Careless People (59 page)

“A writer had better rise above”
:
Quoted in Christopher Ricks,
T. S. Eliot and Prejudice.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988, p. 46.

“five weeks of inexpert investigation”
:
Tribune
, October 22, 1922.

“was willing to join in”
:
New York
Times,
October 22, 1922.

“New York suddenly became
very
brilliant”
:
Kellner,
Carl Van Vechten and the Irreverent Decades
, p. 47.

“hints at a sort of charitable regret”
:
Tribune,
October 25, 1922.

the Mills family had been receiving letters
:
New York
Times,
October 24, 1922.

“If you do not stop your silly activities”
:
ibid.

“mistreated” his wife
:
New York
Times,
November 17, 1922.

“What should have been done”
:
New York
Times,
October 24, 1922.

“After careful searching of the files”
:
Dear Scott / Dear Max
, p. 89.

“to fit a given mood or ‘hauntedness'”
:
Dreams of Youth
, p. 571.

“aroused over this double murder”
:
Town Topics
, October 26, 1922.

“in harmony with the loving care”
: New York Times
, October 28, 1922.

“had never seen so much publicity”
:
New York
Times
, November 2, 1922.

“commented on the lack of corroboration”
:
New York
Times
, October 16, 1922.

“the clergyman's expensive garments”
:
New York
Times
, October 21, 1922.

“the contrast between the social status”
:
New York Times
, October 26, 1922.

“dissatisfaction”; “drab apartment”
:
Tribune
, October 26, 1922.

“had been reading a passage in a romantic novel”
:
World,
October 24, 1922.

“Fell in love on the 7th,” with Zelda
:
Fitzgerald Ledger: A Facscmile,
p. 173.

“Jordan of course was a great idea”
:
Dear Scott / Dear Max
, p. 90.

“Even the grief he could have borne”
:
“Winter Dreams,”
Short Stories
, pp. 235–36.

“At last we were one with New York”
:
Fitzgerald, “My Lost City,”
The Crack-Up
, pp. 28–29.

“because as a restless and ambitious man”
:
Milford,
Zelda Fitzgerald
, p. 319.

“about Zelda & me. All true”
:
Dear Scott / Dear Max,
p.
113.

“She was something desirable and rare”
:
“The Sensible Thing,”
Short Stories
, p. 301.

“A writer whom it is a joy to read”
:
New York Times,
October 29, 1922.

“You are right about Gatsby being blurred”
:
A Life in Letters
, pp. 101, 126.

“Splendor . . . was something in the heart”
:
Fitzgerald,
Tender Is the Night,
1934. Reprint
London: Penguin Classics, 2010, p. 68.

V. THE MEETING ALL AN INVENTION. MARY

“There was a kindliness about intoxication”
:
The Beautiful and Damned
, 1922. Reprint London: Penguin Classics, 2010, p. 338.

“in an offhand manner that the case”
:
Tribune
, November 1, 1922.

“astonishing, rambling statement”
:
World
, November 1, 1922.

“forced to believe [her] in other aspects”
:
ibid.

local officials started looking for fingerprints
:
Tribune
, November 2, 1922.

“
the disgusting Hall–Mills affair”
:
Town Topics
, November 2, 1922.

“Embittered by poverty”
:
Baltimore News
, November 1922.

“poise”; “perfect self-control”; “an inexplicable phenomenon”
:
Tribune
, November 5, 1922.

“Not even the tutoring of a lifetime”
:
ibid.

“There has been so much criticism here”
:
Town Topics,
November 9, 1922.

“has been called all sorts of names”
:
ibid.

“Petronius is Sunday School literature”
:
The New Republic,
November 1, 1922.

“Well, I guess the children have left”
:
Andrew Turnbull.
Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography
. London: The Bodley Head, 1962,
Scott Fitzgerald
, p. 130.

“Dearest Lud—I'm running wild”
:
PUL, Zelda Fitzgerald Papers.

“I told them you were richer than God”
:
ibid.

reported the game in his column
:
Franklin Pierce Adams,
Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys
,
p.
362.

“think of that horse's ass F.P.A.”
:
A Life in Letters
, p. 140.

advertisement . . . declaring that it had hired Lothrop Stoddard
:
Tribune,
November 2, 1922.

“this man Goddard”
:
During Fitzgerald's time at Princeton he may also have encountered a professor named Goddard, confusingly enough, who also gave a series of eugenicist lectures, which may be the “Stoddard Lectures” that Owl-Eyes pulls from Gatsby's shelves in Chapter Three. It is quite possible that Fitzgerald intended to name names and
mixed the two up. He had cheerfully given other real-life miscreants their own names in the novel, and one eugenicist does sound much like another.

“Look for the Fay Cab”
:
Tribune
, November 2, 1922.

Fay expanded his taxi fleet
: See Peretti,
Nightclub City,
Chapter One.

“the societies which rally”
:
New York
Times,
July 30, 1922.

