Everybody Was So Young (63 page)

“I’m loose”: Ibid.

promising . . . developments: EH notebook, quoted in Reynolds, Hemingway: The Paris Years, p. 350.

left a manuscript copy:
GCM
to Hadley Hemingway, 3 Mar. 1926, JFK; Miller, Letters from the Lost Generation, p. 15.

“Gosh, what news . . . water afresh”: Ibid.

[>] “felt like skunks”: Ibid.

“spent two days . . . absolutely elated”: GCM/CT interview notes,
HMD
.

evening, all five . . . Gerald and Sara as well?: Details from Reynolds, Hemingway: The American Homecoming, pp. 11–12.

[>] “nucleus”:
GCM
art notebook,
HMD
.

“the last unalloyed”:
JDP
, The Best Times, p. 158.

That spring Gerald . . . withdrawn or damaged: Catalogue, Société des Artistes Indépendents, 37e Exposition (held at Palais de Bois, Porte Maillot, 20 Mar. to 2 May 1926). The catalogue lists two pictures by Gerald Murphy: no. 2635 bis, Laboratoire and no. 2635 ter, Nature Morte. The bis and ter numerations indicate that they were the second and third entries; the first entry, not listed, must have been withdrawn after its number was assigned.

“group of chemical retorts”:
GCM
art notebook,
HMD
.

[>] “a table with real objects”: Ibid. All these notes precede a dated entry from Oct. 1926; any note on pages after that could not refer to paintings executed, or exhibited, before then.

[>] “‘painting’ forms . . . human relations”:
GCM
art notebook,
HMD
.

“Is there dramatic . . . human beings”:
GCM
to Philip Barry, [1925–26],
GUL
.

[>] “Hadley seemed so tired . . . Don’t worry—you”:
GCM
to EH, 22 May 1926, JFK; Miller, Letters from the Lost Generation, pp. 16–17.

What they didn’t tell . . . other expenses: Hadley Hemingway to EH, 24 May 1926, JFK; Reynolds, Hemingway: The American Homecoming, p. 35.

Gerald Cohn: The Sun Also Rises manuscript 194-I-13,
JFK
. See also Mellow, Hemingway, p. 304.

“By the time we left . . . great fun”: Hadley Hemingway to Nancy Milford, quoted in Milford, Zelda, p. 119.

[>] “I made one of those mistakes”:
FSF
to Zelda Fitzgerald, [summer] 1930, PUL; Correspondence ofF. Scott Fitzgerald, p. 239.

Why did they rave . . . about his own: GCM/CT interview notes,
HMD
.

“I suppose you have”: LW, p. 106, and CT interview.

promising composer ruined . . . “Seth with you”:
TITN
, pencil ms. 2, the Melarky version,
PUL
. See also Bruccoli, ed., F. Scott Fitzgerald Manuscripts, vol. IVa: Tender Is the Night: The Melarky and Kelly Versions, Part 1.

“It’s hardly likely”:
SWM
to
FSF
, [summer 1926],
PUL
.

“cooled relation” . . . Sara too:
TITN
, p. 75; CT transcriptions of
GCM
interviews,
HMD
.

[>] “So was Ernest”:
ESB
interview.

When Archie MacLeish . . . liner’s bridge: Donaldson, Archibald MacLeish, p. 157

Indian war dance on the pier: AMacL, Reflections, p. 41.

They organized morning . . . smiling to herself: All photographs,
SWM
scrapbooks,
HMD
.

[>] Strange music . . . giants and dwarfs: GCM/CT taped interview,
HMD
.

The Hemingway party . . . chairs at their feet: Ibid.

“these men, living”:
GCM
to Hadley Hemingway and EH, [14 Jul. 1926],
JFK
.

“you two children”: Ibid.

“dow dow”: Reynolds, Hemingway: The American Homecoming, p. 49.

Before they went to Spain . . . relinquish the habit:
GCM
to CT, 7 Nov. 1963,
HMD
.

“Papa”:
GCM
to Hadley Hemingway and EH, [14 Jul. 1926],
JFK
.

[>] “I didn’t want . . . think it’s fine”: GCM/CT interview,
HMD
.

“to look or feel . . . do it well, Papa”:
GCM
to Hadley Hemingway and EH, [14 Jul. 1926],
JFK
.

“He was watching me”: GCM/CT interview,
HMD
.

“everybody yelled ‘Olé’”:
GCM
and SWM/CT taped interview,
HMD
.

“a little silk dress . . . all my diamonds”: SWM/CT taped interview,
HMD
.

paid for by Gerald: Baker, Ernest Hemingway, p. 172.

