F. Scott Fitzgerald Additional Papers

• Introduction
• Biographical Sketch
• Hear Fitzgerald reading
• Collection Description
• Box/Folder Listing:

Occasionally, a reference is made to the following locations using the abbreviations noted below:

"Published Juvenilia of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1909-1917." A bound collection. Abbr.: "Published Juvenilia..." (Box 2, Folder 24)

"Various Contributions of Scott Fitzgerald to the Nassau Literary Magazine of Princeton, 1915-1917." A bound collection. Abbr.: "Various Contributions..." (Box 2, Folder 25)

"The Apprentice Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1909-1917." Two folders of photocopied material. Abbr.: "The Apprentice Fiction..." (Box 3, Folders 1-2)

"Excerpts from the Nassau Literary Magazine--1917." A folder of photocopied material. Abbr.: "Excerpts from the Nassau..." (Box 3, Folder 3)

Newman News. A folder containing Easter issues: 1912, 1913. (Box 3, Folder 4)

Introduction

Range of Collection Dates: 1909-1978

Size: 21.0 linear ft. (24 archival boxes, 1 box of tape reels, 1 oversize flat box, 2 oversize folders)

Provenance: The collection has developed principally through gifts from Fitzgerald's friends--Marie Shank and Sheilah Graham in 1959, Bertie Barr and Esquire magazine in 1962--and a purchase from Laura Hearne in 1967. In addition, there was a significant, anonymous gift in 1992.

Restrictions: There are no closed or sealed materials in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Additional Papers. However, for legal or preservation reasons, only microfilm or preservation photocopies are generally available for certain Fitzgerald materials. Both the F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers (C0187) and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Additional Papers (C0188) have been heavily used since 1950, and a substantial portion of papers has been published and is widely available in research libraries. Accordingly, potential researchers should understand the relationship of the papers themselves to information available in print, as here described.

Manuscripts: Researchers should be aware that facsimiles of the manuscripts of Fitzgerald's books and articles were published in the multi-volume series F. Scott Fitzgerald Manuscripts, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Alan Margolies (New York: Garland Publishing Company, 1990). Complete sets of the facsimile edition are available at more than fifty research libraries (including Firestone Library). The original manuscript of Fitzgerald's ledger is not at Princeton. One should use F. Scott Fitzgerald's Ledger: A Facsimile, with an introduction by Matthew J. Bruccoli (Washington, D.C.: NCR/Microcard Editions, 1972) or refer to the photostats in Box 60 (C0187). With respect to using Fitzgerald's manuscripts at Princeton, researchers should be aware that the 1950 deed of gift stipulates that Fitzgerald's manuscripts were to be microfilmed to preserve the originals, and that researchers must use the microfilm for most purposes. Researchers who believe that there are compelling reasons why they must have access to the original manuscripts instead of the facsimile edition or microfilm must request permission in advance from the Curator of Manuscripts. Researchers should also be aware of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by James L. W. West III (Cambridge, England, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991- ). Based on Fitzgerald's manuscripts and published editions, the Cambridge edition will eventually number 17 volumes.

Correspondence: A large portion of correspondence in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers and other collections at Princeton has been published in critical editions. The following editions of correspondence (listed alphabetically by editor) can be found in most research libraries: As Ever Scott Fitz--: Letters between F. Scott Fitzgerald and His Literary Agent Harold Ober, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli with Jennifer Atkinson (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1972); A Life in Letters: F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli with Judith S. Baughman (New York: Scribner's, 1994); Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Margaret Duggan with Susan Walker (New York: Random House, 1980); Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Cathy Barks (New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002); Dear Scott/Dear Max: The Fitzgerald-Perkins Correspondence, edited by John Kuehl and Jackson R. Bryer (New York: Scribner, 1971); Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by Andrew Turnbull (New York: Scribner, 1963); Scott Fitzgerald: Letters to his Daughter, edited by Andrew Turnbull with an introduction by Frances Fitzgerald Lanahan (New York: Scribner, 1965).

Photographs: Photographs of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald are very frequently requested by publishers, newspapers, magazines, and documentary film makers. Researchers should be aware that the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections maintains a large file of copy negatives to facilitate reproduction of these photographs. Most of the photographs in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers and other collections at Princeton were reproduced in The Romantic Egoists: A Pictorial Autobiography from the Scrapbooks and Albums of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, Scottie Fitzgerald Smith, and Joan P. Kerr (New York: Scribner, 1974). Often-requested images can be viewed online by visiting the Library's RBSC Portfolio at http://libweb2.princeton.edu/rbsc2/portfolio/portfolio.html

Conservation Note: In May 1999, the Princeton University Library was awarded a federal grant under the "Save America's Treasures" program, administered by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), to deacidify, repair, and rehouse the F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers. Work was completed in August 2001.

