Notes

All of Auchinc1oss' s letters to his mother quoted in this study are in the Louis Auchinc10ss Collection (no. 9121) of the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of the University of Virginia Library. In the notes below they are cited as 'LA to PSA' [i.e. Louis Auchinc10ss to Priscilla Stanton Auchinc1oss], followed by the date. Auchinc1oss's correspondence with James Oliver Brown is in the James Oliver Brown Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, while his correspondence with Gore Vidal is in the Gore Vidal Collection, State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

INTRODUCTION

1. Alfred Kazin, 'The Writer as Sexual Show-Off: Or Making Press Agents Unnecessary', New York, VIll, no. 23 (9 June 1975) 36. 2. Lady Bird Johnson, A White House Diary (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970) p. 676. 3. 'Dual Career', New Yorker, XXVI (13 Aug 1960) 25. 4. R. W. B. Lewis, 'Silver Spoons and Golden Bowls', Book Week (Washington Post), 20 Feb 1966, p.8. 5. Auchinc1oss, 'A Jacobite Files a Demurrer', Virginia Quarterly Re­ view, XL (Winter 1964) 148. 6. Auchinc10ss (ed.) Introduction to Fables of Wit and Elegance (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972) p. vii. 7. Auchincloss, 'Proust's Picture of Society', Partisan Review, XXVII (Fall 1960) 701. The essay was reprinted in Auchincloss, Reflections of a Jacobite (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1961) pp. 95-111. 8. A[mold] W. E[hrlich], 'PW Interviews: Louis Auchincloss', Pub­ lishers' Weekly, ccv (18 Feb 1974) 12. 9. Jean W. Ross, 'An Interview with Louis Auchincloss', Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1980 (Detroit: Gale Research, 1981) p. 7; and Auchinc1oss, A Writer's Capital (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1974) p. 122. 10. Gore Vidal, 'Real Class', New York Review of Books, XXI (18 July 1974) 10. For Granville Hicks's statement, see 'Louis Auchincloss', in Hicks, with the assistance of Jack Alan Robbins, Literary Horizons: A Quarter Century of American Fiction (New York: New York University Press, 1970) p. 185. In 1961 Auchincloss similarly drew the support of Leon Edel: 'Value of a Novel', New York Times Book Review, 28 May 1961, p.24. 11. Granville Hicks, 'Literary Horizons - a Bad Legend in his Lifetime', Saturday Review, XLIX (5 Feb 1966) 36; repro in Hicks and Robbins, Literary Horizons, p.204. Other references to Auchincloss's tech­ nique and style as old-fashioned can be found in, for instance,

228 Notes 229

William Barrett, 'Once Affluent Society', The Atlantic, CCX (Aug 1962) 142; Richard Sullivan, 'A World of Values and Standards', Chicago Sunday Tribune Magazine of Books, 26 Mar 1967, p.5; Richard Todd, 'The Rich Get Rich, but they also Get Children', The Atlantic, CCXXXVII (Apr 1976) 112. 12. Auchincloss, 'Stuyvesant to Lindsay', Book Week (Washington Post), 23 Oct 1966, p. 14. 13. Auchincloss, 'Flaubert and James - Opposing Points of View', New York Times Book Review, 24 June 1984, p. 32; and Auchincloss, 'Doctrin­ aire' (letter to the editor), New York Times, 12 Oct 1968, sec. II, p.8. 14. 'I believe that writers today (and probably always) are too conscious of literary fashions' - Bill Kennedy, 'Auchincloss: A "Special Author", but ... ', Albany Times-Union, 15 Jan 1967, p. HI. 15. Auchincloss, 'Good Housekeeping', New York Review of Books, XXXIII (17 July 1986) 32. 16. Auchincloss, 'Swann', New York Times, 13 Nov 1978, p. A23. 17. Barbara Goldsmith and Auchindoss, 'Royal Reporters', Interview Magazine, Dec 1980, pp.64-6; Dinitia Smith, 'The Old Master and the Yuppie', New York, XIX, no. 32 (18 Aug 1986) 30-4; Susan Cheever, 'The Most Underrated Writer in America', Vanity Fair, Oct 1985, pp. 104-7, 119-20. 18. For instance, Tom Stevenson, 'Louis Auchincloss: Teller of Tales out of Court', Juris Doctor III (Nov 1973) 20-3; David Ray Papke, 'The Writer on Wall Street: An Interview with Louis Auchindoss', American Legal Studies Association Forum, v, no. 3 (1981) 5-12; 'Fellow Louis S. Auchincloss Spoke at ACPC New York Luncheon', Ameri­ can College of Probate Counsel Newsletter, IX (Sep 1971) 2-3; Auchin­ closs, 'The Diner Out', Juris Doctor, III (Nov 1973) 24-8, 30. 19. Patricia Kane, 'Lawyers at the Top: The Fiction of Louis Auchin­ doss', Critique, VII (Winter 1964-5) 36-46. 20. G. Edward White, 'Human Dimensions of Wall Street Fiction', American Bar Association Journal, LVIII (Feb 1972) 175-80. 21. Wayne W. Westbrook, Wall Street in the American Novel (New York: New York University Press, 1980) pp. 182-96. 22. James W. Tuttleton, The Novel of Manners in America (Chapel Hill: University of South Carolina Press, 1972) pp. 245-61. 23. Gordon Milne, The Sense of Society: A History of the American Novel of Manners (Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1977) pp.236-51. 24. Robie Macauley, 'Let Me Tell You about the Rich', Kenyon Review, XXVII (Autumn 1965) 653-5; Leon Edel, 'Grand Old Man - Not What He Seems to Be', Life, LVII (17 July 1964) 11, 18; Leo Braudy, 'Realists, Naturalists, and Novelists of Manners', in Daniel Hoffman (ed.), Harvard Guide to Contemporary American Writing (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1979) pp. 84-6, 136-8. 25. Jackson R. Bryer, Louis Auchincloss and his Critics: A Bibliographical Record (Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall, 1977). 26. Christopher C. Dahl, Louis Auchincloss, Literature and Life Series, American Writers (New York: Ungar, 1986). 230 Notes

27. David B. Parsell, Louis Auchincloss, Twayne's US Authors Series, no. 534 (Boston, Mass.: Twayne, 1988).

CHAPTER 1 THE BOY AND THE YOUNG MAN, 1917-35

1. Auchincloss, A Writer's Capital (Minneapolis: University of Minne­ sota Press, 1974) p. 21. Auchincloss's motto for his autobiography, 'It has been said that his childhood is a writer's entire capital', was adapted from Mark Twain, who wrote to an unidentified correspon­ dent, 'I confine myself to life with which I am familiar, when pre­ tending to portray life. But I confine myself to the boyhood out on the Mississippi because that had a peculiar charm for me and not because I was not familiar with other phases of life .... Now then: as the most valuable capital, or culture, or education usable in the building of novels is personal experience, I ought to be well equipped ... ' - Bernard DeVoto (ed.), The Portable Mark Twain (New York: Viking, 1974) pp. 773-5. 2. Auchincloss A Writer's Capital, pp. 21-2,27. 3. The quotations in this paragraph are from A Writer's Capital, pp.23-4. 4. Cf. ibid., p.33, where Auchincloss identifies the car as a red Rolls-Royce. In actual fact, Thomas Quinn Curtiss has said, it was a yellow Hispano-Suiza, extravagant enough but not quite in the same league as a Rolls-Royce. The discrepancy between fact and Auchincloss's account goes to show the slightly dramatized nature of his autobiography: while the gist is true, the details have been altered so as to create a more evocative picture. Whether these changes occurred consciously or unconsciously cannot be deter­ mined here. Upon reading the manuscript of this study, however, Auchin­ closs wrote, 'He [Curtiss] is quite wrong. It was a red Rolls Royce. How I knew them! And I knew Hispanos, too. Miss Dorothy Sturges and Mrs. Whitney Carpenter had Hispanos; Aunt Nanny Steele and Mrs. George Whitney had Rollses. You see I still remember! And how Mother hated that red Rolls' (Auchincloss to Vincent Piket, 28 Jan 1989). 5. Cf. Auchincloss, A Writer's Capital, p.27. 6. Cf. ibid., p.32; and Auchincloss, 'Behind the Brownstone Door', New York Times Magazine, 28 Apr 1985, pt II, p.62. 7. Cf. Auchincloss, A Writer's Capital, p.28. Referring to his boyhood years Auchincloss confirmed this aspect in an interview: 'It always seemed to me that, in essence, when I was a child, every single thing that was supposed to be fun by my parents was awful, odious. And that all the things that I enjoyed and found delightful were regarded as bad' (interview with Auchincloss, 2 July 1987). Notes 231

