page 232 “‘Had a two-page cable…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, July 12, 1952.
page 233 “‘I rather fear he…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, August, 1952.
page 233 “‘We decided to spend the winter…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, October 5, 1952.
page 233 “Mary Louise, who was still…”: TC to Mary Louise Aswell, October 14, 1952.
page 234 “Actually, Truman had been offered…”: TC to Cecil Beaton, November 8, 1952.
page 234 “‘Capote will be rich…’”: Jack Dunphy to Mary Louise Aswell, November, 1952.
page 235 “‘David absolutely adored him…’”: Jennifer Jones to GC, November 22, 1975.
page 235 “‘Indiscretion is, for the…’”: “Cinema,” Time, April 26, 1954, page 11a.
page 237 “A few weeks after Truman finished…”: M. A. Schmidt, “Battling Bogart’s Saga,” New York Times, September 6, 1953.
page 237 “Hearing of their dilemma, Selznick…”: Selznick, Memo from David O. Selznick, page 462.
page 238 “‘Nobody was prepared for the entrance…’”: John Barry Ryan to GC, January 31, 1976.
page 238 “‘He wrote it page by page…’”: Morley and Stokes, Robert Morley, page 231.
page 238 “‘Truman had to go back to…’”: Ibid.
page 238 “‘I swear his face was twice…’”: John Huston to GC, December 18, 1975.
page 239 “‘When I started, only John and I…’”: Otis L. Guernsey, Jr., “Movies: Unusual Collaboration,” New York Herald Tribune, February 7, 1954.
page 239 “‘I always wanted to know where…’”: Jennifer Jones to GC, November 22, 1975.
page 240 “‘it was a hell of a lark…’”: Paul V. Beckley, “Nothing, Says Huston, Can Be ‘More Trivial,’ “New York Herald Tribune, August 30, 1953.
page 241 “‘Why, honey, what’s wrong…’”: Snow with Aswell, The World of Carmel Snow, page 183.
page 241 “As a demonstration of the company’s…”: Jack Clayton to GC, August 30, 1976.
page 241 “‘[It] ended with John Huston and Humphrey Bogart…’”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, May 14, 1953.
page 241 “‘This is such a slight, tiny picture…’”: Archer Winsten, “John Huston in Slippers,” New York Post, September 4, 1953.
page 241 “‘Personally if you don’t see this picture…’”: Hyams, Bogie, page 135.
page 242 “…Newton walked out…”: Newton Arvin’s diaries, April 5, 1954.
page 242 “‘However antic and loopy the circumstances…’”: Charles Champlin, “Look Back,” Millimeter, December, 1975, page 56.
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page 243 “‘Fortunately,’ said Noël Coward…”: Coward, The Noël Coward Diaries, page 218.
page 243 “‘I need to write short stories…’”: TC to Robert Linscott, May 20, 1953.
page 243 “‘I wish so much I could talk…’”: TC to Robert Linscott, August 3, 1953.
page 244 “‘Naturally, my advice would be to…’”: Robert Linscott to TC, August 10, 1953.
page 244 “‘I’ve been working with zombie-like…’”: TC to Newton Arvin, October 16, 1953.
page 245 “‘You take your life into your hands…’”: Mary Louise Aswell to GC, May 7, 1977.
page 245 “‘I’ve always wanted to know him…’”: Glenway Wescott to GC, January 30, 1976.
page 246 “‘The other night Greta Garbo…’”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, August, 1953.
page 248 “‘Cecil’s perfect manners become…’”: Jack Dunphy to Paul Cadmus, September 14, 1962.
page 249 “‘Perhaps the world’s second worst…’”: Albin Krebs, “To Bore Was a Crime,” New York Times, January 19, 1980, page 28.
page 249 “‘They considered themselves small-town boys…’”: a nonattributed source to GC, May 2, 1983.
page 249 “‘I respect and trust you…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, November 8, 1952.
page 249 “‘I admire you as a man…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, May 15, 1956.
page 249 “‘We are now each other’s best friend…’”: This is from an August, 1953, entry in Cecil Beaton’s unpublished diaries, which his biographer, Hugo Vickers, was kind enough to show me. In most cases I have relied on Beaton’s unpublished diaries rather than those that appeared in print after much polishing and cutting. In a few instances, however, Beaton’s handwriting defied me, and I was forced to turn to the published volumes.
page 249 “‘He had very long toenails…’”: Sir John Gielgud to GC, June 23, 1983.
page 249 “‘We discussed our beliefs…’”: Beaton, The Strenuous Years, page 162.
page 250 “‘I am working, but not well…’”: Jack Dunphy to Mary Louise Aswell, November, 1953.
page 250 “‘stem to stern,’ as he told…”: TC to Newton Arvin, November 20, 1953.
page 251 “‘This is your friend from across…’”: TC to GC.
page 251 “At Carson’s insistence…”: Carr, The Lonely Hunter, page 412.
page 251 “‘My youth is gone…’”: Ibid., page 413.