Microfilm Note: Due to additional microfilming in the summer of 2001, as well as the rehousing of the collection, some of the microfilm box numbers may not correspond to the manuscript box numbers listed in "A Guide to Microfilm for F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers." The "Guide" will be revised and updated as soon as possible. 

Biographical Sketch

Fitzgerald went on to publish three more novels in his lifetime: The Beautiful and Damned (1922), The Great Gatsby (1925), and Tender Is the Night: A Romance (1934). His last, and unfinished, novel, The Last Tycoon, was published posthumously in 1941. Besides his novels, Fitzgerald also wrote numerous articles and short stories, which were published in such magazines as The Saturday Evening Post and Esquire. He also worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood, first with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (he had a hand in writing the script for Gone with the Wind), then as a freelancer for other studios. In Hollywood, he met Sheilah Graham, a film columnist. They had a relationship which was, at times, stormy, due to Fitzgerald's alcohol-abuse problem. He died at her apartment in Hollywood of a sudden heart attack on December 21, 1940.
 

F. Scott Fitzgerald Chronology
1896		Born on September 24 in St. Paul, Minnesota
1913		Entered Princeton University as an undergraduate student
1916		Withdrew from Princeton University
1917		Re-entered Princeton but did not graduate
		Entered army; October - appointed second lieutenant
1918		Met Zelda Sayre in Montgomery, Alabama
1919		Discharged from army
		Worked for a New York advertising agency
1920		March - published This Side of Paradise
		April 3 - married Zelda Sayre
		September - published Flappers and Philosophers (stories)
1921		October - daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald ("Scottie") born
1922		March - published The Beautiful and Damned
		September - published Tales of the Jazz Age (stories)
1925		March - published The Great Gatsby
1925-1926		Met Ernest Hemingway in Paris
1926		February - published All the Sad Young Men (stories)
1927		Met Irving Thalberg, producer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (later the primary model for the hero of The Last Tycoon)
1930		Zelda had breakdown, hospitalized at a sanatorium in Switzerland
1931		Zelda released from sanatorium and the Fitzgeralds returned to live in the United States
1933		Zelda had two more breakdowns, entered various asylums
1934		April - published Tender Is the Night
1935		Published Taps at Reveille (stories)
1937		July - went to Hollywood, California, to work as a screenwriter at MGM studios
		Met Sheilah Graham
1940		December 21 - died of sudden heart attack in Hollywood
1941		The Last Tycoon (unfinished) published posthumously

Collection Description

Consists of additional (i.e., in addition to the F. Scott Fitzgerald Papers) writings, including published juvenilia, letters, documents, photographs, tape recordings, and memorabilia of Fitzgerald (Princeton Class of 1917), and material of others about him. Included are 7 boxes of papers presented by several of Fitzgerald's friends of the 1930s and 1940: Bertie Barr, Esquire magazine, which published many of the Pat Hobby stories, Sheilah Graham, Laura Guthrie Hearne, and Marie Shank. There are also two film versions of Tender Is the Night, David Hertz' screenplay (1947) and that of Ivan Moffat (1961).

Arrangement

The collection has been organized into the following series: I. Writings, II. Correspondence, III. Documents, IV. Photographs, V. Memorabilia and Printed Matter, VI. Supplemental Groups of Papers, VII. F. Scott Fitzgerald as Subject, VIII. Miscellaneous Material, and IX. Miscellaneous Additions.

Added Entries

The following added entries have been assigned to this collection to highlight significant sources (other than the main entry), subjects, and forms of the collection's materials. Where possible Library of Congress Subject Headings have been used, and the forms of names reflect international cataloging standards. As a result, all of these entries may be searched in the Department's database (MASC), and in the Library's online catalog to find other related material.

    People:    Barr, Bertie
                    Graham, Sheilah, 1908?-1988
                    Hearne, Laura Guthrie
                    Shank, Marie

    Corporate Bodies:    Esquire

    Subject Headings (in uppercase) / Form Headings (in upper and lower case):

    American fiction--20th century
    Beloved infidel / Sheilah Graham
    Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940--Photographs
    Graham, Sheilah, 1908?-1988--Photographs
    Motion picture plays--United States
    Novelists, American--20th century--Letters
    Novelists, American--20th century--Manuscripts
    Phonotapes
    Princeton University--Alumni (Class of 1917)--Letters
    Princeton University--Alumni (Class of 1917)--Mansucripts
    Scrapbooks, American--20th century
    Short stories, American--20th century
    Tender is the night (screenplay) / David Hertz
    Tender is the night (screenplay) / Ivan Moffat