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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Ledger is one of the richest primary source documents in existence for any literary author.
Fitzgerald began recording information in this business ledger sometime in 1919 or 1920 after leaving the Army and moving to New York to begin his professional life as a writer.
Fitzgerald divided the Ledger into five sections: “Record of Published Fiction,” “Money Earned by Writing since Leaving Army,” “Published Miscelani (including movies) for which I was Paid,” “Zelda’s Earnings,” and
“Outline Chart of my Life”. The “Record of Published Fiction” and “Published Miscelani” are spreadsheets listing everything he wrote and its publication history up to the time of its final disposition. He meticulously tracked his earnings from 1919 through 1937 in the section titled “Money Earned by Writing since Leaving
Army.” In addition, he recorded Zelda’s earnings from her writing. In the autobiographical section, “Outline
Chart of my Life,” he provided background about his early years but later included monthly entries for each year.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Ledger is part of the Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald held by the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, located in the Ernest F. Hollings Special
Collections Library at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C.
The digital version of the Ledger, which includes access to the full text and is keyword-searchable, was produced by the staff of the Digital Collections Department of the University of South Carolina. The scanning was done by Kelly Riddle (MLIS 2012) and Matthew W. Shepherd (MLIS 2012), and the transcription was prepared and formatted by Matthew W. Shepherd. The transcription was edited by Judith Baughman.
—Elizabeth Sudduth,
Director of the Irvin Department of
Rare Books and Special Collections,
University of South Carolina

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Transcriber’s Notes
Each page of the MS is transcribed as a single unbroken page. Pages that do not bear Fitzgerald’s handwriting are omitted.
Page numbers from the MS are included in the transcription. The transcription’s running page numbers are indicated by the text T RANSCRIPTION 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:
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Published Fiction (10 points, due to page size limitations);
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Published Miscellany (11 points, due to page size limitations);
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Very small handwriting, including that which occupies half the ruled line height in the MS (typically 8 points);
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Very large handwriting, such as the red notes at the bottoms of pages 162 and 164 (size varies);
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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:
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Gray type to indicate partially erased text;
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Dull translucent orange lines to approximate those on pages 74 and 75;
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Red underlines and notes on pages 162–165.
The relative horizontal spacing of text is approximated in this transcription, except for header material, which is arranged as follows: Page numbers are always flush left or right, followed by one blank line, followed by the heading and upper marginalia. Headings written on the uppermost ruled line are transcribed with no intervening blank line (e.g. page 52); headings written above this line are transcribed with one or more intervening blank lines, depending on the upper marginalia (e.g. page 165).

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Bold square brackets indicate illegible text: black if struck out, and gray if partially erased.
Double underlines indicate text that has two or more underlines in the MS. Similarly, double strikethroughs indicate text that has two or more strikethroughs in the MS.
Horizontal square brackets under text indicate that the text occupies the same horizontal space in the MS.
Superscript text within such a bracket in the transcription appears above the normally positioned text in the MS.
A bracket enclosing only normally positioned text indicates text that is overlaid directly on other text.
Vertical square brackets to the left of lines of type indicate that the transcribed lines occupy the same ruled line in the MS.
Fitzgerald’s symbol for and resembles a plus sign (+). However, since it is semantically an ampersand (&), the latter symbol is used in this transcription.
Since Fitzgerald’s dashes vary in width and spacing, this transcription attempts to approximate each en and em dash in context, though they are generally ambiguous.
In many cases, capitalization in the MS is ambiguous, such as for the letters m / M in mother . I have attempted to choose whichever case seems probable in context, but the matter is open to interpretation.
The Published Fiction and Published Miscellany sections are rendered as tables, with lines separating rows to aid the reader.
The Name column on even-numbered pages of the Published Fiction section has been reproduced on oddnumbered pages for ease of reference.
I extend my sincere gratitude and admiration to Judith Baughman for her careful proofreading of the transcription. With her extensive background in Fitzgerald’s life and works, she deciphered and corrected many of the enigmatic names throughout the text. Any remaining discrepancies, however, are mine.
—Matthew W. Shepherd,
Digital Assistant,
Digital Collections,
University of South Carolina

