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Dictionary of Literary Biography • Volume Two Hundred Ninety-Four

James Gould Cozzens: A Documentary Volume

Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli

A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book

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Plan of the Series xxvii Introduction xxix Acknowledgments xxxiii Permissions xxxiv Books by 3 Chronology 5 I. Youth and Confusion 9 Early Years 9 Brought Up in a Garden—from James Gould Cozzens's foreword to Roses of Yesterday (1967) Facsimile: Illustrated composition Facsimile: Staten Island Academy composition Two Poems-'The Andes," The Qwjfljanuary 1915, and "Lord Kitchener," Digby Weekly Courier, 16June1916 Kent School \ 15 A Democratic School-article by Cozzens, Monthly, 1920 Emerson: "A Friendly Thinker"—essay by Cozzens, Kent Quarterly, December 1920 Books That Mattered—list of books Cozzens submitted to Christian Century, 22 August 1962 Harvard 19 The Trust in Princes-poem by Cozzens, Harvard Advocate, 1 November 1922 Remember the Rose—story by Cozzens, Harvard Advocate, 1 June 1923 A First Novel 22

Facsimile: for Confusion Some Putative Facts of Hard Record or He Commences Authour Aetatis Suae 19-20-Cozzens letter to Matthew J. Bruccoli The Birth of Cerise: from Confusion Facsimile: Pages from Cozzens's 1923 diary: 24 February, 13 March, and 17 October The Death of Cerise: from Confusion Reception of Confusion 31 Harvard Undergrad, at 19, Has 'Best Seller' Accepted-Boston Traveller, 1 April 1924 ; Beebe Celebrates Cozzens-from The Lucius Beebe Reader and Beebe's review of Cozzens's novel in the Boston Telegram, 8 April 1924 A Voice From Young Harvard-C. B. O., Boston Evening Transcript, 9 April 1924

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Harvard Sophomore, Only 19, Writes Successful Novel- The New York World, 20 April 1924 There Was a Lady-review in , 27 April 1924 Review of Confusion-^. M., , 1 May 1924 Confusion: Studying the Conflicts of Youth Without Throwing Mud—review in The Boston Herald, 10 May 1924 The Pluperfect Virgin—review of Confusion, John Carter, New York Evening Post Literary Review, 10 May 1924 Fiction Brief—review of Confusion, R. B. F., The New Republic, 24 September 1924 Facsimile: Inscription in Confusion to H. Tatnall Brown Jr. Facsimile: Inscription in Confusion to Ingle Barr Cozzens as Scholar and Editor: His Preface to The Criticisms of John Keats on English Poetry

II. Michael Scarlett, Cock Pit, and The Son of Perdition 45 An Elizabethan Novel 45 Meeting Nashe and Marlowe: from Michael Scarlett Cozzens Previews Michael Scarlett—article by Cozzens, Daily Princetonian, 12 June 1925 Shakespeare on Scarlett's Play: from Michael Scarlett Shakepeare's Praise—from the English of Michael Scarlett Elizabedian England—review of Michael Scarlett, The New York Times Book. Review, 15 November 1925 Cozzens letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 21 November 1925 Michael Scarlett: A History-review in The Times Literary Supplement, 4 August 1927 The Elizabethan World of Michael Scarlett-essay by George Garrett Facsimile: Inscription in Michael Scarlett to John Abbott and Europe Cock Pit 57

An Inquisition: from Cock Pit Marriage—sestet of a love poem Cozzens wrote for Bernice Baumgarten Don Miguel's Arrangement: from Cock Pit Cozzens to Berdia Wood Cozzens, 23 February 1928 Facsimile: Inscription in Cock Pit to R. O. Binet A Passion in Cuba-review of Cock Pit, Isa Glenn, New York Evening Post, 29 September 1928 Cuban Sugar Planters—review of Cock Pit, The New York Times Book Review, 7 October 1928 Cuban Drama-review of Cock Pit, David Bramble, New York Herald Tribune Books, 7 October 1928 Facsimiles: Inscriptions in Cock Pit to H. Tatnall Brown Jr. and to Ingle Barr The Son of Perdition 69 Cozzens to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 26 November 1928 Findley Meets Stellow: from The Son of Perdition '• A Place Prepared: from The Son of Perdition Desperately Interesting—review of The Son of Perdition, William McFee, New York Herald Tribune Books, 1

