Thornton Wilder (102 page)

30.
Vacation details are to be found in ANW, Wilder Family Record for 1916, Private Collection.

31.
TNW to Papa, September 1, [19]16, TNW Collection, YCAL.

32.
TNW to Mother, August 28, [19]16, TNW Collection, YCAL.

33.
Ibid.

34.
Ibid.

35.
TNW to Papa, September 1, [19]16, TNW Collection, YCAL.

36.
Ibid.

37.
Ibid.

38.
TNW to Rudolf Kommer, September 15, [19]16, TNW Collection, YCAL.

39.
Vacation details are to be found in ANW, Wilder Family Record, 1916, Private Collection.

40.
Ibid.

41.
TNW to Rudolf Kommer, September 15, [19]16, TNW Collection, YCAL.

42.
TNW to Papa, September 26, [19]16, TNW Collection, YCAL.

43.
TNW to Charlotte Wilder, October 16, [19]16, TNW Collection, YCAL.

44.
ANW,
Armageddon Revisited : A World War I Journal
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994)
,
6.

45.
Ibid.

46.
ANW, September 1916, ANW, Wilder Family Record, TNW Collection, YCAL.

47.
Ibid.

48.
ANW,
Armageddon Revisited,
2–3.

49.
ANW, November 1926, 5, ANW, Wilder Family Record, TNW Collection, YCAL.

50.
APW to ANW, November 26, [1916?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

51.
Ralph Wentworth to APW, May 24, 1917, Mount Hermon School Archives.

52.
Isabel Wilder's Application for Admission to Northfield Seminary, completed by APW, October 16, 1916, Mount Hermon School Archives.

53.
APW to Mr. Dickerson, June 30, 1919. Mount Hermon School Archives.

54.
TNW to Mother, October 22, [19]16, TNW Collection, YCAL.

55.
TNW to ANW, October 16, 1916, ANW, Wilder Family Record, TNW Collection, YCAL.

56.
TNW to ANW, December 8, 1916, ANW, Wilder Family Record, TNW Collection, YCAL.

57.
TNW to ANW, September 23, [19]16, TNW Collection, YCAL.

58.
TNW to Mother, [1915?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

59.
Geoffrey Blodgett,
Oberlin Architecture, College and Town: A Guide to Its Social History
(Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1985), 93.

60.
TNW to Mother, September 4, [19]16, TNW Collection, YCAL.

61.
TNW to ANW, September 23, [19]16, TNW Collection, YCAL.

62.
TNW to Mother, October 22, [19]16, TNW Collection, YCAL.

63.
TNW to Papa, [Fall 1916?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

64.
TNW to Mother, September 4, [19]16, TNW Collection, YCAL.

65.
TNW to Mama, November 13, [19]16, TNW Collection, YCAL.

66.
TNW to Mother, [Fall 1916?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

67.
Ibid. The play was published in the
Oberlin Literary Magazine
in December 1916.

68.
TNW to Mother, November 23, [19]16, TNW Collection, YCAL. When he was thirteen, TNW had seen the American playwright and poet Percy MacKaye's dramas performed in the Greek Theatre at the University of California, Berkeley. MacKaye's translation of Sophocles'
Antigone
was performed there in June 1910.

69.
TNW to Mother, November 23, [19]16, TNW Collection, YCAL.

70.
TNW to Mother, [Fall 1916], TNW Collection, YCAL.

71.
TNW to Papa, November 14, [19]16, TNW Collection, YCAL.

72.
Ibid.

73.
Isabella Niven Wilder to TNW, December 1, 1916, TNW Collection, YCAL.

74.
Verhaeren was sixty-one that November of 1916 when he fell at Rouen Station in Paris and was crushed to death by a train. “Today suddenly—cruelly it seemed—/ Your long road turned the road long dreamed . . . ,” Isabella wrote. Her poem was not published.

75.
TNW to Mother, [December 1916?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

76.
TNW to ANW, September 7, [1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

77.
Isabella Niven Wilder to ANW, November 30, 1916, ANW, Wilder Family Record, TNW Collection, YCAL.

78.
TNW to ANW, December 8, 1916, ANW, Wilder Family Record, TNW Collection, YCAL.

79.
APW to Isabella Niven Wilder, December 1916, ANW, Wilder Family Record, TNW Collection, YCAL.

 

9: DISTANT SONS (1917)

1.
TNW to Mother, October 22, [19]16, TNW Collection, YCAL.

2.
TNW to Family, Monday Night, [1916 or 1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

3.
TNW to Papa, January 11, [19]17, TNW Collection, YCAL.

4.
TNW to Papa, February 14, [19]17, TNW Collection, YCAL.

5.
Ibid.

6.
TNW to Sherman Thacher, March 4, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

7.
Ibid.

8.
APW to TNW, March 18, [1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

9.
Ibid.

10.
TNW to Mother, March 14 [1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL. TNW's pleas to do wartime farmwork may be found in his two postcards to his father, April 21, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL.

