F. Scott Fitzgerald Ledger - USC Transcription 2013

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SCOTT FITZGERALDS LEDGER TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 1

F. Scott Fitzgeralds Ledger, 19191938
F. Scott Fitzgeralds 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, Zeldas 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 Zeldas 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 Fitzgeralds 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 J udith Baughman.
Elizabeth Sudduth,
Director of the Irvin Department of
Rare Books and Special Collections,
University of South Carolina

F. SCOTT FITZGERALDS LEDGER TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 2
Transcribers Notes
Each page of the MS is transcribed as a single unbroken page. Pages that do not bear Fitzgeralds handwriting
are omitted.
Page numbers from the MS are included in the transcription. The transcriptions 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 162165.
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.
Fitzgeralds symbol for and resembles a plus sign (+). However, since it is semantically an ampersand (&), the
latter symbol is used in this transcription.
Since Fitzgeralds 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 J udith Baughman for her careful proofreading of the
transcription. With her extensive background in Fitzgeralds 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


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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 FictionNovels, Plays, Stories

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Play in One Act
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APRIL 1919 Smart Set Nov 1919 Scribner Mar. 26
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Babes in the Woods
Short Story
(First Thing Published)
J an. 1917 Smart Set Sept 1919 Scribner Mar 26 20 Collins May 21
Porcelain and Pink
Play in One Act

Oct 1919 Smart Set J an 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?)
J uly 1921
This Side of Paradise
Novel
Nov 17 Mar 18
J uly 17 Sept 19

2 episodes in S. S.
Syndicated
Scribner
Hodder & Staughton
Austrailia
Capp, Clark & Co.
Canada
Mar 26, 20 Collins May 21
The Camels Back
Short Story
J an 1920 Sat. Eve. Post April 24, 20 Pearsons J uly 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

J an. 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 J une 1920 Scribner Aug 1920 Collins Mar 22
The Smilers
Short Story

Sept 1919 Smart Set J une 1920
May Day
Short Story
[Very Long]
March 1920 Smart Set J uly 1920 Scribner Oct 1922 Collins Mar 23

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Play in One Act
(Should be second)
Dramatic Club
Univ. Ala.
Feb 1921
See T. S. of P. Play in Nassau Litt. Mag
J anuary 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 16
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March, 1924
2
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Serial
College Stories
In Tales of the J azz Age
Dalyrimple Goes
Wrong
Short Story
In Flappers and Philosophers
Benediction
Short Story

Story in Nassau Litt Mag.
J une 1915
Head and Shoulders
Short Story

Bayard Vieller
offer turned down
Metro (Dana)
The Chorus Girls
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
Novel
See Debutante Famous Players The Romantic Egotist
Nov 1917 Mar 1918
And destroyed stories 1919
Cheap editions, Burt
& Collins, Popular Song
2
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serial Daily News ect
The Camels Back
Short Story
Sold to Warner
Bros.
Conductor 1492
The Cut Glass Bowl
Short Story

Obrien, 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

Obrien, two stars In Flappers and Philosophers
The Smilers
Short Story

Smile, Smile, Smile
J une 1919
Stripped and
Permanently Buried
May Day
Short Story
[Very Long]

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May 1919
Feb 1920
Scribners, Smart
Set and Sat. EvePost
Feb 1919
June1920
Pearsons, Strand,
Yellow, Soveriegn
Pan, 20 story
192122 Scribners
Hodder & Staugton
Austraila
Capp Clark & Co.
Canada.
Aug 1920 Collins Mar 1921
The J ellybean
Short Story
May 1920 Metropolitan

Syndicated
Oct 1920 Scribners
Harpers.
Oct 1922 Collins Mar 23
The Lees of Happiness
Short Story

J uly 1920 Chicago Tribune Dec 12, 20 Scribners Oct 22 Collins Mar 23
J emima
Burlesque

J an 1917 Vanity Fair J an, 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 3
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Collins Sept 1
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The Popular Girl
Short Story
[Very Long]
Nov 1921 Sat. Eve. Post Feb 9
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Feb 16
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, 1922

Two for a Cent
Short Story

Sept 1921

Metropolitan

May 22

Argosy

1934
Small Maynard
Henry Holt & Co.
Obriens Best
S.S. of 1922

Spring 25

Fall 22

The Diamond
as Big as the Ritz
Very

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Short Story
Oct 1921 Smart Set J une 22 Scribners Oct 22 Collins Mar 23
The Curious Case of
Benjamin Button
Short Story
Feb 1922 Colliers May 27
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22 Scribners Oct 22 Collins Mar 23
Tales of the J azz Age
Collection

Feb 1917Feb 1922 Sat. Post; Colliers;
S.S; Van. Fair; Met;
Chi. Trib;
Sept 20
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Pearsons J uly 1921 Scribners Sept 20
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Collins Mar 23
Winter Dreams
Short Story

Sept 1922 Metropolitan Dec. 1922 M
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Royal (English)
J an 1923
Feb 1923
Scribners Feb
1926

Dice, Brassknuckles
& Guitar
Short Story
J an 1923 Hearsts
International
May 1923 [ ]
The Vegetable
Play

J an 22 Mar 23 Scribners April
27
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, 23

Hot and Cold Blood
Short Story

April 23 Hearsts
International
Aug 1923 Scribners Feb
1926

The Sensible Thing
Short Story

Nov, 23 J ack Wheelers
Weekly
(Liberty)
J uly 1924 The Womans
Pictorial
Dec
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Scribners Feb
1926

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8 stories Flappers and Philosophers
The J ellybean
Short Story
2
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Serial
Contemporary Types of Short
Story
The Lees of Happiness
Short Story

Obrien, one star
In Danish All
American Decameron
J emima
Burlesque

Published in Nassau Litt. Tales of the J azz Age
The Russet Witch
Short Story

as O Russet Witch!
Tarquin of Cheapside
Short Story

Published in Nassau
Litt. Here revised
The Beautiful
and Damned.
Novel

Warner Bros.
(Harlan & Prevost)
2
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serial, Daily
news ect.
Cheap Edition: Burt
TheBeautiful & Damned
The Popular Girl
Short Story
[Very Long]
Stripped and
Permanently Buried

Two for a Cent
Short Story

Gerrould-Bailey
Anthology
Golden Book.

Three star OBrien
2
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Serial Short Stories
for ClassroomReading

The Diamond
as Big as the Ritz
Very

LONG
Short Story
Pasadena Little
Theatre, Winter 1938
Drama by Hodapp.
Van Dorens
Anthology
Broadcast
Columbia Hook-up
May 13
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1934
The Curious Case of
Benjamin Button
Short Story
Obrien, two star Tales of the J azz Age
Collection

2 Productions See
Porcelain
1 Movie (Camel) 11 Stories & Plays Tales of the J azz Age
Winter Dreams
Short Story

Called in England
DreamGirl of Spring
All the Sad Young
Men
Dice, Brassknuckles
& Guitar
Short Story
Stripped and
Permanently Buried
The Vegetable
Play

SamHarris
at Appollo Theatre
Atlantic City, with Ernest Truex
Nov 19
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1923
Gabriels Trombone
rewritten 4 times
Also called Frost
Directed by SamForrest
Played Wilmington & Stamford
Vagabond Players Balt.
The Vegetable
Hot and Cold Blood
Short Story

2
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Serial All the Sad Young
Men
The Sensible Thing
Short Story

All the Sad Young
Men

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Dec, 1923 M
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Magazine
J uly
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Womens
Pictorial
Dec
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Scribners Feb.
1926

