Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind (69 page)

18. Summary of remarks by [GB], April 25, 1938, NYPL.

19. Meredith Wood to GB, April 15, 1936, NYPL.

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

21. HL to J. P. Smith, May 5, 1936, NYPL.

22. HL to MM, May 5, 1936, NYPL.

23. LC to MM, April 21, 1936, NYPL.

24. MM to LC, April 27, 1936, NYPL.

25. MM to LC, April 27, 1936, NYPL.

26. Frances Marsh Zane, “My Dearly Beloved Young Lady,” n.d., 11, UGA.

27. Robert R. Nathan, “National Income in 1937 Largest since 1929,”
Survey of Current Business
, June 1938.

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

29. LC to MM, May 18, 1936, NYPL.

30. “The New N.G.B.R. Displays,”
Publishers Weekly
, June 20, 1936.

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

32. LC to MM, April 29, 1936, NYPL.

33. Ida Wilkinson to Norman Berg, May 28, 1936, NYPL.

34. Quoted in LC to ALW, June 16, 1936, NYPL.

35. LC to MM, April 29, 1936, NYPL.

36. First edition of
Gone With the Wind
, inscribed to MB, Special Collections, McCain Library, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA.

37. MM to LC, May 5, 1936, NYPL.

38. LC to MM, May 29, 1936, NYPL.

39. Ruth Rae to LC, April 15, 1936, NYPL.

40. LC to MM, April 21, 1936, NYPL.

41. MM to LC, April 27, 1936, NYPL.

42. MM to LC, May 5, 1936, NYPL.

43. LC to MM, April 29, 1936, NYPL.

44. MM to LC, April 27, 1936, NYPL.

45. MM to HL, January 8, 1937, NYPL.

46. MM to LC, May 5, 1936, NYPL.

47. MM to LC, May 5, 1936, NYPL.

48. MM to Julia Collier Harris, June 29, 1936, UGA.

49. MM to Julia Collier Harris, June 29, 1936, UGA.

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

51. SM to GB, September 21, 1936, NYPL.

52. LC to ALW, May 6, 1936, NYPL.

53. ALW to LC, May 11, 1936, NYPL.

54. Everett Hale to HL, May 18, 1936, NYPL.

55. Kay Brown to David O. Selznick, July 7, 1936, HRC.

56. Everett Hale to HL, May 18, 1936, NYPL.

57. ALW to HL, May 19, 1936, NYPL.

58. HL to GB, May 20, 1936, NYPL.

59. ALW to HL, May 19, 1936, NYPL.

60. HL to ALW, May 26, 1936, Columbia.

61. Macmillan London to Macmillan New York, telegram, April 2, 1936, NYPL.

62. HL to Macmillan London, April 3, 1936, NYPL.

63. Macmillan London to Macmillan New York, April 6, 1936, NYPL.

64. Macmillan London to Macmillan New York, April 7, 1936, NYPL.

65. HL to William A. Collins, April 6, 1936, NYPL.

66. GB to Harold Macmillan, April 4, 1936, NYPL.

67. GB to Macmillan London, April 16, 1936, NYPL.

68. Macmillan London to Macmillan New York, April 17, 1936, NYPL.

69. James Putnam to William A. Collins, April 22, 1936, NYPL.

70. William A. Collins to James Putnam, April 23, 1936, NYPL.

71. William A. Collins to HL, April 23, 1936, NYPL.

72. GB to Harold Macmillan, April 23, 1936, NYPL.

73. Harold Macmillan to GB, April 24, 1936, NYPL.

74. GB to HL, April 24, 1936, NYPL.

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

76. William A. Collins to Macmillan New York, April 20, 1936, NYPL.

77. William A. Collins to Macmillan New York, May 4, 1936, NYPL.

