749n, 751n, 761, 763, 794-96, 803-4, 809-11, 815, 816n, 818, 820-21, 823, 823n, 825, 829, 838-39

  “Three Careers” (Stein), see “And So. To Change So (A Fantasy on Three Careers).”

  Three Lives (Stein). 24n, 28n, 38, 39n, 58n, 74, 75n, 97, 98, 101, 121, 132n, 138, 142, 142n, 143, 146, 160, 235n, 267-69, 270n, 272-73, 277, 277n, 279, 281, 284, 669n, 799, 802-6, 862

  Three Mountains Press, 110n

  Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters A Melodrama (Stein), 709n

  “Three Sitting Here” (Stein), 152, 153n

  Three Stories and Ten Poems (Ernest Hemingway), 8. 859

  Tillstrom, Burr, 461n

  Time, 651, 651n, 813, 814n

  Times Have Changed (Louis Bromfield), 399n, 400n, 400, 410, 410n, 415, 421, 517

  Titus, Edward W., 142n

  Tock, Sally, 377, 380

  “To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays” (Stein), 675-77, 678n, 680-81, 683n, 684-92 passim, 694-95, 698, 700n, 701-3, 705-9, 711-12, 714, 715n, 723, 725, 727-29, 731, 744, 746-55 passim, 757, 765, 807-8, 808n

  Toklas, Alice B., passim; misspellings of name, 20, 21n; quoted by Virgil Thomson, 692n; translation of Stein’s Picasso, 603n; see also The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book

  Toklas, Ferdinand (Toklas’ father), 651n

  Toledo Sunday Times, 376n

  Tonny, Kristians, 180, 180n, 181, 183n, 185, 187-94, 204, 205n, 208n, 210, 226, 226n, 228-30, 230n, 233, 248, 336-37, 339, 538, 540, 540n

  Tonny, Marie Claire (Mrs. Kristians), 538, 540, 540n

  Top Hat, 444, 444-45n

  Toulouse, Robert, 532n, 576, 577n

  Towne, Charley, 578, 578n

  Town Hall (New York), 717, 718n, 720

  Toye, Geoffrey, 707, 707n

  Toye, Mrs. Geoffrey, 707, 707n

  Trac (Stein’s cook), 314, 314n, 326, 335, 338, 494, 497, 499, 500n, 510, 511n, 524

  “Trail of the Lonesome Pine” (song), 566, 570

  Transatlantic Review, 8, 94-95, 98, 101-2, 108

  transition, 69n, 147n, 199, 199n, 232n, 293n, 404n, 409, 412, 414, 750n, 859, 862

  Treadgold, Paul, 440n, 442

  Treible, Jean, 537n

  Trend, The, 16n, 29, 29n, 30n, 30, 31n, 31, 32, 32n, 35

  Trilby (George du Maurier), 305, 305-6n

  Trillat, Ennemond, 519-21, 523, 523n, 525-26, 528-31

  Troubridge, Admiral Sir Ernest, 475n

  Troubridge, Lady Una, 474, 475n

  Troxell, Gilbert McCoy, 761, 762n

  Tubbs, Vincent, 788n

  Tudor, Anthony, 819

  Tufts, Henry, 208n

  Turkey and Bones and Eating and We Liked It, A Play (Stein), 68n

  Turner [?], 483

  Twain, Mark, 1, 439

  Twentieth Century Literature, Gertrude Stein Issue (ed. Edward Burns), 461n

  “Two: Gertrude Stein and Her Brother” (Stein), see “She and Her Brother”

  “Two Women” (Stein), 123n

  Tyler, Parker, 282n

  Tzara, Tristan, 174, 174-75n, 404n

  Ullman, Alice (Mrs. Eugene Paul), 21n

  Ullman, Eugene Paul, 21n

  Ulric, Lenore, 127, 128n

  Uncle Tom’s Children: Four Novellas (Richard Wright), 778, 780n, 788-89

  Une Ténébreuse Affaire (Balzac), 730n

  University of Chicago Press, 414, 415n, 445, 452

  University Players (Princeton University), 827n

  “U. S. Grant” (Stein), 328

  Useful Knowledge or Americana (Stein), 138, 161-62, 803, 813, 858

  Uzcudun, Paulino, 466, 466n

  Vachat, Marie Ann du (Mme. Gabriel Putz), 715n, 760n

  Val, Gόmez del, 39n

  “Valentine to Sherwood Anderson, A” (Stein recording), 327, 412n

  Valerie-Radot, Dr., 835, 837n

  Van Der Meulen, Pierre, 687n

  van Heeckeren, Jean, 577n

  “Van or Twenty Years After. A Second Portrait of Carl Van Vechten” (Stein), 87n, 88n, 89n, 90, 96, 96n, 104n, 161, 162n, 177n, 327, 858-59, 862

  Vanderbilt, Robert T. Jr., 400

  Vanity Fair, 11, 74, 75n, 79-80, 81n, 88, 88n, 89, 94n, 113, 117, 135, 191, 322, 323n, 326, 369, 370n

  Van Vechten, Ada Amanda Fitch (Van Vechten’s mother), 43, 43n, 251n, 734-35, 744

  Van Vechten, Anna Snyder (first Mrs. Carl Van Vechten), 30n, 282

  Van Vechten, Carl, passim; “cat drawing” used as closing to a letter, first example, 283n; exhibition of theatre photographs, Museum of the City of New York (“The Theatre Through the Camera of Carl Van Vechten”), 752, 752n, 757, 757n; letters to Fania Marinoff (quoted), 61n, 20n, 848, 848n, 849, 851; motto, 139-40n; New York Public Library Exhibition (1941), 737, 740, 741, 744; New York Public Library Exhibition (1945), 792n; purple closings (early example), 100; slipcases for his Stein collection, 470-71, 471n