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Son of Perdition—review of The Son of Perdition, William Bolitho, The New York World, 17 September 1929 Cozzens on His Early Novels-from Cozzens letter to John M. Iggulden, 20 March 1963 Figures in Cuba—review of The Son of Perdition, Vincent McHugh, Providence Journal, 6 October 1929 A Strongly Dramatic Tale of Cuba—review of The Son of Perdition, Charles G. Poore, The New York Times Book Review, 6 October 1929 Re-assessing the Cuban Novels—from Cozzens letter to WilliamJovanovich, 28 October 1966 Writing Short Stories 80

III. The Novels of 1931-1940: S.S. San Pedro, The Last Adam, Castaway, Men andBrethen, and Ask Me Tomorrow 85 S.S. San Pedro 85 Cozzens letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 10 December 1928 A First Sentence—from Edmund Morris's address on Cozzens The Necessary Limitations of Man's Nature-from Cozzens letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 5 August 1929 The Ship at Dockside: from S.S. San Pedro Some Deep Sleep: from S.S. San Pedro Redivivus-review of S.S. San Pedro, William McFee, The Saturday Review of Literature, 12 September 1931 Facsimile: Review of S.S. San Pedro, Christopher Morley, Book-of-the-Month Club News, August 1931 Facsimile: Inscription in S.S'. San Pedro to Ingle Barr New Novels: review of S.S. San Pedro, The Times Literary Supplement, 10 September 1931 Facsimile: Page with Cozzens's revisions for the 1967 , Brace 8c World "Uniform Edition" The Last Adam 97 A Portrait of Henry Harris: from The Last Adam Facsimilev Review of The Last Adam, Henry Seidel Canby, and interview article, Ruth Hale, Book-of-the-Month Club News, December 1932 Cozzens' Novel of Life In New Winton and of Dr. Bull Worth While—review of The Last Adam, Joseph H.Jackson, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 January 1933 Facsimile: Review by John Chamberlain, The New York Times Book Review, 8 January 1933 Cozzens, Author of Novel About Connecticut Denies He Had Kent In Mind-Praised Yankees- Cozzens letter to the Waterbury Republican, 19 January 1933 Excerpt from review by T. S. Matthews in The New Republic, 25 January 1933 The Last Adam-response to Cozzens letter to the editor, Alfred C. Worley, The New Milford (Connecticut) Times, 2 February 1933 A Cure of Eesh-review in The Times Literary Supplement, 23 February 1933 The World of Books: Imaginative Realism-reviews of S.S. San Pedro and A Cure of Flesh, Desmond MacCarthy, The Sunday Times (London), 12 March 1933 Facsimile: Inscription in The Last Adam to H. Tatnall Brown Jr. j Facsimile: Page with Cozzens's revisions for the 1956 Harvest edition of The Last Adam Castaway "115 Writing Castaway--from Cozzens letter to Frederick Bracher, 5 June 1958