78. HL to Harold Macmillan, May 5, 1936, NYPL.

79. HL to William A. Collins, May 5, 1936, NYPL.

80. William A. Collins to HL, May 6, 1936, NYPL; William A. Collins to HL, May 15, 1936, NYPL.

81. William A. Collins to HL, May 7, 1936, NYPL.

82. HL to William A. Collins, May 6, 1936, NYPL.

83. HL to William A. Collins, May 18, 1936, NYPL.

84. MM to HL, May 13, 1936, NYPL.

85. HL to MM, May 18, 1936, NYPL.

86. MM to HL, May 21, 1936, NYPL.

87. HL to GB, May 25, 1936, NYPL.

88. Harold Macmillan to HL, May 26, 1936, NYPL.

89. HL to GB, June 1, 1936, NYPL.

1. Book-of-the-Month Club to Thomas Seltzer, May 16, 1936, NYPL; Everett Hale to J. P. Smith, May 18, 1936, NYPL.

2. Macmillan, advertisement for
Gone With the Wind
,
Publishers Weekly
, May 23, 1936.

3. HL to MM, May 21, 1936, NPYL.

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

5. HL to MM, May 27, 1936, NYPL.

6. LC to MM, May 28, 1936, NYPL.

7. LC to MM, May 28, 1936, NYPL.

8. JM to GB, October 29, 1947, NYPL.

9. MM to LC, May 29, 1936, NYPL.

10. MM to HL, June 1, 1936, NYPL.

11. MM to HL, May 25, 1936, NYPL; MM to HL, June 1, 1936, NYPL.

12. HL to Sonia Chapter, May 11, 1936, NYPL.

13. LC to MM, May 18, 1936, NYPL.

14. Simone de Beauvoir,
Letters to Sartre
(New York: Arcade, 1991), 414.

15. MS to MM, May 1, 1936, NYPL.

16. MM to MS, May 8, 1936, UGA.

17. MS to MM, May 11, 1936, NYPL.

18. MM to MS, May 13, 1936, NYPL.

19. MM to LC, May 14, 1936, NYPL.

20. LC to MM, May 18, 1936, NYPL.

21. HL to Sonia Chapter, May 11, 1936, NYPL.

22. MS to MM, May 22, 1936, NYPL.

23. HL to Sonia Chapter, May 26, 1936, NYPL.

24. MM to MS, May 27, 1936, UGA.

25. MM to W. F. Caldwell, June 16, 1936, NYPL.

26. MM to HL, May 21, 1936, NYPL.

27. JM to LC, July 13, 1936, NYPL.

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

29. GB to J. A. Fruin, April 25, 1938, NYPL.

30. John S. Kidd & Son to Patron, June 18, 1936, NYPL.

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

32. Everett Hale to HL, September 13, 1949, NYPL.

33. Deposition by Hugh Eayrs, Exhibit G, July 8, 1938, UGA.

34. ALW to Maurice Hanlon, June 15, 1936, Columbia.

35. ALW to HL, June 10, 1936, Columbia.

36. Rosalie Stewart to ALW, July 3, 1936, Columbia.

37. ALW to HL, May 27, 1936, NYPL.

38. Kay Brown to David O. Selznick, May 26, 1936, HRC.

39. ALW to HL, May 27, 1936, NYPL.

40. HL to MM, June 17, 1936, as quoted in SM to GB, September 21, 1936, NYPL.

41. HL to LC, June 14, 1936, as quoted in SM to GB, September 21, 1936, NYPL.

42. SM to GB, September 21, 1936, NYPL.

43. MM to LC, June 15, 1936, NYPL.

44. ALW to LC, June 24, 1936, NYPL.

45. David Thomson,
Showman: The Life of David O. Selznick
(New York: Knopf, 1992), 130.

46. Kay Brown to David O. Selznick, May 21, 1936, HRC.

47. David O. Selznick to Kay Brown, May 25, 1936, HRC.

48. Kay Brown to David O. Selznick, May 26, 1936, HRC.

49. JM to Mary Marsh, June 26, 1936, UGA.

50. “The Night before Publication,” n.d., AHC; “Mrs. Luise Sims Gives Dinner in Honor of Margaret Mitchell,”
Atlanta Journal
, June 23, 1936.