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Record of Published Fiction; Novels, Plays, Stories
(Not including unpaid-for juvenilia)
Record of Other Published Work, Paid for.
Earnings by years
Geneological Table Zelda
Autobiographical Chart
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The Debutante
Play in One Act
(Should be second)
APRIL 1919
Babes in the Woods
Short Story
(First Thing Published)
Jan. 1917
Oct 1919 Porcelain and Pink
Play in One Act
Dalyrimple Goes
Wrong
Short Story
Sept 1919
Benediction
Short Story
Head and Shoulders
Short Story
Oct 1919
Nov 1919
Smart Set
Smart Set
Smart Set
Smart Set
Smart Set
Sat. Eve. Post
Nov 1919
Sept 1919
Jan 1920
Feb 1920
Feb 1920
Scribner
Scribner
Scribner
Scribner
Scribner
Feb ’21, 1920 Yellow Mag.
“Topsy Turvy”
March 1922 Scribner
Mar. 26 th
’20 Collins May ’21
Mar 26 ’20 Collins May ’21
Oct 1922 Collins [ ]
Mar 23
Aug 1920 Collins March 22
Aug 1920 Collins March 22
Aug 1920 Collins Mar ’22
Mr. Icky
One Act Play
This Side of Paradise
Novel
Nov. 1919
Myra Meets his Family
Short Story
Dec 1919
Nov ’17 – Mar ’18
July ’17 – Sept ’19
Smart Set
Sat. Eve. Post
2 episodes in S. S.
Syndicated
Mar. 1920
Mar 14, ’20 The Soverign?
(or Strand?)
July 1921
The Camel’s Back
Short Story
Jan 1920
Oct 1919
Sat. Eve. Post
Scribners
April 24, ’20 Pearsons
May 1920
Scribner Oct 1922 Collins Mar 23
Scribner
Hodder & Staughton
Austrailia
Capp, Clark & Co.
Canada
July 1921 Scribner
O. Henry Memorial
Collection
Oct 1922
Dec 1920
Scribner
Mar 26, ’20 Collins May ’21
Collins Mar ’23
Aug 1920 Collins Mar ’22 The Cut Glass Bowl
Short Story
Bernice Bobs her Hair
Short Story
The Ice Palace
Short Story
The Off-Shore Pirate
Short Story
The Four Fists
Short Story
The Smilers
Short Story
May Day
Short Story
[Very Long]
Jan. 1920
Dec. 1919
Feb 1920
May 1919
Sept 1919
March 1920
Sat Eve Post
Sat Eve. Post
Sat Eve Post
Scribners
Smart Set
Smart Set
May 3, 1920
May 20, 1920
June 1920
June 1920
July 1920
Pan(?) or 20 story(?)
Aug 1921
May 27, 1920 The Soveriegn Feb 1922
Scribner
Scribner
Scribner
Scribner
Scribner
Aug 1920
Aug 1920
Aug 1920
Aug 1920
Oct 1922
Collins Mar ’22
Collins Mar ’22
Collins Mar ’22
Collins Mar ’22
Collins Mar ’23
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The Debutante
Play in One Act
(Should be second)
Babes in the Woods
Short Story
(First Thing Published)
Dramatic Club
Univ. Ala.
Feb 1921
Porcelain and Pink
Play in One Act
Players League
April 16 th
, 1923
△
March, 1924
Dalyrimple Goes
Wrong
Short Story
Benediction
Short Story
Head and Shoulders
Short Story
Mr. Icky
One Act Play
Bayard Vieller offer turned down
Myra Meets his Family
Short Story
This Side of Paradise
Novel
See Debutante
The Camel’s Back
Short Story
The Cut Glass Bowl
Short Story
Bernice Bobs her Hair
Short Story
The Ice Palace
Short Story
The Off-Shore Pirate
Short Story
The Four Fists
Short Story
The Smilers
Short Story
May Day
Short Story
[Very Long]
See T. S. of P.
See T. S. of P.
Play in Nassau Litt. Mag
January 1917
Published in Nassau Litt.
2 nd
Serial
“College Stories”
O’brien, two stars
Stripped and—
Included in This Side of Paradise
Included in This Side of Paradise
In Tales of the Jazz Age
In Flappers and Philosophers
Story in Nassau Litt Mag.
June 1915
In Flappers and Philosophers
Metro (Dana)
“The Chorus Girl’s
Romance”
The Usual Thing
Nassau Litt. Dec. 1916.
In Flappers and Philosophers
In Tales of the Jazz Age
Fox (Percy)
“The Husband
Hunter”
Famous Players
Lilah Meets his Family
April 1919
Stripped and—
Permanently Buried
Sold to Warner
Bros.
“Conductor 1492”
The Romantic Egotist
Nov 1917– Mar 1918
And destroyed stories 1919
Cheap editions, Burt
& Collins, Popular Song
2 nd
serial Daily News ect
This Side of Paradise
In Tales of the Jazz Age
O’brien, two stars In Flappers and Philosophers
In Flappers and Philosophers
Anthology “Trumps” In Flappers and Philosophers
Metro (Dana)
Smile, Smile, Smile
June 1919
In Flappers and Philosophers
In Flappers and Philosophers
Permanently Buried
In Tales of the Jazz Age
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Flappers and Philosophers
Collection
May 1919
– Feb 1920
The Jellybean
Short Story
May 1920
Scribners, Smart
Set and Sat. Eve Post
Feb 1919
– June 1920
Metropolitan
Syndicated
Oct 1920
Chicago Tribune Dec 12, ’20
Pearsons, Strand,
Yellow, Soveriegn
Pan, 20 story
1921–22 Scribners
Hodder & Staugton
Austraila
Capp Clark & Co.
Canada.
Scribners
Harpers.
Scribners
Aug 1920 Collins Mar 1921
Oct 1922 Collins Mar ’23
Oct ’22 Collins Mar ’23 The Lees of Happiness
Short Story
Jemima
Burlesque
The Russet Witch
Short Story
Tarquin of Cheapside
Short Story
The Beautiful and Damned.
Novel
The Popular Girl
Short Story
[Very Long]
Two for a Cent
Short Story
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
Very
LONG
Short Story
The Curious Case of
Benjamin Button
Short Story
Tales of the Jazz Age
Collection
Winter Dreams
Short Story
“Dice, Brassknuckles
& Guitar”
Short Story
The Vegetable
Play
Hot and Cold Blood
Short Story
The Sensible Thing
Short Story
July 1920
Jan 1917
Nov 1920
February 1917 Smart Set
Aug 1920
– May 1921
Nov 1921
Sept 1921
Oct 1921
Feb 1922
Jan 1923
Jan ’22 – Mar ’23
April ’23
Nov, ’23
Vanity Fair
Metropolitan
Metropolitan
Sat. Eve. Post
Metropolitan
Smart Set
Colliers
Hearsts
International
Hearst’s
International
Jack Wheelers
Weekly
(Liberty)
Jan, ’21
Feb 1921
Feb 1921
Aug 1921
– April 1922
Feb 9 th
and
Feb 16 th
, 1922
May ’22
June ’22
May 27 th
’22
May 1923
Aug 1923
July 1924
Argosy
The Woman’s
Pictorial
1934
Dec
1924
Scribners
Scribners
Scribners
Oct ’22 Collins Mar ’23
Oct 22
Oct ’22 Collins Mar ’23
Scribners
Canada. Capp, Clark,
& Co.
Australia. Collins.
April 3 d
1922
Collins Sept 1 st
’22
Small Maynard
Henry Holt & Co.
O’briens Best
S.S. of 1922
Scribners
Spring ’25
Fall ’22
Oct 22 Collins Mar 23
Scribners
Feb 1917–Feb 1922 Sat. Post; Colliers;
S.S; Van. Fair; Met;
Chi. Trib;
Sept 1922 Metropolitan
Sept 20 th
, ’20
June ’22
Dec. 1922
Pearsons
M c leans (Canadian)
Royal (English)
July 1921 Scribners
Jan 1923
Feb 1923
Scribners
[ ]
Scribners
Scribners
Scribners
Oct 22
Sept 20 th
1922
Collins Mar 23
Feb
1926
April
27 th
, ’23
Feb
1926
Feb
1926
Collins Mar ’23
Collins Mar 23
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Flappers and Philosophers
Collection
The Jellybean
Short Story
The Lees of Happiness
Short Story
Jemima
Burlesque
The Russet Witch
Short Story
Tarquin of Cheapside
Short Story
The Beautiful and Damned.
Novel
The Popular Girl
Short Story
[Very Long]
Two for a Cent
Short Story
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
Very
LONG
Short Story
The Curious Case of
Benjamin Button
Short Story
Tales of the Jazz Age
Collection
Winter Dreams
Short Story
“Dice, Brassknuckles
& Guitar”
Short Story
The Vegetable
Play
Hot and Cold Blood
Short Story
The Sensible Thing
Short Story
Pasadena Little
Theatre, Winter 1938
Drama by Hodapp.
2 Productions See
Porcelain
1 Movie (Camel)
Sam Harris at Appollo Theatre
Atlantic City, with Ernest Truex
Nov 19 th
1923
2 Movies
(Head & Shoulders) &
(Off Shore Pirate)
8 stories Flappers and Philosophers
2 nd
Serial
“Contemporary Types of Short
Story”
Tales of the Jazz Age
Published in Nassau Litt.
O’brien, one star
In Danish “All
American Decameron”
Tales of the Jazz Age
Tales of the Jazz Age
Warner Bros.
(Harlan & Prevost)
Published in Nassau
Litt. Here revised
Gerrould-Bailey
Anthology
Golden Book.
Van Doren’s
Anthology
11 Stories & Plays
“Gabriel’s Trombone” rewritten 4 times
Also called “Frost”
2 nd
serial, Daily news ect.
Cheap Edition: Burt
Stripped and—
Three star O’Brien
2 nd
Serial “Short Stories for Classroom Reading”
Broadcast
Columbia Hook-up
May 13 th
1934
Obrien, two star
Called in England
“Dream Girl of Spring”
Stripped and—
Directed by Sam Forrest
Played Wilmington & Stamford
Vagabond Players Balt.
2 nd
Serial
Tales of the Jazz Age as “O Russet Witch!”
Tales of the Jazz Age
The Beautiful & Damned
Permanently Buried
Tales of the Jazz Age
Tales of the Jazz Age
Tales of the Jazz Age
All the Sad Young
Men
Permanently Buried
The Vegetable
All the Sad Young
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John Jackson’s
Arcady
(Short Story)
The Great Gatsby
(Novel)
Love in the Night
(Short Story)
The Adjuster
(Short Story)
“Not in the
Guide Book”
(Short Story)
A Penny Spent
(Short Story)
The Rich Boy
(Short Story)
[Very Long]
Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les
(Short Story)
Dec, 1923
“Diamond Dick”
(Short Story)
Dec 1923
Gretchen’s
Forty Winks
(Short Story)
The Baby Party
(Short Story)
Jan. 1924
Feb 1924
“Our Own Movie Queen”
(Short Story)”
Nov 1923
March 1924 The Third Casket
(short Story)
“One of my Oldest
Friends”
(short Story)
Absolution
(Short Story)
March 1924
June 1923
March 1924 The Pusher-in-the
Face
(Short Story)
The Unspeakable
Egg
(Short Story)
April 1924
April 1924
July & Aug ’23
June–Oct ’24
Nov, 1924
Dec, 1924
Feb, 1925
July, 1925
April–Aug
1925
M c
Call’s
Magazine
Heart’s
International
Hearst’s
International
July
1924
April
1923
Sat. Eve. Post. Mar 15
1924
Feb
1925
Chicago Tribune June
1925
Women’s Home
Companion
(Golden Book)
Sept
1925
American
Mercury
June
1924
Women’s Home
Companion
Feb
1925
Women’s
Pictorial
Home
Magazine
Sat. Eve. Post May 30 th
Pearson’s
1924 Magazine
Sat. Eve. Post. July 12 th
1924
Sat. Eve Post
(Turned down
College Humor
Serialization)
Sat Eve Post.
July 26 th
1924
Mar ’14
1925
Woman’s
Pictorial
The Red Book Sept.
1925
Woman’s Home
Companion
Sat Eve. Post.
Red Book
Oct 10 th
1925
Modern Woman July
1926
Jan.
Feb.
1926
Dec
1924
Scribners
Dec
1924
Dec
1925
Scribners
Red Magazine July
1926 Doran
Scribners
Harpers
Scribners
Scribners
Scribners
Feb.
1926
March
1924
Scribners
G. Putnam Co.
Feb
1926
Feb
1926
’26
Feb
1926
1926
April
10 th
1925
Chatto and Feb 11 th
,
Windus 1926
Feb
1926
Feb
1926
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Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les
(Short Story)
“Diamond Dick”
(Short Story)
Gretchen’s
Forty Winks
(Short Story)
The Baby Party
(Short Story)
“Our Own Movie Queen”
(Short Story)”
The Third Casket
(short Story)
“One of my Oldest
Friends”
(short Story)
Absolution
(Short Story)
The Pusher-in-the
Face
(Short Story)
The Unspeakable
Egg
(Short Story)
John Jackson’s
Arcady
(Short Story)
The Great Gatsby
(Novel)
Love in the Night
(Short Story)
The Adjuster
(Short Story)
“Not in the
Guide Book”
(Short Story)
A Penny Spent
(Short Story)
The Rich Boy
(Short Story)
[Very Long]
Paramount for
Authors League
Two Reels.
[
Two thirds written by Zelda. Only my climax and revision
Price
Raise
Also republished
Classroom Psychology
]
in “The Golden Book”
2 nd
Serial
German Trans: Die
Redaktion
Fr. Trans
Stripped and—
In a collection
O’Brien One Star
Trans. “Candide” by Llona
O’Brien Two Stars
Stripped and—
2 entitled “Aces” nd
Serial
O’Brien 2, Stars
Price Raise
Stripped and—
Stripped and—
Price Raise
All the Sad Young Men
Permanently Buried
All the Sad Young Men
All the Sad Young Men
Permanently Buried
German Magazine
“Wocke,” Oct 1924
Stripped and—
Permanently Buried
The “World’s” Best Short
Stories for 1925
O’Brien One Star
O’Brien 3 Stars All the Sad Young Men
2 nd
Serial
O’Brien Two Stars
Overton’s Anthology of
Humorous Stories
One star Obrien
Stripped and—
Permanently Buried
One Star O’Brien
Collection for Readings
Stripped and—
Wm. Brady. Gt. Neck, Jan 25, 1926 with James 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 nd
Serial. Famous Stories
Published by Kra in
Paris, Oct 1926.
Permanently Buried
The Great Gatsby
P u b G e r m a n y ( K n a u r ) S w e d i s h , D a n i s h . M o d . L i b r a r y B r i t t i s h S e r i a l .
Argosy
Mag
Stripped and—
Permanently Buried
All the Sad Young Men
Permanently Buried
Permanently Buried
All the Sad Young Men
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All the Sad
Young Men
(Collection)
Presumption
(short story)
The Adolescent
Marriage
(short story)
In a Little Town
(The Dance)
(Short Story)
Your Way
and Mine
(Short Story)
Jacob’s Ladder
(Short Story)
The Love Boat
(Short Story)
A Short Trip
Home
(Short Story)
The Bowl
(Short Story
Magnetism
(Short Story)
The Scandal
Detectives
(Short Story)
The Freshest
Boy (short story)
A Night at
the Fair
(Short Story)
Sept 1922 –
Aug 1925
Am. Mer; S.E.P.;
Hearst; Red B; Liberty
Metropol; M c calls;
Dec 1922
Feb 1926
Nov 1925
Dec 1925
Jan 1926
Feb 1926
June 1927
Aug 1927
Oct 1927
Nov 1927
Dec 1927
Mar 1928
Apr. 1928
May 1928
Sat. Eve. Post
Sat. Eve Post.
Red Book
Women’s Home
Companion
Saturday Evening
Post
Saturday Evening
Post
Saturday Evening
Post
Saturday
Evening Post
Saturday
Evening Post
Saturday
Evening Post
Saturday
Evening Post
Saturday
Evening Post
He Thinks he’s
Wonderful
(Short Story)
The Captured
Shadow
(Short Story)
July 1928
Sept 1928
Saturday
Evening Post
Saturday
Evening Post
The Perfect
Life (Short
Story)
Oct 1928 Saturday
Evening Post
The Georgia Belle
(Short Story)
(The Last of the Belles)
Nov 1928 Saturday
Evening Post
Jan 9 th
1926
Mar 6
1926
June
1926
May
1927
26?
Aug 20 th
1927
Oct 8
1927
1928
1928
Jan 5
1929
Mar 2 th
Dec 15
1927
Jan 21
1928
Mar 3
1928 d th st
Apr. 28
1928
July 28
1928
July 21
Sept 29
Dec 29
1928 nd
1929 th st th th
M c leans. Royal.
Wm. Pic. Home
Pearsons
Women’s
Pictorial
Women’s
Pictorial
Jan 1923
Dec 1925
Scribners Feb. 26
1926
1926
June
July
1926
Grand Magazine 1928
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All the Sad
Young Men
(Collection)
Presumption
(short story)
The Adolescent
Marriage
(short story)
In a Little Town
(The Dance)
(Short Story)
Your Way
and Mine
(Short Story)
Jacob’s Ladder
(Short Story)
The Love Boat
(Short Story)
A Short Trip
Home
(Short Story)
The Bowl
(Short Story
Magnetism
(Short Story)
The Scandal
Detectives
(Short Story)
The Freshest
Boy (short story)
A Night at
the Fair
(Short Story)
He Thinks he’s
Wonderful
(Short Story)
The Captured
Shadow
(Short Story)
The Perfect
Life (Short
Story)
The Georgia Belle
(Short Story)
(The Last of the Belles)
Nine Stories
Price Raise
All the Sad
Young Men
Anthology Samples
2 nd
Serial
One Star Obrien
Stripped and—
2 nd
List O’Henry
Price Raise
Two Stars O’Brien
Price Raise
Stripped and—
Ghost Story Anthology
3 Stars O’Brien
[
Permanently Buried
Permanently Buried
]
One Star O’Brien
Stripped and –
One Star O’Brien
Permanently Buried
Taps at Revielle
Taps at Revielle
Stripped and—
Permanently Buried
Taps at Revielle
Taps at Revielle
Taps at Revielle
Taps at Revielle
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“Forging Ahead”
(Short Story)
Basil and
Cleopatra
(Short Story)
Jan 1929
Feb 1929
Sat. Eve. Post Mar 30 th
1929
Sat Eve Post Apr. 27
1929
The Rough
Crossing
(Short Story)
Majesty
(Short Story
Mar. 1929 Sat. Eve. Post June 8 th
1929
May, 1929 Sat. Eve. Post July 13
1929
At Your Age
(Short Story
The Swimmers
(Short Story)
June, 1929 Sat Eve. Post Aug 17 th
1929
July 1929
Aug "
Sat Eve. Post Oct 17 th
1929
Two Wrongs
(Short Story)
First Blood
(Short Story)
Oct 1929
Nov 1929
Jan 1930
Sat Eve Post Jan 18 th
1930
Sat Eve Post April 6 th
1930
A Nice Quiet
Place
(Short Story)
The Bridal Party
(Short Story)
A Woman with a Past
(Short Story)
March 1930 Sat Eve Post May 31 st
1930
May 1930 Sat. Eve Post Aug 9 th
1930
June 1930 Sat Eve Post Sept 6 th
1930
One Trip
Abroad
(Short Story)
August 1930 Sat Eve Post Oct 11
1930 th
A Snobbish
Story
(Short Story)
Indecison
(Short Story)
Sept 1930
Jan 1931
Feb 1931
Sat Eve Post Nov 29
1930
The Hotel Child
(Short Story
Nov. 1930 Sat. Eve Post Jan 28
1931 th
Bab ‸ lon Revisited
(Short Story)
Dec 1930 Sat. Eve Post Feb 21 st
1931
Sat Eve Post May 16 th
1931
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Great Modern
Short Stories
1930
Dodd Mead & Co. Oct
1931
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“Forging Ahead”
(Short Story)
Basil and
Cleopatra
(Short Story)
The Rough
Crossing
(Short Story)
Majesty
(Short Story
At Your Age
(Short Story
The Swimmers
(Short Story)
Two Wrongs
(Short Story)
First Blood
(Short Story)
A Nice Quiet
Place
(Short Story)
The Bridal Party
(Short Story)
A Woman with a Past
(Short Story)
One Trip
Abroad
(Short Story)
[
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A Snobbish
Story
(Short Story)
The Hotel Child
(Short Story
Bab
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(Short Story)
Indecison
(Short Story)
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One Star O’Brien Taps at Revielle
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One Star O’Brien
Stripped and —
One Star Obrien
Permanently Buried
Taps at Revielle
One Star O’Brien Taps at Revielle
Taps at Revielle
Stripped and —
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Taps at Revielle
Stripped and—
Permanently Buried
Best Short Stories
of 1931
Taps at Revielle
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A New Leaf
(Short Story)
Flight & Pursuit
(Short Story)
April 1931
April 1931
Sat. Eve. Post July 4 th
1931
, Amalgamated
Press
(Home Mag
1931
John Day
Sat. Eve. Post May 15 th
Britannia & Eve 1931
1932
Emotional
Bankrupcy
(Short Story)
Between Three and Four
(Short Story)
A Change of Class
(Short Story
Half a Dozen
of the Other
(Short Story)
A Freeze-out
(Short Story)
Diagnosis
(Short Story)
Crazy Sunday
(Short Story)
Family in the Wind
(Short Story)
June 1931
June 1931
July 1931
July 1931
Sept 1931
Sat. Eve. Post Aug 15 th
1931
Sat. Eve. Post Aug 29 th
Sat. Eve. Post Sept 22 nd
Red Book Dec ’31
Sat Eve Post Dec 19 th
1931
Octtober 1931 Sat Eve Post Feb 20 th
1932
January 1932 American
Mercury
Nov
1932
April 1932 Sat Eve Post June 4 th
1932
What a Hansome Pair
(Short Story)
April 1932
The Rubber Check
(Short Story)
Sat Eve Post July
1932
May 1932 Sat Eve Post July
1932
Interne
(Short Story)
Aug 1932 Sat. Eve. Post Nov
1932
Dec 1932 Sat Eve Post March
1933
On Schedule
More than
Just a House
I got Shoes
The Family
Bus
April 1933
July 1933
Sept 1933
Sat Eve Post July
1933
Sat Eve Post Oct
1933
Sat Eve Post Dec
1933
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A New Leaf
(Short Story)
Flight & Pursuit
(Short Story)
Emotional
Bankrupcy
(Short Story)
Between Three and Four
(Short Story)
A Change of Class
(Short Story
Half a Dozen
of the Other
(Short Story)
A Freeze-out
(Short Story)
Diagnosis
(Short Story)
Crazy Sunday
(Short Story)
Family in the Wind
(Short Story)
What a Hansome Pair
(Short Story)
The Rubber Check
(Short Story)
Interne
(Short Story)
On Schedule
More than
Just a House
I got Shoes
The Family
Bus
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Best American Love Stories
O brien 3
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Taps at Revielle
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Obrien 3
★
Obrien 2
★
Published as “Six of One”
Obrien 1 ★
Stripped and
Permanently Buried
Obrien 1
★
Stripped and
O Brien
Collection
O Henry Collection
Swenska
Dagbladet
Stripped and —
Permanently Buried
Taps at Revielle
Taps at Revielle
Permanently Buried
Stripped and —
Permanently Buried
Taps at Revielle
Stripped and —
Obrien 1
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Obrien 1
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Tender is
the Night
(Novel)
In the
Darkest Hour
(Short Story)
’26, ’28, ’29,
June ’32 – Mar ’34
April 1934
No Flowers
(Short Story)
New Types
(Short Story)
Her Last Case
(Short Story)
The Fiend
(Short Short)
May 1934
July 1934
Aug 1934
Sept 1934
The Count
of Darkness
(Short Story)
Kingdom in the Dark
(Short Story)
Oct 1934
Nov 1934
The Night of
Chancellorsville
(Short Short)
Nov 1934
Dec 1934 Gods of the
Darkness
(Short Story)
The Intimate
Strangers
(Short Story)
Feb Mar
1935
Scribners
Magazine
The Red
Book
Sat Eve Post
Sat Eve Post
Sat Eve Post
Esquire
Red Book
Red Book
Esquire
Red Book
M c
Calls
Esquire Shaggy’s Morning
(Short Short)
March
1935
Esquimo Boy
(Short Story)
Feb 1935 Liberty
(The Passionate Esquimo)
Taps at Revielle
(Collection)
Oct 1927
–Aug 1932
Zone of
Accident
Fall ’32
May ’35
What You
Dont Know
June
July ’35
Finishing
School
Sept ’35
(The Image on the Heart)
Dec ’33
Mar ’34
1934
July
34
Sept
34
Nov
’34
Jan
1935
1935
1935
Feb 35
April
1935
June
1935
April
1935
Sat. Eve. Post.
Amer. Merc. Esquire
1928
–1933
Sat Eve Post
American
M c
Calls
July
35
Sept
1935
Jan
1936
Evening
Standard
Find out
Woman’s
Journal
(“A course in languages)
Scribners
1935
Scribners Apr.
1935
Mar
34
Chatto & Windus 1935
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Tender is
the Night
(Novel)
In the
Darkest Hour
(Short Story)
No Flowers
(Short Story)
New Types
(Short Story)
Her Last Case
(Short Story)
The Fiend
(Short Short)
The Count
of Darkness
(Short Story)
Kingdom in the Dark
(Short Story)
The Night of
Chancellorsville
(Short Short)
Gods of the
Darkness
(Short Story)
The Intimate
Strangers
(Short Story)
Shaggy’s Morning
(Short Short)
Esquimo Boy
(Short Story)
(The Passionate Esquimo)
Taps at Revielle
(Collection)
Zone of
Accident
What You
Dont Know
Finishing
School
(The Image on the Heart)
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Song in
“Strike up the Band”
Stripped and —
Stripped and
Swedish
Magazine “Except to Bill”
Tender is the Night
Permanently Buried
Taps at Revielle
Taps at Revielle
Permanently Buried
To be Scrapped
Taps at Revielle
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Too Cute
for Words
Three Acts
of Music
May
’36
Make Yourself
at Home
March ’36 Pictorial Review
Inside the
House
The Pearl and the Fur
April ’36 Sat. Eve Post
May ’36 Pictorial Review
June
36
June ’36 Sat. Eve Post. March
37
Trouble
I Didn’t
get over
Please send me in, Coach
An Alcoholic
Case
The Goon
Aug ’36
Oct ’36
Dec ’36
April 37
Esquire
Esquire
Esquire
Esquire
Oct
’36
Dec
36
Feb
’37
June
37
The Long Way
Out (Oubliette)
May 37 Esquire
In the Holidays Feb 37 Esquire
Room 19 March 37 Esquire
Sept
37
Dec
37
Feb
38
Financing
Finnegan
Dec ’35 Sat. Eve. Post Apr.
’36
Feb ’36 Esquire
June 37 Esquire Jan
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Too Cute
for Words
Three Acts
of Music
Make Yourself
at Home
Inside the
House
The Pearl and the Fur
Trouble
I Didn’t
get over
Please send me in, Coach
An Alcoholic
Case
The Goon
The Long Way
Out (Oubliette)
In the Holidays
Room 19
Financing
Finnegan
Scrap
Scrap
Scrap
Scrap
Scrap
Scrap
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Money Earned by Writing since Leaving Army
Record for 1919
Stories
Babes in the Woods
The Debutante (Play)
The Four Fists
The Cut Glass Bowl
Porcelain & Pink (Play)
Dalyrimple goes Wrong
Benediction
Head and Shoulders
A Dirge (Poem)
Mr. Icky (Play)
400.00 Commission 10%
[
Total Earnings
]
30 00
$30 00
35.00
150.00
150.00
35.00
40.00
40.00
360.00
4.00
35.00
879.00
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52
Stories
*
Movies
Record for 1920
The Ice Palace
Myra Meets His Family
The Camels Back
Bernice Bobs her Hair
The Off-Shore Pirate
The Smilers
May Day
Tarquin of Cheapside
$400.00. Commission 10%
400.00
500.00
"
"
"
"
500.00
500.00
"
"
"
"
$360 00
360 00
450 00
450 00
450 00
35 00
200 00
50 00
The Jellybean
The Russet Witch
900.00
900.00
"
"
"
"
810 00
810 00
Total -------------------------------------------------------------- 3,975 00
Head and Shoulders
Myra Meets His Family
The Off Shore Pirate
Option on my output
2500.00
1000.00
2250.00
3000.00
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
2,250 00
900 00
2,025 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
Flappers and Philosophers
6,200 00
500 00
Total -------------------------------------------------------------- 6,700 00
[
Total
] [ ]
$ 18,175 00
[ ]
* Ommission ---- The Lees of Happiness $750.00, Com 10% $675.00
Total ------------------------------------------------------------------- $18,850.00

