Everybody Was So Young (69 page)

[>] “the increasing growth”: Harold L. Ickes to
GCM
, 15 May 1946,
HMD
.

“any number of times”: Lillian Hellman/
HMD
interview,
HMD
.

Hellman had invited . . . “make her throw up?”: Ibid.

Dashiell Hammett . . . $10,: Johnson, Dashiell Hammett, pp. 238–45. In the end the judge refused bail and Hammett went to prison.

[>] “made up to save”: Lillian Hellman/
HMD
interview,
HMD
.

“Gerald Murphy was always”: S& G, p. 210.

“formidable and far . . . luncheon there every day”:
GCM
to
SWM
, 26 Jul. 1939,
HMD
.

“To be anti-Communist”: S& G, p. 211.

[>] “a pernicious nonsense . . . agu’d fear!”: Coriolanus, act I, scenes i and iv;
GCM
, loose notes,
HMD
. As was often the case,
GCM
cobbled the quotation together from hearing or memory, conflating two separate speech fragments into one.

“By and large . . . anywhere today”:
GCM
to
ESB
, 14 Nov. 1952,
GUL
. “always smelled of wet tweed”:
HMD
interview.

“provocative and sympathetic”:
GCM
to CT, undated,
HMD
.

[>] Linda was also . . . adjoining suites:
HMD
interview.

“Very stunning . . . freshness for me”:
GCM
to
SWM
, 16 Jan. 1949,
HMD
. “never set foot”: Mimi MacLeish Grimm interview.

“they realized it was what”: S& G, p. 222.

[>] “spoiled the Cote d’Azur”:
GCM
to
SWM
, 23 Apr. [May?] 1950,
HMD
. “Immediately one is caught . . . secret garden”: Ibid., 30 Jun. 1959.

“Patrick at his little garden”:
GCM
to
ESB
, 12 Jun. 1950,
GUL
.

“Isn’t it strange . . . Honoria has her child”:
GCM
to
HMD
, 21 Jun. 1951,
HMD
.

[>] “How different . . . come into it”:
GCM
to
SWM
, 11 Jun. 1953,
HMD
.

25. “Back there where they were”

[>] Either Gerald had tracked sand . . . powerful club denizens: DaP to Edmund Wilson, 19 Mar. 1959,
CUL
.

“the question of belief . . . lovely things?”: AMacL, The Book of Job, sermon at the First Church of Christ, Congregational, Farmington, Connecticut, 8 May 1955, privately printed, limited edition, Archibald MacLeish collection, Greenfield Community College.

[>] “had never been ‘rich’”: AMacL, “The Art of Poetry” interview, The Paris Review, vol. 14, no. 58, p. 69.

[>] “Then said his wife”:
GCM
, notes on SS Majestic stationery, miscellaneous papers,
HMD
.

“an almost total invention”: AMacL, Stuart Drabeck interview transcript (section A, p. 13), Archibald MacLeish collection, Greenfield Community College.

[>] “Pretty . . . published”: AMacL, J.B., manuscript draft, 1958,
LOC
.

“There is no such . . . never called Sarah”: AMacL, Stuart Drabeck interview transcript (section A, p. 13), Archibald MacLeish collection, Greenfield Community College.

“the confrontation”: AMacL, Riders on the Earth, p. 125.

“the fable”: Brooks Atkinson, “From ‘Job’ to ‘J.B.,’” New York Times, 4 May 1958.

“brilliant . . . works of the century”: Reviews quoted in Donaldson, Archibald MacLeish, p. 457.

didn’t see the play . . . March 18: DaP diary 1959:18 Mar.,
CUL
.

“If Hamlet was your Omelette . . . big cookie”: DaP to Edmund Wilson, 19 Mar. 1959,
CUL
.

[>] “Gerald was going . . . very bad patch there”: William MacLeish interview.

“You can never know”:
HMD
interview.

“Blow on the coal of the heart”: AMacL, J.B., p. 153.

[>] “sat between Gerald and Sara . . . where they were”: AMacL to EH, [30 Sept. 1958], Letters of Archibald MacLeish, pp. 411–12.

“that nuisance . . . you and Ada”:
GCM
to AMacL, 11 Jun. 1956,
LOC
.

[>] “I always loved . . . kid about”: EH to DaP, 31 Jan. 1944,
CUL
.

“Poor Sara and Gerald . . . but I did”: EH to AMacL, 15 Oct. 1958, Emest Hemingway: Selected Letters, p. 885.

“heard of his death”: AMacL to
GCM
, 2 Feb. [1954],
HMD
.