Diamond Dick
(Short Story)

Dec 1923 Hearts
International
April
1923

Gretchens
Forty Winks
(Short Story)
J an. 1924 Sat. Eve. Post. Mar 15
1924
Home
Magazine
March
1924
Scribners
G. PutnamCo.
Feb
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The Baby Party
(Short Story)

Feb 1924 Hearsts
International
Feb
1925
Scribners Feb
1926

Our Own MovieQueen
(Short Story)

Nov 1923 Chicago Tribune J une
1925

The Third Casket
(short Story)

March 1924 Sat. Eve. Post May 30
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1924
Pearsons
Magazine
Dec
1924

One of my Oldest
Friends
(short Story)
March 1924 Womens Home
Companion
(Golden Book)
Sept
1925
Red Magazine J uly
1926

Doran

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Absolution
(Short Story)
J une 1923 American
Mercury
June
1924
Scribners Feb
1926

The Pusher-in-the
Face
(Short Story)
March 1924 Womens Home
Companion
Feb
1925
Harpers 1926
The Unspeakable
Egg
(Short Story)
April 1924 Sat. Eve. Post. J uly 12
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1924

J ohn J acksons
Arcady
(Short Story)
April 1924 Sat. Eve Post J uly 26
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1924

The Great Gatsby
(Novel)

J uly & Aug 23
J uneOct 24
(Turned down
College Humor
Serialization)
Scribners April
10
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1925
Chatto and
Windus
Feb 11
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1926
Love in the Night
(Short Story)

Nov, 1924 Sat Eve Post. Mar 14
1925
Womans
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 Womans Home
Companion

A Penny Spent
(Short Story)

J uly, 1925 Sat Eve. Post. Oct 10
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1925
Modern Woman J uly
1926

The Rich Boy
(Short Story)
[Very Long]
AprilAug
1925
Red Book J an.
Feb.
1926
Scribners Feb
1926

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(Short Story)
2
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German Trans: Die
Redaktion
Fr. Trans
All the Sad Young Men
Diamond Dick
(Short Story)

Stripped and
Permanently Buried
Gretchens
Forty Winks
(Short Story)
In a collection
entitled Aces
The Baby Party
(Short Story)

OBrien One Star
Trans. Candide
by Llona
Our Own MovieQueen
(Short Story)

Two thirds written
by Zelda. Only my
climax and revision
OBrien Two Stars
Stripped and
Permanently Buried
The Third Casket
(short Story)

[ ]

Price
Raise
German Magazine
Wocke, Oct 1924
Stripped and
Permanently Buried
One of my Oldest
Friends
(short Story)
The Worlds Best Short
Stories for 1925
OBrien One Star

Absolution
(Short Story)

OBrien 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
ClassroomPsychology
2
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Serial
OBrien Two Stars
Overtons Anthology of
Humorous Stories

The Unspeakable
Egg
(Short Story)
One star Obrien
Stripped and
Permanently Buried
J ohn J acksons
Arcady
(Short Story)
One Star OBrien
Collection for Readings
Stripped and
Permanently Buried
The Great Gatsby
(Novel)

Wm. Brady. Gt. Neck, J an 25, 1926
with J ames Rennie& F. Eldrich
Ambassador Thea. N.Y. Feb. 2
nd
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.)
2
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Serial. Famous Stories
Published by Kra in
Paris, Oct 1926.
The Great Gatsby
Pub Ger many ( K naur) Swedi sh, Dani sh. Mod. L i brar y Br i tti sh Ser i al .
Argosy
Mag
Love in the Night
(Short Story)

Stripped and
Permanently Buried
The Adjuster
(Short Story)

2
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Serial
OBrien 2, Stars
Price Raise
Not in the
Guide Book
(Short Story)
Stripped and
Permanently Buried
A Penny Spent
(Short Story)

Stripped and
Price Raise
Permanently Buried
The Rich Boy
(Short Story)
[Very Long]

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(Collection)
Sept 1922
Aug 1925
Am. Mer; S.E.P.;
Hearst; Red B; Liberty
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calls;
Dec 1922
Feb 1926
M
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Wm. Pic. Home
Pearsons
J an 1923
Dec 1925
Scribners Feb. 26
1926

Presumption
(short story)

Nov 1925 Sat. Eve. Post J an 9
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1926
Womens
Pictorial
1926
J une

The Adolescent
Marriage
(short story)
Dec 1925 Sat. Eve Post. Mar 6
1926
Womens
Pictorial
J uly
1926

In a Little Town
(The Dance)
(Short Story)
J an 1926 Red Book J une
1926

Your Way
and Mine
(Short Story)
Feb 1926 Womens Home
Companion
May
1927
26?

J acobs Ladder
(Short Story)

J une 1927 Saturday Evening
Post
Aug 20
th

1927

The Love Boat
(Short Story)

Aug 1927 Saturday Evening
Post
Oct 8
th

1927

A Short Trip
Home
(Short Story)
Oct 1927 Saturday Evening
Post
Dec 15
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1927

The Bowl
(Short Story

Nov 1927 Saturday
Evening Post
J an 21
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1928

Magnetism
(Short Story)

Dec 1927 Saturday
Evening Post
Mar 3
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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
J uly 28
1928

A Night at
the Fair
(Short Story)
May 1928 Saturday
Evening Post
J uly 21
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1928

He Thinks hes
Wonderful
(Short Story)
J uly 1928 Saturday
Evening Post
Sept 29
th

1928

The Captured
Shadow
(Short Story)
Sept 1928 Saturday
Evening Post
Dec 29
th

1928

The Perfect
Life (Short
Story)
Oct 1928 Saturday
Evening Post
J an 5
th

1929

The Georgia Belle
(Short Story)
(The Last of the Belles)
Nov 1928 Saturday
Evening Post
Mar 2
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1929

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Nine Stories All the Sad
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Presumption
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Price Raise
The Adolescent
Marriage
(short story)

In a Little Town
(The Dance)
(Short Story)
Anthology Samples
Your Way
and Mine
(Short Story)
2
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Serial
One Star Obrien
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J acobs Ladder
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Price Raise
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(Short Story)

Two Stars OBrien
Price Raise
Stripped and
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A Short Trip
Home
(Short Story)
Ghost Story Anthology
3 Stars OBrien

The Bowl
(Short Story

One Star OBrien
Magnetism
(Short Story)

Stripped and
Permanently Buried
The Scandal
Detectives
(Short Story)
One Star OBrien Taps at Revielle
The Freshest
Boy (short story)

Taps at Revielle
A Night at
the Fair
(Short Story)
Stripped and
Permanently Buried
He Thinks hes
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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J an 1929 Sat. Eve. Post Mar 30
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1929

Basil and
Cleopatra
(Short Story)
Feb 1929 Sat Eve Post Apr. 27
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The Rough
Crossing
(Short Story)
Mar. 1929 Sat. Eve. Post J une 8
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1929

Majesty
(Short Story

May, 1929 Sat. Eve. Post J uly 13
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At Your Age
(Short Story

J une, 1929 Sat Eve. Post Aug 17
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Modern Library
Great Modern
Short Stories
1930
The Swimmers
(Short Story)

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Aug "
Sat Eve. Post Oct 17
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1929

Two Wrongs
(Short Story)

Oct 1929
Nov 1929
Sat Eve Post J an 18
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1930

First Blood
(Short Story)

J an 1930 Sat Eve Post April 6
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1930

A Nice Quiet
Place
(Short Story)
March 1930 Sat Eve Post May 31
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1930