“I stamped out . . . He didn’t notice”: SWM/CT taped interview,
HMD
.

[>] “no one has anything”:
SWM
to Hadley Hemingway and EH, [14 Jul. 1926],
JFK
.

“kept unearthing”:
GCM
to Hadley Hemingway and EH, [14 Jul. 1926],
JFK
.

guitar for Baoth . . . Sara herself:
SWM
to Hadley Hemingway and EH, [14 Jul. 1926],
JFK
.

fireworks display . . . cheering crowd: GCM/CT taped interview,
HMD
.

Monty Woolley . . . Bulldog banter:
HMD
interview.

They also became fascinated . . . “crinkly-toes!”:
HMD
and CT interviews.

[>] “Gaytrüd”:
GCM
to
SWM
and
HMD
, 4–9 Sept. 1937,
HMD
.

The Murphys greeted . . . Sara’s drum:
SWM
to Hadley Hemingway and EH, [14 Jul. 1926],
JFK
.

“Brides, I find . . . seem to have??”:
SWM
to Pablo Picasso, undated, Musée Picasso.

“She was dancing . . . unladylike”:
GCM
quoted in Milford, Zelda, p. 120.

[>] “I was sure . . . over and over again”: Ibid., pp. 117–18.

Why did they seem . . . “anything about people”: GCM/CT interview,
HMD
.

“Dear Scott . . . Theories about friends”:
SWM
to
FSF
, [summer 1926],
PUL
. This letter is often assumed to follow the champagne-and-caviar party at the casino but cannot have been written then, as it refers to the MacLeishes (plural), and Archie MacLeish didn’t arrive in Antibes from Persia until June 16.

[>] an apology: Inferred from an undated letter of acknowledgment from
SWM
to
FSF
in which she writes, “Thanks for your note. Don’t you think of it again—I haven’t,”
PUL
.

[>] following two young . . . dancing with one of them: Milford, Zelda, p. 120.

The Murphys were going . . . “knocked him cold”: GCM/CT interview notes,
HMD
. MacLeish, according to his biographer Scott Donaldson, denied punching Fitzgerald but claimed Scott had thrown a punch at him—to no effect. But MacLeish often liked to remember himself as more pacific than he always was.

[>] “We saw the Murphys . . . much any more”:
FSF
to EH, [fall 1926], The Letters ofF. Scott Fitzgerald, p. 297.

Murphys had lent . . . remainder of the autumn:
SMW
to Zelda Fitzgerald, 28 Jun. 1927, PUL; “you were too lovely about running our entire place while we were away” is Sara’s characteristic comment.

“depressed and . . . baffled”:
FSF
to EH, [fall 1926], The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, p. 297.

“Dear Hadern . . . hitched up to the universe”:
GCM
to Hadley Hemingway and EH, [14 Jul. 1926],
JFK
.

“When life gets bumpy . . . talk about it after”:
GCM
to EH, 6 Sept. 1926?,
JFK
.

Ernest had guessed . . . finances as a result: EH to Hadley Hemingway, 19 Nov. 1926,
JFK
.

“Hadley and you”:
GCM
to EH, 6 Sept. 1926?,
JFK
.

He didn’t tell them . . . returned to America: Because the Murphys knew and were fond of Pauline, it would have been natural for Ernest to refer to her and her plans in at least one of the letters he wrote them that autumn; but there is no mention of her in their correspondence until the following spring, just before she and Ernest married.

[>] “Love Pirates . . . for my work”: EH to Clarence Hemingway, 14 Sept. 1927, in Emest Hemingway: Selected Letters, pp. 258–59.

“We said to each other . . . don’t ever budge”:
GCM
and
SWM
to EH, [fall 1926],
JFK
.

15. “How can a wise man have two countries?”

[>] “Everyone in America”:
GCM
to EH, 13 Feb. 1927,
JFK
.

“Therefore shall a man”: Gen. 2: 23–24, in
GCM
“Notebooks” file,
HMD
. The quotation is undated but it is written on stationery from the Savoy Plaza Hotel, where Gerald and Sara stayed during New York visits in 1926 and 1929.

“grang pere . . . tent n’etait pas la”:
HMD
diary, 1 Jan 1927,
HMD
.

“three nigger hives . . . adorable”: PH to EH, 5 Oct. 1927,
JFK
.

Don Stewart . . . “false goatsbeard”:
DOS
, By a Stroke of Luck! p. 157.

[>] “Picture . . . windows”:
GCM
art notebook,
HMD
.

