Careless People (60 page)

“in the court of public opinion”
:
World,
November 11, 1922.

“a formal court trial as a rank extravagance”
:
ibid.

“at the hour the pig-raising Amazon”
:
Tribune
, November 13, 1922.

“talks in bunches. I don't think she's reliable”
:
New York
Times
, November 14, 1922.

“
being treated with seriousness
”
:
Tribune,
November 12, 1922.

“
when American writers
”
:
New York
Times,
November 12, 1922.

“the Star-Spangled Banner can never”
:
Tribune
, June 11, 1922.

“The critics, one and all”
:
Reprinted in
Conversations with F. Scott Fitzgerald,
p.
34.

“prefers piquant hors d'oeuvres”
:
ibid.

VI. BOB KERR'S STORY. THE 2ND PARTY.

“The thing which sets off”
:
H. L. Mencken,
The American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the Modern Mind,
1920.

“but he is unable to get seats”
:
Van Vechten,
The Splendid Drunken Twenties
, p. 15.

“half a quart of my best bourbon”
:
ibid, p. 16.

“was very spectacular and”
:
PUL, Zelda Fitzgerald Papers.

“This is a very drunken town”
:
In
A Life in Letters
,
Bruccoli dates this letter some time “after November 18, 1923,” but the Yale game referred to, which Princeton won 3–0, was played on November 18, 1922. By November 1923 the Kalmans had already visited New York, as Zelda wrote to them in July 1923 about their recent visit. Thus, the internal evidence of this letter suggests strongly that the correct year is 1922 and that the date 1923 in the published letters is a mistake (or a misprint, given the correct date of November 18 for the Yale game).

“lured John Dos Passos back to New York”
:
PUL, Zelda Fitzgerald Papers.

would not be reported in America
:
New York
Times
, December 10, 1922.

“Biography as Fiction”
:
New York
Times
, November 19, 1922.

Witnesses would include
:
New York
Times
, November 19, 1922.

“The motive accepted by Mr. Mott”
:
World
, November 20, 1922.

“A jury will decide between”
:
Tribune
, November 16, 1922.

ambassador to Britain had given a talk
:
New York
Times
, October 24, 1922.

Ring Lardner said
:
Tribune,
October 25, 1922.

Paul Hamborszky
:
Tribune
, November 18, 1922.

become a used-car salesman
:
New York Times
, November 18, 1922.

“the authorities do not consider”
:
ibid.

“murder museum”; “soda water”
:
New York
Times
, November 17, 1922.

The crab apple tree had disappeared
:
New York
Times
, November 19, 1922.

“burned up New Jersey roads”
:
Tribune
, November 19, 1922.

“having read much about”
:
World
, November 20, 1922.

“from Chicago by the dirty channels”
:
New York
Times
, November 19, 1922.

“there are too many common people”
:
ibid.

long list of books he recommended
:
Sheilah Graham,
College of One,
p. 123.

“Scott and I were ‘buzzing'”
:
Joseph Corso. “One Not-Forgotten Summer Night: Sources for Fictional Symbols of American Character in
The Great Gatsby
.”
Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual
(1976), 18.

most celebrated piece of investigative journalism
:
Tribune
, January 28, 1922.

implied that Nellie Bly was not only his mistress
:
See Corso, “One Not-Forgotten Summer Night: Sources for Fitzgerald's Symbols of American Character in
The Great Gatsby
,” FH/A 1976, pp. 8–33.

“The part of what you told me”
:
A Life in Letters
, p. 75.

“Dear Bob, Keep reading”
:
A Life in Letters
, p. 102.

“not praise a book like that beautiful”
:
PUL, F. Scott Fitzgerald's scrapbook.

“If an author wants
2
cols”
:
Frederick Jackson Turner papers, Huntington Library.

prohibition had divided America
:
Tribune
, November 12, 1922.

“The Wild West's Own New York”
:
New York
Times
, March 5, 1922.

“FICTION PUT TO SHAME”
:
Tribune
, November 20, 1922.

“the cold, proud woman of Southern blood”
: Tribune,
November 11, 1922.

“dazed and stupid and uncomprehending
”
:
Tribune,
November 11, 1922.

“a pathetic little salamander”
: Tribune
, November 20, 1922.

The salamander liked “perilous adventures”
:
Joplin [MO] Times
, June 18, 1922.

“believed I was a Salamander”
:
Milford,
Zelda Fitzgerald
, p. 176.

“Seats selling eight weeks in advance”
:
World
, November 20, 1922.

“probably does not know himself”
:
Times
, November 21, 1922.

“you must feed the masses”
: New York
Times
, November 21, 1922.

“I protect pocketbook as well as person”
:
“Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar,”
Short Stories
, p. 246.

“He drives on to his Elizabethan villa”
:
ibid, p. 237.

“Ronald here'd no more think”
:
ibid, pp. 249–50.

“the number of feminine witnesses called”
:
Tribune
, November 23, 1922.

“a thin, emaciated, drooping man”
:
New York
Times
, November 23, 1922.

