Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Two brief typed letters signed ("Scott," one in ink, the other in red pencil), together 2 pages, each 11 x 8 1/2 in; 280 x 215 mm), Baltimore, 26 March 1934 and 10 July 1936, to Gilbert Seldes in New York and in New Jersey; the first double-spaced, the second single-spaced, some minor wrinkling on the second.

Mary Jo Tate, F. Scott Fitzgerald A to Z, p. 225 (the entry on Seldes).

Two brief typed letters signed ("Scott," one in ink, the other in red pencil), together 2 pages, each 11 x 8 1/2 in; 280 x 215 mm), Baltimore, 26 March 1934 and 10 July 1936, to Gilbert Seldes in New York and in New Jersey; the first double-spaced, the second single-spaced, some minor wrinkling on the second.
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26 March 1934:  "In case [Cary] Ross didn't send you an announcement Zelda's paintings will be exhibited at 525 East 86^th Street from Thursday on. Hope you and Amanda will have a chance to look at them."  Zelda's paintings were on view at the Ross gallery and at the Hotel Algonquin from 29 March through 30 April.  10 July 1936:  "That was damn nice of you to write me that letter and under other circumstances I would have voluminously answered, but this is moving day and it will have to be postponed. I must say that I appreciate your interest tremendously and that I shall weigh what you have said." Fitzgerald was returning to the Grove Park Inn in Ashville to be near Zelda, who was transferred to the Highland Hospital in Ashville in April.  Seldes had written Fitzgerald on 26 June (see Letters, ed. M. J. Bruccoli, p. 436) advising against Scott's plan to do a book of his "The Crack-Up" essays and other autobiographical pieces. Neither Fitzgerald letter is in the Bruccoli nor Turnbull edition of his correspondence and they appear to be unpublished.

With: Fitzgerald, Zelda. Autograph letter signed ("Zelda Fitzgerald"), 2 pages (11 x 8 1/2 in; 280 x 215 mm), Montgomery, Alabama, 4 January 1944; in ink on two sheets of beige paper, a blank corner chipped, two small stains: "Trusting that these years of dramatic intensities and so-compelling exigencies have not obliterated your contact with the theatre, may I ask your interest on behalf of Miss Eleanor Turnbull, a childhood protégé of Scott's? He found her so particularly endowed with emotional power and with spontaneity and theatrical appreciation that he advised her to study for the stage ... I hope you will be able to give her some friendly advice...Anyway, will you talk to her about Broadway professionally ..." —  Mimeographed religious statement signed (a large "Zelda Fitzgerald" in ink), 1 p. (11 x 8 1/2 in; 280 x 215 mm), beige paper, minor wrinkling. "The world angered God with vanities and its indulgencies and the world existed in time-steeped, blood-saturate, glory-worn abeyance of His Grace. Though the late sun bled with tragedy and roads were drenched with heartbreak and worlds were lost in the dust of story, God sent the Spirit of Truth ..."