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Mr. Lecky Gets a Gun: from Castaway Facsimile: Explanatory preliminary note for Castaway included in die English edition Facsimile: Inscription in Castaway to Gordon Cooper, 16 October 1934 ~ Castaway-review, The Times Literary Supplement, 18 October 1934 Gruesome Crusoe-review of Castaway, William Rose Benet, The Saturday Review of Literature, 17 November 1934 A Department Store Crusoe—review of Castaway, David C. Tilden, New York Herald Tribune Books, 16 December 1932 My Favorite Forgotten Book-Stanley Edgar Hyman, Tomorrow, May 1947 Men and Brethren " 124 Lulu Merrick: from Men and Brethren Cudlipp's Calling: from Men and Brethren The First Reader-review of Men and Brethren, Harry Hansen, New York World-Telegram, 2January 1936 James Gould Cozzens Portrays New York Clergyman and His Problems in Brilliant Novel—review of Men and Brethren, Herschel Brickell, New York Post, 2January 1936 Books of the Times—review oi Men and Brethren, Robert Van Gelder, The New York Times, 4 January 1936 Praise for Men and Brethren--excepts from Ernest W. Mandeville, Churchman, 1 January 1936; Elmer Davis, The Saturday Review of Literature, 4 January 1936; F. H. Britten, Books, 5 January 1936; C. B. Palmer, Boston Transcript, 11 January 1936; Time, 13 January 1936; Louis Kronenberger, The Nation, 15 January 1936; Henry Seidel Canby; Dorothea Kingsland, The New York Times, 19January 1936; A. S. Hurley, Christian Century, 5 February 1936; Living Church, 22 February 1936; Herschel Brickell, Review of Reviews, February 1936; Kenneth Horan, Journal of Commerce; and Stephen Hole Fritchman, The Christian Register, 5 March 1936; A New Parish-review of Men and Brethren, Mark Schorer, The New Republic, 15 January 1936 Biographical Statement-Cozzens letter to Fred B. Millett, 4 February 1937 Portrait of a Vicar—review of Men and Brethren, The Times Literary Supplement, 14 March 1936 Facsimile: Inscription in Men and Brethren to H. Tatnall Brown Jr. New Novels—review of Men andBrethren, Cyril Connolly, New Statesman andNation, 14 March 1936 Ask Me Tomorrow 138 A Writer's Ambition: from Ask Me Tomorrow Books of die Times—review of Ask Me Tomorrow, Ralph Thompson, The New York Times, 13 June 1940 Books And Things—review of Ask Me Tomorrow, Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune Books, 15June1940 James Gould Cozzens at Work-Robert Van Gelder, The New York Times Book Review, 23 June 1940 The American Ineffectual—review of Ask Me Tomorrow, Jonathan Daniels, The Saturday Review of Literature, 29June1940

IV. The Just and the Unjust 145 The Doylestown Case 145 Cozzens letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 26 January 1940 ' Body of Weiss Found in Creek; Shot, Weighted-article from the Philadelphia Inquirer, 23 January 1935 Weiss Death Trials Start Tomorrow—article by George M. Mawhinney from the Philadelphia Inquirer, 24 February 1935

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Ex-pal Names 2 Mais Aides As Weiss Slayers-article by George M. Mawhinney from the Philadelphia Inquirer, 27 February 1935 Farrell, Wiley Guilty, Must Die in Chair for Weiss Kidnap-Murder-article by Mawhinney, from the Philadelphia Inquirer, 3 March 1935 Progress Report—Cozzens letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 27 December 1940 The Just and the Unjust: Fiction Examines Life, Death, and die Role of the Jury-essay by Robert T. Harper Facsimile: Pages from the docket for The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Martin Farrell and Francis Wiley The Novel 162 Cozzens letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 7 February 1941 The Docket: from The Just and the Unjust The FBI on die Stand: from The Just and the Unjust Facsimile: Inscription in the dedication copy of The Just and the Unjust to Edward G. Biester Facsimile: Front page for The Harcourt, Brace News, 15 July 1942 The Way Things Are Run: from The Just and the Unjust Facsimile: Front page from Book-of-the-Month Club News, July 1942 Judge Coates on Doing the Impossible: from The Just and the Unjust Reception of The Just and the Unjust 174 The Conflict of Scruples—review of The Just and the Unjust, Joseph Hergesheimer, The Saturday Review of Literature, 25 July 1942 It's the Loudest Squeak That Gets die Grease—review of The Just and the Unjust, Rose Feld, New York Herald Tribune Books, 26 July 1942 Facsimile: Henry Seidel Canby's review of The Just and the Unjust in Book-of-the-Month Club News, July 1942 A New Novel of the Law In America's Small Town-review of The Just and the £%ktf, Joseph Henry Jackson, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 July 1942 Career of Ab Coates: Cozzens' Big Novel of an American Community-review of The Just and the Unjust, W. T. Scott, Providence (R.I.) Journal, 26 July 1942 Shakespeare, Swift, Steele, Gibbon, Austen, Hazlitt—Cozzens statement for Twentieth Century Authors Yankees in the Courtroom—review of The Just and the Unjust, Arthur Garfield Hays, The New Republic, 17 August 1942 What Lawyers Actually Do—review of The Just and the Unjust, Zechariah Chafee Jr., Harvard Law Review, March 1943 Law and the Free- The Times Literary Supplement, 17 April 1943 Facsimile: Inscription in The Just and the Unjust to Ingle Barr J. Edgar Hoover Protests 187 John Edgar Hoover letter to Cozzens, 31 August 1942 BOMC Apology-from Book-of-the-Month Club News, December 1942 Cozzens letter to , 15 April 1950 Revisions for Hoover

