F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 1
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Ledger, 1919–1938
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Ledger is one of the richest primary source documents in existence for any literary author.
Fitzgerald began recording information in this business ledger sometime in 1919 or 1920 after leaving the Army
and moving to New York to begin his professional life as a writer.
Fitzgerald divided the Ledger into five sections: “Record of Published Fiction,” “Money Earned by Writing
since Leaving Army,” “Published Miscelani (including movies) for which I was Paid,” “Zelda’s Earnings,” and
“Outline Chart of my Life”. The “Record of Published Fiction” and “Published Miscelani” are spreadsheets
listing everything he wrote and its publication history up to the time of its final disposition. He meticulously
tracked his earnings from 1919 through 1937 in the section titled “Money Earned by Writing since Leaving
Army.” In addition, he recorded Zelda’s earnings from her writing. In the autobiographical section, “Outline
Chart of my Life,” he provided background about his early years but later included monthly entries for each
year.
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Ledger is part of the Matthew J. and Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald held
by the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, located in the Ernest F. Hollings Special
Collections Library at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C.
The digital version of the Ledger, which includes access to the full text and is keyword-searchable, was
produced by the staff of the Digital Collections Department of the University of South Carolina. The scanning
was done by Kelly Riddle (MLIS 2012) and Matthew W. Shepherd (MLIS 2012), and the transcription was
prepared and formatted by Matthew W. Shepherd. The transcription was edited by Judith Baughman.
—Elizabeth Sudduth,
Director of the Irvin Department of
Rare Books and Special Collections,
University of South Carolina
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 2
Transcriber’s Notes
Each page of the MS is transcribed as a single unbroken page. Pages that do not bear Fitzgerald’s handwriting
are omitted.
Page numbers from the MS are included in the transcription. The transcription’s running page numbers are
indicated by the text TRANSCRIPTION PAGE in the header to distinguish the two paginations.
Page sizes vary by section:





Published Fiction: Tabloid (11″ × 17″);
Earnings: Letter (8.5″ × 11″), except page 74, which is legal size (8.5″ × 14″);
Published Miscellany: Legal (8.5″ × 14″);
Autobiographical Chart: Legal (8.5″ × 14″);
All other pages are letter size (8.5″ × 11″).
Page margins at top and bottom are 1″; page margins at left and right are 0.5″.
Blank ruled lines in the MS are transcribed one-to-one as blank typed lines.
Type is in Times New Roman, except for special Unicode characters for which a different font is used (e.g. △,
★).
Type is at 12 points, except:





Published Fiction (10 points, due to page size limitations);
Published Miscellany (11 points, due to page size limitations);
Very small handwriting, including that which occupies half the ruled line height in the MS (typically 8
points);
Very large handwriting, such as the red notes at the bottoms of pages 162 and 164 (size varies);
Superscript and subscript.
The text in this transcription is kerned, but no ligatures are used.
In some cases, the space between characters in the transcription has been condensed to fit the available space
and preserve unbroken lines, often in places where Fitzgerald himself similarly condensed his script.
Black ink is used throughout for glyphs and shapes, except:



Gray type to indicate partially erased text;
Dull translucent orange lines to approximate those on pages 74 and 75;
Red underlines and notes on pages 162–165.
The relative horizontal spacing of text is approximated in this transcription, except for header material, which is
arranged as follows: Page numbers are always flush left or right, followed by one blank line, followed by the
heading and upper marginalia. Headings written on the uppermost ruled line are transcribed with no intervening
blank line (e.g. page 52); headings written above this line are transcribed with one or more intervening blank
lines, depending on the upper marginalia (e.g. page 165).
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 3
Bold square brackets indicate illegible text: black if struck out, and gray if partially erased.
Double underlines indicate text that has two or more underlines in the MS. Similarly, double strikethroughs
indicate text that has two or more strikethroughs in the MS.
Horizontal square brackets under text indicate that the text occupies the same horizontal space in the MS.
Superscript text within such a bracket in the transcription appears above the normally positioned text in the MS.
A bracket enclosing only normally positioned text indicates text that is overlaid directly on other text.
Vertical square brackets to the left of lines of type indicate that the transcribed lines occupy the same ruled line
in the MS.
Fitzgerald’s symbol for and resembles a plus sign (+). However, since it is semantically an ampersand (&), the
latter symbol is used in this transcription.
Since Fitzgerald’s dashes vary in width and spacing, this transcription attempts to approximate each en and em
dash in context, though they are generally ambiguous.
In many cases, capitalization in the MS is ambiguous, such as for the letters m/M in mother. I have attempted to
choose whichever case seems probable in context, but the matter is open to interpretation.
The Published Fiction and Published Miscellany sections are rendered as tables, with lines separating rows to
aid the reader.
The Name column on even-numbered pages of the Published Fiction section has been reproduced on oddnumbered pages for ease of reference.
I extend my sincere gratitude and admiration to Judith Baughman for her careful proofreading of the
transcription. With her extensive background in Fitzgerald’s life and works, she deciphered and corrected many
of the enigmatic names throughout the text. Any remaining discrepancies, however, are mine.
—Matthew W. Shepherd,
Digital Assistant,
Digital Collections,
University of South Carolina
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
Property of.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 4
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 5
1
Contents
Record of Published Fiction; Novels, Plays, Stories
(Not including unpaid-for juvenilia)
Record of Other Published Work, Paid for.
Earnings by years
Geneological Table Zelda
Autobiographical Chart
Page
2
101
51
150 143
151
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
Date
English
Publisher
Date
Book
Published
by
Date
English
Magazine
Date
Magazine
Date
Written
Record of Published Fiction—Novels, Plays, Stories
Name
2
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 6
Smart Set
Nov 1919
Scribner
Mar. 26th ’20 Collins May ’21
Babes in the Woods
Jan. 1917
Short Story
(First Thing Published)
Smart Set
Sept 1919
Scribner
Mar 26 ’20
Collins May ’21
Porcelain and Pink
Play in One Act
Oct 1919
Smart Set
Jan 1920
Scribner
Oct 1922
Collins [
]
Mar 23
Dalyrimple Goes
Wrong
Short Story
Sept 1919
Smart Set
Feb 1920
Scribner
Aug 1920
Collins March 22
Benediction
Short Story
Oct 1919
Smart Set
Feb 1920
Scribner
Aug 1920
Collins March 22
Head and Shoulders
Short Story
Nov 1919
Sat. Eve. Post
Feb ’21, 1920 Yellow Mag.
March 1922 Scribner
“Topsy Turvy”
Aug 1920
Collins Mar ’22
Mr. Icky
One Act Play
Nov. 1919
Smart Set
Mar. 1920
Scribner
Oct 1922
Collins Mar 23
Sat. Eve. Post
Mar 14, ’20
Scribner
Mar 26, ’20
Collins May ’21
The Debutante
Play in One Act
(Should be second)
APRIL 1919
Myra Meets his Family Dec 1919
Short Story
This Side of Paradise
Novel
Nov ’17 – Mar ’18
July ’17 – Sept ’19 2 episodes in S. S.
Syndicated
The Camel’s Back
Short Story
Jan 1920
Sat. Eve. Post
The Soverign? July 1921
(or Strand?)
Hodder & Staughton
Austrailia
Capp, Clark & Co.
Canada
April 24, ’20
Pearsons
July 1921
Scribner
Oct 1922
O. Henry Memorial
Collection
Dec 1920
Collins Mar ’23
Scribner
Aug 1920
Collins Mar ’22
Scribner
Aug 1920
Collins Mar ’22
The Cut Glass Bowl
Short Story
Oct 1919
Scribners
May 1920
Bernice Bobs her Hair
Short Story
Jan. 1920
Sat Eve Post
May 3, 1920
The Ice Palace
Short Story
Dec. 1919
Sat Eve. Post
May 20, 1920
Scribner
Aug 1920
Collins Mar ’22
The Off-Shore Pirate
Short Story
Feb 1920
Sat Eve Post
May 27, 1920 The Soveriegn Feb 1922
Scribner
Aug 1920
Collins Mar ’22
The Four Fists
Short Story
May 1919
Scribners
June 1920
Scribner
Aug 1920
Collins Mar ’22
The Smilers
Short Story
Sept 1919
Smart Set
June 1920
May Day
Short Story
[Very Long]
March 1920
Smart Set
July 1920
Scribner
Oct 1922
Collins Mar ’23
Pan(?)
or 20 story(?)
Aug 1921
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 7
The Debutante
Play in One Act
(Should be second)
Dramatic Club
Univ. Ala.
Feb 1921
Babes in the Woods
Short Story
(First Thing Published)
Porcelain and Pink
Play in One Act
Dalyrimple Goes
Wrong
Short Story
Included in This Side of Paradise
See T. S. of P.
Published in Nassau Litt.
Included in This Side of Paradise
2nd Serial
“College Stories”
Players League
April 16th, 1923
△ March, 1924
The Camel’s Back
Short Story
In Flappers and Philosophers
Metro (Dana)
“The Chorus Girl’s
Romance”
In Flappers and Philosophers
The Usual Thing
Nassau Litt. Dec. 1916.
Myra Meets his Family
Short Story
See Debutante
In Tales of the Jazz Age
Fox (Percy)
“The Husband
Hunter”
Lilah Meets his Family
April 1919
Famous Players
The Romantic Egotist
Cheap editions, Burt
This Side of Paradise
Nov 1917– Mar 1918
& Collins, Popular Song
And destroyed stories 1919 2nd serial Daily News ect
Stripped and—
Sold to Warner
Bros.
“Conductor 1492”
O’brien, two stars
Bernice Bobs her Hair
Short Story
Anthology “Trumps”
Metro (Dana)
In Flappers and Philosophers
In Flappers and Philosophers
The Four Fists
Short Story
May Day
Short Story
[Very Long]
In Flappers and Philosophers
In Flappers and Philosophers
The Ice Palace
Short Story
The Smilers
Short Story
Permanently Buried
In Tales of the Jazz Age
The Cut Glass Bowl
Short Story
The Off-Shore Pirate
Short Story
In Tales of the Jazz Age
In Flappers and Philosophers
Story in Nassau Litt Mag.
June 1915
Bayard Vieller
offer turned down
Disposition
Play in Nassau Litt. Mag
January 1917
Mr. Icky
One Act Play
This Side of Paradise
Novel
Remarks
See T. S. of P.
Benediction
Short Story
Head and Shoulders
Short Story
Scources
Movie
Made
by
Date
Produced
by
Name
3
O’brien, two stars
Smile, Smile, Smile
June 1919
Stripped and—
In Flappers and Philosophers
Permanently Buried
In Tales of the Jazz Age
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 8
Flappers and Philosophers May 1919
Collection
– Feb 1920
Scribners, Smart
Feb 1919
Set and Sat. Eve Post – June 1920
The Jellybean
Short Story
Metropolitan
May 1920
Pearsons, Strand,
Yellow, Soveriegn
Pan, 20 story
1921–22
Scribners
Date
English
Publisher
Date
Book
Published
by
Date
English
Magazine
Date
Magazine
Date
Written
Name
4
Aug 1920 Collins Mar 1921
Hodder & Staugton
Austraila
Capp Clark & Co.
Canada.
Oct 1920
Scribners
Harpers.
Oct 1922
Collins Mar ’23
Syndicated
The Lees of Happiness
Short Story
July 1920
Chicago Tribune
Dec 12, ’20
Scribners
Oct ’22
Collins Mar ’23
Jemima
Burlesque
Jan 1917
Vanity Fair
Jan, ’21
Scribners
Oct ’22
Collins Mar ’23
The Russet Witch
Short Story
Nov 1920
Metropolitan
Feb 1921
Scribners
Oct 22
Collins Mar ’23
Tarquin of Cheapside
Short Story
February 1917
Smart Set
Feb 1921
Scribners
Oct ’22
Collins Mar ’23
The Beautiful
and Damned.
Novel
Aug 1920
– May 1921
Metropolitan
Aug 1921
– April 1922
Scribners
April 3d
Canada. Capp, Clark, 1922
Collins Sept 1st ’22
& Co.
Australia. Collins.
The Popular Girl
Short Story
[Very Long]
Nov 1921
Sat. Eve. Post
Feb 9th and
Feb 16th, 1922
Two for a Cent
Short Story
Sept 1921
Metropolitan
May ’22
Small Maynard
Argosy
1934
Henry Holt & Co.
O’briens Best
S.S. of 1922
Spring ’25
Fall ’22
The Diamond
as Big as the Ritz
Very
LONG Short Story
Oct 1921
Smart Set
June ’22
Scribners
Oct 22
Collins Mar 23
The Curious Case of
Benjamin Button
Short Story
Feb 1922
Colliers
May 27th ’22
Scribners
Oct 22
Collins Mar 23
Tales of the Jazz Age
Collection
Feb 1917–Feb 1922 Sat. Post; Colliers;
S.S; Van. Fair; Met;
Chi. Trib;
Sept 20th, ’20 Pearsons
June ’22
Sept 20th
1922
Collins Mar 23
Winter Dreams
Short Story
Sept 1922
Metropolitan
Dec. 1922
“Dice, Brassknuckles
& Guitar”
Short Story
Jan 1923
Hearsts
International
May 1923
The Vegetable
Play
Jan ’22 – Mar ’23
Hot and Cold Blood
Short Story
April ’23
Hearst’s
International
Aug 1923
The Sensible Thing
Short Story
Nov, ’23
Jack Wheelers
Weekly
(Liberty)
July 1924
July 1921 Scribners
Mcleans (Canadian) Jan 1923 Scribners
Royal (English)
Feb 1923
[
The Woman’s
Pictorial
Dec
1924
Feb
1926
]
Scribners
April
27th, ’23
Scribners
Feb
1926
Scribners
Feb
1926
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 9
Flappers and Philosophers
Collection
2 Movies
8 stories
(Head & Shoulders) &
(Off Shore Pirate)
Disposal
Remarks
Scources
Movie
made
by
Date
Produced
by
Name
5
Flappers and Philosophers
The Jellybean
Short Story
2nd Serial
Tales of the Jazz Age
“Contemporary Types of Short
Story”
The Lees of Happiness
Short Story
O’brien, one star
In Danish “All
American Decameron”
Jemima
Burlesque
Published in Nassau Litt.
Tales of the Jazz Age
The Russet Witch
Short Story
Tales of the Jazz Age
as “O Russet Witch!”
Tarquin of Cheapside
Short Story
Published in Nassau
Litt. Here revised
The Beautiful
and Damned.
Novel
Stripped and—
Two for a Cent
Short Story
Pasadena Little
Theatre, Winter 1938
Drama by Hodapp.
2 Productions
See
Porcelain
1 Movie (Camel)
Van Doren’s
Anthology
Broadcast
Columbia Hook-up
May 13th 1934
Tales of the Jazz Age
Obrien, two star
Tales of the Jazz Age
11 Stories & Plays
Tales of the Jazz Age
Called in England
“Dream Girl of Spring”
“Dice, Brassknuckles
& Guitar”
Short Story
Stripped and—
Hot and Cold Blood
Short Story
The Sensible Thing
Short Story
Sam Harris
Nov 19th
at Appollo Theatre
1923
Atlantic City, with Ernest Truex
Permanently Buried
Three star O’Brien
2nd Serial “Short Stories
for Classroom Reading”
Winter Dreams
Short Story
The Vegetable
Play
The Beautiful & Damned
Gerrould-Bailey
Anthology
Golden Book.
The Curious Case of
Benjamin Button
Short Story
Tales of the Jazz Age
Collection
Tales of the Jazz Age
2nd serial, Daily
news ect.
Cheap Edition: Burt
Warner Bros.
(Harlan & Prevost)
The Popular Girl
Short Story
[Very Long]
The Diamond
as Big as the Ritz
Very
LONG Short Story
Tales of the Jazz Age
“Gabriel’s Trombone”
rewritten 4 times
Also called “Frost”
Directed by Sam Forrest
Played Wilmington & Stamford
Vagabond Players Balt.
2nd Serial
All the Sad Young
Men
Permanently Buried
The Vegetable
All the Sad Young
Men
All the Sad Young
Men
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 10
Rags Martin-Jones
Dec, 1923
and the Pr-nce of W-les
(Short Story)
McCall’s
Magazine
July
1924
“Diamond Dick”
(Short Story)
Dec 1923
Heart’s
International
April
1923
Gretchen’s
Forty Winks
(Short Story)
Jan. 1924
Sat. Eve. Post.
Mar 15
1924
The Baby Party
(Short Story)
Feb 1924
Hearst’s
International
Feb
1925
“Our Own Movie Queen” Nov 1923
(Short Story)”
Chicago Tribune June
1925
The Third Casket
(short Story)
March 1924
Sat. Eve. Post
“One of my Oldest
Friends”
(short Story)
March 1924
Women’s Home Sept
Companion
1925
(Golden Book)
Absolution
(Short Story)
June 1923
American
Mercury
The Pusher-in-the
Face
(Short Story)
March 1924
Women’s Home Feb
Companion
1925
The Unspeakable
Egg
(Short Story)
April 1924
Sat. Eve. Post.
July 12th
1924
John Jackson’s
Arcady
(Short Story)
April 1924
Sat. Eve Post
July 26th
1924
The Great Gatsby
(Novel)
July & Aug ’23 (Turned down
June–Oct ’24
College Humor
Serialization)
Women’s
Pictorial
Dec
Scribners
1924
Home
Magazine
March Scribners
Feb
1924 G. Putnam Co. 1926
Scribners
May 30th Pearson’s
1924
Magazine
Red Magazine
Date
Feb.
1926
Feb
1926
Dec
1924
July
1926 Doran
June
1924
’26
Scribners
Feb
1926
Harpers
1926
Scribners
April
10th
1925
Woman’s
Pictorial
English
Publisher
Date
Book
Published
by
Date
English
Magazine
Date
Magazine
Date
Written
Name
6
Love in the Night
(Short Story)
Nov, 1924
Sat Eve Post.
Mar ’14
1925
Dec
1925
The Adjuster
(Short Story)
Dec, 1924
The Red Book
Sept.
1925
“Not in the
Guide Book”
(Short Story)
Feb, 1925
Woman’s Home
Companion
A Penny Spent
(Short Story)
July, 1925
Sat Eve. Post.
Oct 10th Modern Woman July
1925
1926
The Rich Boy
(Short Story)
[Very Long]
April–Aug
1925
Red Book
Jan.
Feb.
