f. scott fitzgerald's ledger, 1919–1938: university of south

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 1

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Ledger, 1919–1938

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Ledger is one of the richest primary source documents in existence for any literary author. Fitzgerald began recording information in this business ledger sometime in 1919 or 1920 after leaving the Army and moving to New York to begin his professional life as a writer.

Fitzgerald divided the Ledger into five sections: “Record of Published Fiction,” “Money Earned by Writing since Leaving Army,” “Published Miscelani (including movies) for which I was Paid,” “Zelda’s Earnings,” and “Outline Chart of my Life”. The “Record of Published Fiction” and “Published Miscelani” are spreadsheets listing everything he wrote and its publication history up to the time of its final disposition. He meticulously tracked his earnings from 1919 through 1937 in the section titled “Money Earned by Writing since Leaving Army.” In addition, he recorded Zelda’s earnings from her writing. In the autobiographical section, “Outline Chart of my Life,” he provided background about his early years but later included monthly entries for each year.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Ledger is part of the Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald held by the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, located in the Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C.

The digital version of the Ledger, which includes access to the full text and is keyword-searchable, was produced by the staff of the Digital Collections Department of the University of South Carolina. The scanning was done by Kelly Riddle (MLIS 2012) and Matthew W. Shepherd (MLIS 2012), and the transcription was prepared and formatted by Matthew W. Shepherd. The transcription was edited by Judith Baughman.

—Elizabeth Sudduth, Director of the Irvin Department of

Rare Books and Special Collections, University of South Carolina


Transcriber’s Notes

Each page of the MS is transcribed as a single unbroken page. Pages that do not bear Fitzgerald’s handwriting are omitted.

Page numbers from the MS are included in the transcription. The transcription’s running page numbers are indicated by the text TRANSCRIPTION PAGE in the header to distinguish the two paginations.

Page sizes vary by section:

Published Fiction: Tabloid (11″ × 17″); Earnings: Letter (8.5″ × 11″), except page 74, which is legal size (8.5″ × 14″); Published Miscellany: Legal (8.5″ × 14″); Autobiographical Chart: Legal (8.5″ × 14″); All other pages are letter size (8.5″ × 11″).

Page margins at top and bottom are 1″; page margins at left and right are 0.5″.

Blank ruled lines in the MS are transcribed one-to-one as blank typed lines.

Type is in Times New Roman, except for special Unicode characters for which a different font is used (e.g. △, ★).

Type is at 12 points, except:

Published Fiction (10 points, due to page size limitations); Published Miscellany (11 points, due to page size limitations); Very small handwriting, including that which occupies half the ruled line height in the MS (typically 8

points); Very large handwriting, such as the red notes at the bottoms of pages 162 and 164 (size varies); Superscript and subscript.

The text in this transcription is kerned, but no ligatures are used.

In some cases, the space between characters in the transcription has been condensed to fit the available space and preserve unbroken lines, often in places where Fitzgerald himself similarly condensed his script.

Black ink is used throughout for glyphs and shapes, except:

Gray type to indicate partially erased text; Dull translucent orange lines to approximate those on pages 74 and 75; Red underlines and notes on pages 162–165.

The relative horizontal spacing of text is approximated in this transcription, except for header material, which is arranged as follows: Page numbers are always flush left or right, followed by one blank line, followed by the heading and upper marginalia. Headings written on the uppermost ruled line are transcribed with no intervening blank line (e.g. page 52); headings written above this line are transcribed with one or more intervening blank lines, depending on the upper marginalia (e.g. page 165).


Bold square brackets indicate illegible text: black if struck out, and gray if partially erased.

Double underlines indicate text that has two or more underlines in the MS. Similarly, double strikethroughs indicate text that has two or more strikethroughs in the MS.

Horizontal square brackets under text indicate that the text occupies the same horizontal space in the MS. Superscript text within such a bracket in the transcription appears above the normally positioned text in the MS. A bracket enclosing only normally positioned text indicates text that is overlaid directly on other text.

Vertical square brackets to the left of lines of type indicate that the transcribed lines occupy the same ruled line in the MS.

Fitzgerald’s symbol for and resembles a plus sign (+). However, since it is semantically an ampersand (&), the latter symbol is used in this transcription.

Since Fitzgerald’s dashes vary in width and spacing, this transcription attempts to approximate each en and em dash in context, though they are generally ambiguous.

In many cases, capitalization in the MS is ambiguous, such as for the letters m/M in mother. I have attempted to choose whichever case seems probable in context, but the matter is open to interpretation.

The Published Fiction and Published Miscellany sections are rendered as tables, with lines separating rows to aid the reader.

The Name column on even-numbered pages of the Published Fiction section has been reproduced on odd-numbered pages for ease of reference.

I extend my sincere gratitude and admiration to Judith Baughman for her careful proofreading of the transcription. With her extensive background in Fitzgerald’s life and works, she deciphered and corrected many of the enigmatic names throughout the text. Any remaining discrepancies, however, are mine.

—Matthew W. Shepherd, Digital Assistant,

Digital Collections, University of South Carolina


Property of.

F. Scott Fitzgerald


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Contents

Record of Published Fiction; Novels, Plays, Stories Page 2 (Not including unpaid-for juvenilia) Record of Other Published Work, Paid for. 101 Earnings by years 51 Geneological Table Zelda 150 143 Autobiographical Chart 151


2 Record of Published Fiction—Novels, Plays, Stories

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The Debutante Play in One Act (Should be second)

APRIL 1919 Smart Set Nov 1919 Scribner Mar. 26th ’20 Collins May ’21

Babes in the Woods Short Story (First Thing Published)

Jan. 1917 Smart Set Sept 1919 Scribner Mar 26 ’20 Collins May ’21

Porcelain and Pink Play in One Act

Oct 1919 Smart Set Jan 1920 Scribner Oct 1922 Collins [ ] Mar 23

Dalyrimple Goes Wrong Short Story

Sept 1919 Smart Set Feb 1920 Scribner Aug 1920 Collins March 22

Benediction Short Story

Oct 1919 Smart Set Feb 1920 Scribner Aug 1920 Collins March 22

Head and Shoulders Short Story

Nov 1919 Sat. Eve. Post Feb ’21, 1920 Yellow Mag. “Topsy Turvy”

March 1922 Scribner Aug 1920 Collins Mar ’22

Mr. Icky One Act Play

Nov. 1919 Smart Set Mar. 1920 Scribner Oct 1922 Collins Mar 23

Myra Meets his Family Short Story

Dec 1919 Sat. Eve. Post Mar 14, ’20 The Soverign? (or Strand?)

July 1921

This Side of Paradise Novel

Nov ’17 – Mar ’18 July ’17 – Sept ’19

2 episodes in S. S. Syndicated

Scribner Hodder & Staughton Austrailia Capp, Clark & Co. Canada

Mar 26, ’20 Collins May ’21

The Camel’s Back Short Story

Jan 1920 Sat. Eve. Post April 24, ’20 Pearsons July 1921 Scribner O. Henry Memorial Collection

Oct 1922 Dec 1920

Collins

Mar ’23

The Cut Glass Bowl Short Story

Oct 1919 Scribners May 1920 Scribner Aug 1920 Collins Mar ’22

Bernice Bobs her Hair Short Story

Jan. 1920 Sat Eve Post May 3, 1920 Pan(?) or 20 story(?)

Aug 1921 Scribner Aug 1920 Collins Mar ’22

The Ice Palace Short Story

Dec. 1919 Sat Eve. Post May 20, 1920 Scribner Aug 1920 Collins Mar ’22

The Off-Shore Pirate Short Story

Feb 1920 Sat Eve Post May 27, 1920 The Soveriegn Feb 1922 Scribner Aug 1920 Collins Mar ’22

The Four Fists Short Story

May 1919 Scribners June 1920 Scribner Aug 1920 Collins Mar ’22

The Smilers Short Story

Sept 1919 Smart Set June 1920

May Day Short Story [Very Long]

March 1920 Smart Set July 1920 Scribner Oct 1922 Collins Mar ’23


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The Debutante Play in One Act (Should be second)

Dramatic Club Univ. Ala. Feb 1921

See T. S. of P. Play in Nassau Litt. Mag January 1917

Included in This Side of Paradise

Babes in the Woods Short Story (First Thing Published)

See T. S. of P. Published in Nassau Litt. Included in This Side of Paradise

Porcelain and Pink Play in One Act

Players League April 16th, 1923 △ March, 1924

2nd Serial “College Stories”

In Tales of the Jazz Age

Dalyrimple Goes Wrong Short Story

In Flappers and Philosophers

Benediction Short Story

Story in Nassau Litt Mag. June 1915


Head and Shoulders Short Story

Bayard Vieller offer turned down

Metro (Dana) “The Chorus Girl’s Romance”


Mr. Icky One Act Play

The Usual Thing Nassau Litt. Dec. 1916.


Myra Meets his Family Short Story

Fox (Percy) “The Husband Hunter”

Lilah Meets his Family April 1919

Stripped and— Permanently Buried

This Side of Paradise Novel

See Debutante Famous Players The Romantic Egotist Nov 1917– Mar 1918 And destroyed stories 1919

Cheap editions, Burt & Collins, Popular Song 2nd serial Daily News ect

This Side of Paradise

The Camel’s Back Short Story

Sold to Warner Bros. “Conductor 1492”


The Cut Glass Bowl Short Story

O’brien, two stars In Flappers and Philosophers

Bernice Bobs her Hair Short Story


The Ice Palace Short Story

Anthology “Trumps” In Flappers and Philosophers

The Off-Shore Pirate Short Story

Metro (Dana) In Flappers and Philosophers

The Four Fists Short Story

O’brien, two stars In Flappers and Philosophers

The Smilers Short Story

Smile, Smile, Smile June 1919


May Day Short Story [Very Long]



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Flappers and Philosophers Collection

May 1919 – Feb 1920

Scribners, Smart Set and Sat. Eve Post

Feb 1919 – June 1920

Pearsons, Strand, Yellow, Soveriegn Pan, 20 story

1921–22 Scribners Hodder & Staugton

Austraila Capp Clark & Co.

Canada.

Aug 1920 Collins Mar 1921

The Jellybean Short Story

May 1920 Metropolitan Syndicated

Oct 1920 Scribners Harpers.

Oct 1922 Collins Mar ’23

The Lees of Happiness Short Story

July 1920 Chicago Tribune Dec 12, ’20 Scribners Oct ’22 Collins Mar ’23

Jemima Burlesque

Jan 1917 Vanity Fair Jan, ’21 Scribners Oct ’22 Collins Mar ’23

The Russet Witch Short Story

Nov 1920 Metropolitan Feb 1921 Scribners Oct 22 Collins Mar ’23

Tarquin of Cheapside Short Story

February 1917 Smart Set Feb 1921 Scribners Oct ’22 Collins Mar ’23

The Beautiful and Damned.

Novel

Aug 1920 – May 1921

Metropolitan Aug 1921 – April 1922

Scribners Canada. Capp, Clark,

& Co. Australia. Collins.

April 3d 1922

Collins Sept 1st ’22

The Popular Girl Short Story [Very Long]

Nov 1921 Sat. Eve. Post Feb 9th and Feb 16th, 1922

Two for a Cent Short Story

Sept 1921

Metropolitan

May ’22

Argosy

1934

Small Maynard Henry Holt & Co. O’briens Best S.S. of 1922

Spring ’25 Fall ’22

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

Very LONG Short Story

Oct 1921 Smart Set June ’22 Scribners Oct 22 Collins Mar 23

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Short Story

Feb 1922 Colliers May 27th ’22 Scribners Oct 22 Collins Mar 23

Tales of the Jazz Age Collection

Feb 1917–Feb 1922 Sat. Post; Colliers; S.S; Van. Fair; Met; Chi. Trib;

Sept 20th, ’20 June ’22

Pearsons July 1921 Scribners Sept 20th 1922

Collins Mar 23

Winter Dreams Short Story

Sept 1922 Metropolitan Dec. 1922 Mcleans (Canadian) Royal (English)

Jan 1923 Feb 1923

Scribners Feb 1926

“Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar”

Short Story

Jan 1923 Hearsts International

May 1923 [ ]

The Vegetable Play

Jan ’22 – Mar ’23 Scribners April 27th, ’23

Hot and Cold Blood Short Story

April ’23 Hearst’s International

Aug 1923 Scribners Feb 1926

The Sensible Thing Short Story

Nov, ’23 Jack Wheelers Weekly (Liberty)

July 1924 The Woman’s Pictorial

Dec 1924

Scribners Feb 1926


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2 Movies (Head & Shoulders) & (Off Shore Pirate)

8 stories Flappers and Philosophers

The Jellybean Short Story

2nd Serial “Contemporary Types of Short

Story”

Tales of the Jazz Age

The Lees of Happiness Short Story

O’brien, one star In Danish “All American Decameron”


Jemima Burlesque

Published in Nassau Litt. Tales of the Jazz Age

The Russet Witch Short Story

Tales of the Jazz Age as “O Russet Witch!”

Tarquin of Cheapside Short Story

Published in Nassau Litt. Here revised


The Beautiful and Damned.

Novel

Warner Bros. (Harlan & Prevost)

2nd serial, Daily news ect. Cheap Edition: Burt

The Beautiful & Damned

The Popular Girl Short Story [Very Long]


Two for a Cent Short Story

Gerrould-Bailey

Anthology Golden Book.

Three star O’Brien 2nd Serial “Short Stories for Classroom Reading”

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

Very LONG Short Story

Pasadena Little Theatre, Winter 1938 Drama by Hodapp.

Van Doren’s Anthology

Broadcast Columbia Hook-up May 13th 1934


The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Short Story

Obrien, two star Tales of the Jazz Age

Tales of the Jazz Age Collection

2 Productions See Porcelain

1 Movie (Camel) 11 Stories & Plays Tales of the Jazz Age

Winter Dreams Short Story

Called in England “Dream Girl of Spring”

All the Sad Young Men

“Dice, Brassknuckles & Guitar”

Short Story


The Vegetable Play

Sam Harris at Appollo Theatre

Atlantic City, with Ernest Truex

Nov 19th 1923

“Gabriel’s Trombone” rewritten 4 times Also called “Frost”

Directed by Sam Forrest Played Wilmington & Stamford Vagabond Players Balt.

The Vegetable

Hot and Cold Blood Short Story

2nd Serial All the Sad Young Men

The Sensible Thing Short Story



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Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les (Short Story)

Dec, 1923 McCall’s Magazine

July 1924

Women’s Pictorial

Dec 1924

Scribners Feb. 1926

“Diamond Dick” (Short Story)

Dec 1923 Heart’s International

April 1923

Gretchen’s Forty Winks (Short Story)

Jan. 1924 Sat. Eve. Post. Mar 15 1924

Home Magazine

March 1924

Scribners G. Putnam Co.

Feb 1926

The Baby Party (Short Story)

Feb 1924 Hearst’s International

Feb 1925

Scribners Feb 1926

“Our Own Movie Queen” (Short Story)”

Nov 1923 Chicago Tribune June 1925

The Third Casket (short Story)

March 1924 Sat. Eve. Post May 30th 1924

Pearson’s Magazine

Dec 1924

“One of my Oldest Friends” (short Story)

March 1924 Women’s Home Companion (Golden Book)

Sept 1925

Red Magazine July 1926

Doran

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Absolution (Short Story)

June 1923 American Mercury

June 1924

Scribners Feb 1926

The Pusher-in-the Face (Short Story)

March 1924 Women’s Home Companion

Feb 1925

Harpers 1926

The Unspeakable Egg (Short Story)

April 1924 Sat. Eve. Post. July 12th 1924

John Jackson’s Arcady (Short Story)

April 1924 Sat. Eve Post July 26th 1924

The Great Gatsby (Novel)

July & Aug ’23 June–Oct ’24

(Turned down College Humor Serialization)

Scribners April 10th 1925

Chatto and Windus

Feb 11th, 1926

Love in the Night (Short Story)

Nov, 1924 Sat Eve Post. Mar ’14 1925

Woman’s Pictorial

Dec 1925

The Adjuster (Short Story)

Dec, 1924 The Red Book Sept. 1925

Scribners Feb 1926

“Not in the Guide Book” (Short Story)

Feb, 1925 Woman’s Home Companion

A Penny Spent (Short Story)

July, 1925 Sat Eve. Post. Oct 10th 1925

Modern Woman July 1926

The Rich Boy (Short Story) [Very Long]

April–Aug 1925

Red Book Jan. Feb. 1926

Scribners Feb 1926


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2nd Serial German Trans: Die Redaktion Fr. Trans


“Diamond Dick” (Short Story)


Gretchen’s Forty Winks (Short Story)

In a collection entitled “Aces”


The Baby Party (Short Story)

O’Brien One Star Trans. “Candide” by Llona


“Our Own Movie Queen” (Short Story)”

Two thirds written by Zelda. Only my climax and revision

O’Brien Two Stars Stripped and—

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The Third Casket (short Story)

[ ] Price Raise

German Magazine “Wocke,” Oct 1924 Stripped and—

Permanently Buried

“One of my Oldest Friends” (short Story)

The “World’s” Best Short Stories for 1925 O’Brien One Star

Absolution (Short Story)

O’Brien 3 Stars All the Sad Young Men

The Pusher-in-the Face (Short Story)

Paramount for Authors League Two Reels.