“Capital, ionic”: Ibid.

recoiled . . . cooing:
FMB
interview.

newly acquired cowboy . . . raids on the kitchen:
HMD
diary, 1 Feb., 3 Feb., 1928,
HMD
.

[>] “the theatres . . . Executions”:
SWM
to Zelda Fitzgerald, 28 Jun. [1927],
PUL
.

“a new opera”:
GCM
to EH, 19 Mar. [1927],
JFK
.

concert at the Conservatoire . . . Scarlatti: Poster for Ada MacLeish concert in Myers papers,
FMB
.

“We wanted our children”: AMacL, Reflections, p. 66.

Frenchified upbringing: DP to RB, 7 Nov. 1929, BU.

[>] “They really couldn’t”: AMacL to EH, 19 Jun. [1927], Letters of Archibald MacLeish, p. 202.

“these damn school girl . . . his affection”: AMacL to EH and PH, 13 Aug. [1927]; Ibid., p. 206.

encouraged him . . . year to paint:
GCM
to EH, 6 Sept. [1926],
JFK
.

more and more carrying . . . household alone: Yvonne Roussel Luff/
HMD
interview,
HMD
.

occasionally complained: William MacLeish interview.

“You’re right . . . for a while”:
GCM
to EH, 18 Jun. 1927,
JFK
.

“ballet of métiers” . . . cranes and warehouses:
GCM
art notebook,
HMD
.

filmed in a large, light . . . 69 rue Froidevaux: This idea was first proposed to me by Nelly Maillard, documentaliste of the Musée National Fernand Léger in Biot.

[>] “my testicles give me”: AMacL to EH, [Jun. 1926], JFK; AMacL, Letters of Archibald MacLeish, p. 178.

“He walks with Ernest”: AMacL, Collected Poems, p. 146.

“all Fairies”: EH to
GCM
and
SWM
, [late autumn 1926],
HMD
.

“was extremely sensitive”: GCM/CT interview,
HMD
.

“You are quite sure” . . . lied to him: EH, “A Simple Enquiry,” The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, pp. 327–30.

Hemingway began a novel . . . lousy writers: Item 529 B Ch 20, p. 1,
JFK
.

[>] “a 4CV Terrot . . . without losing a spangle”:
GCM
to EH, 18 Jun. 1927,
JFK
.

[>] sometimes ride tandem . . . whizzing by: S&G, p. 29;
HMD
interview.

choosing dresses . . . Ellen Barry:
ESB
interview.

That spring . . . complained about it later to Gerald:
SWM
to PH, 17 Jun. 1927, PUL;
GCM
to EH, 18 Jun. 1927,
JFK
.

“What a remarkable . . . La Mère Dante”:
GCM
to CT, 24 Aug. 1960,
HMD
.

spoke French like a butcher: AMacL, Reflections, p. 67.

“Gerald would get over . . . Gerald ditto”: AMacL to EH, 13 Aug. [1927], Letters of Archibald MacLeish, p. 206.

[>] “People have now started . . . give us time”:
SWM
to Zelda Fitzgerald, 28 Jun. [1927],
PUL
.

Harpo Marx . . . trip to Pamplona:
GCM
to EH, 15 Jun. 1927,
JFK
.

At a Paris concert . . . cut Picasso dead: AMacL interview, “The Art of Poetry,” The Paris Review, vol. 14, no. 58, p. 69.

“Hélas, alors”:
GCM
to Pablo Picasso (postcard), 19 Sept. 1927, Musée Picasso.

“I’m working . . . work quietly”:
GCM
to EH, 18 Jun. 1927,
JFK
.

[>] “such as the Greeks”: LW, p. 144.

“blk. fond”:
GCM
art notebook,
HMD
.

Its inspiration . . . bar tray:
GCM
, MacAgy/Murphy papers,
HMD
.

[>] objects . . . personal iconography: See also Rubin, The Paintings of Gerald Murphy, p. 37.

“faultily faultless”:
GCM
to EH, 18 Jun. 1927,
HMD
.

They had been cruising . . . drop anchor in time:
JDP
, The Best Times, pp. 150–51.

“hot boat”:
GCM
to EH, 18 Jun. 1927,
JFK
.

“the child of my old age”: Donaldson, Archibald MacLeish, p. 176.

[>] “I don’t mind a fairy” . . . same between them: GCM/CT interview;
HMD
. Gerald Murphy’s memory of this incident placed it shortly after their first meeting; but he distinctly remembered Hemingway wearing a bandage around his head at the time, something that happened after an accident with a bathroom skylight in the spring of 1928.

“They were on their way . . . glad to be going”: Zelda Fitzgerald, Save Me the Waltz, p. 98.