1926
Scribners
Feb
1926
Scribners
Feb
1926
Chatto and Feb 11th,
Windus
1926
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 11
Disposal
Remarks
Scources
Movie
made
by
Date
Produced
by
Name
7
2nd Serial
German Trans: Die
Rags Martin-Jones
and the Pr-nce of W-les
(Short Story)
All the Sad Young Men
Redaktion
Fr. Trans
“Diamond Dick”
(Short Story)
Stripped and—
Gretchen’s
Forty Winks
(Short Story)
In a collection
entitled “Aces”
All the Sad Young Men
The Baby Party
(Short Story)
O’Brien One Star
All the Sad Young Men
Permanently Buried
Trans. “Candide”
by Llona
“Our Own Movie Queen”
(Short Story)”
Two thirds written
by Zelda. Only my
climax and revision
The Third Casket
(short Story)
[
]
Price
Raise
O’Brien Two Stars
Stripped and—
Permanently Buried
German Magazine
“Wocke,” Oct 1924
Stripped and—
Permanently Buried
“One of my Oldest
Friends”
(short Story)
The “World’s” Best Short
Stories for 1925
O’Brien One Star
Absolution
(Short Story)
O’Brien 3 Stars
The Pusher-in-the
Face
(Short Story)
Paramount for
Authors League
Two Reels.
All the Sad Young Men
Also republished
in “The Golden Book”
2nd Serial
O’Brien Two Stars
Classroom Psychology
Overton’s Anthology of
Humorous Stories
The Unspeakable
Egg
(Short Story)
One star Obrien
Stripped and—
Permanently Buried
John Jackson’s
Arcady
(Short Story)
One Star O’Brien
Collection for Readings
Stripped and—
Permanently Buried
The Great Gatsby
(Novel)
(Other Notes)
2nd Serial. Famous Stories The Great Gatsby
Lois Wilson & Warner Baxter
Translation by Victor Llona Published by Kra in
(F. Vidor, Baxter; Brennon) (3 mos. in N.Y.)
Paris, Oct 1926.
Wm. Brady. Gt. Neck, Jan 25, 1926 Famous Players
with James Rennie & F. Eldrich
Ambassador Thea. N.Y. Feb. 2nd 1926
(Owen Davis Dramatization)
Pub Germany (Knaur) Swedish, Danish. Mod. Library Brittish Serial.
Love in the Night
(Short Story)
Argosy
Mag
Permanently Buried
Stripped and—
The Adjuster
(Short Story)
2nd Serial
O’Brien 2, Stars
Price Raise
All the Sad Young Men
“Not in the
Guide Book”
(Short Story)
Stripped and—
Permanently Buried
A Penny Spent
(Short Story)
Stripped and—
Price Raise
Permanently Buried
The Rich Boy
(Short Story)
[Very Long]
All the Sad Young Men
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 12
All the Sad
Young Men
(Collection)
Sept 1922 – Am. Mer; S.E.P.;
Dec 1922 Mcleans. Royal. Jan 1923 Scribners Feb. 26
Aug 1925 Hearst; Red B; Liberty Feb 1926 Wm. Pic. Home Dec 1925
1926
Metropol; Mccalls;
Pearsons
Presumption
(short story)
Nov 1925
Sat. Eve. Post
Jan 9th
1926
Women’s
Pictorial
1926
June
The Adolescent
Marriage
(short story)
Dec 1925
Sat. Eve Post.
Mar 6
1926
Women’s
Pictorial
July
1926
In a Little Town
(The Dance)
(Short Story)
Jan 1926
Red Book
June
1926
Your Way
and Mine
(Short Story)
Feb 1926
Women’s Home
Companion
May
1927
26?
Jacob’s Ladder
(Short Story)
June 1927
Saturday Evening
Post
Aug 20th
1927
The Love Boat
(Short Story)
Aug 1927
Saturday Evening
Post
Oct 8th
1927
A Short Trip
Home
(Short Story)
Oct 1927
Saturday Evening
Post
Dec 15th
1927
The Bowl
(Short Story
Nov 1927
Saturday
Evening Post
Jan 21st
1928
Magnetism
(Short Story)
Dec 1927
Saturday
Evening Post
Mar 3d
1928
The Scandal
Detectives
(Short Story)
Mar 1928
Saturday
Evening Post
Apr. 28
1928
The Freshest
Boy (short story)
Apr. 1928
Saturday
Evening Post
July 28
1928
A Night at
the Fair
(Short Story)
May 1928
Saturday
Evening Post
July 21st
1928
He Thinks he’s
Wonderful
(Short Story)
July 1928
Saturday
Evening Post
Sept 29th
1928
The Captured
Shadow
(Short Story)
Sept 1928
Saturday
Evening Post
Dec 29th
1928
The Perfect
Life (Short
Story)
Oct 1928
Saturday
Evening Post
Jan 5th
1929
The Georgia Belle
Nov 1928
(Short Story)
(The Last of the Belles)
Saturday
Evening Post
Mar 2nd
1929
Grand Magazine 1928
Date
Book
published
by
(English)
Date
Book
published
by
Date
English
Magazine
Date
Magazine
Date
Written
Name
8
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 13
All the Sad
Young Men
(Collection)
Presumption
(short story)
Nine Stories
Disposal
Remarks
Scources
Movie
Made
By
Date
Produced
by
Name
9
All the Sad
Young Men
Price Raise
The Adolescent
Marriage
(short story)
In a Little Town
(The Dance)
(Short Story)
Anthology Samples
Your Way
and Mine
(Short Story)
2nd Serial
One Star Obrien
Stripped and—
Jacob’s Ladder
(Short Story)
2nd List O’Henry
Price Raise
The Love Boat
(Short Story)
Two Stars O’Brien
Price Raise
Stripped and—
A Short Trip
Home
(Short Story)
Ghost Story Anthology
3 Stars O’Brien
The Bowl
(Short Story
One Star O’Brien
Magnetism
(Short Story)
Stripped and –
The Scandal
Detectives
(Short Story)
One Star O’Brien
The Freshest
Boy (short story)
A Night at
the Fair
(Short Story)
Permanently Buried
[
]
Permanently Buried
Permanently Buried
Taps at Revielle
Taps at Revielle
Stripped and—
Permanently Buried
He Thinks he’s
Wonderful
(Short Story)
Taps at Revielle
The Captured
Shadow
(Short Story)
Taps at Revielle
The Perfect
Life (Short
Story)
Taps at Revielle
The Georgia Belle
(Short Story)
(The Last of the Belles)
Taps at Revielle
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 14
“Forging Ahead”
(Short Story)
Jan 1929
Sat. Eve. Post Mar 30th
1929
Basil and
Cleopatra
(Short Story)
Feb 1929
Sat Eve Post
The Rough
Crossing
(Short Story)
Mar. 1929
Sat. Eve. Post June 8th
1929
Majesty
(Short Story
May, 1929
Sat. Eve. Post July 13
1929
At Your Age
(Short Story
June, 1929
Sat Eve. Post Aug 17th
1929
The Swimmers
(Short Story)
July 1929
Aug "
Sat Eve. Post Oct 17th
1929
Two Wrongs
(Short Story)
Oct 1929
Nov 1929
Sat Eve Post
Jan 18th
1930
First Blood
(Short Story)
Jan 1930
Sat Eve Post
April 6th
1930
A Nice Quiet
Place
(Short Story)
March 1930 Sat Eve Post
The Bridal Party
(Short Story)
May 1930
Sat. Eve Post Aug 9th
1930
A Woman with
a Past
(Short Story)
June 1930
Sat Eve Post
Sept 6th
1930
One Trip
Abroad
(Short Story)
August 1930 Sat Eve Post
Oct 11th
1930
A Snobbish
Story
(Short Story)
Sept 1930
Sat Eve Post
Nov 29
1930
The Hotel Child
(Short Story
Nov. 1930
Sat. Eve Post Jan 28th
1931
Bab‸ylon Revisited Dec 1930
(Short Story)
Sat. Eve Post Feb 21st
1931
Indecison
(Short Story)
Sat Eve Post
[
[
Jan 1931
Feb 1931
]
]
[
]
Apr. 27
1929
Modern Library
Great Modern
Short Stories
1930
Dodd Mead & Co.
Oct
1931
May 31st
1930
May 16th
1931
Date
English Book
Published
By
Date
Book
published
By
Date
English
Magazine
Date
Name
Date
Written
Magazine
10
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 15
Disposal
Remarks
Scources
Movie
made
by
Date
Name
Produced by
11
“Forging Ahead”
(Short Story)
Stripped and —
Permanently Buried
Basil and
Cleopatra
(Short Story)
Stripped and —
Permanently Buried
The Rough
Crossing
(Short Story)
Two stars O’Brien
Majesty
(Short Story
One Star O’Brien
At Your Age
(Short Story
Price Raise
The Swimmers
(Short Story)
One Star O’Brien
Stripped and —
Two Wrongs
(Short Story)
One Star Obrien
Taps at Revielle
First Blood
(Short Story)
One Star O’Brien
Taps at Revielle
A Nice Quiet
Place
(Short Story)
Taps at Revielle
Permanently Buried
Taps at Revielle
The Bridal Party
(Short Story)
Stripped and —
A Woman with
a Past
(Short Story)
Permanently Buried
Taps at Revielle
One Trip
Abroad
(Short Story)
A Snobbish
Story
(Short Story)
Stripped and—
Permanently Buried
The Hotel Child
(Short Story
Bab‸ylon Revisited
(Short Story)
Best Short Stories
of 1931
Indecison
(Short Story)
Stripped and—
[
[
]
]
Taps at Revielle
Permanently Buried
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 16
Sat. Eve. Post July 4th,
1931
A New Leaf
(Short Story)
April 1931
Amalgamated
Press
(Home Mag
Flight & Pursuit
(Short Story)
April 1931
Sat. Eve. Post May 15th Britannia & Eve
1932
Emotional
Bankrupcy
(Short Story)
June 1931
Sat. Eve. Post Aug 15th
1931
Between Three
and Four
(Short Story)
June 1931
Sat. Eve. Post Aug 29th
A Change of Class
(Short Story
July 1931
Sat. Eve. Post Sept 22nd
Half a Dozen
of the Other
(Short Story)
July 1931
Red Book
Dec ’31
A Freeze-out
(Short Story)
Sept 1931
Sat Eve Post
Dec 19th
1931
Diagnosis
(Short Story)
Octtober 1931 Sat Eve Post
Feb 20th
1932
Crazy Sunday
(Short Story)
January 1932
American
Nov
Mercury
1932
Family in the Wind
(Short Story)
April 1932
Sat Eve Post
June 4th
1932
What a Hansome Pair April 1932
(Short Story)
Sat Eve Post
July
1932
The Rubber Check
(Short Story)
May 1932
Sat Eve Post
July
1932
Interne
(Short Story)
Aug 1932
Sat. Eve. Post Nov
1932
On Schedule
Dec 1932
Sat Eve Post
March
1933
More than
Just a House
April 1933
Sat Eve Post
July
1933
I got Shoes
July 1933
Sat Eve Post
Oct
1933
The Family
Bus
Sept 1933
Sat Eve Post
Dec
1933
1931
John Day
1931
Date
English Bk
Published
by
Date
Book
Published
by
Date
English
Magazine
Date
Magazine
Date
Written
Name
12
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 17
Disposal
Remarks
Scources
Movie
Made
by
Date
Produced
by
Name
13
A New Leaf
(Short Story)
Best American Love Stories Taps at Revielle
O brien 3 ★
Flight & Pursuit
(Short Story)
Stripped and —
Permanently Buried
Emotional
Bankrupcy
(Short Story)
Between Three
and Four
(Short Story)
Obrien 3 ★
A Change of Class
(Short Story
Obrien 2 ★
Half a Dozen
of the Other
(Short Story)
Published as “Six of One”
Obrien 1 ★
Stripped and
Permanently Buried
Diagnosis
(Short Story)
Obrien 1 ★
Stripped and
Permanently Buried
Crazy Sunday
(Short Story)
O Brien
Collection
Taps at Revielle
Family in the Wind
(Short Story)
O Henry Collection
Swenska
Dagbladet
Taps at Revielle
What a Hansome Pair
(Short Story)
Stripped and —
Permanently Buried
The Rubber Check
(Short Story)
Stripped and —
Permanently Buried
A Freeze-out
(Short Story)
Interne
(Short Story)
Taps at Revielle
On Schedule
Stripped and —
More than
Just a House
Obrien 1★
I got Shoes
Obrien 1★
The Family
Bus
O Brien 1★
Permanently Buried
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 18
Tender is
the Night
(Novel)
’26, ’28, ’29,
Scribners
June ’32 – Mar ’34 Magazine
Dec ’33
Mar ’34
In the
Darkest Hour
(Short Story)
April 1934
The Red
Book
1934
No Flowers
(Short Story)
May 1934
Sat Eve Post
July
34
New Types
(Short Story)
July 1934
Sat Eve Post
Sept
34
Her Last Case
(Short Story)
Aug 1934
Sat Eve Post
Nov
’34
The Fiend
(Short Short)
Sept 1934
Esquire
Jan
1935
The Count
of Darkness
(Short Story)
Oct 1934
Red Book
1935
Kingdom in
the Dark
(Short Story)
Nov 1934
Red Book
1935
The Night of
Nov 1934
Chancellorsville
(Short Short)
Esquire
Feb 35
Gods of the
Darkness
(Short Story)
Dec 1934
Red Book
The Intimate
Strangers
(Short Story)
Feb Mar
1935
McCalls
April
1935
Shaggy’s Morning March
(Short Short)
1935
Esquire
June
1935
Esquimo Boy
(Short Story)
Liberty
April
1935
Feb 1935
Evening
Standard
Scribners
Mar
34
Scribners
Apr.
1935
1935
(The Passionate Esquimo)
Taps at Revielle
(Collection)
Oct 1927
–Aug 1932
Sat. Eve. Post.
1928
Amer. Merc. Esquire –1933
Zone of
Accident
Fall ’32
May ’35
Sat Eve Post
July
35
What You
Dont Know
June
July ’35
American
Sept
1935
Finishing
School
Sept ’35
McCalls
Jan
1936
(The Image on the Heart)
Find out
Woman’s
Journal
(“A course
in languages)
Date
English
Publisher
Date
Bk published
by
Date
English
Magazine
Date
Name
Date
Written
Magazine
14
Chatto & Windus 1935
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 19
Tender is
the Night
(Novel)
Too Cute for W
Song in
“Strike up the Band”
Disposal
Remarks
Scources
Movie
Made by
Date
Produced
by
Name
15
Tender is the Night
In the
Darkest Hour
(Short Story)
No Flowers
(Short Story)
New Types
(Short Story)
Stripped and —
Permanently Buried
Her Last Case
(Short Story)
The Fiend
(Short Short)
Taps at Revielle
The Count
of Darkness
(Short Story)
Kingdom in
the Dark
(Short Story)
The Night of
Chancellorsville
(Short Short)
Taps at Revielle
Gods of the
Darkness
(Short Story)
The Intimate
Strangers
(Short Story)
Shaggy’s Morning
(Short Short)
Stripped and
Permanently Buried
Esquimo Boy
(Short Story)
(The Passionate Esquimo)
To be Scrapped
Taps at Revielle
(Collection)
Taps at Revielle
Zone of
Accident
What You
Dont Know
Finishing
School
(The Image on the Heart)
Swedish
Magazine “Except
to Bill”
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 20
Too Cute
for Words
Dec ’35
Sat. Eve. Post
Apr.
’36
Three Acts
of Music
Feb ’36
Esquire
May
’36
Make Yourself
at Home
March ’36 Pictorial Review
Inside the
House
April ’36
Sat. Eve Post
The Pearl
and the Fur
May ’36
Pictorial Review
Trouble
June ’36
Sat. Eve Post.
