Everybody Was So Young (68 page)

“greedy sense of being included”:
GCM
to Alexander Woollcott, 17 Oct., 1939, HU.

[>] Gerald had attended only a few rehearsals: Frederic Franklin, in an interview, does not recall Gerald ever attending one; but in a letter written that autumn [and not dated] Gerald told Alexander Woollcott that “I have a ballet rehearsal Thursday.”

Opening the program . . . luscious figure: Ballet Russe souvenir season’s program, Ghost Town files/Records of Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, DC/
NYPL
. “Richard Rodgers, in collaboration”: Serge Denham to Miss A. B. McNamara, [spring 1939], Ghost Town files, Records of Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, DC/
NYPL
.

There was tumultuous applause . . . six curtain calls: Irving Kolodin, review in New York Sun, 13 Nov. 1939.

He and Platt . . . friendship into the 1940s:
HMD
interview.

“
WAS
TAKEN
ILL”:
FSF
to
GCM
, 21 Sept. 1939,
HMD
.

“What a strange . . . necessary to keep”: All quotations from ibid., [21 Sept. 1939]

“Please don’t keep”:
GCM
to
FSF
, 29 Sept. 1939,
HMD
.

“I do not like”: Ibid., 26 Aug. 1940,
PUL
.

[>] “I don’t think the world”:
SWM
to
FSF
, 30 Aug. 1935,
PUL
.

“He was against . . . dusting mornings”:
GCM
to Alexander Woollcott, 13 Jun. 1939, HU.

[>] “We ate a very great deal . . . snored for about an hour”: William MacLeish interview.

“The play depressed . . . fond I am of you”:
GCM
to Alexander Woollcott, 17 Oct. 1939, HU.

“the last tie to the boys”:
GCM
to
JDP
and
KDP
, 21 Feb. 1940,
UVA
.

“Will one’s heart . . . talk to you”:
GCM
to Alexander Woollcott, 24 Jun. 1940, HU.

[>] Bumby, who was now . . . Hellzapoppin: John Hemingway interview, “forlorn”:
GCM
to
FSF
, 24 Apr. 1940,
PUL
.

“would like to be”: PH to
SWM
, 1 Mar. 1940,
HMD
.

After stopping . . . covered the earth:
SWM
trip log 1940: 7 Apr.,
HMD
.

“Yr old shipmate, Sara”:
SWM
to EH, 29 Jul. 1940,
JFK
.

“I felt sort . . . same as always”: EH to
SWM
, [Dec. 1940],
HMD
.

[>] “the people he spoke”: Frances Kroll Ring interview.

“Yr cheque gave me”:
GCM
to
FSF
, 3 Oct. 1940,
PUL
.

“How cruelly the world”:
GCM
to Alexander Woollcott, 26 Dec. 1940, HU. “Those tragicly ecstatic . . . grievous to envisage”: Zelda Fitzgerald to
GCM
and
SWM
, [Dec. 1940 or Jan. 1941],
HMD
.

“Poor Scott . . . more than anyone”: EH to
SWM
, [Dec. 1940],
HMD
.

23. “One’s very Life seems at stake”

[>] “What sad days . . . all our time & $”:
GCM
to AMacL, 20 Aug. 1940,
LOC
. Sara was acting . . . war relief:
GCM
to Alexander Woollcott, 24 Jun. 1940, HU.

“One’s very Life”:
GCM
to AMacL, 20 Aug. 1940,
LOC
.

In the spring of 1940 . . . Cimetière Urbain at Pau: Margot Peters, Mrs. Pat, pp. 450–58.

[>] “Everything goes so slowly! . . .. something like that”: FL to
SWM
, 5 Oct. 1940,
HMD
(my translation).

“a Frenchman” . . . tanks aren’t sketches: FL to
GCM
and
SWM
, 18 Sept. 1940,
HMD
(my translation).

“They’re whispering in Vichy”: FL to
SWM
, 6 Oct. 1940,
HMD
.

From Marseille . . . that very day: FL to
GCM
and
SWM
, 17 Sept. 1940;
GCM
to Thos. Cook and Son, 17 Sept. 1940, 17 Sept. 1940 banking draft, Thos. Cook and Son;
HMD
.

[>] “You have always . . . every part of my life”: FL to
SWM
, 6 Oct. 1940,
HMD
. He went to work against inaction . . . “classic to ourselves”:
GCM
to AMacL, [Oct. 1941],
LOC

[>] Léger . . . picture in the house: Daisy and Jane Pickman/
HMD
interview,
FMB
interview.

“more than simply”: Gill, A New York Life, p. 317.

