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Encino and New York,, May - August, 1940.. Light creasing where folded; staple holes; otherwise fine.. Various sizes. . Fitzgerald, in writing to Swanson, denies that he is ill as had been reported second hand through his daughter and Mrs. Ober. "Far from being sick, I've done twenty Esquire stories and six chapters of a novel beside the picture job I am now doing."

F. Scott Fitzgerald Typed Letter Signed with handwritten addendum, December 26th, 1939, one year almost to the day before his death. F. Scott Fitzgerald, cash-strapped near the end of his life, pleads with his landlord "with somewhat bowed shoulders" for a reduction in rent, expressing hope that a Hollywood studio will employ him soon. "Things look a little brighter. My health is better and I really think I am going to work at the studios within a week. All this illness has, however, put me in debt and it may be some months before I am straightened out." In 1920, three days after publication, the entire first printing of F Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise, all 3000 copies, sold. Riding the crest of his brisk sales and enthusiastic reviews, Fitzgerald propelled himself further into the financial and cultural elite with The Beautiful and the Damned (1922), and achieved immortality with The Great Gatsby (1925). His private life with his wife Zelda captivated his engrossed readers as much as his… Read More

Baltimore, MD: np, 1934. First edition. Framed. Very Good. IMPORTANT AND REVEALING LETTER BY F. SCOTT FITZGERALD ON HIS LITERARY INFLUENCES AND GROWTH AS A WRITER. It is rare that we get to read first hand about a writer's influences, especially during the formative years, but in answer to a letter from the scholar Egbert S. Oliver, Fitzgerald - with his characteristic wit - offers us details about his early literary education. The letter, partially quoted in Matthew Bruccoli's definitive biography, Some Sort of Epic Grandeur, reads in full: 1307 Park Avenue Baltimore, Maryland January 7, 1934 Mr. Egbert S. Oliver Willamette University Salem Oregon Dear Mr. Oliver: The first help I ever had in writing in my life was from my father who read an utterly imitative Sherlock Holmes story of mine and pretended to like it. But after that I received the most invaluable aid from Mr. C. N. B. Wheeler then headmaster of the St. Paul Academy now the St. Paul Country Day School in St. Paul, Minnesota. 2.… Read More