51. MM to Julia Collier Harris, July 8, 1936, NYPL.

52. MM to Marian Sims, June 20, 1936, AHC.

53. JM to Mary Marsh, June 26, 1936, UGA.

54. MM to Julia Collier Harris, June 29, 1936, Smith College.

55. Lamar Q. Ball, “Margaret Mitchell Seeks in Vain for Time to Get Her Hair Washed,”
Atlanta Constitution
, November 10, 1936.

56. MM to LC, April 27, 1936, NYPL.

57. SM, “Memoir,” 198.

58. MM to Julia Collier Harris, June 29, 1936, Smith College.

59. MM to Ruth Hinman Carter, June 22, 1936, UGA.

60. LC to MM, June 5, 1936, NPYL.

61. LC to Charles J. Trenkle, June 10, 1936, NYPL.

62. Ruth Hinman Carter to MM, June 20, 1936, UGA.

63. MM to GB, June 6, 1936, NYPL.

64. JM to Ernest Camp, Jr., June 25, 1936, UGA.

65. MM to Clark Howell, June 28, 1936, UGA; “Atlanta Historical Society Will Honor Mrs. John R. Marsh,”
Atlanta Constitution
, June 26, 1936.

1. LC to MM, June 30, 1936, NYPL.

2. Ralph Thompson, “Books of the Times,”
New York Times
, June 30, 1936.

3. ALW to Bosley Crowther, June 15, 1956, Columbia.

4. LC to Louis Freedman, July 1, 1936, NYPL.

5. Richard Harwell,
An Enduring Legacy: Margaret Mitchell's
Gone With the Wind (Dublin, Ga.: Gone With the Wind Forum '91, 1991), 12; Anne Edwards,
Road to Tara:
The Life of Margaret Mitchell
(New Haven, Conn.: Ticknor & Fields, 1983), 208.

6. “The Night before Publication,” n.d., AHC.

7. “Davison-Paxon Remodels Book Department,”
Publishers Weekly
, November 20, 1937.

8. J. P. Smith to Everett Hale, July 1, 1936, NYPL.

9. George Brett, Sr. to MM, July 1, 1936, NYPL; notes on Finis Farr draft by MB, October 1964, UGA.

10. MM to LC, July 4, 1936, NYPL.

11. Reviews quoted in Mertice James, ed.,
The Book Review Digest
(New York: H. W. Wilson, 1937).

12. Quoted in
Literary Digest
, July 25, 1936.

13. “Three Historical Novels,”
New Yorker
, July 4, 1936.

14. J. Donald Adams, “A Fine Novel of the Civil War,”
New York Times Book Review
, July 5, 1936.

15. Henry Steele Commager, “The Civil War in Georgia's Red Clay Hills,”
New
York Herald Tribune Books
, July 5, 1936.

16. Julian Meade to HL, July 16, 1936, NYPL.

17. Sara Field to Macmillan, July 4, 1936, NYPL.

18. “The Difficulties of Success,”
Publishers Weekly
, September 19, 1936.

