Thornton Wilder (106 page)

16.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, November 6, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.

17.
TNW to Family, December 2, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.

18.
TNW to G. M. Troxell, November 27, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.

19.
TNW to Stark Young, November 2, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.

20.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, December 18, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.

21.
TNW to Stark Young, December 18, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.

22.
TNW to Bill Bissell, Christmas 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.

23.
TNW, “Notes,” LD, February 5, 1924, TNW Collection, YCAL.

24.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, March 16, 1924, TNW Collection, YCAL.

25.
APW to TNW, February 13, [1924?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

26.
Isabel Wilder to Ted [Wilder?], May 24, 1924, TNW Collection, YCAL. Despite every effort to establish the last name of this correspondent, we are left with the conjecture that it was Theodore Wilder, TNW's friend from Chefoo and Oberlin days. Ted Wilder was not a relative.

27.
APW to TNW, February 13, [1924?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

28.
Ibid.

29.
Isabel Wilder to Ted [Wilder?], [September 1925?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

30.
APW to unidentified member of his family, most likely TNW; handwritten note on reverse of a letter from Dr. George Blumer to APW, April 16, 1924, Private Collection.

31.
Dr. George Blumer to APW, April 16, 1924, Private Collection.

32.
APW to TNW, February 13, [1924?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

33.
Ibid.

34.
Ibid.

35.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, May 6, 1924, TNW Collection, YCAL.

36.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, May 25, 1924, TNW Collection, YCAL.

37.
TNW to Phil Thomas, May 10, 1925, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.

38.
Ibid.

39.
TNW to J. P. Monod, January 22, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

40.
TNW to Ethel Andrews Murphy, January 20 [TNW wrote “December” by mistake], 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

41.
TNW to Margaret Whitney, March 16, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

42.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, August 14, 1924, TNW Collection, YCAL.

43.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, December 2, 1924, TNW Collection, YCAL.

44.
For background see Judith Ann Schiff, “Old Yale: Before He Came to Dinner,”
Yale Alumni
magazine, April 1999; and “Yale Workshop,”
Time,
Monday, December 8, 1924.

45.
TNW to Ethel Andrews Murphy, January 20, 1925 [TNW wrote “December” by mistake in his Letter Diary], LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

46.
TNW to APW, February 4, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

47.
TNW to Edith Isaacs, January 30, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

48.
TNW to Edwin Arlington Robinson, March 31, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

49.
TNW's record, Princeton University, March 2, 1925, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University.

50.
TNW to Isabel Wilder, February 13, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

51.
TNW to Edith Isaacs, January 18, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

52.
Ibid.

53.
Edith Isaacs to TNW, January 26 [1925], LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

54.
TNW, “The Turn of the Year,”
Theatre Arts Monthly
9, no. 3 (March 1925): 143–44.

55.
Ibid., 151.

56.
Baer was heir to the Stix-Baer Department Store fortune in St. Louis, Missouri, and most likely secured his job with the Boni brothers by investing in their firm.

57.
TNW to Lewis Baer, Feburary 14, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

58.
Lewis Baer to TNW, March 3, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

59.
TNW to Edith Isaacs, March 11, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

60.
TNW, “Bibliography,” LD, [1927?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

61.
TNW to Bill Bissell, March 16, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

62.
TNW to Helen M. Allen, April 13, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

63.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, April 16, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

64.
Proust's seven volumes:
Swann's Way, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, The Guermantes Way, Sodom and Gomorrah, The Prisoner, The Fugitive,
and
Finding Time Again.

65.
TNW to Lewis Baer, April 21, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

66.
Ibid.

67.
TNW to Lewis Baer, April 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

68.
TNW to Lewis Baer, May 7, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

69.
TNW to Phil Thomas, May 10, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

70.
Dr. James Semans to PEN, 2002. Dr. Semans was a student at the Lawrenceville School when TNW was teaching there.

71.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, June 12, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

72.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, May 21, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

 

16: “THE ‘WAY WITHIN'” (1925–1926)

1.
TNW to Bruce Simonds, June 15, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

2.
Ibid.

3.
TNW to Family, April 11, 1922, TNW Collection, YCAL.

4.
TNW to Bruce Simonds, June 15, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

5.
TNW to Miss Whitney, [Summer 1925?], LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

6.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, [Summer 1925?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

7.
Ibid.

8.
Ibid.

9.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, October 8, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.