The Bridal Party
(Short Story)

May 1930 Sat. Eve Post Aug 9
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1930

A Woman with
a Past
(Short Story)
J une 1930 Sat Eve Post Sept 6
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1930

One Trip
Abroad
(Short Story)
August 1930 Sat Eve Post Oct 11
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1930

A Snobbish
Story
(Short Story)
Sept 1930 Sat Eve Post Nov 29
1930

The Hotel Child
(Short Story

Nov. 1930 Sat. Eve Post J an 28
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Bab
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Dec 1930 Sat. Eve Post Feb 21
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1931
Dodd Mead & Co. Oct
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Indecison
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J an 1931
Feb 1931
Sat Eve Post May 16
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Basil and
Cleopatra
(Short Story)
Stripped and
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The Rough
Crossing
(Short Story)
Two stars OBrien
Majesty
(Short Story

At Your Age
(Short Story

Price Raise
The Swimmers
(Short Story)

One Star OBrien
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)

Stripped and
Permanently Buried
A Woman with
a Past
(Short Story)
Taps at Revielle
One Trip
Abroad
(Short Story)

A Snobbish
Story
(Short Story)
Stripped and
Permanently Buried
The Hotel Child
(Short Story

Bab
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(Short Story)

Best Short Stories
of 1931
Taps at Revielle
Indecison
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1931
J ohn Day

Flight & Pursuit
(Short Story)

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Britannia & Eve 1931
Emotional
Bankrupcy
(Short Story)
J une 1931 Sat. Eve. Post Aug 15
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1931

Between Three
and Four
(Short Story)
J une 1931 Sat. Eve. Post Aug 29
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A Change of Class
(Short Story

J uly 1931 Sat. Eve. Post Sept 22
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Half a Dozen
of the Other
(Short Story)
J uly 1931 Red Book Dec 31
A Freeze-out
(Short Story)

Sept 1931 Sat Eve Post Dec 19
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1931

Diagnosis
(Short Story)

Octtober 1931 Sat Eve Post Feb 20
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1932

Crazy Sunday
(Short Story)

J anuary 1932 American
Mercury
Nov
1932

Family in the Wind
(Short Story)

April 1932 Sat Eve Post J une 4
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What a Hansome Pair
(Short Story)

April 1932 Sat Eve Post J uly
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The Rubber Check
(Short Story)

May 1932 Sat Eve Post J uly
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Interne
(Short Story)

Aug 1932 Sat. Eve. Post Nov
1932

On Schedule

Dec 1932 Sat Eve Post March
1933

More than
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April 1933 Sat Eve Post J uly
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I got Shoes

J uly 1933 Sat Eve Post Oct
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The Family
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Best American Love Stories
O brien 3
Taps at Revielle
Flight & Pursuit
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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
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Published as Six of One
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A Freeze-out
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Diagnosis
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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)

Stripped and
Permanently Buried
The Rubber Check
(Short Story)

Stripped and
Permanently Buried
Interne
(Short Story)

Taps at Revielle
On Schedule

Stripped and
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More than
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Obrien 1
I got Shoes

Obrien 1
The Family
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26, 28, 29,
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Scribners
Magazine
Dec 33
Mar 34
Scribners Mar
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Chatto & Windus 1935
In the
Darkest Hour
(Short Story)
April 1934 The Red
Book
1934
No Flowers
(Short Story)

May 1934 Sat Eve Post J uly
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New Types
(Short Story)

J uly 1934 Sat Eve Post Sept
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Her Last Case
(Short Story)

Aug 1934 Sat Eve Post Nov
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The Fiend
(Short Short)

Sept 1934 Esquire J an
1935
Evening
Standard
1935
The Count
of Darkness
(Short Story)
Oct 1934 Red Book 1935
Kingdomin
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
M
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Calls April
1935

Shaggys Morning
(Short Short)

March
1935
Esquire J une
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 J uly
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Find out
What You
Dont Know

J une
J uly 35
American Sept
1935

Finishing
School
Sept 35 M
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1936
Womans
J ournal
(A course
in languages)

(The Image on the Heart)

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(Novel)
Too Cute for W Song in
Strike up the Band
Tender is the Night
In the
Darkest Hour
(Short Story)

No Flowers
(Short Story)

New Types
(Short Story)

Stripped and
Permanently Buried
Her Last Case
(Short Story)

The Fiend
(Short Short)

Taps at Revielle
The Count
of Darkness
(Short Story)

Kingdomin
the Dark
(Short Story)

The Night of
Chancellorsville
(Short Short)
Taps at Revielle
Gods of the
Darkness
(Short Story)

The Intimate
Strangers
(Short Story)

Shaggys Morning
(Short Short)

Stripped and
Permanently Buried
Esquimo Boy
(Short Story)
(The Passionate Esquimo)
To be Scrapped
Taps at Revielle
(Collection)

Taps at Revielle
Zone of
Accident

Swedish
Magazine Except
to Bill

What You
Dont Know

Finishing
School
(The Image on the Heart)

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Three Acts
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Feb 36 Esquire May
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Make Yourself
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March 36 Pictorial Review
Inside the
House

April 36 Sat. Eve Post J une
36

The Pearl
and the Fur

May 36 Pictorial Review
Trouble

J une 36 Sat. Eve Post. March
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I Didnt
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 J une
37

The Long Way
Out (Oubliette)

May 37 Esquire Sept
37

In the Holidays

Feb 37 Esquire Dec
37

Room19

March 37 Esquire Feb
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Financing
Finnegan

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Inside the
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The Pearl
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Scrap
Trouble

I Didnt
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Scrap
Please send
me in, Coach

Scrap
An Alcoholic
Case

The Goon

The Long Way
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In the Holidays

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Room19

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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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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 J ellybean 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 J emima 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 J elly Bean $5.00) 100 00
Total $ 19,065 18
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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 J azz Age 3,056.00
The Vegetable (advance) 1,236.00
Total (all these book figures estimated) ----------------------- 17,775.00

Total ------------------------------------------------------------------------ $ 25,135.00
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Zeldas 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
Gretchens 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 Camels 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 J unk 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 J azz 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-J ones 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
J ohn J acksons 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-J ones 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
The Beautiful and Damned 527 00
Tales of the J azz 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
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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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
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
(TheGreat 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

61 63

Record for 1927
Stories J acobs 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 15 Com 10% 68 98
German Rags Martin J ones 25 00
Golden Bk Pusher in Face 110. Com 10% 99 00
Anthology Pusher in Face 25. Com 10% 22 50
Anthology J ellybean 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
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 hes 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 Loveafter 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
The Vegetable 3 60
The Great Gatsby 44.15
Further Advance on New Novel Serial 2129 03
Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 2272 96

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

65

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

Zeldas
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

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

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

Grand Total --------------------------------------------
$ 32,448.18

66

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 AgeModern Library 100. "
Two for a CentGolden Book 75. "
J acobs Ladder English 121. "
Reprints 8. "
Total ---------------------------------- 341 10
Zeldas Writings The Millionaires Girl 4000 " 3,600 00
Miss Bessie 150 " 150 00
Total -------------------------------- 3,750 00
The Vegetable 1 12
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.

