Journal 6 (Fall 1971): 7–13.
6. TD, “Birth and Growth of a Popular Song,” Metropolitan 8 (November 1898):
497–502 (reprinted in SMA, 2: 19–22); HH, 350; and TM, 100–101. Dreiser also stated through his secretary (Esther Van Dresser to Ellis D. Robb, May 15, 1929)
that he was “responsible for the skeleton of the first verse and the chorus, while
the credit for the music, the finished first verse and the second belongs to Paul
Dresser” (Virginia). The claim was also made by Mencken in his seminal essay
on Dreiser in A Book of Prefaces (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1917), 106. See also
Carol S. Loranger and Dennis Loranger, “Collaborating on ‘The Banks of the
Wabash’: A Brief History of an Interdisciplinary Debate,” DS 30 (Spring 1999): 3–20.
7. TD to Lorna D. Smith, April 3, 1939 (Penn).
8. L, 1: 212; and Maude Wood Henry to Robert H. Elias, May 2, 1945
(Cornell).
9. Robert H. Elias, Theodore Dreiser: Apostle of Nature (Ithaca: Cornell Uni-
versity Press, 1970; orig. pub. 1948), 95.
10. “Rona Murtha,” in GW, 2: 567; and Arthur Henry, Lodgings in Town (New
York: A. S. Barnes, 1905), 83.
11. Theodore Dresser, “New York’s Art Colony,” Metropolitan 6 (November
1897): 321–26; reprinted in TDU, 183–87.
12. “On the Field of Brandywine,” Truth 16 (November 1897): 7–10; reprinted
in TDU, 188–91.
n o t e s t o p a g e s 1 1 2 – 1 2 0
4 2 2
13. “The Haunts of Bayard Taylor,” Munsey’s 18 ( January 1898): 594–601, reprinted in SMA, 1: 43–49.
14. For “The Homes of Longfellow,” see Judith Kucharski, “Dreiser Looks
at Longfellow,” DS 26 (Fall 1995): 30–47. Dreiser also published an essay enti-
tled “The Home of William Cullen Bryant” in Munsey’s 21 (May 1899): 240–46;
see SMA, 1: 92–99.
15. John F. Huth, Jr., “Theodore Dreiser, Success Monger,” Colophon 3 ( Win-
ter 1938): 120–33; and SMA, 1: 30. There is a series of stock questions for the Suc-
cess interviews at Virginia.
16. “A Photographic Talk with Edison,” Success 1 (February 1898): 8–9,
reprinted in SMA, 1: 111–19; “Life Stories of Successful Men—No. 10,” Success 1
(October 1898): 3–4, reprinted in SMA, 1: 120–29; and TD to Jug, June 22, 1898
(Indiana).
17. TDS, 272–81.
18. TD to Jug, July 27, 1898 (Indiana).
19. See “Life Stories of Successful Men—No. 12 [Marshall Field],” Success 2
(December 8, 1898): 7–8, reprinted in SMA, 1: 130–38; and “The Town of Pull-
man,” Ainslee’s 3 (March 1899): 189–200; reprinted in TDU, 229–39.
20. TD to Jug, [ January 24], February 1, and February 23, 1898 (Indiana).
21. TD to Jug, July 29, February 16, and September 2, 1898 (Indiana). In the
first chapter of Sister Carrie, Dreiser borrowed heavily from Ade’s “The Fable of
the Two Mandolin Players and the Willing Performer”; see SC, 3n; and Jack Salz-
man, “Dreiser and a Note on the Text of Sister Carrie, ” American Literature 40
( January 1969): 544–48.
22. “The Making of Small Arms,” Ainslee’s 1 ( July 1898): 540–49 (reprinted
in TDU, 112–21); “Scenes in a Cartridge Factory,” Cosmopolitan 25 ( July 1898):
321–24 (reprinted in TDU, 122–26); and “Carrier Pigeons in War Time,” De-
morest’s Family Magazine 34 ( July 1898): 222–23 (reprinted in TDU, 273–80).
23. “Night Song,” Ainslee’s 2 (August 1898): 73.
24. “The Return,” Ainslee’s 2 (October 1898): 280; and FF, 147.
25. Grace Gupton Vogt to Robert H. Elias, July 12, 1945 (Cornell); and TD,
“Bondage,” Ainslee’s 3 (April 1899): 293.
26. D, 397; Ellen Moers, Two Dreisers (New York: Viking, 1969), 48; and
FF, 197.
27. “How He Climbed Fame’s Ladder,” Success 1 (April 1898): 5–6, reprinted
in American Literary Realism, 6 (Fall 1973): 339–44 ; and “The Real Howells,”
Ainslee’s 5 (March 1900): 137–42. The latter is reprinted in TDS, 141–46, as well as in American Literary Realism 6 (Fall 1973): 347–51. For the theory that Dreiser
plagiarized his Success interview from My Literary Passions, see Ulrich Halfmann,
“Dreiser and Howells: New Light on Their Relationship,” Amerikastudien 20, 1
(1975): 73–85; and John Crowley, The Dean of American Letters (Amherst: Uni-
n o t e s t o p a g e s 1 2 0 – 1 2 7
4 2 3
versity of Massachusetts Press, 1999), 72–73, 77–79. The rough notes on How-
ells in Dreiser’s hand are at Virginia.
