Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind (71 page)

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Authors: Ellen F. Brown,Jr. John Wiley

73. MM to MS, October 27, 1937, UGA.

74. MM to HL, November 18, 1937, NYPL.

75. Walbridge Taft to SM, December 2, 1937, NYPL.

76. MM to GB, November 9, 1937, NYPL.

77. MM to GB, November 15, 1937, NYPL.

78. Wallace McClure to SM, November 16, 1937, UGA.

79. MM to GB, December 17, 1937, NYPL.

80. GB to MM, November 12, 1937, NYPL.

81. Walbridge Taft to SM, December 13, 1937, NYPL.

82. MS to MM, January 8, 1938, NYPL.

83. Dutch edition of
Gone With the Wind
, inscribed to HL, Kearney Public Library, Kearney, New Jersey.

CHAPTER 11: FROM GREENLAND'S ICY
MOUNTAINS TO INDIA'S CORAL STRAND

1. LC to MM, January 17, 1938, Barnes.

2. JM to GB, January 3, 1938, NYPL.

3. MM to MS, March 11, 1938, UGA.

4. MM to HL, July 11, 1938, NYPL.

5. MM to GB, March 8, 1938, NYPL.

6. MS to MM, March 14, 1938, UGA.

7. Walbridge Taft to SM, January 24, 1938, NYPL; Joaquin Abogado to Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, January 19, 1938, NYPL.

8. MS to Mr. Sanchez, January 7, 1938, NYPL.

9. JM to GB, January 13, 1938, NYPL.

10. JM to GB, January 13, 1938, NYPL.

11. MS to MM, January 8, 1938, UGA.

12. JM to GB, January 7, 1936, NYPL.

13. Joaquin Abogado to Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, January 19, 1938, NYPL.

14. Walbridge Taft to SM, January 24, 1938, NYPL.

15. MM to GB, November 29, 1938, NYPL.

16. MM to William Lyon Phelps, January 21, 1938, UGA.

17. MM to MS, January 6, 1938, UGA.

18. HL to GB, January 28, 1938, NYPL.

19. MM to GB, January 20, 1938, NYPL; HL to GB, January 28, 1938, NYPL.

20. GB to MM, May 18, 1938, NYPL.

21. Walbridge Taft to SM, January 28, 1938, NYPL.

22. GB to MM, May 18, 1938, NYPL.

23. MM to GB, May 20, 1938, NYPL.

24. Alec Blanton to Wycliffe A. Hill, September 10, 1938, NYPL.

25. LC to Kay Brown, February 6, 1937, NYPL.

26. LC to Mr. Browne, February 6, 1937, NYPL.

27. MM to LC, July 8, 1938, Barnes.

28. GB to MM, June 20, 1938, NYPL.

29. Michener, “Introduction.”

30. Howard S. Cady to Ingeborg Barth, July 7, 1938, NYPL.

31. MM to GB, July 7, 1938, NYPL.

32. GB to MM, August 16, 1938, NYPL.

33. JM to GB, August 19, 1938, NYPL.

34. Alec Blanton to GB, September 8, 1938, NYPL.

35. “Low-Priced Edition of
Gone With the Wind
,”
Publishers Weekly
, September 24, 1938.

36. GB to JM, October 21, 1938, NYPL.

37. JM to GB, October 24, 1938, NYPL.

38. “
Gone With the Wind
in Cheap Edition Gets Great Sales,”
Publishers Weekly
, November 12, 1938.

39. “Macmillan to Issue
Gone With the Wind
at 69 Cents,”
Publishers Weekly
, August 12, 1939.