“James Mills sat stonily”
:
Tribune
, November 23, 1922.

requested his witness fee
:
New York
Times
, November 23, 1922.

“as lugubrious as usual”
:
Tribune
, November 27, 1922.

“hoping for a ‘break'”
:
World
, November 25, 1922.

Daisy draws the line at sharing her hairdresser
:
Trimalchio
, p. 85.

“Paul Whiteman played”
:
Zelda Fitzgerald,
Collected Writings
, p. 48.

“In the real dark night of the Soul”
:
Fitzgerald, “Pasting It Together,”
The Crack-Up
, p. 63.

she found her novel's title
:
Bryer and Barks,
Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda
, p. 207

all women's colleges should be burned
:
New York
Times
, November 23, 1922.

“To one large turkey add one gallon”
:
Fitzgerald,
Notebooks
, p. 183.

champagne “flowed like the Rhine”
:
World,
June 7, 1922.

“
GOLD AND COCKTAILS
”
:
New York
Times
, November 22, 1926.

“My mentioning our having had lunch”
:
Tribune
, November 26, 1922.

“The substance of the conversation”
:
John Farrar, ed.
Literary Spotlight
. New York: Doran, 1924, p. 257.

“he quoted me so much and so inaccurately
”
:
Wilson,
Letters
, p. 97.

“I enclose Burton Rascoe's report”
:
PUL, F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers.

“I told her, full of hope”
:
Wilson, Twenties
, pp. 147–48. In the published version, Wilson changes the Rascoes' names to “Belle and Clem,” but Wilson's biographer Lewis Dabney identifies them from the manuscripts as the Rascoes.

“engaged in combat with Mr. Burton Rascoe”
:
Jeffrey Meyers,
Edmund Wilson: A Biography
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995, p. 46.

Rascoe bit Bunny Wilson on the nose
:
Dabney,
Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature
, pp. 100–1.

“never gets full credit now”
:
Wilson,
Letters
, 168.

“The great novel of the past fifty years”
:
Fitzgerald, “10 Best Books I Have Read,” in Bruccoli, ed.,
F. Scott Fitzgerald on Authorship,
p.
86.

“the meaning of an episode was not”
:
Conrad,
Heart of Darkness,
1899. Reprint
London: Penguin Classics, 2007, p. 6.

“it is an exact portrayal of a very notorious”
:
Rascoe,
Daybook
, p. 31.

“Fiction is history, human history”
:
Conrad, “Henry James: An Appreciation.”
North American Review
(1916).

“until today her movements had been”
: Tribune
, November 28, 1922.

He claimed it was just a coincidence
:
New York
Times
, November 28, 1922.

grand jury withdrew in midafternoon
:
New York
Times
, November 29, 1922.

“the expense of a trial that might”
:
ibid, 1922.

“there was not the remotest possibility”
:
World
, November 29, 1922.

“who invented an entirely fictitious career”
: Critical Assessments Vol II,
–67.

“the newspapers with thin copy”
:
Van Vechten,
Parties
, p. 212.

Fania Marinoff, hated it
:
Van Vechten,
Splendid Drunken Twenties,
pp. 286,
299.

Fitz drew up a household budget
: Bruccoli,
Some Sort of Epic Grandeur
,
p. 224.

“literary and artistic tea party”
:
Rascoe,
A Bookman's Daybook
, p. 291.

VII. THE DAY IN NEW YORK

The revels went on for weeks
:
Save Me the Waltz, Collected Writings
, p. 95.

“Rules For Guests At the Fitzgerald House”
:
Boyd,
Portraits,
p.
223.

“The remarkable thing about the Fitzgeralds”
:
Wilson,
Letters on Literature and Politics
, p. 478.

“I guess so. We were awfully good showmen”
:
Milford,
Zelda Fitzgerald,
p. 275.

“we had retained an almost theatrical innocence”
:
Fitzgerald,
My Lost City,
p.
111.

“Scott loved to recount the episode”
:
George Jean Nathan, “The Golden Boy of the Twenties,”
Esquire
, October 1958, pp. 148–53.

“Nothing about you ever fades.”
: PUL, Zelda Fitzgerald Papers.

“I accordingly took him to a house”
:
George Jean Nathan, “The Golden Boy of the Twenties,”
Esquire
, October 1958, pp. 148–53.

Edmund Wilson's 1923
essay
:
Edmund Wilson, “The Delegate from Great Neck: Mr. F. Scott Fitzgerald and Mr. Van Wyck Brooks,”
New Republic
, April 30, 1924. In
Critical Assessments Vol I
, pp. 400–8.

“natural idealist, a spoiled priest”
:
Mizener,
The Far Side of Paradise
, p. 345.

“fell asleep over the soup”
:
Van Wyck Brooks.
Days of the Phoenix: The 1920's I Remember
. New York: Dutton, 1967, p. 109.

“what I might ironically call our ‘private' life”
:
Turnbull,
Letters,
p. 380.

“party must be arranged”
:
Ernest Boyd.
Portraits: Real and Imaginary
. 1924. Reprint New York: AMS, 1970.