Thornton Wilder (107 page)

77.
TNW,
The Cabala
, 4.

78.
Ibid., 72.

79.
Ibid., 76.

80.
Ibid., 70–94.

81.
Ibid., 133.

82.
Ibid., 133–34.

83.
Ibid., 134.

84.
“Mordant”: TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, February 10, 1923, TNW Collection, YCAL.

85.
TNW,
The Cabala,
107.

 

17: “MY REAL VOCATION” (1926–1927)

1.
TNW to ANW, April 25, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

2.
Ibid.

3.
Ibid.

4.
Ibid.

5.
Theodore Purdy, Jr., “Mr. Wilder's
Cabala
,”
Saturday Review of Literature
, May 8, 1926, 771.

6.
John Farrar, as JF, “Brilliant, Bitter, Imaginative,”
Bookman
63, June, 1926, 478.

7.
Agnes Repplier, “The Cabala,”
Commonweal
4 (August 25, 1926): 391–92.

8.
TNW to Marie Townson, September 15, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

9.
William Lyon Phelps, “As I Like It,”
Scribner's Magazine
80 (August 1926): 224–31.

10.
Charles A. Wager to TNW, May 23, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

11.
TNW to Charles A. Wager, May 25, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

12.
Ibid.

13.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, June 21, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

14.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, March 29, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

15.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, April 5, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

16.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, April 22, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

17.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, April 25, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

18.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, August 15, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

19.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, May 23, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL. “Fox Film Company . . .”: TNW to Amy Wertheimer, June 6, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

20.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, June 10, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

21.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, June 21, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

22.
Ibid.

23.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, July 5, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

24.
TNW to Marie Townson, August 12, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

25.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, July 8, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

26.
Ibid.

27.
TNW to Marie Townson, August 12, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

28.
Ibid.

29.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, August 19, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

30.
Charlotte Wilder, “In a Corner of France,” August 16, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged manuscript.

31.
TNW to Marie Townson, September 15, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

32.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, April 11, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

33.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, June 19, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

34.
TNW to Douglas Townson, August 28, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

35.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, July 8, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

36.
TNW to APW, July 14, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

37.
TNW to Family, October 25, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

38.
Ibid.

39.
TNW, Journal, October 11, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

40.
TNW to William I. “Bill” Nichols, October 18, 1926, Nichols Papers, LC.

41.
TNW to Family, October 25, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

42.
TNW, Journal, October 11, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

43.
TNW, Journal, October 14, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

44.
TNW to APW, November 12, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

45.
TNW, Journal, [October 1926?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

46.
TNW to Bill Nichols, October 13, 1926, Nichols Papers, LC.

47.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, [October 22, 1926?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

48.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, October 25, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

49.
TNW to Douglas C. Townson, [October/November 1926?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

50.
TNW to Family, October 25, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

51.
TNW to Bill Nichols, October 13, 1926, Nichols Papers, LC.

52.
TNW to Henry R. Luce, September 9, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

53.
TNW,
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
(New York: HarperPerennial, 2003), 16.

54.
TNW to Doug and Marie Townson, November 4, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

55.
TNW to APW, November 12, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

56.
TNW to APW, October 25, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

57.
TNW to Douglas and Marie Townson, November 4, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

58.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, November 2, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

59.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, November 6, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

60.
TNW to Bill Nichols, November 3, 1926, Nichols Papers, LC.

61.
Ibid.

62.
TNW to Bill Nichols, [December 1926?], Nichols Papers, LC.

63.
TNW to Family, October 25, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

64.
Ibid.

65.
TNW to Family, November 28, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

66.
Hemingway took his novel's epigraph from his good friend in Paris, Gertrude Stein, whom TNW would not meet and befriend until years later, in Chicago rather than Paris.

67.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder and daughters, November 28, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

68.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, [December 1926?], TNW Collection, YCAL. The Hemingways had separated because of his affair with Pauline Pfeiffer. The Hemingways were divorced on January 17, 1927, after six months of separation, and Hemingway married Pauline Pfeiffer on May 10, 1927.

69.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder and daughters, November 28, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

70.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, [December 9, 1926?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

71.
Ibid.

72.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, [December 9, 1926?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

73.
TNW to Ernest Hemingway, November 9, 1926 [dated in holograph that may not be TNW's handwriting],
SL
, 193–94. It is unclear whether TNW read the play, or Hemingway sent it to Boleslavsky.

74.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, November 30, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

75.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, December 13, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

76.
Ibid.

77.
TNW to Ernest Hemingway, November 9, 1926,
SL
, 193–94.

78.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder and daughters, November 28, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

79.
Ibid.

80.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, [December 9, 1926?], TNW Collection, YCAL. “Pack of Rhodes Scholars . . .”: TNW to Marie and Doug Townson, March 12, 1927, TNW Collection, YCAL.