March
37
I Didn’t
get over
Aug ’36
Esquire
Oct
’36
Please send
me in, Coach
Oct ’36
Esquire
Dec
36
An Alcoholic
Case
Dec ’36
Esquire
Feb
’37
The Goon
April 37
Esquire
June
37
The Long Way May 37
Out (Oubliette)
Esquire
Sept
37
In the Holidays Feb 37
Esquire
Dec
37
Room 19
March 37
Esquire
Feb
38
Financing
Finnegan
June 37
Esquire
Jan
38
June
36
Date
English
Publishers
Date
Book
Published
by
Date
English
Magazine
Date
Magazine
Date
Written
Name
16
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 21
Disposal
Remarks
Scources
Movie
made
by
Date
Produced
by
Name
17
Too Cute
for Words
Three Acts
of Music
Make Yourself
at Home
Scrap
Inside the
House
The Pearl
and the Fur
Scrap
Trouble
I Didn’t
get over
Scrap
Please send
me in, Coach
Scrap
An Alcoholic
Case
The Goon
The Long Way
Out (Oubliette)
In the Holidays
Scrap
Room 19
Scrap
Financing
Finnegan
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 22
51
Money Earned by Writing since Leaving Army
Record
for 1919
Stories
Babes in the Woods
The Debutante (Play)
The Four Fists
The Cut Glass Bowl
Porcelain & Pink (Play)
Dalyrimple goes Wrong
Benediction
Head and Shoulders
A Dirge
(Poem)
Mr. Icky
(Play)
400.00
Commission 10%
Total Earnings
[
]
30 00
$30 00
35.00
150.00
150.00
35.00
40.00
40.00
360.00
4.00
35.00
879.00
[
]
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 23
52
Record for 1920
The Ice Palace
$400.00. Commission 10%
$360 00
Myra Meets His Family
400.00
"
"
360 00
The Camels Back
500.00
"
"
450 00
Bernice Bobs her Hair
500.00
"
"
450 00
The Off-Shore Pirate
500.00
"
"
450 00
The Smilers
35 00
May Day
200 00
Tarquin of Cheapside
50 00
The Jellybean
900.00
"
"
810 00
The Russet Witch
900.00
"
"
810 00
Total -------------------------------------------------------------- 3,975 00
Head and Shoulders
2500.00
"
"
2,250 00
Myra Meets His Family
1000.00
"
"
900 00
The Off Shore Pirate
2250.00
"
"
2,025 00
Option on my output
3000.00
"
"
2,700 00
Total -------------------------------------------------------------- 7,425 00
This is a Magazine
75 00
Total ---------------------------------------------------------------- 75 00
Stories
*
Movies
Other Writings
From Books
This Side of Paradise
6,200 00
Flappers and Philosophers
500 00
Total -------------------------------------------------------------- 6,700 00
Total
[
][
]
$ 18,175 00
[
]
* Ommission ---- The Lees of Happiness $750.00, Com 10%
$675.00
Total ------------------------------------------------------------------- $18,850.00
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 24
53
Stories
Serial
Record for 1921
The Popular Girl
$ 1500.00
Commission 10%
$ 1,350 00
Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1,350 00
The Beautiful & Damned 7000.00
Commission 10%
6,300 00
Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6,300 00
Other Writings Jemima
100 00
The Baltimore Anti-Christ
13 00
The Far-seeing Skeptics
5 00
Brass
7 00
Total ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 135 50
From Books
This Side of Paradise
5,636 68
Flappers and Philosophers
2,730 00
The Beautiful and Damned (advance)
2,813 19
Total --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11,179 68
English Advance
(Add Syndication Jelly Bean $5.00)
100 00
Total
$ 19,065 18
[
]
[
]
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 25
54
Record for 1922
The Diamond as big as the Ritz
$ 300.00
Com. 10%
270.00
Benjamin Button
1000.00
"
900.00
Two for a Cent
900.00
"
810.00
Winter Dreams
900.00
"
810.00
Total ------------------------------------------------------------------- 2790.00
The Beautiful and Damned
2,500.00
"
2250.00
On Being Twenty five
800.00
Little Brother of the Flapper
1000.00
"
900.00
The Moment of Revolt
250.00
Canadian Winter Dreams
100.00
"
90.00
“Love Legend” (review)
5.00
“The Oppidan” (review)
3.00
“Margie Wins the Game” (review)
5.00
Movies and the Publisher
5.00
Total ------------------------------------------------------------------- 7098.00
Forty seven pounds ------------------------------------------------------------ 212.00
This Side of Paradise
1,200.00
Flappers and Philosophers
350.00
The Beautiful and Damned
12,133.00
Tales of the Jazz Age
3,056.00
The Vegetable (advance)
1,236.00
Total (all these book figures estimated) ----------------------- 17,775.00
Stories
Movie
Other Writings
English Rights
From Books
[
Total ------------------------------------------------------------------------ $ 25,135.00
]
[
]
Zelda’s Earnings
The Super-Flapper ------------------------------------------------------------ $500.00
The Moment of Revolt ----------------------------------------------------250.00
Review of Beautiful & Damned -------------------------------------------- 15.00
Eulogy on the Flapper -----------------------------------------------------50.00
Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- $ 815.00
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 26
55
Stories
Movies
Record for 1923
Option from Hearsts
$ 1500.00 Com. 10%
$ 1350.00
“Dice, Brassknuckles and Guitar”
1500.00
"
1350.00
Hot and Cold Blood
1500.00
"
1350.00
“Diamond Dick”
1500.00
"
1350.00
“Our Own Movie Queen” (half Zelda) 1000.00
"
900.00
Gretchen’s Forty Winks
1200.00
"
1080.00
Winter Dreams (English Rights)
125.00
"
112.50
Total ------------------------------------------------------------------ 7,492.50
This Side of Paradise
The Camel’s Back
Grit
Titles for Glimpses of the Moon
Total ----------------------------------------------------------------
10,000.00
1,000.00
2,000.00
500.00
13,500.00
Play Advance ------------------------------------------------------- 500.00 -- Com. 10% ------ 450.00
Other Writings
Books
Imagination and a few Mothers
1000. Com 10%
900.00
The Cruise of the Rolling Junk
300.
"
270.00
Making Monagamy Work
300.
"
270.00
Our Irresponsibe Rich
350.
"
315.00
The Most Disgraceful Thing I ever Did
[
]
[ ]
20.00
Review of Being Respectable
[
]
[ ]
15.00
"
" Many Marriages
[
]
[ ]
5.00
"
" Through the Wheat
[
]
[ ]
5.00
Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1,800.00
Syndicate Returns
74.75 Com 10%
67.28
This Side of Paradise
880.00
Flappers and Philosophers
98.00
The Beautiful and Damned
292.00
Tales of the Jazz Age
270.43
Total (figures estimated)
1,510.00
Advance on New Novel (The Great Gatsby)
3,939 00
Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 5,450.00
Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------- $ 28,759.78
[
]
[
]
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 27
56–57
Stories
*
English Rights
Articles
Syndicate
Other Rights
From Books
(inc. English
and Syndicate)
Record for 1924
The Baby Party
$1500.00
Com. 10% 1350 00
The Sensible Thing
1750.00
"
1575 00
Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les 1750.00
"
1575 00
The Third Casket
1750.00
"
1575 00
One of my Oldest Friends
1750.00
"
1575 00
The Pusher-in-the Face
1750.00
"
1575 00
The Unspeakable Egg
1750.00
"
1575 00
John Jackson’s Arcady
1750.00
"
1575 00
Love in the Night
1750.00
"
1575 00
The Adjuster
2000.00
"
1800 00
Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 15,750 00
The Third Casket
95.00
"
The Sensible Thing
83.00
"
Rags Martin-Jones and the Pr-nce of W-les
90.00
"
Total ------------------------------------------------------------------- 241 20
Wait till You Have Children of Your Own 1000.00
"
900 00
How to Live on $36,000 a Year
1000.00
"
900 00
How to Live on Practically Nothing a Year 1200.00
"
1080 00
Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2880 00
115.22
"
103 52
The Third Casket (German Rights)
17 50
This Side of Paradise
325 00
Flappers and Philosophers
16 00
The Beautiful and Damned
527 00
Tales of the Jazz Age
7 00
The Great Gatsby (further advance)
325 00
1,200 00
Total ------------------------------------------------------------------------* Ommission ---- Absolution
$20,192 22
--------------------------------------------118 00
Total ---------------------------------------------------------------------- $ 20,310 22
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 28
58 – 59
Stories
Books
Record for 1925
Not in the Guide Book
$1750.00
Com 10%
1575.00
A Penny Spent
2000.00
"
1800.00
The Rich Boy
3500.00
"
3150.00
Presumption
2500.00
"
2250.00
The Adolescent Marriage
2500.00
"
2250.00
Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 11,025.00
This Side of Paradise
Flappers and Philosophers
The Beautiful and Damned
Tales of the Jazz Age
The Great Gatsby
All the Sad Young Men (advance)
26 24
21 65
144 30
20 54
1981 85
2717 33
Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 4,906 61
Misselaeneous Advance on Gatsby play
Gatsby second Serial
Old New England Farmhouse
Syndicate
Gretchens Forty Winks (English)
Love in the Night (English)
$1000.00
1000.00
200.00
313.00
67.00
89.00
Com 10%
"
"
"
"
"
900 00
900 00
180 00
282 00
60 00
80 00
Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2,402 00
Total -------------------------------------------------------------- $18,333 61
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 29
60
Stories
English Rights
Syndicate ect.
Article
Books
(inc. English)
Foreign
Moving Picture
Record for 1926
Your Way and Mine
$1750.00
Com 10%
1575 00
The Dance
2000.00
"
1800 00
Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 3375 00
Love in the Night (see previous page) 91.75
Com 15%
78 00
One of Our oldest Friends
97.00
"
83 45
A Penny Spent
76.38
"
61 92
The Adolescent Marriage
76.23
"
64 80
Total ------------------------------------------------------------------- 288 17
Adjuster, Pusher in the Face, Oldest Friends 239.19 Com 10% + 7.50 222 68
How to Waste Material
100.00 "
90 00
This Side of Paradise
44 00
Flappers and Philosophers
35 80
The Beautiful and Damned
33 10
Tales of the Jazz Age
21 20
The Great Gatsby
508 25
All the Sad Young Men
1181 05
Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2033 20
Danish and Swedish Rights to Gatsby
213 00
The Great Gatsby
16,666.00
Com 10% (twice)
13500 00
Play
New York Run (Deduct last years advance) 3907.76 Com 10%
(The Great Gatsby) Chicago
"
2971.07
"
Road Run "
751.38
"
(Detroit, Brklyn, Balt, St. Louis, Chi, Denver, Phila)
Total
2616 98
2673 97
673 26
5964 21
$25,686 05
Love in the Night (English) – 97 75
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 30
61 – 63
Stories
Movies
Other Writings
and Rights
Books
Record for 1927
Jacob’s Ladder
$3000.00
Com 10%
$2,700 00
The Love Boat
3500.00
" "
3,150 00
A Short Trip Home
3500.00
" "
3,150 00
The Bowl
3500.00
" "
3,150 00
Magnetism
3500.00
" "
3,150 00
Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 15,300 00
California work on “Lipstick”
3,500 00
Additional Payment “Gatsby” $3333.00 (Com 10% Lawyer $100) 2,910 00
Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 6,410 00
Princeton
$500. Com 10%
450 00
Editorial Photoplay (Zelda)
Com 10%
450 00
Park Avenue
"
300 00
Looking Back 8 Years "
300 00
English “Presumption”
£15 ʃ15 Com 10%
68 98
German “Rags Martin Jones”
25 00
Golden Bk “Pusher in Face”
110. Com 10%
99 00
Anthology ‘Pusher in Face”
25. Com 10%
22 50
Anthology “Jellybean”
26 67
Syndicate “Your Way & Mine” ect. 153.82 Com 10%
137 44
German Rights to Gatsby
141 00
All English Book Royalties
95 32
Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2096 11
This Side of Paradise
13 03
The Beautiful and Damned
14 80
The Great Gatsby
55 65
Flappers and Philosophers
26 70
Tales of the Jazz Age
16 35
All the Sad Young Men
43 05
Advance on New Novel Serial
5752 06
Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 5911 64
Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 29,737 87
Tax unpaid 1926
Adolescent Marriage $64.80
Gatsby Road
320.15
384.95
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 31
64
Record for 1928
Stories
The Scandal Detectives
$3500.00 Com 10%
3150.00
The Freshest Boy
3500.00
"
3150 00
A Night at the Fair
3500.00
"
3150 00
He Thinks he’s Wonderful
3500.00
"
3150 00
The Captured Shadow
3500.00
"
3150 00
The Perfect Life
3500.00
"
3150 00
The Georgia Belle
3500.00
"
3150 00
Total ---------------------------------------------------------------- 22050 00
Other Writings Outside the Cabinet Makers
150.00
"
135 00
Who Can Fall in Love after Thirty (Zelda) 200.00
"
180 00
Syndicate (Wheeler)
13.50
"
12 15
Magnetism (English)
86.94
"
78 25
Bell Syndicate
2 23
Total ------------------------------------------------------------------- 406 67
Advertisement -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1000 00
Books
This Side of Paradise
22 05
The Beautiful and Damned
22 40
Flappers and Philosophers
12 30
Tales of the Jazz Age
12 90
The Vegetable
3 60
The Great Gatsby
44.15
All the Sad Young Men
25 05
Further Advance on New Novel Serial
2129 03
Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 2272 96
Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 25,732 96
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 32
65
Stories
Record for 1929
Forging Ahead
$3500. Com 10%
$3150 00
Basil & Cleopatra
3500.
"
3150 00
Rough Crossing
3500.
"
3150 00
Majesty
3500.
"
3150 00
At Your Age
4000.
"
3600 00
The Swimmers
4000.
"
3600 00
Two Wrongs
4000.
"
3600 00
First Blood
4000.
"
3600 00
Total --------------------------------------------------------------- 27,000 00
Zelda’s
Original Follies Girl
400.
"
360 00
sketches Poor Working Girl
500.
"
450 00
Southern Girl
500.
"
450 00
Girl the Prince Liked
500.
"
450 00
Girl with Talent
800.
"
720 00
Total ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2430 00
Misselaneous Talkie Rights B & D.
1000.
"
Girls Believe in Girls
1500.
"
Advertisement
500.
Short Autobiography
100.
"
Golden Bk. “One of My Oldest” 100.
"
English “Outside Cabinet”
40.86
"
Reprints
Total --------------------------------------------------------------Books
This Side of Paradise
Flappers & Philosophers
The Beautiful & Damned
Tales of the Jazz Age
Great Gatsby
All Sad Young Men
Vegetable
English Gatsby
Total ------------------------------------------------
900 00
1350 00
500 00
90 00
90 00
34 56
21 85
2986 41
4 80
11 70
3 60
3 00
5 10
2 10
1 13
.34
31 77
$ 32,448.18
Grand Total --------------------------------------------
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 33
66
Stories
Record for 1930
A Nice Quiet Place
The Bridal Party
A Woman with a Past
One Trip Abroad
A Snobbish Story
The Hotel Child
Babylon Revisited
$4000.
Com 10%
$3600 00
4000.
"
3600 00
4000.
"
3600 00
4000.
"
3600 00
4000.
"
3600 00
4000.
"
3600 00
4000.
"
3600 00
Total ------------------------------ 25,200 00
Other Items
Salesmanship in the Chomps Ellysee
75.
"
At Your Age—Modern Library
100.
"
Two for a Cent—Golden Book
75.
"
Jacobs Ladder English
121.
"
Reprints
8.
"
Total ---------------------------------- 341 10
Zelda’s Writings The Millionaires Girl
4000
"
3,600 00
Miss Bessie
150
"
150 00
Total -------------------------------- 3,750 00
Books
This Side of Paradise
10 20
Flappers & Philosophers
10 05
The Beautiful & Damned
4 80
Tales of the Jazz Age
8 40
The Vegetable
1 12
The Great Gatsby
15 60
All the Sad Young Men (& Present day Stories)
37 86
Further Advances
(Serial new novel & 1,583.06 against bk.
3 701 97
Total -------------------------------- 3,800 00
Grand Total
Paid tax on a miscalculation of earnings on $254. more
than I should have. Will deduct from earnings of 1931.
$ 33,090 10
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 34
67
Stories
Other Items
Books
Record for 1931
Indecision
$4000.
Com 10%
3600 00
A New Leaf
4000.
"
3600 00
Flight and Pursuit
4000.
"
3600 00
Emotional Bankrupcy
4000.
"
3600 00
Between Three and Four
4000.
"
3600 00
A Change of Class
4000.
"
3600 00
Half a Dozen of the Other
3000.
"
2700 00
A Freeze Out
4000.
"
3600 00
Diagnosis
4000.
"
3600 00
Total ---------------------------------------------------------------- 31,500 00
Treatment Metro Goldwyn Mayer 6000.
"
5 400 00
Echoes of the Jazz Age
500.
500 00
Vegetable Performance
25.00
"
22 50
New Leaf (English)
£17
"
59 00
Flight & Pursuit (English)
Guinies 35
"
126 00
John Jackson’s Arcady
2.21
"
2 00
Total -----------------------------------------------------------This Side of Paradise
Flappers & Philosophers
The Beautiful & Damned
Tales of the Jazz Age
The Vegetable
The Great Gatsby
All the Sad Young Men
Advance
against Bk.
Total ---------------------------------------------------------------
6,109 50
12 90
9 30
4 40
3 90
1 13
17 90
7 90
44 15
100 00
Less: Not paid in 1931 by Metro
− 155 35
173.72
Grand Total
New Yorker sketch
"
37,554 00
50.00
45 00
37,599 00
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 35
68
Stories
Other Items
Books
Record for 1932 (writing Tender)
Crazy Sunday
$ 200
$ 200 00
Family in the Wind
3500 Com 10%
3150 00
What a Hansome Pair
2500
"
2250 00
The Rubber Check
3000
"
2700 00
Interne
3500
"
3150 00
On Schedule
3000
"
2700 00
Total ----------------------------------------------- 14,805 00
Reprint of The New Leaf
22.50 Com 10%
Walter Baker Royalty
15.20
Flight & Pursuit (English)
110.42
Couple of Nuts (Zelda)
$ 150. Com 10%
The Gourmets (Zelda)
50.
"
Total of all these ------------------------------------- 313 40
All Royalties
Advance on Novel
Grand Total
20 00
480 00
Total ------------------------------------------------ 500 00
15,823 40
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 36
69–73
Stories
Record for 1933 (Writing Tender)
More than just a House
3000
I Got Shoes
2500
The Family Bus
3000
Com 10%
"
"
2700 00
2250 00
2700 00
Articles
My Lost City
One Hundred False Starts
1000
1200
900 00
1080 00
Books
Tender and Taps Advance
800
4,200 00
and new advance
of [
] 1,690.21
Other Books
Save me the Waltz
($ 1000. Commission paid Ober on serial)
Sound Rights The Great Gatsby
2500
Other Items
Two for a Cent (English)
New Leaf
(Home Mag. English)
John Jackson (Royalties
"
"
"
30
120 00
2250 00
34 81
63 03
19 00
16,328 03
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 37
74
Stories
Record for 1934
No Flowers
New Types
Her Last Case
In the Darkest Hour
The Count of Darkness
A Kingdom in the Dark
The Fiend
The Night before Chancellorsville
$ 3000
3000
3000
1250
1500
1500
Com 10%
2700 00
2700 00
2700 00
1125 00
1350 00
1350 00
250 00
250 00
12,475 00
All Books ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 58 35
Misselaneous Ring Lardner
Preface to Gatsby
Broadcast of Diamond
Family in the Wind (Swedish)
Your Age (Modern)
Show Mr & Mrs F.
Auction –Model 1934
Modern American Prose
Smart Set Anthology
Chatto & Windus
American Short Story
Gatsby Modern Library
SCRIBNER
Advance
50 00
50 00
45 00
12 27
3 16
200 00
200 00
[
]
37 50
12 50
156 31
1 02
250 00
1,017 76
On New Work --------------------------------------------------------------- 6481 96
1840 33
[
]
20,032 33
May 1938
From this point I do not show agent
loans which I pay back later.
Also I have not shown Scribners loans as they
are being paid back in part. Note as
to this: I have in May 1938 (or before)
recieved $277.68 from Scribner on
which I have paid no tax. I will add
it to my 1938 return as a charge. The
situation was confused by four types
of loans they made me.
Also this is minus an estimate of
$72.88 for last half of ’37
This is now all right. The sum above was
not an advance from Scribners ($277.69) but my
retail ‸book account which had been added to my royalty bill report
of royalties.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 38
75
Stories
Record for 1935
The Intimate Strangers
Zone of Accident
What you Don’t know
Too Cute for Words
Gods of the Darkness
The Esquimo Boy
The Image on the Heart
Misselaneous Lamp in a Window
Modern Library Royalty
English Sale – The Fiend
Columbia Broadcast “Lets go Out”
Shaggy’s Mornining
Same – London
Sleeping & Waking
Your Age
Crack Up
Paste Together
Brittish Fiend
All Books and Advance
Total
$3000
3000
3000
3000
1500
1500
1250
700
$ 342.03
16,845.16
2700 00
2700 00
2700 00
2700 00
1350 00
1350 00
1125 00
14,725 00
22 50
17 89
41 93
630 00
250 00
31 00
250 00
10 88
250 00
250 00
41 93
1,596 13
1 796 13
832 00
17,153 13
May 1938
This is evidently a grand mistake. Even
if I only got $200 for Esquire articles I
still underpaid by $307.97.