Dawn Powell . . . Rudolph Valentino: DaP diary 1955: 21 Jan.,
CUL
.

“I don’t consider . . . figs at people”: DaP, The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 7 Jan. 1950, p. 287.

“they were a great source”: CT interview.

“I’d never met an older woman . . . second-rate practitioner”: Ibid.

[>] “he didn’t seem the type”: John Hemingway interview.

“thought I knew . . . never talked about it”: Jane Pickman/
HMD
interview,
HMD
.

There were . . . put in the attic: LW, p. 132; CT interview; William Donnelly/
HMD
interview,
HMD
.

[>] “A series of semi-abstract . . . in their wit”: Blesh, Modern Art
USA
, pp. 93–96.

“I’ve been discovered . . . does one wear?”:
HMD
and John Donnelly interviews.

“ironic distance”: CT interview.

He was even unable . . . self-assurance: Blesh, Modern Art
USA
(p. 95), and MacAgy (in the catalogue for “American Genius in Review No. I,” p. 56) both list Bernheim Jeune as the gallery where Murphy had his one-man show, although MacAgy—on the strength of a “correction” from Murphy—has the date as 1936. Calvin Tomkins, in the last chapter of Living Well Is the Best Revenge, uses MacAgy’s date. William Rubin, in his catalogue for Murphy’s 1974 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, could find no references to any Murphy show in Paris, and was inclined to suspect he had fabricated it. He hadn’t, of course, he had just misremembered it.

[>] “There’s nothing more to be done”:
GCM
to CT, [1963],
HMD
.

“O to be young . . . painting at 60!”: Ibid., [undated].

“but returned to painting”:
GCM
to Rudi Blesh, undated, quoted in Blesh, Modern Art
USA
, p. 96.

[>] “he had to keep . . . the way you wanted”: Sherman Donnelly interview.

“One remembers . . . you deserve”:
SWM
to Pablo Picasso, 14 Mar. 1961, Musee Picasso (my translation).

“Tell Sara . . . I’m all alone”: LW, p. 126.

[>] “Dear Ernest”:
SWM
to EH, 24 May 1960,
JFK
.

“If you just won’t admit . . . take it”:
SWM
to
FSF
, 3 Apr. [1936],
PUL
.

“Sara is repairing . . . ‘grace under pressure?”’:
GCM
to CT, 10 Jul. 1961,
HMD
.

[>] Sara disliked . . . for anything:
HMD
interview.

Spanish proverb: Ibid., p. 126.

“Man Proposeth”: No. 524, “Outlandish Proverbs, compiled by Mr. G. H.,” in Sir John Mennes and James Smith, Facetiae. Musarum Deliciae: or The Muses Recreation.

“was oddly appropriate”: LW, p. 128.

[>] Gerald had paid for . . . complicated proposition:
GCM
to E. R. Cawdron, 12 Mar. 1951,
HMD
. It was important to have the case handled by a French lawyer because Esther was a French resident; the cost for this was 28, francs.

“I am sorry”: Esther Murphy to
GCM
, 9 Sept. 1950,
HMD
.

[>] “our relationship” . . . not Sara’s:
GCM
to Esther Murphy, undated,
HMD
.

“It was my irreparable”:
GCM
to DP, 17 Dec. 1962,
CUL
.

[>] “another generation growing”:
FSF
to
GCM
and
SWM
, 31 Jan. 1937,
HMD
.

It was Gerald . . . “very important”: Sherman Donnelly interview.

Edward Gorey . . . it was vain: John Donnelly and Laura Donnelly Taylor interviews.

Sometimes the games . . . he’d been fooling them: Laura Donnelly Taylor interview.

“like a Japanese garden”: Sherman Donnelly interview.

“Dow was in charge . . . what a man”: William MacLeish interview; additional details,
HMD
interview.

[>] “a little too much . . . it leaves you”:
SWM
to
JDP
and Elizabeth Dos Passos, S& G, p. 231.

Edmund Wilson . . . “bufferage”: DaP to
JDP
, 19 Mar. 1963,
CUL
.

“Great White Father” . . . least favorite picture: Undated, unsigned drawing in Edmund Wilson file, Dawn Powell papers,
CUL
. inscribed . . . “fromage de Brie”: Edmund Wilson to
JDP
, 2 May 1963, in Wilson, Letters on Literature and Politics, pp. 638–39.

[>] “lots of vins et liqueurs”: S& G, p. 230.

“an incredible meal”: Edmund Wilson to
JDP
, 2 May 1963, in Wilson, Letters on Literature and Politics, pp. 638–39.