8. Cf. Auchincloss, A Writer's Capital, pp. 36, 110. Other references to psycho-religious images can be found in A Writer's Capital, pp.45, 80,88. 9. Eleanor Bovee to Dr Endicott Peabody, 22 Apr 1929. The corres­ pondence with Peabody quoted here and below is in the Groton School Archives. 10. Oliver La Farge, Raw Material (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1945) p.13. The quotations in the following paragraph are also from La Farge's chapter about his Groton experience - Raw Material, pp.7-22. 11. LA to PSA, [c. 8 Sep 1945]. 12. Auchincloss to Oliver La Farge, 9 Sep 1945 (Oliver La Farge Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the Univer­ sity of Texas at Austin). 13. Bovee sixth-form school record, and application statement of Auchincloss, submitted to Groton School, 22 April 1929 (Groton School Archives). 14. Record of physical examination for admission to Groton, 3 and 4 June 1929 (Groton School Archives). 15. Auchincloss to La Farge, 9 Sep 1945. 16. LA to PSA [c. 8 Sep 1945]. 17. Ibid. 18. L. C. Z. [Louis C. Zahner], 'Form History', The Groton School Year Book 1935 (Groton, Mass.: Groton School sixth form, [1935]) pp. 34, 42,44. 19. Auchincloss to La Farge, 9 Sep 1945. 20. Endicott Peabody to Priscilla Stanton Auchincloss, 3 Dec 1930. 21. Auchincloss to La Farge, 9 Sep 1945. 22. The Groton School Year Book 1935, p.71. 23. Auchincloss, 'Editorial', The Grotonian, LI (Oct 1934) 3-5. 24. Auchincloss, 'Editorial', The Grotonian, LI (Christmas 1934) 77. 25. Auchincloss, 'Editorial', The Grotonian, LI (Mar 1935) 147-8. 26. Auchincloss, 'Editorial', The Grotonian, LI (Nov 1934) 33. 27. Auchincloss, 'Editorial', The Grotonian, LI (May 1935) 175-6. 28. Auchincloss, A Writer's Capital, p.51. 29. Auchincloss, 'To Be or Not to Be', The Grotonian, XLIX (Mar 1933) 140-2. 30. Auchincloss, 'Editorial', The Grotonian, L Gune 1934) 230-1. 31. Auchincloss, 'Editorial', The Grotonian, LI (Nov 1934) 33-4. 32. Auchincloss, 'Public Opinion', The Grotonian, XLIX (Gune 1933) 203-6. 33. Auchincloss, 'The Dance', The Grotonian, L (Dec 1933) 32-6. 34. Auchincloss, 'A Day in the City', The Grotonian, L Gune 1934) 232-7. 35. Auchincloss, 'Mademoiselle', The Grotonian, L (Christmas 1933) 71-2. 36. Auchincloss, 'Summer Day', The Grotonian, LI (Oct 1934) 5-10. 37. Auchincloss, 'Versailles', The Grotonian, LI (Mar 1935) 149-54. 232 Notes

CHAPTER 2 SELF AND SOCIETY, 1936-46

1. Cf. LA to PSA, 16 Aug 1942. 2. LA to PSA, [c. 8 Sep 1945]. 3. For a summary of Auchincloss's Yale activities, see 'Louis Stanton Auchincloss', in Gaspard d'Andelot Belin, Jr, et al. (eds), History of the Class of Nineteen Thirty-Nine, Yale University (New Haven, Conn., 1939) p.206. 4. 'Contributors' Column', Yale Literary Magazine, ell (Apr 1937) 3-4. 5. For Auchincloss's description of the exacting quality of his friend­ ship with Woods, see A Writer's Capital, pp. 76, 79. In an interview Auchincloss has said, 'He made you so uncomfortable with your­ self, he was really a terrible sort of person. He turned you inside out. It wasn't that he was cruel, because he wasn't cruel. It was that he got inside you, and you didn't want him there. He had a very strong hold on people' (interview with Auchincloss, 2 July 1987). 6. LA to PSA, 19 Mar 1942. 7. LA to PSA, 29 May 1942. 8. LA to PSA, 20 July 1945. 9. LA to PSA, [c. 8 Sep 1945]. 10. Auchincloss, A Writer's Captal, p.71. 11. David Ray Papke, 'The Writer on Wall Street: An Interview with Louis Auchincloss', American Legal Studies Association Forum, v, no. 3 (1981) 9. See also A Writer's Capital, p. 74, where Auchinc10ss writes that 'never again does one receive impressions with quite the same kind of emotional intensity with which one receives them between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one'. 12. For a recent expression of this aspect, see Auchinc1oss, 'To Dine and Talk in Sexual Segregation' [letter to the editor], New York Times, 6 Jan 1980, Sec. IV, p.18, where Auchincloss states that the 'special give and take in nonmixed conversation' may be due to 'the absence of sexual attraction or sexual opportunity'. 13. Auchincloss, 'Miss Bissell', Yale Literary Magazine, CI (May 1936) 28-33. 14. Auchincloss, 'Old Retainer', Yale Literary Magazine, ell (Nov 1936) 15-21. 15. Auchincloss, 'The Last Supper', Yale Literary Magazine, em (Sep 1937) 15. 16. Auchincloss, 'The Beach', Yale Literary Magazine, ell (Dec 1936) 4-11. 17. Auchincloss, 'The Cheton-Pulver Game', Yale Literary Magazine, ell (Mar 1937) 24-32. 18. Auchincloss, 'Finish, Good Lady', Yale Literary Magazine, em (Mar 1938) 11-12. 19. Auchincloss, 'Two Votes for Beauty', Yale Literary Magazine, em (May 1938) 15-16, 26. 20. Auchincloss, 'A World of Profit' (unpublished typescript, 1938) p. 276. Subsequent page references are to this typescript, which is in the Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Notes 233

21. Papke, in American Legal Studies Association Forum, v, no. 3, p.7. 22. For another description of this aspect, see 'The Styles of Mr. Justice Cardozo', in Auchincloss, Life, Law and Letters (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1979) pp.47-58. Cf. also A Writer's Capital, pp.85-6. 23. Mario Cuomo, the present Governor of New York, remembered being struck by the quality of the prose of an Auchincloss article. 'I was working ... as a clerk to Judge Adrian Burke of the State Court of Appeals. I read a brief on a dull state matter that stunned me with its liveliness, cogency, and literary quality. "He should be a writer", I said of the author. "He is", I was told. The attorney in question was Louis Auchincloss. His 1956 book, The Great World and Timothy Colt, was a great read' - 'Books that Gave Me Pleasure' (sym­ posium), New York Times Book Review, 5 Dec 1982, p.9. 24. Cf. LA to PSA, 12 Feb 1943: 'I can't help thinking ... how always a strange sort of fate seems to be guarding me from any contact with ... "the real thing", whether I get shoved in the Book Review Dept. of the Law Review or the trust estate dept. of S. & c.' 25. LA to PSA, [c. 8 Sep 1945]. 26. Interview with Auchincloss, 8 July 1987. 27. Cf. Auchincloss, A Writer's Capital, p.52. A policeman answered what he considered Auchincloss's insult to the President by slap­ ping Auchincloss in the face. 28. Auchincloss, review of Holmes-Pollock Letters (The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Sir Frederick Pollock 1874-1932), ed. Mark DeWolfe Howe, in Virginia Law Review, XXVII (March 1941) 730-2. 29. Auchincloss, review of Life and Law by Samuel Williston, in Virginia Law Review, XXVII (Feb 1941) 572. 30. Auchincloss, review of The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy by Robert H. Jackson, in Virginia Law Review, XXVII (May 1941) 980-1. 31. LA to PSA, 19 Mar 1942. 32. LA to PSA, 22 Apr and 29 Aug 1942. 33. LA to PSA, 19 Mar 1942. 34. LA to PSA, 4 Aug 1942 and 20 Aug 1943. 35. LA to PSA, 12 Mar 1942. 36. LA to PSA, 12 Aug 1942. 37. LA to PSA, 4 Aug 1942. Stewart Alsop (1914-1974), a columnist for Newsweek and the Saturday Evening Post, was rejected for military service in the US Army. He consequently volunteered in the British Army, to transfer to the US Army later. 38. LA to PSA, 10 Aug 1942. 39. LA to PSA, 9 Nov 1942. 40. LA to PSA, 7 Jan 1943. 41. LA to PSA, 12 and 23 Feb 1943. 42. LA to PSA, 12 Feb 1943. 43. LA to PSA, 14 May 1944. 44. LA to PSA, 20 July 1944. 45. LA to PSA, 4 Dec 1944. 46. LA to PSA, 30 Nov 1944. 234 Notes

47. LA to PSA, 25 Sep 1944. 48. LA to PSA, 21 Oct 1945. 49. LA to PSA, 5 Nov 1945. 50. LA to PSA, 21 Feb 1942. 51. LA to Priscilla Dixon Auchincloss and William Pedersen, 21 Feb 1941. 52. LA to PSA, 23 Nov 1942. 53. LA to PSA, 14 Nov and 7 Dec 1944. 54. LA to PSA, 23 June 1945. 55. LA to PSA, 4 Apr 1945. 56. LA to PSA, 7 Mar 1944 and 27 July 1945. 57. LA to PSA, 2 and 7 Nov 1944. 58. LA to PSA, 23 Nov 1944. 59. LA to PSA, 7 Nov 1944. 60. LA to PSA, 9 Apr 1945. 61. LA to PSA, 20 Sep 1945. Auchincloss had written 'I think Truman is going to do better than FDR' on 15 May 1945, just one month after Roosevelt's death. 62. LA to PSA, 31 Oct 1945. 'Bellevue' refers to Bellevue Hospital, New York. 63. LA to PSA, [c. 10 Nov 19451.

INTRODUCTION TO PART II

1. LA to PSA, 15 May 1945. 2. LA to PSA, 1 Dec 1942. 3. 'Auchincloss, Louis So', in John X Healey, Jr (ed.), Twenty-Five Years Out (New Haven, Conn.: Class of 1939, on the occasion of its 25th reunion, [1964]) p. 35. Cf. Auchincloss, A Writer's Capital, p. 118. 4. This account is based on interviews conducted on 6 and 9 July 1987 with two contemporary friends of Auchincloss, Samuel P. Shaw and Robert D. Brewster. 5. Interview with Samuel P. Shaw, 6 July 1987. 6. Auchincloss to Vincent Piket, 3 Mar 1987. 7. Interview with Auchincloss, 2 July 1987. 8. Auchincloss's net receipts from his writing were $1213.69 in 1949, $958.75 in 1950, and $5031.21 in 1952 Games Oliver Brown to Auchincloss, 24 Jan 1950, 29 Dec 1950 and 8 Jan 1953, respectively). 9. Interviews with Auchincloss, 8 July 1987, and Robert D. Brewster, 9 July 1987. 10. 'Dual Career', New Yorker, XXXVI (13 Aug 1960) 24. 11. Interview with John Leggett, 5 Aug 1987. John Leggett was Auchincloss's Houghton Mifflin editor at the time. Cf. also A Writer's Capital, p. 125. 12. Sandra Davis, 'Best-Selling Novelist Louis Auchincloss - Urbane Echo of a Graceful Past', Life, LX (15 Apr 1966) 54. 13. Lewis Nichols, 'Talk with Mr. Auchincloss', New York Times Book Review, 27 Sep 1953, p.28. Notes 235

14. The Injustice Collectors sold between 2000 and 2500 copies. The advance sales of Sybil amounted to 3240 copies. A Law for the Lion solid 5466 copies. (Brown to Auchindoss, 16 Oct 1950 and 9 Jan 1952; Houghton Mifflin publicity department.) 15. Interview with John Leggett, 5 Aug 1987. 16. Auchindoss, A Writer's Capital, p. 125. 17. C. D. B. Bryan, 'Under the Auchindoss Shell', New York Times Magazine, 11 Feb 1979, p.61. 18. Lewis Nichols, 'Talk With Louis Auchindoss', New York Times Book Review, 21 Oct 1956, p.56. 19. Cf. Auchindoss, ['Literature and the Law'], Federal Rules Decusions, CI (St Paul, Minn.: West Publishing, 1984) p. 286. 20. Cf. Auchindoss, A Writer's Capital, p. 125. 21. 'Interview' ... Louis Auchindoss'. The Literary Guild, May 1976, p.2.