Watch . . . Alexandria house: Lillian Hellman/
HMD
interview,
HMD
.

“the inside cabin”:
HMD
interview.

“They started . . . tell us what you did”: Grand jury notes,
GCM
notebook,
HMD
.

[>] teaching a course . . . Dawn Powell was enrolled: DaP diary: 18 Feb. 1940. Gerald made up . . . study of Bach:
GCM
New School notebooks,
HMD
. American literature . . . Alfred Kazin: GCM’s “Miscellaneous and Marginalia” file,
HMD
.

She was having dinner . . . It was Hopkins: Hellman, An Unfinished Woman, pp. 216–17.

[>] “Poetry doesn’t become”: David Pickman interview.

“yards and yards” . . . killed in a shipwreck: David Pickman/
HMD
interview,
HMD
.

“Thou mastering me”: Hopkins, “The Wreck of the Deutschland,” Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, p. 55.

“refused to meet”:
GCM
to AMacL, 22 Jan. 1931,
LOC
.

In 1940 Fanny Myers . . . delighted to welcome him:
FMB
interview.

[>] Jarvis was . . . beneath the curl: Ibid.

Despite Sara’s assertion . . . “cure” himself: For this information, and for further insights on Jarvis, I am indebted to the work of the late Norman Hay, who died before he completed his Jarvis biography.

He kept this turmoil . . . son-in-law:
HMD
and
FMB
interviews.

“Dow used to advise me”: William MacLeish interview. put him together . . . publishers: Norman Hay biographical note on Alan Jarvis, private collection.

wrote him a letter . . . Archie MacLeish: copy of a letter from
GCM
to AMacL, 4 Oct. 1941, UTo.

[>] “a fierce and joyous”: Norman Hay biographical note, 6 Jan. 1983, private collection.

“A. amatus” . . . since he was fifteen: Ibid.

[>] “defects” . . . heart:
GCM
to AMacL, 22 Jan. 1930,
LOC
.

In later life Alan Jarvis . . . physical: Norman Hay biographical note, 25 Sept. 1987, private collection.

“She was rather edgy”:
FMB
interview.

Sara went away . . . go with their steaks:
SWM
trip log 1941: spring,
HMD
.

[>] “Gerald agreed” . . . America had also entered the war: Norman Hay biographical note, 6 Jan. 1983, private collection. accepted a cache of Jarvis’s . . . “zinc-lined”:
GCM
to AJ, [Dec. 1941], Norman Hay collection, UTo.

Alan Campbell . . . “queer as a goat”: Meade, Dorothy Parker, pp. 307 and 311.

[>] “flatly stated . . . would be a sin”: Lillian Hellman/
HMD
interview.

“We all talked about”:
JDP
to AMacL, 4 Jan. 1942,
LOC
.

[>] “What you write . . . write about it”: EH to AMacL, 30 Jun. [1943],
LOC
. “the aid of a court”: The language in the decision on Wiborg v. Murphy, recorded in the Supreme Court of the State of New York in Riverhead, New York, in the spring of 1944, is quoted in S& G, p. 215. defending herself . . . considerable anguish: S& G, p. 217.

Unable to find . . . oversee the job:
GCM
to Alexander Woollcott, 23 Jul. 1941, HU.

“I have contributed . . . do not like or admire”:
SWM
affidavit,
HMD
.

“1) dinner Tuesday . . . New School”:
GCM
to Alexander Woollcott, 23 Jan. 1942, HU.

[>] “(just because they’re not in your set)”: Ibid., 24 Jan. 1942.

“His gift”:
GCM
to AMacL, 8 Feb. 1943,
LOC
.

“what kind of service . . . took out of us”: Ibid.

“that monument to the inessential”: Ibid. written hardly a line . . . war began: William MacLeish interview, “charmingly civilized”: Felix Frankfurter, note in margin of
GCM
to AMacL, 14 Apr. 1943,
LOC
.

“first Stravinsky performance”: AMacL to
GCM
, telegram 23 Oct. 1944;
LOC
.

simply at-home evenings . . . Ada sang:
SWM
trip diary 1943: May,
HMD
.

“Archie is being pulled . . . farther away”:
GCM
to Alexander Woollcott, 24 Jun. 1940, HU; [Miller, Letters from a Lost Generation, p. 251].

[>] “like a stone bruise”: AMacL, quoted in Donaldson, Archibald MacLeish, p. 383.

Gerald exerted himself . . . “great times with Dow”: William MacLeish interview.

24. “Isn’t it strange how life goes on?”

