Savage Beauty (103 page)

15.
“Dear Kathleen”: EB to KM, Aug. 14, 1939. St. Coll.

16.
“Please thank Ugin”: KM to ESVM, n.d., c. mid-August 1939. St. Coll.

17.
“to stay”: EB to KM, Aug. 18, 1939. St. Coll.

18.
“HEAT HERE TERRIBLE”: KM to EB, Aug. 22, 1939. St. Coll.

19.
“As to Kathleen”: EB to NM, Aug. 23, 1939. St. Coll.

20.
she was suffering: S. Bernard Wortis, M.D., to EB, Sept. 7, 1939. St. Coll.

21.
“This poem, written”: Eugene Saxton to EB, July 9, 1940. St. Coll.

22.
“Once-dear Edna Millay”: FE to ESVM, June 14, 1940. St. Coll.

23.
“As she has been”: EB to FE, June 15, 1940. St. Coll.

24.
“I am sorry”: ESVM to FE, Aug. 3, 1940.
Ls.
, pp. 307–8.

25.
“…  for something over”: ESVM to George [Dillon], draft, n.d.

26.
Professor Irwin Edman: Irwin Edman, “The Role of the Man of Letters in War Time,” New York
Herald Tribune Books
, Sept. 8, 1940. p. 6, IX.

27.
He had visited: A. Scott Berg,
Lindbergh
(New York: Berkley Books, 1999), pp. 337, 404–7.

28.
“I am filled”: Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
War Within and Without
(New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980), p. 68. Nov. 27, 1939.

29.
“a moral argument”: Ibid., pp. 141–43.

30.
“for 25 years”: “Edna Millay, Academician, Perfectionist Feels She Must Write Fast Now,”
New York Post
, Nov. 16, 1940.

31.
“It was a book”: GD to Allan Ross Macdougall, Feb. 4, 1951.
Ls.
, pp. 309, 310. UVa.

32.
“And if this book”: ESVM to Charlotte Babcock Sills, Jan. 2, 1941,
Ls.
, pp. 310–12. Susan Schweik,
A Gulf So Deeply Cut: American Women Poets and the Second World War
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991), p. 64.

33.
“Edna Millay had come”: Vincent Sheean,
The Indigo Bunting: A Memoir of Edna St. Vincent Millay
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951), pp. 57–61.

CHAPTER 37

1.
“Not having taken”: Dorothy M. Leffler to author, May 10, 1976.

2.
“Find out how many”: Dorothy M. Leffler to author, Feb. 2, 1976.

3.
“the world in which” and other quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
The Wave of the Future: A Confession of Faith
(New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940), pp. 9, 22, 33–35.

4.
“Once again”: ESVM to Eugene Saxton, March 10, 1941.
Ls.
, pp. 312–13, 314.

5.
“Eugen has lost”: While Millay is referring to money trapped in occupied Holland, there is no information I could find in either the Boissevain family records in Holland or Mil-lay’s collection of papers that Eugen had ever received a regular income from Holland.

6.
“We’ve just had”: Eugene Saxton to EB, June 6, 1941. St. Coll.

7.
“Shakespeare—yes”: ESVM, notebook, no. 50. Library of Congress.

8.
“Attention Snig, Esq.”: ESVM to EB, n.d., c. summer 1941.

9.
“I am sorry”: EB to Eugene Saxton, n.d., c. summer 1941. St. Coll.

10.
“You know, Vince”: ADF to ESVM, n.d., c. summer 1941. St. Coll.

11.
“of recent years”: ADF, notes, Sept. 4, 1941. Beinecke.

12.
“On the way”: Joseph Freeman to Floyd Dell, May 18, 1958, pp. 6–14. Newberry.

13.
“Miss Millay’s public”: Rolfe Humphries, “Miss Millay as Artist,”
The Nation
, Dec. 20, 1941, p. 644.

CHAPTER 38

1.
“and will show”: NM to_______, March 22, 1940. St. Coll.

2.
“As to myself”: This is unsigned and may exist only in draft. St. Coll.

3.
“that is if the bitch”: EB to Charles Ellis, n.d., c. 1941. St. Coll.

4.
“I was pleased”: EB to KM, n.d., c. 1941 (draft). St. Coll.

5.
“I asked Edna”: EB to KM, n.d., c. June 1941. St. Coll.

6.
“both girls for me”: KM to EB, July 4, 1941. St. Coll.

7.
The New York Times
picked up:
The New York Times
, July 1942, n.p., n.d. St. Coll.

8.
“Lidice, they proclaimed”: Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Foreword,”
The Murder of Lidice
(New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1942), p. v.

9.
“When Woollcott’s voice”: NM to ESVM, October 28, 1942. St. Coll.

10.
“Tonight Edna Millay’s poem”: ADF, journal, Oct. 19, 1942. Beinecke.

11.
“Well, of course”: Rex Stout, interview with author, c. spring 1974.

