| Creator: | Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 |
| Title: | Fitzgerald mss. III |
| Collection No.: | LMC 1370 |
| Dates: | 1925 |
| Quantity: | Quantity: 1 folio |
| Abstract: | Fitzgerald mss. III, 1925, consists of the presentation slips of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, novelist, for The Great Gatsby . |
| Location: | Lilly - Folio |
| Language: | Materials are in English . |
| Repository: | Lilly Library 1200 E. Seventh St. Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500 Business Number: 812-855-2452 liblilly@indiana.edu URL: https://libraries.indiana.edu/lilly-library |
The Fitzgerald mss. III, 1925 contains writing and correspondence of American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940). Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St. Paul, MN, and raised mainly in Buffalo, NY. He attended Princeton University before dropping out to join the Army in 1917, following the United States' entry into World War One. Fitzgerald never saw action but instead was stationed at Camp Sheridan near Montgomery, AL. It was at a local country club where he met his future wife, Zelda Sayre, 1900-1948. In the 1920s, Fitzgerald became part of the "Lost Generation" of American expatriate writers in Paris, the era from which the materials in this collection derive. His literary works include This Side of Paradise (1920), The Beautiful and the Damned (1922), The Great Gatsby (1925), Tender is the Night (1934), and an unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon (originally The Last Tycoon, published posthumously, 1941).
Fitzgerald mss. III, 1925, consists of the presentation slips of Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, 1896-1940, novelist, for The Great Gatsby . Fitzgerald was abroad when the novel was published in 1925 and was unable to inscribe the copies, therefore he sent Perkins a set of presentation slips, each with a name written on it. These slips were intended to be included with presentation copies, but they arrived late and were never used. The roster consists of Franklin P. Adams, Herbert Agar, Thomas Beer, Prince Antoine Bibesco, John Peale Bishop, Ernest Boyd, Thomas A. Boyd, Van Wyke Brooks, Heywood Broun, James Branch Cabell, Henry Siedel Canby, Mary Coleman, William Curtiss, Benjamin de Casseris, John Farrar, Mrs. Edward Fitzgerald, Blair Flandran, John Galesworthy, Hildegarde Hawthorne, Sidney Howard, Robert Kerr, esq, Sinclair Lewis, Robert McClure, Cyril Maplethorpe, H.L. Mencken, Eunice Nathan, George Jean Nathan, Burton Rascoe, Paul Rosenfeld, Mrs. A.D. Sayre, Gilbert Seldes, Laurence Stallings, Charles Hanson Towne, Carl Van Doren, Carl Van Vetchten, Bernard Vaughn, J.A.V. Weaver, Edmund Wilson Jr., and Alexander Wolcott.
Collection size: 39 items
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[Item], Fitzgerald mss. III, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Gift: 1972