40. SM, “Memoir,” 113-C.

41. MM to Kay Brown, July 7, 1938, UGA.

42.
Trust Co. Bank v. MGM/UA
, 772 F.2d 6424, 6425 (11th Cir. 1985).

43. MM to LC, September 12, 1938, NYPL.

44. C. L. Bouve´ to LC, September 7, 1938, NPYL.

45. JM to LC, November 21, 1938, NYPL.

46. JM to MS, August 31, 1938, UGA.

47. MS to JM, September 2, 1938; MS to JM, September 5, 1938, UGA.

48. JM to MS, September 6, 1938, UGA.

49. JM to MS, November 8, 1939, UGA.

50. JM to family, May 29, 1938, NYPL.

51. MM to Mr. Mermin, draft, September 30, 1938, NYPL.

52. SM, “Memoir,” 173.

53. MM to Mr. Shipp, July 11, 1938, Emory.

54. George Gallup, “56,500,000 Hope to See
Gone With Wind
and Public Approves Vivien, Gallup Finds,”
Atlanta Constitution
, February 20, 1939.

55. MM to HL, December 27, 1938, NYPL.

56. MM to Clifford Dowdey, January 2, 1939, UGA.

CHAPTER 12: ME AND MY POOR SCARLETT

1. MM to Kay Brown, January 31, 1939, UGA.

2. GB to MM, February 23, 1939, NYPL.

3. MM to HL, March 15, 1939, NYPL.

4. “Letter from Paris,”
New Yorker
, March 25, 1939.

5. MM to HL, May 6, 1939, NYPL.

6. MM to MS, November 2, 1939, UGA.

7. MM to Wallace McClure, October 9, 1939, UGA.

8. MM to Wallace McClure, August 16, 1940, UGA.

9. MM to Wallace McClure, August 8, 1940, UGA.

10. JM to MS, March 10, 1939, UGA.

11. MS to MM, September 29, 1939, UGA.

12. Ginny Morris to MM, March 13, 1939, UGA.

13. MM to Ginny Morris, March 16, 1939, UGA.

14. MM to Ernest V. Heyn, April 15, 1939, UGA.

15. MM to MS, March 17, 1939, UGA.

16. Agreement between Margaret Mitchell Marsh, Selznick International Pictures, and Loew's, July 17, 1939, UGA.

17. JM to GB, July 24, 1939, NYPL.

18. GB to Kay Brown, August 1, 1939, NYPL.

19. Miscellaneous correspondence, August 1939, NYPL.

20. GB to MM, August 11, 1939, UGA.

21. MM to GB, August 8, 1939, UGA.

22. Charles Trenkle to Alec Blanton, July 31, 1939, NYPL.

23. “Macmillan to Issue
Gone With the Wind
at 69 Cents.”

24. H. Cady to HL, August 16, 1939, NYPL.

25. David O. Selznick to Howard Dietz, August 24, 1939, NYPL; unsigned memorandum, August 25, 1939, NYPL.

26. James Putnam to Lovat Dickson, August 31, 1939, NYPL.

27. GB to MM, September 14, 1939, NYPL.

28. MM to GB, September 15, 1939, NYPL.

29. GB to MM, September 18, 1939, NYPL.

30. Memorandum of conversation with JM by [GB], September 22, 1939, NYPL.

31. GB to MM, September 26, 1939, NYPL.

32. GB to MM, October 6, 1939, UGA.

33. GB to MM, October 23, 1939, UGA.

34. GB to MM, October 23, 1939, UGA.

35. MM to GB, October 28, 1939, UGA.

36. MM to GB, October 28, 1939, UGA.

37. GB to MM, October 30, 1939, UGA.

38. MM to GB, November 7, 1939, UGA.

39. GB to MM, November 8, 1939, NYPL.

40. GB to MM, December 7, 1939, NYPL.

41. Russell Birdwell to GB, October 4, 1939, NYPL; GB to Russell Birdwell, October 9, 1939, NYPL.

42. GB to MM, December 13, 1939, NYPL.

43. JM to Mrs. Lamar Rutherford Lipscomb, January 17, 1940, UGA.

44. Kay Brown to MM, August 3, 1939, UGA.

45. Kay Brown to MM, August 10, 1939, UGA.

46. MM to Kay Brown, August 26, 1939, UGA.

47. Mildred Seydell to H. F. Juergens, October 23, 1939, John Wiley, Jr., Collection, Midlothian, Va.

48. Mildred Seydell to MM, October 12, 1939, John Wiley, Jr., Collection, Midlothian, Va.

49. Mildred Seydell to H. F. Juergens, October 23, 1939, John Wiley, Jr., Collection, Midlothian, Va.

50. H. F. Juergens to Mildred Seydell, October 30, 1939, John Wiley, Jr., Collection, Midlothian, Va.

51. MM to Edwin Granberry, April 11, 1940, in
Letters from Margaret
, ed. Julian Granberry, 79 (Bloomington, Ind.: 1st Books Library, 2001).