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Stories
Record for 1921
The Popular Girl $ 1500.00 Commission 10% $ 1,350 00
Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1,350 00
Serial The Beautiful & Damned 7000.00 Commission 10% 6,300 00
Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6,300 00
Other Writings Jemima
The Baltimore Anti-Christ
100 00
13 00
The Far-seeing Skeptics
Brass
5 00
7 00
Total ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 135 50
From Books This Side of Paradise
Flappers and Philosophers
5,636 68
2,730 00
English Advance
The Beautiful and Damned (advance)
Total --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11,179 68
(Add Syndication Jelly Bean $5.00) 100 00
Total
[ ]
2,813 19
$ 19,065 18
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54
Stories
Record for 1922
The Diamond as big as the Ritz
Benjamin Button
Two for a Cent
$ 300.00 Com. 10% 270.00
1000.00
900.00
"
"
900.00
810.00
Winter Dreams 900.00 " 810.00
Total ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2790.00
Movie The Beautiful and Damned
Other Writings On Being Twenty five
Little Brother of the Flapper
The Moment of Revolt
Canadian Winter Dreams
“Love Legend” (review)
2,500.00
1000.00
100.00
"
"
"
2250.00
800.00
900.00
250.00
90.00
5.00
“The Oppidan” (review)
“Margie Wins the Game” (review)
3.00
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
Tales of the Jazz Age
12,133.00
3,056.00
The Vegetable (advance) 1,236.00
Total (all these book figures estimated) ----------------------- 17,775.00
[
Total ------------------------------------------------------------------------ $ 25,135.00
] [ ]
Zelda’s Earnings
The Super-Flapper ------------------------------------------------------------ $500.00
The Moment of Revolt ----------------------------------------------------- 250.00
Review of Beautiful & Damned -------------------------------------------- 15.00
Eulogy on the Flapper ------------------------------------------------------ 50.00
Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ 815.00

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Stories
Record for 1923
Option from Hearsts
“Dice, Brassknuckles and Guitar”
Hot and Cold Blood
$ 1500.00 Com. 10% $ 1350.00
1500.00
1500.00
"
"
1350.00
1350.00
“Diamond Dick” 1500.00
“Our Own Movie Queen” (half Zelda) 1000.00
"
"
1350.00
900.00
Gretchen’s Forty Winks
Winter Dreams (English Rights)
1200.00
125.00
"
"
1080.00
112.50
Total ------------------------------------------------------------------ 7,492.50
Movies This Side of Paradise
The Camel’s Back
10,000.00
1,000.00
Grit
Titles for Glimpses of the Moon
2,000.00
500.00
Total ---------------------------------------------------------------- 13,500.00
Play Advance ------------------------------------------------------- 500.00 -- Com. 10% ------ 450.00
Other Writings Imagination and a few Mothers 1000. Com 10% 900.00
The Cruise of the Rolling Junk
Making Monagamy Work
Our Irresponsibe Rich
300.
300.
350.
"
"
"
270.00
270.00
315.00
The Most Disgraceful Thing I ever Did
Review of Being Respectable
" " Many Marriages
" " Through the Wheat
[
[
[
[
]
]
]
]
[ ]
[ ]
[ ]
[ ]
20.00
15.00
5.00
5.00
Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1,800.00
Syndicate Returns 74.75 Com 10% 67.28
Books This Side of Paradise
Flappers and Philosophers
The Beautiful and Damned
880.00
98.00
292.00
Tales of the Jazz Age
Total (figures estimated)
270.43
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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56–57
Stories
*
Record for 1924
The Baby Party $1500.00 Com. 10% 1350 00
The Sensible Thing 1750.00
Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les 1750.00
"
"
1575 00
1575 00
The Third Casket
One of my Oldest Friends
1750.00
1750.00
"
"
1575 00
1575 00
The Pusher-in-the Face
The Unspeakable Egg
John Jackson’s Arcady
1750.00
1750.00
1750.00
"
"
"
1575 00
1575 00
1575 00
Love in the Night
The Adjuster
1750.00
2000.00
"
"
1575 00
1800 00
Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 15,750 00
English Rights The Third Casket
The Sensible Thing
95.00
83.00
"
"
Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les 90.00 "
Total ------------------------------------------------------------------- 241 20
Articles Wait till You Have Children of Your Own 1000.00
How to Live on $36,000 a Year 1000.00
How to Live on Practically Nothing a Year 1200.00
"
"
"
900 00
900 00
1080 00
Syndicate
Other Rights
From Books
(inc. English and Syndicate)
Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2880 00
The Third Casket (German Rights)
115.22 " 103 52
17 50
This Side of Paradise
Flappers and Philosophers
325 00
16 00
The Beautiful and Damned
Tales of the Jazz Age
527 00
7 00
The Great Gatsby (further advance)
Total -------------------------------------------------------------------------
325 00
1,200 00
* Ommission ---- Absolution $20,192 22
--------------------------------------------- 118 00
Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------- $ 20,310 22

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Stories
Record for 1925
Not in the Guide Book
A Penny Spent
The Rich Boy
$1750.00 Com 10% 1575.00
2000.00
3500.00
"
"
1800.00
3150.00
Presumption
The Adolescent Marriage
2500.00
2500.00
"
"
2250.00
2250.00
Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 11,025.00
Books This Side of Paradise
Flappers and Philosophers
The Beautiful and Damned
Tales of the Jazz Age
26 24
21 65
144 30
20 54
The Great Gatsby
All the Sad Young Men (advance)
1981 85
2717 33
Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 4,906 61
Misselaeneous Advance on Gatsby play
Gatsby second Serial
Old New England Farmhouse
Syndicate
Gretchens Forty Winks (English)
Love in the Night (English)
$1000.00
1000.00
200.00
313.00
67.00
89.00
Com 10%
"
"
"
"
"
900 00
900 00
180 00
282 00
60 00
80 00
Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2,402 00
Total -------------------------------------------------------------- $18,333 61
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60
Stories
Record for 1926
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%
One of Our oldest Friends 97.00 "
78 00
83 45
Books
(inc. English)
A Penny Spent
The Adolescent Marriage
76.38
76.23
"
"
61 92
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
This Side of Paradise
Flappers and Philosophers
The Beautiful and Damned
Tales of the Jazz Age
44 00
35 80
33 10
21 20
Foreign
Moving Picture
The Great Gatsby
All the Sad Young Men
508 25
1181 05
Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2033 20
Danish and Swedish Rights to Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 16,666.00
213 00
Com 10% (twice) 13500 00
Play
(The Great Gatsby)
New York Run (Deduct last years advance) 3907.76 Com 10% 2616 98
Chicago " 2971.07 " 2673 97
Road Run " 751.38
(Detroit, Brklyn, Balt, St. Louis, Chi, Denver, Phila)
" 673 26
5964 21
Total $25,686 05
Love in the Night (English) – 97 75

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Stories
Movies
Other Writings and Rights
Books
Record for 1927
Jacob’s Ladder
The Love Boat
A Short Trip Home
The Bowl
Magnetism
$3000.00
3500.00
3500.00
3500.00
3500.00
Com 10%
" "
" "
"
"
"
"
$2,700 00
3,150 00
3,150 00
3,150 00
3,150 00
Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 15,300 00
California work on “Lipstick” 3,500 00
Additional Payment “Gatsby” $3333.00 (Com 10% Lawyer $100) 2,910 00
Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 6,410 00
Princeton $500. Com 10% 450 00
Editorial Photoplay (Zelda) Com 10% 450 00
Park Avenue "
Looking Back 8 Years "
English “Presumption”
German “Rags Martin Jones”
£15 ʃ15 Com 10%
300 00
300 00
68 98
25 00
Golden Bk “Pusher in Face”
Anthology ‘Pusher in Face”
Anthology “Jellybean”
110. Com 10%
25. Com 10%
Syndicate “Your Way & Mine” ect. 153.82 Com 10%
German Rights to Gatsby
All English Book Royalties
99 00
22 50
26 67
137 44
141 00
95 32
Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2096 11
This Side of Paradise 13 03
The Beautiful and Damned
The Great Gatsby
14 80
55 65
Flappers and Philosophers
Tales of the Jazz Age
All the Sad Young Men
26 70
16 35
43 05
Advance on New Novel Serial 5752 06
Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 5911 64
Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 29,737 87
Tax unpaid 1926
Adolescent Marriage $64.80
Gatsby Road 320.15
384.95
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Stories
Record for 1928
The Scandal Detectives
The Freshest Boy
A Night at the Fair
He Thinks he’s Wonderful
The Captured Shadow
$3500.00 Com 10%
3500.00
3500.00
"
"
3500.00
3500.00
"
"
3150.00
3150 00
3150 00
3150 00
3150 00
The Perfect Life
The Georgia Belle
3500.00
3500.00
"
"
3150 00
3150 00
Total ---------------------------------------------------------------- 22050 00
Other Writings Outside the Cabinet Makers 150.00
Who Can Fall in Love after Thirty (Zelda) 200.00
"
"
135 00
180 00
Syndicate (Wheeler)
Magnetism (English)
Bell Syndicate
13.50
86.94
"
"
12 15
78 25
2 23
Total ------------------------------------------------------------------- 406 67
Advertisement -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1000 00
Books This Side of Paradise
The Beautiful and Damned
22 05
22 40
Flappers and Philosophers
Tales of the Jazz Age
The Vegetable
The Great Gatsby
12 30
12 90
3 60
44.15
All the Sad Young Men
Further Advance on New Novel Serial
25 05
2129 03
Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 2272 96
Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 25,732 96

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Record for 1929
Stories Forging Ahead
Basil & Cleopatra
Rough Crossing
Majesty
At Your Age
The Swimmers
Two Wrongs
$3500.
3500.
3500.
3500.
4000.
4000.
4000.
Com 10%
"
"
"
"
"
"
$3150 00
3150 00
3150 00
3150 00
3600 00
3600 00
3600 00
First Blood 4000. " 3600 00
Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 27,000 00
Zelda’s sketches
Original Follies Girl
Poor Working Girl
Southern Girl
400.
500.
500.
"
"
"
360 00
450 00
450 00
Girl the Prince Liked
Girl with Talent
500.
800.
"
"
450 00
720 00
Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2430 00
Misselaneous Talkie Rights B & D. 1000. " 900 00
Girls Believe in Girls
Advertisement
Short Autobiography
1500.
500.
100.
"
"
1350 00
500 00
90 00
Golden Bk. “One of My Oldest” 100.
English “Outside Cabinet” 40.86
"
"
90 00
34 56
Reprints 21 85
Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 2986 41
Books This Side of Paradise
Flappers & Philosophers
The Beautiful & Damned
Tales of the Jazz Age
Great Gatsby
All Sad Young Men
Vegetable
English Gatsby
4 80
11 70
3 60
3 00
5 10
2 10
1 13
.
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Total ------------------------------------------------ 31 77
Grand Total --------------------------------------------
$ 32,448.18

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Stories
Other Items
Record for 1930
A Nice Quiet Place
The Bridal Party
A Woman with a Past
One Trip Abroad
A Snobbish Story
The Hotel Child
Babylon Revisited
$4000. Com 10%
4000.
4000.
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4000.
4000.
$3600 00
3600 00
3600 00
3600 00
3600 00
4000.
4000.
"
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3600 00
3600 00
Total ------------------------------ 25,200 00
Salesmanship in the Chomps Ellysee 75.
At Your Age—Modern Library 100.
Two for a Cent—Golden Book 75.
Jacobs Ladder English
Reprints
Zelda’s Writings The Millionaires Girl
Books
Miss Bessie
This Side of Paradise
Flappers & Philosophers
The Beautiful & Damned
Tales of the Jazz Age
121.
8.
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
Total ---------------------------------- 341 10
4000 " 3,600 00
150 " 150 00
Total -------------------------------- 3,750 00
10 20
10 05
4 80
8 40
The Vegetable
The Great Gatsby
1 12
15 60
All the Sad Young Men (& Present day Stories) 37 86
Further Advances (Serial new novel & 1 , 583.06 against bk. 3 701 97
Total -------------------------------- 3,800 00
Grand Total $ 33,090 10
Paid tax on a miscalculation of earnings on $254. more than I should have. Will deduct from earnings of 1931.

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Stories
Record for 1931
Indecision
A New Leaf
Flight and Pursuit
Emotional Bankrupcy
Between Three and Four
A Change of Class
Half a Dozen of the Other
A Freeze Out
$4000. Com 10%
4000.
4000.
"
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4000.
4000.
4000.
3000.
4000.
"
"
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3600 00
3600 00
3600 00
3600 00
3600 00
3600 00
2700 00
3600 00
Diagnosis 4000. " 3600 00
Total ---------------------------------------------------------------- 31,500 00
Other Items Treatment Metro Goldwyn Mayer 6000. " 5 400 00
Echoes of the Jazz Age
Vegetable Performance
New Leaf (English)
Flight & Pursuit (English)
John Jackson’s Arcady
500.
25.00
£17
Guinies 35
2.21
"
"
"
"
500 00
22 50
59 00
126 00
2 00
Books
Total ------------------------------------------------------------ 6,109 50
This Side of Paradise
Flappers & Philosophers
The Beautiful & Damned
12 90
9 30
4 40
Tales of the Jazz Age
The Vegetable
The Great Gatsby
All the Sad Young Men
3 90
1 13
17 90
7 90
Advance against Bk. 44 15
Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 100 00
Less: Not paid in 1931 by Metro 173.72 "
− 155 35
Grand Total 37,554 00
New Yorker sketch 50.00 45 00
37,599 00

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Stories
Record for 1932 (writing Tender)
Crazy Sunday
Family in the Wind
What a Hansome Pair
The Rubber Check
Interne
$ 200
3500 Com 10%
2500
3000
3500
"
"
"
$ 200 00
3150 00
2250 00
2700 00
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
Flight & Pursuit (English)
Couple of Nuts (Zelda)
15.20
110.42
$ 150. Com 10%
The Gourmets (Zelda) 50. "
Total of all these ------------------------------------- 313 40
Books All Royalties
Advance on Novel
Grand Total
20 00
480 00
Total ------------------------------------------------ 500 00
15,823 40