CHAPTER 3 SOCIAL TREMORS, 1947-54

1. LA to PSA, 3 Sep 1944. 2. LA to PSA, 5 Nov 1945. 3. The two reports by the Little, Brown readers are in Auchindoss's private files. The pseudonym Arthur Sandford was 'just a name I picked' (interview with Auchindoss, 2 July 1987). 4. Auchindoss to Vincent Piket, 27 Jan 1987. Cf. also A Writer's Capital, p.87. 5. LA to PSA, 21 Oct 1944. 6. Commenting on the sister of the Panamanian President, Auchin­ doss noted, 'The sister has great dignity and is Panama's first hostess ... but her fortune is derived from the possession of real estate in the "red light" district' (LA to PSA, Oct 1942). Cf. Auchindoss, The Indifferent Children (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1947) p.113. 7. 'In the afternoon I'm usually running around in a car delivering papers, which is harmless fun' (LA to PSA, 10 Aug 1942). Cf. The Indifferent Children, p.299. 8. LA to PSA, 21 Oct 1945. 9. Walking into the harbour, Stregelinus takes in his ship and notes. 'She was not a beautiful yacht; her lines lacked the grace of the Moonstone tied further down the dock' (The Indifferent Children, p.189). 10. LA to PSA, 21 Oct 1945. 11. Cf. LA to PSA, 30 Mar 1942; and The Indifferent Children, p.357. 12. Auchindoss, A Writer's Capital, p.81. Jack Woods thought that the name Stregelinus 'sounded like Auchindoss. He said you could tell that somebody called Beverly Stregelinus was partly funny' (inter­ view with Auchindoss, 2 July 1987). 13. LA to PSA, 20 Sep 1945. 236 Notes

14. Auchincloss, Introduction to The Indifferent Children (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964) p. v. Cf. also A Writer's Capital, p. 108. 15. Upon finishing the novel Auchincloss wrote to his mother that 'the background chapter of the hero' was 'disproportionately long' (LA to PSA, 21 Oct 1945). One of the readers at Little, Brown com­ mented that the novel 'picks up slowly after a long, hard beginning' (Little, Brown reader's report). 16. Auchincloss, The Indifferent Children (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1947) p. 16. Subsequent page references are to this edition. 17. For the creation of Strege linus Auchincloss drew on his own life, but also used an acquaintance as a model. This acquaintance was an effete dilettante who found out that he was a homosexual. Auchin­ closs has later written that 'the trouble with Beverly Stregelinus is that I, naive at the time, did not realize that my model was a homosexual' (Auchincloss to Vincent Piket, 27 Jan 1987). However, in view of the many suggestions of the character's homosexuality in the novel, it seems implausible that Auchincloss was totally 'naive' about the sexual question. 18. Several reviewers criticized the ending of The Indifferent Children. Basil Davenport called it 'unnecessary' (Book-of-the-Month Club News, June 1947, p.14). B. V. Winebaum criticized it as 'the fatalistic melodrama of the epilogue' (New York Times Book Review, 1 June 1947, p.13). Richard Rogers called the ending 'too abrupt' (Ohio State-Journal [Columbus], 23 June 1947, p.8). 19. Cf. Auchincloss, A Writer's Capital, pp.113-14; and Vincent Piket, 'An Interview with Louis Auchincloss', Dutch Quarterly Review, XVIII, no. 1 (1988) 20-1. The name 'Andrew Lee' was chosen 'with some bitter irony' because he was 'the clerical ancestor of Mother's who was supposed to have cursed any of his descendants who should drink or smoke' (A Writer's Capital, p. 113). 20. Interview with Auchincloss, 21 Jan 1986. William McFee's review appeared as 'Another Newcomer Writes an Impressive Novel', in the New York Sun, 27 May 1947. 21. Cf. Lewis Nichols, Talk with Mr. Auchincloss', New York Times Book Review, 27 Sep 1953, p.28. 22. 'Maud' appeared in two instalments in Atlantic Monthly, CLXXXIV (Dec 1949) 38-44, and CLXXXV (Jan 1950) 55-60. 'Finish, Good Lady' was published in Atlantic Monthly CLXXXVI (Oct 1950) 38-44. Apart from its title, the story has nothing in common with the 'Finish, Good Lady' that Auchincloss published in the Yale Literary Magazine. 23. Auchincloss to James Oliver Brown, 14 Sep 1949. 24. Evelyn Waugh to Auchincloss, 13 Nov (1950], in The Letters of Evelyn Waugh, ed. Mark Amory (New Haven, Conn., and New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1980) p. 340. 25. Auchincloss, 'Author's Note', The Injustice Collectors (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1950) p. vii. 26. Ibid., p. viii. 27. Edmund Bergler to Auchincloss, 25 Aug 1950 (Auchincloss's personal files). Notes 237

28. Cf. Auchincloss to Vincent Piket, [11 July 1988). Replying to Bergler's letter, Auchincloss agreed to add an 'Author's Note' to The Injustice Collectors explaining his use of Bergler's phrase. 29. Auchincloss, Sybil (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1971) pp.28, 20, 103. Subsequent page references are to this reprint of the original 1951 Houghton Mifflin edition. 30. At the time of the publication of A Law for the Lion it had already been decided that The Romantic Egoists would be published in 1954. Cf. Nichols, in New York Times Book Review, 27 Sep 1953, p.28. 31. Ibid. 32. Auchincloss, A Law for the Lion (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1953) pp.8, 27, 11, 170. Subsequent page references are to this edition. 33. The same fantasy and fear of exposure and exhibition recurs in several other novels and short stories by Auchincloss. Cf. The House of Five Talents (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1960) p.15; The Country Cousin (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1978) pp. 35, 51; The House of the Prophet (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1980) p.I66; 'Narcissa', in Narcissa and Other Fables (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1983) pp. 1-21. 34. For a few reprsentative reviews, see Walter Allen, 'New Novels', New Statesman and Nation, XLVI (5 Sep 1953) 264; John Barkham, 'Shattered Pattern', New York Times Book Review, 27Sep 1953, pp. 5, 38; CharlesJ. Rolo, 'Eloise and Esther', Atlantic Monthly, cxcn (Oct 1953) 87-8.

CHAPTER 4 STUDIES OF MINDS UNDER PRESSURE, 1954-9

1. Cf. A Writer's Capital, pp. 122-4, where Auchincloss discusses the influence on his fiction of his discovery that 'a man's background is largely of his own making'. 2. Lewis Nichols, 'Talk with Louis Auchincloss', New York Times Book Review, 21 Oct 1956, p.56. 3. James Stern, 'Reflections in a Mirror', New York Times Book Review, 16 May 1954, p.4. 4. Cf. Rose Feld, 'Chemistry of Temperament', New York Herald Tribune Book Review, 6 June 1954, p.4; Charles J. Rolo, 'Reflection in Mirrors', Atlantic Monthly, CXCIV Guly 1954) 84. 5. Auchincloss, The Great World and Timothy Colt (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1956) p.26. Subsequent page references are to this edition. 6. Orange, NJ, Anne's native town, was also the home town of Jack Woods, and must have struck Auchincloss as being emblematic of a nondescript social background. 7. An excellent analysis of the moral and social dimension of the relationship between Colt and Knox is contained in Thomas L. Shaffer, 'Henry Knox and the Moral Theology of Law Firms', Washington and Lee Law Review, XXXVIII (1981) 347-75. 238 Notes

8. Auchincloss's to Gore Vidal, 21 Nov [1957]. 9. The Hudson River Trust Company is located at 65 Wall Street, a non-existent address next door to Hawkins, Delafield and Woods, Auchincloss's law firm until December 1986. Auchincloss also used this address in subsequent works. 10. Auchincloss, Venus in Sparta (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1958) p.28. Subsequent page references are to this edition. 11. The character Bertie Anheuser was partly based on Thomas Q. Curtiss, Auchincloss's friend at Bovee School. He is also given traits of Auchincloss's Aunt Marie, a 'super-aesthete' whom Auchincloss visited in the 1930s and 1940s. To evoke Anheuser's urban mind, Auchincloss gave him Aunt Marie's line 'If you see a tree, give it a kick for me: Cf. Venus in Sparta, p.2; and A Writer's Capital, p.66. 12. In other places, too, sexuality is associated with 'madness', Cf. Venus in Sparta, p.121, where it seems to Farish that during his first night with Flora 'he had gone mad', and p. 268, where Ginny wants Farish 'like a mad thing'. 13. Auchincloss, Pursuit of the Prodigal (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1959) pp.l1-12. Subsequent page references are to this edition. 14. Ibid., p.12. This phrase was borrowed from the short story 'The Interior Castle' in Children Are Bored on Sundays (1953) by Jean Stafford, whose work Auchincloss knew and admired. 15. Cf. Pursuit of the Prodigal, p. 60, which presents the sexual act as the aggressive, animalistic behaviour that it is also in Venus in Sparta: 'In the dripping heat of the shabby little apartment [Parmelee and Cynthia Fearing] tore at each other like cats: Parmelee's sexual relationship with his second wife is similarly presented in this violent way. See Pursuit of the Prodigal, pp. 207,268.