  Van Vechten, Mrs. Carl, see Marinoff, Fania

  Van Vechten, Charles (Van Vechten’s father), 67n, 125

  Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 463, 464n

  Veblen, Thorstein, 463

  Vestal, Donald, 461n, 463, 487n, 506n, 510n

  Victor, Sarah, 471-74, 476

  Viking Press, 302

  Villa, Francisco (“Pancho”), 53, 53n

  Villa Les Terrasses (Villa Stein, Le Corbusier), 462n

  Village. Are You Ready Not Yet. A Play, A (Stein), 775, 776n, 779, 781-82, 787-88, 792, 796

  Vilmorin, Louise de, 482n

  Vingt Ans Aprés, see Dumas, Alexandre (Dumas père)

  Virgil, 228

  “Virgil Thomson” (Stein), 209n

  Vollard, Ambroise, 161n, 299, 300n

  Walker, A’Lelia, 313n

  Walker, O. S., 164n

  Walker, Sarah Breedlove (Madame C. J.), 313, 313n

  Wall, Reverend K. E., 771, 772n

  Wallace, Edgar, 584

  Wallace, James, 44n

  Wallenstein, Alfred, 751n

  Walpole, Hugh, 188

  Walsh, Blanche, 24n

  Walter, Eugene, 61n

  Walter, Marie-Thérèse, 449n

  Walton, William (“Billy”), 798, 801, 804

  War and Peace (Tolstoy), 749, 749n

  Warburg, Edward Μ., 403n, 553n

  Ward, Veronica, 440n

  Wars I Have Seen (Stein), 736, 736n, 760n, 760, 765n, 767, 769n, 800, 804n, 805

  Washington, George, 280n, 405n

  Washington Square Gallery (Coady and Brenner), 808n, 809n

  Wasserman, Edward, see Waterman, Edward

  “Water Pipe” (Stein), 140n

  “Waterfall and a Piano, A” (Stein), 523n

  Waterman, Edward, 436n, 491, 492n, 496, 522, 525n, 526-27, 529, 529n, 530, 532, 553, 583, 584n, 586, 677, 808, 810, 816, 820, 822, 822n, 829

  Waters, Ethel, 622, 622n, 777

  Watkins, Ann, 714, 715n, 746, 800, 804, 804n, 807, 809-10

  “We Are Back in Paris�
� (Stein), 767n

  Webb, Beatrice, 496, 497n, 498

  Webb, Sidney, 496, 497n, 498

  Webster, Daniel, 795, 803

  Wedding Bouquet, A (Stein), 478n, 534-35, 537, 537n, 540-49 passim; 553-54, 556, 557n, 566, 573n, 587, 713

  Wedekind, Frank, 59

  Weekly Bulletin (American Fund for French Wounded), 62n

  Well of Loneliness, The (Radclyffe Hall), 475n, 495

  Welles, Orson, 376n, 472n

  Welts, H. G., 410, 478, 479n

  Wertheim, Alma, 191, 237

  Wesson, Ben, 250

  West, Mae, 810

  “What Are Masterpieces” (Stein), 475n, 493

  What Are Masterpieces (Stein), 475n, 690, 690n

  “What Does She See When She Shuts Her Eyes” (Stein), 532n

  “What Does 291 Mean” (Camera Work), 37, 38n

  What Happened. A Five Act Play (Stein), 16n, 21n, 483n, 812

  “What Is English Literature” (Stein), 421n, 493

  What Is Remembered (Toklas), 696n

  Wheeler, Arthur, 147n

  Wheeler, Rose (Mrs. Arthur), 147, 147n

  White, Max, 769n

  White, Ray Lewis, 860n

  White, Stanford, 215n

  White, Walter, 126n

  White Wines (Stein), 16n, 21n

  Whitehead, Alfred North, 29n

  Whitehead, Evelyn (Mrs. Alfred North), 29n, 31n

  Whitehead, North, 29n, 31n

  Whiteman, Paul, 109n

  Whittemore, Thomas, 303, 303n, 384, 384n, 765

  Whittier, John Greenleaf, 360

  Whorf, Richard, 795, 795n

  “Why I Chose ‘Melanctha’ by Gertrude Stein” (Richard Wright), 806n

  “Why I Like Detective Stories” (Stein), 584n

  Wickes, Elbert, 672n

  “Wilbur Wright” (Stein), 368n

  Wilcox, Wendell, 3, 474-78, 484, 487n, 488, 505n

  Wilde, lerne (“Dolly”), 185, 186n

  Wilde, Oscar, 186n, 515

  Wilde, William, 186n

  Wilder, Isabel, 762n

  Wilder, Thornton, 2-3, 5, 11-12, 347, 348n, 351-52, 394-99, 401, 404, 407, 414, 415n, 438-39, 441, 449, 449n, 452, 454, 456-57, 461n, 463, 467, 468n, 470, 471n, 473, 498n, 502n, 505n, 522, 541, 541n, 550, 552, 554-57, 561, 570, 572, 574-77, 580-81, 590, 591n, 618-19, 619n, 633, 640n, 652, 664, 664n, 666, 671n, 707, 712

  Wildenstein Gallery, 478n

  Williamson, Mr., 718n

  Wilson, Edmund, 1, 11, 74, 75n, 79-81, 82n, 88, 88n, 111n, 239, 857

  Wilson, Francis, 11, 492n

  Wilson, Woodrow, 53n, 60n, 161

  Winchell, Walter, 392, 410, 444, 444n, 589n, 614

  Windsor, Duchess of (Wallis Warfield Simpson), 527, 527n, 672, 673n, 712, 713n

  Windsor, Duke of (Edward VIII of Fngland), 452n, 527n, 713n