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Record for 1933 (Writing Tender)
More than just a House 3000 Com 10%
I Got Shoes
The Family Bus
2500
3000
"
"
Articles My Lost City
One Hundred False Starts
1000
1200
Books Tender and Taps Advance and new advance of [ ] 1,690.21
Other Books
800
Save me the Waltz
($ 1000. Commission paid Ober on serial)
Sound Rights The Great Gatsby 2500
Other Items Two for a Cent (English)
New Leaf (Home Mag. English)
John Jackson (Royalties
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2700 00
2250 00
2700 00
900 00
1080 00
4,200 00
30
120 00
2250 00
34 81
63 03
19 00
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Record for 1934
Stories No Flowers
New Types
Her Last Case
In the Darkest Hour
The Count of Darkness
A Kingdom in the Dark
The Fiend
The Night before Chancellorsville
$ 3000 Com 10% 2700 00
3000
3000
2700 00
2700 00
1250
1500
1500
1125 00
1350 00
1350 00
250 00
250 00
Misselaneous Ring Lardner
Preface to Gatsby
12,475 00
All Books ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 58 35
50 00
50 00
S CRIBNER
Advance
Broadcast of Diamond
Family in the Wind (Swedish)
Your Age (Modern)
Show Mr & Mrs F.
Auction –Model 1934
45 00
12 27
3 16
200 00
200 00
Modern American Prose
Smart Set Anthology
Chatto & Windus
[ ]
37 50
12 50
American Short Story
Gatsby Modern Library
156 31
1 02
250 00
1,017 76
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 ‸ account which had been added to my royalty
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Record for 1935
Stories The Intimate Strangers
Zone of Accident
What you Don’t know
Too Cute for Words
Gods of the Darkness
The Esquimo Boy
The Image on the Heart
Misselaneous Lamp in a Window
Modern Library Royalty
English Sale – The Fiend
Columbia Broadcast “Lets go Out”
Shaggy’s Mornining
Same – London
Sleeping & Waking
Your Age
Crack Up
Paste Together
Brittish Fiend
All Books and Advance
Total
$3000
3000
3000
3000
1500
1500
1250
$ 342.03
16,845.16
This is evidently a grand mistake. Even if I only got $200 for Esquire articles I still underpaid by $307.97.
This again will appear in 1938 Tax.
Both these errors were made during my illness.
Again the error if any is in my favor. I have recieved less from Scribners than I have paid taxes on
700
2700 00
2700 00
2700 00
2700 00
1350 00
1350 00
1125 00
14,725 00
22 50
17 89
41 93
630 00
250 00
31 00
250 00
10 88
250 00
250 00
41 93
1,596 13
1 796 13
832 00
17,153 13
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Record for 1936
Outside the House
Make Yourself at Home
The Pearl & the Fur
Trouble
Esquire Pieces Handle with Care.
Three Acts of Music
The Ants at Princeton
Author’s House
Afternoon of an Author
−10%
An Author’s Mother
I didn’t Get over
Please send me in, Coach
An Alcoholic Case
Misscelaenous Modern Library, Brittish & Danish, John Jackson ect
All Books
Total
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$ 3000 00
2500 00
1000 00
2000 00
7650 00
250
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2250 00
199 79
81 18
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Record for 1937
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)
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Published Miscelani (including movies) for which I was Paid
DESRIPTION MAGAZINE DATE REMARKS NAME
A Dirge
“Predjudices, 1 st
Series”
Parody Verse Judge
Review Bookman
Dec. 1919
March 1921
Sketch Vanity Fair Dec. 1920 This is a Magazine
“Brass”
When the Movies
Own the Publishers
“The Oppidan”
“Margie Wins the Game”
On being 25
The Far-seeing
Sceptics
Review Bookman
Suggestion Life
Review
Review
Article
Sketch
N. Y. Tribune
N. Y. Tribune
American
Smart Set
Oct 1922
Jan 1922
May 1922
April 1922
Sept 1922
March 1922 Incorporated into
“The Beautiful & Damned”
“The Love Legend” Review
The Moment of revolt that comes to every married man
Article
Article The Little Brother of the Flapper
Article Imagination and a few Mothers
“Being Respectable” Review
Review “Many Marriages”
“Glimpses of the Moon”
Grit
M
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Calls
Calls
International Book
Review
Movie Titles Famous Players
Movie
N. Y. Evening Post
Ladies Home Journal June 1922
N. Y. Herald
Film Guild
Oct 1922
March 1924
Dec 1924
April 1923
April 1923
March 1923
Jan 1924

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NAME
Making Monagamy Work
DESRIPTION MAGAZINE
Article
Our Irresponsible Rich Article
The Cruise of the Rolling Junk Article
Metropolitan Syndicate Jan. 1924
Metropolitan Syndicate Feb. 1924
Motor
DATE REMARKS
Feb–April
1924
Review N. Y. Evening Post April 1923 “Through the Wheat”
The Most Disgraceful
Thing I ever Did
How to Live on $36,000 a Year
Wait till you have
Children of Your Own
How to Live on Practically
Nothing a Year
Burlesque: “My
Old New England
Farmhouse on the Erie”
How to Waste Material,
A note on My Generation
Princeton
Lipstick
Outside the Cabinet Makers
A Short Autobiography
Girls Believe in Girls
Salesmanship in the
Champs Ellysee
Echoes of the Jazz Age
Article
Article
Article
Article
Burlesque
Article–Review Bookman
Article
Movie
Sketch (Story?) Century
(Also Cassel’s Mag. Enq.)
Story Tellers Mag
Dec 1928
F
New Yorker Sketch May 25 th
1929
Liberty
Sketch
Article
Vanity Fair
Sat. Eve. Post.
Sat. Eve. Post.
College Humor
College Humor
For United Artists
Article
New Yorker
Scribners
Nov 1923
April 1924
Women’s Home Companion July 1924 Partly incorporated
into “The Great Gatsby”
Sept 1924
Aug 1925
May 1926
Published
Dec 1927
Written
Feb 1927
1930
1930
Nov
1931

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Early
Success
Obit on
Parnassus
A Book of Ones Own
Let’s Go out & Play
NAME
My Lost City
One Hundred
False Starts
Ring Lardner
DESCRIPTION
Article
Article
Appreciation
Sleeping
and Waking
Lamp in a
Window
Crack up
Paste Together
Handle with Care
The Ants
at Princeton
Authors
House
Afternoon
of an
Author
Article
Poem
Biography
Sketch
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Satire
(Story?)
Sketch
(Story?)
Sketch
(Story?)
Article
Verse
Burleque
Broadcast
Play
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MAGAZINE DATE REMARKS
Cosmopolitan July 1932
Sat Eve. Post Mar 1933
New Republic
Esquire
Oct 1933
Dec 34
New Yorker
Esquire
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"
Spring 35
Feb ’36
Mar ’36
Apr. ’36
Esquire
Esquire
Esquire
June 36
July ’36
Aug ’36
Esquire
Cavalcade
New Yorker
New Yorker
Columbia
Sept ’36
Aug 36
Aug? 36
Sept. 36
Fall 1935

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

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Outline Chart of my Life
1896 Sept 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.
July He said his first word. It was the monasyllable “up”
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One Year Old
1897 Sept. He had six teeth – and weiged eighteen llbs.
Oct He attempted to walk
Dec Bronchitis. A specialist was summoned but as his advice was not followed the child pulled through
1898
April Tiring of St. Paul he went east to Buffalo New York where with his parents he installed himself at the Lennox
June He had a dutch haircut
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Two Years Old
1899 Jan He put on bloomers and went to Washington to spend the winter at the Cairo Hotel
April He returned to Buffalo and moved into a flat at
Summer Street and Elmwood Ave.
June A persistent cough drove him to Orchard Park, New York.
His mother feared consumption for him.
Aug He returned to St. Paul, visiting his grandmother
M c quillan in her house on Summit Avenue near
Dale Street.
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Three Years Old
Sept His birthday found him weighing 35 llbs.
Oct About this time he slid on the hall carpet of the Summer
St. appartment in Buffalo and got a scar on his right forehead which he possesses today.
1900 Jan His mother presented him with a sister who lived only an hour.
Feb He celebrated the new century by swallowing a penny and catching the measles. He got rid of both of them
March His parents sent him to school but he wept and wailed so they took him out again after one morning.
Aug He visited Atlantic City for the first time, later going through the Philadelphia Navy-yard.
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Sept He had a party to celebrate his birthday. He wore a sailor suit about this time & told enormous lies to older people about being really the owner of a real yatch.
1901 Jan He now went to Sarycuse where he took Mrs. Peck’s appartment on East Genesee Street.
July His sister Annabel was born. His first certain memory is the sight of her howling on a bed.
Aug Again he went to Atlantic City—where some
Freudian complex refused to let him display his feet, so he refused to swim, concealing the real reason. They thought he feared the water.
In reality he craved it. Also he attended the
Buffalo exposition, the Pan American
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Five Years Old
Sept He played with one Dixon Green whom he has entirely forgotten. “Oh Gee! I wish I had a different look on my face.
He remembers a horrible day in a brickyard where his nurse pricked her ear with a straw.
1902 Jan He now moved from East Genessee Street to the “Kasson” on James Street. He remembers Jack Butler who had two or three facinating books about the civil war and he remembers hitting a delivery boy with a stone and cutting his head
May He went to Randolph his aunt Eliza Delihant’s place in
Montgomery County Maryland, where he made friends with a colored boy, name forgotten— name Ambrose
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Six Years Old
Sept He now weighed 45 llbs. He entered Miss Goodyear’s school and he and another little girl, name unknown, worked out the phonetic spelling of C-A-T.
Thus becoming the stars of the primary class
1903 Jan Naturally he moved again—this time to a flat on East Willow
Street. He begins to remember many things, a filthy vacant lot, the haunt of dead cats, a hair-raising buck-board, the little girl whose father was in prison for telling lies, a Rabelaisian incident with Jack Butler, a blow with a baseball bat from the same boy – son of an army officer—which left a scar that will shine always in the middle of my his forehead, a history of the United States which father brought me; he became a child of the American
Revolution. Also he boxed with Edgar Miller the grocery man’s son, egged on by his father. His nurse pierced her ear for rings and he howled.
April He went south to Randolph again where he was a ribbon holder with Jack Garland at his Cousin Cecilia’s wedding. After the wedding he turned on his two black friends Roscoe and Forrest and with the help of a bigger boy tried to tie them up with ropes
He remembers crying one day in fury over the irrevocability of a decision – he had decided once too often that he did not want to go down town. He found his fathers soap boxes and apricots quite diverting. He went on a trip with his father.
July He wandered off on the Fourth of July & was spanked in consequence, so he sat on the porch with his breeches down and watched the fire-works. On Sunday mornings he walked down town in his long trousers and with his little cane and had his shoes shined with his father.
There was also a boy named Arnold who went barefooted in his yard and peeled plums. Scott’s freudian shame about his feet kept him from joining in.
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Seven Years Old
1904
Sept. He had a birth day party to which no one came. He moved to Buffalo, New York, possibly in consequence where he had a dog named “Beautiful Joe,” a black cocker spaniel, and also a bycycle – a girl’s bycycle. He was sent to school at the Holy Angel’s convent under the arrangement that he need only go half a day and was allowed to choose which half.
He lived at 29 Irving Place almost next door to one Jack Baker. He remembers Ted Keating, Dodo Clifton, Jack
Kimberly and Dexter Rumsey, and their facinating army.
He remembers “Nana,” Annabel’s nurse. He remembers the attic where he had a red sash with which he acted Paul Revere. He went twice to see Paul Revere, the second time the lights went off to his great dissapointment. He fell under the spell of a
Catholic preacher, Father Fallon, of the Church of the Holy Angels. Hamilton Wendee comes in this period.
He used to climb the hitching post in front of the house. He took off John Wylie’s shoes. He began to hear “dirty” words. He had
May 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
At Chautaqua or somewhere an old lady that was like a witch stole his little boat & gave it to her own little boy. Then
Niagara on the lake & the Old Fort, and red yatchs named the Columbia and the Reliance of three sizes. It was here that he heard the enchanting voices in the dusk.

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Eight Years Old
Sept He took up geography, grammar and arithmetic at the beginning of this school year at the Holy Angel’s. It must have been about this time that he gave a boy a bloody nose and ran home in consequence with a made up story.
He and Jack Baker being the youngest boys in the neighborhood, were the most frequently chased.
He hit John Wylie with a stick and ended their friendship.
1905
About this time he started going to Mr. Van Arnums dancing class at the Century Club. He remembers a terrific spanking one day when he was far too fresh and though it was funny to bow to everyone. 23 Skidoo!
April He was frightfully impressed by a Tommy Atkin’s drill the older boys put on in dancing school. He was Little Boy Blue
In Randolph or rather Rockville he met Brooks
Clement
Offrit and William George Robertson. He heard that
Jack Garland was dead & it shocked him. He read Scottish Chiefs and played with Tom’s & Gerrould’s toys. Played with Brooks Brewer & Fenwick
Shugrue in Georgetown.
July He went to the Cattskills where he ate an egg every day on the bidding of his Aunt Clara. She gave him 25¢ a raw egg and with the money he bought a Henty book a day. Thence he repaired to the Stevens House at Lake Placid in the Adirondacks where he played Indians, built a fort in the woods, was lost, and directed home by two nuns.
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Nine Years Old
Sept For his birth day he recieved chiefly soldiers. He passed from the Holy Angels Academy to Miss Nardins. Also he moved to Seventy-one Highland Ave in October.
Here he played with Joe Powell, Honey Chittenden, James
Ingham, Clare Collard, the Jewetts. He had a complete gymnasium in his attic and began a passionate stamp collection.
Some boys around a potato roast told him they didn’t want him around there. He had a complete football outfit with shinguards
Nov He went to dancing school and fell in love with Nancy
Gardner.
Dec He had his first tooth pulled. He went out to Nancy Gardiners and fussed with her brother on the tobbogan slide. He remembers a pair of mocasins and a rifle (b-b-) and believes it was at this point he discovered the non-existance of Santa Clause. He remembers Xmas morning.
1906 Jan He had an operation on his nose and afterwards red Ivanhoe in bed. A nurse girl told him “Listen-Listen”. Van Arnum pounded him for pushing over his sister. He used to scare
Annabel by a game called “Bad Brownie come to eat you up” and “Good Brownie come to see what you want for Christmas. He had a fight with someone in the dancing school dressing room. His grandmothers gave him from one to ten dollars for Xmas and he bought them pins and nut-picks. Suspicion that he is a changeling. He had to wear black suits because father thought blue was common in dancing school.
May He organized an army with carven swords. Why did Geo.
Washington sign himself “your obediant servant.” The St. Nicolas –dislike for the Youth’s Companion.
July He returned to the Steven’s House and again played Indians.
But it was not quite as good. He bought three golf-clubs and essayed the scotch game.
Aug His father used to drink too much and then play baseball in the back yard.

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Ten Years Old
Sept He made up shows in Ingham’s attic, all based on the American
Revolution and a red sash and three cornered hat. He did tricks and mysteriously vanished a dime. Gus Shy’s play put him temporarily in the shade but he was impressed with Gus’s rhymes and imitations and passed on the dirty ones to another nurse girl. He told one cook “he’d been good to her” but would cease unless she gave him rocks. Finally the moving picture machine Inky’s uncle gave him eclipsed Gus Shy. Sometimes Joe Powel and Incky sided against him as when they wanted to make him
President and then resign from the club. He played football on the Highland corner, guard or tackle and usually scared silly. He played pom-pom-pullaway at night. He told
Miss M c graw at Narden’s that Mexico City was not the capitol of
Central America. He used to go to the Wild West movies and the Tech Stock Company.
Jan 1907 He went to the Charity ball and to the Mack’s party at the country club where he wore his juvenile tuxedo and was chased by a cripple named Sears M c graw whom he loathes to this day
Joe Powell took him to a basketball game and he fell madly into admiration for a dark haired boy who played with a melancholy defiance. His mother got the idea he could sing so he performed “Way down in colon town” and “Don’t get married any more” for all visitors. He began a history of the U.S. and also a detective story about a necklace that was hidden in a trapdoor under the carpet. Wrote celebrated essay on George
Washington & St. Ignatius. Ole-Ole Olson free.
April He went as Little Jack Horner to the dancing school party He went to the Jamestown Exposition at Norfolk & saw the Atlantic Fleet.
The Stratmeyer books, football suits
June It was this summer we had the tree houses. Roller skates too – I had ball-bearing skates too fancy to be any good – and also we played diavalo, coll and collected cigar bands & printed little pictures. Out in St Paul, Flossie
Thompson scared him silly with a ghost story.
July He went to Camp Chatham at Orillia Ontario, where he swam and fished and cleaned and ate fish and canoed and rowed and caught behind the bat and was desperately unpopular and went in paper chases and running contests and was always just edged out by Tom Penny. He remembers boys named Whitehouse, Alden,
Penny, Block, Blair and one awful baby. He remembers “Pa”
Upham singing “The Cat came Back,” and a sawdust road and a camera and making blueprints and the camp library
And “Blow ye winds hiegh-oh” and tournaments with padded spears in canoes and Pa Upham’s Cornell stroke.