INTRODUCTION TO PART III

1. Cf. Harry Mooney, Jr, 'Author Does it Again, but It's Much the Same', Pittsburgh Press, 13 Sep 1959, sec. 6, p.7; 'Pursuit of One who Fled from Woman's World', Buffalo Evening News, 12 Sep 1959, p. B-6; Elizabeth Janeway, 'Rich Boy Meets Girl', New York Times Book Review, 13 Sep 1959, pp.4, 46. 2. James Oliver Brown to Auchincloss, 27 Sep 1959. 3. Bill Kennedy, 'Auchincloss: A "Special Author", but .. :, Albany Times-Union, 15 Jan 1967, p. H-1. 4. Cf. Vincent Piket, 'An Interview with Louis Auchincloss', Dutch Quarterly Review, XVIII, no. 1 (1988) 33-4. 5. Arthur Mizener, 'Young Lochinvar Rides to Defeat', New York Times Book Review, 24 Sep 1958, p. 4; Robert Gutwillig, 'Honorable Failure', Commonweal, LXIX (12 Dec 1958) 296-7. 6. James Oliver Brown to Houghton Mifflin, 30 Dec 1958. Notes 239

7. James Oliver Brown to Auchincloss, 31 Oct 1958. 8. Interview with James Oliver Brown, 6 May 1986. The relationship between Auchincloss and Brown was not only businesslike but personal. For instance, they talked on the phone almost every working day from 1949 until Brown retired in 1985. Auchincloss has described the relationship as follows: 'He spent tremendous amounts of energy on me. He always had tremendous devotion and interest for me. He gave you the sense of a friend. He did not share my career, but just encouraged me. He was almost a therapist, and that is what writers need' (interview with Auchincloss, 20 Nov 1986). The only other literary friendship which Auchincloss had at this time was with Gore Vidal, with whom he corresponded but whom he saw infrequently. 9. Roy Newquist, '''Rector'' is Auchincloss's Best', Chicago American, 12 July 1964, sec. 4, p. 10. Cf. Roy Newquist, 'Louis Auchincloss', in Newquist (ed.), Counterpoint (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1964) p.36. Cf. also Auchincloss's A Writer's Capital, p.124. 10. Auchincloss to James Oliver Brown, 18 Mar 1959. 11. Newquist, Counterpoint, p.36. 12. Auchincloss to J. Donald Adams, 15 Aug 1963. Auchincloss's letters to Adams are in the J. Donald Adams Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin. 13. Ibid. 14. Source: Houghton Mifflin Company. 15. Auchincloss to J. Donald Adams, 28 Feb 1964. 16. 'Mais a quoi bon?', Auchincloss added; 'Being deductionless Uncle Sam takes a heavy toll' (Auchincloss to Gore Vidal, 17 Jan 1964). 17. J. Donald Adams, 'Speaking of Books', New York Times Book Review, 29 Sep 1963, p.2; repro in Adams, Speaking of Book - and Life (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965) pp.11-14. 18. Others were Virgilia Peterson, David Lodge, John Brooks, Cyril Connolly, Elizabeth Janeway, Edward Weeks, Charles Rolo, Roy Newquist, Orville Prescott. 19. In 1963 Auchincloss was on the jury for the Harper Prize Novel, together with Philip Roth and Elizabeth Janeway. In 1965 he was judge for picture books in the annual New York Herald Tribune Children's Spring Book Festival. At Cass Canfield's request Auchincloss supplied a 'blurb' for Stephen Birmingham's Our Crowd (1967). As to the periodicals, Auchincloss contributed to Partisan Review and The Nation, and wrote six pieces for the 'Speaking of Books' column of the New York Times Book Review. 20. Auchincloss, A Writer's Capital, p. 114. 21. Cf. the dedication to The House of Five Talents: 'In loving memory of Adele's grandmother, Florence Adele Tobin, who conveyed to me her vivid and colorful sense of the past in our long, happy talks at Woodside Acres, where so many of these chapters were written. Auchincloss would later be the editor of her diary, which was published as Maverick in Mauve: The Diary of a Romantic Age (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983). 240 Notes

CHAPTER 5 PUBLIC AND PRIVATE DISCOURSES, 1960-3

1. Auchinc1oss, The House of Five Talents (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1960) p. 3. Subsequent page references are to this edition. 2. The House of Five Talents contains a sub-theme on art - in particular the visual arts - and its function in society. Cf. The House of Five Talents, pp.90, 67, 185. For a discussion of this aspect, see Chris­ topher C. Dahl, Louis Auchincloss, Literature and Life Series, Amer­ ican Writers (New York: Ungar, 1986) pp. 68-9. 3. This quotation properly refers to Gussie, but is equally applicable, mutatis mutandis, to Cora or any of the other third-generation Millinders. 4. Earlier Gussie was told by a cousin that there is as much freedom in a social role as one 'puts in' and 'takes out': 'Don't be afraid of labels, Gussie. Be a great old maid! Be a magnificent old maid!' (The House of Five Talents, p. 141). 5. Ibid., pp.5, 269. 6. James Oliver Brown to Auchinc1oss, 27 Sep 1959. 7. Auchinc10ss has indicated that Portrait in Brownstone was begun as a sequel to the House of Five Talents. See lola Haverstick, 'The Author', Saturday Review, XLV (14 July 1962) 21. 8. Ibid. 9. Auchinc1oss, Portrait in Brownstone (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1962) p. 7. Subsequent page references are to this edition. 10. After a vacation in Ireland in the summer of 1961, Auchinc10ss wrote to James Oliver Brown, Tm crazy about the moors and mountains in Connemara and Mayo - must move some characters there in the next nove!!' (Auchinc1oss to Brown, 21 July 1961). That novel was Portrait in Brownstone. 11. Cf. 'Edith Wharton', in Auchinc1oss, Pioneers and Caretakers: A Study of Nine American Women Novelists (Minneapolis: University of Minne­ sota Press, 1965) pp.42-5; and Auchinc1oss, Edith Wharton: A Woman in her Time (London: Michael Joseph, 1971) pp.128-39. 12. Auchinc10ss has said that he first came across the technique of alternating first- and third-person points of view in Simone de Beauvoir's Les Mandarins, and that there is 'no real objection' to the method 'so long as it works'. Auchinc10ss has used the method, too, in his 1986 novel Honorable Men. Cf. Vincent Piket, 'An Interview with Louis Auchinc1oss', Dutch Quarterly Review, XVIII, no. 1 (1988) 23.

CHAPTER 6 MESSAGES FOR POSTERITY, 1964-7

1. Judging by a letter of 10 August 1963 from James Oliver Brown to Auchinc1oss, the typescript of The Rector of Justin had been on Brown's desk since the beginning of the month. 2. LA to PSA, [Sep 1945]. Notes 241

3. Auchincloss, A Writer's Capital, p.36. In the novel Auchincloss's narrator writes that, compared to Prescott, Peabody's 'is a simpler path' - The Rector of Justin (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1964) p.43. 4. Auchincloss, 'A World of Profit' (unpublished typescript, 1938, in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University) p.215. 5. Ibid., p. 216. 6. Auchincloss, Pursuit of the Prodigal (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1959) p. 10. 7. Auchincloss, 'The Trial of Mr. M:, Harper's Magazine, coon (Oct 1956) 45-52; repro in Orville Prescott (ed.), Midcentury (New York: Pocket Library, 1958) pp. 73-89. 8. Auchincloss, The Rector of Justin (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1964) p. 341. Subsequent page references are to this edition. 9. Interview with Auchincloss, 22 Oct 1985. Auchincloss called 'Charley Strong's Manuscript' 'very much a tour de force' . 10. Auchincloss, 'Charley Strong's Manuscript (1921)" in Whit Burnett (ed.), This is my Best (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970) pp. 252-7. 11. This episode has a basis in Groton School history. In 1931 two 'painful depradations' were committed. The Groton chapel was 'desecrated' in a 'minor but mean way', and various personal belongings and relics were either ruined or taken. 'It was a foolish, apparently vindictive, and cruelly petty kind of crime, obviously done by someone who knew the place and the people in it: The guilty ones were three graduates. See Frank D. Ashburn, Peabody of Groton (New York: Coward McCann, 1944) p. 332. 12. Cf. Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society inthe Gilded Age (New York: Hill and Wang, 1982). 13. Auchincloss to Gore Vidal, 3 May 1965. 14. Ibid. 15. The stories were 'The Senior Partner's Ghosts', Virginia Law Review, L (Mar 1964) 195-211; and The Landmarker', Saturday Evening Post, ccxxxvn (23 May 1964) 50-3. Both were collected in Tales of Manhat­ tan (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1967). 'The Senior Partner's Ghosts' was submitted to the Virginia Law Review because 'they asked for a story about the law for the 50th anniversary issue' (Auchincloss to Vincent Piket, 18 May 1987). 16. In The House of Five Talents (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1960) p.346, there is mention of a 'trashy but sensational novel', written by one of the Millinders, about an embezzlement reminiscent of the Whitney case. Thus, the first documented idea for using the Whitney case in a novel dates back to 1959, when The House of Five Talents was written. 17. Auchincloss to Gore Vidal, 17 Jan 1964. Auchincloss expressed similar views in his essay 'A Writer's Use of Fact in Fiction', Probate Lawyer, x (Summer 1984) 6. 18. Auchincloss, The Embezzler (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1966) p. 146. Subsequent page references are to this edition. 242 Notes

