Lawyer and art collector John Quinn, recently turned 54, has to admit to himself that he is not well.
For the past few months he has been having terrible intestinal pains, and his doctors keep telling him that they haven’t found anything wrong.
Central Park West
All this year he’s only been able to leave his apartment here on Central Park West to go into his office down on Nassau Street for a few hours each day. Even when Welshman Augustus John, 46, whose paintings he has collected for years, was in town, Quinn was not able to see him.
John Quinn by Augustus John
He’s been selling off his collection of books and manuscripts—at a loss.
Quinn has given up his wine during dinner and his cigar after. He has switched from coffee to just milk. Nothing helps alleviate the pain.
An old friend has written to say that he is coming to New York City and would love them to go on an eight-mile hike, the way they used to. They would each bring two sandwiches—one rare roast beef and one hashed chicken—and coffee to make in a bucket over an open fire.
Today, Quinn writes back, hopeful that they will be able to hike together again. However, he adds,
I haven’t been up to the mark lately but I will tell you about it when I see you.”
Mark your calendar! The Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books returns to the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in Highland Park on Saturday, May 11. Stop by the “Such Friends” booth in Writers’ Row.
This summer I will be talking about the literary 1920s in Paris and New York at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University.
Manager as Muse, about Scribner’s editor Maxwell Perkins’ relationships with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, is also available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk in both print and e-book versions.
English author Ford Madox Ford, 50, is pleased with Volume I, Issue 4, of his magazine, the transatlantic review.
Ford was able to start publishing in January with funding he secured last fall when American lawyer John Quinn, 54, was visiting and they got together with American ex-patriate poet, Ezra Pound, 38.
James Joyce, Ezra Pound, John Quinn and Ford Madox Ford in October of last year
Quinn had sent $500 and promised he would chip in another $500 if necessary, as well as approach some of his wealthy New York friends for additional help.
Pound has also been instrumental in recommending up and coming writers for the literary magazine. The first issue had some of his own work, and a short story by another American ex-pat small publisher Robert McAlmon, 29.
The second issue was so good it was banned by the American Women’s Club of Paris!
Pound also secured a piece from the Irish ex-pat James Joyce, 42, whose novel Ulysses caused such a stir when it was published here two years ago. His “Work in Progress” was supposed to appear in the transatlantic review in January, but the proofs he received were in such bad shape he asked for more time to go over them.
the transatlantic review, April
Actually Joyce has confided to his drinking buddy, McAlmon, that he thinks the magazine is “very shabby.”
A few months ago, Pound introduced Ford to yet another American trying to make a living as a writer, former Toronto Star foreign correspondent Ernest Hemingway, 24, who moved back to Paris from Toronto with his wife and new baby at the beginning of the year.
Ford has hired Ernie to be the magazine’s commissioning editor. Well, “hired” is a bit much. He can’t actually pay him anything. Ford is thinking he may have to make a trip to New York City to beg for more money in person from Quinn, whom he’s heard is quite ill.
Ernie finally convinced Ford to include work in this issue by one of Hemingway’s recent American mentors, Gertrude Stein, 50. He told Stein to give him her epic novel, The Making of Americans, for Ford to serialize. The only copy she had was one that she and her partner, Alice B. Toklas, about to turn 47, had had bound and she didn’t want to let it out of her sight. So Ernie and Alice copied out the first 50 pages in time for the first instalment to appear in this issue. Gertrude and Alice are so excited that this huge work is finally appearing in print somewhere.
Ernest has advised Gertrude in her dealings with Ford:
Be haughty but not too haughty. I made it clear it was a remarkable scoop [getting Making]…obtained only through my obtaining genius. [Ford] is under the impression that you get big prices when you consent to publish…Treat him high, wide and handsome…They are going to have Joyce in the same number.”
Hemingway has one of his own stories in this issue too, “Indian Camp.”
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That story is also included in in our time, one of the first volumes published by Three Mountains Press, founded by American journalist Bill Bird, 36, who owns this office space. Ford leases his small share for the magazine from Bird.
