Careless People (62 page)

“the loveliest piece of earth”
:
A Life in Letters
, p. 68.

“I shall be obligated to snatch”
:
PUL, Charles Scribner's Sons Papers.

The villas they saw at Hyères
:
“Show Mr. and Mrs. F to—”
Collected Writings
, p. 421.

In
Save Me the Waltz
:
Save Me the Waltz, Collected Writings
, p. 87.

“protruded insistently from their white”
:
Save Me the Waltz, Collected Writings
, pp. 80–82.

“we warmed our sunburned backs”
:
“Show Mr. and Mrs. F to—”
Collected Writings
, p. 421.

“It is twilight as I write this”
:
“How to Live on Practically Nothing a Year,”
Afternoon of an Author
, p. 116.

“often leads to perversion”
:
New York
Times
, June 1, 1924.

“several things, one of which”
:
Dear Scott / Dear Max
, p. 120.

“that girl who shot her mother”
:
A Life in Letters
, pp. 140–41.

“a particularly sordid and degraded”
:
“Jacob's Ladder,”
Short Stories
, p. 350.

“
HALL–MILLS CASE RECALLED
”
:
New York
Times
, June 25, 1924.

“I am so anxious for people to see”
:
Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald
, p. 139.

“Everything would be perfect”
:
Milford,
Zelda Fitzgerald
, p. 107.

an undated letter from Olive Burgess
:
PUL, F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers.

“Zelda swimming every day”
:
Fitzgerald,
Ledger: A Facsimile
, p. 178.

“The table at Villa Marie”
:
Notebooks
, p. 106.

Olive would divorce Bunny Burgess
:
New York
Times,
December 10, 1926.

“I've been unhappy but my work”
:
A Life in Letters
, p. 80.

“We've had a quiet summer”
:
ibid, p. 78.

“Zelda and I are contemplating”
:
ibid, p. 80.

“It is like nothing I've read before”
:
PUL, Charles Scribner's Sons Papers.

“That September , I knew”
:
Notebooks
, p. 113.

“Under separate cover I am sending”
:
A Life in Letters
, p. 84.

“I have now decided to stick to”
:
ibid, p. 85.

were leaving St. Raphaël in two days
:
Matthew Bruccoli dates the letter c. November 7, but it is headed Sunday, saying they will leave Tuesday; the Sunday was November 9, 1924.

“ill feeling with Zelda”
:
Fitzgerald,
Ledger: A Facsimile
p. 179.

“an operation to enable [her]”
:
Bruccoli,
Some Sort of Epic Grandeur,
p. 245.

“the strange incongruity of the words”
:
Dear Scott / Dear Max
, p. 82.

“In no other way could your irony”
:
PUL, Charles Scribner's Sons Papers.

“He was supposed to be a bootlegger”
:
ibid.

“careful searching of the files”
:
Dear Scott / Dear Max
, pp. 89–90.

“I'm a bit (not very—not dangerously)”
:
ibid, pp. 88–90.

“The Plaza Hotel scene”
:
Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald
, pp. 151.

“clearing up that bum Plaza Hotel scene”
: As Ever, Scott-Fitz,
p. 75.

“title is bad”
:
As Ever, Scott-Fitz
, p. 78.

“it may hurt the book's popularity”
:
Dear Scott / Dear Max
, pp. 88–90.

“I am quite drunk I am told”
:
A Life in Letters
, pp. 98–99.

“represents about a year's work”
:
Dreams of Youth
, p. 498.

“I read your article (very nice too) in Van”
:
PUL, John Peale Bishop Papers.

“Like Gatsby I have only hope”
: Dreams of Youth
, p. 504.

“dignified by an ardent pursuit”
:
John Keats,
Selected Letters,
Grant F. Scott
and
Hyder Edward Rollins, eds., Harvard University Press; Revised Edition (September 30, 2005), p. 100.

“Premature success”
:
“Early Success,”
The Crack-Up,
p. 89.

“This is very important. Be sure”
:
Dear Scott / Dear Max
, p. 93.

what he really meant was the leg of a compass
:
See Thomas Dilworth, “Donne's Compass at the Death Scene.”

“I look out at it”
:
Notebooks
, p. 332.

IX. FUNERAL AN INVENTION

“Begin with an individual”
:
“The Rich Boy,”
Short Stories
, p. 317.

“The book comes out today”
:
Dear Scott / Dear Max
, p. 100.

“Sales situation doubtful excellent reviews”
:
A Life in Letters
, p. 106n.

“It is too ripe for us”
:
Bruccoli,
Some Sort of Epic Grandeur
, p. 254.

“F. Scott Fitzgerald's Latest A Dud”
:
Byrer,
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Critical Reputation,
p.
195.

“one woman, who could hardly have”
:
Fitzgerald, Introduction to
The Great Gatsby
, New York: Modern Library, 1934.

“a strange mixture of fact and fancy”
:
Leonard Baird.
Life
, April 30, 1925, p. 33.

“melodrama, a detective story”
:
Literary Digest International Book Review,
May 3, 1925, pp. 426–27.

Heywood Broun's wife, Ruth Hale, wrote
:
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
, April 18, 1925.