“We’ve never done . . . from the heart”:
GCM
to DaP, 5 Apr. 1963,
CUL
.

26. “Only half a person without you”

[>] “much more irresponsible” . . . funeral barge:
GCM
to DaP, 5 Apr. 1963,
CUL
.

“I feel sure I’ll come”:
GCM
to AMacL, 15 Sept. 1963,
LOC
.

“Every once in a while . . . beautiful and free!”: Ibid., 30 May 1964.

[>] What they didn’t know . . . chance of survival: William Abel interview. “Dearest Gerald”:
SWM
to
GCM
, 7 Aug. 1963,
HMD
.

“sitting in the sun . . . doctors’ satisfaction”:
GCM
to AMacL, 15 Sept. 1963,
LOC
.

[>] “Featureless horizon . . . things unknown”: AMacL to
GCM
, 19 Sept. 1963,
HMD
.

“dinner and dancing . . . makes it worse”:
SWM
to DaP, 9 Mar. 1964,
CUL
.

“in the night”:
GCM
to AMacL, 30 May 1964,
LOC
.

“All of that . . . Trop tard”:
GCM
to CT, [Apr. 1964],
HMD
.

[>] “had been the only”: S& G, p. 238.

“how Paris was”: EH, A Moveable Feast, p. 211.

“a life without consequences”: Mellow, Flemingway: A Life Without Consequences.

“The rich have . . . wrong with it?”: EH, A Moveable Feast, pp. 207–209.

[>] “I am—contre coeur . . . of course”:
GCM
to AMacL, 30 May 1964,
LOC
. paints, but is not really a painter: Item 841,
JFK
.

“these rich . . . bad luck could go”: Baker, Emest Hemingway: A Life Story, p. 593n

Gerald was very firm . . . ran down: William Abel interview.

[>] “I had so wanted . . . peace hereafter”:
GCM
to Ada MacLeish and AMacL, 18 Jul. 1964,
LOC
.

When Dr. Abel . . . travels in the tropics: William Abel interview.

“Dear Dow”: AMacL inscription to
GCM
,
HMD
.

Recalling . . . “clarion-call”:
GCM
to AMacL, 4 Sept. 1964,
LOC
.

“thinking of himself”: AMacL, “The Art of Poetry” interview, The Paris Review, vol. 14, no. 58, p. 70.

[>] “How wonderful”:
HMD
interview.

“Dear Tad”:
SWM
to CT, 4 Oct. [1964],
HMD
.

On October 17 . . . slipped away forever:
HMD
interview.

“
DEAREST
SARA
. . . disguised as taste”: DP to
SWM
, quoted in Miller, Letters from the Lost Generation, p. 275; DaP to
JDP
, 26 Oct. 1964,
CUL
. Other details from interviews with CT,
FMB
, Patricia Vaill, and others.

[>] “Don’t go . . . know you”: Lillian Hellman/
HMD
interview,
HMD
.

“We know . . . Hemingway Collection”: Valerie Danby-Smith to
SWM
, 15 Dec. 1965,
HMD
.

“Dear Mrs. Hemingway . . . who is gone”:
SWM
to Mary Hemingway, handwritten copy, [14 Jan. 1966],
HMD
.

But Sara, veteran . . . blotchy with fury:
FMB
interview.

[>] “stuck with rather unpleasant”:
SWM
to
FMB
, 12 Nov. [late 1960s],
FMB
.

“wonderful talking letters”: AMacL to
SWM
3 Dec. [1964],
HMD
.

“It is such fun . . . see you all”:
SWM
to
JDP
, [1966],
UVA
. missing Boatdeck . . . plaques on the wall: In fact, as discussed earlier, the titles of Turbines and Pression were confused, with the former being applied as an alternative title to the painting Engine Room. I have tried to adhere to what I believe to be the original titles in describing and discussing all works.

[>] “a major American artist”: S& G, p. 3.

“a distinct contribution”: John Russell, “Surviving Murphy Art Is at the Modern,” New York Times, 11 Apr. 1974.

“an astonishingly original”: Hayden Herrera, “Gerald Murphy, An Amurikin in Paris,” Art in America, Sept./Oct. 1974.

[>] she spent much . . . Belvoir: Laura Donnelly Taylor interview.

On October 9 . . . “going to Dowdow”:
HMD
interview.

Selected Bibliography

A book like this one has many sources, some indirect, some cumulative; the following list names those (including works mentioned in the endnotes) of which I have made the most direct use. Page numbers in the notes are to the editions I used, although they are not in every case the original ones.