V. 189 A Coign of Vantage 189

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The First Manual—article by Lieutenant James Gould Cozzens, AFTAD Liaison Bulletin, 29 June 1943 Writing Clearly-article by Lieutenant James Gould Cozzens, AFTAD Liaison Bulletin, 9 July 1943 Considering "A Time of War"—from Selected Notebooks, lOJanuary 1966 ~ Writing the "Scandal Sheet"—from Morning Noon and Night Facsimile: Memorandum for the Chief, 4 April 1945 Facsimile: Memorandum for die Chief, 14 April 1945 Facsimile: Memorandum for the Chief, 19 April 1945 Air Force Diary, Friday 20 April 1945 Air Force Diary, Thursday 26 April 1945 Facsimile: Memorandum for the Chief, 23 April 1945 Facsimile: Memorandum for die Chief, 25 April 1945 Air Force Diary, Thursday 10 May 1945 Air Force Diary, Sunday 20 May 1945 Air Force Diary, Monday 11 June 1945 Facsimile: Memorandum for the Chief, 14 May 1945 Facsimile: Memorandum for the Chief, 12 June 1945 Facsimile: Memorandum for the Chief, 14 June 1945 Facsimile: Memorandum for the Chief, 23 June 1945 Facsimile: Memorandum for the Chief, 3 July 1945 Writing Guard of Honor 210

Cozzens letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 27 January 1946 Cozzens letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 13 October 1946 Cozzens letter to Berdia Wood Cozzens, 2 February 1947 Cozzens letter to Berdia Wood Cozzens, 1 February 1948 Facsimile: Pages from Cozzens's notebook Cozzens letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 8 February 1948 Cozzens letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 14 March 1948 Cozzens letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 4 July 1948 Cozzens letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 18July 1948 Cozzens letter to Kenneth Potter, no date Cozzens letter to General Hume Peabody, no date The Novel 216 Flying to Ocanara: from Guard of Honor The Rise of General Beal: from Guard of Honor The Mind of General Nichols: from Guard of Honor Colonel Ross on "The Nature of Things": from Guard of Honor Conclusion: from Guard of Honor The Reception of Guard of Honor .\. 225 Guard of Honor-John P. Marquand, Book-of-the-Month Club News, September 1948