Also republished in “The Golden Book” Classroom Psychology

2nd Serial O’Brien Two Stars Overton’s Anthology of Humorous Stories

The Unspeakable Egg (Short Story)

One star Obrien Stripped and—

Permanently Buried

John Jackson’s Arcady (Short Story)

One Star O’Brien Collection for Readings Stripped and—

Permanently Buried

The Great Gatsby (Novel)

Wm. Brady. Gt. Neck, Jan 25, 1926 with James Rennie & F. Eldrich Ambassador Thea. N.Y. Feb. 2nd 1926 (Owen Davis Dramatization)

Famous Players Lois Wilson & Warner Baxter (F. Vidor, Baxter; Brennon)

(Other Notes) Translation by Victor Llona (3 mos. in N.Y.)

2nd Serial. Famous Stories Published by Kra in Paris, Oct 1926.

The Great Gatsby

P u b G e r m a n y ( K n a u r ) S w e d i s h , D a n i s h . M o d . L i b r a r y B r i t t i s h S e r i a l . Argosy Mag

Love in the Night (Short Story)

Stripped and—

Permanently Buried

The Adjuster (Short Story)

2nd Serial O’Brien 2, Stars Price Raise


“Not in the Guide Book” (Short Story)


A Penny Spent (Short Story)

Stripped and— Price Raise

Permanently Buried

The Rich Boy (Short Story) [Very Long]



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Sept 1922 – Aug 1925

Am. Mer; S.E.P.; Hearst; Red B; Liberty Metropol; Mccalls;

Dec 1922 Feb 1926

Mcleans. Royal. Wm. Pic. Home Pearsons

Jan 1923 Dec 1925

Scribners Feb. 26 1926

Presumption (short story)

Nov 1925 Sat. Eve. Post Jan 9th 1926

Women’s Pictorial

1926 June

The Adolescent Marriage (short story)

Dec 1925 Sat. Eve Post. Mar 6 1926

Women’s Pictorial

July 1926

In a Little Town (The Dance) (Short Story)

Jan 1926 Red Book June 1926

Your Way and Mine (Short Story)

Feb 1926 Women’s Home Companion

May 1927 26?

Jacob’s Ladder (Short Story)

June 1927 Saturday Evening Post

Aug 20th 1927

The Love Boat (Short Story)

Aug 1927 Saturday Evening Post

Oct 8th 1927

A Short Trip Home (Short Story)

Oct 1927 Saturday Evening Post

Dec 15th 1927

The Bowl (Short Story

Nov 1927 Saturday Evening Post

Jan 21st 1928

Magnetism (Short Story)

Dec 1927 Saturday Evening Post

Mar 3d 1928

Grand Magazine 1928

The Scandal Detectives (Short Story)

Mar 1928 Saturday Evening Post

Apr. 28 1928

The Freshest Boy (short story)

Apr. 1928 Saturday Evening Post

July 28 1928

A Night at the Fair (Short Story)

May 1928 Saturday Evening Post

July 21st 1928

He Thinks he’s Wonderful (Short Story)

July 1928 Saturday Evening Post

Sept 29th 1928

The Captured Shadow (Short Story)

Sept 1928 Saturday Evening Post

Dec 29th 1928

The Perfect Life (Short Story)

Oct 1928 Saturday Evening Post

Jan 5th 1929

The Georgia Belle (Short Story)

(The Last of the Belles)

Nov 1928 Saturday Evening Post

Mar 2nd 1929


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All the Sad Young Men (Collection)

Nine Stories All the Sad Young Men

Presumption (short story)

Price Raise

The Adolescent Marriage (short story)

In a Little Town (The Dance) (Short Story)

Anthology Samples

Your Way and Mine (Short Story)

2nd Serial One Star Obrien Stripped and—

Permanently Buried

Jacob’s Ladder (Short Story)

2nd List O’Henry Price Raise

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The Love Boat (Short Story)

Two Stars O’Brien Price Raise Stripped and—

Permanently Buried

A Short Trip Home (Short Story)

Ghost Story Anthology 3 Stars O’Brien

The Bowl (Short Story

One Star O’Brien

Magnetism (Short Story)

Stripped and – Permanently Buried

The Scandal Detectives (Short Story)

One Star O’Brien Taps at Revielle

The Freshest Boy (short story)

Taps at Revielle

A Night at the Fair (Short Story)


He Thinks he’s Wonderful (Short Story)

Taps at Revielle

The Captured Shadow (Short Story)

Taps at Revielle

The Perfect Life (Short Story)

Taps at Revielle

The Georgia Belle (Short Story)

(The Last of the Belles)

Taps at Revielle


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Jan 1929 Sat. Eve. Post Mar 30th 1929

Basil and Cleopatra (Short Story)

Feb 1929 Sat Eve Post Apr. 27 1929

The Rough Crossing (Short Story)

Mar. 1929 Sat. Eve. Post June 8th 1929

Majesty (Short Story

May, 1929 Sat. Eve. Post July 13 1929

At Your Age (Short Story

June, 1929 Sat Eve. Post Aug 17th 1929

Modern Library Great Modern Short Stories

1930

The Swimmers (Short Story)

July 1929 Aug "

Sat Eve. Post Oct 17th 1929

Two Wrongs (Short Story)

Oct 1929 Nov 1929

Sat Eve Post Jan 18th 1930

First Blood (Short Story)

Jan 1930 Sat Eve Post April 6th 1930

A Nice Quiet Place (Short Story)

March 1930 Sat Eve Post May 31st 1930

The Bridal Party (Short Story)

May 1930 Sat. Eve Post Aug 9th 1930

A Woman with a Past (Short Story)

June 1930 Sat Eve Post Sept 6th 1930

One Trip Abroad (Short Story)

August 1930 Sat Eve Post Oct 11th 1930

A Snobbish Story (Short Story)

Sept 1930 Sat Eve Post Nov 29 1930

The Hotel Child (Short Story

Nov. 1930 Sat. Eve Post Jan 28th 1931

Bab‸ylon Revisited (Short Story)

Dec 1930 Sat. Eve Post Feb 21st 1931

Dodd Mead & Co. Oct 1931

Indecison (Short Story)

Jan 1931 Feb 1931

Sat Eve Post May 16th 1931

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Stripped and — Permanently Buried

Basil and Cleopatra (Short Story)


The Rough Crossing (Short Story)

Two stars O’Brien

Majesty (Short Story


At Your Age (Short Story

Price Raise

The Swimmers (Short Story)

One Star O’Brien Stripped and —

Permanently Buried

Two Wrongs (Short Story)

One Star Obrien Taps at Revielle

First Blood (Short Story)


A Nice Quiet Place (Short Story)

Taps at Revielle

The Bridal Party (Short Story)


A Woman with a Past (Short Story)

Taps at Revielle

One Trip Abroad (Short Story)

A Snobbish Story (Short Story)


The Hotel Child (Short Story

Bab‸ylon Revisited (Short Story)

Best Short Stories of 1931

Taps at Revielle

Indecison (Short Story)


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April 1931 Sat. Eve. Post July 4th, 1931

Amalgamated Press (Home Mag

1931 John Day

Flight & Pursuit (Short Story)

April 1931 Sat. Eve. Post May 15th 1932

Britannia & Eve 1931

Emotional Bankrupcy (Short Story)

June 1931 Sat. Eve. Post Aug 15th 1931

Between Three and Four (Short Story)

June 1931 Sat. Eve. Post Aug 29th

A Change of Class (Short Story

July 1931 Sat. Eve. Post Sept 22nd

Half a Dozen of the Other (Short Story)

July 1931 Red Book Dec ’31

A Freeze-out (Short Story)

Sept 1931 Sat Eve Post Dec 19th 1931

Diagnosis (Short Story)

Octtober 1931 Sat Eve Post Feb 20th 1932

Crazy Sunday (Short Story)

January 1932 American Mercury

Nov 1932

Family in the Wind (Short Story)

April 1932 Sat Eve Post June 4th 1932

What a Hansome Pair (Short Story)

April 1932 Sat Eve Post July 1932

The Rubber Check (Short Story)

May 1932 Sat Eve Post July 1932

Interne (Short Story)

Aug 1932 Sat. Eve. Post Nov 1932

On Schedule

Dec 1932 Sat Eve Post March 1933

More than Just a House

April 1933 Sat Eve Post July 1933

I got Shoes

July 1933 Sat Eve Post Oct 1933

The Family Bus

Sept 1933 Sat Eve Post Dec 1933


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A New Leaf (Short Story)

Best American Love Stories O brien 3 ★

Taps at Revielle

Flight & Pursuit (Short Story)


Emotional Bankrupcy (Short Story)

Between Three and Four (Short Story)

Obrien 3 ★

A Change of Class (Short Story

Obrien 2 ★

Half a Dozen of the Other (Short Story)

Published as “Six of One” Obrien 1 ★ Stripped and

Permanently Buried

A Freeze-out (Short Story)

Diagnosis (Short Story)

Obrien 1 ★ Stripped and

Permanently Buried

Crazy Sunday (Short Story)

O Brien Collection

Taps at Revielle

Family in the Wind (Short Story)

O Henry Collection Swenska Dagbladet

Taps at Revielle

What a Hansome Pair (Short Story)


The Rubber Check (Short Story)


Interne (Short Story)

Taps at Revielle

On Schedule


More than Just a House

Obrien 1★

I got Shoes

Obrien 1★

The Family Bus

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’26, ’28, ’29, June ’32 – Mar ’34

Scribners Magazine

Dec ’33 Mar ’34

Scribners Mar 34

Chatto & Windus 1935

In the Darkest Hour (Short Story)

April 1934 The Red Book

1934

No Flowers (Short Story)

May 1934 Sat Eve Post July 34

New Types (Short Story)

July 1934 Sat Eve Post Sept 34

Her Last Case (Short Story)

Aug 1934 Sat Eve Post Nov ’34

The Fiend (Short Short)

Sept 1934 Esquire Jan 1935

Evening Standard

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The Count of Darkness (Short Story)

Oct 1934 Red Book 1935

Kingdom in the Dark (Short Story)

Nov 1934 Red Book 1935

The Night of Chancellorsville (Short Short)

Nov 1934 Esquire Feb 35

Gods of the Darkness (Short Story)

Dec 1934 Red Book

The Intimate Strangers (Short Story)

Feb Mar 1935

McCalls April 1935

Shaggy’s Morning (Short Short)

March 1935

Esquire June 1935

Esquimo Boy (Short Story)

Feb 1935 Liberty April 1935

(The Passionate Esquimo) Taps at Revielle (Collection)

Oct 1927 –Aug 1932

Sat. Eve. Post. Amer. Merc. Esquire

1928 –1933

Scribners Apr. 1935

Zone of Accident

Fall ’32 May ’35

Sat Eve Post July 35

Find out

What You Dont Know

June July ’35

American Sept 1935

Finishing School

Sept ’35 McCalls Jan 1936

Woman’s Journal (“A course in languages)

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Tender is the Night

In the Darkest Hour (Short Story)

No Flowers (Short Story)

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The Fiend (Short Short)

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The Count of Darkness (Short Story)

Kingdom in the Dark (Short Story)

The Night of Chancellorsville (Short Short)

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Gods of the Darkness (Short Story)

The Intimate Strangers (Short Story)

Shaggy’s Morning (Short Short)

Stripped and Permanently Buried

Esquimo Boy (Short Story) (The Passionate Esquimo)

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Taps at Revielle

Zone of Accident

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What You Dont Know

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Dec ’35 Sat. Eve. Post Apr. ’36

Three Acts of Music

Feb ’36 Esquire May ’36

Make Yourself at Home

March ’36 Pictorial Review

Inside the House

April ’36 Sat. Eve Post June 36

The Pearl and the Fur

May ’36 Pictorial Review

Trouble

June ’36 Sat. Eve Post. March 37

I Didn’t get over

Aug ’36 Esquire Oct ’36

Please send me in, Coach

Oct ’36 Esquire Dec 36

An Alcoholic Case

Dec ’36 Esquire Feb ’37

The Goon

April 37 Esquire June 37

The Long Way Out (Oubliette)

May 37 Esquire Sept 37

In the Holidays

Feb 37 Esquire Dec 37

Room 19

March 37 Esquire Feb 38

Financing Finnegan

June 37 Esquire Jan 38


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Money Earned by Writing since Leaving Army Record for 1919 Stories 30 00 Babes in the Woods $30 00 The Debutante (Play) 35.00 The Four Fists 150.00 The Cut Glass Bowl 150.00 Porcelain & Pink (Play) 35.00 Dalyrimple goes Wrong 40.00 Benediction 40.00 Head and Shoulders 400.00 Commission 10% 360.00 A Dirge (Poem) 4.00 Mr. Icky (Play) 35.00

Total Earnings 879.00 [ ] [ ]


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Record for 1920 Stories The Ice Palace $400.00. Commission 10% $360 00 * Myra Meets His Family 400.00 " " 360 00

The Camels Back 500.00 " " 450 00 Bernice Bobs her Hair 500.00 " " 450 00 The Off-Shore Pirate 500.00 " " 450 00 The Smilers 35 00 May Day 200 00 Tarquin of Cheapside 50 00 The Jellybean 900.00 " " 810 00 The Russet Witch 900.00 " " 810 00

Total -------------------------------------------------------------- 3,975 00 Movies Head and Shoulders 2500.00 " " 2,250 00

Myra Meets His Family 1000.00 " " 900 00 The Off Shore Pirate 2250.00 " " 2,025 00 Option on my output 3000.00 " " 2,700 00

Total -------------------------------------------------------------- 7,425 00 Other Writings This is a Magazine 75 00

Total ---------------------------------------------------------------- 75 00 From Books This Side of Paradise 6,200 00

Flappers and Philosophers 500 00 Total -------------------------------------------------------------- 6,700 00

Total $ 18,175 00

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* Ommission ---- The Lees of Happiness $750.00, Com 10% $675.00 Total ------------------------------------------------------------------- $18,850.00


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Record for 1921 Stories The Popular Girl $ 1500.00 Commission 10% $ 1,350 00

Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1,350 00

Serial The Beautiful & Damned 7000.00 Commission 10% 6,300 00 Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6,300 00

Other Writings Jemima 100 00

The Baltimore Anti-Christ 13 00 The Far-seeing Skeptics 5 00 Brass 7 00 Total ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 135 50

From Books This Side of Paradise 5,636 68

Flappers and Philosophers 2,730 00 The Beautiful and Damned (advance) 2,813 19 Total --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11,179 68

English Advance (Add Syndication Jelly Bean $5.00) 100 00 Total $ 19,065 18

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Record for 1922 Stories The Diamond as big as the Ritz $ 300.00 Com. 10% 270.00

Benjamin Button 1000.00 " 900.00 Two for a Cent 900.00 " 810.00 Winter Dreams 900.00 " 810.00

Total ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2790.00 Movie The Beautiful and Damned 2,500.00 " 2250.00 Other Writings On Being Twenty five 800.00

Little Brother of the Flapper 1000.00 " 900.00 The Moment of Revolt 250.00 Canadian Winter Dreams 100.00 " 90.00 “Love Legend” (review) 5.00 “The Oppidan” (review) 3.00 “Margie Wins the Game” (review) 5.00 Movies and the Publisher 5.00

Total ------------------------------------------------------------------- 7098.00 English Rights Forty seven pounds ------------------------------------------------------------ 212.00 From Books This Side of Paradise 1,200.00

Flappers and Philosophers 350.00 The Beautiful and Damned 12,133.00 Tales of the Jazz Age 3,056.00 The Vegetable (advance) 1,236.00

Total (all these book figures estimated) ----------------------- 17,775.00

Total ------------------------------------------------------------------------ $ 25,135.00 [ ] [ ]

Zelda’s Earnings The Super-Flapper ------------------------------------------------------------ $500.00 The Moment of Revolt ----------------------------------------------------- 250.00 Review of Beautiful & Damned -------------------------------------------- 15.00 Eulogy on the Flapper ------------------------------------------------------ 50.00 Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ 815.00


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Record for 1923 Stories Option from Hearsts $ 1500.00 Com. 10% $ 1350.00

“Dice, Brassknuckles and Guitar” 1500.00 " 1350.00 Hot and Cold Blood 1500.00 " 1350.00 “Diamond Dick” 1500.00 " 1350.00 “Our Own Movie Queen” (half Zelda) 1000.00 " 900.00 Gretchen’s Forty Winks 1200.00 " 1080.00 Winter Dreams (English Rights) 125.00 " 112.50

Total ------------------------------------------------------------------ 7,492.50 Movies This Side of Paradise 10,000.00

The Camel’s Back 1,000.00 Grit 2,000.00 Titles for Glimpses of the Moon 500.00

Total ---------------------------------------------------------------- 13,500.00 Play Advance ------------------------------------------------------- 500.00 -- Com. 10% ------ 450.00 Other Writings Imagination and a few Mothers 1000. Com 10% 900.00

The Cruise of the Rolling Junk 300. " 270.00 Making Monagamy Work 300. " 270.00 Our Irresponsibe Rich 350. " 315.00 The Most Disgraceful Thing I ever Did [ ] [ ] 20.00 Review of Being Respectable [ ] [ ] 15.00 " " Many Marriages [ ] [ ] 5.00 " " Through the Wheat [ ] [ ] 5.00

Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1,800.00 Syndicate Returns 74.75 Com 10% 67.28

