Savage Beauty (101 page)

12.
“My darling, forget”: ESVM to GD, n.d., “Wednesday,” PM Feb. 21, 1929. ABH Collection.

CHAPTER 25

1.
“I hope that”: ESVM to CBM, July 3, 1930. St. Coll.

2.
“She gave me”: ESVM, 1930–34 diary, May 17, 1934, p. 19. St. Coll.

3.
“Darling, for God’s sake”: ESVM to GD, Oct. 28, 1930. ABH Collection.

4.
“Ugin & I”: ESVM to GD, Nov. 18, 1930. ABH Collection.

5.
“Darling, I’m sending”: ESVM to GD, Nov. 20, 1930. ABH Collection.

6.
“Darling”: GD to ESVM, n.d., c. 1930. St. Coll.

7.
“Handsome, reckless, mettlesome”: Malcolm Elwin and John Lane,
The Life of Llewelyn Powys
(London: The Bodley Head, 1946), p. 199.

8.
“She in her long”: Alyse Gregory, undated diary entry (c. Dec. 19 or 20, 1930). Private collection.

9.
“about forty in all”: ESVM to CBM, Dec. 10, 1930. St. Coll.

10.
“about forty-four”: ESVM to NM, Jan. 4, 1931. St. Coll.

11.
“present agreement includes”: Eugene Saxton to ESVM, April 18, 1928. St. Coll.

12.
“sufficiently wearing”: CBM to Clementine Todd Parsons, Jan. 12, 1931. Private collection.

13.
“I am much better”: CBM to Clementine Todd Parsons, Jan. 22, 1931. Private collection.

14.
“I am sending”: CBM to ESVM, Jan. 30, 1931. St. Coll.

15.
“COME MOTHER VERY SICK”: Telegram, Feb. 4, 1931. Berg.

16.
“Ugin took along”: ESVM to KM, Feb. 18, 1931. Berg.

17.
“DEAR HOWARD PLEASE”: ESVM and NM to Howard Young, telegram.

18.
“AM KIND OF INSANE”: Telegram, Feb. 13, 1931. Berg.

19.
“So, our little”: NM, typescript, Feb. 5, 1978.

20.
“Steaming black horses”: EB to Llewelyn Powys, February 1931. St. Coll.

21.
“Vincent and I”: NM, interview with author, March 17, 1974.

CHAPTER 26

1.
“If you love”:
World-Telegram
, scrapbook of clippings re:
Fatal Interview
, n.d., c. March-April 1931. St. Coll.

2.
“She was a sunny”: “Here’s a Charming Double Interview in which Edna St. Vincent Millay, Famed American Poetess, Sees Herself as Her Husband Sees Her,” NEA News Service, c. spring 1931.

3.
“I had felt sure”: ESVM to GD, n.d., c. March 20, 1931. ABH collection.

4.
“My darling, your”: ESVM to GD, n.d., c. March 26, 1931. ABH collection.

5.
“…  he was dominating”: Elizabeth Breuer, “Edna St. Vincent Millay,”
Pictorial Review
, Nov. 1931. All Breuer quotations are from this article.

CHAPTER 27

1.
“Oh darling”: ESVM to GD, n.d., PM Dec. 8, 1931. ABH Collection.

2.
“Dear Miss Millay”: Henry Allen Moe to ESVM, “2-i-32.” St. Coll.

3.
“I regretfully assure you” and subsequent quotes: ESVM, draft, Guggenheim report, n.d., c. 1931. St. Coll.

4.
“How beautiful is”: George Dillon,
The Flowering Stone
(New York: The Viking Press, 1932).

5.
“Melodious, intelligent”: Percy Hutchison,
The New York Times
, Nov. 22, 1931, p. 24.

6.
“Kathleen Millay is primarily”: William Rose Benét,
Saturday Review of Literature
, Dec. 5, 1931.

7.
“I thought”: Susan Jenkins Brown to author, n.d., PM June 25, 1974.

8.
“Edna St. Vincent Millay”: ESVM, scrap-book. Collected by Corrinne W. Sawyer, Mantor Library, University of Maine, Farmington, Maine. Archives. PS 3525 1495 532.

9.
“Darling … I will come”: GD to ESVM, n.d., PM Feb. 21, 1932. St. Coll.

10.
“Darlinks”: EB to NM, n.d., PM April 25, 1932. St. Coll.

11.
“The Seine”: Floyd Dell, “Edna Millay Finds a Cook,” New York
Herald Tribune
, March 19, 1933.

12.
“I feel strengthened”: GD to Frank D. Fackenthal, May 29, 1932. Columbia University.

13.
“Along my body”:
CP
, p. 631.

14.
“Darling Skiddlepins”: ESVM to EB, May 17, 1932. St. Coll.

15.
“She was a woman”: Alix Daniels to author, May 22, 1974.

16.
“For instance, one day”: Alix Daniels to author, June 21, 1975.

17.
“…  the hyacinths”: EB to ESVM, n.d., PM May 23, 1932. St. Coll.

18.
“I just must hear”: EB to ESVM, n.d., PM May 25, 1932. St. Coll.

19.
“Darling Wham-wham”: ESVM to EB, May 20, 1932.