28. “The Real Howells.”
29. “Curious Shifts of the Poor,” Demorest’s Family Magazine 36 (November
1899): 22–26, reprinted in SC, 415–24.
30. According to Richard Lingeman, Theodore Dreiser (New York: G. P. Put-
nam’s Sons, 1986), 1: 213–14, 439, “A Cincinnati house had oªered him an ad-
vance of $500 [for such a book], but the firm went bankrupt” (214).
31. “Edmund Clarence Stedman at Home,” Munsey’s 20 (March 1899):
931–38; and Edward Mercur Williams, “Edmund Clarence Stedman at Home,”
New England Quarterly 25 ( June 1952): 242–48.
32. In a letter to H. L. Mencken of May 13, 1916 ( DML, 1: 231–34), Dreiser re-
called only five stories: “The Shining Slave Makers,” “Butcher Rogaum’s Door,”
“When the Old Century Was New,” “Nigger Jeª,” and “The World and the Bub-
ble,” which was rejected by Ainslee’s ( Ainslee’s to TD, January 9, 1905 [Penn]) but has otherwise never been fully identified. However, a letter from Arthur Henry to
Dreiser dated in the summer, possibly August, of 1900, mentions “A Mayor and
His People,” generally thought to have been written shortly after Sister Carrie, along
with “Nigger Jeª ” as placeable in either Ainslee’s or Frank Leslie’s (typescript in Box 72 of the Elias collection at Cornell). It is possible, of course, that Dreiser
wrote “A Mayor and His People” even before he went to Maumee. It was first pub-
lished in the Era 11 ( June 1903): 578–84 and later in an expanded edition in TM.
33. Maude Wood Henry to Robert H. Elias, March 12 and May 13, 1945
(Cornell).
34. Arthur Henry and Maude Wood Henry, The Flight of a Pigeon and Other
Stories (Toledo: W. J. Squire, Publisher, 1894); Maude Wood Henry to Robert H.
Elias, July 25, 1945 (Cornell); and DML, 1: 232.
35. TM, 364; see also n. 32, above.
36. See, for example, Donald Pizer, “A Summer at Maumee: Theodore
Dreiser Writes Four Stories,” in Essays Mostly on Periodical Publishing in Amer-
ica, ed. James Woodress (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1973), 193–204.
37. TM, 340–41.
38. D, 325.
39. DML, 1: 232; and Henry M. Alden to TD, October 9, 1899 (Penn); cited
in Don B. Graham, “Dreiser’s Ant Tragedy: The Revision of ‘The Shining Slave
Makers,’” Studies in Short Fiction 14 ( Winter 1977): 41–48.
40. “Electricity in the Household,” Demorest’s 35 ( January 1899): 38–39
(reprinted in SMA, 2: 137–42); “Japanese Home Life,” Demorest’s 35 (April 1899):
123–25 (reprinted in TDU, 281–90); and L, 1: 45–47. For other possible sources
for “The Shining Slave Makers,” including Thoreau’s passage on the ants in
Walden, see Joseph Gri‹n, The Small Canvas: An Introduction to Dreiser’s Short
Stories (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985), 29.
n o t e s t o p a g e s 1 2 8 – 1 3 3
4 2 4
41. Free, 71.
42. Gri‹n, Small Canvas, 26; and Donald Pizer, The Novels of Theodore
Dreiser: A Critical Study (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1976), 17.
43. Gri‹n, Small Canvas, 37.
44. “Butcher Rogaum’s Door,” Reedy’s Mirror 11 (December 12, 1901): 17.
45. See chapter 15; and W. A. Swanberg, Dreiser (New York: Charles Scrib-
ner’s Sons, 1965), 527.
46. “Nigger Jeª,” Ainslee’s 8 (November 1901): 366–75. The manuscript of
“A Victim of Justice” is at Virginia.
47. T. D. Nostwich, “The Source of Dreiser’s ‘Nigger Jeª,’” Resources for Amer-
ican Literary Study 8 (Autumn 1978): 174–87, where the two Republic articles are
reprinted; both are also in TDJ, 249–58.
48. TDJ, 257; and “Nigger Jeª,” 372–73.
49. See Maude Henry Wood to Robert H. Elias, May 2, 1945.
50. TD to Jug, May 20, 1898 (Indiana); “Haunts of Nathaniel Hawthorne,”
Truth 17 (September 21, 1898) 7–9, (September 28, 1898): 11–13; reprinted in SMA,
1: 57–66.
51. DML, 1: 232.
s e v e n . s i s t e r c a r r i e
1. Allen F. Stein, “Sister Carrie: A Possible Source for the Title,” American Lit-
erary Realism 7 (Spring 1974): 173–74.
2. Arthur Henry, A Princess of Arcady (New York: Doubleday, Page, & Co.,
1900), 17.
3. Henry, Princess of Arcady, 170, 307.
4. SC, 1; see SCP for the uncut original version of Sister Carrie.
5. FF, 162, where Dreiser is paraphrased to say that he finished the book in
May, but the completion date was definitely earlier, possibly as early as March.
In an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 27, 1902, Dreiser gives
March, but in “The Early Adventures of Sister Carrie, ” ( Colophon, Part Five
[March 1931, unpaginated, 4 pp.]) which is included as a preface to the first Mod-