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What Can or Cannot Be Done—review of Guard of Honor, Melvin Maddocks, Christian Science Monitor, 30 September 1948 War: Amateur vs. Pro vs. Children—review of Guard of Honor, John Woodburn, The Saturday Review of Literature, 2 October 1948 Zone of Interior—review of Guard of Honor, Brendan Gill, , 9 October 1948 "You're in die Army Now"—review of Guard of Honor, Mark Schorer, New York Herald Tribune Books, 10 October 1948 On the Reviews by Gill and Schorer-from Cozzens letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 10 October 1948 A Bookman's Notebook: A '?'—review of Guard of Honor, Joseph Henry Jackson, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 October 1948 The Easy Chair—review of Guard of Honor, Bernard De Voto, Harper's Magazine, February 1949 Distinguished Fiction Published in Book Form—announcement of the in fiction, New York Herald Tribune, 3 May 1949 Cozzens on Winning the Pulitzer—from Cozzens letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 8 May 1949 Artists in Contrast-review of Guard of Honor, C. P. Snow, The Sunday Times (London), 20 November 1949 New Novels—review of Guard of Honor, Antonia White, The New Statesman and Nation, 3 December 1949 Assessments of Cozzens after Guard of Honor 236 James Gould Cozzens and the Art of die Possible—essay by Stanley Edgar Hyman, New Mexico Quarterly Review, Winter 1949 An Intelligent Tory—from Granville Hicks, "The Reputation ofJame s Gould Cozzens," College English, January 1950 Facsimile: Cozzens letter to William Cole, 20 January 1951 On Criticism-from Cozzens letter to , 25 February 1953 Cozzens's Respect for Responsible Citizens—from Francis Fergusson, Perspectives. USA, Winter 1954 The Complex World of Guard ofHonor-frova. essay by Louis O. Coxe, , May 1955 Critical Examinations of Guard of Honor 248 Guard of Honor: Providential Luck in a Hard-Luck World-essay by R. H. W. Dillard, in New Acquist of True Experience (1979) The Particularity of Guard of Honor-essay by R. V. Cassill, in New Acquist of True Experience

VI. By Love Possessed 257 Writing By Love Possessed 257 Contents for abandoned novel "Fast Falls the Eventide" Facsimile: Cozzens's notebook entry concerning his abandoned novel Facsimile: Notebook entry Cozzens letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 15 August 1948 Cozzens letter to Berdia Wood Cozzens, 16 January 1949 Cozzens letter to Berdia Wood Cozzens, 27 February 1949 Facsimile: Docket for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. John Warren Cozzens letter to Berdia Wood Cozzens, 3 April 1949 Facsimile: Five drafts of die opening of an early version of By Love Possessed The Courdiouse on a Friday September Afternoon—from By Love Possessed

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Cozzens letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 11 February 1951 Cozzens letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 22 April 1951 Cozzens letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 7 December 1952 Facsimile: Pages from Cozzens's notebook Facsimile: Four drafts of an abandoned opening of the novel Facsimile: Page from working papers The Novel 274 On Changing What's Going to Happen: from By Love Possessed Jerome Weidman letter to Denver Lindley, 7July 1957 Uncommon Words Arthur and Clarissa: from By Love Possessed Cozzens on die Flap Copy—from Bernice Baumgarten Cozzens letter to Denver Lindley, 3 May 1957 Secrets Revealed: from By Love Possessed Excerpt from Fulke Greville's Mustapha Facsimile: Revised galley proofs Facsimile: Cozzens annotated copy of Time Magazine cover story On TiW-Cozzens letter to Fact, October 1963 Acclaim for a Masterpiece 292 BOMC Report-Clifton Fadiman, Book-of-the-Month Club News, August 1957 James Gould Cozzens—Edward Newhouse, Book-of-the-Month Club News, August 1957 Summa cum Laude—review of By Love Possessed, Brendan Gill, The New Yorker, 24 August 1957 SR's Spotlight on Fiction: "By Love Possessed"-review by Whitney Balliett, The Saturday Review, 24 August 1957 Facsimile:]zssmyn West review, New York Herald Tribune, 25 August 1957 The World of Arthur Winner Jr.: Amid Neighbors Swayed by Passion He Tries to Be the Man of Reason- review of By Love Possessed, , The New York Times Book Review, 25 August 1957 Nomination for a —review of By Love Possessed, John Fischer, Harper's, September 1957 Advertising: How They Sold a Best Seller: Why Harcourt Won't Turn to Making Sausages-article by Carl Spielvogel, The New York Times, 20 October 1957 'By Love Possessed': They Buy It, But Is It Read?-Mardia MacGregor, New York Post, 5 January 1958 James Gould Cozzens: The Condition of Modern Man-from article by John William Ward, American Scholar, Winter 1957-1958 The Backlash ". .310 Gone Tomorrow—review of By Love Possessed by William F. Buckley Jr., National Review, 26 October 1957 Cozzens to Thurston N. Davis, SJ., 8 October 1957 Cozzens letter to Buckley, 31 October 1957 Profile of an Aristocrat: James Gould Cozzens-from article by Louis McKernan, C.S.P., Catholic World, November 1957 ; Cozzens letter to McKernan, 30 October 1957 Kick & Nut File-critical remarks collected by Cozzens