[>] “People should never”: Quoted in DaP to
SWM
, 22 Sept. 1947,
HMD
.

“the revisitation . . . Love . . . Gerald”:
GCM
to AJ, 21 May 1946, UTo.

“grave but harmonious . . . I feel it”: Ibid., 13 Jun. 1946.

[>] “the Polyglot Rim . . . obliged to work”: Wood Memorial Day Nursery fundraising brochure, manuscript draft with SWM’s notes,
HMD
.

Every morning . . . three and six months:
SWM
black notebooks from Wood Memorial Day Nursery,
HMD
.

[>] One day Honoria . . . room in tears: S& G, p. 212.

Sara even brought two . . . opposed the adoption: Ibid.

Gerald had likened . . . view of the water:
GCM
to
KDP
, 26 Jan. 1942,
UVA
.

“the constant aeroplane”:
JDP
to
GCM
and
SWM
, 21 Feb. 1945,
UVA
.

“Mimi looked like”: Donaldson, Archibald MacLeish, p. 389.

“the pearls went crunch . . . damned thing off”: Mimi MacLeish Grimm interview.

[>] “It’s just like me”: Donaldson, Archibald MacLeish, p. 396.

“went with an infantry . . . break for me”: EH to
SWM
, 5 May 1945,
HMD
.

“As you know . . . 1942 to 1945”: EH to Charles Poore, 23 Jan. 1953; Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, p. 800.

[>] “I enclose . . . never hurt anybody”:
SWM
to DaP, 9 Mar. 1964,
CUL
.

“I don’t really . . . Love, G.”:
GCM
to DaP, 25 Apr. 1942,
CUL
.

Powell wrote the ending . . . Swan Cove: DaP, The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 24 Jul. 1944, p. 233.

The Wicked Pavilion . . . The Creevey Papers: Ibid., 16 and 31 Jan. 1950, pp. 288, 289; DaP to John Hall Wheelock, 18 Sept. 1950,
CUL
.

“This conquering of the deep”: DaP, The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 6 Sept. 1947, p. 262.

Talking to Gerald . . . pointing at him: Ibid., 11 Oct. 1947, p. 265.

[>] “Sal dear . . . when he wakes”:
GCM
to
SWM
, 13 Sept. 1947,
HMD
. “deflected to Katy”: DaP, The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 11 Oct. 1947, p. 265. “Where can he put . . . I guess”:
GCM
to
SWM
, 13 Sept. 1947,
HMD
. helped make arrangements . . . funeral in Truro: Esther Andrews to DaP, undated,
CUL
.

urged Dawn . . . New York: DaP to
SWM
, 22 Sept. 1947,
HMD
.

[>] “[Y]ou and I . . . do not know”: AMacL to
GCM
, [autumn 1948],
HMD
.

“I cant yet find”:
JDP
to
SWM
, 7 Nov. 1948,
HMD
.

For his birthday . . . “birthday before”: Ibid., 15 Jan. 1949, HMD;
GCM
to
SWM
, 16 Jan. 1949,
HMD
.

it was owned . . . house was for sale: Marion Lowndes, quoted in John Dalmas, “Living Well Was His Best Revenge,” Westchester/Rockland Journal-News, 12 May 1974.

[>] “highly marginal”: Jacques Livet, “La Baraka de Vladimir” (unpublished memoir); courtesy of the author (my translation).

Vladimir had managed . . . Gerald in 1945:
FMB
interview.

“dark seal brown”:
GCM
to
SWM
, 22 Feb. 1949,
HMD
.

They added a small wing . . . stone for the addition: CT interview, sometimes Black Velvets . . . hollowed-out coconut:
GCM
, miscellaneous clipping file; Daisy Pickman/
HMD
interview;
HMD
.

“looking up into the branches”: CT interview.

Sara would light . . . little paper bags: Ibid.

[>] squares of whole-grain . . . horseradish:
FMB
interview. pheasant with bread sauce . . . poached in broth: DaP diaries: 11 Jan. 1958 and 1 Mar. 1959,
CUL
.

“wondrous black hushed sleep”: Ibid., 19 Jul. 1956.

“curiously beautiful . . . private cemetery: Ibid., 12 Nov. 1949. stories of patroons . . . Hudson River steamboats:
GCM
, miscellaneous notes file,
HMD
.

costume was a surprise even to Sara: Marion Lowndes, quoted in John Dalmas, “Living Well Was His Best Revenge,” Westchester/Rockland Journal-News, 12 May 1974.

“still reeling . . . George and Martha”: DaP to
GCM
and
SWM
, 28 Feb. 1950,
HMD
.