Six vignettes and 12 stories by Hemingway appear in in our time—Bird wants to signal how modern it is by not capitalizing the title. Last year Hemingway’sThree Stories & Ten Poems, was published by McAlmon’s Contact Press, and Pound had managed to get six of the stories published in The Little Review’s special “Exiles” issue in the U. S. last October.
in our time by Ernest Hemingway
Bird designed the dust jacket for in our time himself, to make the whole volume seem newsworthy. He also printed it on a handpress with high quality handmade paper. 18 vignettes (six are about bullfighting, Ernie’s latest interest) spread over 31 pages left lots of white space in the layout to make the simple declarative sentences stand out even more.
Ernest Hemingway
The woodcut of the author bled through the paper, so, instead of the 300 copies they printed, they’ve ended up with about 170 good ones to sell. Ernie’s parents back in Oak Park, Illinois, have bought 10.
Ford has been kind enough to give Hemingway’s book an early review in the Paris Herald, praising his “minute but hugely suggestive pictures.”
Hemingway’s work is getting to be known among the literary crowd; he knows he won’t get any payment for any of these publications. He and his wife Hadley, 32, have been living off her trust fund. Although, because it has not been invested well, the fund is starting to decrease, and Ernie has taken some work doing gardening for Parisians.
But Ernie’s not worried. Eventually, there will be money.
Mark your calendar! The Greater Pittsburgh Festival of Books returns to the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in Highland Park on Saturday, May 11. Stop by the “Such Friends” booth in Writers’ Row.
This summer I will be talking about the literary 1920s in Paris and New York at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University.
Manager as Muse, about Scribner’s editor Maxwell Perkins’ relationships with Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, is also available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk in both print and e-book versions.
Last night, corporate lawyer and modern art collector John Quinn, 53, gave a dinner party here at his luxurious apartment.
The guest of honor was his latest acquisition, The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau.
The Sleeping Gypsy by Henri Rousseau
After coffee, Quinn unveiled the painting in the drawing room, and led an appreciative champagne toast with his appreciative guests: His really good friend, Mrs. Jeanne Foster, just turned 45; two of his fellow organizers of the 1913 Armory Show, painter Arthur B. Davies, 61, and publicist Frederick James Gregg, 56; and Hungarian art dealer Joseph Brummer, 40, who had had his portrait painted by Rousseau back in 1909.
Portrait of Joseph Brummer by Henri Rousseau
All agreed with Quinn that this is one of the finest examples of modern art in the world.
At first reluctant to continue his investment in art until his health gets better, Quinn was finally persuaded by his Paris buyer, Henri-Pierre Roche, 44, to acquire the painting for 175,000Fr. From the moment Roche saw the Rousseau in an art gallery’s basement six weeks ago, he has been bombarding Quinn with cables, photos, and declarations of its beauty by Paris’ leading artists.
Once the painting arrived, Quinn saw that Roche had not exaggerated.
After the dinner party, Quinn cabled him:
Wondrous color and composition. Beautiful, moving, stupendous…Davies and others think wonderful. Most grateful your efforts. Best wishes. Writing.”
Today, Quinn is writing.
He tells Roche about the party and the guests, and describes the painting in its new home:
My rooms face the east. The painting rests on a table between two windows, with its back to the east, and as the sun comes in…it…fills the picture with light until it looks wonderful…It is, as you say, the ‘gem’ of my collection.”
This summer I will be talking about the literary 1920s in Paris and New York at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University.
Manager as Muse, about Scribner’s editor Maxwell Perkins’ relationships with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, is also available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk in both print and e-book versions.
Corporate lawyer John Quinn, 53, is in the process of selling off his massive collection of books and manuscripts. The star of the series of auctions is the original manuscript of the controversial novel Ulysses. He describes it in the catalogue as, “THE COMPLETE MANUSCRIPT of this remarkable work, one of the most extraordinary produced in modern times and hailed by critics as epoch-making in modern literature….on over 1,200 pages,” in four blue Morocco slip cases.
A portion of the Ulysses manuscript
A few weeks ago, Quinn wrote to the author of the novel, James Joyce, just turning 42, living in Paris, reminiscing about his early years as a teen-age book collector:
This collection of books goes back to 1887, when I bought $237 worth of books with money that my Mother gave me, among them Walter Pater’s first edition and a first edition of Hardy. She came into the room while I was on my hands and knees gloating over the treasures, and I can see her smile yet as she said, ‘Well, how long will they last you?’”
