In Gatsby's Shadow: The Story of Charles Macomb Flandrau

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NOTES The papers of Charles Macomb Flandrau and other Flandrau family members are part of the Flandrau Family Papers, Arizona Historical Society (AHS), Southern Arizona Division, Tucson. The entire collection (MS 1018), more than 45 linear feet, covers Flandrau family history 1856–1969. The papers of Judge Charles Eugene Flandrau are housed at the Minnesota Historical Society , St. Paul, 5 cubic feet, 17 boxes, 12 oversize items (A/F 585). Unless otherwise noted, all Flandrau correspondence is from the AHS collection. AF: Anita Furness ALHM: Alice Lee Herrick Myers ASP: Arthur Stanwood Pier CEF: Charles Eugene Flandrau CMF: Charles Macomb Flandrau FSF: F. Scott Fitzgerald GHF: Grace Hodgson Flandrau JG: James Gray JWR: John Wallace Riddle RBF: Rebecca Blair Flandrau REM: Richard Edwin Myers SF: Sally Flandrau TRS: Mrs. Tilden R. Selmes (Martha Macomb “Patty” Flandrau) WBF: William Blair Flandrau PREFACE Biographer Andre Le Vot: Andre Le Vot, F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1983, p. 76. Can I write: Dos Passos, from FSF, The Crack-Up. New York: New Directions Books, 1945, p. 341. They could not: Bernard Devoto, “Writing for Money,” Saturday Review of Literature , October 9, 1937, p. 4. “unreal and exaggerated”: Robert Cantwell, “Sinclair Lewis.” In Sinclair Lewis: A Collection of Essays, ed. Mark Schorer. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1962, p. 111. Fitzgerald himself acknowledged: Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, ed. Andrew Turnbull. New York: Scribner’s, 1963, pp. 117–118. As he confessed: “One Hundred False Starts,” March 4, 1933, from FSF, Afternoon of an Author: A Selection of Uncollected Stories and Essays. New York: Scribner’s, 1957, p. 132. Indeed, one of: GHF, Notes, undated. It would have: John Hersey, Life Sketches. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, p. 14; Mark Schorer, Sinclair Lewis: An American Life. New York: McGrawHill , 1961, p. 420. He doubtless agreed: William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes. New York: The Modern Library (Random House), 2002, paperback edition, pp. 173–174. British novelist Samuel Butler saw it the same way: “Literature is an art; article-writing, when a man is paid for it, is a trade and none the worse for that. . . . Art is in the world but not of it . . . with the trade it is exactly the reverse; the world is, and ought to be, everything . . . as soon as any art is pursued with a view to money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.” The Note-Books of Samuel Butler. New York: Mitchell, Kennerly, 1913, pp. 171–172. They would have: Devoto, p. 22. They helped define: a “leisure-hour . . .”: C. L. Hinds, quoted in Peter Green, Kenneth Grahame: A Biography. London: John Murray, 1959, p. 114. Dos Passos called: FSF, The Crack-Up, p. 340. “I’d always felt . . .”: Sinclair Lewis, Main Street, New York: Library of America , 1992, p. 171. He once said: CMF–ALHM, January 26, 1928, Richard Edwin Myers Papers, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn. “People who write . . .”: Dispatch, March 6, 1920. PROLOGUE. MR. FLANDRAU AND MR. FITZGERALD On the Fourth: Timing of FSF’s return to St. Paul in early July 1919: FSF, “Who’s Who—and Why,” Saturday Evening Post, September 18, 1920, in FSF, Afternoon of an Author, p. 85; Minnesota’s John K. Egan (Charlie Flandrau ’s friend) letter to J. C. Furnas, September 5, 1959 (copy provided by Furnas to author): “My recollection of their first encounter was from Charlie ’s account of Scott’s first visit to the old house on Pleasant Avenue to pump information and get help towards getting a publisher. It was a carefully planned interview according to Charlie. . . . Because St. Paul has always been a tolerant place and because Scott had great charm and talent as well as conceit Charlie helped him all he could. . . . At any rate the talented and ambitious young Scott came to respect and esteem Charlie.”; “dim, thunderous”: FSF, “Basil and Cleopatra,” The Basil and Josephine 222 N O T E S T O PAG E S x i i i – 1 Stories, ed. John Kuehl and Jackson Breyer. New York; Scribner’s, 1973, p. 69. Off steps a: color of FSF’s eyes (“green-gray”) from Andrew Turnbull, Scott Fitzgerald. New York: Scribner’s, 1962, p. 5; LeVot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, p. 126. “murky yellow” cars: FSF, The Great Gatsby, New York...