Swastika Fruit Company, rumored to be a bootlegging front
:
New York
Times,
July 3, 1922.

“a particularly brilliant day”
:
Van Vechten,
The Splendid Drunken Twenties,
p.
14.

“stood on her head, disrobed”
:
ibid, p. 11

“All the literary, theatrical and cinema world”
:
Tribune
, November 12, 1922.

“The food was execrable”
:
Tribune
, November 12, 1922.

“One hundred percent Americanism”
:
Tribune
, November 10, 1922.

“all the kept women & brokers in New York”
:
Van Vechten,
The Splendid Drunken Twenties
, p. 14.

“It was on the train”
:
Quoted in Crunden,
Body and Soul,
p.
208.

“It started out with a weird, spinning sound”
:
Trimalchio: An Early Version of
The Great Gatsby. James L. W. West III, ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2000, p. 42.

“‘
The story I told the authorities'”
:
New York
Times
, November 5, 1922.

“which accounts for her agility at midnight”
: Tribune
, October 27, 1922.

“It has been established to the satisfaction”
:
Tribune, November 4, 1922.

“It's an amazing story”
:
Kunstler,
The Hall–Mills Murder Case,
p.
80.

“romantic inaccuracies in her story”
:
Tribune,
November 4, 1922.

“gave a vivid account of hearing a man's voice”
:
New York
Times
, October 31, 1922.

“What difference does it make”
:
ibid.

“filled his house at this time”
:
Pegolotti.
Deems Taylor
, p. 101.

“one of the most forceful men I have ever met”
:
ibid, p. 72.

“beglamored by the idea of Scott Fitzgerald”
:
Wilson,
The Twenties
, p. 62.

“there was something petulant”
:
Milford,
Zelda Fitzgerald
, p. 68.

“rush after New Year's Eve”
:
Quoted in Harrison Kinney,
Thurber: His Life and Times,
1995, p. 379.

“I couldn't seem to get sober enough”
:
Turnbull,
Scott Fitzgerald,
p. 125.

“Zelda and her abortionist”
:
In Milford, p. 88; Taylor, p. 114; Cline, p. 125; Mellow, p. 147; Wagner-Martin, p. 64.

Scott wrote in his notebooks of a son
:
Fitzgerald,
The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald,
p.
244.

“We find them both rather changed”
:
Wilson,
Letters
, pp. 78–79.

“Your catalog is not complete”
:
Bruccoli,
A Life in Letters
, p. 51.

“a thing of bitterness and beauty”
:
Tribune
, November 5, 1922.

“reflect our present condition of disruption”
:
Edmund Wilson,
Saturday Literature Review,
November 25, 1922.

“Mr. Eliot's trivialities are more valuable”
:
ibid.

“In fact, it seems to me the first step”
:
The Crack-Up
, p. 310.

“the Yale Bowl, with lamps”
:
Pegolotti,
Deems Taylor
, p. 267.

“We have been having a hell of a time”
:
PUL, Zelda Fitzgerald Papers.

“in Great Neck there was always disorder”
:
Zelda Fitzgerald,
Collected Writings
, p. 452.

“where Zelda and Helen became drunk”
:
Bruccoli,
Some Sort of Epic Grandeur
, p. 208.

“For Helen and Jean”
:
Bruccoli,
Fitzgerald in the Marketplace
, p. 80.

“Helen—not of Troy”
:
ibid, p. 81.

“Gene didn't make any comment”
:
PUL, F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers.

Beauty fires us with the faith
:
Sparrow, “Footloose Philosophy,” p. 130.

“because it interfered with the neatness of the plan”
:
A Life in Letters
, p. 76.

“Imagination, not invention”
:
Conrad,
A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences
, Zdzislaw Najder and J. H. Stape, eds. Cambridge University Press, 2008, p. 35.

“synchronized clocks on the north and south”
:
New York
Times
, December 13, 1922.

“haunted by time”
:
Cowley, “The Romance of Money.”

“We do love the center of things”
:
Zelda Fitzgerald,
Collected Writings
, p. 201.

“Can't you come? Dos Passos”
:
Wilson,
Letters,
p.
98.

Swope told reporters
:
Tribune
, November 8, 1922.

changing the channels of their avidity
:
Fitzgerald,
The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald,
p.
322.

“because it shows classes in movement”
:
ibid.

“You danced elbow to elbow”
:
Fitzgerald, “My Lost City”
The Crack-Up
, p. 28.

“Mary Hay—that is, she differs”
:
Bruccoli,
Some Sort of Epic Grandeur,
p.
337.

In April 1930 Zelda published a sketch
:
Zelda Fitzgerald,
Collected Writings
, pp. 317–25.

Fitzgerald said was based on Mary Hay
:
As Ever Scott Fitz
, 146.

“imagine the divergent New Yorks”
:
Tribune
, August 6, 1922.

“statements and romantic stories”
:
Tribune
, November 10, 1922.

“no greater calamity could befall workers”
:
Times,
November 7, 1922.