FITZGERALD MSS.
The Fitzgerald mss., 1918-1935, consist of Verifax copies of correspondence between Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, 1896- 1940, novelist, and Maxwell Evarts Perkins, 1884-1947, of Charles Scribner's sons, Fitzgerald's publisher. Included also from Mr. Perkins' files are copies of some other letters relating to Fitzgerald, among them being letters from Sidney Coe Howard, James Branch Cabell, and Thomas Stearns Eliot, and copies of correspondence between Zelda (Sayre) Fitzgerald (Mrs. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald) and Mr. Perkins relating to the publication of her novel, Save me the waltz (New York, Scribner's, 1932).
The Fitzgerald-Perkins correspondence is concerned with the writing, publication, advertising, and sale of Fitzgerald's books, personal affairs, and other writers and their works, particularly Ernest Hemingway.
The Verifax copies were made in the Indiana University Library from photostats lent by the Department of English of the University of Vermont. In the case of some letters which did not reproduce well by Verifax, typescripts of whole letters or parts of letters, have been inserted. 1957 Restricted
Collection size: 222 items
Related links: Fitzgerald mss. II, Fitzgerald mss. III