67

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 J azz Age 500. 500 00
Vegetable Performance 25.00 " 22 50
New Leaf (English) 17 " 59 00
Flight & Pursuit (English) Guinies 35 " 126 00
J ohn J acksons Arcady 2.21 " 2 00

Total ------------------------------------------------------------ 6,109 50
The Vegetable 1 13
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

68

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

6973

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
J ohn J ackson (Royalties " 19 00
16,328 03
74

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
[ ]
20,032 33

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.
75

Record for 1935
Stories The Intimate Strangers $3000 2700 00
Zone of Accident 3000 2700 00
What you Dont 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
Shaggys 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

76

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 "
Authors House "
Afternoon of an Author "
An Authors Mother "
I didnt Get over "
Please send me in, Coach "
An Alcoholic Case "
2250 00

Misscelaenous Modern Library, Brittish & Danish, J ohn J ackson ect 199 79

All Books 81 18
Total 10,180 97

77

Record for 1937
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)

100102 Torn Out
103

Published Miscelani (including movies) for which I was Paid

NAME DESRIPTION MAGAZINE DATE REMARKS
A Dirge

Parody Verse J udge Dec. 1919
Predjudices, 1
st
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 J an 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 M
c
Calls March 1924
The Little Brother of
the Flapper

Article M
c
Calls Dec 1924
Imagination and
a few Mothers

Article Ladies Home J ournal J une 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 J an 1924

104

NAME DESRIPTION MAGAZINE DATE REMARKS
Making Monagamy Work

Article Metropolitan Syndicate J an. 1924
Our Irresponsible Rich

Article Metropolitan Syndicate Feb. 1924
The Cruise of the Rolling J unk

Article Motor FebApril
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 Womens Home Companion J uly 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

ArticleReview 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 Cassels Mag. Enq.)
Story Tellers Mag
Dec 1928
F

A Short Autobiography

New Yorker Sketch May 25
th

1929

Girls Believe in Girls

Liberty Article 1930
Salesmanship in the
Champs Ellysee

Sketch New Yorker 1930
Echoes of the J azz Age

Article Scribners Nov
1931

105

NAME DESCRIPTION MAGAZINE DATE REMARKS
My Lost City

Article Cosmopolitan J uly 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

" " Mar 36
Handle with Care

" " Apr. 36
The Ants
at Princeton

Satire
(Story?)
Esquire J une 36
Authors
House

Sketch Esquire J uly 36
Afternoon
of an
Author
Sketch
(Story?)
Esquire Aug 36
An Authors
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
Lets Go
out & Play

Broadcast
Play
Columbia Fall 1935
143

Zeldas Earnings
1922 Four articles (See page 54) $ 815 00
1923 Our Own Movie Queen (Storyhalf 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 Millionaires 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

144150 Torn Out
151

Outline Chart of my Life

1896 Sept 24
th
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.

J uly He said his first word. It was the monasyllable up

152

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

J une He had a dutch haircut

153

Two Years Old

1899 J an 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.

J une 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
M
c
quillan in her house on Summit Avenue near
Dale Street.

154

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 J an 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.

155

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 J an He now went to Sarycuse where he took Mrs. Pecks
appartment on East Genesee Street.

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

Aug Again he went to Atlantic Citywhere 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

156

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 J an He now moved from East Genessee Street to the Kasson
on J ames Street. He remembers J ack 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 Delihants place in
Montgomery County Maryland, where he made friends
with a colored boy, name forgotten name Ambrose

157

Six Years Old

Sept He now weighed 45 llbs. He entered Miss Goodyears
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 J an Naturally he moved againthis 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 J ack Butler, a blow with a baseball bat from
the same boy son of an army officerwhich 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
mans 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 J ack Garland at his Cousin Cecilias
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.

J uly He wandered off on the Fourth of J uly & 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. Scotts
freudian shame about his feet kept him from joining in.

158

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 J oe, a black cocker spaniel,
and also a bycycle a girls bycycle. He was sent to
school at the Holy Angels 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 J ack Baker. He remembers Ted Keating, Dodo Clifton, J ack
Kimberly and Dexter Rumsey, and their facinating army.
He remembers Nana, Annabels 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 J ohn Wylies 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.

159

Eight Years Old

Sept He took up geography, grammar and arithmetic at
the beginning of this school year at the Holy Angels. 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 J ack Baker being the youngest boys in
the neighborhood, were the most frequently chased.
He hit J ohn 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 Atkins 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
J ack Garland was dead & it shocked him. He
read Scottish Chiefs and played with Toms & Gerroulds
toys. Played with Brooks Brewer & Fenwick
Shugrue in Georgetown.

J uly 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.

160

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 J oe Powell, Honey Chittenden, J ames
Ingham, Clare Collard, the J ewetts. He had a complete
gymnasium in his attic and began a passionate stamp collection.
Some boys around a potato roast told him they didnt 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 J an 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 Youths Companion.

J uly He returned to the Stevens 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.

161

Ten Years Old

Sept He made up shows in Inghams attic, all based on the American
Revolution and a red sash and three cornered hat. He did
tricks and mysteriously vanished a dime. Gus Shys play put
him temporarily in the shade but he was impressed with Guss
rhymes and imitations and passed on the dirty ones to another nurse
girl. He told one cook hed been good to her but would cease unless
she gave him rocks. Finally the moving picture machine Inkys
uncle gave him eclipsed Gus Shy. Sometimes J oe 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 M
c
graw at Nardens that Mexico City was not the capitol of
Central America. He used to go to the Wild West movies and
the Tech Stock Company.

J an 1907 He went to the Charity ball and to the Macks party at the
country club where he wore his juvenile tuxedo and was
chased by a cripple named Sears M
c
graw whom he loathes to this day
J oe 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 Dont 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 J ack Horner to the dancing school party He went
to the J amestown Exposition at Norfolk & saw the Atlantic Fleet.
The Stratmeyer books, football suits

J une 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.
J uly 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 Uphams Cornell stroke.

162

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
didnt have a penny to put in the collection box. He could not go
to Gwendolen Boardmans 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 J an Kitty played in the Chittendens tobogan & I
he
expressed my
his
love by
tripping up Norbert Sullivan and someone else. He attended the
Rumsdells party in his little tuxedo. Also Edna Steeles party and the
charity ball where he was asked to sit in Earl Knoxs 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 J ames
Ingham and was amused at Mrs. Winslows soothingsyrup. He almost died
laughing at E. H. Southren as Lord Dundreary. His character book. Kitty loved him.
March His fathers 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.

J une He played golf with Inky on the public links

J uly Came out to St. Paul to live with Grandmother. Mother at Fultons. J ohn
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 Foleys 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

Red underlines on this page indicate possible use (1940)

163

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. Maries 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. Foleys halloween party. Boxing with blonde at Y.M.C.A. Began
reading in bed after hoursa life habit.

J an 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 3
d
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. J aggards
dance

J une 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 1
st
communion

J uly 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 & J ean Ingersoll at Frontenac and Billie Butler and I. The Intrigue.
Billy Butler and Evylyn Girard. Billy Webster. The Cave at Frontenac. J oe Powell
in Buffalo. The mock wedding

164

Thirteen Years Old

Sept Height 5ft. 3in. Started 2
nd
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 Foleys team (?)
Football at U. of Minn. M
c
govern ect

Dec Entered dancing school. J ulia Dorr and J oan Orton. The Mishka rink.
Sneaking over to Gerbers to buy a return present for the unexpected one

1910 J an Beat Egbert in boxing. Bob-rides. Sliding. Skeeing Praying. Saving up
Now I lay mes.

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

May Made 1
st
Communion. The Gooserah organized. Play in Cecils attic. Initiations. My
gymnasium set up in our back yard. Lord Dunreary pictures. Photography revival
Dancing school with Billy Foster as little J ack Horner. The great father Corrigan. Helen Corfe
Eymo Havelick, Horfel OConnel, Ocky Varland, DuchandleGormelly, IreneStiery, Barry. Laughed at communion
J une 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.