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Eleven Years Old
Sept He went to Confession about this time and hid by saying in a a shocked voice to the priest “Oh no, I never tell a lie.” He now had
$100.00 in the bank. He played football on a team of which Norbert Sullivan was the star. He weighed sixty-eight llbs.
Oct He asked Kitty to lead the grand march in dancing school the first day. He used to swim with Inky in the Century Club school pool.
In church one little girl made him frightfully embarrassed when he didn’t have a penny to put in the collection box. He could not go to Gwendolen Boardman’s party because he was ill. Fenwick Shugrue
The Young Kentuckian Series
Dec. He gave Kitty a box of candy for Xmas & was scared silly. Annabel: Why did you marry a man like that.” She repeats her joke to my horror.
1908 Jan Kitty played in the Chittenden’s tobogan & I he
expressed my his
love by tripping up Norbert Sullivan and someone else. He attended the
Rumsdell’s party in his little tuxedo. Also Edna Steele’s party and the charity ball where he was asked to sit in Earl Knox’s box.
Feb He went to a “kissing” party given by the Penfields cousin and kissed Kitty a great deal. He attended the Princeton Glee Club with his mother and James
Ingham and was amused at “Mrs. Winslow’s soothingsyrup.” He almost died laughing at E. H. Southren as Lord Dundreary. His character book. Kitty loved him.
March His father’s services were no longer required by Proctor and Gamble. He remembers the day, and that he gave his mother back his swimming money after he heard her at the phone, and that father said he thought Taft would be
President.
May The thrill of the “Washington in the west” & “Raiding with Morgan” series in their crisp tissue wrappers.
June He played golf with Inky on the public links
July Came out to St. Paul to live with Grandmother. Mother at Fultons. John
Fulton, his dirty cousin, the Mitchells, the Fosters, Kath. Tighe, Arthur Foley, Sam Sturgis, the Midges and Marie. My affair with Violet. Little Ellen Stockton. Met the
Hills and played Tennis with them. Playing Indian. The Foley’s barn and their eunuch dog. Walking the fence with Betty Mudge. the Complements playing truth. The quarrels with Violet. Madame O.Keefe and my French lessons. Adolph Schelle

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Twelve Years Old
Sept The Summit football team. He was Captain. One one game, lost one and tied one. Paul
Ballion, Robert Clark and Cecil Read. Broke my rib on St. Paul Academy team.
Entered Academy. Mother at Aberdeen. Striker & Ballion the stars. The cruelty to animals society. Marie’s note. Dorothy Green. Showing off in school.
The great Phelps Ingersoll. My hair pompadour. Tom Wann singing
The Hills– Eleanor & Virginia. The candy-cocks.
Oct. Foley’s halloween party. Boxing with blonde at Y.M.C.A. Began reading in bed after hours—a life habit.
Jan 1909 Went a great deal to the Y.M.C.A. to swim and box and take hot showers.
Boxed with Egbert Driscolll. Freshest boy in school “Will someone poison Scotty or find some means to shut his mouth”. Played 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. Jaggard’s dance
June Wrote the Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage. Also “Elavo” (or was that in Buffalo) and a complicated story of some knights. Played base ball. Began to Pitch.
Bycycling with Wharton Smith to Hastings. Perhaps made 1 st
communion
July Went to Frontenac Minnesota for ten days. Started abroad with Mother. Appendicitus in
Duluth. Down the great lakes. Revisited Buffalo. Honey Chittenden gone wrong.
Susan Rice & Jean Ingersoll at Frontenac and Billie Butler and I. The Intrigue.
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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 Foley’s team (?)
Football at U. of Minn. M c govern ect
Dec Entered dancing school. Julia Dorr and Joan Orton. The Mishka rink.
Sneaking over to Gerbers to buy a return present for the unexpected one
1910 Jan Beat Egbert in boxing. Bob-rides. Sliding. Skeeing Praying. Saving up
Now I lay me’s.
April Kept a lemonade stand. Harold Green. Tried to go to St. Mary’s Sunday school. Went to Father Busch instead. Became desperate Holy.
May Made 1 st
Communion. The “Gooserah” organized. Play in Cecil’s attic. Initiations. My gymnasium set up in our back yard. Lord Dunreary pictures. Photography revival
Dancing school with Billy Foster as little Jack Horner. The great father Corrigan. Helen Corfe
Eymo Havelick, Horfel O’Connel, Ocky Varland, Duchandle Gormelly, Irene Stiery, Barry. Laughed at communion
June Adoped a dog “The Duke Del Monte”. Also “Blackie”. Played with the Porterfields
Mr. Shotwell killed. The bandit at the Lake. “Good God! Its Pop”.
July Mother went abroad. Went to Grandma’s. Fussed about dog. Visited Aunt Lorena at
Bald Eagle and Cecil Read and Bob Clark at White Bear Lake. Fusses with the
Porterfields. Saw a great deal of Paul Ballion. I ate vegetables for Aunt Annabel.
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A Year of Much
Activity but
Fourteen Years Old dangerous.
Sept. Third and last year at the S.P.A. Played on the Summits. End and punter.
Missed kick in crucial game. Became football expert and kept book. Moved to Shotwell’s house, 509 Holly Ave. Fred Foley. Grandfather M c
Quillan: “Well, if it wasn’t for him where would we be now.” Mr. Hill wouldn’t allow smoking
When you enter a room speak first to the oldest lady, says father. Proud to say about party: My mother won’t let me go.
Ames quarterback on Central High school team
Dec. Joan Orton’s bob-ride. The petition about Eleanor Alair.
Jan 1911 Egbert beat me in hand ball. We tied in boxing. Second team basketball.
Became an inveterate author and a successful, not to say brilliant debater and writer. Excelled in track meets. Trick show in M c mell Seymore’s attic. Intimacy with Bobby Schurmier. Invention of the game “Stop”. Little photos taken.
Our Chameleon ties. Going skee-ing. Art Foley’s queer girl.
March Dancing school. Marie. Love. The triangle. The Ames Yard. A Play at Ben Grigg’s.
The founding of The Scandal Detectives. I start to smoke. Montgomery and Stone. The Snaughty six. The Club room. Mrs. Hersey smokes. The chain of love.
April The Scandal detectives go after Reuben. Art. Foley grown up. The ghost house.
“Down below the hill”. The walk with Jim Porterfield. Margaret Armstrong invites me to Oak Hall dance. Elizabeth Dean to German. The broken lamp. Riding horseback
Secret languages. Ames yards & bycycles. Faint sex attractions
May Fight with Jim Thompson. Captain of Academy baseball team. Won cake-walk prize with Marie. Hair collections, Rings, kisses, character books, Wrote the poem about “Paris, the night & The Lure of the Dark.” for Smart Set
June Tennis. No work at school. Baseball team. I become a batter. Used to duck school
The Daniel’s boat.
July Went to White Bear Yatch Club. Schurmier, Cecil, Geo. Squires and Reub. Warner. Played tennis. Swam. Stole candy. Sailed. Skinned gophers, played on Archer’s railroad.
Excitement about Newman. Wharton Smith’s data. Helen Clarkson’s Boston.
Baseball with Island. The name “Ginevra King.” The facination of the stock company.
Aug Was in “A regular Fix” and wrote “The Girl from Lazy J.” Elizabeth M c goffin. Schurmier’s long trousers. Alexanders Ragtime Band.
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A year of real unhappiness excepting the feverish
Fifteen Years Old joys of Xmas.
Sept 5ft. 4in. Moved to 499 Holly Ave. Attended state fair and took chicken on roller-coaster.
Off for Newman School. Dummy Tailor in Penn station. My cigarettes. Alexander’s rag-time band
Went out to Central with freshmen. He evidently does
Oct Grassie Read. The third football team. The scrubs. The Little Millionaire. Bill Agar says
I’m Fresh. Fight with Grassie. Aunt Clara died. The dog wagon. The candy kitchen,
The Philadelphia. “Mac’s”. Oh, you dear delightful women. Honey Love.
Nov Fight with Franciscus. Didn’t dress for the Morristown game. My midnight feast and the annex rough-house. O’Flaherty balls me out. My football poem. Martin’s socks.
I suspect I have consumption. Stanislas Stange. Sam White at Princeton.
Dec. Hank’s advice. The Quaker Girl. The wonderful vacation. Marie at dramat. Club meeting. Long trousers. On the stairs at the Ame’s dance. Eleanor & Mary J. Marie at the Winchesters. The last day. The “rag”.
1912 Jan A new start. Poor marks and on bounds. Trips to New York. I try to write a play.
The horrible tube to Jersey City.
Feb Grandmother & Aunt A. come out. “Over the River” in New York. My libretto’s. Polly Melville. I began to see Sap. Bug’s Colvin. Letters to Marie and Eleanor. Franciscus and “Dot”.
Mar. The Inquistion of Harry Donahoe – billiard balls, dirty stories ect. Duke Haven’s advice.
South to Norfolk. Thence to Washington. Stayed at the Forrests. Grandmother and
Uncle John. Mrs. Gale’s. Cousin Tom at Woodstock. Bad time with Mary Garland.
“The Private Secretary”.
April Played baseball. More New York trips. Mrs Burlap & Miss Dundon. Chapel.
Hank’s addresses. How we ate, ate, ate. Tootsie Rolls.
May Won the junior field meet. Davis sick. Bill Nelson’s remark. Saturday afternoon at Newman, pumps, oily hair, lazy.
June Florence Brown at school dance. Staying over to take exams. The pervert Johnston on the train. Moonlight Bay. “Well, after a certain point you can’t do anything for people so I believe in letting them alone”.
July Passed four exams—“A” in ancient history. My reception home. Visiting
Jimmy Johnston. Began to feel lack of automobile. The Colvin’s dance. Eddie
Power. growing unpopular. The fraternities
Aug Wrote and gave the Captured Shadow (wrote it on train.) My football dummy in the yard. Owen Johnston.

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Reward in fall for work of previous summer. A better year but not happy.
Sixteen Years Old
Sept Birthday with Aunt Millie in Chicago, I mean Lake Forest. O’Flaherty’s astonishment at my A in history. “He evidently doesn’t think he’s good looking”
Oct The Kingsley and Newark games. Ikas’ remarks. Louie Pallen. I move to
Annex
Nov Shows in New York. Intimacy with Sap. Fay’s first visit to school. Story for
Newman News. We move to 6 th
form house
Dec Joe M c
Cormick and “Oh you beautiful Doll”
1913 Jan Stopped off in Chicago. Yates & the measles, cheers, Mr. Fox at the organ.
Serving mass. N.Y. with Amorous. Hank Sargants petting. Schurmier fired from Hill. Pouring water down pants. My bell at Henry’s. Again the name Ginevra. His hands dirty from being run through his hair, encouraging the natural oils.
Feb Demerits, extra study, debating, bickers with Sap. First shave. The
Bunny Hug. Flossie, “Keep with the floor.” Comic operas “ Other
Stories. Comic poems. Downings theology. Scraps with Nelson,
Schlick and Hart. T. Fauk. Murder of Banquo. The crock club.
Mar. The Humes. I keep study hall. Rehearsing the power of music. Washington.
Uncle Alley, Lou Ordway. Cousin Tom at Georgetown. His remarks about Princeton.
Wine at Fay’s in Washington. Hemmick and Dorian Grey. Norfolk. Dissapointment.
First whisky. Grandmother & the Duke of Buccleugh.
April Tight at Susquehanna. Writing. Getting up English History. Pitching on second team.
May Locke versus Hume. The Sunshine girl. Elocution Prize. Final Princeton
Exams. Cribbing. Murder of Banquo.
June Returnded to St. Paul. Calling on Kitty. Automboile question grows worse. Visiting the
Girards. I love her – oh-oh-oh.
July The Coward. Mayall Brunner, Grace & Bob Dunn. Converting Bob
Clark with Religion of a plain man.
Aug Grandmother dies. Her last gift. Studying for Princeton. Elizabeth
Clarkson
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A year of work and vivid vivid
Seventeen Years Old experience
Sept 138 llbs. 5 ft. 7 in. On Bank St with Mac, Crawford. 14 Univ. Place. Hazing.
Admitted to Princeton. Sap, Joe, Black, Bob, Paul, Bunny, Wash, Izzie, Tic.
Freshman football. The Rushes, the singing. Electing class officers. Prep school nice fellows begin to drop out – i.e. Slagle & Bunny Shanley.
Oct Tight in Trenton. B. Munn. I meet Hobey Baker. Being Horsed. Elizabeth
Clarkson. Van Winkle. The
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meeting.
Nov New York with Sap. Shocking him. Back to Newman. Building sold & estate divided. More money. Out for Tiger. Working on
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lyrics. Bob Strain.
Dec Working on lights in Casino. Home. Dissapointed in Elizabeth Clarkson.
1914 Jan Townsend Martin. Buzz Law. Paul Nelson leaves us. Squabbles in the house.
Feb Midyears. English Dramatic Association. Began △ play. Dr. Fay comes to town. Failed many exams. Fred Alexander flunks out. Romantic.
Sap & I on the subject.
Mar. Working hard on
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play. Walker Ellis. Club elections. My swing toward
Cottage.
April Met John Peale Bishop.
May Walks out the Pyne Place. Nonnie sick. Mother came?
June Final exams. Deal Beach by auto. Freshman parade. Hemmick and Fay.
Chinatown.
July Nonnie Jackson. At Uncle Phils when war broke out
Aug. Assorted Spirits. Mayall & Grace. Mayall & Kitty

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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
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rehearsing
Dec Operation on my nose. Dances.
1915 Jan Met Ginevra. Minneapolis movies, Dance M c davitts. Met Sap. Drunk.
Gordon M c cormick. Letters. Midyears. Caruso
Feb “Hide me!” Joe Shanley’s. Westover. Secretary of △ Club on 26 th
. The
Jackman’s. My sense of perfection. If I couldn’t be perfect I wouldn’t be anything.
Mar Cottage Lecton. Sap in show. Rudie admitted. Passed out at Dinner. My rebuke to Doug. Townsend and Fred. Perfection – black hair, olive skin and tenor voice. My fake tenor. Winants the night before Election. Gateway Club.
April Easter in Washington. Helen Walcott & Ruth Sturtevant. Norfolk. New York △ show.
Gloria Godwin. Ruth Teale. My heart. Jo 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
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show. The name Midge Muir. Stories in Lit. Bunny Wilson.
Don M c rae.
June Ritz, Nobody Home and Midnight Frolic with Ginevra. Stopping off in
Chicago. Midge Muir. House Party. Jimmy Johnston. Deering: I’m going to take Ginevra home in my electric. With each bath starting life over again & moving in immaculate coolness for almost an hour. Working on face with hot towels & strong soap.
July Courtney. Left for Sap’s ranch. Dick Collins, Sport and Son of a Bitch. Aubrey & Olga
Black. Attempts to cut out smoking. Her fatal love. I thank you Bud. I thank you.
Drunk: The Cowboy song bird. Cutting smoking & fusses about tobacco.
$50 at cards. Honeymoon Plateau. The Dentzers. The sleepy sheep. Buttes Payroll.
August. No news from Ginevra. Young Red’s family life. The weakly bath. Dick in Chicago. Rabbits. The lonesome tramp in the lonesome town.
Butte, Seattle. Harry & the Goulds. Tates. Oh Uncle Joe. Ed Muldoon— that clever chap. Courtney says: Deering as poor as a church mouse. Mayall Brunner & Grace (?)