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page 252 “In fact, the clouds had been long…”: For the background on Joe Capote’s legal problems I am indebted to his lawyer Nathan Rogers, whom I interviewed on June 21, 1978. I also relied on various New York State court documents, including Indictment No. 4195–54, December 21, 1954; Joe Capote’s plea before Judge Jacob Gould Schurman, Jr. (Court of General Sessions of the County of New York), January 5, 1955; the statement of Nathan Rogers to the Probation Office, January 27, 1955; and the record of sentencing, March 28, 1955.
page 253 “‘We’ll come back either broke…’”: Andrew Lyndon to GC, April 23, 1977.
page 253 “‘Everything would be fine…’”: TC to Mary Louise Aswell, June 19, 1953.
page 253 “‘Odd, I seem to think about money…’”: TC to Newton Arvin, October 16, 1953.
page 253 “‘Do call her…’”: Andrew Lyndon to GC, April 23, 1977.
page 253 “Eleanor Friede, who had lunch…”: Eleanor Friede to GC, October 1, 1975.
page 253 “A few days before New Year’s…”: Seabon Faulk to GC, March 8, 1978.
page 254 “‘When the night maid came…’”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, January 6, 1954.
page 255 “‘Truman’s in the back…’”: Andrew Lyndon to GC, April 23, 1977.
page 255 “‘I’m a Jew…’”: Ibid.
page 255 “‘People don’t ask for a drink…’”: Mary Ida Carter to GC, September 7, 1976.
page 256 “‘Well, I’ll eventually find out…’”: Harper Lee to GC, August 10, 1977.
page 256 “‘I don’t think Truman has ever written…’”: Phoebe Pierce Vreeland to GC, April 20, 1976.
page 256 “‘You know, Lyn, my mother loved…’”: Lyn White to GC, October 16, 1975.
page 256 “‘You’re not my father…’”: Andrew Lyndon to GC, April 23, 1977.
page 257 “‘He told me that he had been…’”: Arch Persons to GC, September 9, 1976.
page 257 “‘Truman is having a bad time…’”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, June 16, 1954.
page 257 “…on March 30 he entered Sing Sing…”: A letter of August 29, 1985 to GC from James E. Sullivan, Superintendent, and George McGrath, Program Coordinator, Sing Sing Correctional Facility, Ossining, New York.
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page 259 “There was a setback in February…”: Jablonski, Harold Arlen, page 184.
page 259 “Every day when he visited Arlen…”: Ibid.
page 260 “‘We used to work three hours…’”: Harold Arlen to GC.
page 260 “‘Brook is a very creative force…’”: Nance, The Worlds of Truman Capote, page 129.
page 261 “‘When he was through, it was a mambo!’”: Geoffrey Holder to GC, September 5, 1985.
page 261 “‘Tell me, how do you handle…’”: Lucia Victor to GC, September 5, 1985.
page 262 “‘What am I doing wrong?…’”: Ibid.
page 262 “‘Before I left London, somebody…’”: John Barry Ryan to GC, January 31, 1976.
page 262 “‘When Pearl walked out, Peter…’”: Lucia Victor to GC, September 5, 1985.
page 262 “‘Peter’s ego was such that…’”: D. D. Ryan to GC, January 31, 1976.
page 263 “‘The first act was very good…’”: Harold Arlen to GC.
page 263 “‘Mr. Capote has run out of…,’”: Walter F. Kerr, “House of Flowers,” New York Herald Tribune, December 31, 1954.
page 263 “‘It’s one of those shows in which…’”: Hobe, “House of Flowers,” Variety, January 12, 1955.
page 263 “‘I don’t know what’s happening…’”: Shirley Herz to GC, September 4, 1985.
page 264 “The last show was a sellout…”: Jablonski, Harold Arlen, page 195.