CHAPTER 7 THE TREACHEROUS YEARS, 1968-75

1. Auchincloss to Gore Vidal, 26 Mar [1963]. 2. Auchincloss to Gore Vidal, 3 May 1965. 3. Auchincloss to Stephen Birmingham, 28 Feb 1967. The 'again' refers to the fact that in 1959 Malamud had received the National Book Award for The Magic Barrel. Auchincloss's correspondence with Birmingham is in Mugar Memorial Library, University of Boston. 4. Auchincloss to Stephen Birmingham, 3 Mar 1967. 5. Auchincloss to Birmingham, 28 Feb 1967. 6. Auchincloss to Vidal, 3 May 1%5. 7. Auchincloss to J. Donald Adams, 7 Aug 1964. 8. Auchincloss to Gore Vidal, 30 Mar 1967. 9. Auchincloss to Gore Vidal, 22 May 1967. 10. Cf. 'About the Author', New York, 12 Mar 1967, p.11; and John Brooks, 'Fiction of the Managerial Class', New York Times Book Review, 8 Apr 1984, p.36. 11. Auchinc10ss to John Kohn, 16 May 1968 Games Oliver Brown Collection). Kohn was the owner of the Seven Gables Bookshop in New York; Auchincloss exchanged the manuscript of A World of Profit with him for a few first editions. At the time of their exchange, the manuscript bore the title 'Shallcross Manor'. Auchinc10ss hit upon the eventual title two weeks later. To Paul Brooks, his editor at Houghton Mifflin, he wrote, 'There is a title that would fit the book very well that I have played with, off and on, since my college days. It is "A World of Profit'" (Auchinc1oss to Brooks, 4 June 1968, James Oliver Brown Collection). 12. Auchinc1oss, A World of Profit (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1968) p.49. Subsequent page references are to this edition. 13. Cf. 'Louis Auchinc10ss Tells about A World of Profit', Literary Guild Magazine, Jan 1969, p. 7, where Auchincloss says that 'Jay is the one character with whom I evidently sympathize.' 14. Cf. James Fenton, 'High Society', New Statesman, LXXVII (30 May 1969) 777; Haskel Frankel, 'Mr. Auchincloss' Novel Affords No Chance for Cheers' , National Observer, 30 DecI968, p. 16; Peter Sourian, 'A World of Profit', New York Times Book Review, 24 Nov 1968, p.5. 15. Auchincloss to Stephen Birmingham, 2 Dec 1968. 16. Auchincloss to James Oliver Brown, 19 Dec 1968. 17. Auchinc1oss, Motiveless Malignity (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1969) p. vii. Subsequent page references are to this edition. 18. Cf. Auchincloss to James Oliver Brown, [Sep 1958], where Auchin­ closs writes that the sexual theme of Venus in Sparta 'is a bit delicate for one of my inhibitions to discuss with strangers'. 19. Auchinc1oss, inscription on the title page of The Indifferent Children, 11 Sep 1%9, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University . 20. Auchinc1oss, Reading Henry James (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1975) p.lO. Subsequent page references are to this edition. Notes 243

21. Auchincloss expr.essed similar views in 'Speaking of Books: The Novel as Forum', New York Times Book Review, 24 Oct 1965, p. 2; 'The Novel of Manners Today: Marquand and O'Hara', in Auchincloss, Reflections of a Jacobite (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1961) p. 140; and in the Introduction to Auchincloss (ed.), Fables of Wit and Elegance (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972) pp. vii-xiii. 22. Auchincloss, Edith Wharton: A Woman in her Time (London: Michael Joseph, 1972) p. 126. Subsequent page references are to this edition. The US edition was published by Viking in 1971. 23. Auchincloss, Richelieu (London: Michael Joseph, 1973) pp.156-7. The subsequent page reference is to this edition. The US edition was published by Viking in 1972. 24. Cf. Auchincloss, The Indifferent Children (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1947) p.135; and The Rector of Justin (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1964) p. 194. 25. Auchincloss, 'In Search of Innocence - Henry Adams and John La Farge in the South Seas', in Auchincloss, Life, Law and Letters (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1979) p.131. The article origin­ ally appeared in American Heritage. 26. Auchincloss, Henry Adams, University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers, no.93 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1971) p. 6; and Life, Law and Letters, p.132. 27. Auchincloss, Henry Adams, p.6. 28. Auchincloss, Second Chance: Tales of Two Generations (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1970) p.61. Subsequent page references are to this edition. 29. Auchincloss, inscription on the title page of Second Chance, 16 Dec 1970, Joseph Zeppa Collection, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas. 30. Cf. Auchincloss's letter to Richard McAdoo, who briefly succeeded Paul Brooks as Auchincloss's editor at Houghton Mifflin: 'Jim Uames Oliver Brown] tells me that you do not like the title "Black Shylock" and that there is a feeling in your office that it may have an anti-negro flavour. As my wife shares the same suspicion, I think it would be well to drop it. There were a few rumbles of anti-Semitism because of my Jewish hero in A World of Profit, so let us not stir those waters unnecessarily' (Auchincloss to McAdoo, 20 Jan 1970; James Oliver Brown Collection). 31. Ibid. 32. Auchincloss, inscription on the title page of I Come as a Thief, 1 Aug 1972, Joseph Zeppa Collection. 33. Auchinc1oss, I Come as a Thief (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972) p.18. Subsequent page references are to this edition. 34. Unlike the financial crimes in The Embezzler and A World of Profit, the bribe in I Come as a Thief did not have an actual model. However, Auchinc10ss talked the bribe over with a US attorney, to ascertain its feasibility . 35. Cf. Auchinc1oss, Motiveless Malignity, p.157, where the same idea occurs: 'Who has not speculated, like Phedre, that the only reason 244 Notes

he is greeted with smiles and not horror, is that his fellow men do not know of the evil within him? Who has not felt that his mask was a better thing than himself?' 36. The centrality of the bribe in the revelation of the real Tony Lowder is also suggested by Auchincloss's initial title for I Come as a Thief. 'The Bribe' (Richard McAdoo to Auchincloss, 26 Oct 1971, and Auchincloss to McAdoo, 29 Oct 1971; James Oliver Brown Collection). 37. Auchincloss, A World of Profit, p.247. 38. Cf. Auchincloss to McAdoo, 29 Sep 1971, where Auchincloss discusses Joan Conway's experience of a miracle: the miracle 'seems to me to express the religious theme and basic agnosticism of the novel. There was the appearance of a miracle, but it could be explained away.' 39. The existentialist theme was explicit in yet another projected title that Auchincloss had in mind for I Come as a Thief: 'The Romantic Existentialist'. James Oliver Brown and Houghton Mifflin disliked it, however, probably because it too closely resembled The Romantic Egoists (Auchincloss to Richard McAdoo, 4 Oct 1971; James Oliver Brown Collection). 40. See, for instance, I Come as a Thief, pp.lO-11, 25-6, 61-2. 41. Cf. Choice, IX (Dec 1972) 1288; Thomas Lask, 'Books of the Times - to Damnation and Back', New York Times, 25 Sep 1972, p.35. 42. Cf. Eileen Lottman, 'Checks, Mates, and a Hollow Knight', Provi­ dence Sunday Journal, 27 Aug 1972, p. H-17; Robert Osterman, '"I Come as a Thief" - When Auchincloss Totes up the Bill, Everyone Pays for Moral Defections', National Observer, 2 Sep 1972, p. 17; Joseph Kanon, Saturday Review, LV (26 Aug 1972) 60-1. 43. The stories published in magazines were 'The Diner Out', Juris Doctor, III (Nov 1973) 24-8, 30; and 'The Love Death of Ronny Simmonds', Cosmopolitan, CLXXVI Gan 1974) 123-7. 44. Auchincloss, The Partners (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1974) p. 1. Subsequent page references are to this edition. 45. Auchincloss, A Writer's Capital, pp.48-9. 46. The autobiography was occasioned by an invitation from John Irwin, editor at the University of Minnesota Press. He suggested, Auchincloss has said, 'that I either write - I remember the letter, it seems silly - a biography of myself or of Mary McCarthy. So I picked myself' - Vincent Piket, 'An Interview with Louis Auchin­ closs', Dutch Quarterly Review, XVIII, no. 1 (1988) 25. 47. Auchincloss, A Writer's Capital, p. 110. 48. Ibid., p. 126.

CHAPTER 8 OLD AND NEW DIRECTIONS: 1976 TO THE PRESENT

1. Auchincloss's dramatization of The House of Mirth ran to full houses from 18 to 30 November 1977 at the Herbert Berghof Playwright Notes 245

Foundation, New York. With The Club Bedroom, written by Auchin­ closs himself, it was Auchincloss's only drama production to reach the stage. 2. Auchincloss (ed.), Introduction to Fables of Wit and Elegance (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972) pp. vii-viii. Auchincloss in­ cluded authors such as Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Edith Wharton, Harold Nicolson, Evelyn Waugh, Dorothy Parker, Jean Stafford, Mary McCarthy, Aldous Huxley and Hortense Calisher. 3. Auchincloss to James Oliver Brown, [received 17 Jan 1972]. 4. Auchincloss, 'Stories of Death and Society', New York, LX, no. 30 (23 July 1973) 44-5. The 'prose poems' appeared as 'Sketches of the Nineteen Seventies' in Narcissa and Other Fables (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1983) pp. 197-213. 5. This title is a quotation from the final stanza of Julia Ward Howe's 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic', composed in 1861 during her visit to Union troops. 6. Auchincloss had submitted the essay to Bruce Catton, editor of American Heritage, because he thought the essay 'might dramatically illustrate the morals of mid-[nineteenth] century married life' (Auchincloss to Allan Nevins, 27 Jan [1956]; Rare Book and Manu­ script Library, Columbia University). Catton, however, wondered what was the relevance of an article about adultery for a reading­ audience living in an era of free divorce. To this Auchincloss replied that this was like saying that 'slavery is without interest to an era of freedom', and that, basically, 'history is uninteresting' (Auchincloss to Nevins, [Nov 1957]). 7. Cf. Auchincloss, 'Speaking of Books: The Trick of the Author as Character', New York Times Book Review, 1 Feb 1970, p. 2. There also exists an unfinished manuscript of a novel, entitled 'Frederica Gwynne', written around 1971. 8. Auchincloss, Watchfires (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1982) p. iv. Subsequent page references are to this edition. I here follow the title of the title page. The dustjacket of Watchfires adds as a sub-title 'A Novel of the Civil War'. 9. Cf. ibid., pp. 29-37. 10. Auchincloss, Honorable Men (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1985) p. 64. Subsequent page references are to this edition. 11. Jean W. Ross, 'An Interview with Louis Auchincloss', Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook: 1980 (Detroit: Gale Research, 1981) p. 7. 12. Auchincloss, Exit Lady Masham (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1983) p.llO. The subsequent page reference is to this edition. 13. Cf. Auchincloss, 'A Writer's Use of Fact in Fiction', Probate Lawyer, X (Sqmmer 1984) 4-5, where Auchincloss suggests that his 'excuse for going back' to the eighteenth century was that 'there may be occasions when a writer of historical fiction may profitably speculate whereas it would be idle for a historian. Is it not fair to speculate where history is silent?' Cf. also Auchincloss, The Book Class (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1984) p. 65, for another instance of the use of fiction for speculation about truth. 246 Notes