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Dwight Macdonald's Attack 314 By Cozzens Possessed: A Review of Reviews—from article by , Commentary The Best Sellers of 1957 in the Bookstores-Publishers' Weekly, 20 January 1958 Cozzens letter to Macdonald, 5 March 1958 Cozzens letter to Buckley, 30 November 1959 Cozzens letter to Tally McKee, 18 February 1960 Explaining die Backlash against By Love Possessed—from Cozzens notebooks, 8 July 1960, 24 September 1961, and 27 September 1961 Facsimile: Cozzens's memo on his marked copy of Commentary The English Reception 319 Mr. Cozzens Hits die Jackpot—review article of By Love Possessed, C. P. Snow, Sunday Times (London), 8 December 1957 The Limits of Conscience—review of By Love Possessed, by D. W. Harding, The Spectator, 18 April 1958 New Novels—review of By Love Possessed, Maurice Richardson, New Statesman, 19 April 1958 The Long Week-End—review of By Love Possessed, The Times Literary Supplement, 25 April 1958 Assessments of Cozzens after By Love Possessed 326 The Quarrel About Cozzens or The Vagaries of Book Reviewing—Heinrich Straumann, , August 1959 Facsimile: Inscription in the Portuguese translation of By Love Possessed" On Human Nature-frorri Cozzens letter to Frederick Bracher, 5 June 1958 Language and Style in By Love Possessed—from Bracher, The Novels of James Gould Cozzens (1959) On Keeping Characters in Character—from By Love Possessed and Cozzens letter to, Michael Patrick Egan, 25 June 1959 Guardian of Middle-Class Honor-review of Bracher's The Novels of James Gould Cozzens, Elizabeth Janeway, The New York Times Book Review, 9 August 1959 The William Dean Howells Medal—as presented by Malcolm Cowley, 1961 A Review of the Movie By Love Possessed—Paul V. Beckley, New York Herald Tribune, 20 James Gould Cozzens: How to Read Him-essay by R. H. W. Dillard (1997) for Grown-Up Readers—from Selected Notebooks, 9 October 1960

VII. Children and Others and Morning Noon and Might 353

Children and Others .' 353 Report on Children and (Mem-John K. Hutchens, Book-of-the-Month Club News, July 1964 Cozzens on "A Skyborn Music"-from Selected Notebooks, 6 December 1960 Facsimile: Discarded start of "A Skyborn Music" A Little Corner of the Status Quo—review by Frederick C. Crews, The New York Times Book Review, 2 August 1964 Cozzens on Crews-from Cozzens letter to Crews, 20July 1964,John O'Hara letter to Cozzens, 4 August 1964, and Cozzens letter to O'Hara, 10 August 1964 Cowley Responds to Crews—letter to the editor, The New York Times, 13 September 1964

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A Cozzens Collection: Moments Captured Alive-W. G. Rogers, The Sunday Bulletin (Philadelphia), 2 August 1964 'Children and Others': An 'Unknown' Giant Again Proves His Stature-Clifford A. Ridley, The National Observer, 3 August 1964 Raise die Banner Again for Cozzens-review by Jerome Weidman, Life, 7 August 1964 By Ideology Possessed-review by Jeffrey Hart, National Review, 22 September 1964 Morning Noon and Night ". 364 Worthington on Vocation: from Morning Noon and Night Whatever I Prove Able to Do-from Selected Notebooks, 1 October 1965 Worthington on Writers: from Morning Noon and Night Presenting "True Experience"-from Selected Notebooks, 12 November 1966 Cozzens and Jovanovich—Cozzens letter to William Jovanovich, 10 March 1968 Worthington on Ordering Experience: from Morning Noon and Night Worthington's "Stubborn Persuasion": from Morning Noon and Night The Reception of Morning Noon and Night 367