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page 267 “‘Sat on the stone wall and…’”: TC, “A Gathering of Swans,” Harper’s Bazaar, September, 1959, pages 122–25.
page 268 “‘He would tell me things…’”: Carol Marcus Matthau to GC, August 15, 1985.
page 268 “‘We were once in Copenhagen…’”: Lady (Nancy) Keith to GC, March 21, 1985.
page 269 “‘By the time you get this…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, June 21, 1956.
page 271 “Andrew was present when he received his first…”: Andrew Lyndon to GC, April 23, 1977.
page 272 “He liked to show off the detective…”: Bradlee, Conversations with Kennedy, page 106.
page 272 “‘I keep thinking what power…’”: Jacqueline Kennedy to TC, August 26, 1963.
page 272 “‘Dear Truman, thank you for thinking…’”: Jacqueline Kennedy to TC, December 12, 1964.
page 272 “‘All the times of insouciance…’”: Jacqueline Kennedy to TC, June 22, 1968.
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page 279 “‘The beautiful darling!’ her father…”: Thomson, Harvey Cushing, page 227.
page 279 “‘So great is her beauty that…’”: Baldwin, Billy Baldwin Remembers, page 142.
page 279 “Her mother was no less ambitious…”: “The Cushing Sisters,” Life, August 11, 1947, pages 41–44; Graham, How to Marry Super Rich, pages 224–33.
page 279 “‘society’s three fabulous Cushing sisters…’”: Nancy Randolph, “It’s a CBS Heir at Bill Paley’s,” New York Daily News, March 31, 1948.
page 280 “‘immaculate quality and immense serenity’”: Enid Nemy, “Barbara Cushing Paley Dies at 63, Style Pace-Setter in Three Decades,” New York Times, July 7, 1978.
page 281 “He met the Paleys…”: Jennifer Jones to GC, November 22, 1975.
page 281 “‘There’s great beauty in his face…’”: “‘In Cold Blood’… An American Tragedy,” Newsweek, January 24, 1966, page 63.
page 282 “‘He had a passion to identify…’”: Oliver Smith to GC, December 18, 1985.
page 282 “‘[Truman’s] opened up avenues…’”: “‘In Cold Blood’…,” Newsweek, op. cit.
page 283 “When he created the little park…”: Tony Schwartz, “An Intimate Talk with William Paley,” New York Times, December 18, 1980, page 14.
page 284 “From early manhood…”: Halberstam, The Powers That Be, page 421.
page 284 “‘I don’t think I am a very easy…’”: Paley, As It Happened: A Memoir, page 2.
page 284 “Once, recalled Christopher Isherwood…”: Christopher Isherwood to GC, November 21, 1975.
page 287 “‘Babe made a mistake…’”: Interview with a friend of the Paleys.
page 288 “‘Greedy for happiness, I asked nothing…’”: Proust, Remembrance of Things Past, Volume I, Swann’s Way, page 140.
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page 289 “‘How many of you would be…’”: Irving Drutman to GC, February 8, 1978.
page 289 “‘Dear Mr. Jack,’ he said…”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, June, 1955.
page 289 “‘Now, true to my word…’”: TC to Robert Linscott, July 10, 1955.
page 290 “All bundled up, ‘he looked…’”: Marilyn Putnam to GC, January 8, 1986.
page 290 “Writing later, he said that he imagined…”: TC, The Dogs Bark, preface, page xvii.
page 291 “When she had read Other Voices…”: Nancy Ryan Brien to GC, September 8, 1977.
page 292 “‘I think it only fair to point out…’”: Kenneth Tynan, “Elfin Eavesdropper,” The Observer (London), June 23, 1957.
page 292 “‘Laugh, you dreary people…’”: Leonard Lyons, “The Lyons Den,” New York Post, July 16, 1966
page 292 “One day Breen was talking…”: Wilva Breen to GC, January 3, 1986.
page 292 “That night Nancy found them sprawled…”: Nancy Ryan Brien to GC, September 8, 1977.
page 293 “Describing Boris to Newton…”: TC to Newton Arvin, August 14, 1958.
page 293 “In Moscow he addressed the Soviet…”: Bernard D. Nossiter, “Author Capote Finds Russia…, “New York Herald Tribune, February 26, 1956.
page 294 “Looking back, he said, ‘The Muses Are Heard…’”: TC, The Dogs Bark.
page 294 “In one case, he even invented…”: Nancy Ryan Brien to GC, September 8, 1977.
page 294 “Lyons, who felt most wounded…”: Leonard Lyons, op. cit.
page 295 “‘wicked, witty and utterly devastating’”: “Sterling North Reviews—Truman Capote in Darkest Russia,” New York World-Telegram and The Sun, November 9, 1956.