J uly Mother went abroad. Went to Grandmas. 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 Shotwells house, 509 Holly Ave. Fred Foley. Grandfather M
c
Quillan: Well, if
it wasnt for him where would we be now. Mr. Hill wouldnt allow smoking
When you enter a room speak first to the oldest lady, says father. Proud
to say about party: My mother wont let me go.
Ames quarterback on Central High school team

Dec. J oan Ortons bob-ride. The petition about Eleanor Alair.

J an 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 M
c
mell Seymores attic. Intimacy
with Bobby Schurmier. Invention of the game Stop. Little photos taken.
Our Chameleon ties. Going skee-ing. Art Foleys queer girl.

March Dancing school. Marie. Love. The triangle. The Ames Yard. A Play at Ben Griggs.
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 J im 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 J im 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

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

The Daniels boat.
J uly Went to White Bear Yatch Club. Schurmier, Cecil, Geo. Squires and Reub. Warner. Played
tennis. Swam. Stole candy. Sailed. Skinned gophers, played on Archers railroad.
Excitement about Newman. Wharton Smiths data. Helen Clarksons 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 M
c
goffin. Schurmiers
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. Alexanders 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
Im Fresh. Fight with Grassie. Aunt Clara died. The dog wagon. The candy kitchen,
The Philadelphia. Macs. Oh, you dear delightful women. Honey Love.

Nov Fight with Franciscus. Didnt dress for the Morristown game. My midnight feast and
the annex rough-house. OFlaherty balls me out. My football poem. Martins socks.
I suspect I have consumption. Stanislas Stange. Sam White at Princeton.

Dec. Hanks advice. The Quaker Girl. The wonderful vacation. Marie at dramat. Club
meeting. Long trousers. On the stairs at the Ames dance. Eleanor & Mary J . Marie at
the Winchesters. The last day. The rag.

1912 J an A new start. Poor marks and on bounds. Trips to New York. I try to write a play.
The horrible tube to J ersey City.

Feb Grandmother & Aunt A. come out. Over the River in New York. My librettos. Polly Melville. I
began to see Sap. Bugs Colvin. Letters to Marie and Eleanor. Franciscus and Dot.

Mar. The Inquistion of Harry Donahoe billiard balls, dirty stories ect. Duke Havens advice.
South to Norfolk. Thence to Washington. Stayed at the Forrests. Grandmother and
Uncle J ohn. Mrs. Gales. Cousin Tom at Woodstock. Bad time with Mary Garland.
The Private Secretary.
April Played baseball. More New York trips. Mrs Burlap & Miss Dundon. Chapel.
Hanks addresses. How we ate, ate, ate. Tootsie Rolls.

May Won the junior field meet. Davis sick. Bill Nelsons remark. Saturday
afternoon at Newman, pumps, oily hair, lazy.

J une Florence Brown at school dance. Staying over to take exams. The pervert J ohnston
on the train. Moonlight Bay. Well, after a certain point you cant do anything
for people so I believe in letting them alone.

J uly Passed four examsA in ancient history. My reception home. Visiting
J immy J ohnston. Began to feel lack of automobile. The Colvins 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 J ohnston.

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. OFlahertys astonishment
at my A in history. He evidently doesnt think hes good looking

Oct The Kingsley and Newark games. Ikas remarks. Louie Pallen. I move to
Annex

Nov Shows in New York. Intimacy with Sap. Fays first visit to school. Story for
Newman News. We move to 6
th
form house

Dec J oe M
c
Cormick and Oh you beautiful Doll

1913 J an 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 Henrys. 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 Fays 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.

J une Returnded to St. Paul. Calling on Kitty. Automboile question grows worse. Visiting the
Girards. I love her oh-oh-oh.

J uly 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, J oe, 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 J an 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 J ohn Peale Bishop.

May Walks out the Pyne Place. Nonnie sick. Mother came?

J une Final exams. Deal Beach by auto. Freshman parade. Hemmick and Fay.
Chinatown.

J uly Nonnie J ackson. 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 J an Met Ginevra. Minneapolis movies, Dance M
c
davitts. Met Sap. Drunk.
Gordon M
c
cormick. Letters. Midyears. Caruso

Feb Hide me! J oe Shanleys. Westover. Secretary of Club on 26
th
. The
J ackmans. My sense of perfection. If I couldnt be perfect I wouldnt 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. J o M
c
kibben 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 M
c
rae.
J une Ritz, Nobody Home and Midnight Frolic with Ginevra. Stopping off in
Chicago. Midge Muir. House Party. J immy J ohnston. Deering: Im
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.
J uly Courtney. Left for Saps 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 Reds family life. The weakly bath. Dick
in Chicago. Rabbits. The lonesome tramp in the lonesome town.
Butte, Seattle. Harry & the Goulds. Tates. Oh Uncle J oe. 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 Dunns 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 M
c
leans 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 Hills dance.

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

Feb Visit to Princeton. Returned to Aunt Annabels 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 J immy J ohnston fired. Dolly at the Raddison. Bob Dunn. Writing
play. Ginevra & J immy 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 J immy.

J une Gittens arrived. Yatch Club. Car troubles. Katherine Tighe. Taught
Nonnie to drive. Hiding my college bills. Deering Im

J uly Florence Foals. Grace & Lupe Brundred. Mildred Warden. Our ill-fated
health trip to Brainard. Ride alone with J ohn Wells me in back seat.
Father & Mrs. Nightingale

Aug Lake Forrest. Peg Carry. Petting Party. Ginevra. Party. The bad day at
the M
c
Cormicks. The dinner at Pegs. Dissapointment. Mary
Buford Pierce. Little Marjorie King & her smile. Beautiful Billy Mitchell.
Peg Cary stands straight Poor boys shouldnt 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. J immy 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 J an Dinner to Paul Nelson. Fight with Harry Gordon. Stopped and
started smoking. Went to Rosemary dance. Final break
with Ginevra. Frank M
ac
Donald didnt 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. J azzing to Vachael Lindsey
March Club elections. Rudie suspended. The anti-club movement. Bob
Clark. WashingtonCousin Ceci and Ruth Sturtevantthe latter
disappointing. Charlie Arrot kissed janitress goodbye. The romantic
story of Leslies 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.
Fays silk pajamas.
May Father Hemmick and Christs tears. Unpleasant. Campus house-
party. Words with Pederson. The Leslies at Newman. The Italien
Restaurant. M
c
Cormick, Richelieu, Aberdeen. Mrs Leslie on Our
Betters. Talking with Leslie at Newman. Hientzelman & intensive training.
J une 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 M
c
gown in Washington. Fay at
Univ Club. Evening at Elersie. Bronxes with Dicky. Girl at show resembled G. K.
J uly 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 J ack 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 J ennings Bryant
my dining car seat. Sap came down. Deal Beach with Fay
Parties with Linaweaver & Farrelly. Helen Dick. J ohn Hutchins.
Biggs terrible room. Sap & the white appartment. I reform
Nov J ulie 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 J an Ristine, Richman. Fessenden. Dean. Garvin. Knowles, Dink
Fitz-Gerald. The officers Club. J osephine. 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 15
th
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 15
th
Atlanta Girls. Waugh &
Mathewson. Gas school. Drunks.

May Recruits. Girl I called on.