This again will appear in 1938 Tax.
Both these errors were made during my illness.
Again the error if any is in my favor. I have
recieved less from Scribners than I have paid
taxes on
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 39
76
Stories
Record for 1936
Outside the House
Make Yourself at Home
The Pearl & the Fur
Trouble
−10%
Esquire Pieces Handle with Care.
Three Acts of Music
The Ants at Princeton
Author’s House
Afternoon of an Author
An Author’s Mother
I didn’t Get over
Please send me in, Coach
An Alcoholic Case
$ 3000 00
2500 00
1000 00
2000 00
7650 00
250
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
2250 00
Misscelaenous Modern Library, Brittish & Danish, John Jackson ect
All Books
Total
199 79
81 18
10,180 97
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 40
77
Stories
Record for 1937
The Goon
The Long Way Out
In the Holidays
Room 13
Financing Finnegan
Misselaeneous Obit on Parnassus
Book of Ones Own
Early Success
Foriegn Sales (Gatsby)
Random House
Scribners (All Books)
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
100—102 Torn Out
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 41
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 42
103
Published Miscelani (including movies) for which I was Paid
NAME
DESRIPTION
MAGAZINE
DATE
REMARKS
A Dirge
Parody Verse Judge
Dec. 1919
“Predjudices, 1st Series”
Review
Bookman
March 1921
This is a Magazine
Sketch
Vanity Fair
Dec. 1920
“Brass”
Review
Bookman
Oct 1922
When the Movies
Own the Publishers
Suggestion
Life
Jan 1922
“The Oppidan”
Review
N. Y. Tribune
May 1922
“Margie Wins the Game”
Review
N. Y. Tribune
April 1922
On being 25
Article
American
Sept 1922
The Far-seeing
Sceptics
Sketch
Smart Set
March 1922 Incorporated into
“The Beautiful & Damned”
“The Love Legend”
Review
N. Y. Evening Post
Oct 1922
The Moment of revolt that Article
comes to every married man
McCalls
March 1924
The Little Brother of
the Flapper
Article
McCalls
Dec 1924
Imagination and
a few Mothers
Article
Ladies Home Journal June 1922
“Being Respectable”
Review
International Book
Review
April 1923
“Many Marriages”
Review
N. Y. Herald
April 1923
“Glimpses of the Moon”
Movie Titles
Famous Players
March 1923
Grit
Movie
Film Guild
Jan 1924
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 43
104
NAME
DESRIPTION MAGAZINE
DATE
REMARKS
Making Monagamy Work
Article
Metropolitan Syndicate
Jan. 1924
Our Irresponsible Rich
Article
Metropolitan Syndicate
Feb. 1924
The Cruise of the Rolling Junk Article
Motor
Feb–April
1924
“Through the Wheat”
Review
N. Y. Evening Post
April 1923
The Most Disgraceful
Thing I ever Did
Article
Vanity Fair
Nov 1923
How to Live on $36,000
a Year
Article
Sat. Eve. Post.
April 1924
Wait till you have
Children of Your Own
Article
Women’s Home Companion July 1924 Partly incorporated
into “The Great Gatsby”
How to Live on Practically
Nothing a Year
Article
Sat. Eve. Post.
Sept 1924
Burlesque: “My
Old New England
Farmhouse on the Erie”
Burlesque
College Humor
Aug 1925
How to Waste Material,
A note on My Generation
Article–Review Bookman
Princeton
Article
College Humor
Lipstick
Movie
For United Artists
Outside the Cabinet Makers
Sketch (Story?) Century
Dec 1928
(Also Cassel’s Mag. Enq.)
F
Story Tellers Mag
A Short Autobiography
New Yorker
Sketch
May 25th
1929
Girls Believe in Girls
Liberty
Article
1930
Salesmanship in the
Champs Ellysee
Sketch
New Yorker
1930
Echoes of the Jazz Age
Article
Scribners
Nov
1931
May 1926
Published
Dec 1927
Written
Feb 1927
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 44
105
NAME
My Lost City
One Hundred
False Starts
DESCRIPTION
MAGAZINE
DATE
Article
Cosmopolitan
July 1932
Article
Ring Lardner
Appreciation
Sleeping
and Waking
Article
Lamp in a
Window
Crack up
Poem
Biography
Sat Eve. Post
New Republic
Esquire
Mar 1933
Oct 1933
Dec 34
New Yorker
Spring 35
Esquire
Feb ’36
Paste Together
"
"
Mar ’36
Handle with Care
"
"
Apr. ’36
The Ants
at Princeton
Satire
(Story?)
Esquire
June 36
Authors
House
Sketch
Esquire
July ’36
Esquire
Aug ’36
Sketch
(Story?)
Esquire
Sept ’36
Article
Cavalcade
Aug 36
New Yorker
Aug? 36
New Yorker
Sept. 36
Columbia
Fall 1935
Afternoon
of an
Author
An Author’s
Mother
Early
Success
Obit on
Parnassus
A Book
of Ones Own
Let’s Go
out & Play
Sketch
(Story?)
Verse
Burleque
Broadcast
Play
REMARKS
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 45
143
Zelda’s Earnings
1922 Four articles (See page 54)
1923 Our Own Movie Queen (Story—half mine) $1000.00 Net 500.00 Com 10%
1927 Editorial Photoplay (unpublished) $500.00 Com 10%
Park Avenue
Looking Back Eight Years
1928 Who Can Fall in Love After Thirty $200. Com 10%
1929 The Original Follies Girl $400. Com 10%
The Poor Working girl (unpublished) $500 Com 10%
The Southern Girl $500 Com 10%
The Girl the Prince Liked $500 Com 10%
The Girl with Talent
$800 Com 10%
$ 815 00
450 00
300 00
300 00
180 00
360 00
450 00
450 00
450 00
720 00
Total ----------------------------------------- 5 075 00
1930 The Millionaire’s Girl
Miss Bessie
1931
1932
1932
1934
1934
$4000. Com 10%
150. Com 10%
The Continental Angle
A Couple of Nuts
Save Me the Waltze
Show Mr & Mrs F. to Number—
Auction Model 1934
3 600 00
135 00
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
144—150
Torn Out
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 46
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 47
151
Outline Chart of my Life
1896 Sept 24th at 3-30 P.M. a son Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
to Edward and Mary Fitzgerald. The day was Sunday.
The weight was 10 llbs, 6 oz. The place was 481
Laurel Ave, St. Paul, Minn
Oct
He was baptised and went out for the first time – to
Lamberts corner store on Laurel Ave.
Nov
He had the colic.
1897
Feb
The child laughed for the first time
May He crawled – and had his first tooth and a cold in
his head.
July
He said his first word. It was the monasyllable “up”
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 48
152
One Year Old
1897 Sept. He had six teeth – and weiged eighteen llbs.
Oct
He attempted to walk
Dec
Bronchitis. A specialist was summoned but as his
advice was not followed the child pulled through
1898
April
June
Tiring of St. Paul he went east to Buffalo New York where with
his parents he installed himself at the Lennox
He had a dutch haircut
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 49
153
Two Years Old
1899
Jan He put on bloomers and went to Washington to spend the
winter at the Cairo Hotel
April
He returned to Buffalo and moved into a flat at
Summer Street and Elmwood Ave.
June A persistent cough drove him to Orchard Park, New York.
His mother feared consumption for him.
Aug
He returned to St. Paul, visiting his grandmother
Mcquillan in her house on Summit Avenue near
Dale Street.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 50
154
Three Years Old
Sept His birthday found him weighing 35 llbs.
Oct
1900
About this time he slid on the hall carpet of the Summer
St. appartment in Buffalo and got a scar on
his right forehead which he possesses today.
Jan His mother presented him with a sister who lived only an hour.
Feb He celebrated the new century by swallowing a penny and
catching the measles. He got rid of both of them
March His parents sent him to school but he wept and wailed
so they took him out again after one morning.
Aug He visited Atlantic City for the first time, later going
through the Philadelphia Navy-yard.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 51
155
Four Years Old
Sept He had a party to celebrate his birthday. He wore a
sailor suit about this time & told enormous lies
to older people about being really the owner of a
real yatch.
1901
Jan He now went to Sarycuse where he took Mrs. Peck’s
appartment on East Genesee Street.
July His sister Annabel was born. His first certain memory
is the sight of her howling on a bed.
Aug Again he went to Atlantic City—where some
Freudian complex refused to let him display
his feet, so he refused to swim, concealing
the real reason. They thought he feared the water.
In reality he craved it. Also he attended the
Buffalo exposition, the Pan American
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 52
156
Five Years Old
Sept He played with one Dixon Green whom he has entirely
forgotten. “Oh Gee! I wish I had a different look on my face.
He remembers a horrible day in a brickyard where his nurse
pricked her ear with a straw.
1902
Jan He now moved from East Genessee Street to the “Kasson”
on James Street. He remembers Jack Butler who
had two or three facinating books about the civil war
and he remembers hitting a delivery boy with a stone and cutting his head
May He went to Randolph his aunt Eliza Delihant’s place in
Montgomery County Maryland, where he made friends
with a colored boy, name forgotten— name Ambrose
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 53
157
Six Years Old
Sept He now weighed 45 llbs. He entered Miss Goodyear’s
school and he and another little girl, name
unknown, worked out the phonetic spelling of C-A-T.
Thus becoming the stars of the primary class
1903 Jan Naturally he moved again—this time to a flat on East Willow
Street. He begins to remember many things, a filthy vacant lot, the haunt
of dead cats, a hair-raising buck-board, the little girl whose
father was in prison for telling lies, a Rabelaisian incident
with Jack Butler, a blow with a baseball bat from
the same boy – son of an army officer—which left a
scar that will shine always in the middle of my his
forehead, a history of the United States which
father brought me; he became a child of the American
Revolution. Also he boxed with Edgar Miller the grocery
man’s son, egged on by his father. His nurse pierced her
ear for rings and he howled.
April He went south to Randolph again where he was a
ribbon holder with Jack Garland at his Cousin Cecilia’s
wedding. After the wedding he turned on his two
black friends Roscoe and Forrest and with the
help of a bigger boy tried to tie them up with ropes
He remembers crying one day in fury over the
irrevocability of a decision – he had decided once too
often that he did not want to go down town. He found
his fathers soap boxes and apricots quite diverting. He went
on a trip with his father.
July He wandered off on the Fourth of July & was spanked in consequence,
so he sat on the porch with his breeches down and watched
the fire-works. On Sunday mornings he walked down
town in his long trousers and with his little cane and
had his shoes shined with his father.
There was also a boy named Arnold who went
barefooted in his yard and peeled plums. Scott’s
freudian shame about his feet kept him from joining in.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 54
158
Seven Years Old
Sept. He had a birth day party to which no one came. He moved
to Buffalo, New York, possibly in consequence where he
had a dog named “Beautiful Joe,” a black cocker spaniel,
and also a bycycle – a girl’s bycycle. He was sent to
school at the Holy Angel’s convent under the arrangement
that he need only go half a day and was allowed to
choose which half.
He lived at 29 Irving Place almost next door to
one Jack Baker. He remembers Ted Keating, Dodo Clifton, Jack
Kimberly and Dexter Rumsey, and their facinating army.
He remembers “Nana,” Annabel’s nurse. He remembers
the attic where he had a red sash with which
he acted Paul Revere. He went twice to see Paul Revere,
the second time the lights went off to his great
dissapointment. He fell under the spell of a
Catholic preacher, Father Fallon, of the Church of
the Holy Angels. Hamilton Wendee comes in this
1904
period.
He used to climb the hitching post in front of the house. He
took off John Wylie’s shoes. He began to hear “dirty” words. He had
his curious dream of perversion. He bounced the ball against
the side of the house. “Is you de Miz Fitzgerald what advahtized foh a wash-lady?”
“Drive on coachman– drive on!”. He heard “Listen, Listen from his nurse”.
Book about Cevera. Being attacked by two boys and a
giraffe that they armored. Another one never owned
about a row between big & small animals, the latter at
first successful but the others gaining in strength &
winning
May
At Chautaqua or somewhere an old lady that was like a witch
stole his little boat & gave it to her own little boy. Then
Niagara on the lake & the Old Fort, and red yatchs
named the Columbia and the Reliance of three sizes. It
was here that he heard the enchanting voices in the dusk.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 55
159
Eight Years Old
Sept
He took up geography, grammar and arithmetic at
the beginning of this school year at the Holy Angel’s. It
must have been about this time that he gave a
boy a bloody nose and ran home in consequence
with a made up story.
He and Jack Baker being the youngest boys in
the neighborhood, were the most frequently chased.
He hit John Wylie with a stick and ended their friendship.
1905
About this time he started going to Mr. Van Arnums dancing
class at the Century Club. He remembers a terrific
spanking one day when he was far too fresh and though
it was funny to bow to everyone. 23 Skidoo!
April He was frightfully impressed by a Tommy Atkin’s drill
the older boys put on in dancing school. He was Little Boy Blue
In Randolph or rather Rockville he met Brooks Clement
Offrit and William George Robertson. He heard that
Jack Garland was dead & it shocked him. He
read Scottish Chiefs and played with Tom’s & Gerrould’s
toys. Played with Brooks Brewer & Fenwick
Shugrue in Georgetown.
July
He went to the Cattskills where he ate an egg every day on the bidding
of his Aunt Clara. She gave him 25¢ a raw egg and with
the money he bought a Henty book a day. Thence
he repaired to the Stevens House at Lake Placid in
the Adirondacks where he played Indians, built a
fort in the woods, was lost, and directed home by
two nuns.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 56
160
Nine Years Old
Sept
For his birth day he recieved chiefly soldiers. He passed
from the Holy Angels Academy to Miss Nardins. Also
he moved to Seventy-one Highland Ave in October.
Here he played with Joe Powell, Honey Chittenden, James
Ingham, Clare Collard, the Jewetts. He had a complete
gymnasium in his attic and began a passionate stamp collection.
Some boys around a potato roast told him they didn’t want him
around there. He had a complete football outfit with shinguards
Nov He went to dancing school and fell in love with Nancy
Gardner.
Dec
1906
He had his first tooth pulled. He went out to Nancy Gardiners
and fussed with her brother on the tobbogan slide. He
remembers a pair of mocasins and a rifle (b-b-) and believes it was at this
point he discovered the non-existance of Santa Clause. He remembers Xmas morning.
Jan He had an operation on his nose and afterwards red Ivanhoe
in bed. A nurse girl told him “Listen-Listen”. Van Arnum
pounded him for pushing over his sister. He used to scare
Annabel by a game called “Bad Brownie come to eat you up” and “Good Brownie
come to see what you want for Christmas. He had a fight with
someone in the dancing school dressing room. His grandmothers
gave him from one to ten dollars for Xmas and he bought them pins
and nut-picks. Suspicion that he is a changeling. He had to wear
black suits because father thought blue was common in dancing school.
May He organized an army with carven swords. Why did Geo.
Washington sign himself “your obediant servant.” The St. Nicolas –dislike
for the Youth’s Companion.
July He returned to the Steven’s House and again played Indians.
But it was not quite as good. He bought three golf-clubs and
essayed the scotch game.
Aug His father used to drink too much and then play baseball in the
back yard.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 57
161
Ten Years Old
Sept He made up shows in Ingham’s attic, all based on the American
Revolution and a red sash and three cornered hat. He did
tricks and mysteriously vanished a dime. Gus Shy’s play put
him temporarily in the shade but he was impressed with Gus’s
rhymes and imitations and passed on the dirty ones to another nurse
girl. He told one cook “he’d been good to her” but would cease unless
she gave him rocks. Finally the moving picture machine Inky’s
uncle gave him eclipsed Gus Shy. Sometimes Joe Powel and Incky
sided against him as when they wanted to make him
President and then resign from the club. He played football
on the Highland corner, guard or tackle and usually scared
silly. He played pom-pom-pullaway at night. He told
Miss Mcgraw at Narden’s that Mexico City was not the capitol of
Central America. He used to go to the Wild West movies and
the Tech Stock Company.
Jan 1907 He went to the Charity ball and to the Mack’s party at the
country club where he wore his juvenile tuxedo and was
chased by a cripple named Sears Mcgraw whom he loathes to this day
Joe Powell took him to a basketball game and he fell madly
into admiration for a dark haired boy who played with a
melancholy defiance. His mother got the idea he could sing
so he performed “Way down in colon town” and “Don’t get married
any more” for all visitors. He began a history of the U.S. and
also a detective story about a necklace that was hidden in a
trapdoor under the carpet. Wrote celebrated essay on George
Washington & St. Ignatius. Ole-Ole Olson free.
April
He went as Little Jack Horner to the dancing school party He went
to the Jamestown Exposition at Norfolk & saw the Atlantic Fleet.
The Stratmeyer books, football suits
June It was this summer we had the tree houses. Roller skates too – I had ball-bearing
skates too fancy to be any good – and also we played diavalo, coll and
collected cigar bands & printed little pictures. Out in St Paul, Flossie
Thompson scared him silly with a ghost story.
July He went to Camp Chatham at Orillia Ontario, where he swam
and fished and cleaned and ate fish and canoed and rowed and
caught behind the bat and was desperately unpopular and went
in paper chases and running contests and was always just edged
out by Tom Penny. He remembers boys named Whitehouse, Alden,
Penny, Block, Blair and one awful baby. He remembers “Pa”
Upham singing “The Cat came Back,” and a sawdust road
and a camera and making blueprints and the camp library
And “Blow ye winds hiegh-oh” and tournaments with padded
spears in canoes and Pa Upham’s Cornell stroke.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 58
162
Eleven Years Old
Sept He went to Confession about this time and hid by saying in a a
shocked voice to the priest “Oh no, I never tell a lie.” He now had
$100.00 in the bank. He played football on a team of which Norbert Sullivan was
the star. He weighed sixty-eight llbs.
Oct He asked Kitty to lead the grand march in dancing school the first
day. He used to swim with Inky in the Century Club school pool.
In church one little girl made him frightfully embarrassed when he
didn’t have a penny to put in the collection box. He could not go
to Gwendolen Boardman’s party because he was ill. Fenwick Shugrue
The Young Kentuckian Series
Dec. He gave Kitty a box of candy for Xmas & was scared silly. Annabel: Why did you
marry a man like that.” She repeats her joke to my horror.
Jan Kitty played in the Chittenden’s tobogan & I he expressed my his love by
tripping up Norbert Sullivan and someone else. He attended the
Rumsdell’s party in his little tuxedo. Also Edna Steele’s party and the
charity ball where he was asked to sit in Earl Knox’s box.