They’ve lasted him 36 years. And now Quinn is selling them all off. For disappointing prices. One manuscript by Victorian novelist and poet George Meredith didn’t even make the minimum Quinn had set. He has told Joyce that he will split the profit—a little more than $400—with him on the sale of the Ulysses manuscript. But the buyer, A. S. W. Rosenbach, 47, of Philadelphia, has asked to delay payment for six-months.
Quinn tells Joyce that, even though he made money on some sales but lost on others,
I am damned glad to get rid of the mountain of books that covered my apartment on the walls and shelves and in the halls and closets, till they were like an incubus.”
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In Paris, Joyce is livid.
Victoria Palace Hotel
When he writes to Quinn he emphasizes that his gripe is with the low dollar amount ascribed to his handwritten work. He asks Quinn to,
Please cancel the amount you kindly promised me out of the proceeds of the sale. You have had outlay enough already on account of me—cables, correspondence, defence of The Little Review [magazine], binding, etc.”
However, that same day Joyce writes to other friends about how angry he is with Quinn. Not only for letting the Ulysses manuscript go for just under $2,000, but for selling those worthless sheets by Meredith for almost the same amount. To one he writes,
I consider such a sale now and by a wealthy man (who had made me part owner of the MS before the sale) a grossly stupid act which is an alienation of valuable property. It is a pity that I was obliged to write such a letter [to Quinn] but what is one to do when a MS of 500,000 words is sold by an admirer who on the same day buys back a few pages of not very meritorious verse by a prose writer [Meredith] for almost the same sum?”
Originally, Joyce had planned to tell Quinn not to auction it at all. But, legally, the document is owned by Quinn, so that would go nowhere.
Joyce now feels that he must get his manuscript back from the buyer. He asks Quinn,
Can you find out, directly or indirectly, for what figure Mr. (or Dr.) Rosenbach will relinquish his grip on his (or my) MS?…[As Rosenbach had asked for six months] to fumble in other people’s trousers to find the money.”
Joyce wants his manuscript back. Even if he has to buy it himself.
Later this month I will be talking about early 20th century supporters of the arts such as John Quinn at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University.
Manager as Muse, about Scribner’s editor Maxwell Perkins’ relationships with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, is also available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk in both print and e-book versions.
In what is becoming an annual tradition, this English-language bookstore is celebrating the anniversary of its publication of the controversial novel, Ulysses, on this date in 1922.
Shakespeare and Company
This morning, the author, Irish ex-patriate James Joyce, 42 today, sends flowers to the shop and its owner, American ex-pat Sylvia Beach, 36, who took on the role of publisher when no publishing company would touch his novel.
She has filled the shop windows with copies of the latest edition, and this evening there will be a party.
Truth be told, neither Sylvia nor any of Joyce’s benefactors are impressed with his latest work, so far just called “Work in Progress.” Joyce says he’s experimenting, and that he’s finished with the English language.
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About a 20-minute walk north of the shop. British ex-pat Ford Madox Ford, 50, is still settling in to the new offices he is sharing with the Three Mountains Press, a small publishing venture started by American journalist Bill Bird, 35.
Quai d’Anjou, Ile Saint Louis
Ford is bringing out the second issue of his new literary magazine, the transatlantic review, funded by a generous American patron of the arts, New York lawyer John Quinn, 53.
The first issue of the magazine included works by some of the most talked-about American writers on the Left Bank: poems by Ezra Pound, 38, and E. E. Cummings, 29; and a short story by Robert McAlmon, 28, whom Pound had recommended.
Ford Madox Ford
A couple of weeks ago Quinn sent Ford an additional $500, but promised he would only contribute one more instalment if necessary, but then that would be it. Grateful for any help. Ford offered Quinn a life mask of Pound but Quinn cringed at the thought. The only thing worse, he told Ford, would be a death mask.
Ford has just “hired”—for no money—one of the other young Americans making a name for himself around the Left Bank, former Toronto Star foreign correspondent Ernest Hemingway, 24, just arrived back in Paris with his wife and new baby after a four-month stay in Toronto.
