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39. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, April 21, 1923, TNW Collection, YCAL.
40. Ibid.
41. TNW to APW, April 18, 1923, TNW Collection, YCAL.
42. TNW to Norman Fitts, May 1, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
43. Ibid.
44. TNW to Norman Fitts, June 7, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
45. TNW to Edith Isaacs, May 3, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
46. Ibid.
47. Ibid.
48. TNW to ANW, June 12, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
49. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, June 5, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
50. Ibid.
51. Charlotte Wilder to ANW, July 5, 1923, TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.
52. TNW to APW, July 9, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
53. TNW to Jim Lane, [June 24, 1923?], LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
54. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, July 2, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
55. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, August 15, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
56. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, July 2, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
57. TNW to Gilbert McCoy Troxell, July 10, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
58. TNW to William I. Nichols, July 27, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
59. TNW to Bill Bissell, August 20, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
60. TNW to Gwynne [Mrs. Mather] Abbott, August 28, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
61. TNW to Bill Bissell, August 20, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
62. TNW to Gwynne [Mrs. Mather] Abbott, August 28, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
63. TNW to Edith Isaacs, August 4, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
64. TNW to Gwynne Abbott, August 27, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL. Gwynne Abbott was the daughter of Mrs. Mather Abbott, above.
65. “Professional theatre-goer”: TNW to William I. “Bill” Nichols, September 19, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL. “My dear School”: TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, August 15, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
66. TNW to Barbara Leighton, July 9, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
67. TNW to APW, July 21, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
68. TNW to APW, August 5, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
69. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, May 15, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
70. TNW to Bill Bissell, August 20, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
71. Ibid.
15: “MILLSTONES” (1923–1925)
1. APW to TNW, September 25, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
2. Ibid.
3. TNW to ANW, October 2, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.
4. ANW to Charlotte Wilder, June 29, [1923?], TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged letters.
5. Ibid.
6. Isabella Niven Wilder to TNW, October 26, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
7. Jeanne-Françoise de Récamier (1777–1849) was the vivacious hostess of a literary and artistic salon in early nineteenth-century French society.
8. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, October 29, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
9. Ibid.
10. Isabella Niven Wilder to TNW, November 1, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
11. TNW to Mrs. Hildegarde Donaldson, December 3, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
12. TNW to Leslie Glenn, October 9, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
13. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, November 19, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
14. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, October 23, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
15. Ibid.
16. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, November 6, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
17. TNW to Family, December 2, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
18. TNW to G. M. Troxell, November 27, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
19. TNW to Stark Young, November 2, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
20. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, December 18, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
21. TNW to Stark Young, December 18, 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
22. TNW to Bill Bissell, Christmas 1923, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
23. TNW, “Notes,” LD, February 5, 1924, TNW Collection, YCAL.
24. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, March 16, 1924, TNW Collection, YCAL.
25. APW to TNW, February 13, [1924?], TNW Collection, YCAL.
26. Isabel Wilder to Ted [Wilder?], May 24, 1924, TNW Collection, YCAL. Despite every effort to establish the last name of this correspondent, we are left with the conjecture that it was Theodore Wilder, TNW’s friend from Chefoo and Oberlin days. Ted Wilder was not a relative.
27. APW to TNW, February 13, [1924?], TNW Collection, YCAL.
28. Ibid.
29. Isabel Wilder to Ted [Wilder?], [September 1925?], TNW Collection, YCAL.
30. APW to unidentified member of his family, most likely TNW; handwritten note on reverse of a letter from Dr. George Blumer to APW, April 16, 1924, Private Collection.
31. Dr. George Blumer to APW, April 16, 1924, Private Collection.
32. APW to TNW, February 13, [1924?], TNW Collection, YCAL.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid.
35. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, May 6, 1924, TNW Collection, YCAL.
36. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, May 25, 1924, TNW Collection, YCAL.
37. TNW to Phil Thomas, May 10, 1925, LB, TNW Collection, YCAL.
38. Ibid.
39. TNW to J. P. Monod, January 22, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
40. TNW to Ethel Andrews Murphy, January 20 [TNW wrote “December” by mistake], 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
41. TNW to Margaret Whitney, March 16, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
42. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, August 14, 1924, TNW Collection, YCAL.
43. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, December 2, 1924, TNW Collection, YCAL.
44. For background see Judith Ann Schiff, “Old Yale: Before He Came to Dinner,” Yale Alumni magazine, April 1999; and “Yale Workshop,” Time, Monday, December 8, 1924.