Feb He went to a “kissing” party given by the Penfields cousin and kissed Kitty
a great deal. He attended the Princeton Glee Club with his mother and James
Ingham and was amused at “Mrs. Winslow’s soothingsyrup.” He almost died
laughing at E. H. Southren as Lord Dundreary. His character book. Kitty loved him.
March His father’s services were no longer required by Proctor and Gamble. He remembers
the day, and that he gave his mother back his swimming money after he
heard her at the phone, and that father said he thought Taft would be
President.
1908
May
The thrill of the “Washington in the west” & “Raiding with Morgan” series in their crisp
tissue wrappers.
June He played golf with Inky on the public links
July
Came out to St. Paul to live with Grandmother. Mother at Fultons. John
Fulton, his dirty cousin, the Mitchells, the Fosters, Kath. Tighe, Arthur Foley, Sam Sturgis,
the Midges and Marie. My affair with Violet. Little Ellen Stockton. Met the
Hills and played Tennis with them. Playing Indian. The Foley’s barn and their eunuch
dog. Walking the fence with Betty Mudge. the Complements playing truth. The
quarrels with Violet. Madame O.Keefe and my French lessons. Adolph Schelle
— Red underlines on this page indicate possible use (1940)
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 59
163
Twelve Years Old
Sept The Summit football team. He was Captain. One one game, lost one and tied one. Paul
Ballion, Robert Clark and Cecil Read. Broke my rib on St. Paul Academy team.
Entered Academy. Mother at Aberdeen. Striker & Ballion the stars. The cruelty
to animals society. Marie’s note. Dorothy Green. Showing off in school.
The great Phelps Ingersoll. My hair pompadour. Tom Wann singing
The Hills– Eleanor & Virginia. The candy-cocks.
Oct.
Foley’s halloween party. Boxing with blonde at Y.M.C.A. Began
reading in bed after hours—a life habit.
Jan 1909 Went a great deal to the Y.M.C.A. to swim and box and take hot showers.
Boxed with Egbert Driscolll. Freshest boy in school “Will someone poison Scotty
or find some means to shut his mouth”. Played 3d team basketball. Learning
to fence. Had appendicitus attack and scraped my knee at the Y.M.C.A.
He used to sing for company —God! The smell of steam and perspiration
and the echoing cries & splashes in the pool.
April His grandmother went abroad so his mother came to live at 294
Laurel. He read Dickens & Alice in Wonderland. Jaggard’s
dance
June Wrote the Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage. Also “Elavo” (or was that in Buffalo)
and a complicated story of some knights. Played base ball. Began to Pitch.
Bycycling with Wharton Smith to Hastings. Perhaps made 1st communion
July
Went to Frontenac Minnesota for ten days. Started abroad with Mother. Appendicitus in
Duluth. Down the great lakes. Revisited Buffalo. Honey Chittenden gone wrong.
Susan Rice & Jean Ingersoll at Frontenac and Billie Butler and I. The Intrigue.
Billy Butler and Evylyn Girard. Billy Webster. The Cave at Frontenac. Joe Powell
in Buffalo. The mock wedding
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 60
164
Thirteen Years Old
Sept Height 5ft. 3in. Started 2nd year at S.P.A. The Raymond Mortgage was published. We
moved to a Duplex at 514 Holly Ave. Football at Summit & Western Played half-back
against the muckers. The St. Paul Stamp & Coin Co. Wharton Smith. Puberty.
Became a boy scout, was corporal and went on a hike. Art Foley’s team (?)
Football at U. of Minn. Mcgovern ect
Dec
1910 Jan
Entered dancing school. Julia Dorr and Joan Orton. The Mishka rink.
Sneaking over to Gerbers to buy a return present for the unexpected one
Beat Egbert in boxing. Bob-rides. Sliding. Skeeing Praying. Saving up
Now I lay me’s.
April Kept a lemonade stand. Harold Green. Tried to go to St. Mary’s Sunday school. Went
to Father Busch instead. Became desperate Holy.
May Made 1st Communion. The “Gooserah” organized. Play in Cecil’s attic. Initiations. My
gymnasium set up in our back yard. Lord Dunreary pictures. Photography revival
Dancing school with Billy Foster as little Jack Horner. The great father Corrigan. Helen Corfe
Eymo Havelick, Horfel O’Connel, Ocky Varland, Duchandle Gormelly, Irene Stiery, Barry. Laughed at communion
June Adoped a dog “The Duke Del Monte”. Also “Blackie”. Played with the Porterfields
Mr. Shotwell killed. The bandit at the Lake. “Good God! Its Pop”.
July Mother went abroad. Went to Grandma’s. Fussed about dog. Visited Aunt Lorena at
Bald Eagle and Cecil Read and Bob Clark at White Bear Lake. Fusses with the
Porterfields. Saw a great deal of Paul Ballion. I ate vegetables for Aunt Annabel.
Mr. Shotwell killed
—would begin “30 years ago” (1940)
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 61
165
A Year of Much
Activity but
dangerous.
Fourteen Years Old
Sept. Third and last year at the S.P.A. Played on the Summits. End and punter.
Missed kick in crucial game. Became football expert and kept book. Moved
to Shotwell’s house, 509 Holly Ave. Fred Foley. Grandfather McQuillan: “Well, if
it wasn’t for him where would we be now.” Mr. Hill wouldn’t allow smoking
When you enter a room speak first to the oldest lady, says father. Proud
to say about party: My mother won’t let me go.
Ames quarterback on Central High school team
Dec. Joan Orton’s bob-ride. The petition about Eleanor Alair.
Jan 1911 Egbert beat me in hand ball. We tied in boxing. Second team basketball.
Became an inveterate author and a successful, not to say brilliant debater and
writer. Excelled in track meets. Trick show in Mcmell Seymore’s attic. Intimacy
with Bobby Schurmier. Invention of the game “Stop”. Little photos taken.
Our Chameleon ties. Going skee-ing. Art Foley’s queer girl.
March Dancing school. Marie. Love. The triangle. The Ames Yard. A Play at Ben Grigg’s.
The founding of The Scandal Detectives. I start to smoke. Montgomery
and Stone. The Snaughty six. The Club room. Mrs. Hersey smokes. The chain
of love.
April The Scandal detectives go after Reuben. Art. Foley grown up. The ghost house.
“Down below the hill”. The walk with Jim Porterfield. Margaret Armstrong invites me
to Oak Hall dance. Elizabeth Dean to German. The broken lamp. Riding horseback
Secret languages. Ames yards & bycycles. Faint sex attractions
May Fight with Jim Thompson. Captain of Academy baseball team. Won cake-walk
prize with Marie. Hair collections, Rings, kisses, character books, Wrote the poem
about “Paris, the night & The Lure of the Dark.” for Smart Set
June
July
Aug
Tennis. No work at school. Baseball team. I become a batter. Used to duck school
The Daniel’s boat.
Went to White Bear Yatch Club. Schurmier, Cecil, Geo. Squires and Reub. Warner. Played
tennis. Swam. Stole candy. Sailed. Skinned gophers, played on Archer’s railroad.
Excitement about Newman. Wharton Smith’s data. Helen Clarkson’s Boston.
Baseball with Island. The name “Ginevra King.” The facination of the stock company.
Was in “A regular Fix” and wrote “The Girl from Lazy J.” Elizabeth Mcgoffin. Schurmier’s
long trousers. Alexanders Ragtime Band.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 62
166
A year of real unhappiness
excepting the feverish
joys of Xmas.
Fifteen Years Old
Sept
5ft. 4in. Moved to 499 Holly Ave. Attended state fair and took chicken on roller-coaster.
Off for Newman School. Dummy Tailor in Penn station. My cigarettes. Alexander’s rag-time band
Went out to Central with freshmen. He evidently does
Oct
Grassie Read. The third football team. The scrubs. The Little Millionaire. Bill Agar says
I’m Fresh. Fight with Grassie. Aunt Clara died. The dog wagon. The candy kitchen,
The Philadelphia. “Mac’s”. Oh, you dear delightful women. Honey Love.
Nov
Fight with Franciscus. Didn’t dress for the Morristown game. My midnight feast and
the annex rough-house. O’Flaherty balls me out. My football poem. Martin’s socks.
I suspect I have consumption. Stanislas Stange. Sam White at Princeton.
Dec.
Hank’s advice. The Quaker Girl. The wonderful vacation. Marie at dramat. Club
meeting. Long trousers. On the stairs at the Ame’s dance. Eleanor & Mary J. Marie at
the Winchesters. The last day. The “rag”.
1912 Jan
Feb
A new start. Poor marks and on bounds. Trips to New York. I try to write a play.
The horrible tube to Jersey City.
Grandmother & Aunt A. come out. “Over the River” in New York. My libretto’s. Polly Melville. I
began to see Sap. Bug’s Colvin. Letters to Marie and Eleanor. Franciscus and “Dot”.
Mar. The Inquistion of Harry Donahoe – billiard balls, dirty stories ect. Duke Haven’s advice.
South to Norfolk. Thence to Washington. Stayed at the Forrests. Grandmother and
Uncle John. Mrs. Gale’s. Cousin Tom at Woodstock. Bad time with Mary Garland.
“The Private Secretary”.
April Played baseball. More New York trips. Mrs Burlap & Miss Dundon. Chapel.
Hank’s addresses. How we ate, ate, ate. Tootsie Rolls.
May Won the junior field meet. Davis sick. Bill Nelson’s remark. Saturday
afternoon at Newman, pumps, oily hair, lazy.
June Florence Brown at school dance. Staying over to take exams. The pervert Johnston
on the train. Moonlight Bay. “Well, after a certain point you can’t do anything
for people so I believe in letting them alone”.
July Passed four exams—“A” in ancient history. My reception home. Visiting
Jimmy Johnston. Began to feel lack of automobile. The Colvin’s dance. Eddie
Power. growing unpopular. The fraternities
Aug Wrote and gave the Captured Shadow (wrote it on train.) My football dummy
in the yard. Owen Johnston.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 63
167
Reward in fall for
work of previous
summer. A better
year but not happy.
Sixteen Years Old
Sept Birthday with Aunt Millie in Chicago, I mean Lake Forest. O’Flaherty’s astonishment
at my A in history. “He evidently doesn’t think he’s good looking”
Oct
The Kingsley and Newark games. Ikas’ remarks. Louie Pallen. I move to
Annex
Nov Shows in New York. Intimacy with Sap. Fay’s first visit to school. Story for
Newman News. We move to 6th form house
Dec
Joe McCormick and “Oh you beautiful Doll”
1913 Jan Stopped off in Chicago. Yates & the measles, cheers, Mr. Fox at the organ.
Serving mass. N.Y. with Amorous. Hank Sargants petting. Schurmier
fired from Hill. Pouring water down pants. My bell at Henry’s. Again the
name Ginevra. His hands dirty from being run through his hair, encouraging the natural oils.
Feb Demerits, extra study, debating, bickers with Sap. First shave. The
Bunny Hug. Flossie, “Keep with the floor.” Comic operas “ Other
Stories. Comic poems. Downings theology. Scraps with Nelson,
Schlick and Hart. T. Fauk. Murder of Banquo. The crock club.
Mar. The Humes. I keep study hall. Rehearsing the power of music. Washington.
Uncle Alley, Lou Ordway. Cousin Tom at Georgetown. His remarks about Princeton.
Wine at Fay’s in Washington. Hemmick and Dorian Grey. Norfolk. Dissapointment.
First whisky. Grandmother & the Duke of Buccleugh.
April Tight at Susquehanna. Writing. Getting up English History. Pitching on
second team.
May Locke versus Hume. The Sunshine girl. Elocution Prize. Final Princeton
Exams. Cribbing. Murder of Banquo.
June Returnded to St. Paul. Calling on Kitty. Automboile question grows worse. Visiting the
Girards. I love her – oh-oh-oh.
July The Coward. Mayall Brunner, Grace & Bob Dunn. Converting Bob
Clark with Religion of a plain man.
Aug Grandmother dies. Her last gift. Studying for Princeton. Elizabeth
Clarkson
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 64
168
A year of work and
vivid vivid
experience
Seventeen Years Old
Sept 138 llbs. 5 ft. 7 in. On Bank St with Mac, Crawford. 14 Univ. Place. Hazing.
Admitted to Princeton. Sap, Joe, Black, Bob, Paul, Bunny, Wash, Izzie, Tic.
Freshman football. The Rushes, the singing. Electing class officers. Prep school
nice fellows begin to drop out – i.e. Slagle & Bunny Shanley.
Oct Tight in Trenton. B. Munn. I meet Hobey Baker. Being Horsed. Elizabeth
Clarkson. Van Winkle. The △ meeting.
Nov New York with Sap. Shocking him. Back to Newman. Building sold & estate
divided. More money. Out for Tiger. Working on △ lyrics. Bob Strain.
Dec Working on lights in Casino. Home. Dissapointed in Elizabeth Clarkson.
1914
Jan Townsend Martin. Buzz Law. Paul Nelson leaves us. Squabbles in the
house.
Feb Midyears. English Dramatic Association. Began △ play. Dr. Fay comes
to town. Failed many exams. Fred Alexander flunks out. Romantic.
Sap & I on the subject.
Mar. Working hard on △ play. Walker Ellis. Club elections. My swing toward
Cottage.
April Met John Peale Bishop.
May Walks out the Pyne Place. Nonnie sick. Mother came?
June Final exams. Deal Beach by auto. Freshman parade. Hemmick and Fay.
Chinatown.
July Nonnie Jackson. At Uncle Phils when war broke out
Aug. Assorted Spirits. Mayall & Grace. Mayall & Kitty
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 65
169
A year of tremendous
rewards that toward
the end overreached itself
and ruined me. Ginevra – Triangle
year.
Eighteen Years Old
Sept. Moved to 593 Summit Ave. Princeton 71 Patton Hall. Play accepted.
Ineligable.
Oct
Trials. Worry about Clubs. Tom Pierson. More Rip Van Winkle. Elkins Oliphant.
Nov △ rehearsing
Dec
1915 Jan
Feb
Operation on my nose. Dances.
Met Ginevra. Minneapolis movies, Dance Mcdavitts. Met Sap. Drunk.
Gordon Mccormick. Letters. Midyears. Caruso
“Hide me!” Joe Shanley’s. Westover. Secretary of △ Club on 26th. The
Jackman’s. My sense of perfection. If I couldn’t be perfect I wouldn’t be
anything.
Mar Cottage Lecton. Sap in show. Rudie admitted. Passed out at Dinner. My
rebuke to Doug. Townsend and Fred. Perfection – black hair,
olive skin and tenor voice. My fake tenor. Winants the
night before Election. Gateway Club.
April Easter in Washington. Helen Walcott & Ruth Sturtevant. Norfolk. New York △ show.
Gloria Godwin. Ruth Teale. My heart. Jo Mckibben calls on me.
May Ruth Sturtevant to race, dances, boat club ect. Helen Walcott at Cottage
Bob Clark up. Elected to Tiger. Asbury Park by auto. Fay at
△ show. The name Midge Muir. Stories in Lit. Bunny Wilson.
Don Mcrae.
June
Ritz, Nobody Home and Midnight Frolic with Ginevra. Stopping off in
Chicago. Midge Muir. House Party. Jimmy Johnston. Deering: I’m
going to take Ginevra home in my electric. With each bath starting life over again &
moving in immaculate coolness for almost an hour. Working on face with hot towels & strong soap.
July Courtney. Left for Sap’s ranch. Dick Collins, Sport and Son of a Bitch. Aubrey & Olga
Black. Attempts to cut out smoking. Her fatal love. I thank you Bud. I thank you.
Drunk: The Cowboy song bird. Cutting smoking & fusses about tobacco.
$50 at cards. Honeymoon Plateau. The Dentzers. The sleepy sheep. Buttes Payroll.
August. No news from Ginevra. Young Red’s family life. The weakly bath. Dick
in Chicago. Rabbits. The lonesome tramp in the lonesome town.
Butte, Seattle. Harry & the Goulds. Tates. Oh Uncle Joe. Ed Muldoon—
that clever chap. Courtney says: Deering as poor as a church
mouse. Mayall Brunner & Grace (?)
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 66
170
A year of terrible disappointments & the
end of all college dreams. Everything
bad in it was my own fault.
Nineteen Years Old
Sept. Affair with Sandy. Bob Dunn’s drunk. Flunked exams again. The Bicker
committee. Ineligable. Despair. Sec. of Club elections committee, Cottage
Club Committee and Coffee Club. Lived at 32 Little Hall.
Oct Dissatisfaction with the club. Lining up Dick Farrelly. Coaching Larry
Boardman. The Evil Eye. Pictures taken as a girl. May Dorsey
Elaine French. Dinner with Ginevra in Waterbury. Bill Mcleans in
Philadelphia. Dissapointing Yale game.
Nov. Went to the infirmary. Letters to G. K. Out of Infirmary and then
back. The sidesplitting humor of the pampered jades of Asia.
Dec. Went home early sick. △ in St. Paul. Politics at St Paul Hotel. Snubbed
Sandy. Marie and I at Louie Hill’s dance.
1916
Jan The Invalids – Bug, Lety, Bob and I. Trying to be rough. Il Trovatore.
Cutting Smoking town Topics.
Feb Visit to Princeton. Returned to Aunt Annabel’s appartment. Psi U
dance as a girl. Long letters to Ginevra. Underneath the Stars,
Babes in the Woods (song) Began Spires and Gargoyles, the beginning of
mature writing
March Met Dolly Powers. Got Chalmers. Ginevra fired from school.
Uncle Alley and the Bulgarians, tearing excerps from paper & talking on cars.
April Jimmy Johnston fired. Dolly at the Raddison. Bob Dunn. Writing
△ play. Ginevra & Jimmy on the train. A facinating story.
May Started to play golf. Graham Hall with Dolly Powers. Fuss with Dolly.
Peggy Hazely. Play refused. Marva Wreem Stevenson. The mumps.
Picking up girls. Peg & Emily. Rosie Quinn. Break with Jimmy.
June Gittens arrived. Yatch Club. Car troubles. Katherine Tighe. Taught
Nonnie to drive. Hiding my college bills. Deering “Im
July Florence Foals. Grace & Lupe Brundred. Mildred Warden. Our ill-fated
health trip to Brainard. Ride alone with John Wells – me in back seat.
Father & Mrs. Nightingale
Aug Lake Forrest. Peg Carry. Petting Party. Ginevra. Party. The bad day at
the McCormicks. The dinner at Pegs. Dissapointment. Mary
Buford Pierce. Little Marjorie King & her smile. Beautiful Billy Mitchell.