Books This Side of Paradise 880.00

Flappers and Philosophers 98.00 The Beautiful and Damned 292.00 Tales of the Jazz Age 270.43

Total (figures estimated) 1,510.00 Advance on New Novel (The Great Gatsby) 3,939 00

Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 5,450.00

Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------- $ 28,759.78 [ ] [ ]


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Record for 1924 Stories The Baby Party $1500.00 Com. 10% 1350 00 * The Sensible Thing 1750.00 " 1575 00

Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les 1750.00 " 1575 00 The Third Casket 1750.00 " 1575 00 One of my Oldest Friends 1750.00 " 1575 00 The Pusher-in-the Face 1750.00 " 1575 00 The Unspeakable Egg 1750.00 " 1575 00 John Jackson’s Arcady 1750.00 " 1575 00 Love in the Night 1750.00 " 1575 00 The Adjuster 2000.00 " 1800 00

Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 15,750 00 English Rights The Third Casket 95.00 "

The Sensible Thing 83.00 " Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les 90.00 "

Total ------------------------------------------------------------------- 241 20 Articles Wait till You Have Children of Your Own 1000.00 " 900 00

How to Live on $36,000 a Year 1000.00 " 900 00 How to Live on Practically Nothing a Year 1200.00 " 1080 00

Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2880 00 Syndicate 115.22 " 103 52 Other Rights The Third Casket (German Rights) 17 50 From Books (inc. English and Syndicate)

This Side of Paradise 325 00 Flappers and Philosophers 16 00 The Beautiful and Damned 527 00 Tales of the Jazz Age 7 00 The Great Gatsby (further advance) 325 00 1,200 00 Total ------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Ommission ---- Absolution $20,192 22

--------------------------------------------- 118 00 Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------- $ 20,310 22


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Record for 1925 Stories Not in the Guide Book $1750.00 Com 10% 1575.00

A Penny Spent 2000.00 " 1800.00 The Rich Boy 3500.00 " 3150.00 Presumption 2500.00 " 2250.00 The Adolescent Marriage 2500.00 " 2250.00

Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 11,025.00

Books This Side of Paradise 26 24 Flappers and Philosophers 21 65 The Beautiful and Damned 144 30 Tales of the Jazz Age 20 54 The Great Gatsby 1981 85 All the Sad Young Men (advance) 2717 33

Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 4,906 61

Misselaeneous Advance on Gatsby play $1000.00 Com 10% 900 00

Gatsby second Serial 1000.00 " 900 00 Old New England Farmhouse 200.00 " 180 00 Syndicate 313.00 " 282 00 Gretchens Forty Winks (English) 67.00 " 60 00 Love in the Night (English) 89.00 " 80 00

Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2,402 00

Total -------------------------------------------------------------- $18,333 61


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Record for 1926 Stories Your Way and Mine $1750.00 Com 10% 1575 00

The Dance 2000.00 " 1800 00 Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 3375 00

English Rights Love in the Night (see previous page) 91.75 Com 15% 78 00 One of Our oldest Friends 97.00 " 83 45 A Penny Spent 76.38 " 61 92 The Adolescent Marriage 76.23 " 64 80

Total ------------------------------------------------------------------- 288 17 Syndicate ect. Adjuster, Pusher in the Face, Oldest Friends 239.19 Com 10% + 7.50 222 68 Article How to Waste Material 100.00 " 90 00 Books (inc. English)

This Side of Paradise 44 00 Flappers and Philosophers 35 80 The Beautiful and Damned 33 10 Tales of the Jazz Age 21 20 The Great Gatsby 508 25 All the Sad Young Men 1181 05

Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2033 20 Foreign Danish and Swedish Rights to Gatsby 213 00 Moving Picture The Great Gatsby 16,666.00 Com 10% (twice) 13500 00 Play (The Great Gatsby)

New York Run (Deduct last years advance) 3907.76 Com 10% 2616 98 Chicago " 2971.07 " 2673 97 Road Run " 751.38 " 673 26

(Detroit, Brklyn, Balt, St. Louis, Chi, Denver, Phila) 5964 21

Total $25,686 05

Love in the Night (English) – 97 75


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Record for 1927 Stories Jacob’s Ladder $3000.00 Com 10% $2,700 00

The Love Boat 3500.00 " " 3,150 00 A Short Trip Home 3500.00 " " 3,150 00 The Bowl 3500.00 " " 3,150 00 Magnetism 3500.00 " " 3,150 00

Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 15,300 00 Movies California work on “Lipstick” 3,500 00

Additional Payment “Gatsby” $3333.00 (Com 10% Lawyer $100) 2,910 00 Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 6,410 00

Other Writings and Rights

Princeton $500. Com 10% 450 00 Editorial Photoplay (Zelda) Com 10% 450 00 Park Avenue " 300 00 Looking Back 8 Years " 300 00 English “Presumption” £15 ʃ15 Com 10% 68 98 German “Rags Martin Jones” 25 00 Golden Bk “Pusher in Face” 110. Com 10% 99 00 Anthology ‘Pusher in Face” 25. Com 10% 22 50 Anthology “Jellybean” 26 67 Syndicate “Your Way & Mine” ect. 153.82 Com 10% 137 44 German Rights to Gatsby 141 00 All English Book Royalties 95 32

Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2096 11 Books This Side of Paradise 13 03

The Beautiful and Damned 14 80 The Great Gatsby 55 65 Flappers and Philosophers 26 70 Tales of the Jazz Age 16 35 All the Sad Young Men 43 05 Advance on New Novel Serial 5752 06

Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 5911 64

Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 29,737 87

Tax unpaid 1926 Adolescent Marriage $64.80 Gatsby Road 320.15 384.95


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Record for 1928 Stories The Scandal Detectives $3500.00 Com 10% 3150.00

The Freshest Boy 3500.00 " 3150 00 A Night at the Fair 3500.00 " 3150 00 He Thinks he’s Wonderful 3500.00 " 3150 00 The Captured Shadow 3500.00 " 3150 00 The Perfect Life 3500.00 " 3150 00 The Georgia Belle 3500.00 " 3150 00

Total ---------------------------------------------------------------- 22050 00 Other Writings Outside the Cabinet Makers 150.00 " 135 00

Who Can Fall in Love after Thirty (Zelda) 200.00 " 180 00 Syndicate (Wheeler) 13.50 " 12 15 Magnetism (English) 86.94 " 78 25 Bell Syndicate 2 23

Total ------------------------------------------------------------------- 406 67 Advertisement -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1000 00 Books This Side of Paradise 22 05

The Beautiful and Damned 22 40 Flappers and Philosophers 12 30 Tales of the Jazz Age 12 90 The Vegetable 3 60 The Great Gatsby 44.15 All the Sad Young Men 25 05 Further Advance on New Novel Serial 2129 03

Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 2272 96

Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 25,732 96


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Record for 1929 Stories Forging Ahead $3500. Com 10% $3150 00

Basil & Cleopatra 3500. " 3150 00 Rough Crossing 3500. " 3150 00 Majesty 3500. " 3150 00 At Your Age 4000. " 3600 00 The Swimmers 4000. " 3600 00 Two Wrongs 4000. " 3600 00 First Blood 4000. " 3600 00

Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 27,000 00

Zelda’s sketches

Original Follies Girl 400. " 360 00 Poor Working Girl 500. " 450 00 Southern Girl 500. " 450 00 Girl the Prince Liked 500. " 450 00 Girl with Talent 800. " 720 00

Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2430 00 Misselaneous Talkie Rights B & D. 1000. " 900 00

Girls Believe in Girls 1500. " 1350 00 Advertisement 500. 500 00 Short Autobiography 100. " 90 00 Golden Bk. “One of My Oldest” 100. " 90 00 English “Outside Cabinet” 40.86 " 34 56 Reprints 21 85

Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 2986 41 Books This Side of Paradise 4 80

Flappers & Philosophers 11 70 The Beautiful & Damned 3 60 Tales of the Jazz Age 3 00 Great Gatsby 5 10 All Sad Young Men 2 10 Vegetable 1 13 English Gatsby .34

Total ------------------------------------------------ 31 77

Grand Total --------------------------------------------

$ 32,448.18


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Record for 1930 Stories A Nice Quiet Place $4000. Com 10% $3600 00

The Bridal Party 4000. " 3600 00 A Woman with a Past 4000. " 3600 00 One Trip Abroad 4000. " 3600 00 A Snobbish Story 4000. " 3600 00 The Hotel Child 4000. " 3600 00 Babylon Revisited 4000. " 3600 00

Total ------------------------------ 25,200 00 Other Items Salesmanship in the Chomps Ellysee 75. "

At Your Age—Modern Library 100. " Two for a Cent—Golden Book 75. " Jacobs Ladder English 121. " Reprints 8. "

Total ---------------------------------- 341 10 Zelda’s Writings The Millionaires Girl 4000 " 3,600 00

Miss Bessie 150 " 150 00 Total -------------------------------- 3,750 00

Books This Side of Paradise 10 20 Flappers & Philosophers 10 05 The Beautiful & Damned 4 80 Tales of the Jazz Age 8 40 The Vegetable 1 12 The Great Gatsby 15 60 All the Sad Young Men (& Present day Stories) 37 86 Further Advances (Serial new novel & 1,583.06 against bk. 3 701 97

Total -------------------------------- 3,800 00

Grand Total $ 33,090 10

Paid tax on a miscalculation of earnings on $254. more than I should have. Will deduct from earnings of 1931.


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Record for 1931 Stories Indecision $4000. Com 10% 3600 00

A New Leaf 4000. " 3600 00 Flight and Pursuit 4000. " 3600 00 Emotional Bankrupcy 4000. " 3600 00 Between Three and Four 4000. " 3600 00 A Change of Class 4000. " 3600 00 Half a Dozen of the Other 3000. " 2700 00 A Freeze Out 4000. " 3600 00 Diagnosis 4000. " 3600 00

Total ---------------------------------------------------------------- 31,500 00 Other Items Treatment Metro Goldwyn Mayer 6000. " 5 400 00

Echoes of the Jazz Age 500. 500 00 Vegetable Performance 25.00 " 22 50 New Leaf (English) £17 " 59 00 Flight & Pursuit (English) Guinies 35 " 126 00 John Jackson’s Arcady 2.21 " 2 00

Total ------------------------------------------------------------ 6,109 50

Books This Side of Paradise 12 90 Flappers & Philosophers 9 30 The Beautiful & Damned 4 40 Tales of the Jazz Age 3 90 The Vegetable 1 13 The Great Gatsby 17 90 All the Sad Young Men 7 90 Advance against Bk. 44 15

Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 100 00

Less: Not paid in 1931 by Metro 173.72 " − 155 35

Grand Total 37,554 00

New Yorker sketch 50.00 45 00 37,599 00


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Record for 1932 (writing Tender) Stories Crazy Sunday $ 200 $ 200 00

Family in the Wind 3500 Com 10% 3150 00 What a Hansome Pair 2500 " 2250 00 The Rubber Check 3000 " 2700 00 Interne 3500 " 3150 00 On Schedule 3000 " 2700 00

Total ----------------------------------------------- 14,805 00 Other Items Reprint of The New Leaf 22.50 Com 10%

Walter Baker Royalty 15.20 Flight & Pursuit (English) 110.42 Couple of Nuts (Zelda) $ 150. Com 10% The Gourmets (Zelda) 50. "

Total of all these ------------------------------------- 313 40 Books All Royalties 20 00

Advance on Novel 480 00 Total ------------------------------------------------ 500 00

Grand Total 15,823 40


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Record for 1933 (Writing Tender) Stories More than just a House 3000 Com 10% 2700 00

I Got Shoes 2500 " 2250 00 The Family Bus 3000 " 2700 00

Articles My Lost City 1000 900 00

One Hundred False Starts 1200 1080 00 Books Tender and Taps Advance

and new advance of [ ] 1,690.21

800 4,200 00

Other Books 30 Save me the Waltz 120 00

($ 1000. Commission paid Ober on serial) Sound Rights The Great Gatsby 2500 2250 00 Other Items Two for a Cent (English) " 34 81

New Leaf (Home Mag. English) " 63 03 John Jackson (Royalties " 19 00 16,328 03


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Record for 1934 Stories No Flowers $ 3000 Com 10% 2700 00

New Types 3000 2700 00 Her Last Case 3000 2700 00 In the Darkest Hour 1250 1125 00 The Count of Darkness 1500 1350 00 A Kingdom in the Dark 1500 1350 00 The Fiend 250 00 The Night before Chancellorsville 250 00 12,475 00

All Books ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 58 35 Misselaneous Ring Lardner 50 00

Preface to Gatsby 50 00 Broadcast of Diamond 45 00 Family in the Wind (Swedish) 12 27 Your Age (Modern) 3 16 Show Mr & Mrs F. 200 00 Auction –Model 1934 200 00 Modern American Prose [ ] Smart Set Anthology 37 50 Chatto & Windus 12 50 American Short Story 156 31 Gatsby Modern Library 1 02 250 00 1,017 76

SCRIBNER Advance

On New Work --------------------------------------------------------------- 6481 96 1840 33

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May 1938 From this point I do not show agent loans which I pay back later. Also I have not shown Scribners loans as they are being paid back in part. Note as to this: I have in May 1938 (or before) recieved $277.68 from Scribner on which I have paid no tax. I will add it to my 1938 return as a charge. The situation was confused by four types of loans they made me. Also this is minus an estimate of $72.88 for last half of ’37

This is now all right. The sum above was not an advance from Scribners ($277.69) but my retail ‸book account which had been added to my royalty bill report of royalties.


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Record for 1935

Stories The Intimate Strangers $3000 2700 00 Zone of Accident 3000 2700 00 What you Don’t know 3000 2700 00 Too Cute for Words 3000 2700 00 Gods of the Darkness 1500 1350 00 The Esquimo Boy 1500 1350 00 The Image on the Heart 1250 1125 00 14,725 00

Misselaneous Lamp in a Window 22 50

Modern Library Royalty 17 89 English Sale – The Fiend 41 93 Columbia Broadcast “Lets go Out” 700 630 00 Shaggy’s Mornining 250 00 Same – London 31 00 Sleeping & Waking 250 00 Your Age 10 88 Crack Up 250 00 Paste Together 250 00 Brittish Fiend 41 93 1,596 13 1 796 13

All Books and Advance $ 342.03 832 00 Total 16,845.16 17,153 13

May 1938

This is evidently a grand mistake. Even if I only got $200 for Esquire articles I still underpaid by $307.97.

This again will appear in 1938 Tax. Both these errors were made during my illness.

Again the error if any is in my favor. I have

recieved less from Scribners than I have paid taxes on


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Record for 1936 Stories Outside the House $ 3000 00

Make Yourself at Home 2500 00 The Pearl & the Fur 1000 00 Trouble 2000 00 −10% 7650 00

Esquire Pieces Handle with Care. 250

Three Acts of Music " The Ants at Princeton " Author’s House " Afternoon of an Author " An Author’s Mother " I didn’t Get over " Please send me in, Coach " An Alcoholic Case " 2250 00

Misscelaenous Modern Library, Brittish & Danish, John Jackson ect 199 79 All Books 81 18

Total 10,180 97


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Stories The Goon The Long Way Out In the Holidays Room 13 Financing Finnegan

Misselaeneous Obit on Parnassus

Book of Ones Own Early Success Foriegn Sales (Gatsby) Random House Scribners (All Books)


100—102 Torn Out


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Published Miscelani (including movies) for which I was Paid

NAME DESRIPTION MAGAZINE DATE REMARKS A Dirge

Parody Verse Judge Dec. 1919

“Predjudices, 1st Series”

Review Bookman March 1921

This is a Magazine

Sketch Vanity Fair Dec. 1920

“Brass”

Review Bookman Oct 1922

When the Movies Own the Publishers

Suggestion Life Jan 1922

“The Oppidan”

Review N. Y. Tribune May 1922

“Margie Wins the Game”

Review N. Y. Tribune April 1922

On being 25

Article American Sept 1922

The Far-seeing Sceptics

Sketch Smart Set March 1922 Incorporated into “The Beautiful & Damned”

“The Love Legend”

Review N. Y. Evening Post Oct 1922

The Moment of revolt that comes to every married man

Article McCalls March 1924

The Little Brother of the Flapper

Article McCalls Dec 1924

Imagination and a few Mothers

Article Ladies Home Journal June 1922

“Being Respectable”

Review International Book Review

April 1923

“Many Marriages”

Review N. Y. Herald April 1923

“Glimpses of the Moon”

Movie Titles Famous Players March 1923

Grit

Movie Film Guild Jan 1924


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NAME DESRIPTION MAGAZINE DATE REMARKS Making Monagamy Work

Article Metropolitan Syndicate Jan. 1924

Our Irresponsible Rich

Article Metropolitan Syndicate Feb. 1924

The Cruise of the Rolling Junk

Article Motor Feb–April 1924

“Through the Wheat”

Review N. Y. Evening Post April 1923

The Most Disgraceful Thing I ever Did

Article Vanity Fair Nov 1923

How to Live on $36,000 a Year

Article Sat. Eve. Post. April 1924

Wait till you have Children of Your Own

Article Women’s Home Companion July 1924 Partly incorporated into “The Great Gatsby”

How to Live on Practically Nothing a Year

Article Sat. Eve. Post. Sept 1924

Burlesque: “My Old New England Farmhouse on the Erie”

Burlesque College Humor Aug 1925

How to Waste Material, A note on My Generation

Article–Review Bookman May 1926

Princeton

Article College Humor Published Dec 1927

Lipstick

Movie For United Artists Written Feb 1927

Outside the Cabinet Makers

Sketch (Story?) Century (Also Cassel’s Mag. Enq.) Story Tellers Mag

Dec 1928 F

A Short Autobiography

New Yorker Sketch May 25th 1929

Girls Believe in Girls

Liberty Article 1930

Salesmanship in the Champs Ellysee

Sketch New Yorker 1930

Echoes of the Jazz Age

Article Scribners Nov 1931


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NAME DESCRIPTION MAGAZINE DATE REMARKS My Lost City

Article Cosmopolitan July 1932

One Hundred False Starts

Article Sat Eve. Post Mar 1933

Ring Lardner

Appreciation New Republic Oct 1933

Sleeping and Waking

Article Esquire Dec 34

Lamp in a Window

Poem New Yorker Spring 35

Crack up

Biography Esquire Feb ’36

Paste Together

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Handle with Care

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The Ants at Princeton

Satire (Story?)

