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F. Scott Fitzgerald miscellany

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4632

Scope and content

Photographs, clippings from newspapers and magazines, typewritten manuscripts, and magazine issues containing articles and stories by or about F. Scott Fitzgerald. Includes typewritten manuscripts of Fitzgerald's stories "Outside the House," "The Intimate Strangers," "Finishing School," "[illegible] Esquimo," and "Last Kiss"; many of Fitzgerald's stories as first published in magazines; typewritten manuscript of Arthur Mizener's introduction to a collection of Fitzgerald's stories, Afternoon of an Author (New York, 1957), with his introductions to individual stories from that collection and The Lost Decade and Other Stories (Boston, 1950); book reviews and other articles about Fitzgerald and his family; and photographs of Fitzgerald from ca. 1898-1938, Zelda Fitzgerald from ca. 1915-1935, Fitzgerald's mother Mary McQuillan Fitzgerald, his friend May Steiner, Princeton University, Edmund Wilson and others as Princeton undergraduates, and dust jackets of several of Fitzgerald's novels. Also included are 2 photographs of portraits of Fitzgerald, and entire issues of the Saturday Review of Literature, the Princeton Alumni Weekly, and a few other magazines.

Dates

  • [ca. 1898]-1976-(bulk 1915-1940)

Creator

Biographical / Historical

American author.

Extent

1 cubic feet. (1 cubic feet.)

Language of Materials

English

Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of Arthur and Rosemary Mizener.

Publications About Described Materials

Some photographs published in: Mizener, Arthur. Scott Fitzgerald and His World. New York: Putnam, 1972.
Description rules
Appm
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
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