Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind (68 page)

1. MM to Julia Collier Harris, April 28, 1936, Smith College.

2. Finis Farr,
Margaret Mitchell of Atlanta
(New York: Morrow, 1965), 15; “How
Gone With the Wind
Was Written: An Interview by Medora Perkerson,”
Atlanta Journal
Magazine
, May 23, 1937.

3. MM to Julia Collier Harris, April 28, 1936, Smith College.

4. MM to Henry Steele Commager, July 10, 1936, UGA.

5.
Facts and Fancies
(Atlanta: Washington Seminary, 1918).

6. Turney Allan Taylor, Jr., interview by Ellen F. Brown, October 2009.

7. Farr,
Margaret Mitchell of Atlanta
, 54.

8. MM to Allen Edee, July 31, 1920, AHC.

9. MM to Julia Collier Harris, April 28, 1936, Smith College.

10. Frances Marsh Zane, “Peggy,” 1981, UGA.

11. SM, “Memoir of Margaret Mitchell,” 1975, 205, UGA.

12. Frances Marsh Zane, “To J.R.M.,” n.d., UGA.

13. MM to Julian Harris, April 21, 1936, Smith College.

14. MM to Florence Billikopf, August 29, 1936, UGA.

15. MM to Mrs. E. L. Sullivan, August 18, 1936, UGA.

16. Julia B. Willet, “Margaret Mitchell,”
Junior League Magazine
, November 1936.

17. MM to Julian Harris, April 21, 1936, Smith College.

18. MM to J. Bean, July 25, 1936, UGA.

19. Lamar Q. Ball, “Writing of
Gone With the Wind
Beset by Difficulties, Says Author,”
Atlanta Constitution
, November 9, 1936.

20. Willet, “Margaret Mitchell.”

21. “How
Gone With the Wind
Was Written.”

22. Willet, “Margaret Mitchell.”

23. Ball, “Writing of
Gone With the Wind
.”

24. Ball, “Writing of
Gone With the Wind
.”

25. MM to Stephen Vincent Bene´t, July 9, 1936, UGA.

26. MM to Harvey Smith, n.d., circa 1928–1929, Emory.

27. Quoted in Farr,
Margaret Mitchell of Atlanta
, 86.

28. Medora Field Perkerson, “Was Margaret Mitchell Writing Another Book?”
Atlanta Journal Magazine
, December 18, 1949.

29. MM to HL, April 16, 1935, NYPL.

30. Linda Taylor Barnes, interview by Ellen F. Brown, November 2009.

31. Barnes, interview.

32. Lois Dwight Cole, “The Story Begins at a Luncheon Bridge in Atlanta,”
New
York Times
, June 25, 1961.

33. Cole, “The Story Begins.”

34. Taylor, interview.

35. LC to MM, December 1, 1933, Barnes.

36. Notes by MM to Norman Berg, October 22, 1936, UGA.

37. MM to HL, April 16, 1935, NYPL.

38. “Harold Latham Searching South for Good Manuscripts,”
Atlanta Journal
, April 12, 1935.

39. MM to Thomas W. Palmer, November 25, 1938, NYPL.

40. “Harold Latham Searching South for Good Manuscripts.”