J une Montgomery on 15
th
. Roberta J ones. Hank Young. The intense heat.
my boots.

J uly May Stiener. Zelda. The 67
th
inf. Major Baird. Phillips and J ones.
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 1
st
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 7
th
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 Zeldas class voted her prettiest & most attractive
Oct May Stiener. Reunion on 26
th
Fuss with Falls. Left
for North on 26
th
. Helen Dents Frenchman.

Nov Camp Mills & Francis. Wild letters. The Knickerbocker. Harry Donahoe.
Supply officer. Dr. Fay. Return to Montgomery. Ruth in Washington.
Zeldas 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. Zeldas dairy. Xmas together. The
grand Theatre. Walks. Dances together. Drinking.
My tagging her thru the wood.
1919 J an Quarrels. Disastrous drunk. Bill Kitchen. Conrad. Craighead.
Death of Dr. Fay. 1516 J . Dont worry about that dress, ect. and
Youll probably see them enough ect. Mrs. Ryan & Zelda on the weather
Bill Kitchen doesnt know a soul in Washington

Feb The Last night, supplies, goodbyre Ryan. Left on 18
th
.
Zelda to Auburn. Mother in New York. A room. Wild
letters

Mar 200 Claremont. Ludlow. Barron G. Colliers. 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 15
th
. 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 Id let him take the roof off. No objection to female company.
May Montgomery on 15
th
. J oel Massie. Waterfalls. Diving. Toilet
set. Sweater. Sayarack & De Funeac. Babes in the Woods.
Mr. In and Mr. Outand other parties. Pretending to drink
Massies whiskey. Townsend avoids me. His snotty remark about
money he lost. I take Betty & Marie to dinner & pay for it.
J une Sap arrives. Big party. Montgomery. The break. Drunk in N.Y.
Boston with Stephen Parrot. Zeldas mistake about the pictures.
Dutch Mounts wife.

J uly South Dartmouth. Betty. Prohibition. My ride to St. Paul.
The Novel. Reading Fortitude on the train. J ulie Townsend.

Aug This Side of Paradise. Katherine Tighe. J ulie 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. M
ac
Niell Seymore. First story sent out. on
30
th
. 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 Maries. Made $215.00 Mothers 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 Bolts dance. Ha! Left the water tap on in Knickerbocker. Townsends
invitation
Dec Dances. Ordways. Maries Vanity Case at opera. Annabel at German.

1920 J an New Orleans. Montomery (twice) The wristwatch. The Pills.
By the 10
th
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 hed written when drunk.

Mar The Orchids. Princeton. Cottage Club. The Prom. Porter Gillespie.
Book published on 26
th
. Disappointment in Henry Strater.

April Married the 3
d
Biltmore. Parties. Princeton on 25
th
. Russ
Forgan. Harvey Firestone. Kimbask & Burkee. Rye.
Warick. J oan Bojer. Tarrytown. Black eye (mine)

May The Commodore. The auto. Westport. Compo road. The Wakemans.
Mrs. Marchand & Mrs Melliss. Mrs OConnor. Car
broken. Fuss at Princeton. Chas. Norris. Rudie. Big leage ball.
Eberstadt. Bill Mackeys check for 20,000 sesterces. Zeldas blue cloak. Hardwick Nevin
J une Nathan Williams & Charilie Town as guests. J ean
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 16
th
. The Dutch hat.
J uly Started south on 15
th
. Parties in Montgomery. Sold
Car. Biggs. Beginning novel. Zelda hides $500.00 Unc Legrand
and his honey. Sleeping upright. Grand Central Station, Longacre Drugstore
J ohn Williams dance. Hot evenings in New York.
Aug Returnded to Westport. Rita Wellman. J udge & 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. 59
th
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. Gormis
Zelda hides $100.00 from Dorothy Parker. Sherwood, Howard & Perkins
First nights with Geo. Nathan.

Dec Lonesome Xmas. The Overmans, George & J ohn B.
Williams quarrel. We begin to feel alone. The Hoveys and the milk bottle

1921 J an 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 1
st
. Begins to realize it 14
th

Ludlow and Virginia DeHaven. The drug clerk who never read
fiction. Mr. Fitzgerald With all true deference to you.

Mar Zelda to Montgomery on 15
th
. I follow on 18
th
. Carl Chambers,
the theosophist says discoveries have been made in Scotland positively dangerous.

April Planning our trip on the Aquitania. George ONiell, Bob
Hanly.

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

Kingley, Leslie, Galesworthy. Lady Churchill. The Cecil. Oxford. Paris 17
th

Folies, Kay Laurel, Caf de la Paix. Cherbourge. Cabino. Wapping
Venice 26
th
The Sturtevant, Robbins. Pietro. Versaille. Mal Maison. Clothes
J une Florence 3
d
Rome 8
th
J ohn Carter, Americans. Embassy. Paris
the 22
nd
Quai Dorsay before the St J ames London 30
th

Claridges, Cavendish, Bob Handley, J im Douglass, Brown
Baker. Dancing in Savoy. The 4
th
. Venice man kicked in stomach
because he wasnt a Roman. The woman weeping in Vatican. The loot of 20 centuries
J uly The 4
th
Cambridge. Clothes in London. The Celtic. The
Duncans & Lord Brice. The Biltmore New York.
Montgomery on 27
th
. 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 & J oe. 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
26
th.
Oh God, goofo Im drunk. Mark Twain. Isnt she smart she has the
hiccups. I hope its beautiful and a foola beautiful little fool

Nov Baby baptisized. Commodore & 626 Goodrich
University Club.

Dec Zeldas weight. Cottillion Dances & bob rides. J oe Ordway.
Mrs. Clark on Mencken. She hoped Grampa Dean wouldnt be too offended
at Elizabeths marriage

1922 J an J oseph 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 J unior Leage Play.

May Parties with the Herseys. Bought Car.

J une Came to Dellwood. Zelda golfing & swimming
Bishop marries. Mrs. Miller bootlicking Mrs. Wann. In a tone of
passionate interest: I didnt think of that at all.

J uly 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. Patricks 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
J anet. Bucks to Princeton. Seldes & Val come out. Grace Flandrau
East

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

1923 J an 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 Boyds Book accepted
April Third anniversary. On the wagon. J oined club here
Duncan Pell and his wife. Party with Bartholmessanother fight.
Tearing Drunk. Tom. I should have asked J ulian 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.
J une Eleanor Browder came. Party at Clarence Mackays. Began my novel.
Squabble at Rings. Party in New York with Mencken and
Nathan. Anita Loos out. the Essylstyns become obnoxious.
Augustus J ohns. Laurette Taylor. Princess Bibesco I only write for intellectuals
J uly 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
Zoes party. Aunt Annabel & Don Stuart. FirpoDempsy
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. Bunnys 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 J an. Party with Gloria Swanson. Read Dostoiefski. Rings 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 Swansons
party. Kauffmans party. Decision on 15
th
to go to Europe.
Miss Comyn, William & Sally. Bunny & Ring talk all night. The one-day story
again. Leeland Hayward & Connie Bennet. Ester Murphys party.
May Sailed. Bunny Burgess. The Captains table. Paris. Tootsie &
her husband. Hyeres & Grimms Park Hotel. Trip to Cannes
Bishop. Edith Whartons garden. Monsier Astier. A night at Mont Martrye

J une Settled at St. Raphael at Villa Marie (Valescure) Bought Car. J osanne
and Silve. Trip to Nice. Mr. & Mrs. King. Mrs. Nelson. Miss Witz,
Bobby Croirier. Gave 1
st
dinner & sat up all night. Pechic
Miss Maddox
J uly The Big crisis13
th
of J uly. 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 6
th
. Seldes and Amanda arrive the 4
th
. 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 Zeldas
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 Kings bank.
Champagne with J ean. Move to Hotel. Last sight of J osanne. Touring
Club de France.