11.
TNW refers to the three spiritual stories in TNW to Papa, “Second Sunday in March,” [1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

12.
Ibid.

13.
TNW to Papa, “The First Day of Spring / The Third Year of the War,” [March 1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

14.
Ibid.

15.
Isabella Niven Wilder to ANW, March 15, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

16.
ANW,
Armageddon Revisited,
9.

17.
TNW to Family, [April 6, 1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

18.
TNW to APW, [1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

19.
TNW to Family, “The day War was declared / Good Friday . . . ,”[April 6, 1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

20.
Isabella Niven Wilder to ANW, April 13, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

21.
TNW to APW, Isabella Niven Wilder, Isabel, and Janet, April 10, [19]17, TNW Collection, YCAL.

22.
TNW to ANW, April 11, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

23.
TNW to Elizabeth Lewis Niven, April 19, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL.

24.
TNW to Mother, April 20, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL.

25.
Isabella Niven Wilder to ANW, April 27, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL uncataloged letters.

26.
TNW to Family, April 22, [1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

27.
TNW to Family, Monday Night, n.d., TNW Collection, YCAL.

28.
TNW to Family, April 22, [1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

29.
TNW to Mother, [Fall 1916?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

30.
TNW to Family, April 22, [1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

31.
TNW to Papa, April 21, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL.

32.
TNW to APW, May 1, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL.

33.
TNW to Family, April 10, [1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

34.
TNW, “Journal. Commencing April 25, 1917,” April 25, [1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

35.
TNW to APW, Monday Morning, [June 4, 1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

36.
TNW, “Journal. Commencing April 25, 1917,” April 25, [1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

37.
TNW, “Journal. Commencing April 25, 1917,” May 14, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL. After a long career in theater and motion pictures, Gareth Hughes became Brother David in the early 1940s, and in 1944 began working with the Paiute Indians in Nevada (not as a priest, but as a layperson). He died at the age of seventy on October 1, 1965, at the Motion Picture House and Country Home, Woodland Hills, California, according to his official biographer, Stephen Lyons.

38.
TNW, “Journal. Commencing April 25, 1917,” May 17, [1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

39.
Ibid.

40.
Ibid.

41.
TNW, “Journal. Commencing April 25, 1917,” April 29, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL.

42.
APW to TNW, April 30, [1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

43.
TNW, “Journal. Commencing April 25, 1917,” April 28, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL.

44.
TNW, “Journal. Commencing April 25, 1917,” April 30, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL.

45.
TNW, “Journal. Commencing April 25, 1917,” May 3, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL.

46.
TNW to Papa, May 10, [1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

47.
Ibid.

48.
Isabella Niven Wilder to ANW, May 10, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

49.
Isabella Niven Wilder to ANW, May 18, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

50.
TNW to ANW, May 26, [19]17, TNW Collection, YCAL.

51.
TNW to Papa, [May 1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

52.
Ibid.

53.
TNW to Papa, [1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

54.
TNW to Papa, [May 1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

55.
TNW, “Journal. Commencing April 25, 1917,” May 26, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL.

56.
TNW to ANW, May 26, [19]17, TNW Collection, YCAL.

57.
Ibid.

58.
ANW,
Thornton Wilder and His Public
, 10.

59.
TNW to ANW, May 26, [19]17, TNW Collection, YCAL.

 

10: “FLOWERING INTO LITERATURE” (1917–1918)

1.
Isabella Niven Wilder to ANW, March 1, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

2.
Isabella Niven Wilder to ANW, May 31, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

3.
TNW to ANW, October 18, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

4.
TNW,
The Eighth Day
(New York: HarperPerennial, 2006), 10.

5.
TNW to Papa & Family, June 13, [1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

6.
APW to “My Darling Son,” [June 1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

7.
Ibid.

8.
APW to TNW, June 30, [1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

9.
Isabella Niven Wilder to ANW, June 28, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

10.
Isabella Niven Wilder to ANW, July 5, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

11.
Charlotte Wilder, “Hollows,” 1918–19, LD 7096.6 1919, courtesy of Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections. Robert Frost's message was conveyed in a letter from Clara F. Stevens to Charlotte, June 6, 1919, also courtesy of Mount Holyoke.

12.
APW to ANW, June 30, [1914?], TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.

13.
Ibid.

14.
APW to TNW, [1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL. (One page of typed letter is missing.)

15.
TNW to ANW, August 1, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL.

16.
TNW to Mother, July 26, [1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

17.
TNW to Papa & Family, June 13, [1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

18.
TNW to Mother, July 26, [1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

19.
TNW to Mother, July 20, [1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

20.
Ibid.

21.
TNW to Mother, [1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

22.
Charles Wager to TNW, June 26, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL.

23.
TNW to Charles Wager, [June 1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

24.
APW to TNW, June 30, [1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

25.
Quoted in Shannon H. Wilson,
Berea College: An Illustrated History
(Louisville: University of Kentucky Press, 2006), synopsis.

26.
TNW to APW, [Summer 1917?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

27.
Isabella Niven Wilder to ANW, January 18, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL uncataloged letters.

28.
TNW to ANW, August 1, 1917, TNW Collection, YCAL.

29.
TNW to Charles Wager, September 2, [1917?], Oberlin College Archives, Oberlin, OH.