Report on Morning Noon and Night--by Clifton Fadiman, Book-of-the-Month Club News, September 1968 A Sympathetic Reader-W.Jackson Bate letter to Cozzens, 2July 1968 The Sense of Frustration—review of Morning Noon andNight, Hayden Carrudi, Chicago News, 10 August 1968 Three Stages of Life—review of Morning Noon andNight, Granville Hicks, The Saturday Review, 24 August 1968' .. Cozzens on Hicks—from Selected Notebooks, September 1966 'A Work of Unburdening Myself'—review of MorningNoon and Night, John Barkham, Gary (Ind.) Post-Tribune, 25 August 1968 The Bookshelf: World of the WASP-review of Morning Noon and Night, Edmund Fuller, Wall Street Journal, 29 August 1968 Cozzens on Updike-Cozzens letter to Julian Muller, 5 November 1968 More Critical Views-Publishers' Weekly (17June 1968); Agnes C. Ringer, Free Library of Philadelphia Library Journal (July 1968); Katherine Gauss Jackson, Harper's (October 1968); Dr. Frederick Shroyer, Los Angeles Herald Examiner; Edwin M. Yoder Jr., Greensboro Daily News; Richard Sullivan, Chicago Sun- Times; Grace P. Comans, The Hartford Courant; Eldon Barrett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer; W. Emerson Wilson, Wilmington News; and South Bend Tribune "The Secret Trudi"-Cozzens letter to William Jovanovich, 19 November 1968 Cozzens' Stoicism Broke Down under Lash of Critics—article by Emmett Peter, Orlando Sentinel Star, August 1978 Facsimile: Title page for "The Wind and the Rain" The Habit of Work—Cozzens letter to Jovanovich, 29 September 1969 Facsimile: Page from die typescript for "The Wind and die Rain" Recollections and Reconsiderations of Cozzens 385 Whatever Wishful Thinking May Wish: The Example of James Gould Cozzens-essay by George Garrett in Just Representations (1978) Style and Techniques—from essay by Frederick Bracher for Just Representations Facsimile: Cozzens's revisions of introduction to Just Representations

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James Gould Cozzens, 1903-1978-essay by Hortense Calisher, Proceedings of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1981 Cozzens's Heroes-statement by James Dickey, New Acquist of True Experience (1979) James Gould Cozzens—A View from Afar—essay by John M. Iggulden, DLB Yearbook 1997: The James Gould Cozzens Case Reopened The Wages of Sentiment-from Edmund Morris's address on Cozzens, 15 September 2000 Requirements 401 About Being Written About: or By Nimiety Possessed—previously unpublished essay by Cozzens, 1978 Cozzens's "Gallery of Lives"—quote from William Jovanovich, 2000

Appendices 407 Cozzens on His Contemporaries, Writing, and die Literary Life 407 On 407 1919-from. letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 22 March 1932 U.S.A.-from letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 30 January 1940 On 407 Of Time and the River-from letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 12 March 1935 Cozzens on -from letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 15 March 1935 On Ernest 408 —frpm letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 10 November 1937 -from letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 18 -from letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 5 October 1952 On \ 409 Excerpt from letter to Bertha Wood Cozzens, 24 January 1939 Observations on Writing and the Literary Life 410 Excerpt from Selected Notebooks, 24 May 1960 Excerpt from Selected Notebooks, 1 January 1961 Excerpt from Selected Notebooks, 18 May 1961 Facsimile: Notebook entry Excerpt from Selected Notebooks, 13 July 1961 Excerpt from Selected Notebooks, 20 November 1961 Excerpt from Selected Notebooks, 17 August 1962 Excerpt from Selected Notebooks, 4 December 1962 Excerpt from Selected Notebooks, 1 May 1963 Excerpt from Selected Notebooks, 29 January 1964 Excerpt from Selected Notebooks, 6 May 1964 Excerpt from Selected Notebooks, 12 December 1965 "The Best Agent in New York" 413 Essay by Matdiew J. Bruccoli on Bernice Baumgarten For Further Reading and Reference ,.. 417 Cumulative Index 425

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