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A year of terrible disappointments & the end of all college dreams. Everything
Nineteen Years Old bad in it was my own fault.
Sept. Affair with Sandy. Bob Dunn’s drunk. Flunked exams again. The Bicker committee. Ineligable. Despair. Sec. of Club elections committee, Cottage
Club Committee and Coffee Club. Lived at 32 Little Hall.
Oct Dissatisfaction with the club. Lining up Dick Farrelly. Coaching Larry
Boardman. The Evil Eye. Pictures taken as a girl. May Dorsey
Elaine French. Dinner with Ginevra in Waterbury. Bill 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.
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in St. Paul. Politics at St Paul Hotel. Snubbed
Sandy. Marie and I at Louie Hill’s dance.
1916 Jan The Invalids – Bug, Lety, Bob and I. Trying to be rough. Il Trovatore.
Cutting Smoking town Topics.
Feb Visit to Princeton. Returned to Aunt Annabel’s appartment. Psi U dance as a girl. Long letters to Ginevra. Underneath the Stars,
Babes in the Woods (song) Began Spires and Gargoyles, the beginning of mature writing
March Met Dolly Powers. Got Chalmers. Ginevra fired from school.
Uncle Alley and the Bulgarians, tearing excerps from paper & talking on cars.
April Jimmy Johnston fired. Dolly at the Raddison. Bob Dunn. Writing
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play. Ginevra & Jimmy on the train. A facinating story.
May Started to play golf. Graham Hall with Dolly Powers. Fuss with Dolly.
Peggy Hazely. Play refused. Marva Wreem Stevenson. The mumps.
Picking up girls. Peg & Emily. Rosie Quinn. Break with Jimmy.
June Gittens arrived. Yatch Club. Car troubles. Katherine Tighe. Taught
Nonnie to drive. Hiding my college bills. Deering “Im
July Florence Foals. Grace & Lupe Brundred. Mildred Warden. Our ill-fated health trip to Brainard. Ride alone with John Wells – me in back seat.
Father & Mrs. Nightingale
Aug Lake Forrest. Peg Carry. Petting Party. Ginevra. Party. The bad day at the M c
Cormicks. The dinner at Pegs. Dissapointment. Mary
Buford Pierce. Little Marjorie King & her smile. Beautiful Billy Mitchell.
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A pregnant year of endeavor. Outwardly
Twenty Years Old a failure with moments of danger but the foundation of my literary life.
Sept Infantile Paralysis epedemic. Little Hall with Dickey. Admiration
& Poor Butterfly The Interminable Sunday family parties. Henry as a a “hail fellow”
I could now be sympathetic to Mother but she reacts too quickly
Oct Say Fay at Newman Nelson suggests
△
hope. Conant comes Cottage.
Inelligable again. New Haven. Geo Murray. Jimmy Ackerman.
Wailing again. Burlesque Litt.
Nov Frank Shepard, Harry & Gus come down. Ginevra & Margaret
Cary to Yale game. Friendship with Bruce & Strater.
Visited Biggs. △ lyrics.
Dec Marie and Lety Clarkson to
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opening. Grace breaks her engagement. Cottillion. Battery B. on border.
1917 Jan Dinner to Paul Nelson. Fight with Harry Gordon. Stopped and started smoking. Went to Rosemary dance. Final break with Ginevra. Frank M ac
Donald didn’t think burlesque on Haggard was legitimate
Feb Almost flunked out. Ideas of going to war. Washington Square with Bunny Wilson. Tea at the Plaza with Grace. Fay, Leslie and
Barnes. Grace to prom. Stayed up all night. Electing Biggs to
Tiger. Fuss with Paul Nelson. Jazzing to Vachael Lindsey
March Club elections. Rudie suspended. The anti-club movement. Bob
Clark. Washington—Cousin Ceci and Ruth Sturtevant—the latter disappointing. Charlie Arrot kissed janitress goodbye. The romantic story of Leslie’s courtship. The hairpin in the tea
April The Lit. banquet and the death of Sniffin. Charlie Wiegand killed.
Drilling. The irreverend number of the Tiger. Paulson & Folwell call on a girl. “Name please,” “Paulsen” says Folwell, “Folwell” says Paulsen.
Fay’s silk pajamas.
May Father Hemmick and Christ’s tears. Unpleasant. Campus house- party. Words with Pederson. The Leslies at Newman. The Italien
Restaurant. M c
Cormick, Richelieu, Aberdeen. Mrs Leslie on “Our
Betters.” Talking with Leslie at Newman. Hientzelman & intensive training.
June Ginevra engaged? Helen Dick. Litt stories. Talking all night with Strater.
Walks. Hi-o-poterio. The last day. Deal Beach. Russia? Swim. Willie
Remond. Wilmington. Paymaster M c gown in Washington. Fay at
Univ Club. Evening at Elersie. Bronxes with Dicky. Girl at show resembled G. K.
July Norfolk. Charlestown W. Va. Poetry. Fluff Beckwith. Rosebud
Mason. Sharpsburg. Return to St. Paul. The disastrous hop. Grace and the knife. Exams at Snelling.
Aug Jack Newlin killed. Russia. Dance at Snelling. Sandy at the yatch Club.

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A year of enormous importance. Work, Twenty-one Years Old and Zelda. Last year as a Catholic.
Sept Minnekada Club “Oh Ginevra.” Poet Lore accepts a poem
Oct Larry Noyes’ dinner. “Purp.” Gave William Jennings Bryant my dining car seat. Sap came down. Deal Beach with Fay
Parties with Linaweaver & Farrelly. Helen Dick. John Hutchins.
Bigg’s terrible room. Sap & the white appartment. I reform
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Nov Julie Townsend arrives. My commission. Strange uniform.
Party with Sam Conant. Saw Fay. Left for Leavenworth.
Began novel. The nigger thief in the barracks
Dec Party in Kansas City. Betty Smith. Francis Fennilly. Xmas in Achison. The Pink eye. Reading Shelley ect.
Row with Fessenden.
1918 Jan Ristine, Richman. Fessenden. Dean. Garvin. Knowles, Dink
Fitz-Gerald. The officers Club. Josephine. Last Catholic revival. My imitations. Uncle Phil & Aunt L. Shocked at “Poontang”.
Rumor Baker & Nelson killed. Admiration for Knowles.
Feb Keeler, Bernstien, Ryan, bayonets. The intense cold. Left for
Princeton. Party with Betty Smith. Tinkling mandolins in the Leavenworth prison.
Mar Cottage Club. Finished novel. Camp Taylor on 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.
June Montgomery on 15 th
. Roberta Jones. Hank Young. The intense heat. my boots.
July May Stiener. Zelda. The 67 th
inf. Major Baird. Phillips and Jones.
Helen Dent, Swimming, Watermelons, The Country Club,
Ginevra married. Weaver. Davis & Martin. May and I on the porch. Her visiting bows.
Aug Revised novel. Zelda & May. My recruits. The meeting. Tight.
Qicking 1 st
Sergeant. The range
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The most important year of life. Every emotion and
Twenty-two Years Old my life work decided.
Miserable and exstatic but a great success.
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 Zelda’s class voted her prettiest & most attractive
Oct May Stiener. Reunion on 26 th
Fuss with Falls. Left for North on 26 th
. Helen Dent’s Frenchman.
Nov Camp Mills & Francis. Wild letters. The Knickerbocker. Harry Donahoe.
Supply officer. Dr. Fay. Return to Montgomery. Ruth in Washington.
Zelda’s friend Dent & the stolen kiss on the stairs. Little Hungary.
Dec Love. Aide de Camp. Gen & Mrs Ryan. Morris Ely. The cigarette case and the purse. Zelda’s dairy. Xmas together. The grand Theatre. Walks. Dances together. Drinking.
My tagging her thru the wood.
1919 Jan Quarrels. Disastrous drunk. Bill Kitchen. Conrad. Craighead.
Death of Dr. Fay. 1516 J. “Don’t worry about that dress,” ect. and
“You’ll probably see them enough ect”. Mrs. Ryan & Zelda on the weather
Bill Kitchen doesn’t know a soul in Washington
Feb The Last night, supplies, goodbyre Ryan. Left on 18 th
.
Zelda to Auburn. Mother in New York. A room. Wild letters
Mar 200 Claremont. Ludlow. Barron G. Collier’s. The debutante.
Mitchell & Canda. Letters, parties, pajamas, ring. Tilde in New York. Appartment search. Greenich Village ect. Ludlow.
Townsend. Stephen Parrot. Brainerd & Schenk.
April Hysteria. Montgomery on 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 I’d let him take the roof off. No objection to female company.
May Montgomery on 15 th
. Joel Massie. Waterfalls. Diving. Toilet set. Sweater. Sayarack & De Funeac. Babes in the Woods.
Mr. In and Mr. Out—and other parties. Pretending to drink
Massie’s whiskey. Townsend avoids me. His snotty remark about money he lost. I take Betty & Marie to dinner & pay for it.
June Sap arrives. Big party. Montgomery. The break. Drunk in N.Y.
Boston with Stephen Parrot. Zelda’s mistake about the pictures.
Dutch Mount’s wife.
July South Dartmouth. Betty. Prohibition. My ride to St. Paul.
The Novel. Reading Fortitude on the train. Julie Townsend.
Aug This Side of Paradise. Katherine Tighe. Julie Townsend.
Discussions Don Stuart, Baron & walks with Catherine

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Revelry and Marrige. The rewards of the year before. The
Twenty-three Years Old happiest year since I was 18.
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 Marie’s. Made $215.00 Mother’s suggestion of dots in purifying
Head & Shoulders. El. Eastman & the safety pin.
Nov Went to see Zelda. New York. Rosalind. Huck and Annabel at
Knickerbocker. Sold story to Post. Mother heard musicians were drunk at Bolt’s dance. Ha! Left the water tap on in Knickerbocker. Townsend’s invitation
Dec Dances. Ordways. Marie’s Vanity Case at opera. Annabel at German.
1920 Jan New Orleans. Montomery (twice) The wristwatch. The Pills.
By the 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 he’d 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. Joan Bojer. Tarrytown. Black eye – (mine)
May The Commodore. The auto. Westport. Compo road. The Wakemans.
Mrs. Marchand & Mrs Melliss. Mrs O’Connor. Car broken. Fuss at Princeton. Chas. Norris. Rudie. Big leage ball.
Eberstadt. Bill Mackey’s check for 20,000 sesterces. Zelda’s blue cloak. Hardwick Nevin
June Nathan Williams & Charilie Town as guests. Jean
Bankhead fuss. Car Troubles. Townsend & Bill
Mackey. The Overmans. Tana. Townsend goes abroad
I write I.O.U. & its no good. I plan novel, story & play before Oct 16 th
. The Dutch hat.
July 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
John Williams dance. Hot evenings in New York.
Aug Returnded to Westport. Rita Wellman. Judge & Mrs. Sayre
Huck Kilby. Schurmier & Ed. Power. Bill Mackey.
Greenich, Portchester & Rye. Don Stuart & the drive in
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Work at the beginning but dangerous at
Twenty-four Years Old the end. A slow year, dominated by
Zelda & on the whole happy
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. Gormi’s
Zelda hides $100.00 from Dorothy Parker. Sherwood, Howard & Perkins
First nights with Geo. Nathan.
Dec Lonesome Xmas. The Overmans, George & John B.
Williams quarrel. We begin to feel alone. The Hoveys and the milk bottle
1921 Jan Fanny Hursts dinner. Broke down bathroom door
George Nathan & The Sunshine Girl. Break with them. Eating ham & olive sandwitches with Zoe Akins whiskey. Dick Stelwell. The black eye. Mary in the appartment. Zelda loses ring
Feb Zelda becomes pregnant on 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 O’Niell, 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, Café de la Paix. Cherbourge. Cabino. Wapping
Venice 26 th d
The Sturtevant, Robbins. Pietro. Versaille. Mal Maison. Clothes
June Florence 3 the 22 nd
Rome 8 th
John Carter, Americans. Embassy. Paris
Quai Dorsay – before the St James London 30 th
Claridges, Cavendish, Bob Handley, Jim Douglass, Brown
Baker. Dancing in Savoy. The 4 th
. Venice – man kicked in stomach because he wasn’t a Roman. The woman weeping in Vatican. The loot of 20 centuries
July 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
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A bad year. No work. Slow deteriorating repression with outbreak around the corner
Sept Zelda helpless. Dog squeaking.
Twenty-five Years Old
Oct St. Paul Hotel. The Commodore. My office. Baby born on
26 th.
Oh God, goofo I’m drunk. Mark Twain. Isn’t she smart – she has the hiccups. I hope its beautiful and a fool—a beautiful little fool
Nov Baby baptisized. Commodore & 626 Goodrich
University Club.
Dec Zelda’s weight. Cottillion Dances & bob rides. Joe Ordway.
Mrs. Clark on Mencken. She hoped Grampa Dean wouldn’t be too offended at Elizabeth’s marriage
1922 Jan Joseph Hergeshiemer. The Bad luck Ball.
Feb Both sick. Drinking. The B. & D. published. Father tells me about the ungratefulness of Dan Morgan.
Mar Trip New York. Constance Bennet. Marrylyn Miller.
Virginia Dehaven. Alec, Engalicheff, O sullivan
Quarrel with Alec. Selznick studio. Zelda & her abortionist
April Coached Junior Leage Play.
May Parties with the Herseys. Bought Car.
June Came to Dellwood. Zelda golfing & swimming
Bishop marries. Mrs. Miller bootlicking Mrs. Wann. In a tone of passionate interest: I didn’t think of that at all.
July Sinclair Lewis. Me to Kaly “Your wife has been unfaithful to me.”
A curious glimpse Zelda & I caught of relationship between Kit Ordway and Alice
Aug. Still at Lake. A few stories

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The repression breaks out
A comfortable but dangerous and deteriorating year at
Great Neck. No ground under our feet.
Twenty six Years Old
Sept. Went New York from Commodore. Left Anna with Baby. Play rejected. Lived at Plaza. House hunting. The Boyds (Earnest)
Anderson & Dos Passos. Liverite
Oct. Took house on Gateway Drive, Great Neck. Zelda went west
& got baby. Met Lardners, Bucks, Swopes. The Foxes
St. Patrick’s parade. Mangy Xtian Bros & on steps of St Patricks a saturnine hierarchy of fat, favorite, secular priests.
Nov More Ring Lardner. Wrote play over for third time
Janet. Bucks to Princeton. Seldes & Val come out. Grace Flandrau
East
Dec A series of parties – The Boyds, Mary Blair, Chas & Katy.
Charlie Towne.
1923 Jan Hearst contract. Chas & Katy Leave. Val Engalitcheff kills himself. My dream of the baseball player, football player & general to put me to sleep. Uninvited girl at Milbanks party. Two kids drink whiskey.
They smelled it.
Feb Still drunk – story for Townsend. Reynolds the butler
and “Say Fitzgerald”.
William and Salley. Tom Smith & Drieser & Mencken &
Anderson.
March Sold This Side of Paradise & South to Montgomery. Dapper Dan. The
Whitfields. Kalmans in New York. Party with the Boyds.
Bunny marries Eleanor Wylie. William driving. Val Engalitcheff kills himself.
Fight at movie Ball. Tom Boyd’s Book accepted
April Third anniversary. On the wagon. Joined club here
Duncan Pell and his wife. Party with Bartholmess—another fight.
Tearing Drunk. Tom. I should have asked Julian Everson if he wanted the suitcase for the silver.
May Play accepted by Williams. Met Mrs Rumsey & Tommy Hitchcock & went to parties there. Visits from Biggs, Esther Murphy. Kath.
Ordway and Mary Armstrong. Fight with Helen Bucks brother in law.
June Eleanor Browder came. Party at Clarence Mackays. Began my novel.
Squabble at Ring’s. Party in New York with Mencken and
Nathan. Anita Loos out. the Essylstyns become obnoxious.
Augustus Johns. Laurette Taylor. Princess Bibesco “I only write for intellectuals”
July Tootsie arrived. Intermittent work on novel. Constant drinking
Some golf. Baby begins to talk. Parties at Allen Dwans.
Gloria Swanson and the movie crowd. Our party for Tootsie
The Perkins arrive. I drive into the lake.
Aug Tootsie Again. More drinking. Opening of Anita Loos’ play
Zoe’s party. Aunt Annabel & Don Stuart. Firpo–Dempsy fight

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The most miserable year since
I was nineteen, full of terrible failures and accute miseries.
Full of hard work fairly well rewarded in the latter half and attempts to do better.
Twenty-seven Years Old
Sept. High Hopes for the play. A new schedule & more work on the novel. Ball game (worlds series)
Oct. The Boyds come to Great Neck. The Notre Dame game.
Lloyd Hooper. Beginning rehearsals. Firing Lee Patrick
Sam Forrest. Meeting Ernest Truex. Bunny’s Baby
Nov. Rehearsal. Short of money. Excitement. More Rumsey parties. Atlantic City. The Failure & dismal return.
On the wagon. Writing story in one day. Schlesinger in Newark.
Dec. Still on the wagon. Fell off Xmas. Party Goldberg. Deterioration.
1924 Jan. Party with Gloria Swanson. Read Dostoiefski. Ring’s book
Grand fight with Hovey & buying back stories.
Feb Struggling with money. Wrote all night on Baby Party. Success of the Kauffman play
Mar. Tired of Boyds, Townsend ect. Generally bored & feeling bad. Ring at Hot Springs. Father & Mother came to visit
April Out of the woods at last & starting novel. Gloria Swanson’s party. Kauffman’s party. Decision on 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 Murphy’s party.
May Sailed. Bunny Burgess. The Captains table. Paris. Tootsie & her husband. Hyeres & Grimms Park Hotel. Trip to Cannes
Bishop. Edith Wharton’s garden. Monsier Astier. A night at Mont Martrye
June Settled at St. Raphael at Villa Marie (Valescure) Bought Car. Josanne and Silve. Trip to Nice. Mr. & Mrs. King. Mrs. Nelson. Miss Witz,
Bobby Croirier. Gave 1 st
dinner & sat up all night. Pechic
Miss Maddox
July The Big crisis—13 th
of July. Sad Trip to Monte Carlo Gave dinner.
Pauline Paris. Trips of San Maxime. Mrs. Dougherty. Zelda swimming every day. Getting brown. Wire Olive Burgess. Rings book big success. House rented in Great Neck.
Aug On the wagon on Wed 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.