14. Roy Newquist, 'Louis Auchincloss', in Newquist (ed.), Counterpoint (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1964) p. 35. 15. Cf. Auchincloss in Vincent Piket, 'An Interview with Louis Auchincloss', Dutch Quarterly Review, XVJII, no. 1 (1988) 27: 'I had always kept away from the past because it seemed to me that since I lacked the personal knowledge of it, I had no right to it. I thought my view was too limited for it. When I started out as a novelist I wrote not only about things and events that I knew and people that I knew, but people I could imagine myself being, and events that I could imagine happening to myself .... But gradually I began to wonder why I should be bound in this way, and this caused me to drop a number of limitations.' 16. In fact, The Country Cousin derives from 'The Unholy Three', a story in The Injustice Collectors (1950). In the 1960s two plays were based on 'The Unholy Three', one of which was called 'The Country Cousin' (1965). 17. Auchincloss, The Country Cousin (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1978) p.55. Subsequent page references are to this edition. 18. Cf. Auchincloss in his interview with the author in Dutch Quarterly Review XVIII, no. 1, p. 26: 'I think that there is always some period in life that you regard as the "real world" .... There's a book out called New York in the Thirties and looking at its pictures I keep thinking, "That's New York, that's New York." The Thirties seem to me a more real world than the Twenties or than any of the decades since: 19. 'Auchincloss, Louis (Stanton)" in John Wakeman (ed.), World Authors 1950-1970 (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1975) p. 93. 20. For this account of the genesis of The House of the Prophet, see Piket, in Dutch Quarterly Review, XVIII, no. 1, p.29. Ronald Steel's bio­ graphy came out as Walter Lippmann and the American Century (Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, 1980). 21. Auchincloss, The House of the Prophet (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1980) p. 142. Subsequent page references are to this edition. 22. Cf. Auchincloss's contribution to 'Works in Progress', a symposium in the New York Times Book Review, 15 July 1979, p. 15: 'I am now in the process of completing a novel ... on a theme that I have been turning over for some years: the concept of a deep-thinking, profoundly serious man, a political philosopher and constitutional lawyer, ultimately the author of a widely circulated newspaper column, whose central aim in life is to free himself from any ties that may impede his search for truth, whether such ties be religious, racial, familial, national or even humanitarian.' 23. In 'A Writer's Use of Fact in Fiction' (Probate Lawyer, X, p.9) Auchincloss discusses the biographer's problem of 'conveying the sense' of his subject's art; 'to the extent that biographers do not quote, they cannot hope to convey the quality of the art produced'. 24. The initial sales of The House of the Prophet totalled 22,000 copies, which is roughly the average circulation for Auchincloss's recent novels (source: Houghton Mifflin Company). That Auchincloss was not altogether satisfied with this appears from a letter written to Notes 247

Matthew J. Bruccoli: 'Thank you very much for your compliment about The House of the Prophet. I am delighted that you should have liked it as I think that it is the best thing that I have ever done. It has had good reviews and nice sales but it has not been the success that I had hoped' (Auchincloss to Bruccoli, 14 July 1980; Auchincloss Collection, University of Virginia Library). In 1983 Auchincloss called the book his 'most ambitious novel' - 'Literature and the Law', Federal Rules Decisions, CI (St Paul, Minn.: West Publishing, 1984) 280. 25. Auchincloss, The Book Class (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1984) p.36. Subsequent page references are to this edition. 26. For some of the autobiographical parallels, d. A Writer's Capital, pp.21-2, 51, 85. 27. Auchincloss to Vincent Piket, [17 Feb 1988]. In the brief foreword to Fellow Passengers Auchincloss refers to Harold Nicolson as having given him the 'conception' for his novel- Fellow Passengers: A Novel in Portraits (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1989) p. iv. 28. Auchincloss's wit has been mentioned by Gordon Auchincloss (a Groton classmate), Robert D. Brewster (a Yale classmate), Chauncey D. Medberry (a friend from Auchincloss's Navy days) and James Oliver Brown. Brown has said that his associates were able to tell by how much he laughed whether he was calling Auchincloss or someone else. 29. Auchincloss, The Cat and the King (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin 1981), p.61. 30. Auchincloss, Skinny Island: More Tales of Manhattan (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1987) p. 83. The subsequent page reference is to this edition. 31. Auchincloss, Narcissa and Other Fables, p. 185. 32. Auchincloss, Diary of a Yuppie (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1986) p. 95. Subsequent page references are to this edition. 33. Robert Towers, 'The Wild Blue Yonder', New York Review of Books, XXXIII, no. 20 (18 Dec 1986) 29. 34. Auchincloss, 'Don't Mind If I Do' (letter to the editor), and 'Robert Towers Replies', New York Review of Books, XXXIV no. 2 (12 Feb 1987) 41. 35. Dinitia Smith, 'The Old Master and the Yuppie', New York, XIX, no. 32 (18 Aug 1986) 34. 36. Louis Auchincloss, The Golden Calves (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1988) p. 47. Subsequent page references are to this edition. Bibliography

This bibliography contains a list of the works of Louis Auchincloss discussed in this study, and of the letter and manuscript collections that have been used. For the period from 1977 to the present, the bibliography also lists writings by Auchincloss not treated in this study, and new editions of works published before 1977. For an exhaustive list of Auchin­ closs's writings up to 1977, the reader is referred to Jackson Bryer, Louis Auchincloss and his Critics: A Bibliographical Record (Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall, 1977).

I BOOKS: FICTION

The Indifferent Children (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1947). The Injustice Collectors (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1950). Sybil (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1971). Reprint of the original 1951 Houghton Mifflin edition. A Law for the Lion (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1953). The Romantic Egoists (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1954). The Great World and Timothy Colt (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1956; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987). Venus in Sparta (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1958). Pursuit of the Prodigal (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1959). The House of Five Talents (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1960). Portrait in Brownstone (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1962; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1987). Powers of Attorney (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1963). The Rector of Justin (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1964). The Embezzler (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1966). Tales of Manhattan (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1967). A World of Profit (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1968). Second Chance: Tales of Two Generations (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1970). I Come as a Thief (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1972). The Partners (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1974). The Winthrop Covenant (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1976; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976). The Dark Lady (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1977; London: Weiden­ feld and Nicolson, 1977). The Country Cousin (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1978; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978). The House of the Prophet (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1980; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980). The Cat and the King (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1981; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981).

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Watchfires (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1982). Exit Lady Masham (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1983; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1984). Narcissa and Other Fables (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1983). The Book Class (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1984; London: Weiden­ feld and Nicolson, 1984). Honorable Men (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1985; London: Weiden­ feld and Nicolson, 1985). Diary of a Yuppie (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1986; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986). Skinny Island: More Tales of Manhattan (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1987; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988). The Golden Calves (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1988; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989). Fellow Passengers: A Novel in Portraits (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1989). The Lady of Situations (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1990).

II BOOKS: NON-FICTION

Reflections of a Jacobite (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1961). Edith Wharton, University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers, no. 12 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1961). Ellen Glasgow, University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers, no. 33 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1964). Pioneers and Caretakers: A Study of Nine American Women Novelists (Min­ neapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1965). The Edith Wharton Reader, ed. Louis Auchincloss (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965). Motiveless Malignity (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1969). Henry Adams, University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers, no. 93 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1971). Edith Wharton - A Woman in her Time (New York: Viking, 1971; London: Michael Joseph, 1972). Richelieu (New York: Viking, 1972; London: Michael Joseph, 1973). Fables of Wit and Elegance, ed. Louis Auchincloss (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972). A Writer's Capital (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1974). Reading Henry James (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1975). Life, Law and Letters: Essays and Sketches (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1979; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980). Persons of Consequence: Queen Victoria and her Circle (New York: Random House, 1979; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979). Three 'Perfect Novels' and What They Have in Common (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.: Bruccoli Clark, 1981). Maverick in Mauve: The Diary of a Romantic Age, ed. Louis Auchincloss (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983). 250 Bibliography

Quotations from Henry James, ed. Louis Auchincloss (Charlottesville: Uni­ versity Press of Virginia, 1984). False Dawn: Women in the Age of the Sun King (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1984). The Vanderbilt Era: Profiles of a Gilded Age (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989). The Hone and Strong Diaries of Old Manhattan, ed. Louis Auchincloss (New York: Abbeville, 1989). Love Without Wings: Some Friendships in Letters and Politics (Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 1991).

III CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS AND PERIODICALS: FICTION

'The Futility of Prophesy', Third Form Weekly, 21 Dec 1931, 3-5. 'Agrippina', Third Form Weekly, 22 Apr 1932,5-6. 'The Ultimate Goal of Man', The Grotonian, XLIX, (Dec 1932) 34-6. 'To Be or Not to Be', The Grotonian, XLIX (Mar 1933) 140-2. 'Public Opinion', The Grotonian, XLIX Gune 1933) 203-6. 'The Dance', The Grotonian, L (Dec 1933) 32-6. 'War Memorial', The Grotonian, L (Dec 1933) 41-4. 'Mademoiselle', The Grotonian, L (Christmas 1933) 67-72. 'A Day in the City', The Grotonian, L Gune 1934) 232-7. 'Summer Day', The Grotonian, LI (Oct 1934) 5-10. , "Aida''', The Grotonian, LI (Christmas 1934) 81-91. 'Versailles', The Grotonian, LI (Mar 1935) 149-54. 'Miss Bissell', Yale Literary Magazine, CI (May 1936) 28-33. 'Old Retainer', Yale Literary Magazine, CII (Nov 1936) 15-21. 'The Beach', Yale Literary Magazine, CIl (Dec 1936) 4-11. 'The Chelton-Pulver Game', Yale Literary Magazine, CII (Mar 1937) 24-32. 'The Last Supper', Yale Literary Magazine, cm (Sep 1937) 13-15. 'Red Hair', Yale Literary Magazine, cm Gan 1938) 13-14, 30. 'Finish, Good Lady', Yale Literary Magazine, cm (Mar 1938) 11-12. 'Two Votes for Beauty', Yale Literary Magazine, cm (May 1938) 15-16, 26. 'Maud', Atlantic Monthly, CLXXXIV (Dec 1949) 38-44, and CLXXXV Gan 1950) 55-60. Collected in The Injustice Collectors. 'Finish, Good Lady', Atlantic Monthly, CLXXXVI (Oct 1950) 38-44. Col­ lected in The Injustice Collectors. 'The Trial of Mr. M.', Harper's Magazine, ccxm (Oct 1956) 45-52. Repr. in Orville Prescott (ed.), Midcentury (New York: Pocket Library, 1958) pp.73-89. 'The Senior Partner's Ghosts', Virginia Law Review, L (Mar 1964) 195-211. Collected in Tales of Manhattan. 'The Landmarker', Saturday Evening Post, CCXXXVII (23 May 1964) 50-3. Collected in Tales of Manhattan. 'Charley Strong's Manuscript (1921)" in Whit Burnett (ed.), This is my Best Bibliography 251

(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970) pp. 252-7. Repr. from The Rector of Justin. 'The Cup of Coffee', Ladies' Home Journal, xc, no. 7 Guly 1973) 38, 50, 52-3, 115-16. Collected in Narcissa and Other Fables. 'Stories of Death and Society', New York, VI, no. 30 (23 July 1973) 44-5. Collected in Narcissa and Other Fables as 'Sketches of the Nineteen Seventies' . The Diner Out', Juris Doctor, III (Nov 1973) 24-8, 30. Collected in The Partners. 'The Love Death of Ronny Simmonds', Cosmopolitan, CLXXVI Gan 1974) 123-7. Collected in The Partners. The Seagull', Atlantic Monthly, CCXLIII (May 1979) 52-7. Collected in Narcissa and Other Fables. 'The Fabbri Tape', Short Story International, VIII (Aug 1984) 125-43. Repr. from Narcissa and Other Fables. 'Greg's Peg', in Sanford Phippen et al. (eds), The Best Maine Stories: The Marvelous Mystery (Augusta, Me: Lance Tapley, 1986) 107-30. Repr. from The Injustice Collectors.

IV CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS AND PERIODICALS: NON-FICTION

'Editorial', The Grotonian, L Gune 1934) 230-1. 'Editorial', The Grotonian, LI (Oct 1934) 3-5. 'Editorial', The Grotonian, LI (Nov 1934) 33-4. 'Editorial', The Grotonian, LI (Christmas 1934) 77-9. 'Editorial', The Grotonian, LI (Mar 1935) 147-8. 'Editorial', The Grotonian, LI (May 1935) 175-6. 'Review of Samuel Williston, Life and Law, in Virginia Law Review, XXVII (Feb 1941) 571-2. Review of Holmes-Pollock Letters (The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Sir Frederick Pollock 1874-1932) ed. Mark Dewolfe Howe, in Virginia Law Review, XXVII (Mar 1941) 730-2. Review of Robert H. Jackson, The Struggle for Judicial Supremacy, in Virginia Law Review, XXVII (May 1941) 980-1. 'Proust's Picture of Society', Partisan Review, XXVII (Fall 1960) 690-701. Repr. in Reflections of a Jacobite. Introduction to The Indifferent Children (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice­ Hall, 1964) p. v. 'A Jacobite Files a Demurrer', Virginia Quarterly Review, XL (Winter 1964) 147-50. 'Speaking of Books: The Novel as Forum', New York Times Book Review, 24 Oct 1965, p.2. 'Stuyvesant to Lindsay' (review of Edward Robb Ellis, The Epic of New York City) Book Week (Washington Post), 23 Oct 1966, p.14. 'Doctrinaire' (letter to the editor), New York Times, 12 Oct 1968, sec. II, p. 8. 252 Bibliography

'Writing The Rector of Justin', in Thomas McConnack (ed.), Afterwords: Novelists on their Novels (New York: Harper and Row, 1969) pp. 3-9. 'Speaking of Books: The Trick of the Author as Character', New York Times Book Review, 1 Feb 1970, p.2. 'In Search of Innocence - Henry Adams and John La Farge in the South Seas', American Heritage, XXI Gune 1970) 28-33. Collected in Life, Law and Letters. 'There Was a Place for Style in Everything' (review of Calvin Tomkins, Living Well is the Best Revenge), New York Times Book Review, 18 July 1971, p.3. 'Disclosure Requirements' (letter to the editor), New York Times, 15 Oct 1972, sec. IV, p. 14. Note on writer's block, in Owen Edwards, 'Writers' Block: Why Words Fail Them', New York, VI, no. 16 (16 Apr 1973) 61-7. 'Writer's choice - The Ambassadors', Horizon, XV (Summer 1973) 118-19. 'Auchincloss, Louis (Stanton), (self-portrait), in John Wakeman (ed.), World Authors 1950-1970 (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1975) pp.92-4. 'Henry James's Literary Use of his Literary Tour (1904)', South Atlantic Quarterly, LXXIV (Winter 1975) 45-52. Collected in Reading Henry James. 'Non-Panamanian Canal' (letter to the editor), New York Times, 1 May 1976, sec. I, p.22. Preface to Jackson R. Bryer, Louis Auchincloss and his Critics: A Bibliographical Record (Boston, G. K. Hall, 1977) p. ix. Introduction to Jane Austen, Persuasion (Westport, Conn.: Limited Edi­ tions Club, 1977). Collected in Life, Law and Letters as 'Jane Austen and the Good Life'. 'A Special Message to Subscribers from Louis Auchinc1oss', in The Rector of Justin, limited edn, Signed by the author (Franklin Center, Penn.: Franklin Library, 1977). 'The Late Jamesing of Early James', The Times Literary Supplement, 21 Jan 1977; p.47. Collected in Life, Law and Letters. Foreword to Jerry E. Patterson, The City of New York: A History Illustrated from the Collection of the Museum of the City of New York (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1978) pp. 7-8. 'The Long Life and Broad Mind of Justice Holmes', American Heritage, XXIX, no. 4 (1978) 68-77. Collected in Life, Law and Letters. 'When Interests Conflict', New York Times, 22 May 1978, p. A21. 'Swann', New York Times, 13 Nov 1978, p. A23. 'Works in Progress' (symposium), New York Times Book Review, 15 Jul1979, pp. I, 14-16, 20. Review of Millicent Bell, Marquand: An American Life, in New Republic, CLXXXI (1 and 8 Sep 1979) 29-30. Introduction to Henry James, The Bostonians (New York: New American Library, 1980) pp. v-xiii. Foreword to Philip Trager, New York (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University, [1980]). 'To Dine and Talk in Sexual Segregation' (letter to the editor), New York Times, 6 Jan 1980, sec. IV, p. 18. 'A Valued Diversity' (letter to the editor), New York Times, 20 Jan 1980, sec. IV, p.18. Bibliography 253

'Book Review: The Essence of James' (review of The Letters of Henry James, ed. Leon Edel, vol. III), Saturday Review, VII (Nov 1980) 62-3. 'Royal Reporters' (with Barbara Goldsmith), Interuiew Magazine, Dec 1980, pp.64-6. Afterword to Charles G. Norris, Salt: or The Education of Griffith Adams (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern lllinois University Press, 1981) pp.380-2. Foreword to Olivier Bernier, Pleasure and Privilege: Life in France, Naples and America, 1770-1790 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981) pp. vii-viii. Introduction to Deborah Turbeville, Unseen Versailles (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981) pp. 19-49. 'Lord Bryce', American Heritage, XXXII, no. 3 (Apr-May 1981) 98-104. 'The Education of the Gentle Giant' (letter to the editor), New York Times, 16 Sep 1981, p. A26. 'New Haven for a Film Fan', In Diana Dubois, (ed.), My Harvard, my Yale (New York: Random House, [1982]) pp.188-94. 'From: New Haven for a Film Fan', Yale Alumni Journal, XLVI (Oct 1982) 44-6. Review of Logan Pearsall Smith, All Trivia and A Chime of Words: The Letters of Logan Pearsall Smith, ed. Edwin Tribble, in Resources for American Literary Study XII, no. 2 (Autumn 1982) 234-7. 'A New Work on Glasgow' (review of Linda Wagner, Ellen Glasgow: Beyond Convention), Southern Literary Journal, XV, no. 2 (Spring 1983) 100-I. 'In China, Spirited Days with the Arts', New York Times, 18 June 1983, p.A23. 'Footloose in the Harem' (letter to the editor), New York Times, 28 July 1983, p.A22. 'A Foil for J. R. Ewing' (letter to the editor), New York Times, 25 Dec 1983, sec. IV, p. 12. 'Literature and the Law', Federal Rules Decisions, CI (St Paul, Minn.: West Publishing, 1984) 276-9I. 'High Tea for Two', Arts and Antiques (Premiere Issue), Mar 1984, pp. 64- 70. 'A Near Mania for the Written Word' (review of The Letters of Henry James, ed. Leon Edel, vol. IV), New York Times Book Review, 15 Apr 1984, p.3. 'Flaubert and James - Opposing Points of View', New York Times Book Review, 24 June 1984, p.32. 'A Writer's Use of Fact in Fiction', Probate Laywer, x (Summer 1984) 1-10. 'Ah, What Would Veblen Say?' Forbes, CXXXIV, no. 8 (1 Oct 1984) 52-3. 'The Wasteland without Pound', New York Review of Books, XXXI, no. 15 (11 Oct 1984) 46. 'Another Westmoreland' (letter to the editor), New York Times, 16 Dec 1984, sec. IV, p.20. 'Mrs. Zaccaro's Loyalty' (letter to the editor), New York Times, 18 Jan 1985, p.A26. 'The German First Lady of France' (review of A Woman's Life in the Court of the Sun King ed. Elborg Forster), New York Times Book Review, 10 Feb 1985, p.9. 254 Bibliography