19. Robert Garland to Macmillan, [June] 1936, NYPL.

20. William W. Hawkins, Jr., to Everett Hale, July 1, 1936, NYPL.

21. Macmillan, advertisement,
Publishers Weekly
, July 4, 1936.

22. MM to Herschel Brickell, July 7, 1936, UGA.

23. MM to LC, July 3, 1936, NYPL.

24. LC to Alec Blanton, July 6, 1936, NYPL.

25. MM to LC, July 2, 1936, NYPL.

26. MM to LC, July 3, 1936, NYPL.

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

28. MM to GB, March 15, 1937, UGA.

29. JM to LC, July 13, 1936, NYPL.

30. LC to Alec Blanton, July 6, 1936, NYPL; JM to Alec Blanton, July 22, 1936, NYPL.

31. James Putnam to JM, July 2, 1936, NYPL.

32. JM to Mary Marsh, July 19, 1936, UGA.

33. MS to Everett Hale, July 16, 1936, NYPL.

34. James Putnam to Hugh Eayrs, July 13, 1936, NYPL.

35. Ellen Elliott to James Putnam, July 14, 1936, NYPL.

36. James Putnam to Ellen Elliott, July 27, 1936, NYPL.

37. Kay Brown to David O. Selznick, July 7, 1936, HRC.

38. LC to JM, July 8, 1936, NYPL.

39. LC to MM, July 8, 1936, NYPL.

40. JM to LC, July 13, 1936, NYPL.

41. SM, “Memoir,” 111.

42. JM to LC, July 13, 1936, NYPL.

43. JM to LC, July 13, 1936, NYPL.

44. ALW to Bosley Crowther, June 5, 1956, Columbia.

45. LC to JM, July 14, 1936, NYPL.

46. LC to JM, July 15, 1936, NYPL.

47. JM to LC, July 27, 1936, NYPL.

48. JM to LC, July 27, 1936, NYPL.

49. MM to HL, August 13, 1936, UGA.

50. MM to Herschel Brickell, July 26, 1936, quoted in SM, “Memoir,” 111.

51. ALW to Para Lee Brock, March 16, 1956, Columbia.

52. MM to GB, May 20, 1938, NYPL.

53. SM, “Memoir,” 111–12.

54. Martin Shartar, “The Winds of Time and Chance: Stephens Mitchell Surveys Seven Decades in Atlanta,”
Atlanta
, July 1974.

55. MM to Kay Brown, September 3, 1936.

56. SM to Kay Brown, December 19, 1967, UGA.

57. SM to GB, September 21, 1936, NYPL.

58. Extract of draft letter from JM, June 1937, UGA.

59. Barnes, interview.

60. SM, “Memoir,” 112.

61. SM, “Memoir,” 113-A.

62. SM, “Memoir,” 112.

63. SM, “Memoir,” 113-A.

64. JM to Edwin Granberry and Herschel Brickell, July 30, 1936, Tom Heyes Collection, Los Angeles.

1. Frank Luther Mott,
Golden Multitudes
(New York: Macmillan, 1947), 256–57.

2. “
Gone With the Wind
Book of Many Names,”
Richmond Times Dispatch
, August 9, 1936.

3. Mott,
Golden Multitudes
, 257.

4. Memorandum by Macmillan, July 15, 1936, NYPL.

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

6. “Books: North v. South,”
Time
, March 7, 1938.

7. J. P. Smith to Everett Hale, July 1, 1936, NYPL; “Margaret Mitchell's Novel Literally
Gone With Wind
,”
Atlanta Journal
, August 9, 1936.

8. LC to Silas Peavy, August 8, 1936, NYPL.

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

10. Macmillan, advertisement,
Publishers Weekly
, August 15, 1936.

11. Jack Phillips to Alec Blanton, September 25, 1936, NYPL.

12. Silas Peavy to LC, August 24, 1936, NYPL.

13. LC to Silas Peavy, August 28, 1936, NYPL.

14. JM to James Putnam, August 11, 1936, NYPL.

15. Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt,
The Book in America: A History of the Making and Selling
of Books in the United States
(New York: R. R. Bowker, 1952), 378.

16. “The Difficulties of Success.”

17. Ginny Morris to MM, n.d., UGA.

18. Memorandum by Macmillan, n.d., NYPL.

19. “Currents in the Trade,”
Publishers Weekly
, April 10, 1937.

20. E. Smalley to Mrs. G. C. Barnum, December 12, 1936, NPYL.

21. Howard Otten to Macmillan, March 22, 1937, NYPL.

22. Howard Otten to Macmillan, March 26, 1937, NYPL; Harvey E. Runner, “Macy's Resells 35,940 Copies of Best Seller to Macmillan Co.,”
New York Herald Tribune
, March 24, 1937.

23. JM to James Putnam, July 23, 1936, NYPL; James Putnam to JM, July 27, 1936, NYPL.

24. London to James Putnam, August 24, 1936, NYPL; Charles Morgan,
The House
of Macmillan (1843–1943)
(New York: Macmillan, 1944), 230.