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The year of Zelda’s sickness and re- sulting depression.
Drink, loafing & the Murphys
Twenty-eight Years Old
Sept. Giese leaves. Hard work sets in. Zelda reads Roderick Hudson decides on Rome. Another welcome departure of a friend! Swimming over. On the Plage at night.
Oct Working at high pressure to finish. Colder. Man at King’s bank.
Champagne with Jean. Move to Hotel. Last sight of Josanne. Touring
Club de France.
Nov Novel off at last. René. Crossing the border. San Remo, The Mountains, Genoa, Pisa
Arretzo, Orvietto, Rome. Miss Gibson, Hungry, the English lady, Opera, Egyptian,
House hunting, Herbert Howe and the movies, Nardin & his daughter, Kathlene Key,
Ill feeling with Zelda, Perkins wire, Reynolds, The Big bust, Collatzo
Dec Hotel des Prince, Dark glasses, thieving waiters, Osborne, Castelli Caesari,
Depression, Proof arrives (later) Movie party, Hungry, Row in Café,
Zelda’s doll, tree, Xmas row, Kellys, Reconciliation, Water Wagon.
New Years dance. My nose. the nigger
1925 Jan Gillespie. Sickness for both. American Restaurant. Tivoli, Frascati, the donkey, Mrs. Jackson, Herbert Howe. Pincio. Morris
Feb Trip to Capri, Naples, Sorrento, Excelcior, Chapman,
(Photograper)
Zelda sick, Bianci, Blue Grot
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, Zelda’s lessons, E. F. Benson and
Ellingham Brooks, German Beer, Golding, The New Zealanders, Nanny and Mr. Ming.
Apr. Zelda painting, me drinking, Mary Roberts Rineheart, Anacapri, Brett
Young and the fairy. The Captain too, and Mrs. M ac kenzie,
The boat question, nervous collapse, Sorrento–to Naples, Naples to Marsielle ect.
May We abandon trip with broken car in Lyon, Zelda’s hairdresser, Paris – The Florida,
B. Kauffman, Hemminway, Shanley, Ordway and a million Americans. Lyon with
Ernest. Benchly. Stephen. Mad. Boyd. Appartment 12 th
. Ave. Kleber. Gertrude Stien.
June Murphys, Esther, Teddy Chandler, Tunty, Famous Ritz Party. Bob Handly, Noel, the Wymans, Mary Hay, 1000 parties and no work. Edith Wharton. Tarkington
Morning in the Bois, Ritz Bar, The Johnsons. Carol Goodner
July Party at Alice Delamars on 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, Murphy’s garden. Trip down–the accident, Orange, Sap to Monte Carlo, sailing, Benchylys. Concieve novel.
St. Pol. Eleanor
Isadora
Duncan, Moshes, Wonderful nights, Zelda drugged, Virginia Reel
Sept Reached Paris. Forrestal night ect. Trip to Verdun (no! Oct!) Rue Marboef
Depressed at no work
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Futile, shameful useless but the $30,000 rewards of 1924 work.
Self disgust. Health gone.
Sept
Twenty-nine Years Old
Bad beginning with worry. Following football. Pierre Loving. Letters
Murphy.
Oct Verdun. Murphy’s up. First quarrel after Marices. Hemmngways.
Brick tops. King of Sweden. Landlady’s troubles. Victor Llona
Nov London. Telulah Bankhead. Dmitri & Nada Milford Haven. Colwell. Young
Embassy Club. Leslies. Swinnerton. Quarrel 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 Jan Off for Salies. General Maunsell. Pan. Bearritz. False Rumor of illness. Landlady rich. Michelle.
Feb Success of Play. Quarrel General. My walks. War Bks. Old clothes. Sad Young Men published.
Mar Nice. Paris. Parker & Collins. Benchly. Ernest. Villa Paquita
Hotel O’connor. Balkin Baily. Rex Ingram. Dos Passos. Toulouse
& Carcassone
April Cannes Casino. Murphys. The old man. Smelly bathroom. House hunting. “Hazel”. The wagamans. Cary Ross & the fairy
May Villa St. Louis. Hemmingways whooping cough. Murphy’s return. Dr. Gluck. Anita Loos. Walker. St. Raphael. René. Ada
M c liesh. The beach painting. Movie of play sold. Father to Gatsby.
June Kit Ordway. Operation. Somme. Florence Mills. Maximes Bar.
Picnics. I leave Garoupe. Hardwicke. Bob M c clure. Mme Kennedi.
Waggmans. Artist over the way. Rene’s translation & story. The Dunns
July
Aug
Sept
Zelda Better. Courtney Burr. Orbucks. Brick. Jean. Buff Cobb. Ben
Finney, M c
Arthur, Grace Moon. R. Goldbeek. Kelly. Hamiltons. Crevel. Gists
Seldes, Dorothy, Servey. Grace’s dinner. The movie. The Wimans. Wolcott
Hamiltons children’s party. Street Fair Ave de Neuilly. Llona. Johnstons. Rennie
Miss Compte. Quarrel Murphys. Hemmingways here. Bullfight
Cecil. Don Stuart. Cavelaire with Zelda. Ernest depressed. Swimming from
Rocks. Mrs. Condon, Phillips. Party at grand Hotel. Charlie Peet. Midnight swims. St. Pol. Zelda’s nurse. Party we were not invited to. The tenor. Kiki. Crevel
Murphy’s leave. Murphys Party. Bishops. The quarrel. On the Route aus Sables, Eva. Monte Carlo. Sickness. Gambling. Picasso. The De Beaumonts