'Behind the Brownstone Door', New York Times Magazine, 28 Apr 1985, pt II, p.62. Review of Robert A. Ferguson, Law and Letters in American Culture, in Early American Literature, xx, no. 1 (Spring 1985) 75-6. 'My Dear Blest Percy!' New Criterion, Ill, no. 9 (May 1985) 83-5. 'Impressions - in the Shadow of the Sun King, House and Garden, CLVII, no. 5 (May 1985) 100, 102, 109. 'Groton School Centennial Address', Groton School Quarterly, L, no. 10 (Sep 1985) 18-23. 'Marcel at the Transom: Something is Wrong with Proust's Narrator', New York Times Book Review, 4 Aug 1985, p.15. 'Telling All' (review of The Inman Diary: A Public and Private Confession, ed. Daniel Aaron) New York Review of Books, XXXII, no. 15 (10 Oct 1985) 3-4. 'The Inner FDR' (review of biographies of Roosevelt by Geoffrey C. Ward, Kenneth S. Davies, and Ted Morgan), New York Review of Books, XXXII, no. 18 (21 Nov 1985) 16-17. 'America in Bronze', Arts and Antiques, II Gan 1986) 60-4. 'Building on the Past', New York, XIX, no. 19 (12 May 1986) 86-7. 'Why the Governor's Mansion Needs Fixing Up' (letter to the editor), New York Times, 27 May 1986, p. A20. 'The Gould Standard' (review of Maury Klein, The Life and Legend of Jay Gould), New York Review of Books, XXXIII, no. 9 (29 May 1986) 35. 'Notebook: Portrait of the Artist as Strether', New Criterion, IV no. 10 Gune 1986) 86-7. 'Good Housekeeping' (review of Judith Fryer, Felicitous Space: The Imagina­ tive Structures of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather), New York Review of Books, XXXIll, no. 12 (17 July 1986) 31-2. 'A Sargent Portrait', American Heritage, XXXVII, no. 6 (Oct-Nov 1986) 40-7. Introduction to John Loring, Tiffany'S 150 Years (Garden City, NY: Double­ day, 1987) pp. 15-39. 'Don't Mind If I Do' (letter to the editor), New York Review of Books, XXXIV, no. 2 (12 Feb 1987) 41. 'The Eye of the Master' (review of Adeline R. Tintner, The Museum World of Henry James), New York Review of Books, XXXIV, no. 16 (9 Apr 1987) 29-30. 'On Power and History: What Marguerite Yourcenar Knew', New York Times Book Review, 10 Jan 1988, p.9. 'A City in Green', New York Times Magazine', 24 Apr 1988, pt II, p.15. Review of Jonathan Yardley, Our Kind of People: The Story of an American Family, in International Herald Tribune, 18-19 Mar 1989, p.20. 'Sanctifying the Strange' (review of Alice G. Marquis, Alfred H. Barr Jr.: Missionary for the Modern), New York Times Book Review, 30 Apr 1989, p. 3.

V MANUSCRIPT AND LEITER COLLECTIONS

Louis Auchincloss Collection, no. 9121, Clifton Waller Barrett Library, Manuscripts Division, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library. Bibliography 255

Louis Auchinclo5s Collection, Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. James Oliver Brown Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University. Gore Vidal Collection, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Groton School Archives, Groton, Mass. Editorial Department Archives, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Mass. J. Donald Adams Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. Stephen Birmingham Collection, Special Collections, Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University. Joseph Zeppa Collection, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist Univer­ sity, Dallas. Allan Nevins Papers, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University . Oliver La Farge Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. Index

Adams, J. Donald, 114, 115, 176 Balzac, Honore de, 5 Adams, Henry, 188, 189 Bellow, Saul, 160, 161 Allison, John, 33 Bergler, Edmund, 74, 75 Alsop, Stuart, 50 Birmingham, Stephen, 176, 184 Anne, Queen of England, 210-11 Bourjaily, Vance, I, 62 Auchincloss, Adele, 2, 93, 116, 184 Bovee, Kate and Eleanor, 15, 17 Auchincloss, Joseph Howland, 11, Brown, James Oliver, 74, 108, 112, 13-14, 17, 18, 185, 199 113, 114, 131, 178, 184, 191, Auchincloss, Louis 205 family background, 11-12 Buckler, Leslie, 45 at Bovee School, 15-17, 18, 19, 34 Calisher, Hortense, 62 at Groton School, 12, 18-31, 34, Canfield, Cass, 116 38,48 Cardozo, Benjamin, 45-6, 47 Groton writings, 24-30 Cheever, Susan, 225 at Yale University, 12, 32-45 Colony Club, 52 Yale writings, 39-45 Cooper, James Fennimore, 52 unpublished novel, 35, 44-5, 66, Cotton, John, 60-1 147,219 Curtiss, Thomas Quinn, 15-16 law school, 12, 36, 43, 45-8 law school, writings 46-8 Depression, 166 in Second World War, 12,48-54 Dillard, Hardy c., 45 legal career, 12, 57-8, 61, 63 Dos Passos, John, 111 writing full time, 12, 61-3, 81, Dowling, Noel, 45 83-4 Dreiser, Theodore, 5, 108 dual career, 2, 5, 12, 61-4 marriage, 12, 59, 93, 116, 199 Edel, Leon, 6, 115, 184, 186, 189 relationship with parents, Eliot, George, 5 13-15, 16, 23, 28, 33, 44, Eliot, T. S., 52 49, 51, 52, 58, 60, 107, 116, 185, 199-200 Faulkner, William, 3, 111 psychoanalysis, 15, 16, 59-61, Flaubert, Gustav, 4, 5 76,83-4,85-6 French, Robert, 58 and sexuality, 33, 37-9, 59, 60, 72-3, 93, 107, 200 Geismar, Maxwell, 3, 115 and politics, 22, 23, 47, 48, Gilbert, Edward M., 178 52-4, 109, 186 Glasgow, Ellen, 162 European interest, 2, 52 Gold, Herbert, I, 62 critical reception, 3-5, 6-7, 62, Goncourt, brothers de, 5, 108 64, 74, 76, 84, 107, 112-15, Grau, Shirley Ann, 161 130, 142, 160-1, 175, 183-4, Groton School, 11, 13, 17-18, 19, 186, 196, 224 22, 24, 26, 28, 30-1, 32, 33, Auchincloss, Priscilla Stanton, 11, 37, 47, 52, 65, 81, 109, 144, 13, 14-15, 185 147, 199, 211, 215

256 Index 257

Hand, Learned, 46, 147 New York, Museum of the City Hawkins, Delafield and Wood, 63 of, 2, 225 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 52 Nicolson, Harold, 218 Hemingway, Samuel, 33 Herald Tribune, 67 O'Hara, John, 1 Herzog, 160, 161 Hicks, Granville, 3, 4, 115 Peabody, Endicott, 17, 18, 20, 21, Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 45-6, 23, 25, 60, 107, 109, 147, 188 47 Pollock, Sir Frederick, 46 Homey, Karen, 59 Porter, Katherine Anne, 162 Houghton Mifflin, 62, 74, 112, Proust, Marcel, 3, 4, 5 178, 184 Huxley, Aldous, 52 Richelieu, Cardinal, 188 Roberts, Elizabeth Madox, 162 Jackson, Robert Ho, 48 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 21, 22, Jacomb, William Jo, 19 23,47,48,53,168,199,213,214 James, Henry, 1, 3, 4, 5, 32, 36, 38,41, 74, 109, 113, 150-1, Saint-Simon, Fran~ois Duc de, 184, 186, 187, 189, 217, 220 147,210 Jewett, Sarah Orne, 162 Sandford, Arthur (pseudonym of Johnson, Lady Bird, 2 Louis Auchincloss), 65 Joyce, James, 4 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 162, 192 Kafka, Franz, 4 Seronde, Joseph, 33 Kazin, Alfred, 1 Shakespeare, William, 185 Keating, George To, 186 Sherman Act, 165 Keyes, Frances Parkinson, 113 Smith, Logan Pearsall, 204 Knox, John c., 46 Spengler, Oswald, 52 Stafford, Jean, 1, 62, 162 La Farge, Oliver, 17-18, 20, 37, Stalin, Joseph, 53 144 Steel, Ronald, 214 Landon, Alfred, 47 Strachan, Malcolm, 23-4, 25, 26, Lee, Andrew (pseudonym of 29, 30-1, 38 Louis Auchincloss), 1, 74 Strong, George Templeton, 206 Lewis, R. Wo Bo, 2, 115 Styron, William, 1, 62 Lippmann, Walter, 214, 215 Sullivan and Cromwell, 47, 50, 51, Louis XIII, 188 57, 61, 62, 65 Louis XIV, 147, 188, 210 Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 22, 23, 25 Mailer, Norman, 1, 2, 62 Thackeray, William Makepeace, 5 Malamud, Bernard, 2, 175-6 Tinker, Chauncey, 33 Marquand, John Po, 1, 147 Tobin, Florence Adele, 116 Masham, Abigail, 210 Transcendentalism, 147 McCarthy, Mary, 162 Trollope, Anthony, 5 McCullers, Carson, 162 Truman, Harry So, 53 McFee, William, 74 University of Virginia, 36, 37, 44, Nagasaki, 53 45-7 New Deal, 48, 53, 168, 213 Updike, John, 196 258 Index

Vanderbilt family, 109 Whitney, Richard, 109, 162 Vidal, Gore, 3, 62, 93, 115, 161, Willingham, Calder, 1 162, 175, 178 Williston, Samuel, 46 Woods, Jack, 34-5, 36, 37, 38, Warhol, Andy,S 43,58,67 WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Woollcott, Alexander, 36 Protestant), 2, 3, 109, 114 Waugh, Evelyn, 74 Yale University, 11, 12, 13, 31, Well of Loneliness, The, 16 32-9, 52, 58, 65, 215 Welty, Eudora, 2 Wharton, Edith, 1, 4, 5, 108, 109, Zahner, Louis, 20 113, 142, 162, 186-7, 202, 222 Zola, Emile, 108 White Horse Tavern, 1, 62