45. TNW to Ethel Andrews Murphy, January 20, 1925 [TNW wrote “December” by mistake in his Letter Diary], LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
46. TNW to APW, February 4, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
47. TNW to Edith Isaacs, January 30, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
48. TNW to Edwin Arlington Robinson, March 31, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
49. TNW’s record, Princeton University, March 2, 1925, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University.
50. TNW to Isabel Wilder, February 13, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
51. TNW to Edith Isaacs, January 18, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
52. Ibid.
53. Edith Isaacs to TNW, January 26 [1925], LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
54. TNW, “The Turn of the Year,” Theatre Arts Monthly 9, no. 3 (March 1925): 143–44.
55. Ibid., 151.
56. Baer was heir to the Stix-Baer Department Store fortune in St. Louis, Missouri, and most likely secured his job with the Boni brothers by investing in their firm.
57. TNW to Lewis Baer, Feburary 14, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
58. Lewis Baer to TNW, March 3, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
59. TNW to Edith Isaacs, March 11, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
60. TNW, “Bibliography,” LD, [1927?], TNW Collection, YCAL.
61. TNW to Bill Bissell, March 16, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
62. TNW to Helen M. Allen, April 13, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
63. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, April 16, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
64. Proust’s seven volumes: Swann’s Way, In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower, The Guermantes Way, Sodom and Gomorrah, The Prisoner, The Fugitive, and Finding Time Again.
65. TNW to Lewis Baer, April 21, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
66. Ibid.
67. TNW to Lewis Baer, April 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
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8. TNW to Lewis Baer, May 7, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
69. TNW to Phil Thomas, May 10, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
70. Dr. James Semans to PEN, 2002. Dr. Semans was a student at the Lawrenceville School when TNW was teaching there.
71. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, June 12, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
72. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, May 21, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
16: “THE ‘WAY WITHIN’” (1925–1926)
1. TNW to Bruce Simonds, June 15, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
2. Ibid.
3. TNW to Family, April 11, 1922, TNW Collection, YCAL.
4. TNW to Bruce Simonds, June 15, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
5. TNW to Miss Whitney, [Summer 1925?], LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
6. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, [Summer 1925?], TNW Collection, YCAL.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, October 8, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ames was the star fullback of the Princeton University football team during the 1890s and became a successful businessman and publisher in Chicago. He committed suicide during the Depression.
13. TNW to Rosemary Ames, January 6, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
14. TNW to Miss Whitney, [Summer 1925?], LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
15. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, [Summer 1925?], TNW Collection, YCAL.
16. Ibid.
17. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, October 20, [1925?], TNW Collection, YCAL. (TNW wrote 1924 by mistake.)
18. Isabel Wilder to Ted [Wilder?], [September 26, 1925?], TNW Collection, YCAL.
19. ANW, Oberlin College Biographical Form, Oberlin College Records.
20. TNW to ANW, October 2, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.
21. Isabel Wilder to Ted [Wilder?], [September 26, 1925?], TNW Collection, YCAL.
22. Ibid.
23. ANW, “Vita Notes with Special Reference to Literary Interests,” n.d., ANW, Wilder Family Record, TNW Collection, YCAL.
24. Isabel Wilder to Ted [Wilder?], [September 26, 1925?], TNW Collection, YCAL.
25. TNW to Warren Dolben, October 3, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
26. TNW to Ann Harding, October 16, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
27. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, October 28, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.
28. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, November 23, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.
29. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, October 28, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.
30. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, October 13, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.
31. Ibid.
32. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder [“Dearest of Mothers”], November 2, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.
33. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, November 23, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.
34. TNW to Richard Boleslavsky, November 16, 1925, LD, TNW Collection, YCAL.
35. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, October 13, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.
36. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, December 20, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.
37. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, October 28, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.
38. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, November 2, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.
39. TNW to Rosemary Ames, [November 19, 1925?], TNW Collection, YCAL.
40. Ibid.
41. TNW to ANW, December 20, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.
42. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, February 10, 1923, TNW Collection, YCAL.
43. Charlotte Wilder to ANW, [January 6, 1925?], Private Collection.
44. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, January 5, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
45. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, January 8, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
46. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, January 12, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
47. TNW, Journal, [between November 20 and December 2, 1926?], TNW Collection, YCAL.
48. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, February 7, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
49. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, November 4, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.
50. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, January 20, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
51. TNW’s choice of pronunciation and spelling was noted in Bookman, March 1928, 78.
52. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, January 5, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
53. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, February 7, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
54. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, January 8, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
55. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, February 7, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
56. Ibid.
57. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, January 31, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
58. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, February 14, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
59. Ibid.
60. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, February 21, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
61. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, January 20, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
62. Ibid.
63. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, February 25, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
64. Ibid.
65. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, February 28, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
66. TNW to Rosemary Ames, May 9, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
67. Ibid.
68. TNW to Rosemary Ames, July 4, 1925, TNW Collection, YCAL.
69. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, March 23, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
70. TNW listed the following plays: Cecilia, a three-act play he wrote at Berkeley High School and destroyed; The Skyrocket, a four-act comedy-drama written at Oberlin and, he wrote, “destroyed,” although The Rocket, a four-act play from his Oberlin days, survives among his papers; The Dreamers, a “Ballad play,” written at Yale, which survives; The Exiles, the three-act play set in China, written at Yale; The Trumpet Shall Sound; The Wedding Breakfast, a three-act comedy written at Yale, where it won a prize, although the manuscript was lost by William Lyon Phelps, who was one of the judges; Villa Rhabani, set in Capri, a full-length play that according to TNW was best forgotten; and Geraldine de Gray.
71. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, March 23, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
72. TNW to Charles A. Wager, May 25, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
73. TNW, “The Memoirs of Charles Mallison: The Year in Rome,” undated manuscript, TNW Collection, YCAL. A portion of this manuscript is published in the Afterword in TNW, The Cabala and The Woman of Andros, 219–22.
74. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, February 10, 1923, TNW Collection, YCAL.
75. TNW, The Cabala and The Woman of Andros, 61–62.
76. TNW to Claus Clüver, May 29, 1961, copy of letter enclosed in Jürgen Wolter to Jackson R. Bryer, March 3, 1989, Private Collection.
77. TNW, The Cabala, 4.
78. Ibid., 72.
79. Ibid., 76.
80. Ibid., 70–94.
81. Ibid., 133.
82. Ibid., 133–34.
83. Ibid., 134.
84. “Mordant”: TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, February 10, 1923, TNW Collection, YCAL.
85. TNW, The Cabala, 107.
17: “MY REAL VOCATION” (1926–1927)
1. TNW to ANW, April 25, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Theodore Purdy, Jr., “Mr. Wilder’s Cabala,” Saturday Review of Literature, May 8, 1926, 771.
6. John Farrar, as JF, “Brilliant, Bitter, Imaginative,” Bookman 63, June, 1926, 478.
7. Agnes Repplier, “The Cabala,” Commonweal 4 (August 25, 1926): 391–92.
8. TNW to Marie Townson, September 15, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
9. William Lyon Phelps, “As I Like It,” Scribner’s Magazine 80 (August 1926): 224–31.
10. Charles A. Wager to TNW, May 23, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
11. TNW to Charles A. Wager, May 25, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
12. Ibid.
13. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, June 21, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
14. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, March 29, 1926, TNW Collection, YCA
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15. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, April 5, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
16. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, April 22, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
17. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, April 25, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
18. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, August 15, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
19. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, May 23, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL. “Fox Film Company . . .”: TNW to Amy Wertheimer, June 6, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
20. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, June 10, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
21. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, June 21, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
22. Ibid.
23. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, July 5, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
24. TNW to Marie Townson, August 12, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
25. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, July 8, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
26. Ibid.
27. TNW to Marie Townson, August 12, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
28. Ibid.
29. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, August 19, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
30. Charlotte Wilder, “In a Corner of France,” August 16, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL, uncataloged manuscript.
31. TNW to Marie Townson, September 15, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
32. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, April 11, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
33. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, June 19, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
34. TNW to Douglas Townson, August 28, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
35. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, July 8, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
36. TNW to APW, July 14, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
37. TNW to Family, October 25, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
38. Ibid.
39. TNW, Journal, October 11, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
40. TNW to William I. “Bill” Nichols, October 18, 1926, Nichols Papers, LC.
41. TNW to Family, October 25, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
42. TNW, Journal, October 11, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
43. TNW, Journal, October 14, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
44. TNW to APW, November 12, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
45. TNW, Journal, [October 1926?], TNW Collection, YCAL.
46. TNW to Bill Nichols, October 13, 1926, Nichols Papers, LC.
47. TNW to Isabella Niven Wilder, [October 22, 1926?], TNW Collection, YCAL.
48. TNW to Amy Wertheimer, October 25, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.
49. TNW to Douglas C. Townson, [October/November 1926?], TNW Collection, YCAL.
50. TNW to Family, October 25, 1926, TNW Collection, YCAL.