Nov Novel off at last. Ren. 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 Caf,
Zeldas doll, tree, Xmas row, Kellys, Reconciliation, Water Wagon.
New Years dance. My nose. the nigger
1925 J an Gillespie. Sickness for both. American Restaurant. Tivoli, Frascati,
the donkey, Mrs. J ackson, Herbert Howe. Pincio. Morris

Feb Trip to Capri, Naples, Sorrento, Excelcior, Chapman,
(Photograper)
Zelda sick, Bianci, Blue Grot
M
c
kenzie & 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, Zeldas 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. M
ac
kenzie,
The boat question, nervous collapse, Sorrentoto Naples, Naples to Marsielle ect.
May We abandon trip with broken car in Lyon, Zeldas hairdresser, Paris The Florida,
B. Kauffman, Hemminway, Shanley, Ordway and a million Americans. Lyon with
Ernest. Benchly. Stephen. Mad. Boyd. Appartment 12
th
. Ave. Kleber. Gertrude Stien.

J une 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 J ohnsons. Carol Goodner

J uly Party at Alice Delamars on 14
th
, 4
th
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, M
c
lieshes, Brackets, Mannes, Openhiems, Kent
Diving, Tuolmans, Gordon, Myndred, the lighthouse, Murphys garden. Trip
downthe 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. Murphys up. First quarrel after Marices. Hemmngways.
Brick tops. King of Sweden. Landladys troubles. Victor Llona

Nov London. Telulah Bankhead. Dmitri & Nada Milford Haven. Colwell. Young
Embassy Club. Leslies. Swinnerton. Quarrel M
c
Almon. M
c
lieshes. Princeton
dinner. Ellen Mackay.

Dec Murphys again. Xmas at 14 Rue Tilsitt. M
c
lieshes. Myers. Marion
Dell. The Bromfields

1926 J an 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 Oconnor. 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. Murphys
return. Dr. Gluck. Anita Loos. Walker. St. Raphael. Ren. Ada
M
c
liesh. The beach painting. Movie of play sold. Father to Gatsby.

J une Kit Ordway. Operation. Somme. Florence Mills. Maximes Bar.
Picnics. I leave Garoupe. Hardwicke. Bob M
c
clure. Mme Kennedi.
Waggmans. Artist over the way. Renes translation & story. The Dunns

J uly Zelda Better. Courtney Burr. Orbucks. Brick. J ean. Buff Cobb. Ben
Finney, M
c
Arthur, Grace Moon. R. Goldbeek. Kelly. Hamiltons. Crevel. Gists
Seldes, Dorothy, Servey. Graces dinner. The movie. The Wimans. Wolcott
Hamiltons childrens party. Street Fair Ave de Neuilly. Llona. J ohnstons. 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. Zeldas nurse. Party we were not invited to. The tenor. Kiki. Crevel
Sept Murphys 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. Evas 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. Path projector

Nov M
c
clures. Luds 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 J uan-les-Pius. Pompeii. Fowlers. M
c
kane Allen, Frank Bateman
& Mary Lou Archer. Brett Young. Hotel Pennsylvania. Ship party. Ring & Bunny. Montgomery
The Shepards & Peabodys, M
c
calls & little couple. Zelda sick in Genoa.

J an 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. M
c
quail
Feb Morans, Hitchcock, Barrymores. 2
nd
Mayfair. Fairbanks & Pickford. Garaghtys
party. Party at Lois. Rienhart. Bessy Love. Diana Manners. Iris Tree. Rosamund
Pinchot. The Miracle. Marion Davis. J ohn Colton. Dudlys 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. Authors League.
Gene Bucks new house.
Apr. Getting settled. Esther. Hergeshiemers party. Cary. Biggs & Ruperts. Bringhursts
Newcastle. Ella, Stella, Estella, Malvina. Phonograph. J oe.

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

J une J ulie Shellpot park. Brown Warburton. Working again.

J uly 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
cant
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. & Scottys
school, Calvert lessons, Charlie M
c
A , Cond Nasts party, Mabel
Normand, Scottys narrow escape. Tommy Hitchcock, Pistol practise

Nov Started Sanos, still working hard, health better, Football interest
Scotty dancing now, Dick Knight, All night ramble with
Semple ect. Marice Hamilton. Scottys dolls house

Dec Prickets, dance, Holger Lundberg & Katherine, Linaweavers party
Estella, Marie & Ella., mother & father up, I think. Death of Cat (Chat)
Villagers singing

1928 J an New Years, Alecs play, Townsend again, Sig Thayer, Katherine
Littlefield, Drinking schedule, Ina Claire.

Feb Thorton, Seldes, Bunny, Esther down. Zoes play. Interior decorator, Cowanova,
Chris Wards father, Chris marriage, Rachael Biggs, Rosalind & Capitain
catastrophe, Trip to Montreal, Zeldas collapse & Coquette, Bunny at Plaza,
E. Pattersons party. My speech at Princeton. Kitty (persian)
Mar Black eyes in the J ungle. Decision to go. Easter Party, Van Vechten, J ohnsons 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 OB, Sandy, Vidors in Ritz, Powell Fowler, Maddock
Kings The Crowd. The Paris Hotel de Palais, 58 Rue Vaugirard

May Zoe Ordway, J ew Ames, Bishops, Pavlova, Murphy, Appartment
Mlle, Vin darbois, Andr Chamson, Leger & more Vidors, Rousseau

J une Esther, Emily & the fairies, Ballet Russe, J ames J oyce, Sylvia Beach
Adrienne Monier, Lippes, Pruniers, Montague, Emils, Griffon, Trianon.
Victor Llona, Cole Porter, Carried home from Ritz, disagreable concierges

J uly Bricks again, another story, Opera, Battlefields, Rhiems, Hadley Hemmingway
Drinking & general unpleasantness, Bathroom, first trip jail
Princeton man painter on Rule Scheffer, Margaret Bishops talk, Dick Knight
Frank Baker & Paul Milholland, Blanche Knopf. Cole Porter
Aug J ed Kiley, Zellis, 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. J oe
the barber. General Prosperpity. Candy store. Dirt eating at hotel

Oct Football. Ernest
Asa
at school. Zelda. Gabulov. Whorewhouse mirror. Scottys 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 & M
c
gee 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 thruSarah & the Fisher

Mar Esthers engagement. The Conte Biancamano. Zeldas 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, J ourneys End. Death of
Cesari. Death of Brookes. Pierre Lovings request.

May Zelda & Dolly Wilde. Esthers Marrige. St. Sulpice. Miss Bellois arrives. Adage. Clement,
Louise & housetraining. Townsend, Clive Bell & Calling on Bishops. Lunch Bishop.
Ernest & Callaghans. Nigger affairBuck, Michell in prison. Dave. Teddy Chanler. Lucien
again. Getting soldiers. Attempts to place Egarovas son
J une Russian Ballet. TripSaulieu 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. Ernests & Morley for dinner. Certain coldness

J uly 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 DeHavens

Aug Caroline Condon, Stevens, Murphys & Stracheys. Cafs des Allies. American
orchestra. Augustine and Rose. SyserCannes.

