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  “was oddly appropriate”: LW, p. 128.

  [>] Gerald had paid for . . . complicated proposition: GCM to E. R. Cawdron, 12 Mar. 1951, HMD. It was important to have the case handled by a French lawyer because Esther was a French resident; the cost for this was 28, francs.

  “I am sorry”: Esther Murphy to GCM, 9 Sept. 1950, HMD.

  [>] “our relationship” . . . not Sara’s: GCM to Esther Murphy, undated, HMD.

  “It was my irreparable”: GCM to DP, 17 Dec. 1962, CUL.

  [>] “another generation growing”: FSF to GCM and SWM, 31 Jan. 1937, HMD.

  It was Gerald . . . “very important”: Sherman Donnelly interview.

  Edward Gorey . . . it was vain: John Donnelly and Laura Donnelly Taylor interviews.

  Sometimes the games . . . he’d been fooling them: Laura Donnelly Taylor interview.

  “like a Japanese garden”: Sherman Donnelly interview.

  “Dow was in charge . . . what a man”: William MacLeish interview; additional details, HMD interview.

  [>] “a little too much . . . it leaves you”: SWM to JDP and Elizabeth Dos Passos, S& G, p. 231.

  Edmund Wilson . . . “bufferage”: DaP to JDP, 19 Mar. 1963, CUL.

  “Great White Father” . . . least favorite picture: Undated, unsigned drawing in Edmund Wilson file, Dawn Powell papers, CUL. inscribed . . . “fromage de Brie”: Edmund Wilson to JDP, 2 May 1963, in Wilson, Letters on Literature and Politics, pp. 638–39.

  [>] “lots of vins et liqueurs”: S& G, p. 230.

  “an incredible meal”: Edmund Wilson to JDP, 2 May 1963, in Wilson, Letters on Literature and Politics, pp. 638–39.

  “We’ve never done . . . from the heart”: GCM to DaP, 5 Apr. 1963, CUL.

  26. “Only half a person without you”

  [>] “much more irresponsible” . . . funeral barge: GCM to DaP, 5 Apr. 1963, CUL.

  “I feel sure I’ll come”: GCM to AMacL, 15 Sept. 1963, LOC.

  “Every once in a while . . . beautiful and free!”: Ibid., 30 May 1964.

  [>] What they didn’t know . . . chance of survival: William Abel interview. “Dearest Gerald”: SWM to GCM, 7 Aug. 1963, HMD.

  “sitting in the sun . . . doctors’ satisfaction”: GCM to AMacL, 15 Sept. 1963, LOC.

  [>] “Featureless horizon . . . things unknown”: AMacL to GCM, 19 Sept. 1963, HMD.

  “dinner and dancing . . . makes it worse”: SWM to DaP, 9 Mar. 1964, CUL.

  “in the night”: GCM to AMacL, 30 May 1964, LOC.

  “All of that . . . Trop tard": GCM to CT, [Apr. 1964], HMD.

  [>] “had been the only”: S& G, p. 238.

  “how Paris was”: EH, A Moveable Feast, p. 211.

  “a life without consequences”: Mellow, Flemingway: A Life Without Consequences.

  “The rich have . . . wrong with it?”: EH, A Moveable Feast, pp. 207–209.

  [>] “I am—contre coeur . . . of course”: GCM to AMacL, 30 May 1964, LOC. paints, but is not really a painter: Item 841, JFK.

  “these rich . . . bad luck could go”: Baker, Emest Hemingway: A Life Story, p. 593n

  Gerald was very firm . . . ran down: William Abel interview.

  [>] “I had so wanted . . . peace hereafter”: GCM to Ada MacLeish and AMacL, 18 Jul. 1964, LOC.

  When Dr. Abel . . . travels in the tropics: William Abel interview.

  “Dear Dow”: AMacL inscription to GCM, HMD.

  Recalling . . . “clarion-call”: GCM to AMacL, 4 Sept. 1964, LOC.

  “thinking of himself”: AMacL, “The Art of Poetry” interview, The Paris Review, vol. 14, no. 58, p. 70.

  [>] “How wonderful”: HMD interview.

  “Dear Tad”: SWM to CT, 4 Oct. [1964], HMD.

  On October 17 . . . slipped away forever: HMD interview.

  “DEAREST SARA . . . disguised as taste”: DP to SWM, quoted in Miller, Letters from the Lost Generation, p. 275; DaP to JDP, 26 Oct. 1964, CUL. Other details from interviews with CT, FMB, Patricia Vaill, and others.

  [>] “Don’t go . . . know you”: Lillian Hellman/HMD interview, HMD.

  “We know . . . Hemingway Collection”: Valerie Danby-Smith to SWM, 15 Dec. 1965, HMD.

  “Dear Mrs. Hemingway . . . who is gone”: SWM to Mary Hemingway, handwritten copy, [14 Jan. 1966], HMD.

  But Sara, veteran . . . blotchy with fury: FMB interview.

  [>] “stuck with rather unpleasant”: SWM to FMB, 12 Nov. [late 1960s], FMB.

  “wonderful talking letters”: AMacL to SWM 3 Dec. [1964], HMD.

  “It is such fun . . . see you all”: SWM to JDP, [1966], UVA. missing Boatdeck . . . plaques on the wall: In fact, as discussed earlier, the titles of Turbines and Pression were confused, with the former being applied as an alternative title to the painting Engine Room. I have tried to adhere to what I believe to be the original titles in describing and discussing all works.

  [>] “a major American artist”: S& G, p. 3.

  “a distinct contribution”: John Russell, “Surviving Murphy Art Is at the Modern,” New York Times, 11 Apr. 1974.

  “an astonishingly original”: Hayden Herrera, “Gerald Murphy, An Amurikin in Paris,” Art in America, Sept./Oct. 1974.

  [>] she spent much . . . Belvoir: Laura Donnelly Taylor interview.

  On October 9 . . . “going to Dowdow”: HMD interview.

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