Peg Cary stands straight “Poor boys shouldn’t think of marrying
rich girls.” Aunt Millie forced Belgium kids to sing Die Watch am Rhine.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 67
171
A pregnant year of
endeavor. Outwardly
a failure with moments of
danger but the foundation
of my literary life.
Twenty Years Old
Sept Infantile Paralysis epedemic. Little Hall with Dickey. Admiration
& Poor Butterfly The Interminable Sunday family parties. Henry as a a “hail fellow”
I could now be sympathetic to Mother but she reacts too quickly
Oct
Say Fay at Newman Nelson suggests △ hope. Conant comes Cottage.
Inelligable again. New Haven. Geo Murray. Jimmy Ackerman.
Wailing again. Burlesque Litt.
Nov Frank Shepard, Harry & Gus come down. Ginevra & Margaret
Cary to Yale game. Friendship with Bruce & Strater.
Visited Biggs. △ lyrics.
Dec
Marie and Lety Clarkson to △ opening. Grace breaks
her engagement. Cottillion. Battery B. on border.
1917 Jan
Dinner to Paul Nelson. Fight with Harry Gordon. Stopped and
started smoking. Went to Rosemary dance. Final break
with Ginevra. Frank MacDonald didn’t think burlesque on Haggard
was legitimate
Feb Almost flunked out. Ideas of going to war. Washington Square
with Bunny Wilson. Tea at the Plaza with Grace. Fay, Leslie and
Barnes. Grace to prom. Stayed up all night. Electing Biggs to
Tiger. Fuss with Paul Nelson. Jazzing to Vachael Lindsey
March Club elections. Rudie suspended. The anti-club movement. Bob
Clark. Washington—Cousin Ceci and Ruth Sturtevant—the latter
disappointing. Charlie Arrot kissed janitress goodbye. The romantic
story of Leslie’s courtship. The hairpin in the tea
April The Lit. banquet and the death of Sniffin. Charlie Wiegand killed.
Drilling. The irreverend number of the Tiger. Paulson & Folwell
call on a girl. “Name please,” “Paulsen” says Folwell, “Folwell” says Paulsen.
Fay’s silk pajamas.
May Father Hemmick and Christ’s tears. Unpleasant. Campus houseparty. Words with Pederson. The Leslies at Newman. The Italien
Restaurant. McCormick, Richelieu, Aberdeen. Mrs Leslie on “Our
Betters.” Talking with Leslie at Newman. Hientzelman & intensive training.
June Ginevra engaged? Helen Dick. Litt stories. Talking all night with Strater.
Walks. Hi-o-poterio. The last day. Deal Beach. Russia? Swim. Willie
Remond. Wilmington. Paymaster Mcgown in Washington. Fay at
Univ Club. Evening at Elersie. Bronxes with Dicky. Girl at show resembled G. K.
July Norfolk. Charlestown W. Va. Poetry. Fluff Beckwith. Rosebud
Mason. Sharpsburg. Return to St. Paul. The disastrous
hop. Grace and the knife. Exams at Snelling.
Aug Jack Newlin killed. Russia. Dance at Snelling. Sandy at
the yatch Club.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 68
172
A year of enormous importance. Work,
and Zelda. Last year as a Catholic.
Twenty-one Years Old
Sept Minnekada Club “Oh Ginevra.” Poet Lore accepts a poem
Oct
Larry Noyes’ dinner. “Purp.” Gave William Jennings Bryant
my dining car seat. Sap came down. Deal Beach with Fay
Parties with Linaweaver & Farrelly. Helen Dick. John Hutchins.
Bigg’s terrible room. Sap & the white appartment. I reform ⤴
Nov Julie Townsend arrives. My commission. Strange uniform.
Party with Sam Conant. Saw Fay. Left for Leavenworth.
Began novel. The nigger thief in the barracks
Dec
1918 Jan
Feb
Party in Kansas City. Betty Smith. Francis Fennilly. Xmas
in Achison. The Pink eye. Reading Shelley ect.
Row with Fessenden.
Ristine, Richman. Fessenden. Dean. Garvin. Knowles, Dink
Fitz-Gerald. The officers Club. Josephine. Last Catholic revival. My
imitations. Uncle Phil & Aunt L. Shocked at “Poontang”.
Rumor Baker & Nelson killed. Admiration for Knowles.
Keeler, Bernstien, Ryan, bayonets. The intense cold. Left for
Princeton. Party with Betty Smith. Tinkling mandolins
in the Leavenworth prison.
Mar Cottage Club. Finished novel. Camp Taylor on 15th Tillman, Shean,
Clark, Duncan. Louisville. Bishop, Ramsey, Keny Rogers
and Paul Boston. Mother in Louisville. Ruth & Shane Leslie
in Washington. Hotels jammed
April Camp Gordon on 15th Atlanta Girls. Waugh &
Mathewson. Gas school. Drunks.
May Recruits. Girl I called on.
June Montgomery on 15th. Roberta Jones. Hank Young. The intense heat.
my boots.
July May Stiener. Zelda. The 67th inf. Major Baird. Phillips and Jones.
Helen Dent, Swimming, Watermelons, The Country Club,
Ginevra married. Weaver. Davis & Martin. May and I on
the porch. Her visiting bows.
Aug Revised novel. Zelda & May. My recruits. The meeting. Tight.
Qicking 1st Sergeant. The range
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 69
173
The most important year of
life. Every emotion and
my life work decided.
Miserable and exstatic
but a great success.
Twenty-two Years Old
Sept Fell in love on the 7th My collar. Quarrel. Silence. Zelda sick. Bill
Flemming. Tarbox takes controll. (Moved to 599 Summit)
The range again. The Trench mortar. War games. Discovery
that Zelda’s class voted her prettiest & most attractive
Oct May Stiener. Reunion on 26th Fuss with Falls. Left
for North on 26th. Helen Dent’s Frenchman.
Nov Camp Mills & Francis. Wild letters. The Knickerbocker. Harry Donahoe.
Supply officer. Dr. Fay. Return to Montgomery. Ruth in Washington.
Zelda’s friend Dent & the stolen kiss on the stairs. Little Hungary.
Dec
1919 Jan
Feb
Love. Aide de Camp. Gen & Mrs Ryan. Morris Ely. The cigarette
case and the purse. Zelda’s dairy. Xmas together. The
grand Theatre. Walks. Dances together. Drinking.
My tagging her thru the wood.
Quarrels. Disastrous drunk. Bill Kitchen. Conrad. Craighead.
Death of Dr. Fay. 1516 J. “Don’t worry about that dress,” ect. and
“You’ll probably see them enough ect”. Mrs. Ryan & Zelda on the weather
Bill Kitchen doesn’t know a soul in Washington
The Last night, supplies, goodbyre Ryan. Left on 18th.
Zelda to Auburn. Mother in New York. A room. Wild
letters
Mar 200 Claremont. Ludlow. Barron G. Collier’s. The debutante.
Mitchell & Canda. Letters, parties, pajamas, ring. Tilde
in New York. Appartment search. Greenich Village ect. Ludlow.
Townsend. Stephen Parrot. Brainerd & Schenk.
April Hysteria. Montgomery on 15th. Feather fan. Ruth in Washington
More stories. Failure. I used to wonder why they locked
Princesses in towers. The dictaphone at Colliers. (Above:) Wonderful
appartment studio if I’d let him take the roof off. No objection to female company.
May Montgomery on 15th. Joel Massie. Waterfalls. Diving. Toilet
set. Sweater. Sayarack & De Funeac. Babes in the Woods.
Mr. In and Mr. Out—and other parties. Pretending to drink
Massie’s whiskey. Townsend avoids me. His snotty remark about
money he lost. I take Betty & Marie to dinner & pay for it.
June Sap arrives. Big party. Montgomery. The break. Drunk in N.Y.
Boston with Stephen Parrot. Zelda’s mistake about the pictures.
Dutch Mount’s wife.
July South Dartmouth. Betty. Prohibition. My ride to St. Paul.
The Novel. Reading Fortitude on the train. Julie Townsend.
Aug This Side of Paradise. Katherine Tighe. Julie Townsend.
Discussions Don Stuart, Baron & walks with Catherine
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 70
174
Revelry and Marrige. The
rewards of the year before. The
happiest year since I was 18.
Twenty-three Years Old
Sept Novel accepted. MacNiell Seymore. First story sent out. on
30th. Worked on Railroad. Knees up to hammer nails. Lost overalls.
Verdict of Don, Daniels ect. Shurmier on virtue of women. Margaret and
her detective (the cook)
Oct Short stories. Paid debts. Mother buys me religious books. Drunk
at Marie’s. Made $215.00 Mother’s suggestion of dots in purifying
Head & Shoulders. El. Eastman & the safety pin.
Nov Went to see Zelda. New York. Rosalind. Huck and Annabel at
Knickerbocker. Sold story to Post. Mother heard musicians were
drunk at Bolt’s dance. Ha! Left the water tap on in Knickerbocker. Townsend’s
invitation
Dec Dances. Ordways. Marie’s Vanity Case at opera. Annabel at German.
1920 Jan
Feb
New Orleans. Montomery (twice) The wristwatch. The Pills.
By the 10th had made $1700.00 Power begins to flag a little – Trouble
in work in New Orleans.
New York. Bishop. The Murry Hill. Mother. The Allerton. Sold
first movie. The feather fair. Biggs. Seeing Schenk who
wished he’d written when drunk.
Mar The Orchids. Princeton. Cottage Club. The Prom. Porter Gillespie.
Book published on 26th. Disappointment in Henry Strater.
April Married the 3d Biltmore. Parties. Princeton on 25th. Russ
Forgan. Harvey Firestone. Kimbask & Burkee. Rye.
Warick. Joan Bojer. Tarrytown. Black eye – (mine)
May The Commodore. The auto. Westport. Compo road. The Wakemans.
Mrs. Marchand & Mrs Melliss. Mrs O’Connor. Car
broken. Fuss at Princeton. Chas. Norris. Rudie. Big leage ball.
Eberstadt. Bill Mackey’s check for 20,000 sesterces. Zelda’s blue cloak. Hardwick Nevin
June Nathan Williams & Charilie Town as guests. Jean
Bankhead fuss. Car Troubles. Townsend & Bill
Mackey. The Overmans. Tana. Townsend goes abroad
I write I.O.U. & its no good. I plan novel, story & play before Oct 16th. The Dutch hat.
July Started south on 15th. Parties in Montgomery. Sold
Car. Biggs. Beginning novel. Zelda hides $500.00 Unc Legrand
and his honey. Sleeping upright. Grand Central Station, Longacre Drugstore
John Williams dance. Hot evenings in New York.
Aug Returnded to Westport. Rita Wellman. Judge & Mrs. Sayre
Huck Kilby. Schurmier & Ed. Power. Bill Mackey.
Greenich, Portchester & Rye. Don Stuart & the drive in
Central Park.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 71
175
Work at the beginning
but dangerous at
the end. A slow
year, dominated by
Zelda & on the whole happy
Twenty-four Years Old
Sept Ludlow & Aiken Riechner as guests. And George. The appartment of
Reginald Vanderbilts mistress
Oct
38 W. 59th St. Visited Lud. Mencken visits our appartment. Also
George with Close. Beginnings of coldness. Fights with Townsend. See more of
Alec.
Nov Yale game. Russ Forgan. Mont Martre. Gormi’s
Zelda hides $100.00 from Dorothy Parker. Sherwood, Howard & Perkins
First nights with Geo. Nathan.
Dec
1921 Jan
Feb
Lonesome Xmas. The Overmans, George & John B.
Williams quarrel. We begin to feel alone. The Hoveys and the milk bottle
Fanny Hursts dinner. Broke down bathroom door
George Nathan & The Sunshine Girl. Break with them. Eating
ham & olive sandwitches with Zoe Akins whiskey. Dick Stelwell. The black
eye. Mary in the appartment. Zelda loses ring
Zelda becomes pregnant on 1st. Begins to realize it 14th
Ludlow and Virginia DeHaven. The drug clerk who never read
fiction. Mr. Fitzgerald “With all true deference to you”.
Mar Zelda to Montgomery on 15th. I follow on 18th. Carl Chambers,
the theosophist says discoveries have been made in Scotland positively dangerous.
April Planning our trip on the Aquitania. George O’Niell, Bob
Hanly.
May Sailed the 3d. Tullocks, Heywards, Engalicheff. Celebrities. London 10th
Kingley, Leslie, Galesworthy. Lady Churchill. The Cecil. Oxford. Paris 17th
Folies, Kay Laurel, Café de la Paix. Cherbourge. Cabino. Wapping
Venice 26th The Sturtevant, Robbins. Pietro. Versaille. Mal Maison. Clothes
June Florence 3d Rome 8th John Carter, Americans. Embassy. Paris
the 22nd Quai Dorsay – before the St James London 30th
Claridges, Cavendish, Bob Handley, Jim Douglass, Brown
Baker. Dancing in Savoy. The 4th. Venice – man kicked in stomach
because he wasn’t a Roman. The woman weeping in Vatican. The loot of 20 centuries
July The 4th Cambridge. Clothes in London. The Celtic. The
Duncans & Lord Brice. The Biltmore New York.
Montgomery on 27th. The obnoxious whine of the Austrailians, cockney
& rural American. The hills near Rome. Cherbourg at dawn.
Aug The Heat. Considering house in Montgomery. Dellwood
Sandy & Joe. Ted Paramore.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 72
176
A bad year. No work. Slow
deteriorating repression with
outbreak around the corner
Twenty-five Years Old
Sept Zelda helpless. Dog squeaking.
Oct
St. Paul Hotel. The Commodore. My office. Baby born on
26th. Oh God, goofo I’m drunk. Mark Twain. Isn’t she smart – she has the
hiccups. I hope its beautiful and a fool—a beautiful little fool
Nov Baby baptisized. Commodore & 626 Goodrich
University Club.
Dec
1922 Jan
Feb
Zelda’s weight. Cottillion Dances & bob rides. Joe Ordway.
Mrs. Clark on Mencken. She hoped Grampa Dean wouldn’t be too offended
at Elizabeth’s marriage
Joseph Hergeshiemer. The Bad luck Ball.
Both sick. Drinking. The B. & D. published. Father
tells me about the ungratefulness of Dan Morgan.
Mar Trip New York. Constance Bennet. Marrylyn Miller.
Virginia Dehaven. Alec, Engalicheff, O sullivan
Quarrel with Alec. Selznick studio. Zelda & her abortionist
April Coached Junior Leage Play.
May Parties with the Herseys. Bought Car.
June Came to Dellwood. Zelda golfing & swimming
Bishop marries. Mrs. Miller bootlicking Mrs. Wann. In a tone of
passionate interest: I didn’t think of that at all.
July Sinclair Lewis. Me to Kaly “Your wife has been unfaithful to me.”
A curious glimpse Zelda & I caught of relationship between Kit Ordway
and Alice
Aug. Still at Lake. A few stories
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 73
177
The repression breaks out
A comfortable but dangerous
and deteriorating year at
Great Neck. No ground under our feet.
Twenty six Years Old
Sept. Went New York from Commodore. Left Anna with Baby. Play
rejected. Lived at Plaza. House hunting. The Boyds (Earnest)
Anderson & Dos Passos. Liverite
Oct. Took house on Gateway Drive, Great Neck. Zelda went west
& got baby. Met Lardners, Bucks, Swopes. The Foxes
St. Patrick’s parade. Mangy Xtian Bros & on steps of St Patricks a saturnine
hierarchy of fat, favorite, secular priests.
Nov More Ring Lardner. Wrote play over for third time
Janet. Bucks to Princeton. Seldes & Val come out. Grace Flandrau
East
Dec
A series of parties – The Boyds, Mary Blair, Chas & Katy.
Charlie Towne.
1923 Jan Hearst contract. Chas & Katy Leave. Val Engalitcheff kills
himself. My dream of the baseball player, football player & general to
put me to sleep. Uninvited girl at Milbanks party. Two kids drink whiskey.
They smelled it.
Feb Still drunk – story for Townsend. Reynolds the butler and “Say Fitzgerald”.
William and Salley. Tom Smith & Drieser & Mencken &
Anderson.
March
Sold This Side of Paradise & South to Montgomery. Dapper Dan. The
Whitfields. Kalmans in New York. Party with the Boyds.
Bunny marries Eleanor Wylie. William driving. Val Engalitcheff kills himself.
Fight at movie Ball. Tom Boyd’s Book accepted
April
Third anniversary. On the wagon. Joined club here
Duncan Pell and his wife. Party with Bartholmess—another fight.
Tearing Drunk. Tom. I should have asked Julian Everson if he wanted the
suitcase for the silver.
May Play accepted by Williams. Met Mrs Rumsey & Tommy Hitchcock &
went to parties there. Visits from Biggs, Esther Murphy. Kath.
Ordway and Mary Armstrong. Fight with Helen Bucks brother
in law.
June Eleanor Browder came. Party at Clarence Mackays. Began my novel.
Squabble at Ring’s. Party in New York with Mencken and
Nathan. Anita Loos out. the Essylstyns become obnoxious.
Augustus Johns. Laurette Taylor. Princess Bibesco “I only write for intellectuals”
July Tootsie arrived. Intermittent work on novel. Constant drinking
Some golf. Baby begins to talk. Parties at Allen Dwans.
Gloria Swanson and the movie crowd. Our party for Tootsie
The Perkins arrive. I drive into the lake.
Aug Tootsie Again. More drinking. Opening of Anita Loos’ play
Zoe’s party. Aunt Annabel & Don Stuart. Firpo–Dempsy
fight
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 74
178
The most miserable year since
Twenty-seven Years Old
I was nineteen, full of terrible
failures and accute miseries.
Full of hard work fairly well rewarded
in the latter half and attempts to do better.
Sept. High Hopes for the play. A new schedule & more work on
the novel. Ball game (worlds series)
Oct.
The Boyds come to Great Neck. The Notre Dame game.
Lloyd Hooper. Beginning rehearsals. Firing Lee Patrick
Sam Forrest. Meeting Ernest Truex. Bunny’s Baby
Nov.
Rehearsal. Short of money. Excitement. More Rumsey
parties. Atlantic City. The Failure & dismal return.
On the wagon. Writing story in one day. Schlesinger
in Newark.
Still on the wagon. Fell off Xmas. Party Goldberg. Deterioration.
Dec.
1924 Jan.
Party with Gloria Swanson. Read Dostoiefski. Ring’s book
Grand fight with Hovey & buying back stories.