Esquire June 36

Authors House

Sketch Esquire July ’36

Afternoon of an Author

Sketch (Story?)

Esquire Aug ’36

An Author’s Mother

Sketch (Story?)

Esquire Sept ’36

Early Success

Article Cavalcade Aug 36

Obit on Parnassus

Verse New Yorker Aug? 36

A Book of Ones Own

Burleque New Yorker Sept. 36

Let’s Go out & Play

Broadcast Play

Columbia Fall 1935


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Zelda’s Earnings 1922 Four articles (See page 54) $ 815 00 1923 Our Own Movie Queen (Story—half mine) $1000.00 Net 500.00 Com 10% 1927 Editorial Photoplay (unpublished) $500.00 Com 10% 450 00 Park Avenue 300 00 Looking Back Eight Years 300 00 1928 Who Can Fall in Love After Thirty $200. Com 10% 180 00 1929 The Original Follies Girl $400. Com 10% 360 00 The Poor Working girl (unpublished) $500 Com 10% 450 00 The Southern Girl $500 Com 10% 450 00 The Girl the Prince Liked $500 Com 10% 450 00 The Girl with Talent $800 Com 10% 720 00 Total ----------------------------------------- 5 075 00 1930 The Millionaire’s Girl $4000. Com 10% 3 600 00 Miss Bessie 150. Com 10% 135 00 1931 The Continental Angle 1932 A Couple of Nuts 1932 Save Me the Waltze 1934 Show Mr & Mrs F. to Number— 1934 Auction Model 1934


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Outline Chart of my Life 1896 Sept 24th at 3-30 P.M. a son Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

to Edward and Mary Fitzgerald. The day was Sunday. The weight was 10 llbs, 6 oz. The place was 481 Laurel Ave, St. Paul, Minn

Oct He was baptised and went out for the first time – to Lamberts corner store on Laurel Ave.

Nov He had the colic.

1897

Feb The child laughed for the first time

May He crawled – and had his first tooth and a cold in his head.

July He said his first word. It was the monasyllable “up”


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One Year Old 1897 Sept. He had six teeth – and weiged eighteen llbs.

Oct He attempted to walk Dec Bronchitis. A specialist was summoned but as his

advice was not followed the child pulled through

1898

April Tiring of St. Paul he went east to Buffalo New York where with his parents he installed himself at the Lennox

June He had a dutch haircut


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Two Years Old 1899 Jan He put on bloomers and went to Washington to spend the

winter at the Cairo Hotel

April He returned to Buffalo and moved into a flat at Summer Street and Elmwood Ave.

June A persistent cough drove him to Orchard Park, New York. His mother feared consumption for him.

Aug He returned to St. Paul, visiting his grandmother Mcquillan in her house on Summit Avenue near Dale Street.


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Three Years Old

Sept His birthday found him weighing 35 llbs. Oct About this time he slid on the hall carpet of the Summer

St. appartment in Buffalo and got a scar on his right forehead which he possesses today.

1900 Jan His mother presented him with a sister who lived only an hour.

Feb He celebrated the new century by swallowing a penny and catching the measles. He got rid of both of them

March His parents sent him to school but he wept and wailed so they took him out again after one morning.

Aug He visited Atlantic City for the first time, later going through the Philadelphia Navy-yard.


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Four Years Old

Sept He had a party to celebrate his birthday. He wore a sailor suit about this time & told enormous lies to older people about being really the owner of a real yatch.

1901 Jan He now went to Sarycuse where he took Mrs. Peck’s appartment on East Genesee Street.

July His sister Annabel was born. His first certain memory is the sight of her howling on a bed.

Aug Again he went to Atlantic City—where some Freudian complex refused to let him display his feet, so he refused to swim, concealing the real reason. They thought he feared the water. In reality he craved it. Also he attended the Buffalo exposition, the Pan American


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Five Years Old

Sept He played with one Dixon Green whom he has entirely forgotten. “Oh Gee! I wish I had a different look on my face. He remembers a horrible day in a brickyard where his nurse pricked her ear with a straw.

1902 Jan He now moved from East Genessee Street to the “Kasson” on James Street. He remembers Jack Butler who had two or three facinating books about the civil war and he remembers hitting a delivery boy with a stone and cutting his head

May He went to Randolph his aunt Eliza Delihant’s place in Montgomery County Maryland, where he made friends with a colored boy, name forgotten— name Ambrose


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Six Years Old

Sept He now weighed 45 llbs. He entered Miss Goodyear’s school and he and another little girl, name unknown, worked out the phonetic spelling of C-A-T. Thus becoming the stars of the primary class

1903 Jan Naturally he moved again—this time to a flat on East Willow Street. He begins to remember many things, a filthy vacant lot, the haunt of dead cats, a hair-raising buck-board, the little girl whose father was in prison for telling lies, a Rabelaisian incident with Jack Butler, a blow with a baseball bat from the same boy – son of an army officer—which left a scar that will shine always in the middle of my his forehead, a history of the United States which father brought me; he became a child of the American Revolution. Also he boxed with Edgar Miller the grocery man’s son, egged on by his father. His nurse pierced her ear for rings and he howled.

April He went south to Randolph again where he was a ribbon holder with Jack Garland at his Cousin Cecilia’s wedding. After the wedding he turned on his two black friends Roscoe and Forrest and with the help of a bigger boy tried to tie them up with ropes

He remembers crying one day in fury over the irrevocability of a decision – he had decided once too often that he did not want to go down town. He found his fathers soap boxes and apricots quite diverting. He went on a trip with his father.

July He wandered off on the Fourth of July & was spanked in consequence, so he sat on the porch with his breeches down and watched the fire-works. On Sunday mornings he walked down town in his long trousers and with his little cane and had his shoes shined with his father.

There was also a boy named Arnold who went barefooted in his yard and peeled plums. Scott’s freudian shame about his feet kept him from joining in.


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Seven Years Old

Sept. He had a birth day party to which no one came. He moved to Buffalo, New York, possibly in consequence where he had a dog named “Beautiful Joe,” a black cocker spaniel, and also a bycycle – a girl’s bycycle. He was sent to school at the Holy Angel’s convent under the arrangement that he need only go half a day and was allowed to choose which half.

1904

He lived at 29 Irving Place almost next door to one Jack Baker. He remembers Ted Keating, Dodo Clifton, Jack Kimberly and Dexter Rumsey, and their facinating army. He remembers “Nana,” Annabel’s nurse. He remembers the attic where he had a red sash with which he acted Paul Revere. He went twice to see Paul Revere, the second time the lights went off to his great dissapointment. He fell under the spell of a Catholic preacher, Father Fallon, of the Church of the Holy Angels. Hamilton Wendee comes in this period.

He used to climb the hitching post in front of the house. He took off John Wylie’s shoes. He began to hear “dirty” words. He had his curious dream of perversion. He bounced the ball against the side of the house. “Is you de Miz Fitzgerald what advahtized foh a wash-lady?” “Drive on coachman– drive on!”. He heard “Listen, Listen from his nurse”.

Book about Cevera. Being attacked by two boys and a

giraffe that they armored. Another one never owned about a row between big & small animals, the latter at first successful but the others gaining in strength & winning

May

At Chautaqua or somewhere an old lady that was like a witch stole his little boat & gave it to her own little boy. Then Niagara on the lake & the Old Fort, and red yatchs named the Columbia and the Reliance of three sizes. It was here that he heard the enchanting voices in the dusk.


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Eight Years Old

Sept He took up geography, grammar and arithmetic at the beginning of this school year at the Holy Angel’s. It must have been about this time that he gave a boy a bloody nose and ran home in consequence with a made up story.

He and Jack Baker being the youngest boys in the neighborhood, were the most frequently chased.

He hit John Wylie with a stick and ended their friendship.

1905

About this time he started going to Mr. Van Arnums dancing class at the Century Club. He remembers a terrific spanking one day when he was far too fresh and though it was funny to bow to everyone. 23 Skidoo!

April He was frightfully impressed by a Tommy Atkin’s drill the older boys put on in dancing school. He was Little Boy Blue

In Randolph or rather Rockville he met Brooks Clement Offrit and William George Robertson. He heard that Jack Garland was dead & it shocked him. He read Scottish Chiefs and played with Tom’s & Gerrould’s toys. Played with Brooks Brewer & Fenwick Shugrue in Georgetown.

July He went to the Cattskills where he ate an egg every day on the bidding of his Aunt Clara. She gave him 25¢ a raw egg and with the money he bought a Henty book a day. Thence he repaired to the Stevens House at Lake Placid in the Adirondacks where he played Indians, built a fort in the woods, was lost, and directed home by two nuns.


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Nine Years Old

Sept For his birth day he recieved chiefly soldiers. He passed from the Holy Angels Academy to Miss Nardins. Also he moved to Seventy-one Highland Ave in October. Here he played with Joe Powell, Honey Chittenden, James Ingham, Clare Collard, the Jewetts. He had a complete gymnasium in his attic and began a passionate stamp collection. Some boys around a potato roast told him they didn’t want him around there. He had a complete football outfit with shinguards

Nov He went to dancing school and fell in love with Nancy Gardner.

Dec He had his first tooth pulled. He went out to Nancy Gardiners

and fussed with her brother on the tobbogan slide. He remembers a pair of mocasins and a rifle (b-b-) and believes it was at this point he discovered the non-existance of Santa Clause. He remembers Xmas morning.

1906 Jan He had an operation on his nose and afterwards red Ivanhoe in bed. A nurse girl told him “Listen-Listen”. Van Arnum pounded him for pushing over his sister. He used to scare Annabel by a game called “Bad Brownie come to eat you up” and “Good Brownie come to see what you want for Christmas. He had a fight with someone in the dancing school dressing room. His grandmothers gave him from one to ten dollars for Xmas and he bought them pins and nut-picks. Suspicion that he is a changeling. He had to wear black suits because father thought blue was common in dancing school.

May He organized an army with carven swords. Why did Geo. Washington sign himself “your obediant servant.” The St. Nicolas –dislike for the Youth’s Companion.

July He returned to the Steven’s House and again played Indians.

But it was not quite as good. He bought three golf-clubs and essayed the scotch game.

Aug His father used to drink too much and then play baseball in the

back yard.


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Ten Years Old

Sept He made up shows in Ingham’s attic, all based on the American Revolution and a red sash and three cornered hat. He did tricks and mysteriously vanished a dime. Gus Shy’s play put him temporarily in the shade but he was impressed with Gus’s rhymes and imitations and passed on the dirty ones to another nurse girl. He told one cook “he’d been good to her” but would cease unless she gave him rocks. Finally the moving picture machine Inky’s uncle gave him eclipsed Gus Shy. Sometimes Joe Powel and Incky sided against him as when they wanted to make him President and then resign from the club. He played football on the Highland corner, guard or tackle and usually scared silly. He played pom-pom-pullaway at night. He told Miss Mcgraw at Narden’s that Mexico City was not the capitol of Central America. He used to go to the Wild West movies and the Tech Stock Company.

Jan 1907 He went to the Charity ball and to the Mack’s party at the

country club where he wore his juvenile tuxedo and was chased by a cripple named Sears Mcgraw whom he loathes to this day Joe Powell took him to a basketball game and he fell madly into admiration for a dark haired boy who played with a melancholy defiance. His mother got the idea he could sing so he performed “Way down in colon town” and “Don’t get married any more” for all visitors. He began a history of the U.S. and also a detective story about a necklace that was hidden in a trapdoor under the carpet. Wrote celebrated essay on George Washington & St. Ignatius. Ole-Ole Olson free.

April He went as Little Jack Horner to the dancing school party He went

to the Jamestown Exposition at Norfolk & saw the Atlantic Fleet. The Stratmeyer books, football suits

June It was this summer we had the tree houses. Roller skates too – I had ball-bearing skates too fancy to be any good – and also we played diavalo, coll and collected cigar bands & printed little pictures. Out in St Paul, Flossie Thompson scared him silly with a ghost story.

July He went to Camp Chatham at Orillia Ontario, where he swam and fished and cleaned and ate fish and canoed and rowed and caught behind the bat and was desperately unpopular and went in paper chases and running contests and was always just edged out by Tom Penny. He remembers boys named Whitehouse, Alden, Penny, Block, Blair and one awful baby. He remembers “Pa” Upham singing “The Cat came Back,” and a sawdust road and a camera and making blueprints and the camp library And “Blow ye winds hiegh-oh” and tournaments with padded spears in canoes and Pa Upham’s Cornell stroke.


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Eleven Years Old

Sept He went to Confession about this time and hid by saying in a a shocked voice to the priest “Oh no, I never tell a lie.” He now had $100.00 in the bank. He played football on a team of which Norbert Sullivan was the star. He weighed sixty-eight llbs.

Oct He asked Kitty to lead the grand march in dancing school the first day. He used to swim with Inky in the Century Club school pool. In church one little girl made him frightfully embarrassed when he didn’t have a penny to put in the collection box. He could not go to Gwendolen Boardman’s party because he was ill. Fenwick Shugrue The Young Kentuckian Series

Dec. He gave Kitty a box of candy for Xmas & was scared silly. Annabel: Why did you

marry a man like that.” She repeats her joke to my horror.

1908 Jan Kitty played in the Chittenden’s tobogan & I he expressed my his love by tripping up Norbert Sullivan and someone else. He attended the Rumsdell’s party in his little tuxedo. Also Edna Steele’s party and the charity ball where he was asked to sit in Earl Knox’s box.

Feb He went to a “kissing” party given by the Penfields cousin and kissed Kitty a great deal. He attended the Princeton Glee Club with his mother and James Ingham and was amused at “Mrs. Winslow’s soothingsyrup.” He almost died laughing at E. H. Southren as Lord Dundreary. His character book. Kitty loved him.

March His father’s services were no longer required by Proctor and Gamble. He remembers the day, and that he gave his mother back his swimming money after he heard her at the phone, and that father said he thought Taft would be President.

May The thrill of the “Washington in the west” & “Raiding with Morgan” series in their crisp

tissue wrappers. June He played golf with Inky on the public links

July Came out to St. Paul to live with Grandmother. Mother at Fultons. John Fulton, his dirty cousin, the Mitchells, the Fosters, Kath. Tighe, Arthur Foley, Sam Sturgis, the Midges and Marie. My affair with Violet. Little Ellen Stockton. Met the Hills and played Tennis with them. Playing Indian. The Foley’s barn and their eunuch dog. Walking the fence with Betty Mudge. the Complements playing truth. The quarrels with Violet. Madame O.Keefe and my French lessons. Adolph Schelle

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Twelve Years Old

Sept The Summit football team. He was Captain. One one game, lost one and tied one. Paul Ballion, Robert Clark and Cecil Read. Broke my rib on St. Paul Academy team. Entered Academy. Mother at Aberdeen. Striker & Ballion the stars. The cruelty to animals society. Marie’s note. Dorothy Green. Showing off in school. The great Phelps Ingersoll. My hair pompadour. Tom Wann singing The Hills– Eleanor & Virginia. The candy-cocks.

Oct. Foley’s halloween party. Boxing with blonde at Y.M.C.A. Began

reading in bed after hours—a life habit.

Jan 1909 Went a great deal to the Y.M.C.A. to swim and box and take hot showers. Boxed with Egbert Driscolll. Freshest boy in school “Will someone poison Scotty or find some means to shut his mouth”. Played 3d team basketball. Learning to fence. Had appendicitus attack and scraped my knee at the Y.M.C.A. He used to sing for company —God! The smell of steam and perspiration and the echoing cries & splashes in the pool.

April His grandmother went abroad so his mother came to live at 294 Laurel. He read Dickens & Alice in Wonderland. Jaggard’s dance

June Wrote the Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage. Also “Elavo” (or was that in Buffalo)

and a complicated story of some knights. Played base ball. Began to Pitch. Bycycling with Wharton Smith to Hastings. Perhaps made 1st communion

July Went to Frontenac Minnesota for ten days. Started abroad with Mother. Appendicitus in

Duluth. Down the great lakes. Revisited Buffalo. Honey Chittenden gone wrong. Susan Rice & Jean Ingersoll at Frontenac and Billie Butler and I. The Intrigue. Billy Butler and Evylyn Girard. Billy Webster. The Cave at Frontenac. Joe Powell in Buffalo. The mock wedding


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Thirteen Years Old

Sept Height 5ft. 3in. Started 2nd year at S.P.A. The Raymond Mortgage was published. We moved to a Duplex at 514 Holly Ave. Football at Summit & Western Played half-back against the muckers. The St. Paul Stamp & Coin Co. Wharton Smith. Puberty. Became a boy scout, was corporal and went on a hike. Art Foley’s team (?) Football at U. of Minn. Mcgovern ect

Dec Entered dancing school. Julia Dorr and Joan Orton. The Mishka rink.