“a snotty [and withal ungrammatical]”
:
A Life in Letters
, p. 127.

“most decidedly, not a great novel”
:
Galveston Daily News,
April 26, 1925.

“‘The Great Gatsby',”
certainly, is written”
:
Bryer,
Critical Reception
, p. 232.

“a curious book, a mystical, glamorous story of today”
:
New York
Times
, April 19, 1925.

“As for the drama of the accident”
:
In His Own Time,
pp. 353–54.

“Some day they'll eat grass”
:
PUL, Charles Scribner's Sons Papers.

“mastered his talent and gone soaring”
:
Critical Assessments Vol. I
, p. 179.

“The Long Island [Fitzgerald] sets before us”
:
In His Own Time,
p. 351.

“Without making any invidious comparisons”
:
A Life in Letters
, p. 109.

“What has never been alive cannot very well”
:
Bryer,
The Critical Reception
, p. 202.

“Burton Rascoe says
The Great Gatsby
is”
:
Dreams of Youth
, p. 503.
Nedra
is a 1905 novel of love among the upper classes by George Barr McCutcheon. There is no evidence of a writer named Harold Nigrath, although a Harold MacGrath was a bestselling writer of romances such as
The Princess Elopes
.

“little tribute is a result of our having snubbed”
:
A Life in Letters
, p. 117.

“has never been known to refuse an invitation”
:
Dreams of Youth
, p. 204.

“that cocksucker Rascoe”
:
Bruccoli,
Scott and Ernest: The Authority of Failure and the Authority of Success
, p. 62.

“I give you my word of honor”
:
Rascoe, “Contemporary Reminiscences,” p. 66.

“triumphs by technique rather than by theme”
:
ibid, p. 68.

“It's just four o'clock in the morning”
:
PUL, F. Scott Fitzgerald's scrapbook.

“Gatsby's life seemed to have had”
:
Trimalchio
, p. 137.

“creating the contemporary world”
:
Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald,
p.

“rather a bitter dose”
:
Wilson,
Letters,
p. 121.

“My present quarrel with you is only this”
:
Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald
, p. 164.

“
Gatsby
was far from perfect in many ways”
:
A Life in Letters
, p. 112.

“We had a great trip together”
:
Ernest Hemingway.
Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917–1961
. Carlos Baker, ed. New York: Scribner, 1981, p. 163.

Hemingway told Ezra Pound
:
Scott Donaldson.
Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald: The Rise and Fall of a Literary Friendship
. New York: Overlook, 1999, p. 61.

“Most people are dull, without distinction”
:
PUL, F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers.

“We went to Antibes to recuperate”
:
PUL, Zelda Fitzgerald Papers.

“Let me tell you about the very rich”
:
“The Rich Boy,”
Short Stories
, p. 318.

These are not the words of a man in thrall to riches
:
Ten years later, Hemingway would claim in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” that someone told Fitzgerald that the only difference between the rich and other people is that the rich have more money. In fact, someone told it to Hemingway: he had announced at a dinner with Max Perkins that he was getting to know the rich, and the sharp Irish critic Mary Colum informed Hemingway that the rich just have more money. Characteristically, Hemingway turned his own humiliation into an arrow to shoot down the competition.

“sense of carnival and impending disaster”
:
PUL, Charles Scribner's Sons Papers.

“he suddenly realized the meaning of the word”
:
“Babylon Revisited,”
Short Stories
, p. 620.

“the most glamorous place in the world”
:
Dreams of Youth
, p. 100.

“Now Ludlow, take it from an old souse”
: Turnbull,
Scott Fitzgerald
, p. 168.

“Is there any man present”
:
ibid.

“Dear Adolph, Please let Mr. Fitzgerald”
:
PUL, F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers.

“back in America—further apart than ever before”
:
A Life in Letters
, p. 193.

“The parties were bigger”
:
Fitzgerald, “My Lost City,”
The Crack-Up
, p. 30.

“to increase his paper's circulation”
: The New Yorker,
“A Mystery Revived,” August 7, 1926, p. 25.

The trial lasted just under a month
:
John R. Brazil. “Murder Trials, Murder, and Twenties America.”
American Quarterly
, 33.2 (1981), pp. 163–84.

“She's a liar! Liar, liar, liar!”
:
New York
Times
, November 19, 1926.

“After reading pages of testimony”
:
The New Yorker,
December 4, 1926, p. 23.

“My mother was a good woman”
:
Kunstler,
Hall–Mills Murder Case
, p. 309.

“engaged in flagrantly sentimental relations”
:
A Life in Letters
, p. 193.

Their generation had desired success
:
Zelda Fitzgerald,
Collected Writings
, pp. 408–9.

“I was in the insistent mood”
: Turnbull,
Scott Fitzgerald
, p. 168.

the dancing madness of the Middle Ages
:
ibid.

313–14
“wanted to have something for herself”
:
Milford,
Zelda Fitzgerald
, p. 149.

“Great ladies, bourgeoises, adventuresses”
:
Fitzgerald,
The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald,
pp.
498–99.

“she has given me the greatest joy that can exist”
:
Bruccoli,
Some Sort of Epic Grandeur
, p.
.