Feb
Struggling with money. Wrote all night on Baby Party. Success of
the Kauffman play
Mar.
Tired of Boyds, Townsend ect. Generally bored & feeling
bad. Ring at Hot Springs. Father & Mother came to visit
April Out of the woods at last & starting novel. Gloria Swanson’s
party. Kauffman’s party. Decision on 15th to go to Europe.
Miss Comyn, William & Sally. Bunny & Ring talk all night. The “one-day” story
again. Leeland Hayward & Connie Bennet. Ester Murphy’s party.
May Sailed. Bunny Burgess. The Captains table. Paris. Tootsie &
her husband. Hyeres & Grimms Park Hotel. Trip to Cannes
Bishop. Edith Wharton’s garden. Monsier Astier. A night at Mont Martrye
June
Settled at St. Raphael at Villa Marie (Valescure) Bought Car. Josanne
and Silve. Trip to Nice. Mr. & Mrs. King. Mrs. Nelson. Miss Witz,
Bobby Croirier. Gave 1st dinner & sat up all night. Pechic
Miss Maddox
July The Big crisis—13th of July. Sad Trip to Monte Carlo Gave dinner.
Pauline Paris. Trips of San Maxime. Mrs. Dougherty. Zelda swimming
every day. Getting brown. Wire Olive Burgess. Rings book big
success. House rented in Great Neck.
Aug On the wagon on Wed 6th. Seldes and Amanda arrive the 4th. Trip
to Monte Carlo again & often to Antibes. Good work on novel. Zelda
and I close together. Rows Mrs Maddox. The Murphys, Dos Passos.
Almost go to Antibes
Sept. Fred Giese, the Barrys, Avignon, The novel finished. Ring coming. Trouble clearing
away.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 75
179
The year of Zelda’s
sickness and resulting depression.
Drink, loafing &
the Murphys
Twenty-eight Years Old
Sept. Giese leaves. Hard work sets in. Zelda reads Roderick Hudson
decides on Rome. Another welcome departure of a friend! Swimming
over. On the Plage at night.
Oct
Working at high pressure to finish. Colder. Man at King’s bank.
Champagne with Jean. Move to Hotel. Last sight of Josanne. Touring
Club de France.
Nov Novel off at last. René. Crossing the border. San Remo, The Mountains, Genoa, Pisa
Arretzo, Orvietto, Rome. Miss Gibson, Hungry, the English lady, Opera, Egyptian,
House hunting, Herbert Howe and the movies, Nardin & his daughter, Kathlene Key,
Ill feeling with Zelda, Perkins wire, Reynolds, The Big bust, Collatzo
Dec Hotel des Prince, Dark glasses, thieving waiters, Osborne, Castelli Caesari,
Depression, Proof arrives (later) Movie party, Hungry, Row in Café,
Zelda’s doll, tree, Xmas row, Kellys, Reconciliation, Water Wagon.
New Years dance. My nose. the nigger
1925 Jan Gillespie. Sickness for both. American Restaurant. Tivoli, Frascati,
the donkey, Mrs. Jackson, Herbert Howe. Pincio. Morris
Feb
Trip to Capri, Naples, Sorrento, Excelcior, Chapman, (Photograper) Zelda sick, Bianci, Blue Grot
Mckenzie & his wife, Tiberio, Boat, Naples bust up, honest conductor. Sickness,
Proof off, Miss Normand, Capri, Cuomo, Spinelli, the sister
Mar Miss Normand, Aunt Annabel, Zelda better then relapse, the Russians,
Mrs Nathan, Wilmington, Detroit girls, Zelda’s lessons, E. F. Benson and
Ellingham Brooks, German Beer, Golding, The New Zealanders, Nanny
and Mr. Ming.
Apr. Zelda painting, me drinking, Mary Roberts Rineheart, Anacapri, Brett
Young and the fairy. The Captain too, and Mrs. Mackenzie,
The boat question, nervous collapse, Sorrento–to Naples, Naples to Marsielle ect.
May We abandon trip with broken car in Lyon, Zelda’s hairdresser, Paris – The Florida,
B. Kauffman, Hemminway, Shanley, Ordway and a million Americans. Lyon with
Ernest. Benchly. Stephen. Mad. Boyd. Appartment 12th. Ave. Kleber. Gertrude Stien.
June Murphys, Esther, Teddy Chandler, Tunty, Famous Ritz Party. Bob Handly, Noel,
the Wymans, Mary Hay, 1000 parties and no work. Edith Wharton. Tarkington
Morning in the Bois, Ritz Bar, The Johnsons. Carol Goodner
July Party at Alice Delamars on 14th, 4th with Sap & Lud. L[ ]lliene (Eva)
Again 1000 parties and no work – until last ten days. Capitan &
Tootsie, Kiki Allen Preston.
Left for Antibes, Hamiltons, Mclieshes, Brackets, Mannes, Openhiems, Kent
Diving, Tuolmans, Gordon, Myndred, the lighthouse, Murphy’s garden. Trip
down–the accident, Orange, Sap to Monte Carlo, sailing, Benchylys. Concieve novel.
St. Pol. Eleanor Isadora Duncan, Moshes, Wonderful nights, Zelda drugged, Virginia Reel
Sept
Reached Paris. Forrestal night ect. Trip to Verdun (no! Oct!) Rue Marboef
Depressed at no work
Aug
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 76
180
Futile, shameful
useless but the $30,000
rewards of 1924 work.
Self disgust. Health gone.
Twenty-nine Years Old
Sept
Bad beginning with worry. Following football. Pierre Loving. Letters
Murphy.
Oct
Verdun. Murphy’s up. First quarrel after Marices. Hemmngways.
Brick tops. King of Sweden. Landlady’s troubles. Victor Llona
Nov
London. Telulah Bankhead. Dmitri & Nada Milford Haven. Colwell. Young
Embassy Club. Leslies. Swinnerton. Quarrel McAlmon. Mclieshes. Princeton
dinner. Ellen Mackay.
Dec
Murphys again. Xmas at 14 Rue Tilsitt. Mclieshes. Myers. Marion
Dell. The Bromfields
1926
Jan Off for Salies. General Maunsell. Pan. Bearritz. False Rumor of
illness. Landlady rich. Michelle.
Feb
Success of Play. Quarrel General. My walks. War Bks. Old
clothes. Sad Young Men published.
Mar
Nice. Paris. Parker & Collins. Benchly. Ernest. Villa Paquita
Hotel O’connor. Balkin Baily. Rex Ingram. Dos Passos. Toulouse
& Carcassone
April
Cannes Casino. Murphys. The old man. Smelly bathroom. House
hunting. “Hazel”. The wagamans. Cary Ross & the fairy
May
Villa St. Louis. Hemmingways whooping cough. Murphy’s
return. Dr. Gluck. Anita Loos. Walker. St. Raphael. René. Ada
Mcliesh. The beach painting. Movie of play sold. Father to Gatsby.
June
Kit Ordway. Operation. Somme. Florence Mills. Maximes Bar.
Picnics. I leave Garoupe. Hardwicke. Bob Mcclure. Mme Kennedi.
Waggmans. Artist over the way. Rene’s translation & story. The Dunns
July
Zelda Better. Courtney Burr. Orbucks. Brick. Jean. Buff Cobb. Ben
Finney, McArthur, Grace Moon. R. Goldbeek. Kelly. Hamiltons. Crevel. Gists
Seldes, Dorothy, Servey. Grace’s dinner. The movie. The Wimans. Wolcott
Hamiltons children’s party. Street Fair Ave de Neuilly. Llona. Johnstons. Rennie
Miss Compte. Quarrel Murphys. Hemmingways here. Bullfight
Cecil. Don Stuart. Cavelaire with Zelda. Ernest depressed. Swimming from
Rocks. Mrs. Condon, Phillips. Party at grand Hotel. Charlie Peet. Midnight
swims. St. Pol. Zelda’s nurse. Party we were not invited to. The tenor. Kiki. Crevel
Murphy’s leave. Murphys Party. Bishops. The quarrel. On the Route
aus Sables, Eva. Monte Carlo. Sickness. Gambling. Picasso. The De Beaumonts
Aug
Sept
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 77
181
Total loss at
beginning. A
lot of fun. Work
begins again.
Thirty Years Old
Sept Grace & Cecil. Bishop at birthday. Eva’s visit.
Oct
The gods from the Chateau. The dentist & Balkin Baily. Movie Camera. Rousseaus
Trip to Hyeres. Zelda sick. Richardsons, Grant, old letcher. Bartholmess missed
Hankerchiefs. Trip to Mentone. Seldes depart. Casino beach. Pathé projector
Nov Mcclures. Lud’s visit. Monte Carlo. Grace Moon in Cannes Monte Carlo. Nice
Casino closes. Maximes bar. Tunti & his brother. Anne Foley Paul Nelson
Dec
The inventory. Leaving Juan-les-Pius. Pompeii. Fowlers. Mckane Allen, Frank Bateman
& Mary Lou Archer. Brett Young. Hotel Pennsylvania. Ship party. Ring & Bunny. Montgomery
The Shepards & Peabodys, Mccalls & little couple. Zelda sick in Genoa.
Jan
California, Appendix. El Paso, Considine, Pantages, Hetcht, Nielan, Hoveys, Talmadge
Mayfair. Lillean Gish. Dick Bartholmess. Saunders & Dudly Murphy, Mankevitz.
Carmel Myers. Eddie Mayer. Princeton dinner. Harison Fisher. Donald Freeman.
Our Club. The watch. Long Beach. Patsly Ruth Miller. Gerald Cudahy. K. Mcquail
Feb Morans, Hitchcock, Barrymores. 2nd Mayfair. Fairbanks & Pickford. Garaghty’s
party. Party at Lois. Rienhart. Bessy Love. Diana Manners. Iris Tree. Rosamund
Pinchot. The Miracle. Marion Davis. John Colton. Dudly’s picture. Cat
schra Morris Gist.
Mar Roosevelt Hotel. Gladys & Carl in New York. Dick Knight & Morgue. Charly, Boyer
Wilmington. Westchester Hergeshimers “Ellerslie.” Furniture Car. Washington
Ross of the New Yorker Lardners in Great Neck. Author’s League.
Gene Bucks new house.
Apr. Getting settled. Esther. Hergeshiemer’s party. Cary. Biggs & Ruperts. Bringhursts
Newcastle. Ella, Stella, Estella, Malvina. Phonograph. Joe.
May Lois here & in New York. Fowlers. House party. Mother up. Brandt & Co. Bad news
of Movie.
June Julie Shellpot park. Brown Warburton. Working again.
July Atlantic city. Virginia Beach. K. Ordway. Marjorie & Noonie. The Fourth at Ellerslie
Marie. Annabel. Cecilia. Rows. New watch.
Aug Sayres. Nanny leaves. French woman. Hitchcocks & Chanlers
Valley Forge. Percy Pynckers. Rumsey. Terrible incessant stopies begin
Sept Cecilia. House party. New York. Emily Vanderbilt. Littlefields
Linaweavers. Trip to Princeton. Stoppies worse. Various doctors
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 78
182
Perhaps its the
thirties but I
can’t
even be very depressed about it
Thirty-one Years Old
Sept Perkins down. Stoppies now reached its height, making beer & wine.
Several trips Princeton, Asa Bushnell
Oct
Football, Townsend & Alec down, Cornell game. Frankie D. & Scotty’s
school, Calvert lessons, Charlie McA– , Condé Nast’s party, Mabel
Normand, Scotty’s narrow escape. Tommy Hitchcock, Pistol practise
Nov Started Sano’s, still working hard, health better, Football interest
Scotty dancing now, Dick Knight, All night ramble with
Semple ect. Marice Hamilton. Scotty’s doll’s house
Dec
1928 Jan
Prickets, △ dance, Holger Lundberg & Katherine, Linaweaver’s party
Estella, Marie & Ella., mother & father up, I think. Death of Cat (Chat)
Villagers singing
New Years, Alecs play, Townsend again, Sig Thayer, Katherine
Littlefield, Drinking schedule, Ina Claire.
Feb
Thorton, Seldes, Bunny, Esther down. Zoe’s play. Interior decorator, Cowanova,
Chris Ward’s father, Chris’ marriage, Rachael Biggs, Rosalind & Capitain
catastrophe, Trip to Montreal, Zelda’s collapse & Coquette, Bunny at Plaza,
E. Patterson’s party. My speech at Princeton. Kitty (persian)
Mar Black eyes in the Jungle. Decision to go. Easter Party, Van Vechten, Johnsons in
New York, Atop the Plaza. Cesares, Miss Miller leaves, last night in New
York: Bunny Lionel Adamns, Dorothy Parker, Reading Proust, Ring looking
bad.
Apr. The boat, Vidors, Dawson, Hotel de Amourete, Palace Hotel, Egarova
Kaly, Alice O’B, Sandy, Vidors in Ritz, Powell Fowler, Maddock
King’s The Crowd. The Paris Hotel de Palais, 58 Rue Vaugirard
May Zoe Ordway, Jew Ames, Bishops, Pavlova, Murphy, Appartment
Mlle, Vin d’arbois, André Chamson, Leger & more Vidors, Rousseau
June Esther, Emily & the fairies, Ballet Russe, James Joyce, Sylvia Beach
Adrienne Monier, Lippes, Pruniers, Montague, Emils, Griffon, Trianon.
Victor Llona, Cole Porter, Carried home from Ritz, disagreable concierges
July Bricks again, another story, Opera, Battlefields, Rhiems, Hadley Hemmingway
Drinking & general unpleasantness, Bathroom, first trip jail
Princeton man painter on Rule Scheffer, Margaret Bishop’s talk, Dick Knight
Frank Baker & Paul Milholland, Blanche Knopf. Cole Porter
Aug Jed Kiley, Zelli’s, Buzz Law, Vient de Paraitre, Grand Guignol, La Baule,
Auto Trip, Cary Ross & dive in Lido, second trip jail., Wilder & Tunney
Lucien, Overcoat, Baby crying
Sept And back again in a blaze of work & liquor. Stearns, Phillipe, Phillipson,
Bergen, Wireless operator, Seymores, storm Carmania, Sap stopped
Broke, Languor.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 79
183
Ominous !
Thirty two, Years Old (And sore as hell about it)
No Real Progress
in any way & wrecked myself with dozens of people.
Sept Home on the aforesaid stormy Carmania. Max at Dock. Phillipe & Mlle. Ellerslie. Joe
the barber. General Prosperpity. Candy store. Dirt eating at hotel
Oct
Football. Ernest Asa at school. Zelda. Gabulov. Whorewhouse mirror. Scotty’s studies
Nov Yale & Navy games. Ernest down. Delplangue gets on our nerves. Elections—
running into car. Strater. Linaweavers. The Murphys pass thru –
Sarah and the Fishes. Call on Ring
Dec
Xmas night with family & Mlle & Phillipe. Coldness Amy. Car freezing. Mother
there Xmas
Jan 1929 Dunhams & Army officer at club. Ernest father & trip to Philadelphia, Row in
Wilmington speakeasy with Phillipe. Fuller & Mcgee Bucket shop. Sleeping on
train. The Trenton man
Feb
The Fisher boy & Princeton. Montgomery & drunk at Georgia Oates. Miss Kiem. New
York with Cornelius Vanderbilt & various rows. Packing. Life insurance matter.
The [
] Murphys pass thru—Sarah & the Fisher
Mar Esther’s engagement. The Conte Biancamano. Zelda’s Beau. The Brevoort Potts (nee Durham)
Casino at Nice & gambling. Phillipes, trouble in speak/easy. Beaulieu. Selling car
Lilian Gibson. The Prison at Nice
Apr
The Madison. Miss Delplangue leaves. The Kalmans, Hills, Journey’s End. Death of
Cesari. Death of Brookes. Pierre Loving’s request.
May Zelda & Dolly Wilde. Esther’s Marrige. St. Sulpice. Miss Bellois arrives. Adage. Clement,
Louise & housetraining. Townsend, Clive Bell & Calling on Bishops. Lunch Bishop.
Ernest & Callaghans. Nigger affair—Buck, Michell in prison. Dave. Teddy Chanler. Lucien
again. Getting soldiers. Attempts to place Egarova’s son
June Russian Ballet. Trip—Saulieu– lunch Beaune– Dijon – lunch Chateau neuf du Pape – Frejus Plage Hotel
Dinner at Geo V with Egarova. Young man. Ted Delplangue balks. Scotty swimming. All
Changed at Rocks. Buying car. Ernest’s & Morley for dinner. Certain coldness
July Laddie Sanford, Marx, the Barries, Gertrude Sanford Telulah. M. Bouvier, the agent, Casino,
walking Adage. The Wymans. Being drunk & snubbed. Zelda dancing in Nice
& Cannes. Fairies. Breakdown. The DeHaven’s
Aug Caroline Condon, Stevens, Murphys & Stracheys. Cafés des Allies. American
orchestra. Augustine and Rose. Syser–Cannes.
Sept Work on novel. Stenographers. Zelda dancing & sweating. Rows &
indifference. A last party with Dotty & Gerald. The Murphy’s yatch and
a last row.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 80
184
The
Crash! Zelda & America
Thirty Three Years Old
Sept
The trip – St Raphael, Aix, Arles, Pont du Garde, Night of the good pheasant, Vichy, Tours,
The Chateaux, Paris. The Madison
Oct
Appartment hunt. The snotty French aristocrats. Rue Pergolese. Mlle. Sereye succeeds Bellois. The Dudleys
Saw Vallambrosas.
Nov
Parties with the Bishops & Hemmingways. Endless massages. The Tates. Margaret Anderson & Flanner
The smelly maid. Scotty starts school. Party at Dudleys with Pascin. Zelli redhed.
Dec
Xmas at Caroline Dudleys. Hemmingways leave (perhaps January). Diplodicus ect Myers.
Grand Guignol
1930
Jan Zelda working hard on stories. Waldo Pierce & woman artist. Seymores. Fosters (Betty). Newman Smith.
Mr. Kelley. Padraic & Mary Column, the opera
Feb
Trip to Algiers.2nd class sleeping. Sea Sick. Algiers. Kabba St. Mountains. Braun. Bir Rabelou. Bou Saada. Amir
Ben Dohman. Oulid Nails. Biskra. Garden of Allah. El Kantara. The painter. Constantine. The gorge. Algiers, Marseilles
Paris.
Mar
Kalmans in town. The Barrows – Hills. Party Alice O’Brien? Mortimer Duval Nancy Hoyt & her dinner.