Sneaking over to Gerbers to buy a return present for the unexpected one

1910 Jan Beat Egbert in boxing. Bob-rides. Sliding. Skeeing Praying. Saving up Now I lay me’s.

April Kept a lemonade stand. Harold Green. Tried to go to St. Mary’s Sunday school. Went to Father Busch instead. Became desperate Holy.

May Made 1st Communion. The “Gooserah” organized. Play in Cecil’s attic. Initiations. My

gymnasium set up in our back yard. Lord Dunreary pictures. Photography revival Dancing school with Billy Foster as little Jack Horner. The great father Corrigan. Helen Corfe Eymo Havelick, Horfel O’Connel, Ocky Varland, Duchandle Gormelly, Irene Stiery, Barry. Laughed at communion

June Adoped a dog “The Duke Del Monte”. Also “Blackie”. Played with the Porterfields Mr. Shotwell killed. The bandit at the Lake. “Good God! Its Pop”.

July Mother went abroad. Went to Grandma’s. Fussed about dog. Visited Aunt Lorena at

Bald Eagle and Cecil Read and Bob Clark at White Bear Lake. Fusses with the Porterfields. Saw a great deal of Paul Ballion. I ate vegetables for Aunt Annabel. Mr. Shotwell killed

—would begin “30 years ago” (1940)


165 A Year of Much Activity but dangerous.

Fourteen Years Old

Sept. Third and last year at the S.P.A. Played on the Summits. End and punter.

Missed kick in crucial game. Became football expert and kept book. Moved to Shotwell’s house, 509 Holly Ave. Fred Foley. Grandfather McQuillan: “Well, if it wasn’t for him where would we be now.” Mr. Hill wouldn’t allow smoking When you enter a room speak first to the oldest lady, says father. Proud to say about party: My mother won’t let me go. Ames quarterback on Central High school team

Dec. Joan Orton’s bob-ride. The petition about Eleanor Alair.

Jan 1911 Egbert beat me in hand ball. We tied in boxing. Second team basketball. Became an inveterate author and a successful, not to say brilliant debater and writer. Excelled in track meets. Trick show in Mcmell Seymore’s attic. Intimacy with Bobby Schurmier. Invention of the game “Stop”. Little photos taken. Our Chameleon ties. Going skee-ing. Art Foley’s queer girl.

March Dancing school. Marie. Love. The triangle. The Ames Yard. A Play at Ben Grigg’s. The founding of The Scandal Detectives. I start to smoke. Montgomery and Stone. The Snaughty six. The Club room. Mrs. Hersey smokes. The chain of love.

April The Scandal detectives go after Reuben. Art. Foley grown up. The ghost house. “Down below the hill”. The walk with Jim Porterfield. Margaret Armstrong invites me to Oak Hall dance. Elizabeth Dean to German. The broken lamp. Riding horseback Secret languages. Ames yards & bycycles. Faint sex attractions

May Fight with Jim Thompson. Captain of Academy baseball team. Won cake-walk prize with Marie. Hair collections, Rings, kisses, character books, Wrote the poem about “Paris, the night & The Lure of the Dark.” for Smart Set

June Tennis. No work at school. Baseball team. I become a batter. Used to duck school

The Daniel’s boat. July Went to White Bear Yatch Club. Schurmier, Cecil, Geo. Squires and Reub. Warner. Played

tennis. Swam. Stole candy. Sailed. Skinned gophers, played on Archer’s railroad. Excitement about Newman. Wharton Smith’s data. Helen Clarkson’s Boston. Baseball with Island. The name “Ginevra King.” The facination of the stock company.

Aug Was in “A regular Fix” and wrote “The Girl from Lazy J.” Elizabeth Mcgoffin. Schurmier’s long trousers. Alexanders Ragtime Band.


166 A year of real unhappiness excepting the feverish joys of Xmas.

Fifteen Years Old

Sept 5ft. 4in. Moved to 499 Holly Ave. Attended state fair and took chicken on roller-coaster.

Off for Newman School. Dummy Tailor in Penn station. My cigarettes. Alexander’s rag-time band Went out to Central with freshmen. He evidently does

Oct Grassie Read. The third football team. The scrubs. The Little Millionaire. Bill Agar says

I’m Fresh. Fight with Grassie. Aunt Clara died. The dog wagon. The candy kitchen, The Philadelphia. “Mac’s”. Oh, you dear delightful women. Honey Love.

Nov Fight with Franciscus. Didn’t dress for the Morristown game. My midnight feast and

the annex rough-house. O’Flaherty balls me out. My football poem. Martin’s socks. I suspect I have consumption. Stanislas Stange. Sam White at Princeton.

Dec. Hank’s advice. The Quaker Girl. The wonderful vacation. Marie at dramat. Club

meeting. Long trousers. On the stairs at the Ame’s dance. Eleanor & Mary J. Marie at the Winchesters. The last day. The “rag”.

1912 Jan A new start. Poor marks and on bounds. Trips to New York. I try to write a play.

The horrible tube to Jersey City.

Feb Grandmother & Aunt A. come out. “Over the River” in New York. My libretto’s. Polly Melville. I began to see Sap. Bug’s Colvin. Letters to Marie and Eleanor. Franciscus and “Dot”.

Mar. The Inquistion of Harry Donahoe – billiard balls, dirty stories ect. Duke Haven’s advice.

South to Norfolk. Thence to Washington. Stayed at the Forrests. Grandmother and Uncle John. Mrs. Gale’s. Cousin Tom at Woodstock. Bad time with Mary Garland. “The Private Secretary”.

April Played baseball. More New York trips. Mrs Burlap & Miss Dundon. Chapel. Hank’s addresses. How we ate, ate, ate. Tootsie Rolls.

May Won the junior field meet. Davis sick. Bill Nelson’s remark. Saturday

afternoon at Newman, pumps, oily hair, lazy. June Florence Brown at school dance. Staying over to take exams. The pervert Johnston

on the train. Moonlight Bay. “Well, after a certain point you can’t do anything for people so I believe in letting them alone”.

July Passed four exams—“A” in ancient history. My reception home. Visiting

Jimmy Johnston. Began to feel lack of automobile. The Colvin’s dance. Eddie Power. growing unpopular. The fraternities

Aug Wrote and gave the Captured Shadow (wrote it on train.) My football dummy

in the yard. Owen Johnston.


167 Reward in fall for work of previous summer. A better year but not happy.

Sixteen Years Old

Sept Birthday with Aunt Millie in Chicago, I mean Lake Forest. O’Flaherty’s astonishment

at my A in history. “He evidently doesn’t think he’s good looking” Oct The Kingsley and Newark games. Ikas’ remarks. Louie Pallen. I move to

Annex Nov Shows in New York. Intimacy with Sap. Fay’s first visit to school. Story for

Newman News. We move to 6th form house Dec Joe McCormick and “Oh you beautiful Doll”

1913 Jan Stopped off in Chicago. Yates & the measles, cheers, Mr. Fox at the organ. Serving mass. N.Y. with Amorous. Hank Sargants petting. Schurmier fired from Hill. Pouring water down pants. My bell at Henry’s. Again the name Ginevra. His hands dirty from being run through his hair, encouraging the natural oils.

Feb Demerits, extra study, debating, bickers with Sap. First shave. The Bunny Hug. Flossie, “Keep with the floor.” Comic operas “ Other Stories. Comic poems. Downings theology. Scraps with Nelson, Schlick and Hart. T. Fauk. Murder of Banquo. The crock club.

Mar. The Humes. I keep study hall. Rehearsing the power of music. Washington. Uncle Alley, Lou Ordway. Cousin Tom at Georgetown. His remarks about Princeton. Wine at Fay’s in Washington. Hemmick and Dorian Grey. Norfolk. Dissapointment. First whisky. Grandmother & the Duke of Buccleugh.

April Tight at Susquehanna. Writing. Getting up English History. Pitching on second team.

May Locke versus Hume. The Sunshine girl. Elocution Prize. Final Princeton

Exams. Cribbing. Murder of Banquo. June Returnded to St. Paul. Calling on Kitty. Automboile question grows worse. Visiting the

Girards. I love her – oh-oh-oh. July The Coward. Mayall Brunner, Grace & Bob Dunn. Converting Bob

Clark with Religion of a plain man. Aug Grandmother dies. Her last gift. Studying for Princeton. Elizabeth

Clarkson


168 A year of work and vivid vivid experience

Seventeen Years Old

Sept 138 llbs. 5 ft. 7 in. On Bank St with Mac, Crawford. 14 Univ. Place. Hazing.

Admitted to Princeton. Sap, Joe, Black, Bob, Paul, Bunny, Wash, Izzie, Tic. Freshman football. The Rushes, the singing. Electing class officers. Prep school nice fellows begin to drop out – i.e. Slagle & Bunny Shanley.

Oct Tight in Trenton. B. Munn. I meet Hobey Baker. Being Horsed. Elizabeth Clarkson. Van Winkle. The △ meeting.

Nov New York with Sap. Shocking him. Back to Newman. Building sold & estate

divided. More money. Out for Tiger. Working on △ lyrics. Bob Strain. Dec Working on lights in Casino. Home. Dissapointed in Elizabeth Clarkson.

1914 Jan Townsend Martin. Buzz Law. Paul Nelson leaves us. Squabbles in the house.

Feb Midyears. English Dramatic Association. Began △ play. Dr. Fay comes to town. Failed many exams. Fred Alexander flunks out. Romantic. Sap & I on the subject.

Mar. Working hard on △ play. Walker Ellis. Club elections. My swing toward

Cottage.

April Met John Peale Bishop. May Walks out the Pyne Place. Nonnie sick. Mother came? June Final exams. Deal Beach by auto. Freshman parade. Hemmick and Fay.

Chinatown. July Nonnie Jackson. At Uncle Phils when war broke out Aug. Assorted Spirits. Mayall & Grace. Mayall & Kitty


169 A year of tremendous rewards that toward the end overreached itself and ruined me. Ginevra – Triangle year.

Eighteen Years Old

Sept. Moved to 593 Summit Ave. Princeton 71 Patton Hall. Play accepted.

Ineligable. Oct Trials. Worry about Clubs. Tom Pierson. More Rip Van Winkle. Elkins Oliphant. Nov △ rehearsing Dec Operation on my nose. Dances.

1915 Jan Met Ginevra. Minneapolis movies, Dance Mcdavitts. Met Sap. Drunk. Gordon Mccormick. Letters. Midyears. Caruso

Feb “Hide me!” Joe Shanley’s. Westover. Secretary of △ Club on 26th. The Jackman’s. My sense of perfection. If I couldn’t be perfect I wouldn’t be anything.

Mar Cottage Lecton. Sap in show. Rudie admitted. Passed out at Dinner. My

rebuke to Doug. Townsend and Fred. Perfection – black hair, olive skin and tenor voice. My fake tenor. Winants the night before Election. Gateway Club.

April Easter in Washington. Helen Walcott & Ruth Sturtevant. Norfolk. New York △ show. Gloria Godwin. Ruth Teale. My heart. Jo Mckibben calls on me.

May Ruth Sturtevant to race, dances, boat club ect. Helen Walcott at Cottage

Bob Clark up. Elected to Tiger. Asbury Park by auto. Fay at △ show. The name Midge Muir. Stories in Lit. Bunny Wilson. Don Mcrae.

June Ritz, Nobody Home and Midnight Frolic with Ginevra. Stopping off in Chicago. Midge Muir. House Party. Jimmy Johnston. Deering: I’m going to take Ginevra home in my electric. With each bath starting life over again & moving in immaculate coolness for almost an hour. Working on face with hot towels & strong soap.

July Courtney. Left for Sap’s ranch. Dick Collins, Sport and Son of a Bitch. Aubrey & Olga Black. Attempts to cut out smoking. Her fatal love. I thank you Bud. I thank you. Drunk: The Cowboy song bird. Cutting smoking & fusses about tobacco. $50 at cards. Honeymoon Plateau. The Dentzers. The sleepy sheep. Buttes Payroll.

August. No news from Ginevra. Young Red’s family life. The weakly bath. Dick in Chicago. Rabbits. The lonesome tramp in the lonesome town. Butte, Seattle. Harry & the Goulds. Tates. Oh Uncle Joe. Ed Muldoon— that clever chap. Courtney says: Deering as poor as a church mouse. Mayall Brunner & Grace (?)


170 A year of terrible disappointments & the end of all college dreams. Everything bad in it was my own fault.

Nineteen Years Old

Sept. Affair with Sandy. Bob Dunn’s drunk. Flunked exams again. The Bicker

committee. Ineligable. Despair. Sec. of Club elections committee, Cottage Club Committee and Coffee Club. Lived at 32 Little Hall.

Oct Dissatisfaction with the club. Lining up Dick Farrelly. Coaching Larry

Boardman. The Evil Eye. Pictures taken as a girl. May Dorsey Elaine French. Dinner with Ginevra in Waterbury. Bill Mcleans in Philadelphia. Dissapointing Yale game.

Nov. Went to the infirmary. Letters to G. K. Out of Infirmary and then back. The sidesplitting humor of the pampered jades of Asia.

Dec. Went home early sick. △ in St. Paul. Politics at St Paul Hotel. Snubbed

Sandy. Marie and I at Louie Hill’s dance.

1916 Jan The Invalids – Bug, Lety, Bob and I. Trying to be rough. Il Trovatore. Cutting Smoking town Topics.

Feb Visit to Princeton. Returned to Aunt Annabel’s appartment. Psi U dance as a girl. Long letters to Ginevra. Underneath the Stars, Babes in the Woods (song) Began Spires and Gargoyles, the beginning of mature writing

March Met Dolly Powers. Got Chalmers. Ginevra fired from school. Uncle Alley and the Bulgarians, tearing excerps from paper & talking on cars.

April Jimmy Johnston fired. Dolly at the Raddison. Bob Dunn. Writing △ play. Ginevra & Jimmy on the train. A facinating story.

May Started to play golf. Graham Hall with Dolly Powers. Fuss with Dolly.

Peggy Hazely. Play refused. Marva Wreem Stevenson. The mumps. Picking up girls. Peg & Emily. Rosie Quinn. Break with Jimmy.

June Gittens arrived. Yatch Club. Car troubles. Katherine Tighe. Taught

Nonnie to drive. Hiding my college bills. Deering “Im July Florence Foals. Grace & Lupe Brundred. Mildred Warden. Our ill-fated

health trip to Brainard. Ride alone with John Wells – me in back seat. Father & Mrs. Nightingale

Aug Lake Forrest. Peg Carry. Petting Party. Ginevra. Party. The bad day at

the McCormicks. The dinner at Pegs. Dissapointment. Mary Buford Pierce. Little Marjorie King & her smile. Beautiful Billy Mitchell. Peg Cary stands straight “Poor boys shouldn’t think of marrying rich girls.” Aunt Millie forced Belgium kids to sing Die Watch am Rhine.


171 A pregnant year of endeavor. Outwardly a failure with moments of danger but the foundation of my literary life.

Twenty Years Old

Sept Infantile Paralysis epedemic. Little Hall with Dickey. Admiration

& Poor Butterfly The Interminable Sunday family parties. Henry as a a “hail fellow” I could now be sympathetic to Mother but she reacts too quickly

Oct Say Fay at Newman Nelson suggests △ hope. Conant comes Cottage.

Inelligable again. New Haven. Geo Murray. Jimmy Ackerman. Wailing again. Burlesque Litt.

Nov Frank Shepard, Harry & Gus come down. Ginevra & Margaret

Cary to Yale game. Friendship with Bruce & Strater. Visited Biggs. △ lyrics.

Dec Marie and Lety Clarkson to △ opening. Grace breaks

her engagement. Cottillion. Battery B. on border.

1917 Jan Dinner to Paul Nelson. Fight with Harry Gordon. Stopped and started smoking. Went to Rosemary dance. Final break with Ginevra. Frank MacDonald didn’t think burlesque on Haggard was legitimate

Feb Almost flunked out. Ideas of going to war. Washington Square with Bunny Wilson. Tea at the Plaza with Grace. Fay, Leslie and Barnes. Grace to prom. Stayed up all night. Electing Biggs to Tiger. Fuss with Paul Nelson. Jazzing to Vachael Lindsey

March Club elections. Rudie suspended. The anti-club movement. Bob Clark. Washington—Cousin Ceci and Ruth Sturtevant—the latter disappointing. Charlie Arrot kissed janitress goodbye. The romantic story of Leslie’s courtship. The hairpin in the tea

April The Lit. banquet and the death of Sniffin. Charlie Wiegand killed. Drilling. The irreverend number of the Tiger. Paulson & Folwell call on a girl. “Name please,” “Paulsen” says Folwell, “Folwell” says Paulsen. Fay’s silk pajamas.

May Father Hemmick and Christ’s tears. Unpleasant. Campus house- party. Words with Pederson. The Leslies at Newman. The Italien Restaurant. McCormick, Richelieu, Aberdeen. Mrs Leslie on “Our Betters.” Talking with Leslie at Newman. Hientzelman & intensive training.