41. Memorandum by HL, July 17, 1935, NYPL.

42. HL to LC, April 13, 1935, Barnes.

43. MM to LC, December 14, 1935, Barnes.

44. MM to Mary Marsh, April 17, 1936, UGA; Notes by MM to Norman Berg, October 22, 1936, UGA.

45. MM to Mary Marsh, April 17, 1936, UGA.

46. HL to MM, April 13, 1935, Barnes.

47. MM to Mary Marsh, April 17, 1936, UGA.

48. HL to LC, April 13, 1935, Barnes.

49. MM to J. Donald Adams, July 9, 1936, UGA.

50. MM to HL, April 16, 1935, NYPL.

51. HL to LC, April 18, 1935, Barnes.

52. HL to MM, April 18, 1935, quoted in Farr,
Margaret Mitchell of Atlanta
, 95.

53. Memorandum by LC, n.d., Barnes.

54. HL to MM, July 15, 1935, NYPL.

55. MM to HL, July 9, 1935, NYPL.

56. Memorandum by HL, July 17, 1935, NYPL.

57. HL to MM, July 15, 1936, NYPL.

58. Report by Charles W. Everett, quoted in Farr,
Margaret Mitchell of Atlanta
, 101. Farr reprints large parts of Everett's assessment and thus presumably had access to the report. However, the document's whereabouts today are unknown. It does not appear to be in either the Macmillan files at the New York Public Library or the Margaret Mitchell Marsh papers at the University of Georgia's Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

59. Farr,
Margaret Mitchell of Atlanta
, 97.

60. Farr,
Margaret Mitchell of Atlanta
, 101.

61. Wolfgang Saxon, “George P. Brett Is Dead at 91; Headed Macmillan Company,”
New York Times
, February 15, 1984.

62. James A. Michener, “Introduction,” in
Gone With the Wind
, by Margaret Mitchell, anniversary ed., iii–xii (New York: Macmillan, 1975).

63. Memorandum by HL, July 17, 1935, NYPL.

64. HL to MM, July 17, 1935, NYPL.

65. MM to LC, July 13–17, 1935, Barnes.

66. MM to HL, July 17, 1935, NYPL.

67. HL to MM, July 22, 1935, NYPL.

68. MM to LC, July 25, 1935, Barnes.

69. MM to HL, July 27, 1935, NYPL.

70. MM to HL, August 1, 1935, NYPL.

71. HL to MM, August 5, 1935, NYPL.

72. LC to MM, August 5, 1935, NYPL.

73. MM to HL, August 6, 1935, NYPL.

74. HL to MM, August 9, 1935, NYPL.

1. HL to MM, August 13, 1935, NYPL.

2. MM to HL, July 27, 1935, NYPL.

3. Farr,
Margaret Mitchell of Atlanta
, 107.

4. SM, “Memoir,” 88; MM to Gilbert Govan, October 15, 1937, UGA; Margaret Mitchell,
Gone With the Wind
(New York: Macmillan, 1936), 397.

5. Cole, “The Story Begins.”

6. MM to HL, July 27, 1935, NYPL.

7. MM to LC, November 11, 1935, Barnes.

8. Ball, “Writing of
Gone With the Wind
.”

9. MM to HL, September 3, 1935, NYPL.

10. JM to LC, February 9, 1936, NYPL.

11. Statement by MM, August 1, 1939,
GWTW
Literary Rights office, Atlanta.

12. MM to HL, September 3, 1935, NYPL.

13. HL to MM, September 10, 1935, NYPL.

14. Statement by MM, August 1, 1939,
GWTW
Literary Rights office, Atlanta.

15. “How
Gone With the Wind
Was Written”;
Margaret Mitchell and Her Novel
(New York: Macmillan, 1936), 20–21.

16. MM to HL, June 1, 1936, UGA.

17. MM to Harry Slattery, October 3, 1936, UGA; MM to Harry E. Ransford, January 4, 1937, UGA; MM to Franklin Garrett, February 23, 1939, UGA.