Sept Work on novel. Stenographers. Zelda dancing & sweating. Rows &
indifference. A last party with Dotty & Gerald. The Murphys 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 J anuary). Diplodicus ect Myers.
Grand Guignol

1930 J an 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. 2
nd
class sleeping. Sea Sick. Algiers. Kabba St. Mountains. Braun. Bir Rabelou. Bou Saada. Amir
Ben Dohman. Oulid Nails. Biskra. Garden of Allah. El Kantara. Thepainter. Constantine. Thegorge. Algiers, Marseilles
Paris.

Mar Kalmans in town. The Barrows Hills. Party Alice OBrien? 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 (13
th
) Sam Ordway. American Club to hear Wolcott. Moved (18
th
) Bishop incident. Zelda
quit school & began again. Prof Claude, Noels, Rousseau, Egarova Arlen. Mortimer Duval.
April 23
d
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

J une
Finished Bridal Party in Paris End May On the 11
th
Zelda leaves Malmaison Braun, Ludlow, luncheon, Ballet
Psychoanalist, Couchman, Lucien Ballet May 22
nd
Zelda Enters Valmont. Glion, Rhigi, Victoria, DeMuns, Boting
Kursall, Paris, Knight, Lee, Sam, Mildred. Plane. On the 4
th
Zelda leaves Valmont. 5
th
Newman
arrives.
Tennis pro
Enters Prangins
(before.) DeMuns. Garden collapse. Perroquet. Ballet collapse. Storms. (After) Montreux trip. Sacks, CafeCentral
Doctor, Montreux de Muns. Kursall English. Chillon. St. Gingolph. Murphys Lausanne. Saw Doctor 18
th

J une 23
d
Zelda confined Eglantine. Writing Woman with past at Glion from 11
th
.

Grace & Virginia
5 days in Paris late J une, early J uly.
J enny Townsend

J uly Return Glion. Parties with English. Scotty & Alsatian
Berthe
on 13
th
. J ulian.
Began One Trip Abroad.
Three Princetonians. TomWolfe & J ulian
Pictet
& Sarasin. TheDeMuns. Over to EvianJorocki, Eduardo, Edgar. Gerald & Sara at Territet Buffet. Themother
& 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. J ulien & his girl, Overcoat.. Returned to
Vevey. finished Trip Abroad. Caux 8
th
22
nd
, 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 ladythe 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 Murphys, hotel
Napoleon, Grande Ecarte, Rufus Culkins shirts, Scotty to Empire
Dec Xmas with Scotty at Prangins. Gstaad, Hughes, Egloff, M
c
glauchlin, Phelps, Miley,
Beck, Count Cetza, Bedfords, Forbes, Leatherby, Massgiyk, Hassan, Arnolds, Tiger, Solvays,
Siamese, Hilliard, Miss Morris

1931 J an Scotty at Prangins, Watson Emmet
at
Chateau dOex, 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, J ohn, Ceci, funeral
Rockville, Tom, Tudor Hall, lower Maryland, Bert,
& purse
M
c
Arthur at Grand Hotel, Lillie & Helen
Hayes, Sayres in Montgomery, Plaza again, Marise, The Olympic, Earl of Ross, Lady Bridget,
Pembertons & M
c
Namara
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 dEste, 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 Harveys, 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
J une 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 (1
st
of month) & Eski, Mother off at end (or in J uly)
J uly 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, Dukes 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 & J ulia & Unc, bought car, golf & tennis at friends houses, the
Garlands, Mrs M
c
kinney, Stopped in Washington, Ring in New York.
Oct Felder Ave, the usual girls, the Pitts & Little Theatre, following football,
life dull, walks with cane, Scottys 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
Thalbergs parties, Carmels 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. J udge dead
Dec Intensive work & the Sat. parties, Tom Boyds again, the Hollywood sets, hat at
Paul Berns (or Bernies), the interviewers & Dorothy Speare, my party &
Herman Mancowitzs & man who wh writers Hoffenstiens, Lupe Velez, the
Vidors again, Home & Zeldas big party, the cat & Trouble, Anthony
1932 J an 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 12
th
, preliminary warnings to
family, trip, Dr. Squires, Norfolk, Gee-gee, Hume & Cecilia,
Annabels 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 J ackson & Rosalind, everything worser & worser, Zeldas novel
arrives, neurosis, strained situation, Dr. Wiel, Left Alabama Mar 30
th

Apr. Zelda strange, the Rennert Hotel, Work & walks
The Menckens, Little Theatre, the Puffys, Mother came over. Borrowing insurance
Began househunting, Nell Brooks, the Va lady agent Mrs. Clark Freeman & Stuty
Out to Eddie Poes, Linaweavers, Davis, Dancies. J ohn & Anna
May Househunting continued. La Paix the 26
th
. The secretaries, Mrs. Owens
The Clarks to dinner. Arthur & the J ohn Reed Club.

J une Calling on Miss Knight. Zelda comes home gradually. Virginia Beach
Brunnschwiler departs. My bootlegger. Mr. Carr the barber.
Cary

J uly 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. 1
st

Hopkins with intestinal flu. Max turns up. Mrs Sayre.
Sept Rennie & Myers. Zelda to Fair. Cousin Ceci Carys car. Dos Passos & Horsely Gant
Deans friend & the lawn. The bonus army.

187

A Strange year of Work &
Drink. Increasingly
unhappy.Zelda up &
down. 1
st
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 J an Constant visits to Hopkins. Scottys 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. Turnbulls 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 M
c
kewans. The Gold & the bank Holiday.
Writing On Schedule

April Zeldas rehearsals, The Vagabonds. Bills show. My song
Eddie Poe calls. Mrs. Lanier. Children boxing More than
J ust a House

May Zeldas 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
J une The typescript of Zelda conversation. The two Swann boys. The book
progressing. Sometime in here was sick again Im not sure
when. Had a nice sweet nurse. Summer less good only painting
& writing; no more improvement.
J uly Mr Crosby & Tennis. Andrew in camp. J ulian 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.
1
st
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

188

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 1
st
draft. 1
st
installment delivered. Took
Andrew to Columbia game. Zelda to Dartmouth game. Gave party for
Navy - Notre Dame here. Ceci in Washington.

Nov 2
nd
& 3
d
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, Zeldas bycycles, 1
st
Xmas at 1307 Park Ave.
Mother & J ohn.
1934 J an Zelda begins to weaken & goes to Hopkins. Her studio unsatisfactory
Nieghborhood children, Anne, Betsy & J aqueline. 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 & OHara. Met Thurber, M
c
kaig

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

J un Scotty & I to Norfolk. Va Beach. Saw Annabel. Eating out unsatisfactory.
Scotty to Camp, OMara a wild night with him. Scotty to cabaret &
to Belvedere. Marconi episode. Very unhappy.

J uly 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. J ulian 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 doctors wife. Mrs Owens vacation. The J ewish
stenographer. New Orleans lady. Rogge. Her Last Case. Two days only in hospital (three ?)
Sept. Scotty returns. The Biggs

189

Thirty-Eight Years Old

Sept Welbourne again, twice perhapsSabins, 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, OHara, 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 J an
1935
Wrote story about Peacocks. Very Sick. Debts terrible. Left for Tryon Sun 3
d
. Oak
Hall. Went on p[ ] wagon for all liquor & alcohol on Thursday 7
th
(or
Wed. 6
th
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
Flynns Song.
J an 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, J im Boyd. Scottie very gay
Cary Ross came through. Tom Boyds death

April

May

Reached Ashville May 16
th

J une

J uly

Aug

Sept.

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