June Ginevra engaged? Helen Dick. Litt stories. Talking all night with Strater. Walks. Hi-o-poterio. The last day. Deal Beach. Russia? Swim. Willie Remond. Wilmington. Paymaster Mcgown in Washington. Fay at Univ Club. Evening at Elersie. Bronxes with Dicky. Girl at show resembled G. K.

July Norfolk. Charlestown W. Va. Poetry. Fluff Beckwith. Rosebud Mason. Sharpsburg. Return to St. Paul. The disastrous hop. Grace and the knife. Exams at Snelling.

Aug Jack Newlin killed. Russia. Dance at Snelling. Sandy at

the yatch Club.


172 A year of enormous importance. Work, and Zelda. Last year as a Catholic.

Twenty-one Years Old

Sept Minnekada Club “Oh Ginevra.” Poet Lore accepts a poem Oct Larry Noyes’ dinner. “Purp.” Gave William Jennings Bryant

my dining car seat. Sap came down. Deal Beach with Fay Parties with Linaweaver & Farrelly. Helen Dick. John Hutchins. Bigg’s terrible room. Sap & the white appartment. I reform ⤴

Nov Julie Townsend arrives. My commission. Strange uniform. Party with Sam Conant. Saw Fay. Left for Leavenworth. Began novel. The nigger thief in the barracks

Dec Party in Kansas City. Betty Smith. Francis Fennilly. Xmas

in Achison. The Pink eye. Reading Shelley ect. Row with Fessenden.

1918 Jan Ristine, Richman. Fessenden. Dean. Garvin. Knowles, Dink

Fitz-Gerald. The officers Club. Josephine. Last Catholic revival. My imitations. Uncle Phil & Aunt L. Shocked at “Poontang”. Rumor Baker & Nelson killed. Admiration for Knowles.

Feb Keeler, Bernstien, Ryan, bayonets. The intense cold. Left for Princeton. Party with Betty Smith. Tinkling mandolins in the Leavenworth prison.

Mar Cottage Club. Finished novel. Camp Taylor on 15th Tillman, Shean,

Clark, Duncan. Louisville. Bishop, Ramsey, Keny Rogers and Paul Boston. Mother in Louisville. Ruth & Shane Leslie in Washington. Hotels jammed

April Camp Gordon on 15th Atlanta Girls. Waugh & Mathewson. Gas school. Drunks.

May Recruits. Girl I called on. June Montgomery on 15th. Roberta Jones. Hank Young. The intense heat.

my boots. July May Stiener. Zelda. The 67th inf. Major Baird. Phillips and Jones.

Helen Dent, Swimming, Watermelons, The Country Club, Ginevra married. Weaver. Davis & Martin. May and I on the porch. Her visiting bows.

Aug Revised novel. Zelda & May. My recruits. The meeting. Tight. Qicking 1st Sergeant. The range


173 The most important year of life. Every emotion and my life work decided. Miserable and exstatic but a great success.

Twenty-two Years Old

Sept Fell in love on the 7th My collar. Quarrel. Silence. Zelda sick. Bill

Flemming. Tarbox takes controll. (Moved to 599 Summit) The range again. The Trench mortar. War games. Discovery that Zelda’s class voted her prettiest & most attractive

Oct May Stiener. Reunion on 26th Fuss with Falls. Left for North on 26th. Helen Dent’s Frenchman.

Nov Camp Mills & Francis. Wild letters. The Knickerbocker. Harry Donahoe.

Supply officer. Dr. Fay. Return to Montgomery. Ruth in Washington. Zelda’s friend Dent & the stolen kiss on the stairs. Little Hungary.

Dec Love. Aide de Camp. Gen & Mrs Ryan. Morris Ely. The cigarette

case and the purse. Zelda’s dairy. Xmas together. The grand Theatre. Walks. Dances together. Drinking. My tagging her thru the wood.

1919 Jan Quarrels. Disastrous drunk. Bill Kitchen. Conrad. Craighead. Death of Dr. Fay. 1516 J. “Don’t worry about that dress,” ect. and “You’ll probably see them enough ect”. Mrs. Ryan & Zelda on the weather Bill Kitchen doesn’t know a soul in Washington

Feb The Last night, supplies, goodbyre Ryan. Left on 18th.

Zelda to Auburn. Mother in New York. A room. Wild letters

Mar 200 Claremont. Ludlow. Barron G. Collier’s. The debutante.

Mitchell & Canda. Letters, parties, pajamas, ring. Tilde in New York. Appartment search. Greenich Village ect. Ludlow. Townsend. Stephen Parrot. Brainerd & Schenk.

April Hysteria. Montgomery on 15th. Feather fan. Ruth in Washington More stories. Failure. I used to wonder why they locked Princesses in towers. The dictaphone at Colliers. (Above:) Wonderful appartment studio if I’d let him take the roof off. No objection to female company.

May Montgomery on 15th. Joel Massie. Waterfalls. Diving. Toilet set. Sweater. Sayarack & De Funeac. Babes in the Woods. Mr. In and Mr. Out—and other parties. Pretending to drink Massie’s whiskey. Townsend avoids me. His snotty remark about money he lost. I take Betty & Marie to dinner & pay for it.

June Sap arrives. Big party. Montgomery. The break. Drunk in N.Y. Boston with Stephen Parrot. Zelda’s mistake about the pictures. Dutch Mount’s wife.

July South Dartmouth. Betty. Prohibition. My ride to St. Paul.

The Novel. Reading Fortitude on the train. Julie Townsend. Aug This Side of Paradise. Katherine Tighe. Julie Townsend.

Discussions Don Stuart, Baron & walks with Catherine


174 Revelry and Marrige. The rewards of the year before. The happiest year since I was 18.

Twenty-three Years Old

Sept Novel accepted. MacNiell Seymore. First story sent out. on

30th. Worked on Railroad. Knees up to hammer nails. Lost overalls. Verdict of Don, Daniels ect. Shurmier on virtue of women. Margaret and her detective (the cook)

Oct Short stories. Paid debts. Mother buys me religious books. Drunk at Marie’s. Made $215.00 Mother’s suggestion of dots in purifying Head & Shoulders. El. Eastman & the safety pin.

Nov Went to see Zelda. New York. Rosalind. Huck and Annabel at

Knickerbocker. Sold story to Post. Mother heard musicians were drunk at Bolt’s dance. Ha! Left the water tap on in Knickerbocker. Townsend’s invitation

Dec Dances. Ordways. Marie’s Vanity Case at opera. Annabel at German.

1920 Jan New Orleans. Montomery (twice) The wristwatch. The Pills. By the 10th had made $1700.00 Power begins to flag a little – Trouble in work in New Orleans.

Feb New York. Bishop. The Murry Hill. Mother. The Allerton. Sold

first movie. The feather fair. Biggs. Seeing Schenk who wished he’d written when drunk.

Mar The Orchids. Princeton. Cottage Club. The Prom. Porter Gillespie.

Book published on 26th. Disappointment in Henry Strater. April Married the 3d Biltmore. Parties. Princeton on 25th. Russ

Forgan. Harvey Firestone. Kimbask & Burkee. Rye. Warick. Joan Bojer. Tarrytown. Black eye – (mine)

May The Commodore. The auto. Westport. Compo road. The Wakemans.

Mrs. Marchand & Mrs Melliss. Mrs O’Connor. Car broken. Fuss at Princeton. Chas. Norris. Rudie. Big leage ball. Eberstadt. Bill Mackey’s check for 20,000 sesterces. Zelda’s blue cloak. Hardwick Nevin

June Nathan Williams & Charilie Town as guests. Jean Bankhead fuss. Car Troubles. Townsend & Bill Mackey. The Overmans. Tana. Townsend goes abroad I write I.O.U. & its no good. I plan novel, story & play before Oct 16th. The Dutch hat.

July Started south on 15th. Parties in Montgomery. Sold Car. Biggs. Beginning novel. Zelda hides $500.00 Unc Legrand and his honey. Sleeping upright. Grand Central Station, Longacre Drugstore John Williams dance. Hot evenings in New York.

Aug Returnded to Westport. Rita Wellman. Judge & Mrs. Sayre Huck Kilby. Schurmier & Ed. Power. Bill Mackey. Greenich, Portchester & Rye. Don Stuart & the drive in Central Park.


175 Work at the beginning but dangerous at the end. A slow year, dominated by Zelda & on the whole happy

Twenty-four Years Old

Sept Ludlow & Aiken Riechner as guests. And George. The appartment of

Reginald Vanderbilts mistress Oct 38 W. 59th St. Visited Lud. Mencken visits our appartment. Also

George with Close. Beginnings of coldness. Fights with Townsend. See more of Alec.

Nov Yale game. Russ Forgan. Mont Martre. Gormi’s

Zelda hides $100.00 from Dorothy Parker. Sherwood, Howard & Perkins First nights with Geo. Nathan.

Dec Lonesome Xmas. The Overmans, George & John B.

Williams quarrel. We begin to feel alone. The Hoveys and the milk bottle

1921 Jan Fanny Hursts dinner. Broke down bathroom door George Nathan & The Sunshine Girl. Break with them. Eating ham & olive sandwitches with Zoe Akins whiskey. Dick Stelwell. The black eye. Mary in the appartment. Zelda loses ring

Feb Zelda becomes pregnant on 1st. Begins to realize it 14th Ludlow and Virginia DeHaven. The drug clerk who never read fiction. Mr. Fitzgerald “With all true deference to you”.

Mar Zelda to Montgomery on 15th. I follow on 18th. Carl Chambers,

the theosophist says discoveries have been made in Scotland positively dangerous. April Planning our trip on the Aquitania. George O’Niell, Bob

Hanly. May Sailed the 3d. Tullocks, Heywards, Engalicheff. Celebrities. London 10th

Kingley, Leslie, Galesworthy. Lady Churchill. The Cecil. Oxford. Paris 17th Folies, Kay Laurel, Café de la Paix. Cherbourge. Cabino. Wapping Venice 26th The Sturtevant, Robbins. Pietro. Versaille. Mal Maison. Clothes

June Florence 3d Rome 8th John Carter, Americans. Embassy. Paris the 22nd Quai Dorsay – before the St James London 30th Claridges, Cavendish, Bob Handley, Jim Douglass, Brown Baker. Dancing in Savoy. The 4th. Venice – man kicked in stomach because he wasn’t a Roman. The woman weeping in Vatican. The loot of 20 centuries

July The 4th Cambridge. Clothes in London. The Celtic. The Duncans & Lord Brice. The Biltmore New York. Montgomery on 27th. The obnoxious whine of the Austrailians, cockney & rural American. The hills near Rome. Cherbourg at dawn.

Aug The Heat. Considering house in Montgomery. Dellwood Sandy & Joe. Ted Paramore.


176 A bad year. No work. Slow deteriorating repression with outbreak around the corner

Twenty-five Years Old

Sept Zelda helpless. Dog squeaking. Oct St. Paul Hotel. The Commodore. My office. Baby born on

26th. Oh God, goofo I’m drunk. Mark Twain. Isn’t she smart – she has the hiccups. I hope its beautiful and a fool—a beautiful little fool

Nov Baby baptisized. Commodore & 626 Goodrich

University Club. Dec Zelda’s weight. Cottillion Dances & bob rides. Joe Ordway.

Mrs. Clark on Mencken. She hoped Grampa Dean wouldn’t be too offended at Elizabeth’s marriage

1922 Jan Joseph Hergeshiemer. The Bad luck Ball.

Feb Both sick. Drinking. The B. & D. published. Father tells me about the ungratefulness of Dan Morgan.

Mar Trip New York. Constance Bennet. Marrylyn Miller.

Virginia Dehaven. Alec, Engalicheff, O sullivan Quarrel with Alec. Selznick studio. Zelda & her abortionist

April Coached Junior Leage Play. May Parties with the Herseys. Bought Car. June Came to Dellwood. Zelda golfing & swimming

Bishop marries. Mrs. Miller bootlicking Mrs. Wann. In a tone of passionate interest: I didn’t think of that at all.

July Sinclair Lewis. Me to Kaly “Your wife has been unfaithful to me.”

A curious glimpse Zelda & I caught of relationship between Kit Ordway and Alice

Aug. Still at Lake. A few stories


177 The repression breaks out A comfortable but dangerous and deteriorating year at Great Neck. No ground under our feet.

Twenty six Years Old

Sept. Went New York from Commodore. Left Anna with Baby. Play

rejected. Lived at Plaza. House hunting. The Boyds (Earnest) Anderson & Dos Passos. Liverite

Oct. Took house on Gateway Drive, Great Neck. Zelda went west

& got baby. Met Lardners, Bucks, Swopes. The Foxes St. Patrick’s parade. Mangy Xtian Bros & on steps of St Patricks a saturnine hierarchy of fat, favorite, secular priests.

Nov More Ring Lardner. Wrote play over for third time Janet. Bucks to Princeton. Seldes & Val come out. Grace Flandrau East

Dec A series of parties – The Boyds, Mary Blair, Chas & Katy.

Charlie Towne.

1923 Jan Hearst contract. Chas & Katy Leave. Val Engalitcheff kills himself. My dream of the baseball player, football player & general to put me to sleep. Uninvited girl at Milbanks party. Two kids drink whiskey. They smelled it.

Feb Still drunk – story for Townsend. Reynolds the butler and “Say Fitzgerald”. William and Salley. Tom Smith & Drieser & Mencken & Anderson.

March Sold This Side of Paradise & South to Montgomery. Dapper Dan. The

Whitfields. Kalmans in New York. Party with the Boyds. Bunny marries Eleanor Wylie. William driving. Val Engalitcheff kills himself. Fight at movie Ball. Tom Boyd’s Book accepted

April Third anniversary. On the wagon. Joined club here Duncan Pell and his wife. Party with Bartholmess—another fight. Tearing Drunk. Tom. I should have asked Julian Everson if he wanted the suitcase for the silver.

May Play accepted by Williams. Met Mrs Rumsey & Tommy Hitchcock & went to parties there. Visits from Biggs, Esther Murphy. Kath. Ordway and Mary Armstrong. Fight with Helen Bucks brother in law.

June Eleanor Browder came. Party at Clarence Mackays. Began my novel. Squabble at Ring’s. Party in New York with Mencken and Nathan. Anita Loos out. the Essylstyns become obnoxious. Augustus Johns. Laurette Taylor. Princess Bibesco “I only write for intellectuals”

July Tootsie arrived. Intermittent work on novel. Constant drinking Some golf. Baby begins to talk. Parties at Allen Dwans. Gloria Swanson and the movie crowd. Our party for Tootsie The Perkins arrive. I drive into the lake.

Aug Tootsie Again. More drinking. Opening of Anita Loos’ play Zoe’s party. Aunt Annabel & Don Stuart. Firpo–Dempsy fight


178 The most miserable year since I was nineteen, full of terrible failures and accute miseries. Full of hard work fairly well rewarded in the latter half and attempts to do better.

Twenty-seven Years Old

Sept. High Hopes for the play. A new schedule & more work on

the novel. Ball game (worlds series) Oct. The Boyds come to Great Neck. The Notre Dame game.

Lloyd Hooper. Beginning rehearsals. Firing Lee Patrick Sam Forrest. Meeting Ernest Truex. Bunny’s Baby

Nov. Rehearsal. Short of money. Excitement. More Rumsey

parties. Atlantic City. The Failure & dismal return. On the wagon. Writing story in one day. Schlesinger in Newark.

Dec. Still on the wagon. Fell off Xmas. Party Goldberg. Deterioration.

1924 Jan. Party with Gloria Swanson. Read Dostoiefski. Ring’s book Grand fight with Hovey & buying back stories.

Feb Struggling with money. Wrote all night on Baby Party. Success of the Kauffman play

Mar. Tired of Boyds, Townsend ect. Generally bored & feeling

bad. Ring at Hot Springs. Father & Mother came to visit April Out of the woods at last & starting novel. Gloria Swanson’s

party. Kauffman’s party. Decision on 15th to go to Europe. Miss Comyn, William & Sally. Bunny & Ring talk all night. The “one-day” story again. Leeland Hayward & Connie Bennet. Ester Murphy’s party.

May Sailed. Bunny Burgess. The Captains table. Paris. Tootsie & her husband. Hyeres & Grimms Park Hotel. Trip to Cannes Bishop. Edith Wharton’s garden. Monsier Astier. A night at Mont Martrye

June Settled at St. Raphael at Villa Marie (Valescure) Bought Car. Josanne

and Silve. Trip to Nice. Mr. & Mrs. King. Mrs. Nelson. Miss Witz, Bobby Croirier. Gave 1st dinner & sat up all night. Pechic Miss Maddox

July The Big crisis—13th of July. Sad Trip to Monte Carlo Gave dinner. Pauline Paris. Trips of San Maxime. Mrs. Dougherty. Zelda swimming every day. Getting brown. Wire Olive Burgess. Rings book big success. House rented in Great Neck.

Aug On the wagon on Wed 6th. Seldes and Amanda arrive the 4th. Trip to Monte Carlo again & often to Antibes. Good work on novel. Zelda and I close together. Rows Mrs Maddox. The Murphys, Dos Passos. Almost go to Antibes

Sept. Fred Giese, the Barrys, Avignon, The novel finished. Ring coming. Trouble clearing away.