52. HL to GB, December 1, 1939, NYPL.

53. First edition of
Gone With the Wind
, Margaret Mitchell Marsh Collection, Special Collections, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library, Atlanta.

54. GB to MM, December 7, 1939, NYPL.

55. “Cashing In on
Gone With the Wind
,”
Business Week
, December 30, 1939.

56. Hattie McDaniel to MM, December 11, 1939, UGA.

57. MM to Hattie McDaniel, December 13, 1939, UGA.

58. David O. Selznick to MM, December 6, 1939, UGA.

59. Inez Robb, “Retiring Author and Stars in Three-Hour Chat,”
Atlanta Georgian
, December 14, 1939.

60. Vivien Leigh to MM, December 14, 1939, UGA.

61. LC, interview by Linda Barnes, transcript, 1977, Barnes.

62. “Publisher of
GWTW
Here for Premiere,”
Atlanta Journal
, undated clipping, UGA.

63. LC, interview.

64. Brett Smith, interview; Carpenter, interview.

65. “Petite Atlantan Meets Film Stars for the First Time,”
Atlanta Constitution
, December 16, 1939.

66. Barnes, interview.

67. MM to Mr. and Mrs. Clark Gable, January 10, 1940, UGA.

68. Signed copy of
Gone With the Wind
, Medora Field Perkerson Papers, UGA.

69. LC, interview.

70. LC, interview.

71. MM to Susan Myrick, February 28, 1939, UGA.

72. David O. Selznick to Sidney Howard, January 6, 1937, in
Memo from David O.
Selznick
, ed. Rudy Behlmer, 144 (New York: Viking, 1972).

73. JM to family, January 1940, UGA.

74. WSM Radio recording, December 15–16, 1939, John Wiley, Jr., Collection, Midlothian, Va.

75. HL to MM, December 19, 1939, NYPL.

76. Barnes, interview.

77. MM to Hattie McDaniel, December 16, 1939, UGA.

CHAPTER 13: TOTING THE WEARY LOAD

1. JM to Mary Marsh, December 20, 1939, as quoted in Walker,
Margaret Mitchell
and John Marsh
, 432.

2. “Cashing In on
Gone With the Wind
.”

3. Memorandum by GB of telephone conversation with Howard Dietz, December 27, 1939, NYPL.

4. GB to JM, January 18, 1940, UGA.

5. GB to Kay Brown, January 18, 1939, NYPL.

6. “January Reprint Best Sellers,”
Publishers Weekly
, February 14, 1940.

7. GB to MM, March 27, 1940, NYPL.

8. LC to HL, January 25, 1940, NYPL.

9. JM to Richard Anderson, January 15, 1940, UGA.

10. Zane, “Peggy,” 6.

11. Mary Butler correspondence file, November 6, 1939–April 17, 1940, UGA.

12. Kay Brown to MM, May 3, 1940, UGA.

13. Vivien Leigh to MM, February 8, 1940, UGA.

14. MM to David O. Selznick, March 2, 1940, UGA.

15. JM to David O. Selznick, March 21, 1940, UGA.

16. “Notice to the Trade,”
Publishers Weekly
, February 24, 1940.

17. “Unauthorized
Gone With the Wind
Withdrawn,”
Publishers Weekly
, March 16, 1940.

18. MM to HL, October 6, 1940, UGA.

19. HL to MM, October 8, 1940, UGA.

20. GB to MM, July 2, 1940, NYPL.

21. “Strip-Dancer May Face Suit for
Gone With the Wind
Act,”
Atlanta Constitution
, December 12, 1940.

22. MM to Edwin Granberry, April 11, 1940, in
Letters From Margaret
, ed. Julian Granberry, 80 (Bloomington, Ind.: 1st Books Library, 2001).