18. MM to Mr. and Mrs. Francis M. Swords, May 8, 1944, UGA.

19. MM to LC, October 3, 1935, NYPL.

20. MM to Frances Beach, October 19, 1936, UGA.

21. Everett Hale to Mr. Lund, October 28, 1935, NYPL.

22. LC to MM, October 30, 1935, NYPL.

23. MM to HL, October 30, 1935, NYPL.

24. MM to HL, October 30, 1935, NYPL.

25. MM to HL, October 30, 1935, NYPL.

26. HL to MM, November 4, 1935, NYPL.

27. LC to MM, November 7, 1935, NYPL.

28. JM to LC, January 30, 1936, NYPL.

29. MM to LC, November 11, 1935, Barnes.

30. LC to MM, November 14, 1935, Barnes.

31. LC to Mr. Lund, November 4, 1935, NYPL.

32. LC to Mr. Lund, November 4, 1935, NYPL.

33. Daniel Yezbick, interview by Ellen F. Brown, January 2009.

34. MM to Wilbur G. Kurtz, November 19, 1935, UGA.

35. MM to Henry Stuckey, December 3, 1935, UGA.

36. LC to MM, December 6, 1935, Barnes.

37. LC to MM, December 6, 1935, Barnes.

38. LC to MM, December 18, 1935, NYPL.

39. LC to MM, December 19, 1935, NYPL.

40. MM to LC, December 19, 1935, NYPL.

41. LC to MM, December 20, 1935, NYPL.

42. JM to LC, January 20, 1936, NYPL.

43. Notes by JM, circa April 1952, UGA.

44. JM to Mary Marsh, March 22, 1936, UGA.

45. MM to Mary Marsh, January 13, 1936, UGA.

46. JM to LC, January 31, 1936, UGA.

47. Michener, “Introduction.”

48. Hugh Eayrs to GB, April 4, 1938, NYPL.

49. Hugh Eayrs to GB, April 4, 1938, NYPL.

50. Everett Hale to J. P. Smith, January 3, 1936, NYPL.

51. MM to Mary Marsh, January 13, 1936, UGA.

52. MB to LC, January 7, 1936, NYPL.

53. LC to MM, January 11, 1936, NYPL.

54. MB to LC, January 16, 1936, NYPL.

55. MB to LC, March 4, 1936, UGA.

56. GB to MM, April 24, 1936, NYPL.

57. “Publisher Notes Changed Habits of Reading,”
Atlanta Journal
, January 19, 1936.

58. Cole, “The Story Begins.”

59. Marianne Walker,
Margaret Mitchell and John Marsh: The Love Story behind
Gone With the Wind (Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, 1993), 233.

60. JM to LC, January 28, 1936, NYPL.

1. Barnes, interview.

2. LC to Everett Hale, February 3, 1936, NYPL.

3. LC to JM, February 3, 1936, NYPL.

4. JM to LC, January 31, 1936, NYPL.

5. JM to LC, January 31, 1936, NPYL.

6. LC to Everett Hale, February 3, 1936, NYPL.

7. LC to JM, February 3, 1936, NYPL.

8. LC to MM, February 6, 1936, NYPL.

9. Memorandum by HL, July 17, 1935, NYPL.

10. LC to MM, February 6, 1936, NYPL.

11. Michener, “Introduction.”

12. Anne Zagari, interview by Ellen F. Brown, December 2009.

13. LC to MM, February 6, 1936, NYPL.

14. JM to family, March 22, 1936, UGA.

15. JM to GB, October 29, 1947, UGA.

16. LC to MM, February 5, 1936, NYPL.

17. Westbrook Pegler, “Fair Enough,”
Atlanta Constitution
, November 28, 1936.

18. MM to Mary Marsh, April 17, 1936, UGA.

19. William W. Hawkins, Jr., to Everett Hale, February 12, 1936, NYPL.

20. MM to Henry Stuckey, February 3, 1936, UGA.

21. JM to LC, February 13, 1936, NYPL.

22. LC to MM, February 20, 1936, NYPL.

23. JM to LC, February 13, 1936, NYPL.

24. LC to JM, February 15, 1936, NYPL.

25. LC to JM, February 15, 1936, NYPL.

26. LC to MM, February 20, 1936, NYPL.

27. MM to Mary Marsh, February 25, 1936, UGA.

28. Howard McLellan, “The Making of a Best Seller,”
American Business
, April 1937.

29. Clare Brett Smith, interview by Ellen F. Brown, December 2009; Betsy Carpenter, interview by Ellen F. Brown, December 2009.