81.
TNW to Marie and Doug Townson, March 12, 1927, TNW Collection, YCAL.

82.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, [December 9, 1926?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

83.
Ibid.

84.
Richard Boleslavsky to HKS [Herbert K. Stockton], June 6, 1926, quoted by Ronald Arthur Willis, “The American Laboratory Theatre, 1923–1930” (Ph.D. thesis, University of Iowa, June 1968), 146. Herbert K. Stockton was treasurer of the Trustees of the American Laboratory Theatre, according to the ALT program for 1926–27.

85.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder and daughters, November 28, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

86.
The other plays were
The Sea Woman's Cloak
by Amelie Rives, Princess Troubetzkoy; and
The Straw Hat,
a “Farce Comedy with Music” adapted by Paul Tulane and Agnes Hamilton James from the French play by Eugène Labiche.

87.
“New American Play Is Quite Fantastic,”
New York Times,
December 11, 1926, 15.

88.
TNW,
Theophilus North
(New York: HarperPerennial, 2003), 56.

89.
“New American Play Is Quite Fantastic,”
New York Times,
December 11, 1926, 15.

90.
TNW to Marie and Doug Townson, March 12, 1927, TNW Collection, YCAL.

91.
TNW to Madam Kelly Wilder, December 30, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

92.
TNW to Bill Nichols, February 4, 1927,
SL
, 202–5.

93.
TNW to Marie and Doug Townson, March 12, 1927, TNW Collection, YCAL.

 

18: DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1927)

1.
TNW to Bill Nichols, February 4, 1927,
SL
, 202–5.

2.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, February 15, 1927, TNW Collection, YCAL.

3.
TNW to Bill Nichols, February 4, 1927,
SL
, 202–5.

4.
Ibid.

5.
TNW, Journal, November 11, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

6.
TNW, Journal, October 11, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.

7.
TNW, Journal, Entry 33, [between November 20 and December 2, 1926?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

8.
TNW to Bill Nichols, [Spring 1927?], Nichols Papers, LC.

9.
TNW to Bill Nichols, [1927?], Nichols Papers, LC.

10.
TNW to Bill Nichols, February 16, 1927,
SL
, 205–7.

11.
TNW to Amy Wertheimer, March 14, 1927, TNW Collection, YCAL.

12.
TNW to ANW, [March 1927?], TNW Collection, YCAL.

13.
TNW to Bill Nichols, July 3, 1927, Nichols Papers, LC.

14.
TNW to Bill Nichols, April 16, 1927, Nichols Papers, LC.

15.
TNW to Bill Nichols, March 15, 1927, Nichols Papers, LC.

16.
Ibid.

17.
TNW to Bill Nichols, March 23, 1927, Nichols Papers, LC. Jouve's first novel was the story, set in Italy, of the illicit love affair between Count Michele Cantarini and the woman reputed to be the most beautiful in Milan.

18.
TNW to Bill Nichols, February 16, 1927,
SL
, 205–7.

19.
TNW to Bill Nichols, February 27, 1927, Nichols Papers, LC.

20.
Ibid.

21.
TNW to Bill Nichols, March 15, 1927, Nichols Papers, LC.

22.
TNW to Bill Nichols, February 27, 1927, Nichols Papers, LC.

23.
TNW to Bill Nichols, March 23, 1927, Nichols Papers, LC.

24.
TNW to ANW, March 7, 1927, TNW Collection, YCAL.

25.
Lewis Baer to TNW, March 21, 1927, TNW Collection, YCAL.

26.
Lewis Baer to TNW, March 30, 1927, TNW Collection, YCAL.

27.
Quoted phrases from TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, January 10, 1927, TNW Collection, YCAL.

28.
Edward Weeks to Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, July 20, 1977, enclosing the typescript of a proposed Chautauqua lecture on TNW, to be given in August 1977. TNW Collection, YCAL.

29.
TNW to Edward Weeks, June 3, 1927, TS, TNW Collection, YCAL.

30.
Ibid.

31.
TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, March 29, 1927, TNW Collection, YCAL. TNW often referred to the older firm, Boni & Liveright, when he meant Albert & Charles Boni.

32.
Lewis Baer to TNW, April 7, 1927, TNW Collection, YCAL.

33.
TNW to Marie and Doug Townson, June 7, 1927, TNW Collection, YCAL.

34.
TNW to Grace Foresman, May 25, 1927, TNW Collection, YCAL.

35.
TNW to Lewis Baer, July 25, 1927,
SL
, 215–16.

36.
TNW to Grace Foresman, July 25, 1927, TNW Collection, YCAL.

37.
TNW to Isabel Wilder, July 21, 1927, TNW Collection, YCAL.

38.
TNW to Bill Nichols, July 3, 1927, Nichols Papers, LC.