179 The year of Zelda’s sickness and re- sulting depression. Drink, loafing & the Murphys

Twenty-eight Years Old

Sept. Giese leaves. Hard work sets in. Zelda reads Roderick Hudson

decides on Rome. Another welcome departure of a friend! Swimming over. On the Plage at night.

Oct Working at high pressure to finish. Colder. Man at King’s bank.

Champagne with Jean. Move to Hotel. Last sight of Josanne. Touring Club de France.

Nov Novel off at last. René. Crossing the border. San Remo, The Mountains, Genoa, Pisa

Arretzo, Orvietto, Rome. Miss Gibson, Hungry, the English lady, Opera, Egyptian, House hunting, Herbert Howe and the movies, Nardin & his daughter, Kathlene Key, Ill feeling with Zelda, Perkins wire, Reynolds, The Big bust, Collatzo

Dec Hotel des Prince, Dark glasses, thieving waiters, Osborne, Castelli Caesari, Depression, Proof arrives (later) Movie party, Hungry, Row in Café, Zelda’s doll, tree, Xmas row, Kellys, Reconciliation, Water Wagon. New Years dance. My nose. the nigger

1925 Jan Gillespie. Sickness for both. American Restaurant. Tivoli, Frascati, the donkey, Mrs. Jackson, Herbert Howe. Pincio. Morris

Feb Trip to Capri, Naples, Sorrento, Excelcior, Chapman, (Photograper) Zelda sick, Bianci, Blue Grot Mckenzie & his wife, Tiberio, Boat, Naples bust up, honest conductor. Sickness, Proof off, Miss Normand, Capri, Cuomo, Spinelli, the sister

Mar Miss Normand, Aunt Annabel, Zelda better then relapse, the Russians,

Mrs Nathan, Wilmington, Detroit girls, Zelda’s lessons, E. F. Benson and Ellingham Brooks, German Beer, Golding, The New Zealanders, Nanny and Mr. Ming.

Apr. Zelda painting, me drinking, Mary Roberts Rineheart, Anacapri, Brett Young and the fairy. The Captain too, and Mrs. Mackenzie, The boat question, nervous collapse, Sorrento–to Naples, Naples to Marsielle ect.

May We abandon trip with broken car in Lyon, Zelda’s hairdresser, Paris – The Florida, B. Kauffman, Hemminway, Shanley, Ordway and a million Americans. Lyon with Ernest. Benchly. Stephen. Mad. Boyd. Appartment 12th. Ave. Kleber. Gertrude Stien.

June Murphys, Esther, Teddy Chandler, Tunty, Famous Ritz Party. Bob Handly, Noel,

the Wymans, Mary Hay, 1000 parties and no work. Edith Wharton. Tarkington Morning in the Bois, Ritz Bar, The Johnsons. Carol Goodner

July Party at Alice Delamars on 14th, 4th with Sap & Lud. L[ ]lliene (Eva)

Again 1000 parties and no work – until last ten days. Capitan & Tootsie, Kiki Allen Preston.

Aug Left for Antibes, Hamiltons, Mclieshes, Brackets, Mannes, Openhiems, Kent

Diving, Tuolmans, Gordon, Myndred, the lighthouse, Murphy’s garden. Trip down–the accident, Orange, Sap to Monte Carlo, sailing, Benchylys. Concieve novel. St. Pol. Eleanor Isadora Duncan, Moshes, Wonderful nights, Zelda drugged, Virginia Reel

Sept Reached Paris. Forrestal night ect. Trip to Verdun (no! Oct!) Rue Marboef Depressed at no work


180 Futile, shameful useless but the $30,000 rewards of 1924 work. Self disgust. Health gone.

Twenty-nine Years Old

Sept Bad beginning with worry. Following football. Pierre Loving. Letters

Murphy.

Oct Verdun. Murphy’s up. First quarrel after Marices. Hemmngways. Brick tops. King of Sweden. Landlady’s troubles. Victor Llona

Nov London. Telulah Bankhead. Dmitri & Nada Milford Haven. Colwell. Young Embassy Club. Leslies. Swinnerton. Quarrel McAlmon. Mclieshes. Princeton dinner. Ellen Mackay.

Dec Murphys again. Xmas at 14 Rue Tilsitt. Mclieshes. Myers. Marion

Dell. The Bromfields 1926 Jan Off for Salies. General Maunsell. Pan. Bearritz. False Rumor of

illness. Landlady rich. Michelle.

Feb Success of Play. Quarrel General. My walks. War Bks. Old clothes. Sad Young Men published.

Mar Nice. Paris. Parker & Collins. Benchly. Ernest. Villa Paquita

Hotel O’connor. Balkin Baily. Rex Ingram. Dos Passos. Toulouse & Carcassone

April Cannes Casino. Murphys. The old man. Smelly bathroom. House

hunting. “Hazel”. The wagamans. Cary Ross & the fairy May Villa St. Louis. Hemmingways whooping cough. Murphy’s

return. Dr. Gluck. Anita Loos. Walker. St. Raphael. René. Ada Mcliesh. The beach painting. Movie of play sold. Father to Gatsby.

June Kit Ordway. Operation. Somme. Florence Mills. Maximes Bar.

Picnics. I leave Garoupe. Hardwicke. Bob Mcclure. Mme Kennedi. Waggmans. Artist over the way. Rene’s translation & story. The Dunns

July Zelda Better. Courtney Burr. Orbucks. Brick. Jean. Buff Cobb. Ben

Finney, McArthur, Grace Moon. R. Goldbeek. Kelly. Hamiltons. Crevel. Gists Seldes, Dorothy, Servey. Grace’s dinner. The movie. The Wimans. Wolcott Hamiltons children’s party. Street Fair Ave de Neuilly. Llona. Johnstons. Rennie

Aug Miss Compte. Quarrel Murphys. Hemmingways here. Bullfight Cecil. Don Stuart. Cavelaire with Zelda. Ernest depressed. Swimming from Rocks. Mrs. Condon, Phillips. Party at grand Hotel. Charlie Peet. Midnight swims. St. Pol. Zelda’s nurse. Party we were not invited to. The tenor. Kiki. Crevel

Sept Murphy’s leave. Murphys Party. Bishops. The quarrel. On the Route aus Sables, Eva. Monte Carlo. Sickness. Gambling. Picasso. The De Beaumonts


181 Total loss at beginning. A lot of fun. Work begins again.

Thirty Years Old

Sept Grace & Cecil. Bishop at birthday. Eva’s visit. Oct The gods from the Chateau. The dentist & Balkin Baily. Movie Camera. Rousseaus

Trip to Hyeres. Zelda sick. Richardsons, Grant, old letcher. Bartholmess missed Hankerchiefs. Trip to Mentone. Seldes depart. Casino beach. Pathé projector

Nov Mcclures. Lud’s visit. Monte Carlo. Grace Moon in Cannes Monte Carlo. Nice

Casino closes. Maximes bar. Tunti & his brother. Anne Foley Paul Nelson Dec The inventory. Leaving Juan-les-Pius. Pompeii. Fowlers. Mckane Allen, Frank Bateman

& Mary Lou Archer. Brett Young. Hotel Pennsylvania. Ship party. Ring & Bunny. Montgomery The Shepards & Peabodys, Mccalls & little couple. Zelda sick in Genoa.

Jan California, Appendix. El Paso, Considine, Pantages, Hetcht, Nielan, Hoveys, Talmadge

Mayfair. Lillean Gish. Dick Bartholmess. Saunders & Dudly Murphy, Mankevitz. Carmel Myers. Eddie Mayer. Princeton dinner. Harison Fisher. Donald Freeman. Our Club. The watch. Long Beach. Patsly Ruth Miller. Gerald Cudahy. K. Mcquail

Feb Morans, Hitchcock, Barrymores. 2nd Mayfair. Fairbanks & Pickford. Garaghty’s party. Party at Lois. Rienhart. Bessy Love. Diana Manners. Iris Tree. Rosamund Pinchot. The Miracle. Marion Davis. John Colton. Dudly’s picture. Cat schra Morris Gist.

Mar Roosevelt Hotel. Gladys & Carl in New York. Dick Knight & Morgue. Charly, Boyer Wilmington. Westchester Hergeshimers “Ellerslie.” Furniture Car. Washington Ross of the New Yorker Lardners in Great Neck. Author’s League. Gene Bucks new house.

Apr. Getting settled. Esther. Hergeshiemer’s party. Cary. Biggs & Ruperts. Bringhursts Newcastle. Ella, Stella, Estella, Malvina. Phonograph. Joe.

May Lois here & in New York. Fowlers. House party. Mother up. Brandt & Co. Bad news

of Movie. June Julie Shellpot park. Brown Warburton. Working again. July Atlantic city. Virginia Beach. K. Ordway. Marjorie & Noonie. The Fourth at Ellerslie

Marie. Annabel. Cecilia. Rows. New watch. Aug Sayres. Nanny leaves. French woman. Hitchcocks & Chanlers

Valley Forge. Percy Pynckers. Rumsey. Terrible incessant stopies begin Sept Cecilia. House party. New York. Emily Vanderbilt. Littlefields

Linaweavers. Trip to Princeton. Stoppies worse. Various doctors


182 Perhaps its the thirties but I can’t even be very depressed about it

Thirty-one Years Old

Sept Perkins down. Stoppies now reached its height, making beer & wine.

Several trips Princeton, Asa Bushnell Oct Football, Townsend & Alec down, Cornell game. Frankie D. & Scotty’s

school, Calvert lessons, Charlie McA– , Condé Nast’s party, Mabel Normand, Scotty’s narrow escape. Tommy Hitchcock, Pistol practise

Nov Started Sano’s, still working hard, health better, Football interest

Scotty dancing now, Dick Knight, All night ramble with Semple ect. Marice Hamilton. Scotty’s doll’s house

Dec Prickets, △ dance, Holger Lundberg & Katherine, Linaweaver’s party

Estella, Marie & Ella., mother & father up, I think. Death of Cat (Chat) Villagers singing

1928 Jan New Years, Alecs play, Townsend again, Sig Thayer, Katherine

Littlefield, Drinking schedule, Ina Claire.

Feb Thorton, Seldes, Bunny, Esther down. Zoe’s play. Interior decorator, Cowanova, Chris Ward’s father, Chris’ marriage, Rachael Biggs, Rosalind & Capitain catastrophe, Trip to Montreal, Zelda’s collapse & Coquette, Bunny at Plaza, E. Patterson’s party. My speech at Princeton. Kitty (persian)

Mar Black eyes in the Jungle. Decision to go. Easter Party, Van Vechten, Johnsons in New York, Atop the Plaza. Cesares, Miss Miller leaves, last night in New York: Bunny Lionel Adamns, Dorothy Parker, Reading Proust, Ring looking bad.

Apr. The boat, Vidors, Dawson, Hotel de Amourete, Palace Hotel, Egarova Kaly, Alice O’B, Sandy, Vidors in Ritz, Powell Fowler, Maddock King’s The Crowd. The Paris Hotel de Palais, 58 Rue Vaugirard

May Zoe Ordway, Jew Ames, Bishops, Pavlova, Murphy, Appartment

Mlle, Vin d’arbois, André Chamson, Leger & more Vidors, Rousseau June Esther, Emily & the fairies, Ballet Russe, James Joyce, Sylvia Beach

Adrienne Monier, Lippes, Pruniers, Montague, Emils, Griffon, Trianon. Victor Llona, Cole Porter, Carried home from Ritz, disagreable concierges

July Bricks again, another story, Opera, Battlefields, Rhiems, Hadley Hemmingway

Drinking & general unpleasantness, Bathroom, first trip jail Princeton man painter on Rule Scheffer, Margaret Bishop’s talk, Dick Knight Frank Baker & Paul Milholland, Blanche Knopf. Cole Porter

Aug Jed Kiley, Zelli’s, Buzz Law, Vient de Paraitre, Grand Guignol, La Baule, Auto Trip, Cary Ross & dive in Lido, second trip jail., Wilder & Tunney Lucien, Overcoat, Baby crying

Sept And back again in a blaze of work & liquor. Stearns, Phillipe, Phillipson, Bergen, Wireless operator, Seymores, storm Carmania, Sap stopped Broke, Languor.


183 Ominous ! Thirty two, Years Old (And sore as hell about it) No Real Progress in any way & wrecked myself with dozens of people.

Sept Home on the aforesaid stormy Carmania. Max at Dock. Phillipe & Mlle. Ellerslie. Joe the barber. General Prosperpity. Candy store. Dirt eating at hotel

Oct Football. Ernest Asa at school. Zelda. Gabulov. Whorewhouse mirror. Scotty’s studies Nov Yale & Navy games. Ernest down. Delplangue gets on our nerves. Elections—

running into car. Strater. Linaweavers. The Murphys pass thru – Sarah and the Fishes. Call on Ring

Dec Xmas night with family & Mlle & Phillipe. Coldness Amy. Car freezing. Mother

there Xmas

Jan 1929 Dunhams & Army officer at club. Ernest father & trip to Philadelphia, Row in Wilmington speakeasy with Phillipe. Fuller & Mcgee Bucket shop. Sleeping on train. The Trenton man

Feb The Fisher boy & Princeton. Montgomery & drunk at Georgia Oates. Miss Kiem. New

York with Cornelius Vanderbilt & various rows. Packing. Life insurance matter. The [ ] Murphys pass thru—Sarah & the Fisher

Mar Esther’s engagement. The Conte Biancamano. Zelda’s Beau. The Brevoort Potts (nee Durham)

Casino at Nice & gambling. Phillipes, trouble in speak/easy. Beaulieu. Selling car Lilian Gibson. The Prison at Nice

Apr The Madison. Miss Delplangue leaves. The Kalmans, Hills, Journey’s End. Death of

Cesari. Death of Brookes. Pierre Loving’s request. May Zelda & Dolly Wilde. Esther’s Marrige. St. Sulpice. Miss Bellois arrives. Adage. Clement,

Louise & housetraining. Townsend, Clive Bell & Calling on Bishops. Lunch Bishop. Ernest & Callaghans. Nigger affair—Buck, Michell in prison. Dave. Teddy Chanler. Lucien again. Getting soldiers. Attempts to place Egarova’s son

June Russian Ballet. Trip—Saulieu– lunch Beaune– Dijon – lunch Chateau neuf du Pape – Frejus Plage Hotel Dinner at Geo V with Egarova. Young man. Ted Delplangue balks. Scotty swimming. All Changed at Rocks. Buying car. Ernest’s & Morley for dinner. Certain coldness

July Laddie Sanford, Marx, the Barries, Gertrude Sanford Telulah. M. Bouvier, the agent, Casino,

walking Adage. The Wymans. Being drunk & snubbed. Zelda dancing in Nice & Cannes. Fairies. Breakdown. The DeHaven’s

Aug Caroline Condon, Stevens, Murphys & Stracheys. Cafés des Allies. American

orchestra. Augustine and Rose. Syser–Cannes. Sept Work on novel. Stenographers. Zelda dancing & sweating. Rows &

indifference. A last party with Dotty & Gerald. The Murphy’s yatch and a last row.


184 The Crash! Zelda & America

Thirty Three Years Old

Sept The trip – St Raphael, Aix, Arles, Pont du Garde, Night of the good pheasant, Vichy, Tours,

The Chateaux, Paris. The Madison Oct Appartment hunt. The snotty French aristocrats. Rue Pergolese. Mlle. Sereye succeeds Bellois. The Dudleys

Saw Vallambrosas. Nov Parties with the Bishops & Hemmingways. Endless massages. The Tates. Margaret Anderson & Flanner

The smelly maid. Scotty starts school. Party at Dudleys with Pascin. Zelli redhed. Dec Xmas at Caroline Dudleys. Hemmingways leave (perhaps January). Diplodicus ect Myers.

Grand Guignol

1930 Jan Zelda working hard on stories. Waldo Pierce & woman artist. Seymores. Fosters (Betty). Newman Smith. Mr. Kelley. Padraic & Mary Column, the opera

Feb Trip to Algiers. 2nd class sleeping. Sea Sick. Algiers. Kabba St. Mountains. Braun. Bir Rabelou. Bou Saada. Amir Ben Dohman. Oulid Nails. Biskra. Garden of Allah. El Kantara. The painter. Constantine. The gorge. Algiers, Marseilles Paris.

Mar Kalmans in town. The Barrows – Hills. Party Alice O’Brien? Mortimer Duval Nancy Hoyt & her dinner.

Fontainbleu with Braun. Versaille Pav. Henri IV with Zelda in our car, Murphys in Paris – opening the Bois Apr Strange Sunday walk (13th) Sam Ordway. American Club to hear Wolcott. Moved (18th) Bishop incident. Zelda

quit school & began again. Prof Claude, Noels, Rousseau, Egarova Arlen. Mortimer Duval. April 23d Zelda enters Malmaison Zelda weak & tired.