The Hemingways are getting ready to move into a second-floor walk-up apartment at 113 rue Notre Dame des Champs, close to where Pound lives, overlooking a sawmill and a lumber yard.
Ernie’s job at the transatlantic review is to scout out new material from the ex-pat authors on the Left Bank. He is trying to convince Ford that he should serialize a work by Gertrude Stein, turning 50 tomorrow, The Making of Americans. Hemingway is quite keen on it; Ford thinks it’s some kind of experimental short story.
Today, the second issue of the transatlantic review has been banned by the American Women’s Club of Paris. Ford is thinking he may need to hit on Quinn for more cash.
Don’t forget! Tomorrow, Saturday, February 3, we will be celebrating the 150th birthday of my fellow Pittsburgher Gertrude Stein, from noon to 4 pm at City Books on the North Side, a five-minute walk from where she was born. Details are here.
Later this month I will be talking about early 20th century supporters of the arts like the Stein family at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University.
Manager as Muse, about Scribner’s editor Maxwell Perkins’ relationships with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, is also available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk in both print and e-book versions.
Making his way down the stairs to the basement of this art gallery, art buyer and dealer Henri-Pierre Roche, 44, has his hopes up.
Rue d’Astorg
He has dealt with the gallery owner, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 39, many times before, buying numerous works of art for Roche’s clients both here in Paris and also in New York City.
Today he is visiting on behalf of one of his best clients, American corporate lawyer John Quinn, 53, who has amassed one of the most substantial collections in America—particularly of French works. One of the painters Roche deals with often, Spaniard Pablo Picasso, 42, has tipped him off that Kahnweiler has a special work by Henri Rousseau in his basement. Roche is thinking that Quinn might be interested.
And then he sees it.
The Sleeping Gypsy.
J’eus le coup de foudre, Roche thinks. Love at first sight. Sweet ghastly splendor. With a dark soul.
Don’t forget! This Saturday, February 3, we will be celebrating the 150th birthday of my fellow Pittsburgher Gertrude Stein, at City Books from noon to 4 pm on the North Side, a five-minute walk from where she was born. Details are here.
Later next month I will be talking about early 20th century supporters of the arts like the Stein family at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University.
Manager as Muse, about Scribner’s editor Maxwell Perkins’ relationships with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, is also available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk in both print and e-book versions.
Novelist Edna Ferber, 38, is walking around the New York City reservoir with her friend, Franklin P. Adams, 42, the dean of Manhattan columnists known to the whole city as “FPA.”
Central Park Reservoir
At the start of this new year, Edna is concerned that she is fresh out of ideas. Her publisher is quite pleased with her latest novel, So Big, due to come out in the spring. They predict it will sell 50,000 copies.
But what if that’s it?! What if she has peaked at only 36?! (Well…)
Adams dismisses her whining. What about his problem? If he runs out of ideas, it is clear to everyone who reads his daily column. If Edna never has another one—or good one—no one else will know.
But Edna will know. And that’s bad enough.
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Mrs. Jeanne Robert Foster, 44, looks forward to these walks with her, er,…really good friend, lawyer and art collector John Quinn, 53.
As long as there is no snow on the ground, each Sunday they drive outside the city—today their choice is John’s country club, Sleepy Hollow, about an hour north of his Central Park West apartment.
Tea at the Sleepy Hollow Country Club
But since this fall, when they returned from their European trip, buying art and meeting with the writers and artists Quinn supports, she’s noticed that John is looking more haggard; he’s cranky and seems weak. He almost crawls to his law office each day, does some work, and then crawls home.
John insists on having Jeanne with him all the time. And their weekly walks are getting shorter. He seems more tired after each one.
But John says the walks are good for him and he needs the exercise.
In addition to taking care of his corporate clients, Quinn is continuing his efforts with Congress to get the sales tax on art imports reduced. He is also awaiting one of his latest purchases, a second portrait of Jeanne by French painter Andre Derain, 43. Quinn did not like the first one Derain painted at all. His buyer in Paris, Henri-Pierre Roche, 44, has cabled that this one is much better and captures her “atmosphere.”
Quinn has started off this new year by re-organizing his law office; getting rid of deadwood and moving some of his loyal employees up to partner. He is sure that, if they would all just do their jobs and let him have a good rest, he would feel much better.