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Total loss at beginning. A lot of fun. Work begins again.
Thirty Years Old
Sept Grace & Cecil. Bishop at birthday. Eva’s visit.
Oct The gods from the Chateau. The dentist & Balkin Baily. Movie Camera. Rousseaus
Trip to Hyeres. Zelda sick. Richardsons, Grant, old letcher. Bartholmess missed
Hankerchiefs. Trip to Mentone. Seldes depart. Casino beach. Pathé projector
Nov M c clures. Lud’s visit. Monte Carlo. Grace Moon in Cannes Monte Carlo. Nice
Casino closes. Maximes bar. Tunti & his brother. Anne Foley Paul Nelson
Dec The inventory. Leaving Juan-les-Pius. Pompeii. Fowlers. 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.
Jan California, Appendix. El Paso, Considine, Pantages, Hetcht, Nielan, Hoveys, Talmadge
Mayfair. Lillean Gish. Dick Bartholmess. Saunders & Dudly Murphy, Mankevitz.
Carmel Myers. Eddie Mayer. Princeton dinner. Harison Fisher. Donald Freeman.
Our Club. The watch. Long Beach. Patsly Ruth Miller. Gerald Cudahy. K. M c quail
Feb Morans, Hitchcock, Barrymores. 2 nd
Mayfair. Fairbanks & Pickford. Garaghty’s party. Party at Lois. Rienhart. Bessy Love. Diana Manners. Iris Tree. Rosamund
Pinchot. The Miracle. Marion Davis. John Colton. Dudly’s picture. Cat schra Morris Gist.
Mar Roosevelt Hotel. Gladys & Carl in New York. Dick Knight & Morgue. Charly, Boyer
Wilmington. Westchester Hergeshimers “Ellerslie.” Furniture Car. Washington
Ross of the New Yorker Lardners in Great Neck. Author’s League.
Gene Bucks new house.
Apr. Getting settled. Esther. Hergeshiemer’s party. Cary. Biggs & Ruperts. Bringhursts
Newcastle. Ella, Stella, Estella, Malvina. Phonograph. Joe.
May Lois here & in New York. Fowlers. House party. Mother up. Brandt & Co. Bad news of Movie.
June Julie Shellpot park. Brown Warburton. Working again.
July Atlantic city. Virginia Beach. K. Ordway. Marjorie & Noonie. The Fourth at Ellerslie
Marie. Annabel. Cecilia. Rows. New watch.
Aug Sayres. Nanny leaves. French woman. Hitchcocks & Chanlers
Valley Forge. Percy Pynckers. Rumsey. Terrible incessant stopies begin
Sept Cecilia. House party. New York. Emily Vanderbilt. Littlefields
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Thirty-one Years Old
Sept Perkins down. Stoppies now reached its height, making beer & wine.
Several trips Princeton, Asa Bushnell
Oct Football, Townsend & Alec down, Cornell game. Frankie D. & Scotty’s school, Calvert lessons, Charlie M c
A– , Condé Nast’s party, Mabel
Normand, Scotty’s narrow escape. Tommy Hitchcock, Pistol practise
Nov Started Sano’s, still working hard, health better, Football interest
Scotty dancing now, Dick Knight, All night ramble with
Semple ect. Marice Hamilton. Scotty’s doll’s house
Dec Prickets,
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dance, Holger Lundberg & Katherine, Linaweaver’s party
Estella, Marie & Ella., mother & father up, I think. Death of Cat (Chat)
Villagers singing
1928 Jan New Years, Alecs play, Townsend again, Sig Thayer, Katherine
Littlefield, Drinking schedule, Ina Claire.
Feb Thorton, Seldes, Bunny, Esther down. Zoe’s play. Interior decorator, Cowanova,
Chris Ward’s father, Chris’ marriage, Rachael Biggs, Rosalind & Capitain catastrophe, Trip to Montreal, Zelda’s collapse & Coquette, Bunny at Plaza,
E. Patterson’s party. My speech at Princeton. Kitty (persian)
Mar Black eyes in the Jungle. Decision to go. Easter Party, Van Vechten, Johnsons in
New York, Atop the Plaza. Cesares, Miss Miller leaves, last night in New
York: Bunny Lionel Adamns, Dorothy Parker, Reading Proust, Ring looking bad.
Apr. The boat, Vidors, Dawson, Hotel de Amourete, Palace Hotel, Egarova
Kaly, Alice O’B, Sandy, Vidors in Ritz, Powell Fowler, Maddock
King’s The Crowd. The Paris Hotel de Palais, 58 Rue Vaugirard
May Zoe Ordway, Jew Ames, Bishops, Pavlova, Murphy, Appartment
Mlle, Vin d’arbois, André Chamson, Leger & more Vidors, Rousseau
June Esther, Emily & the fairies, Ballet Russe, James Joyce, Sylvia Beach
Adrienne Monier, Lippes, Pruniers, Montague, Emils, Griffon, Trianon.
Victor Llona, Cole Porter, Carried home from Ritz, disagreable concierges
July Bricks again, another story, Opera, Battlefields, Rhiems, Hadley Hemmingway
Drinking & general unpleasantness, Bathroom, first trip jail
Princeton man painter on Rule Scheffer, Margaret Bishop’s talk, Dick Knight
Frank Baker & Paul Milholland, Blanche Knopf. Cole Porter
Aug Jed Kiley, Zelli’s, Buzz Law, Vient de Paraitre, Grand Guignol, La Baule,
Auto Trip, Cary Ross & dive in Lido, second trip jail., Wilder & Tunney
Lucien, Overcoat, Baby crying
Sept And back again in a blaze of work & liquor. Stearns, Phillipe, Phillipson,
Bergen, Wireless operator, Seymores, storm Carmania, Sap stopped
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Ominous ! Thirty two, Years Old (And sore as hell about it)
No Real Progress in any way & wrecked myself with dozens of people.
Sept Home on the aforesaid stormy Carmania. Max at Dock. Phillipe & Mlle. Ellerslie. Joe the barber. General Prosperpity. Candy store. Dirt eating at hotel
Oct Football. Ernest
Asa
at school. Zelda. Gabulov. Whorewhouse mirror. Scotty’s studies
Nov Yale & Navy games. Ernest down. Delplangue gets on our nerves. Elections— running into car. Strater. Linaweavers. The Murphys pass thru –
Sarah and the Fishes. Call on Ring
Dec Xmas night with family & Mlle & Phillipe. Coldness Amy. Car freezing. Mother there Xmas
Jan 1929 Dunhams & Army officer at club. Ernest father & trip to Philadelphia, Row in
Wilmington speakeasy with Phillipe. Fuller & 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 thru—Sarah & the Fisher
Mar Esther’s engagement. The Conte Biancamano. Zelda’s Beau. The Brevoort Potts (nee Durham)
Casino at Nice & gambling. Phillipes, trouble in speak/easy. Beaulieu. Selling car
Lilian Gibson. The Prison at Nice
Apr The Madison. Miss Delplangue leaves. The Kalmans, Hills, Journey’s End. Death of
Cesari. Death of Brookes. Pierre Loving’s request.
May Zelda & Dolly Wilde. Esther’s Marrige. St. Sulpice. Miss Bellois arrives. Adage. Clement,
Louise & housetraining. Townsend, Clive Bell & Calling on Bishops. Lunch Bishop.
Ernest & Callaghans. Nigger affair—Buck, Michell in prison. Dave. Teddy Chanler. Lucien again. Getting soldiers. Attempts to place Egarova’s son
June Russian Ballet. Trip—Saulieu– lunch Beaune– Dijon – lunch Chateau neuf du Pape – Frejus Plage Hotel
Dinner at Geo V with Egarova. Young man. Ted Delplangue balks. Scotty swimming. All
Changed at Rocks. Buying car. Ernest’s & Morley for dinner. Certain coldness
July Laddie Sanford, Marx, the Barries, Gertrude Sanford Telulah. M. Bouvier, the agent, Casino, walking Adage. The Wymans. Being drunk & snubbed. Zelda dancing in Nice
& Cannes. Fairies. Breakdown. The DeHaven’s
Aug Caroline Condon, Stevens, Murphys & Stracheys. Cafés des Allies. American orchestra. Augustine and Rose. Syser–Cannes.
Sept Work on novel. Stenographers. Zelda dancing & sweating. Rows & indifference. A last party with Dotty & Gerald. The Murphy’s yatch and a last row.
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The Thirty Three Years Old
Crash! Zelda & America
Sept The trip – St Raphael, Aix, Arles, Pont du Garde, Night of the good pheasant, Vichy, Tours,
The Chateaux, Paris. The Madison
Oct Appartment hunt. The snotty French aristocrats. Rue Pergolese. Mlle. Sereye succeeds Bellois. The Dudleys
Saw Vallambrosas.
Nov Parties with the Bishops & Hemmingways. Endless massages. The Tates. Margaret Anderson & Flanner
The smelly maid. Scotty starts school. Party at Dudleys with Pascin. Zelli redhed.
Dec Xmas at Caroline Dudleys. Hemmingways leave (perhaps January). Diplodicus ect Myers.
Grand Guignol
1930 Jan Zelda working hard on stories. Waldo Pierce & woman artist. Seymores. Fosters (Betty). Newman Smith.
Mr. Kelley. Padraic & Mary Column, the opera
Feb Trip to Algiers. 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. The painter. Constantine. The gorge. Algiers, Marseilles
Paris.
Mar Kalmans in town. The Barrows – Hills. Party Alice O’Brien? Mortimer Duval Nancy Hoyt & her dinner.
Fontainbleu with Braun. Versaille
Pav. Henri IV
with Zelda in our car, Murphys in Paris – opening the Bois
Apr
May
June
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.
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
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, De Muns, Boting
Kursall, Paris, Knight, Lee, Sam, Mildred. Plane. On the 4 th
Zelda leaves Valmont. 5 th
Newman arrives. ‸ Tennis pro
Enters Prangins
July
(before.) De Muns. Garden collapse. Perroquet. Ballet collapse. Storms. —(After) Montreux trip. Sacks, Cafe Central
Doctor, Montreux de Muns. Kursall English. Chillon. St. Gingolph. Murphys Lausanne. Saw Doctor 18 th
June 23 d
Zelda confined Eglantine. Writing Woman with past at Glion from 11 th
.
‸ Grace & Virginia
5 days in Paris late June, early July.
Jenny Townsend
Return Glion. Parties with English. Scotty & Alsatian ‸ “Berthe”
on 13 th
. Julian.
Began One Trip Abroad.
Three Princetonians. Tom Wolfe & Julian
Pictet
Aug
Sept
& Sarasin. The De Muns. Over to Evian—Jorocki, Eduardo, Edgar. Gerald & Sara at Territet Buffet. The mother
& girls from Buffalo & Beau Rivage. The incestuous couple
Paris with Scotty. Greek Ambasador. ‸ Mrs. Vandervere.
Brick tops. Goodbye Pictets. Bigelow, Lorna,
Bishops, Townsend. Virgina
Mary Rumsey, Emily, Coupole, Eleanor Bowman, Schulpter, Donavans, Fouquets, House Nat. Arlen
Deschaups, Massage, Palmer Payne Barber & Co. Julien & his girl, Overcoat.. Returned to
Vevey. finished Trip Abroad. Caux 8 th
–22 nd
, Jews, dancers. Montana. Dotty. Italian. Doctor. Perroquet.
Gambling at Caux. Beaumanior & Tamoni. Wiener Waltz. Surfboard at Caux At end Geneva
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
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Thirty Four Years Old
Lausanne. Waiting. From Darkness to Hope.
Sept Bijou, Trevor, Pekunese lost in the Park, Lubalof, Baccarat cheater. Last sight of
Italian lady—the flowers, the lighthouse, hotel du Chateau Scotty in Rue Lalo – my short visit
Londsdale & Father. Young Smith & Movies. Eduardo. Louie Edgar
Oct Hotel de la Paix from early October. Paris at Hotel ‸ Sylva
in Rue Pergolese. All became of alarm about
Scotty appendix. Saw Gerald. Home to Lausanne. Napier Allington arrives. B.O to Hotel de la Paixx
The birthday party, T
Nov Trip to Montana for Thanksgiving. Newman afterwards. Napier. Bijou left before. ‸ gramaphone & money
Eduardo to Montana. Munich with Gerald, English at the police, Peter & Dehaven
Newman again, Allington in Montreux, Perroquet, Eduardo in Paris with Murphy’s, hotel
Napoleon, Grande Ecarte, Rufus Culkins shirts, Scotty to Empire
Dec Xmas with Scotty at Prangins. Gstaad, Hughes, Egloff, M c glauchlin, Phelps, Miley,
Beck, Count Cetza, Bedfords, Forbes, Leatherby, Massgiyk, Hassan, Arnolds, Tiger, Solvays,
Siamese, Hilliard, Miss Morris
1931 Jan Scotty at Prangins, Watson Emmet ‸ at
Chateau d’Oex, Gstaad, Phelps, Pell, Major Hyducooper.
& his party. The paintress & her daughter, phone to the mountains, shone to Gstaad
The Arnolds & their curious story – its sequel two years later. The telegram about father. ‸ Harvey in Lausanne
Check girl at Caux. Bishops, Zelda better, Fathers death, ‸ SS.
New York
Feb Caux Bert, Cornells, Douglass Fairbanksovitch, Mother, Lise, John, Ceci, funeral
Rockville, Tom, Tudor Hall, lower Maryland, Bert, ‸ & purse
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 d’Este, Bellagio, Como itself, boredom, the Americans in bar. M. E. in Lugano lunch & golf, her children, phone frum Zurich, general disappointment in place.
Sudden trip, hotel, appartment. Story written, trip Paris, Bishops & Myers, M. at
Hotel Napoleon, Berne somewhere, trip to Annecy with Zelda at months end. Her walk alone
May Alice Lee in Lausanne, Miley & his girl (or before) Trip to Paris by aeroplane for mother, Zelda Evian
Geneva & Lausanne with sisters, Zelda better – swimming & in Lausanne & in Geneva, forgot Bishops, ‸ Duval at Harvey’s, Fontainbleu, car, Interlaken,
to Flan Myers in country, Hotel des St. Peres,
Gerald once more in Lausanne. Mlle & Scotty in Paris, Car to Switzerland, Mill, Neuve Chapel
June Full summer. Last of M. Zelda in Lausanne & Geneva, swimming, Paris to see
Scotty get medal, Myers in country, Libby, much work, Hotel du Chateau
Miley & his girl in trouble, Trevor & Lonsdale, Exposition in Paris, Murphys, Hoyty
Rufus & his girl, Bert again (1 st
of month) & Eski, Mother off at end (or in July)
July Annecy, both sides of Lake, birthday party, the fish, dance at big hotel, Scotty to
La Poldu, Mlle bored, walks, chateau, driving, Aix les Bains, surfboard, diving, tennis, eccentric dancing, Dr. Forel at beginning & end.
Zelda in Caux & then me alone there
Aug Caux, much work,
‸ sick in
Vevey, tennis at Caux, trip Murphys, swimming, Vienna, planatarium, old chateau, Hoyty, Leger, old singer Vevey, Patrick, the bath water, last days of tomato juice, St. Estephe & Restaurant de la Paix.
Last walks cathedral, everyone gone, Duke’s mistress at Beau Rivage. Scotty & Mme Lang to Paris
Sept. Left for home, trip north, lost ring, Dijon, car busted, Dave Bruce, Harvard baseball player, Brunnschwiler. Empire State Bldg, Dwight, Alec, Bishops,
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Zelda Well,
Worse, Better.
Novel intensive begins
Thirty Five Years Old
Sept Arrive Montgomery, the judge, the family, callers at Greystone, leaving other hotel, house hunting, two houses, old friends – Fanny, young Byers (Cody)
Freeman & Julia & Unc, bought car, golf & tennis at friends houses, the
Garlands, Mrs 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, Scotty’s school, tennis & golf
Saw Auburn Tulane & left for California. The train. First impressions Merdith
& Sullivan, de Sano, Thalberg, Lewen & conference rooms, offices, funny man, Hollywood Blvd & hotels
Nov King & Eleanor, the Hoveys, the politicians daughter & Eddie Mayer, the Boyds, Zelda letters
Thalberg’s parties, Carmel’s parties & her husband, Selznick and his
‸ new
wife & previews, the offices at Metro, Dwight Taylor, & the phonograph
& nice kid who runs authors, Colton & Zoe & Ina, Dud Murphy & French woman. Judge dead
Dec Intensive work & the Sat. parties, Tom Boyds again, the Hollywood sets, hat at
Paul Bern’s (or Bernie’s), the interviewers & Dorothy Speare, my party &
Herman Mancowitzs & man who wh writers Hoffenstiens, Lupe Velez, the
Vidor’s again, Home & Zelda’s big party, the cat & Trouble, Anthony
1932 Jan Rosalind arrives,
& Newman
people-people, big lunches, Zelda feels bad with asthma, Palm St Petersburg trip, Freeman in StPetersburg, tennis & golf again, swimming unsuccessful walks, the dancer, fishing trip & Zelda sicker, outbreak, the trip back & liquor incident, Zelda increasingly sick
Feb Zelda in Hopkins Feb 12 th
, preliminary warnings to family, trip, Dr. Squires, Norfolk, Gee-gee, Hume & Cecilia,
Annabel’s children, Huger Labouisse in Carolina, arrived home in depression. Scotty & Mlle, the servants, Scotty & her friends, becomes a racket
Mar Rosalind still there, Mrs. Nash Ried & army friend. My army friend (Ristine) & his party, the Browder wedding, the Pitts & their crowd, Scotty sick, me sick, Mrs Sayre playing the fool,
Everett Jackson & Rosalind, everything worser & worser, Zelda’s novel arrives, neurosis, strained situation, Dr. Wiel, Left Alabama Mar 30 th
Apr. Zelda strange, the Rennert Hotel, Work & walks
The Menckens, Little Theatre, the Puffy’s, Mother came over. Borrowing insurance
Began househunting, Nell Brooks, the Va lady agent Mrs. Clark Freeman & Stuty
Out to Eddie Poe’s, Linaweavers, Davis, Dancies. John & Anna
May Househunting continued. La Paix the 26 th
. The secretaries, Mrs. Owens
The Clarks to dinner. Arthur & the John Reed Club.
June Calling on Miss Knight. Zelda comes home gradually. Virginia Beach
Brunnschwiler departs. My bootlegger. Mr. Carr the barber.
Cary
July Tennis & Mr. Crosby. Howie, Dean & Fisher. Swimming. Aquilla
Golf once. Bruno Hills at hospital. Mrs. Ridgely. The Woodwards, the
Menckens. The quarry & Meadowbrook. Arthur & his friends. Trip to
Philadelphia. Gertrude Harris. Miss Neale.
Aug The Novel now plotted & planned, never more to be permanently interrupted. Games with children. Virginia Beach again—
Gerald & Lillian. The Races. David, Andrew, Eleanor, Sam. 1 st
Hopkins with intestinal flu. Max turns up. Mrs Sayre.
Sept Rennie & Myers. Zelda to Fair. Cousin Ceci Cary’s car. Dos Passos & Horsely Gant
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Drink. Increasingly unhappy.—Zelda up & down. 1 st
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Ominous!
Thirty-Six Years Old
Sept Servant troubles –the Keatings. Essie. Horsely & the Swanns.
His labratory. Scotty enters Calvert.
Oct Aquilla & his misdeeds, Andrew & Scotty to Navy Game Scotty to dancing school.
Nov Menace of the stuffed windows. T.S. Elliot & the walk. The
Fishers. Political worries, almost neurosis. Cary Again
Dec The furnace. The childrens plays. Skating. Drinking increased
Things go not so well.
1933 Jan Constant visits to Hopkins. Scotty’s lessons bad. Quarrels with her. The beauty contests, the Stieffs, the lost hat. Ring died
Feb My trip to Princeton & New York. Quarrel Ernest. Always the furnace
Mr. Turnbull’s lectures. Lois & Marice in New York. The Bishops
The Biggs came through
Mar My trip Bunny Wilson after inauguration. Zelda riding
The little cat. The M c kewans. The Gold & the bank Holiday.
Writing “On Schedule”
April Zelda’s rehearsals, The Vagabonds. Bills show. My song
Eddie Poe calls. Mrs. Lanier. Children boxing “More than
Just a House”
May Zelda’s play. The Seldes pass through. My trip south by myself in the car. The Wight girl. University of Va. Laurence
Lee. My chauffeur. Breakdown on the pass. The sign about Pelham.
The Communist
June The typescript of Zelda conversation. The two Swann boys. The book progressing. Sometime in here was sick again – I’m not sure when. Had a nice sweet nurse. Summer less good — only painting
& writing; no more improvement.
July Mr Crosby & Tennis. Andrew in camp. Julian Van Cortland
Tight at Eddie Poes. Less swimming. Miss Gager. Dick Stillwell.
Trip to Philadelphia. Ger
August THE FIRE . The Family Bus. Night of the fire. The pistol. st
1 borrowing from mother. Other borrowings
Sept Zelda to Fair. Cousin Ceci, Rosalind, Annie Laurie & negro act.
Zelda riding. The other nurse. Zelda & beer. Zelda & Car (perhaps before
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Zelda breaks, the novel finished. Hard times begin for me, slow but sure.
Ill Health Throughout
Thirty-Seven Years Old
Sept Arrangement with Ober & Scribner to work on book only. Football for Andrew.
Shooting gallery. Scotty to Brym Mawr.
Oct Max accepts book in 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, Zelda’s bycycles, 1 st
Xmas at 1307 Park Ave.
Mother & John.
1934 Jan Zelda begins to weaken & goes to Hopkins. Her studio unsatisfactory
Nieghborhood children, Anne, Betsy & Jaqueline. Quarrel with Gerald.
Ginevra on phone.
Last installment
February Endless proof. One servant & eating out after Zelda leaves.
Beginning to get response from Bk.
Moved Zelda up to northern N.Y. Sanitarium. Saw Gerald
March Everything waiting for book. Got sick again. The nice night nurse (name?)
Arthur, Calverton, Ross at times. Scotty visits Perkins & gets coat.
Parker & O’Hara. Met Thurber, 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
Jun Scotty & I to Norfolk. Va Beach. Saw Annabel. Eating out unsatisfactory.
Scotty to Camp, O’Mara – a wild night with him. Scotty to cabaret & to Belvedere. Marconi episode. Very unhappy.
July The crazy wk in New York. ‸ Plaza
The four Yale acrobats. Alice ect. The stenographer,
Ludlow. Then collapse at home after ms. delivery. Streetcar – Lewis Azrael.
First Welbourne Trip, South & Stinson. Julian Van C. & his friends. Gallant Pelham, numerology. Wolfe & Perkins
Aug Another Welbourne Trip. Trip to Norfolk — Williamsburg The pool, the Taylors
Hospital again. The nurse who was the doctor’s wife. Mrs Owens vacation. The Jewish stenographer. New Orleans lady. Rogge. “Her Last Case.” Two days only in hospital (three ?)
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Sept Welbourne again, twice perhaps—Sabins, butlers, Gaithers, Morrisons, the pool, the graveyard. New York with Spafford. Mayflower Hotel. Mother in
Washington. Wine on Trains. The bus from Middleburg. Myra in Algonquin.
Missy Sabins visited. The Bishops. Max down. Finance now serious
Oct Elizebeth at Nell Brookes, the Nashes, Sally Reggs, O’Hara, Gingrich, Mrs.
Owens ill. Alice Wooten. Bought the Ford
Cold night with Sabins.
Nov Took Andrew & Stanley to Yale game. Saw Dunn & Dickey. Rosalind in town & seemed well. Elizebeth comes north. Calverton calls with Huntingdons. Two
Red Bk stories. Debt bad. Borrowing more from mother. Crazy call on Whites
Mrs Turnbull & Frances.
Dec [ ] Zelda came for Xmas Eve & spent the night. The little tree. Elizebeth Lemmon & Alyse Wooten came.
Mary Rumsey dies. Both Sabins visited.
Feb Jan
1935
Wrote story about Peacocks. Very Sick. Debts terrible. Left for Tryon Sun 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
Flynn’s Song.
Scotty sick, missing school & dance. Work & worry. Sickness and Jan Feb
Mistake.
These two should
Reverse 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
June
July
Aug
Sept.
Mar Zelda very bad on return. Terrible worry. Saw Elizibeth, Jim Boyd. Scottie very gay
Cary Ross came through. Tom Boyds death
April
May
Reached Ashville May 16 th