30. Helen C. Smith, “Auction Gets Rare
GWTW
,”
Atlanta Constitution
, May 27, 1976.

31. Yolande Gwin, “Margaret Mitchell's Novel Depicts Three Major Periods,”
Atlanta Constitution
, February 6, 1936.

32. MM to Yolande Gwin, February 10, 1936, quoted in Yolande Gwin, ed.,
I
Remember Margaret Mitchell
(Lakemont, Ga.: Copple House Books, 1987).

33. Farr,
Margaret Mitchell of Atlanta
, 112.

34. JM to LC, February 9, 1936, NYPL.

35. LC to JM, February 13, 1936, NYPL.

36. MM to Julia Collier Harris, April 28, 1936, Smith College.

37. MM to Paul Jordan-Smith, May 27, 1936, UGA.

38. MM to LC, March 18, 1936, NYPL.

39. George Stevens,
Lincoln Doctor's Dog, and Other Famous Best Sellers
(Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1939), 68.

40. Charles Lee,
The Hidden Public: The Story of the Book-of-the-Month Club
(New York: Doubleday, 1958), 70.

41. LC to MM, March 9, 1936, NYPL.

42. LC to James Putnam, February 19, 1936, NYPL.

43. James Putnam to Basil Davenport, February 26, 1936, NYPL.

44. LC to MM, March 7, 1936, NYPL.

45. LC to MM, March 9, 1936, NYPL.

46. MM to LC, March 14, 1936, NYPL.

47. MM to Frances Marsh Zane, April 10, 1936, UGA.

48. LC to MM, March 19, 1936, NYPL.

49. HL to Everett Hale, December 31, 1935; Everett Hale to J. P. Smith, January 3, 1936, NYPL.

50. JM to family, March 22, 1936, UGA.

51. MM to LC, March 18, 1936, NYPL.

52. JM to family, March 22, 1936, UGA.

53. MM to LC, March 22, 1936, NYPL.

54. LC to MM, March 24, 1936, NYPL.

55. Deposition by GB, December 15, 1937, UGA.

56. HL to William Allen White, March 23, 1936, NYPL.

57. HL to William Allen White, March 23, 1936, NYPL.

58. William Allen White to HL, March 24, 1936, NYPL.

59. W. Colston Leigh to MM, March 27, 1936, NYPL.

60. LC to MM, March 31, 1936, NYPL.

61. MM to LC, April 14, 1936, Barnes.

62. MM to W. Colston Leigh, April 9, 1936, NYPL.

63. W. Colston Leigh to HL, April 15, 1936, NYPL.

64. W. Colston Leigh to MM, May 20, 1936, NYPL.

65. MM to HL, May 25, 1936, NYPL.

1. MM to LC, March 14, 1936, NYPL.

2. LC to MM, March 9, 1936, NYPL.

3. Howard Fast,
Being Red
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990), 161.

4. ALW to LC, March 5, 1936, Columbia.

5. LC to MM, April 29, 1936, NYPL; Taylor, interview.

6. LC to MM, March 9, 1936, NYPL.

7. MM to ALW, March 10, 1936, Columbia.

8. MM to LC, March 14, 1936, NYPL.

9. LC to MM, March 16, 1936, NYPL.

10. LC to MM, April 9, 1936, NYPL.

11. MM to LC, April 14, 1936, Barnes.

12. LC to JM, February 3, 1936, NYPL; HL to J. P. Smith, May 8, 1936, NYPL.

13. McLellan, “The Making of a Best Seller.”

14. Daniel Yezbick, “Riddles of Engagement: Narrative Play in the Children's Media and Comic Art of George Carlson,”
ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies
, 2007, at
www.english.ufl.edu/imagetext/archives/v3_3/yezbick
(accessed August 12, 2010).

15. Frank Daniel, “Simplicity, Loyalty and Love Produced
Gone With the Wind
,”
Atlanta Journal
, August 17, 1949.

16. JM to LC, January 31, 1936, NYPL.

17. LC to Mr. Lund, February 3, 1936, NYPL.