12.
the Germans had actually: Susan Schweik,
A Gulf So Deeply Cut: American Women Poets and the Second World War
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991), p. 61.

13.
“yes, of course”: ESVM to Witter Bynner,
Ls.
, p. 316.

14.
“Your sonnets”: NM to ESVM, Nov. 9, 1942. St. Coll.

15.
“Listen Darlings”: NM to ESVM and EB, n.d., c. fall 1942.

16.
“Your letter was”: ESVM to NM, Dec. 3, 1942. St. Coll.

17.
“
Me
, with my Savile Row”: ESVM, n.d., c. 1942 (draft). St. Coll.

18.
“Gene was to meet me”: NM, interview with author, Nov. 21, 1976.

19.
“They found there”: NM to ESVM, n.d., c. September 1943. Typescript with note: “To Vincent. Then I didn’t send it, it seems.”

20.
“for a week”: NM to ESVM, c. January-February 1944.

21.
“He really got sick”: Alice Blinn, interview with author, Nov. 5, 1975.

22.
“Toward the end” and other quotes from Sheean: Vincent Sheean,
The Indigo Bunting: A Memoir of Edna St. Vincent Millay
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951), pp. 34–55.

23.
“She had passed”: Dinah and Vincent Sheean, interview with author, Dec. 19, 1974.

24.
“And besides”:
Ls.
, pp. 322–23.

25.
“And you as well”:
CP
, p. 579.

CHAPTER 39

1.
“verdict was like”: ESVM to EW,
Ls.
, p. 333.

2.
“It is sheer”: ESVM to EW,
Ls.
, p. 334.

3.
“The House”:
Ls.
, pp. 335–36.

4.
“The effect of writing”: ESVM to Cass Canfield,
Ls.
, p. 338.

5.
“The Love Poems”: ESVM to Arthur Rush-more,
Ls.
, p. 348.

6.
“Trusting, however”: ESVM to Cass Canfield,
Ls.
, p. 347.

7.
“You can’t go on”: ESVM to Cass Canfield, July 27, 1944 (draft). St. Coll.

8.
to everyone’s delight: Edward C. Aswell to EB, March 8, 1945. St. Coll.

9.
“It occurs to me”: ESVM to Cass Canfield,
Ls.
, p. 334.

10.
“unconditional surrender”: Cass Canfield to ESVM, Jan. 16, 1946. St. Coll.

11.
Marie Bullock: Mrs. Marie Bullock to author, May 31, 1982.

12.
“wished you had not”: ESVM to Marie Bullock,
Ls.
, p. 346.

13.
“but now the birds”: Edmund Wilson,
The Shores of Light
, pp. 783–84.

14.
“after having read”: ESVM to Cass Canfield,
Ls.
, p. 353, and ms. pages. UVa.

15.
“I thought the verses”: Cass Canfield to ESVM, July 8, 1949.

16.
“Dear Kid”: NM to ESVM, July 7, 1948. St. Coll.

17.
“Oh, little sister”: NM to ESVM, n.d. St. Coll.

18.
“Hunk”: ESVM to NM,
Ls.
, p. 352.

19.
“I wanted to
see
her”: NM, interview with author, Sept. 3, 1976.

20.
“Imagine having to”: NM, interview with author, Jan. 15, 1982.

CHAPTER 40

1.
“I picked up”: NM, interview with author, Feb. 26, 1977.

2.
“Dear, I’m not”: NM to ESVM, n.d., c. August 1949. St. Coll.

3.
“And Vincent was breathing”: NM, interview with author. Feb. 26, 1977. 498 “Darling Ugin, I think of you”: Tess Adams to EB, Aug. 25, n.y., c. 1949. St. Coll.

4.
“Very unpleasant”: EB to “Darlings,” n.d., PM Aug. 20, 1949.

5.
“We were waiting”: Alice Blinn, interview with author, Nov. 5, 1975.

6.
“It seems incredible”: GD to ESVM, Sept. 21, n.y., c. 1949. St. Coll.

7.
“Mr. George Dillon”: ESVM to Mary Herron, n.d. UVa.

8.
“It meant a great deal”: GD to ESVM, Oct. 21, n.y., c. 1949. St. Coll.

9.
“A session occurred” and subsequent quotes from Dr. Lewis: Dictation, Dr. William Hall Lewis, Jr., to author. Tape 2, Index 3, June 14, 1975.

10.
“The doctor involved”: Cass Canfield, interview with author, July 11, 1973.

11.
“to which I”: UVa.

12.
“He told me”: Lena Reusch, interview with author, Oct. 4, 1974.

13.
“She wanted something”: Chester Osborne, interview with author, September 1974.

14.
“stuffing myself”: ESVM to NM, January 1950.
Ls.
, pp. 363–64.

15.
“plenty scared”: ESVM to Mary Herron,
Ls.
, pp. 366–67.