Early this year, I will be talking about early 20th century supporters of the arts like John Quinn at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University.
Manager as Muse, about Scribner’s editor Maxwell Perkins’ relationships with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, is also available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk in both print and e-book versions.
In Ireland, poet, playwright and co-founder of the Abbey Theatre, William Butler Yeats, 58, is still basking in the glow of his recently awarded Nobel Prize for Literature.
Each time he responds to a friend’s congratulatory message, he makes sure to include,
I consider that this honor has come to me less as an individual than as a representative of Irish literature, it is part of Europe’s welcome to the Free State,”
of which he is a Senator.
The night after the prize was announced—when he and his wife Georgie, 31, celebrated by cooking sausages—there was a posh dinner held at the Shelbourne Hotel in St. Stephen’s Green. The first cable of congratulations came from Yeats’ countryman living in Paris, James Joyce, 41.
Shelbourne Hotel
With the 115,000 Swedish Kroner from the prize, equal to more than £6,000, Yeats is able to help out his sister Lily, 57, who had been admitted to a north London nursing home last summer. Willie’s American friend, lawyer and supporter of the arts John Quinn, 53, had advised him to use the money this way. However, Quinn also strongly advised Yeats to move Lily out of unhealthy London, and not to donate the money or use it to pay off any debt:
Properly invested in good American securities [it] would bring you in 8 % income or $3,200 a year. You ought not to touch the principal under any circumstances.”
Yeats appreciates the advice. But after he has Lily taken care of, he is going to pay off his debts. And those of his father, who died early last year.
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In England, the Hogarth Press, operated by Virginia, 41, and Leonard Woolf, 43, has been growing well.
This past year they published 11 titles; five of those were hand-printed on fine paper using their Minerva treadle platen press. That is the largest number they have ever hand-printed in one year, and they will probably not produce that many next year. The Woolfs are primarily interested in publishing books with outstanding content, not works of art that people only look at and admire.
This holiday they are at their country home, Monk’s House in East Sussex. Just about 10 miles away, at Charleston Farmhouse, Virginia’s sister, painter Vanessa Bell, 44, is spending the holiday with her children—Julian, 15, Quentin, 13, and Angelica, just turned five—and, oddly enough, her husband, art critic Clive Bell, 42. The kids have created a special issue of their Charleston Bulletin, featuring, “A life of Vanessa Bell dictated by Virginia Woolf, pictures and spelling by Quentin Bell.”
Charleston Bulletin, Christmas
Angelica’s father, the painter Duncan Grant, 38, is spending the holidays with his parents.
At midnight on New Year’s Eve, the new radio service, the British Broadcasting Corporation, broadcasts the chimes of Big Ben for the first time.
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In France, American ex-pat writer Gertrude Stein, 49, and her partner Alice B. Toklas, 46, are pleased that Gertrude’s work has been published more this past year.
She was included in the “Exiles” issue of the American literary magazine, The Little Review, which finally came out this fall. But Gertrude did notice that first place in that issue was given to the young Ernest Hemingway, 24, whom she considers to be one of her proteges. She even agreed to write a review of his Three Stories & Ten Poems, something she never does.
Three Stories & Ten Poems by Ernest Hemingway
Gertrude and Alice receive letters regularly from Hemingway, who is in Toronto where he and his wife went for the birth of their first child in October.
It is clear that the Hemingways are really hating being away from Paris, and he has written to Stein and Toklas that
It was a bad move to come back.”
Ernie asked for tips on where to live in Paris when they return early in the new year.
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In America, New York World columnist Heywood Broun, 35, and his wife, journalist Ruth Hale, 36, are throwing their annual New Year’s Eve bash at their brownstone on West 85th Street.
They invite all the literary friends they lunch with regularly at the Algonquin Hotel in midtown: free-lance writer Dorothy Parker, 30; magazine illustrator Neysa McMein, 35; novelist Edna Ferber, 38; fellow World columnist Franklin Pierce Adams, (FPA) 42.