23. MM to Carol Clemens and Joan Wylie, April 9, 1940, UGA.

24. SM to the Celilia Company, August 8, 1940, NYPL.

25.
Trust Co. Bank v. MGM/UA
, 772 F.2d 740 (11th Cir. 1985); Kay Brown to MM, June 6, 1940, UGA.

26. MM to David O. Selznick, August 31, 1940, UGA. [letter not sent]

27. Kay Brown to JM, September 24, 1940, UGA.

28. MM to David O. Selznick, December 11, 1940, UGA.

29. SM to R. E. Samuels, March 8, 1941, UGA.

30. Harold Martin, “Gone Are the Wind-sors for
Gone With Wind
Revival,”
Atlanta
Constitution
, November 9, 1940.

31. “Triplets Named Gone, With, Wind,”
Atlanta Constitution
, December 13, 1940.

32. J. A. Fruin to Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, June 4, 1940, NYPL.

33. MS to JM, January 30, 1940, UGA.

34. MS to SM, December 27, 1940, UGA.

35. JM to GB, April 25, 1940, UGA.

36. MM to LC, September 22, 1941, Barnes.

37. JM to MS, November 14, 1940, UGA.

38. GB to MM, May 15, 1942, NYPL.

39. MM to GB, May 18, 1942, NYPL.

40. MM to Wallace McClure, August 8, 1940, UGA.

41. JM to GB, June 24, 1940, NYPL.

42. JM, “Foreign Book Contracts—Gone With the Wind,” memorandum, March 1945, UGA.

43. JM to MS, November 27, 1943, UGA.

44. MM to MS, November 2, 1939, UGA.

45. Handwritten notes by JM, September 30, 1943, UGA.

46. Dorothy Black to MM, June 1, 1941, UGA.

47. Betty Mears to GB, August 18, 1955, NYPL.

48. Zane, “My Dearly Beloved Young Lady,” 17.

49. MM to HL, December 26, 1941, NYPL.

50. David O. Selznick to Kay Brown, September 29, 1941, UGA.

51. Kay Brown to David O. Selznick, October 1, 1941, UGA.

52. Actor Cordell, “Margaret Mitchell Pallbearer May Hold Clue to Scarlett, Rhett Mystery,”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
, November 28, 1985.

53. David O. Selznick to Kay Brown, October 7, 1941, UGA.

54. RB to HL, August 11, 1941, NYPL.

55. HL to RB, August 26, 1941, NYPL.

56. JM to Kay Brown, December 13, 1941, UGA.

57. Alec Blanton to HL, April 29, 1942, NYPL.

58. MM to HL, May 14, 1942, NYPL.

59. MM to HL, August 17, 1942, NYPL.

60. David O. Selznick and John Hay Whitney to MM, August 22, 1942, UGA.

61. MM to David O. Selznick and John Hay Whitney, August 31, 1942, UGA.

62. Kay Brown, interview by George Wead, n.d., John Wiley Collection, Midlothian, Va.

63. M. Thomas Inge, “Tara vs. Dogpatch: Cartoonist Al Capp Recounts His Legal Run-in with
GWTW
Author,”
The Scarlett Letter
, Summer 2004.

64. David O. Selznick to MM, December 3, 1942, UGA.

CHAPTER 14: RECONSTRUCTION

1. MM to LC, December 12, 1942, Barnes.

2. JM to MS, August 10, 1943, UGA.

3. MS to JM, August 12, 1943, UGA.

4. MS to JM, September 20, 1943, UGA.

5. MS to JM, October 1, 1943, UGA.

6. MS to JM, October 6, 1943, UGA.

7. “Owing to MMM by MS,” October 7, 1943, UGA.

8. Memorandum to JM and SM, October 7, 1943, UGA.

9. Agreement dated October 8, 1943, UGA.

10. Notes by MB, February 1965, UGA.

11. JM to GB, March 4, 1944, NYPL.

12. Handwritten notes by JM, October 14, 1943, UGA.

13. MS to JM, October 12, 1943, UGA.

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