Fontainbleu with Braun. Versaille Pav. Henri IV with Zelda in our car, Murphys in Paris – opening the Bois
Apr
Strange Sunday walk (13th) Sam Ordway. American Club to hear Wolcott. Moved (18th) Bishop incident. Zelda
quit school & began again. Prof Claude, Noels, Rousseau, Egarova Arlen. Mortimer Duval.
April 23d Zelda enters Malmaison Zelda weak & tired.
Lud & friends. His lunch. Dehavens, Thomas, Kalmans, Kit, Orgeval, Lillis, My dinner, lunch Kaly in
Bois, Emily, DeHavens. Zelda every day. Jeff Crane, Sam & Mildred. Zoe & her friend, Bachelor dinner
Pavlowa, wedding. The Cordon Bleu
Finished Bridal Party in Paris End May On the 11th Zelda leaves Malmaison Braun, Ludlow, luncheon, Ballet
Psychoanalist, Couchman, Lucien Ballet May 22nd Zelda Enters Valmont. Glion, Rhigi, Victoria, De Muns, Boting
Kursall, Paris, Knight, Lee, Sam, Mildred. Plane. On the 4th Zelda leaves Valmont. 5th Newman
arrives. ‸ Tennis pro Enters Prangins
(before.) De Muns. Garden collapse. Perroquet. Ballet collapse. Storms. —(After) Montreux trip. Sacks, Cafe Central
Doctor, Montreux de Muns. Kursall English. Chillon. St. Gingolph. Murphys Lausanne. Saw Doctor 18th
June 23d Zelda confined Eglantine. Writing Woman with past at Glion from 11th.
‸ Grace & Virginia 5 days in Paris late June, early July. Jenny Townsend
Return Glion. Parties with English. Scotty & Alsatian ‸ “Berthe” on 13th. Julian.
Began One Trip Abroad. Three Princetonians. Tom Wolfe & Julian Pictet
May
June
July
Aug
Sept
& Sarasin. The De Muns. Over to Evian—Jorocki, Eduardo, Edgar. Gerald & Sara at Territet Buffet. The mother
& girls from Buffalo & Beau Rivage. The incestuous couple
Paris with Scotty. Greek Ambasador. ‸ Mrs. Vandervere. Brick tops. Goodbye Pictets. Bigelow, Lorna,
Bishops, Townsend. Virgina
Mary Rumsey, Emily, Coupole, Eleanor Bowman, Schulpter, Donavans, Fouquets, House Nat. Arlen
Deschaups, Massage, Palmer Payne Barber & Co. Julien & his girl, Overcoat.. Returned to
Vevey. finished Trip Abroad. Caux 8th–22nd, Jews, dancers. Montana. Dotty. Italian. Doctor. Perroquet.
Gambling at Caux. Beaumanior & Tamoni. Wiener Waltz. Surfboard at Caux
At end Geneva
Geneva. Excema dissapointment & Tom Wolfe. Casino & Maximes, Caux in mid-month. The wop.
Hotel Royale. Seeing Zelda. The Comptesse. The Beau Rivage – A Snobbish story. Mimi and her party
(Before) The tennis instructor
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 81
185
A Year
Thirty Four Years Old
in
Lausanne. Waiting. From Darkness to Hope.
Sept Bijou, Trevor, Pekunese lost in the Park, Lubalof, Baccarat cheater. Last sight of
Italian lady—the flowers, the lighthouse, hotel du Chateau Scotty in Rue Lalo – my
short visit
Londsdale & Father. Young Smith & Movies. Eduardo. Louie Edgar
Oct Hotel de la Paix from early October. Paris at Hotel ‸ Sylva in Rue Pergolese. All became of alarm about
Scotty appendix. Saw Gerald. Home to Lausanne. Napier Allington arrives. B.O to Hotel de la Paixx
The birthday party, T
Nov Trip to Montana for Thanksgiving. Newman afterwards. Napier. Bijou left before. ‸ gramaphone & money
Eduardo to Montana. Munich with Gerald, English at the police, Peter & Dehaven
Newman again, Allington in Montreux, Perroquet, Eduardo in Paris with Murphy’s, hotel
Napoleon, Grande Ecarte, Rufus Culkins shirts, Scotty to Empire
Dec Xmas with Scotty at Prangins. Gstaad, Hughes, Egloff, Mcglauchlin, Phelps, Miley,
Beck, Count Cetza, Bedfords, Forbes, Leatherby, Massgiyk, Hassan, Arnolds, Tiger, Solvays,
Siamese, Hilliard, Miss Morris
1931 Jan Scotty at Prangins, Watson Emmet ‸ at Chateau d’Oex, Gstaad, Phelps, Pell, Major Hyducooper.
& his party. The paintress & her daughter, phone to the mountains, shone to Gstaad
The Arnolds & their curious story – its sequel two years later. The telegram
about father. ‸ Harvey in Lausanne Check girl at Caux. Bishops, Zelda better, Fathers death, ‸ SS. New York
Feb
Mar
Apr.
May
June
July
Aug
Sept.
Caux Bert, Cornells, Douglass Fairbanksovitch, Mother, Lise, John, Ceci, funeral
Rockville, Tom, Tudor Hall, lower Maryland, Bert, ‸ & purse McArthur at Grand Hotel, Lillie & Helen
Hayes, Sayres in Montgomery, Plaza again, Marise, The Olympic, Earl of Ross, Lady Bridget,
Pembertons & McNamara
Paris, Scotty & Mlle, Story refused again, work & worry, Zelda better, Scotty for Easter & Egg hunt
Zelda helped by ski-ing, Dorothy Harvey in Lausanne, Marylyn Millers niece & Lonsdale,
the American consul & the young defender, Miley & his girl – leaving for Riviera, Early in April—
Zelda & I to Lyas ballet in Montreux – saw Lucien ect.
To Laco di Como, Villa d’Este, Bellagio, Como itself, boredom, the Americans in bar. M. E. in Lugano
lunch & golf, her children, phone frum Zurich, general disappointment in place.
Sudden trip, hotel, appartment. Story written, trip Paris, Bishops & Myers, M. at
Hotel Napoleon, Berne somewhere, trip to Annecy with Zelda at months end. Her walk alone
Alice Lee in Lausanne, Miley & his girl (or before) Trip to Paris by aeroplane for mother, Zelda Evian
Geneva & Lausanne with sisters, Zelda better – swimming & in Lausanne &
in Geneva, forgot Bishops, ‸ Duval at Harvey’s, Fontainbleu, car, Interlaken, to Flan Myers in country, Hotel des St. Peres,
Gerald once more in Lausanne. Mlle & Scotty in Paris, Car to Switzerland, Mill, Neuve Chapel
Full summer. Last of M. Zelda in Lausanne & Geneva, swimming, Paris to see
Scotty get medal, Myers in country, Libby, much work, Hotel du Chateau
Miley & his girl in trouble, Trevor & Lonsdale, Exposition in Paris, Murphys, Hoyty
Rufus & his girl, Bert again (1st of month) & Eski, Mother off at end (or in July)
Annecy, both sides of Lake, birthday party, the fish, dance at big hotel, Scotty to
La Poldu, Mlle bored, walks, chateau, driving, Aix les Bains, surfboard, diving,
tennis, eccentric dancing, Dr. Forel at beginning & end.
Zelda in Caux & then me alone there
Caux, much work, ‸ sick in Vevey, tennis at Caux, trip Murphys, swimming, Vienna,
planatarium, old chateau, Hoyty, Leger, old singer Vevey, Patrick, the
bath water, last days of tomato juice, St. Estephe & Restaurant de la Paix.
Last walks cathedral, everyone gone, Duke’s mistress at Beau Rivage. Scotty & Mme Lang to Paris
Left for home, trip north, lost ring, Dijon, car busted, Dave Bruce, Harvard
baseball player, Brunnschwiler. Empire State Bldg, Dwight, Alec, Bishops,
Townsend, Luds party, Obert & Perkins, Goodbye Forel & Mlle. Vallombrosas, Eski, Brunnschwiler
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 82
186
Recession &
Procession
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
1932 Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr.
May
Zelda Well,
Worse, Better.
Novel intensive
begins
Thirty Five Years Old
Arrive Montgomery, the judge, the family, callers at Greystone, leaving other hotel, house
hunting, two houses, old friends – Fanny, young Byers (Cody)
Freeman & Julia & Unc, bought car, golf & tennis at friends houses, the
Garlands, Mrs Mckinney, Stopped in Washington, Ring in New York.
Felder Ave, the usual girls, the Pitts & Little Theatre, following football,
life dull, walks with cane, Scotty’s school, tennis & golf
Saw Auburn Tulane & left for California. The train. First impressions Merdith
& Sullivan, de Sano, Thalberg, Lewen & conference rooms, offices, funny man, Hollywood Blvd & hotels
King & Eleanor, the Hoveys, the politicians daughter & Eddie Mayer, the Boyds, Zelda letters
Thalberg’s parties, Carmel’s parties & her husband, Selznick and
his ‸ new wife & previews, the offices at Metro, Dwight Taylor, & the phonograph
& nice kid who runs authors, Colton & Zoe & Ina, Dud Murphy & French woman. Judge dead
Intensive work & the Sat. parties, Tom Boyds again, the Hollywood sets, hat at
Paul Bern’s (or Bernie’s), the interviewers & Dorothy Speare, my party &
Herman Mancowitzs & man who wh writers Hoffenstiens, Lupe Velez, the
Vidor’s again, Home & Zelda’s big party, the cat & Trouble, Anthony
Rosalind arrives, & Newman people-people, big lunches, Zelda feels bad with
asthma, Palm St Petersburg trip, Freeman in StPetersburg, tennis & golf again, swimming
unsuccessful walks, the dancer, fishing trip & Zelda sicker, outbreak,
the trip back & liquor incident, Zelda increasingly sick
Zelda in Hopkins Feb 12th, preliminary warnings to
family, trip, Dr. Squires, Norfolk, Gee-gee, Hume & Cecilia,
Annabel’s children, Huger Labouisse in Carolina, arrived home in
depression. Scotty & Mlle, the servants, Scotty & her friends, becomes a racket
Rosalind still there, Mrs. Nash Ried & army friend. My army friend (Ristine) & his
party, the Browder wedding, the Pitts & their crowd, Scotty sick, me sick, Mrs Sayre playing the fool,
Everett Jackson & Rosalind, everything worser & worser, Zelda’s novel
arrives, neurosis, strained situation, Dr. Wiel, Left Alabama Mar 30th
Zelda strange, the Rennert Hotel, Work & walks
The Menckens, Little Theatre, the Puffy’s, Mother came over. Borrowing insurance
Began househunting, Nell Brooks, the Va lady agent Mrs. Clark Freeman & Stuty
Out to Eddie Poe’s, Linaweavers, Davis, Dancies. John & Anna
Househunting continued. La Paix the 26th. The secretaries, Mrs. Owens
The Clarks to dinner. Arthur & the John Reed Club.
June Calling on Miss Knight. Zelda comes home gradually. Virginia Beach
Brunnschwiler departs. My bootlegger. Mr. Carr the barber.
Cary
July Tennis & Mr. Crosby. Howie, Dean & Fisher. Swimming. Aquilla
Golf once. Bruno Hills at hospital. Mrs. Ridgely. The Woodwards, the
Menckens. The quarry & Meadowbrook. Arthur & his friends. Trip to
Philadelphia. Gertrude Harris. Miss Neale.
Aug The Novel now plotted & planned, never more to be permanently
interrupted. Games with children. Virginia Beach again—
Gerald & Lillian. The Races. David, Andrew, Eleanor, Sam. 1st
Hopkins with intestinal flu. Max turns up. Mrs Sayre.
Sept Rennie & Myers. Zelda to Fair. Cousin Ceci Cary’s car. Dos Passos & Horsely Gant
Dean’s friend & the lawn. The bonus army.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 83
187
A Strange year of Work &
Drink. Increasingly
unhappy.—Zelda up &
down. 1st draft of novel complete
Ominous!
Thirty-Six Years Old
Sept Servant troubles –the Keatings. Essie. Horsely & the Swanns.
His labratory. Scotty enters Calvert.
Oct
Aquilla & his misdeeds, Andrew & Scotty to Navy Game Scotty
to dancing school.
Nov Menace of the stuffed windows. T.S. Elliot & the walk. The
Fishers. Political worries, almost neurosis. Cary Again
Dec
The furnace. The childrens plays. Skating. Drinking increased
Things go not so well.
1933 Jan Constant visits to Hopkins. Scotty’s lessons bad. Quarrels with
her. The beauty contests, the Stieffs, the lost hat. Ring died
Feb
My trip to Princeton & New York. Quarrel Ernest. Always the furnace
Mr. Turnbull’s lectures. Lois & Marice in New York. The Bishops
The Biggs came through
Mar My trip Bunny Wilson after inauguration. Zelda riding
The little cat. The Mckewans. The Gold & the bank Holiday.
Writing “On Schedule”
April Zelda’s rehearsals, The Vagabonds. Bills show. My song
Eddie Poe calls. Mrs. Lanier. Children boxing “More than
Just a House”
May Zelda’s play. The Seldes pass through. My trip south
by myself in the car. The Wight girl. University of Va. Laurence
Lee. My chauffeur. Breakdown on the pass. The sign about Pelham.
The Communist
June The typescript of Zelda conversation. The two Swann boys. The book
progressing. Sometime in here was sick again – I’m not sure
when. Had a nice sweet nurse. Summer less good — only painting
& writing; no more improvement.
July Mr Crosby & Tennis. Andrew in camp. Julian Van Cortland
Tight at Eddie Poes. Less swimming. Miss Gager. Dick Stillwell.
Trip to Philadelphia. Ger
August THE FIRE
.
The Family Bus. Night of the fire. The pistol.
1st borrowing from mother. Other borrowings
Sept Zelda to Fair. Cousin Ceci, Rosalind, Annie Laurie & negro act.
Zelda riding. The other nurse. Zelda & beer. Zelda & Car (perhaps
before
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 84
188
Zelda breaks, the
novel finished. Hard times
begin for me, slow but sure.
Ill Health Throughout
Sept
Oct
Thirty-Seven Years Old
Arrangement with Ober & Scribner to work on book only. Football for Andrew.
Shooting gallery. Scotty to Brym Mawr.
Max accepts book in 1st draft. 1st installment delivered. Took
Andrew to Columbia game. Zelda to Dartmouth game. Gave party for
Navy - Notre Dame here. Ceci in Washington.
Nov 2nd & 3d installment delivered. Zelda to Yale game. Tight.
Preparations to move. [
]
Book began to run. Went to N.Y. Got sick with pleuresisy, Called quarrelled
with Bunny Wilson, Bermuda. Sick in St. George. Sick in Hamilton, the
English people. The models, Zelda’s bycycles, 1st Xmas at 1307 Park Ave.
Mother & John.
1934 Jan
Zelda begins to weaken & goes to Hopkins. Her studio unsatisfactory
Nieghborhood children, Anne, Betsy & Jaqueline. Quarrel with Gerald.
Ginevra on phone.
Last installment
February Endless proof. One servant & eating out after Zelda leaves.
Beginning to get response from Bk.
Dec
Moved Zelda up to northern N.Y. Sanitarium. Saw Gerald
March
Everything waiting for book. Got sick again. The nice night nurse (name?)
Arthur, Calverton, Ross at times. Scotty visits Perkins & gets coat.
Parker & O’Hara. Met Thurber, Mckaig
April
Caresse Crosby. First Red Bk Story. Zelda exposition. Zelda in New York
Book came out. Mrs. Turnbull.
May
No Flowers. Zelda transferred to Sheppard in Katatonic State, me going to
Philadelphia. Work with Bill Warren on Tender
Jun
Scotty & I to Norfolk. Va Beach. Saw Annabel. Eating out unsatisfactory.
Scotty to Camp, O’Mara – a wild night with him. Scotty to cabaret &
to Belvedere. Marconi episode. Very unhappy.
July
Aug
The crazy wk in New York. ‸ Plaza The four Yale acrobats. Alice ect. The stenographer,
Ludlow. Then collapse at home after ms. delivery. Streetcar – Lewis Azrael.
First Welbourne Trip, South & Stinson. Julian Van C. & his friends. Gallant Pelham,
numerology. Wolfe & Perkins
Another Welbourne Trip. Trip to Norfolk — Williamsburg The pool, the Taylors
Sept.
Hospital again. The nurse who was the doctor’s wife. Mrs Owens vacation. The Jewish
stenographer. New Orleans lady. Rogge. “Her Last Case.” Two days only in hospital (three ?)
Scotty returns. The Biggs
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S LEDGER
TRANSCRIPTION PAGE 85
189
Thirty-Eight Years Old
Sept Welbourne again, twice perhaps—Sabins, butlers, Gaithers, Morrisons, the pool,
the graveyard. New York with Spafford. Mayflower Hotel. Mother in
Washington. Wine on Trains. The bus from Middleburg. Myra in Algonquin.
Missy Sabins visited. The Bishops. Max down. Finance now serious
Oct Elizebeth at Nell Brookes, the Nashes, Sally Reggs, O’Hara, Gingrich, Mrs.
Owens ill. Alice Wooten. Bought the Ford
Cold night with Sabins.
Nov Took Andrew & Stanley to Yale game. Saw Dunn & Dickey. Rosalind in town &
seemed well. Elizebeth comes north. Calverton calls with Huntingdons. Two
Red Bk stories. Debt bad. Borrowing more from mother. Crazy call on Whites
Mrs Turnbull & Frances.
Dec [
] Zelda came for Xmas Eve & spent the night. The little
tree. Elizebeth Lemmon & Alyse Wooten came.
Mary Rumsey dies. Both Sabins visited.
Feb Jan Wrote story about Peacocks. Very Sick. Debts terrible. Left for Tryon Sun 3d. Oak
1935 Hall. Went on p[ ] wagon for all liquor & alcohol on Thursday 7th (or
Wed. 6th at 8.30 P.M). The Vanderhoefs, Nash, Flynns, Lynch, Bowes, Carter Browns, Fords
Hills, Carpenters. The stenographer, Miss Burrows & Mrs. Ritch.
Dr. Palmer. Lois married “Loves Melody.” news of Zelda Flynn’s Song.
Jan Feb Scotty sick, missing school & dance. Work & worry. Sickness and
debt. Zelda seems less well. Proofs, Travel Together Story failure. Last Red Bk IV.
Mistake.
These two should Max came I think. Gingrich It returning from Florida. Alec came through
Reverse
Mar Zelda very bad on return. Terrible worry. Saw Elizibeth, Jim Boyd. Scottie very gay
Cary Ross came through. Tom Boyds death
April
May
Reached Ashville May 16th
June
July
Aug
Sept.