Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76613-5 — Last Kiss F. Scott Fitzgerald , Edited by James L. W. West, III Frontmatter More Information THE CAMBRIDGE EDITION OF THE WORKS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76613-5 — Last Kiss F. Scott Fitzgerald , Edited by James L. W. West, III Frontmatter More Information Page 1 of the surviving typescript of “The High Cost of Macaroni.” The cancelled title is “What Price Macaroni?” Princeton University Libraries. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76613-5 — Last Kiss F. Scott Fitzgerald , Edited by James L. W. West, III Frontmatter More Information LAST KISS *** F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Edited by JAMES L. W. WEST III © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76613-5 — Last Kiss F. Scott Fitzgerald , Edited by James L. W. 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West, III Frontmatter More Information CONTENTS Acknowledgments page xi Illustrations xiii Abbreviations xiv Introduction xv THOUGHTBOOK OF FRANCIS SCOTT KEY FITZGERALD 1 Text, annotations, and commentary by Dave Page 3 THE VEGETABLE 35 POEMS 125 A Dirge (Apologies to Wordsworth) 127 Sleep of a University 128 Lamp in a Window 129 Obit on Parnassus 130 To a Beloved Infidel 132 BOOK REVIEWS 135 The Baltimore Anti-Christ 137 Three Soldiers 140 v © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76613-5 — Last Kiss F. Scott Fitzgerald , Edited by James L. W. West, III Frontmatter More Information vi Contents Poor Old Marriage 143 Aldous Huxley’s “Crome Yellow” 145 Tarkington’s “Gentle Julia” 148 “Margey Wins the Game” 150 Homage to the Victorians 152 A Rugged Novel 154 The Defeat of Art 156 Sherwood Anderson on the Marriage Question 159 Minnesota’s Capital in the Roleˆ of Main Street 162 Under Fire 165 SHORT FICTION 167 On Your Own 169 Lo, the Poor Peacock! 187 The End of Hate 207 AFullLife 221 Discard 227 Last Kiss 242 News of Paris—Fifteen Years Ago 261 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76613-5 — Last Kiss F. Scott Fitzgerald , Edited by James L. W. West, III Frontmatter More Information Contents vii PUBLIC LETTERS 267 The Claims of the LIT. 269 The Credo of F. Scott Fitzgerald 271 Confessions 273 Letter to A. Philip Randolph 275 In Literary New York 276 Who’s Who in This Issue 278 Letter to Class Secretary 279 F. Scott Fitzgerald Is Bored by Efforts at Realism in ‘Lit’ 280 Unfortunate “Tradition” 282 Fitzgerald Sets Things Right about His College 283 False and Extremely Unwise Tradition 284 Letter to H. N. Swanson 285 Confused Romanticism 286 An Open Letter to Fritz Crisler 288 Anonymous ’17 290 Letter to Harvey H. Smith (1938) 291 Letter to Harvey H. Smith (1939) 292 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76613-5 — Last Kiss F. Scott Fitzgerald , Edited by James L. W. West, III Frontmatter More Information viii Contents JOURNALISM 293 The Cruise of the Rolling Junk 295 The High Cost of Macaroni 343 “Why Blame It on the Poor Kiss ...” 356 Does a Moment of Revolt . 362 What Kind of Husbands Do “Jimmies” Make? 364 Our Young Rich Boys 371 MISCELLANEOUS 377 The Author’s Apology 379 Contributions to The American Credo 380 An Interview with Mr. Fitzgerald 382 On the Girl Scouts 385 This Is a Magazine 386 Three Cities 391 Reminiscenses of Donald Stewart 394 What I Was Advised to Do—and Didn’t 397 How I Would Sell My Book If I Were a Bookseller 398 Some Stories They Like to Tell Again 400 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76613-5 — Last Kiss F. Scott Fitzgerald , Edited by James L. W. West, III Frontmatter More Information Contents ix 10 Best Books I Have Read 401 Censorship or Not 402 The Most Disgraceful Thing I Ever Did 403 The Most Pampered Men in the World 405 My Old New England Homestead on the Erie 410 From Three Years (Testimonial) 413 Ten Years in the Advertising Business 414 Salesmanship in the Champs-Elys´ ees´ 416 The Death of My Father 418 On “Family in the Wind” 421 Fitzgerald’s List of Neglected Books 422 The True Story of Appomattox 423 ‘My Ten Favorite Plays’ No. 152.— 425 The Broadcast We Almost Heard Last September 426 From These Stories Went to Market 428 Huckleberry Finn 429 A Book of One’s Own 430 Foreword to Colonial and Historic Homes of Maryland 432 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76613-5 — Last Kiss F. Scott Fitzgerald , Edited by James L. W. West, III Frontmatter More Information x Contents Record of Variants 435 Explanatory Notes 439 Illustrations 461 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76613-5 — Last Kiss F. Scott Fitzgerald , Edited by James L. W. West, III Frontmatter More Information ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am grateful to Eleanor Lanahan, Eleanor Blake Hazard, and Chris Byrne, the Trustees of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Estate, for their support and cooperation, and to Phyllis Westberg and Craig Tenney of Harold Ober Associates, Inc., for their assistance with permissions and copyrights. The evidence employed to establish many of the texts in this vol- ume is housed in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers, Manuscript Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton Uni- versity. I thank Don Skemer, Curator of Manuscripts at Princeton, for many courtesies during my visits there. Permission to publish facsimiles and other reproductions has been granted by Princeton University Libraries and Harold Ober Associates, Inc., on behalf of the Fitzgerald Trust. For permission to include the Thoughtbook in this volume, I thank the University of Minnesota Press, publishers of a 2013 edition of the document, edited by Dave Page. The original Thoughtbook is part of the Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Col- lection of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of South Carolina. I am indebted to the director, Elizabeth Sudduth, and to her staff for access. At Penn State I acknowledge the long-term support of the Col- lege of the Liberal Arts and the Department of English. Susan Welch, my dean; Mark Morrisson, my department head; and Bob Burkholder, my acting head during the preparation of this volume—all provided valuable support. Stephen Wheeler of the Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies gave assistance with Latin; Willa Z. Silverman, Department of French and Francophone Studies, has again helped with the French language. xi © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76613-5 — Last Kiss F. Scott Fitzgerald , Edited by James L. W. West, III Frontmatter More Information xii Acknowledgments Assistance with transcriptions, annotations, and proofreading was supplied by my Penn State editorial and research assistants, Chris Weinmann, LaVerne Maginnis, Jeanne Alexander, Bethany Mannon, Ethan Mannon, and Robert Birdwell. J. L. W. W. III © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76613-5 — Last Kiss F. Scott Fitzgerald , Edited by James L. W. West, III Frontmatter More Information ILLUSTRATIONS (Beginning on p. 461) Frontispiece. Page 1, typescript of “The High Cost of Macaroni.” 1. Page 12, typescript of “The High Cost of Macaroni.” 2. “The End of the World,” addenda to The Vegetable. 3. Title page, Fitzgerald’s copy of The American Credo. 4. College Humor text of “My Old New England Homestead.” xiii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76613-5 — Last Kiss F. Scott Fitzgerald , Edited by James L.