20.
“I hate not knowing”: EB to ESVM, n.d., PM May 26, 1932.

21.
“Do I write too often?”: EB to ESVM, n.d., PM May 26, 1932.

22.
“What ever happens”: EB to ESVM, n.d., PM May 26, 1932. St. Coll.

23.
“I wore my new”: ESVM to EB, May 25, 1932. St. Coll.

24.
“I know you love”: EB to ESVM, n.d., c. June 11, 1932. St. Coll.

25.
“I am ashamed”: EB to ESVM, n.d., PM June 2, 1932. St. Coll.

26.
“Everything would be”: EB to ESVM, n.d., PM June 20, 1932. St. Coll.

CHAPTER 28

1.
“Is there any danger”: EB to ESVM, n.d., PM June 28, 1932. St. Coll.

2.
“DISREGARD LETTER”: ESVM to EB, telegram, n.d. St. Coll.

3.
“My own sweet darling”: EB to ESVM, n.d., PM July 4, 1932. St. Coll.

4.
“fresh out of Harvard”: Donald Gurney, interview with author, Jan. 28, 1975.

5.
“Miss Barney needs”: Lucie Delarue-Mardrus to ESVM, June 9, 1932.

6.
“We want you”: Natalie Clifford Barney to ESVM, June 12, 1932. St. Coll.

7.
“Woodblocks won’t do”: ESVM to Eugene Saxton.
Ls.
, pp. 244–45.

8.
Harper brought: Karl Yost,
A Bibliography of the Works of Edna St. Vincent Millay
(New York: Burt Franklin, 1968). Originally published in 1937 by Harper & Brothers.

9.
“It was all very”: Mary Kennedy, interview with author, Sept. 30, 1977.

10.
“Rachel Berendt read”: Donald Gurney, interview with author, Jan. 28, 1975.

11.
“Wonderful country!”: Allan Ross Macdougall, unpublished memoir.

12.
“I didn’t know”: NM to author, July 20, 1982.

CHAPTER 29

1.
“mostly love poems”: ESVM to Eugene Saxton, May 12, 1934. UVa. 367 “Poor passionate thing”:
CP
, p. 339.

2.
“There were only”: Charles Ellis, interview with author, August 4, 1975.

3.
“I got a job”:
Ls.
, pp. 248–49.

4.
A gleeful Tess: Mary Kennedy, interview with author, Sept. 30, 1977.

5.
“suppose we shall”: ADF diary, Beinecke.

6.
“to spend August”:
Ls.
, pp. 252–53.

7.
“I put it” and subsequent quotes: ESVM to Henry Allen Moe, March 10, 1933. St. Coll.

8.
“And it was just”: Elizabeth Clark, interview with author, May 8, 1974.

CHAPTER 30

1.
“right out on”:
Ls.
, p. 251.

2.
“Well, my dear”: GD to ESVM, n.d., c. spring 1934. St. Coll.

3.
“and this although”: ESVM, diary, March 16, 1934.

4.
“all primed”: ESVM, diary, March 26, 1934. St. Coll.

5.
“I knew Eugen”: Charlotte Boissevain, interview with author, April 30, 1974.

6.
“Ugin got very tight”: ESVM, diary, March 28, 1934. St. Coll.

7.
“The funny little”: ESVM, diary, March 30, 1934. St. Coll.

8.
“She exercised no”: ESVM, diary, April 3, 1934. St. Coll.

9.
“Liked some of”: ESVM, diary, April 7, 1934. St. Coll.

10.
“Well, … I can understand”: Ibid.

11.
“Saw the forty-eight”: ESVM, diary, April 9, 1934. St. Coll.

12.
“Lulu looking beautiful”: ESVM, diary, April 14, 1934. St. Coll.

13.
“for the dummy”: ESVM, diary, May 12, 1934. St. Coll.

14.
“My idea about”: ESVM to Eugene Saxton, May 12, 1934. UVa.

15.
“I don’t believe” and other quotes to end of chapter: Charles Ellis, interviews with author, Aug. 30, 1972; Sept. 4, 1975.

16.
“On Thought in Harness”: “On Thought in Harness” was published in the
Saturday Evening Post
on February 24, 1934. Charles Ellis seems to have remembered incorrectly the year he painted Edna St. Vincent Millay.

CHAPTER 31

1.
“What marvelous news”: ESVM to GD. June 7, 1934. ABH collection.

2.
“sold out”: EB to NM, Nov. 14, 1934. St. Coll.

3.
“My translations are”: GD to Alix Daniels, July 13, c. 1934; Oct. 22, c. 1934; n.y.

4.
“a steel hand”: ABH, interview with author, December 1973.

5.
“In reading the name” and subsequent quotes: Horace Gregory, “Edna St. Vincent Millay, Poet and Legend,” review of
Wine from These Grapes
, New York
Herald Tribune
Books, Nov. 11, 1943.

6.
“In her latest book”: Louise Bogan, “Conversion into Self,”
Poetry: A Magazine of Verse
, pp. 277–79.

7.
“Poetic Strife Begins” and subsequent quotes:
New York Post
, Dec. 7, 1934, n.p.

8.
“like a figure” and subsequent quotes: Frederic Prokosch,
Voices, A Memoir
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1983), pp. 60–62.