Thornton Wilder (100 page)

1.
“Safe-guarding the Americans in China,”
Waterloo (Iowa) Times-Tribune
, November 23, 1911.

2.
APW to Isabella Niven Wilder, October 1, [1911?], TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

3.
Ibid.

4.
APW to Isabella Niven Wilder, October 11, [1911?], TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

5.
Ibid.

6.
APW to Isabella Niven Wilder, October 16, [1911?], TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

7.
APW to Isabella Niven Wilder, October 11, [1911?], TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

8.
APW to Isabella Niven Wilder, October 16, [1911?], TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

9.
Ibid.

10.
Background on the Revolution of 1911 is drawn from Jonathan D. Spence,
The Search for Modern China
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1990), 244–68.

11.
APW to ANW, November 11, [1911?], TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

12.
APW to Isabella Niven Wilder, October 1, [1911], TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

13.
TNW to APW, [1911?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

14.
TNW, unpublished holograph draft of remarks to “Mr. Coleman, Miss MacDowell, Miss Carroll, Mr. President, Dean Matthews, Friends of the [Chicago] University Settlement,” n.d., TNW Collection, YCAL.

15.
Martin,
Chefoo School
, 51.

16.
TNW to APW, June 24, 1911, TNW Collection, YCAL.

17.
Quoted in Martin,
Chefoo School
, 52.

18.
TNW to APW, n.d., TNW Collection, YCAL.

19.
TNW, “The Old Days.”

20.
TNW, “Chefoo, China,” 6.

21.
Ibid., 7–8.

22.
Ibid., 4.

23.
Ibid.

24.
APW to ANW, January 8, [1912?], TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

25.
APW, Temperance Pledge, holograph manuscript, January 7, 1912, TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged manuscripts.

26.
APW to Isabella Niven Wilder, December 7, [1911?], TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

27.
Ibid.

28.
Ibid.

29.
APW to Sherman Thacher, October 24, 1911, Thacher School Records.

30.
APW to Sherman Thacher, January 17, [1912?], Thacher School Records. In his haste Amos misdated this letter 1911.

31.
Ibid.

32.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, February 10, 1912, TNW Collection, YCAL.

33.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, n.d., TNW Collection, YCAL.

34.
APW, 1912–13 “Notes,” brown leather journal, TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged collection.

35.
APW to Sherman Thacher, March 9, 1912, Thacher School Records.

36.
Asian or tropical sprue, similar to celiac disease but without the gluten intolerance, appears in the Caribbean, India, and Asia, infecting native populations and newcomers alike. Tropical sprue is caused by bacterial or viral infection, or by parasites, vitamin deficiencies, or food toxins.

37.
TNW to APW, March 3, 1912, TNW Collection, YCAL.

38.
Ibid.

39.
TNW's academic report, China Inland Mission Boys' School, Summer Term, July 1912, TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged papers.

40.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, July 14, 1912, TNW Collection, YCAL.

41.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, June 16, 1912, TNW Collection, YCAL.

42.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, [1912?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

43.
TNW to APW, May 10, 1911, TNW Collection, YCAL.

44.
TNW to APW, [1911?] TNW Collection, YCAL.

45.
TNW to APW, May 13, 1911, TNW Collection, YCAL.

46.
TNW to APW, September 16, 1911, TNW Collection, YCAL.

47.
Headnote on letter from TNW to Father, [pre-September 30, 1911?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

48.
TNW to APW, September 30, 1911, TNW Collection, YCAL.

49.
APW to ANW, January 8, [1912?], and October 2, [1911?], respectively, TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

50.
TNW to APW, n.d., TNW Collection, YCAL.

51.
US Department of State Inspection Report, Shanghai, China, June 1911 [covers 1910 and 1911], General Records of the Department of State 1906–1939, NARA (RG59/250/48/13/2). Inspection Report of the American Consulate General, Shanghai, made by Fleming D. Cheshire.

52.
US Department of State Inspection Report, Shanghai, China, June 1913 [covers 1912 and 1913], General Records of the Department of State 1906–1939, NARA (RG59/250/48/13/2), “Explanatory Memorandum” to page 2. Inspection Report of the American Consulate General, Shanghai, made by George M. Murphy. This endnote applies to the entire passage.

53.
TNW, “Chinese Story: Doremus Tries Again,” II. 1, unpublished manuscript, n.d., TNW Collection, YCAL.

54.
Ibid.

 

5: “PARENTAL EXPECTATION” (1912–1913)

1.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, [late summer 1912?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

2.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, n.d., TNW Collection, YCAL.

3.
Ibid.

4.
ANW,
Thornton Wilder and His Public,
52.

5.
ANW to APW, May 11, [1913?], TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

6.
Sherman Thacher to L. B. Husted, June 12, 1912, Thacher School Records.

7.
Spence,
The Search for Modern China,
283.

8.
APW to Sherman Thacher, January 3, 1911, Thacher School Records.

9.
Ibid.

10.
APW, Thacher School Application Questionnaire, June 12, 1912, Thacher School Records.

11.
APW to “Dear Children,” June 3, 1910, TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

12.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, “Sept. Something,” [1912?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

13.
Ibid.

14.
Background on Thacher and Thacher School is drawn from LeRoy McKim Makepeace,
Sherman Thacher and His School
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1941; reprint, Ojai, CA: Ojai Printing and Publishing Company, 1989), 70–136; 188–98.