May

Lud & friends. His lunch. Dehavens, Thomas, Kalmans, Kit, Orgeval, Lillis, My dinner, lunch Kaly in Bois, Emily, DeHavens. Zelda every day. Jeff Crane, Sam & Mildred. Zoe & her friend, Bachelor dinner Pavlowa, wedding. The Cordon Bleu

June

Finished Bridal Party in Paris End May On the 11th Zelda leaves Malmaison Braun, Ludlow, luncheon, Ballet Psychoanalist, Couchman, Lucien Ballet May 22nd Zelda Enters Valmont. Glion, Rhigi, Victoria, De Muns, Boting Kursall, Paris, Knight, Lee, Sam, Mildred. Plane. On the 4th Zelda leaves Valmont. 5th Newman arrives. ‸ Tennis pro Enters Prangins (before.) De Muns. Garden collapse. Perroquet. Ballet collapse. Storms. —(After) Montreux trip. Sacks, Cafe Central Doctor, Montreux de Muns. Kursall English. Chillon. St. Gingolph. Murphys Lausanne. Saw Doctor 18th June 23d Zelda confined Eglantine. Writing Woman with past at Glion from 11th. ‸ Grace & Virginia 5 days in Paris late June, early July. Jenny Townsend

July Return Glion. Parties with English. Scotty & Alsatian ‸ “Berthe” on 13th. Julian. Began One Trip Abroad. Three Princetonians. Tom Wolfe & Julian Pictet

& Sarasin. The De Muns. Over to Evian—Jorocki, Eduardo, Edgar. Gerald & Sara at Territet Buffet. The mother & girls from Buffalo & Beau Rivage. The incestuous couple Paris with Scotty. Greek Ambasador. ‸ Mrs. Vandervere. Brick tops. Goodbye Pictets. Bigelow, Lorna, Bishops, Townsend. Virgina

Aug Mary Rumsey, Emily, Coupole, Eleanor Bowman, Schulpter, Donavans, Fouquets, House Nat. Arlen Deschaups, Massage, Palmer Payne Barber & Co. Julien & his girl, Overcoat.. Returned to Vevey. finished Trip Abroad. Caux 8th–22nd, Jews, dancers. Montana. Dotty. Italian. Doctor. Perroquet. Gambling at Caux. Beaumanior & Tamoni. Wiener Waltz. Surfboard at Caux At end Geneva

Sept Geneva. Excema dissapointment & Tom Wolfe. Casino & Maximes, Caux in mid-month. The wop. Hotel Royale. Seeing Zelda. The Comptesse. The Beau Rivage – A Snobbish story. Mimi and her party (Before) The tennis instructor


185 A Year in Lausanne. Waiting. From Darkness to Hope.

Thirty Four Years Old

Sept Bijou, Trevor, Pekunese lost in the Park, Lubalof, Baccarat cheater. Last sight of

Italian lady—the flowers, the lighthouse, hotel du Chateau Scotty in Rue Lalo – my short visit Londsdale & Father. Young Smith & Movies. Eduardo. Louie Edgar

Oct Hotel de la Paix from early October. Paris at Hotel ‸ Sylva in Rue Pergolese. All became of alarm about Scotty appendix. Saw Gerald. Home to Lausanne. Napier Allington arrives. B.O to Hotel de la Paixx The birthday party, T

Nov Trip to Montana for Thanksgiving. Newman afterwards. Napier. Bijou left before. ‸ gramaphone & money

Eduardo to Montana. Munich with Gerald, English at the police, Peter & Dehaven Newman again, Allington in Montreux, Perroquet, Eduardo in Paris with Murphy’s, hotel Napoleon, Grande Ecarte, Rufus Culkins shirts, Scotty to Empire

Dec Xmas with Scotty at Prangins. Gstaad, Hughes, Egloff, Mcglauchlin, Phelps, Miley, Beck, Count Cetza, Bedfords, Forbes, Leatherby, Massgiyk, Hassan, Arnolds, Tiger, Solvays, Siamese, Hilliard, Miss Morris

1931 Jan Scotty at Prangins, Watson Emmet ‸ at Chateau d’Oex, Gstaad, Phelps, Pell, Major Hyducooper.

& his party. The paintress & her daughter, phone to the mountains, shone to Gstaad The Arnolds & their curious story – its sequel two years later. The telegram about father. ‸ Harvey in Lausanne Check girl at Caux. Bishops, Zelda better, Fathers death, ‸ SS. New York

Feb Caux Bert, Cornells, Douglass Fairbanksovitch, Mother, Lise, John, Ceci, funeral Rockville, Tom, Tudor Hall, lower Maryland, Bert, ‸ & purse McArthur at Grand Hotel, Lillie & Helen Hayes, Sayres in Montgomery, Plaza again, Marise, The Olympic, Earl of Ross, Lady Bridget, Pembertons & McNamara

Mar Paris, Scotty & Mlle, Story refused again, work & worry, Zelda better, Scotty for Easter & Egg hunt Zelda helped by ski-ing, Dorothy Harvey in Lausanne, Marylyn Millers niece & Lonsdale, the American consul & the young defender, Miley & his girl – leaving for Riviera, Early in April— Zelda & I to Lyas ballet in Montreux – saw Lucien ect.

Apr. To Laco di Como, Villa d’Este, Bellagio, Como itself, boredom, the Americans in bar. M. E. in Lugano lunch & golf, her children, phone frum Zurich, general disappointment in place. Sudden trip, hotel, appartment. Story written, trip Paris, Bishops & Myers, M. at Hotel Napoleon, Berne somewhere, trip to Annecy with Zelda at months end. Her walk alone

May Alice Lee in Lausanne, Miley & his girl (or before) Trip to Paris by aeroplane for mother, Zelda Evian Geneva & Lausanne with sisters, Zelda better – swimming & in Lausanne & in Geneva, forgot Bishops, ‸ Duval at Harvey’s, Fontainbleu, car, Interlaken, to Flan Myers in country, Hotel des St. Peres, Gerald once more in Lausanne. Mlle & Scotty in Paris, Car to Switzerland, Mill, Neuve Chapel

June Full summer. Last of M. Zelda in Lausanne & Geneva, swimming, Paris to see Scotty get medal, Myers in country, Libby, much work, Hotel du Chateau Miley & his girl in trouble, Trevor & Lonsdale, Exposition in Paris, Murphys, Hoyty Rufus & his girl, Bert again (1st of month) & Eski, Mother off at end (or in July)

July Annecy, both sides of Lake, birthday party, the fish, dance at big hotel, Scotty to La Poldu, Mlle bored, walks, chateau, driving, Aix les Bains, surfboard, diving, tennis, eccentric dancing, Dr. Forel at beginning & end.

Zelda in Caux & then me alone there Aug Caux, much work, ‸ sick in Vevey, tennis at Caux, trip Murphys, swimming, Vienna,

planatarium, old chateau, Hoyty, Leger, old singer Vevey, Patrick, the bath water, last days of tomato juice, St. Estephe & Restaurant de la Paix. Last walks cathedral, everyone gone, Duke’s mistress at Beau Rivage. Scotty & Mme Lang to Paris

Sept. Left for home, trip north, lost ring, Dijon, car busted, Dave Bruce, Harvard baseball player, Brunnschwiler. Empire State Bldg, Dwight, Alec, Bishops, Townsend, Luds party, Obert & Perkins, Goodbye Forel & Mlle. Vallombrosas, Eski, Brunnschwiler


186 Recession & Procession

Zelda Well, Worse, Better. Novel intensive begins

Thirty Five Years Old

Sept Arrive Montgomery, the judge, the family, callers at Greystone, leaving other hotel, house

hunting, two houses, old friends – Fanny, young Byers (Cody) Freeman & Julia & Unc, bought car, golf & tennis at friends houses, the Garlands, Mrs Mckinney, Stopped in Washington, Ring in New York.

Oct Felder Ave, the usual girls, the Pitts & Little Theatre, following football, life dull, walks with cane, Scotty’s school, tennis & golf Saw Auburn Tulane & left for California. The train. First impressions Merdith & Sullivan, de Sano, Thalberg, Lewen & conference rooms, offices, funny man, Hollywood Blvd & hotels

Nov King & Eleanor, the Hoveys, the politicians daughter & Eddie Mayer, the Boyds, Zelda letters Thalberg’s parties, Carmel’s parties & her husband, Selznick and his ‸ new wife & previews, the offices at Metro, Dwight Taylor, & the phonograph & nice kid who runs authors, Colton & Zoe & Ina, Dud Murphy & French woman. Judge dead

Dec Intensive work & the Sat. parties, Tom Boyds again, the Hollywood sets, hat at Paul Bern’s (or Bernie’s), the interviewers & Dorothy Speare, my party & Herman Mancowitzs & man who wh writers Hoffenstiens, Lupe Velez, the Vidor’s again, Home & Zelda’s big party, the cat & Trouble, Anthony

1932 Jan Rosalind arrives, & Newman people-people, big lunches, Zelda feels bad with asthma, Palm St Petersburg trip, Freeman in StPetersburg, tennis & golf again, swimming unsuccessful walks, the dancer, fishing trip & Zelda sicker, outbreak, the trip back & liquor incident, Zelda increasingly sick

Feb Zelda in Hopkins Feb 12th, preliminary warnings to family, trip, Dr. Squires, Norfolk, Gee-gee, Hume & Cecilia, Annabel’s children, Huger Labouisse in Carolina, arrived home in depression. Scotty & Mlle, the servants, Scotty & her friends, becomes a racket

Mar Rosalind still there, Mrs. Nash Ried & army friend. My army friend (Ristine) & his party, the Browder wedding, the Pitts & their crowd, Scotty sick, me sick, Mrs Sayre playing the fool, Everett Jackson & Rosalind, everything worser & worser, Zelda’s novel arrives, neurosis, strained situation, Dr. Wiel, Left Alabama Mar 30th

Apr. Zelda strange, the Rennert Hotel, Work & walks The Menckens, Little Theatre, the Puffy’s, Mother came over. Borrowing insurance Began househunting, Nell Brooks, the Va lady agent Mrs. Clark Freeman & Stuty Out to Eddie Poe’s, Linaweavers, Davis, Dancies. John & Anna

May Househunting continued. La Paix the 26th. The secretaries, Mrs. Owens The Clarks to dinner. Arthur & the John Reed Club.

June Calling on Miss Knight. Zelda comes home gradually. Virginia Beach

Brunnschwiler departs. My bootlegger. Mr. Carr the barber. Cary

July Tennis & Mr. Crosby. Howie, Dean & Fisher. Swimming. Aquilla

Golf once. Bruno Hills at hospital. Mrs. Ridgely. The Woodwards, the Menckens. The quarry & Meadowbrook. Arthur & his friends. Trip to Philadelphia. Gertrude Harris. Miss Neale.

Aug The Novel now plotted & planned, never more to be permanently interrupted. Games with children. Virginia Beach again— Gerald & Lillian. The Races. David, Andrew, Eleanor, Sam. 1st Hopkins with intestinal flu. Max turns up. Mrs Sayre.

Sept Rennie & Myers. Zelda to Fair. Cousin Ceci Cary’s car. Dos Passos & Horsely Gant Dean’s friend & the lawn. The bonus army.


187 A Strange year of Work & Drink. Increasingly unhappy.—Zelda up & down. 1st draft of novel complete Ominous!

Thirty-Six Years Old

Sept Servant troubles –the Keatings. Essie. Horsely & the Swanns.

His labratory. Scotty enters Calvert. Oct Aquilla & his misdeeds, Andrew & Scotty to Navy Game Scotty

to dancing school. Nov Menace of the stuffed windows. T.S. Elliot & the walk. The

Fishers. Political worries, almost neurosis. Cary Again Dec The furnace. The childrens plays. Skating. Drinking increased

Things go not so well.

1933 Jan Constant visits to Hopkins. Scotty’s lessons bad. Quarrels with her. The beauty contests, the Stieffs, the lost hat. Ring died

Feb My trip to Princeton & New York. Quarrel Ernest. Always the furnace Mr. Turnbull’s lectures. Lois & Marice in New York. The Bishops The Biggs came through

Mar My trip Bunny Wilson after inauguration. Zelda riding

The little cat. The Mckewans. The Gold & the bank Holiday. Writing “On Schedule”

April Zelda’s rehearsals, The Vagabonds. Bills show. My song

Eddie Poe calls. Mrs. Lanier. Children boxing “More than Just a House”

May Zelda’s play. The Seldes pass through. My trip south

by myself in the car. The Wight girl. University of Va. Laurence Lee. My chauffeur. Breakdown on the pass. The sign about Pelham. The Communist

June The typescript of Zelda conversation. The two Swann boys. The book progressing. Sometime in here was sick again – I’m not sure when. Had a nice sweet nurse. Summer less good — only painting & writing; no more improvement.

July Mr Crosby & Tennis. Andrew in camp. Julian Van Cortland Tight at Eddie Poes. Less swimming. Miss Gager. Dick Stillwell. Trip to Philadelphia. Ger

August THE FIRE . The Family Bus. Night of the fire. The pistol. 1st borrowing from mother. Other borrowings

Sept Zelda to Fair. Cousin Ceci, Rosalind, Annie Laurie & negro act. Zelda riding. The other nurse. Zelda & beer. Zelda & Car (perhaps before


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Zelda breaks, the novel finished. Hard times begin for me, slow but sure. Ill Health Throughout

Thirty-Seven Years Old

Sept Arrangement with Ober & Scribner to work on book only. Football for Andrew.

Shooting gallery. Scotty to Brym Mawr. Oct Max accepts book in 1st draft. 1st installment delivered. Took

Andrew to Columbia game. Zelda to Dartmouth game. Gave party for Navy - Notre Dame here. Ceci in Washington.

Nov 2nd & 3d installment delivered. Zelda to Yale game. Tight.

Preparations to move. [ ] Dec Book began to run. Went to N.Y. Got sick with pleuresisy, Called quarrelled

with Bunny Wilson, Bermuda. Sick in St. George. Sick in Hamilton, the English people. The models, Zelda’s bycycles, 1st Xmas at 1307 Park Ave. Mother & John.

1934 Jan Zelda begins to weaken & goes to Hopkins. Her studio unsatisfactory Nieghborhood children, Anne, Betsy & Jaqueline. Quarrel with Gerald. Ginevra on phone. Last installment

February Endless proof. One servant & eating out after Zelda leaves. Beginning to get response from Bk.

Moved Zelda up to northern N.Y. Sanitarium. Saw Gerald

March Everything waiting for book. Got sick again. The nice night nurse (name?) Arthur, Calverton, Ross at times. Scotty visits Perkins & gets coat. Parker & O’Hara. Met Thurber, Mckaig

April Caresse Crosby. First Red Bk Story. Zelda exposition. Zelda in New York

Book came out. Mrs. Turnbull. May No Flowers. Zelda transferred to Sheppard in Katatonic State, me going to

Philadelphia. Work with Bill Warren on Tender Jun Scotty & I to Norfolk. Va Beach. Saw Annabel. Eating out unsatisfactory.

Scotty to Camp, O’Mara – a wild night with him. Scotty to cabaret & to Belvedere. Marconi episode. Very unhappy.

July The crazy wk in New York. ‸ Plaza The four Yale acrobats. Alice ect. The stenographer,

Ludlow. Then collapse at home after ms. delivery. Streetcar – Lewis Azrael. First Welbourne Trip, South & Stinson. Julian Van C. & his friends. Gallant Pelham, numerology. Wolfe & Perkins

Aug Another Welbourne Trip. Trip to Norfolk — Williamsburg The pool, the Taylors

Hospital again. The nurse who was the doctor’s wife. Mrs Owens vacation. The Jewish stenographer. New Orleans lady. Rogge. “Her Last Case.” Two days only in hospital (three ?)

Sept. Scotty returns. The Biggs


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Thirty-Eight Years Old

Sept Welbourne again, twice perhaps—Sabins, butlers, Gaithers, Morrisons, the pool, the graveyard. New York with Spafford. Mayflower Hotel. Mother in Washington. Wine on Trains. The bus from Middleburg. Myra in Algonquin.

Missy Sabins visited. The Bishops. Max down. Finance now serious Oct Elizebeth at Nell Brookes, the Nashes, Sally Reggs, O’Hara, Gingrich, Mrs.

Owens ill. Alice Wooten. Bought the Ford

Cold night with Sabins. Nov Took Andrew & Stanley to Yale game. Saw Dunn & Dickey. Rosalind in town &

seemed well. Elizebeth comes north. Calverton calls with Huntingdons. Two Red Bk stories. Debt bad. Borrowing more from mother. Crazy call on Whites Mrs Turnbull & Frances.

Dec [ ] Zelda came for Xmas Eve & spent the night. The little tree. Elizebeth Lemmon & Alyse Wooten came. Mary Rumsey dies. Both Sabins visited.

Feb Jan 1935

Wrote story about Peacocks. Very Sick. Debts terrible. Left for Tryon Sun 3d. Oak Hall. Went on p[ ] wagon for all liquor & alcohol on Thursday 7th (or Wed. 6th at 8.30 P.M). The Vanderhoefs, Nash, Flynns, Lynch, Bowes, Carter Browns, Fords Hills, Carpenters. The stenographer, Miss Burrows & Mrs. Ritch. Dr. Palmer. Lois married “Loves Melody.” news of Zelda Flynn’s Song.

Jan Feb Mistake. These two should Reverse

Scotty sick, missing school & dance. Work & worry. Sickness and debt. Zelda seems less well. Proofs, Travel Together Story failure. Last Red Bk IV. Max came I think. Gingrich It returning from Florida. Alec came through

Mar Zelda very bad on return. Terrible worry. Saw Elizibeth, Jim Boyd. Scottie very gay Cary Ross came through. Tom Boyds death

April May

Reached Ashville May 16th June July Aug Sept.

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