Hemingway, Fitzgerald and the Development of a Writing Career
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Hemingway, Fitzgerald and the Development of a Writing Career December, 2011 by LaLeesha T. Haynes i | P a g e Table of Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................... iv Guide to Editorial Practice ............................................................................................................. vi Symbols and Emendations ............................................................................................................. ix Editorial Symbols........................................................................................................................... xi Hemingway Publications from 1925-1927 ................................................................................... xii Transcription of Letters................................................................................................................... 1 Document 1 | December 31, 1925 ....................................................................................... 1 Document 2 | April 20th, 1926............................................................................................. 6 Document 3 | May 4, 1926 ................................................................................................ 12 Document 4 | June, 1926 ................................................................................................... 14 Document 5 | August 12, 1926 ......................................................................................... 24 Document 6 | August 17, 1926 ......................................................................................... 25 Document 7 | September 7, 1926 ...................................................................................... 27 Document 8 | September, 1926 ......................................................................................... 30 Document 9 | November 24, 1926 .................................................................................... 33 Document 10 | December, 1926 ........................................................................................ 36 Document 11 | December 23, 1926 ................................................................................... 37 Letters Facsimile Section .............................................................................................................. 39 Facsimile 1 | December 31, 1925 ...................................................................................... 39 ii | P a g e Facsimile 2 | April, 1926 ................................................................................................... 44 Facsimile 3 | May 4, 1926 ................................................................................................. 50 Facsimile 5 | August 12, 1926 ........................................................................................... 61 Facsimile 6 | August 17, 1926 ........................................................................................... 62 Facsimile 7 | September, 1926 .......................................................................................... 65 Facsimile 8 | September, 1926 .......................................................................................... 68 Facsimile 9 | September, 1926 .......................................................................................... 71 Facsimile 10 | December, 1926 ......................................................................................... 74 Facsimile 11 | December 23, 1926 .................................................................................... 75 Emendation List ............................................................................................................................ 77 Document 1 | December 31, 1925 ..................................................................................... 77 Document 2 | April 20th, 1926 ......................................................................................... 77 Document 3 | May 4, 1926 ................................................................................................ 77 Document 4 | June, 1926 ................................................................................................... 78 Document 5 | August 12, 1926 ......................................................................................... 80 Document 6 | August 17, 1926 ......................................................................................... 80 Document 7 | September 7, 1926 ...................................................................................... 80 Document 8 | September, 1926 ......................................................................................... 80 Document 9 | November 24, 1926 .................................................................................... 81 Document 10 | December, 1926 ........................................................................................ 81 Document 11 | December 23, 1926 ................................................................................... 81 Index ............................................................................................................................................. 82 Works Cited .................................................................................................................................. 84 iii | P a g e Introduction This selective, scholarly edition of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald documents was compiled in conjunction with the help of Creighton University, The John F. Kennedy Library, and Princeton University. These institutions have provided support, copies of the original letters, and copies of microfiche. Using photocopies instead of the original documents was a challenge of the project. The edition is a hybrid resource for scholars that provides annotated transcriptions and document facsimiles. The letters are organized chronologically and supplemented with editorial notes, an editorial apparatus, and an index. The letters in this edition were selected because of their relationship to Hemingway‘s early publications. The years of 1925-1927 were particularly productive times for Hemingway. It was during this time that he was becoming a novelist and writing stories that were indicative of the changes that were going on in his own life. The edition should show how Hemingway‘s friendship with Fitzgerald not only helped him establish publication ties with Charles Scribner‘s Sons (Scribners), but also impacted his writing. The documents begin with a letter dated December 31, 1925 to F. Scott Fitzgerald from Ernest Hemingway in which Hemingway states, ―Am turning down a sure thing for delay and a chance but feel no regret because of the impression I have formed of Maxwell Perkins through his letters and what you have told me of him. Also confidence in Scribners and would like to be lined up with you.‖ The letters come to a close on December 31, 1926 with a letter from Fitzgerald to Hemingway where he writes, ―I will try to look out for your interest with Scribner in America, but I gather that the need of that is past now and that soon you‘ll be financially more than on your feet.‖ The letters in this edition were selected from letters requested from the John F. Kennedy library dated 1925-1932. The criteria used for this selection iv | P a g e was the date of the document and the impact it had on the Hemingway‘s early writing and publication. The goal of this edition is to include, ―a collection of accurate and reliable transcriptions of those elements of the sources that can be either translated into printed symbols or adequately described in editorial notes‖ (Kline and Perdue 216). It also gives readers exciting insight into how the friendship between these two men impacted American literature. This selection of letters will give readers a glimpse into a time when Fitzgerald helped Hemingway get his material published with Scribners and other smaller contracts. Readers will also see how Hemingway, new to the business of novel publication, seeks out financial advice regarding subsequent, international printings of In Our Time and the submission of short stories to various magazines and publishing houses. This edition also shows some interesting insights into the lives of both Hemingway and Fitzgerald. The letters highlight the separation and divorce of Hadley and Ernest and the beginning of Fitzgerald's work on Tender is the Night--which he struggled with until 1930. v | P a g e Guide to Editorial Practice A goal of this project was to create an edition that was readable while maintaining reliability. Although there are some unconventional practices in this edition, its goals and emendations line up best with a plain text edition as described by in Mark Twain’s Notebooks & Journals, Volume 1 (1855–1873), ―Plain text, however, descends from a kind of transcription not mentioned by Bowers, in which the myriad details of a manuscript (particularly the author‘s alterations to it) are systematically divided between the text and its apparatus, precisely in order to make the text as complete and informative as possible without destroying its legibility‖ (Anderson, Frank and Sanderson 575-584) Emendations are minimal and used only to highlight the author‘s original words and process of writing. The circle symbol is used to indicate places where the author had circled text; both Hemingway and Fitzgerald circle the page