page 295 “‘He was very keen on keeping his line…’”: Guggenheim, Out of This Century, page 348.
page 295 “‘You would adore it…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, June 21, 1956.
page 296 “‘In some part of his nature he was…’”: Oliver Smith to GC, December 18, 1985.
page 297 “‘We’re very excited,’ he wrote Mary Louise…”: Jack Dunphy to Mary Louise Aswell, May 28, 1956.
page 297 “‘Home! And happy to be…’”: TC, The Dogs Bark, page 149.
page 297 “‘I love Brooklyn Heights,’ he told…”: Wriston Locklair, “Writer Truman Capote Likes, Adds to Heights ‘Local Color,’” Brooklyn Heights Press, October 17, 1957, page 1.
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page 298 “Shortly after New Year’s, 1957, Warner Brothers…”: The background on the filming of Sayonara and the various disputes between Truman and the moviemakers I found in Joshua Logan’s Movie Stars, Real People, and Me, pages 93–121; Truman’s diaries of his Asia journey, which are in the Library of Congress; and Cecil Beaton’s unpublished diaries.
page 299 “‘It treated human beings like bugs…’”: Logan, Movie Stars, Real People, and Me, page 101.
page 299 “‘His assurance is deep-seated…’”: Cecil Beaton’s diaries, undated, January, 1957.
page 301 “‘Bless Jesus I don’t live there…’”: TC’s diaries, January 20, 1957.
page 301 “‘A delightful city of wide avenues…’”: TC’s diaries, January 21–28, 1957.
page 301 “‘Am intrigued,’ he wrote…”: Ibid.
page 301 “‘Don’t let yourself be left alone with Truman…’”: Logan, Movie Stars, Real People, and Me, page 106.
page 302 “‘What an experience,’ Truman wrote…”: TC’s diaries, undated, early February, 1957.
page 302 “In his journal, Truman added his own poignant…”: Ibid.
page 302 “‘Oh, you were so wrong…’”: Logan, Movie Stars, Real People, and Me.
page 303 “‘Here, of course, is the inevitable communication…’”: Marlon Brando to TC, May 16, 1957.
page 303 “Walter Winchell said it was…”: “Walter Winchell of New York,” New York Daily Mirror, November 24, 1957.
page 303 “‘I’ll kill him!’”: Logan, Movie Stars, Real People, and Me, page 120.
page 303 “‘Thank you for writing this piece…’”: William Shawn to TC, October 31, 1957.
page 304 “‘Went to a small boite to see…’”: TC’s diaries, February 12–15, 1957.
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page 306 “‘I am really three thousand years…’”: Curtis Cate, “Isak Dinesen,” The Atlantic, December, 1959, page 152.
page 307 “‘Time has reduced her to…’”: TC with Avedon, Observations, page 142.
page 307 “‘He’s a nice chap and…’”: Vickers, Cecil Beaton, page 456.
page 307 “‘I read several versions…’”: Phyllis Cerf Wagner to GC, January 17, 1978.
page 308 “‘I used to get these lists…’”: Alice Morris to GC, January 3, 1976.
page 308 “‘“I’m not going to change…”’”: Ibid.
page 308 “‘I’m not angry, I’m outraged…’”: “Newsmakers,” Newsweek, June 2, 1958, page 44.
page 308 “Truman’s friend Irving Drutman…”: Irving Drutman to GC, February 8, 1978.
page 309 “‘Have written you from many places…’”: TC to Newton Arvin, undated, summer, 1958.
page 309 “To Cecil he added…”: TC to Cecil Beaton, June 18, 1958.
page 309 “‘A large novel, my magnum opus’”: TC to Bennett Cerf, September 29, 1958.
page 310 “Many aphorisms have been falsely attributed…”: For guidance on the works of Saint Teresa of Avila, I am indebted to a noted Saint Teresa scholar and translator of her works, Father Kieran Kavanaugh, O.C.D., of the Discalced Carmelite Monastery in Brookline, Massachusetts.
page 310 “A former showgirl and the daughter of…”: Life provided a long account of the Woodward killing in its issue of November 14, 1955, beginning page 35. In addition I consulted numerous newspaper stories from the time.
page 310 “‘I said I was happy…’”: TC to Newton Arvin, July 16, 1958.
page 311 “‘Have learned only five Greek words…’”: TC to Donald Windham, August 18, 1958.
page 311 “‘When I reached it,’ Jack told…”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, undated, September, 1958.
page 311 “‘The whole notion opens vistas…’”: TC to Newton Arvin, July 16, 1958.
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