Neysa McMein, left, in her studio with a model
Thanks to her association with the “Round Table,” Neysa recently made it into the papers for her Christmas project delivering toys and turkeys to families on the Lower East Side. She convinced her successful friends, including composer and Broadway producer Irving Berlin, 35, and World editor Herbert Bayard Swope, 41, to donate chauffeured limos to the cause.
Ferber sent her most recent novel, originally called Selina, but changed to So Big, off to her publisher with trepidation a few weeks ago. He wrote back immediately that it was so good he had cried while reading it! It’s going to be serialized in the Woman’s Home Companion.
FPA has been confiding in Edna for months that he is thinking of divorcing his wife. In his column he has even admitted that he was “as low-hearted as ever I was in my life.”
Tonight, he seems to Ferber to be downright giddy and boyish, not feeling guilty at all about the affair he’s been having with English socialite Esther Root, 29. Ferber tells FPA that in his tuxedo he looks as though he is a young boy who has just been confirmed.
I am a confirmed admirer of you,”
he tells her.
This year Broun and Hale have put their five-year-old son Heywood Hale Broun—“Woody”—in charge of the punch bowl, filled with Orange Blossoms–equal parts gin and orange juice with powdered sugar thrown in.
Early in the new year I will be talking about the literary summer of 1923 at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Pittsburgh, and early 20th century patrons of the arts in the Osher program at Carnegie-Mellon University.
Manager as Muse, about Scribner’s editor Maxwell Perkins’ relationships with Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, is also available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk in both print and e-book versions.
Frequent readers of this blog will be familiar with one of my favorite early 20th century characters, Irish-American lawyer and supporter of the arts, John Quinn (1870-1924).
For the past few years, Heidelberg University and the Tiffin-Seneca Public Library in Quinn’s hometown of Tiffin, Ohio, have sponsored the John Quinn Lecture Series online.
Next week, I am honored to be the first presenter to give my talk, “Such Friends”: Quinn’s Circle of Artists and Writers, both in-person and online.
John Quinn Lecture Series poster
What? You can’t make it to Tiffin, Ohio?
Good news!
By clicking here, you can register for free to watch my talk on Zoom. You will be sent a link the day before.
Or wait a few weeks and I’ll tell you how to access the video on YouTube.
John Quinn was a tireless supporter of the arts and artists. Come with me next week back to the early days of the last century to spend time with Quinn and his circle of “such friends.”
Manager as Muse, about Scribner’s editor Maxwell Perkins’ relationships with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, is also available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk in both print and e-book versions.
James Joyce, Ezra Pound, John Quinn, Ford Madox Ford
Irish novelist James Joyce, 41, hates these staged photographs. He wonders why the photographer has to take so many of them?
American poet Ezra Pound, about to turn 38, is glad he was able to get all three of these characters together at his studio to make plans for a new magazine.
American art collector and patron of the arts John Quinn, 53, doesn’t mind pitching in $2,000 to get this venture off the ground, but he hasn’t mentioned his stomach cancer to them. He knows he is going to have to tell Joyce that he is selling off his collection of manuscripts. Quinn plans to give Joyce half the price he gets for the Ulysses manuscript.
English editor and writer Ford Madox Ford, 49, is hoping he can get Quinn to cough up a couple of thousand for the transatlantic review. Ford is glad Pound let them meet here at his studio. These four would never fit in Ford’s tiny office.
“Such Friends”: 100 Years Ago… is the basis for the paperback series, “Such Friends”: The Literary 1920s. Volumes I through IV, covering 1920 through 1923 are available at Thoor Ballylee in Co. Galway, at Pan Yan Bookstore in Tiffin, OH, and at Riverstone Books in Squirrel Hill, Pittsburgh, PA, where, as part of their sixth anniversary celebration, I will be signing copies from 4 to 5 p.m. tomorrow, Friday, October 13th. They are also on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk in print and e-book formats. For more information, email me at kaydee@gypsyteacher.com.
Later this fall I will be talking about the women of Bloomsbury and the Left Bank at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University, and about John Quinn at the Tiffin-Seneca Public Library, co-sponsored by the Heidelberg University English Department, in Quinn’s hometown of Tiffin, OH.
Manager as Muse, about Scribner’s editor Maxwell Perkins’ relationships with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, is also available on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk in both print and e-book versions.
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