10.
Ibid.

11.
Ibid.

12.
Ames was the star fullback of the Princeton University football team during the 1890s and became a successful businessman and publisher in Chicago. He committed suicide during the Depression.

13.
TNW to Rosemary Ames, January 6, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

14.
TNW to Miss Whitney, [Summer 1925?], LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

15.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, [Summer 1925?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

16.
Ibid.

17.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, October 20, [1925?], TNW Collection, YCAL. (TNW wrote 1924 by mistake.)

18.
Isabel Wilder to Ted [Wilder?], [September 26, 1925?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

19.
ANW, Oberlin College Biographical Form, Oberlin College Records.

20.
TNW to ANW, October 2, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.

21.
Isabel Wilder to Ted [Wilder?], [September 26, 1925?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

22.
Ibid.

23.
ANW, “Vita Notes with Special Reference to Literary Interests,” n.d., ANW, Wilder Family Record, TNW Collection, YCAL.

24.
Isabel Wilder to Ted [Wilder?], [September 26, 1925?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

25.
TNW to Warren Dolben, October 3, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

26.
TNW to Ann Harding, October 16, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

27.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, October 28, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.

28.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, November 23, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.

29.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, October 28, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.

30.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, October 13, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.

31.
Ibid.

32.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder [“Dearest of Mothers”], November 2, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.

33.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, November 23, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.

34.
TNW to Richard Boleslavsky, November 16, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.

35.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, October 13, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.

36.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, December 20, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.

37.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, October 28, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.

38.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, November 2, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.

39.
TNW to Rosemary Ames, [November 19, 1925?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

40.
Ibid.

41.
TNW to ANW, December 20, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.

42.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, February 10, 1923, TNW Collection, YCAL.

43.
Charlotte Wilder to ANW, [January 6, 1925?], Private Collection.

44.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, January 5, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

45.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, January 8, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

46.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, January 12, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

47.
TNW, Journal, [between November 20 and December 2, 1926?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

48.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, February 7, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

49.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, November 4, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.

50.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, January 20, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

51.
TNW's choice of pronunciation and spelling was noted in
Bookman
, March 1928, 78.

52.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, January 5, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

53.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, February 7, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

54.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, January 8, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

55.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, February 7, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

56.
Ibid.

57.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, January 31, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

58.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, February 14, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

59.
Ibid.

60.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, February 21, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

61.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, January 20, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

62.
Ibid.

63.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, February 25, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

64.
Ibid.

65.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, February 28, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

66.
TNW to Rosemary Ames, May 9, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

67.
Ibid.

68.
TNW to Rosemary Ames, July 4, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.

69.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, March 23, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

70.
TNW listed the following plays:
Cecilia
, a three-act play he wrote at Berkeley High School and destroyed;
The Skyrocket
, a four-act comedy-drama written at Oberlin and, he wrote, “destroyed,” although
The Rocket
, a four-act play from his Oberlin days, survives among his papers;
The Dreamers
, a “Ballad play,” written at Yale, which survives;
The Exiles
, the three-act play set in China, written at Yale;
The Trumpet Shall Sound
;
The Wedding Breakfast
, a three-act comedy written at Yale, where it won a prize, although the manuscript was lost by William Lyon Phelps, who was one of the judges;
Villa Rhabani
, set in Capri, a full-length play that according to TNW was best forgotten; and
Geraldine de Gray.

71.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, March 23, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

72.
TNW to Charles A. Wager, May 25, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

73.
TNW, “The Memoirs of Charles Mallison: The Year in Rome,” undated manuscript, TNW Collection, YCAL. A portion of this manuscript is published in the Afterword in TNW,
The Cabala and The Woman of Andros
, 219–22.

74.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, February 10, 1923, TNW Collection, YCAL.

75.
TNW,
The Cabala
and
The Woman of Andros
, 61–62.

76.
TNW to Claus Clüver, May 29, 1961, copy of letter enclosed in Jürgen Wolter to Jackson R. Bryer, March 3, 1989, Private Collection.