FITZGERALD FRANCIS SCOTT (1896-1940).

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FITZGERALD FRANCIS SCOTT (1896-1940).
Signed autograph letter, Westport (Connecticut) [circa 22 May 1920], to Maxwell PERKINS; 2 pages in-8 format, pencil on blue paper; in English. Letter to his publisher Maxwell Perkins. F. Scott Fitzgerald writes to the editor who published This Side of Paradise concerning the reviews of his first Novel which established him as a writer. Maxwell Perkins was the legendary editor at Scribner’s. Fitzgerald was very fortunate, at the beginning of his literary career, to win the loyal friendship and generous support of editor Maxwell Perkins. A reserved, respectable, reliable New Englander, Perkins gave Fitzgerald excellent literary advice. He was encouraging and provided a constructive response that allowed Fitzgerald to improve his work. Fitzgerald repaid Perkins’s generosity by recommending to Scribner’s many little-known and extremely promising writers such as Ring Lardner, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Franz Kafka, to name just a few. As Fitzgerald’s career progressed, Perkins assumed the additional roles of substitute parent, father confessor, social worker, psychiatric adviser, and medical mentor. He was one of the few people who maintained his friendship with Fitzgerald until the very end. “Thanks for your note and the contract & for numerous mail. I am, thank the good Lawdy Gawd writing again. The Ice Palace is in this week’s Post. I’m curious to know whether it’ll take. I’ll be in town within the week & will drop in. I haven’t seen the Howells editorial, didn’t even know he was dead.” On the facing page and with a different pencil, Fitzgerald writes the title, “Idea for a Literary Note”. He then records the number of quotes taken from his work used in the reviews for his first novel, This Side of Paradise. The contract Fitzgerald mentions is probably for his first collection of short stories, Flappers and Philosophers, published in September 1920. He also remarks on the first appearance of one of his best s
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