15.
Sherman Thacher to APW, March 6, 1911, Thacher School Records.

16.
Sherman Thacher to APW, October 11, 1911, Thacher School Records.

17.
TNW to APW, Dec. 13 [apparently misdated by TNW; more likely January 13, 1913, or late December 1912?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

18.
Makepeace,
Sherman Thacher and His School
, 128–29.

19.
Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, “Thornton Wilder,” Typescript, 1947, TNW Collection, YCAL. Wilmarth “Lefty” Lewis knew Amos and Thornton Wilder at Thacher and later at Yale. Lewis wrote his remembrance of TNW in response to an invitation from Clifton Fadiman on November 14, 1947, to contribute a piece on Wilder to
'47: The Magazine of the Year
, in conjunction with the publication of his novel
The Ides of March
in 1948. Lewis wrote and submitted the piece, but it was not published in Fadiman's magazine.

20.
Ibid.

21.
Ibid.

22.
Isabella Niven Wilder to ANW, March 10, 1941, ANW, Wilder Family Record, Private Collection.

23.
TNW to APW, “Thatcher [
sic
]. Sick room. Broken Heart. Sunday P.M.,” [1912?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

24.
Isabel Wilder, “About Charlotte Wilder,” [1941 or 1942?], ANW, Wilder Family Record, TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged papers.

25.
Charlotte Wilder to APW, [June 24?], 1913 [with a headnote in Charlotte's handwriting: “This is a letter that was written & mislaid so I send it on now.”], TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

26.
Ibid.

27.
TNW to APW, March [1913?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

28.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, June 11, 1913, TNW Collection, YCAL.

29.
TNW to APW, [1912 or 1913?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

30.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, “Jan. Sometime ad 20” [most likely January 1913], TNW Collection, YCAL.

31.
Ibid.

32.
Sherman Thacher to APW, May 15, 1913, TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

33.
APW to Sherman Thacher, September 27, [1922?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

34.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, June 11, 1913, TNW Collection, YCAL.

35.
Ibid.

36.
Ibid.

37.
TNW to APW, [June 1913?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

38.
US Department of State Inspection Report, Shanghai, China, June 1913 [covers 1912 and 1913], General Records of the Department of State 1906–1939, NARA (RG59/250/48/13/2), Inspection Report of the American Consulate General, Shanghai, made by George M. Murphy.

39.
Ibid.

40.
TNW to APW, [September 1913?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

41.
US Department of State Inspection Report, Shanghai, China, June 1913 [covers 1912 and 1913], General Records of the Department of State 1906–1939, NARA (RG59/250/48/13/2), Inspection Report of the American Consulate General, Shanghai, made by George M. Murphy.

42.
Ibid.

43.
Ibid.

 

6: “ALL ASPIRATION” (1913–1915)

1.
Olla Podrida,
December 1913, 46. Private Collection.

2.
TNW to APW, September 21, [19]13, TNW Collection, YCAL.

3.
Ibid.

4.
Ibid.

5.
Ibid.

6.
TNW to APW, [1914?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

7.
TNW to APW, [July 1913?], TNW Collection, YCAL. Also see
Galveston County (Texas) Daily News,
August 5, 1913.

8.
APW, 1914 Shanghai Diary, TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged papers.

9.
TNW to APW, December 14, 1913, TNW Collection, YCAL.

10.
TNW to APW, [late 1913 or early 1914?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

11.
Ibid.

12.
APW, 1914 Shanghai Diary, TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged papers.

13.
“Dr. A. P. Wilder. Farewell Receptions. Brilliant Speech to Young China.” Unidentified, undated news clipping, Wilder Family Record, TNW Collection, YCAL.

14.
Olla Podrida,
June 1914, 75. Private Collection. A printed program for TNW's 1914 playlet,“Successful Failure,” is contained in the TNW, YCAL, uncataloged papers.

15.
APW to ANW, [March 21?], 1914, TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

16.
APW to ANW, April 12, [1914?], TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

17.
APW to ANW, May 25, [1914?], TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

18.
Ibid.

19.
APW to ANW, April 27, [1914?], TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

20.
APW to ANW, [Summer 1914?], TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

21.
TNW to “Familie,” [p.m. June 15, 1914?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

22.
Ibid.

23.
ANW, “1914 Summer,” ANW, Wilder Family Record, Private Collection.

24.
APW to ANW, May 18, [1914?], TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

25.
APW to ANW, July 31, [1914?], TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

26.
APW to ANW, June 30, [1914?], TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

27.
For detailed background on Yale-in-China, see Nancy E. Chapman with Jessica C. Plumb,
The Yale-China Association: A Centennial History
(Chinese University Press, 2001), and Reuben Holden,
Yale in China: The Mainland/1907–1951
(New Haven: Yale-in-China Association, 1964).

28.
APW to ANW, June 3, 1915, TNW Collection, YCAL uncataloged letters.

29.
TNW to APW, June 27 and 28, [19]14, TNW Collection, YCAL.

30.
TNW to APW, n.d., TNW Collection, YCAL.

31.
TNW to APW, [Fall 1914?], TNW Collection, YCAL.