fred A. Knopf, 1917), 134; TDCR, 442–43; Dictionary of American Biography, ed.
Dumas Malone (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935), 9: 91–92; and “Amer-
ican Tragedies,” 15–16.
40. TDCR, 469–71.
41. TDCR, 480–86.
42. TDCR, 473, 456, 495, 455, 475; and Dreiser’s lifetime sales records (Penn).
43. DML, 2: 546, 554, 796–800; and ML, 117.
44. ML, 119; and L, 2: 439.
45. Horace Liveright to TD, March 11, 1926 (Penn).
46. Walter Wanger to W. A. Swanberg, January 14, 1963; quoted in W. A.
Swanberg, Dreiser (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1965), 307.
47. Horace Liveright to TD, March 8, 1926 (Penn); TD to Elmer Davis, Jan-
uary 15, 1926 (Library of Congress); and Reynolds, “Genesis and Compositional
History,” 245–49.
48. Jesse L. Lasky, I Blow My Own Horn (New York: Doubleday & Co., 1957),
222.
49. L, 2: 443.
50. L, 2: 443–46; Horace Liveright to TD, March 26, 1926 (Penn); and ML,
121–24. For a slightly diªerent account of the coªee incident, see Bennett Cerf,
At Random: The Reminiscences of Bennett Cerf (New York: Random House, 1977),
58–59.
51. John Hansen to Louise Campbell, October 27, 1926; Sara Osborne White
Dreiser ( Jug ) to TD, March 31, 1926; Horace Liveright to TD, April 2, 1916;
TD to Jug, April, 1926; and Jug to TD, April 7, 1926 (Penn).
52. Jug to TD, April 19, 1926 (Penn).
53. TD to Dudley Field Malone, [May 1926]; and Agreement of Support,
June 21, 1926 (Penn).
f o u r t e e n . c e l e b r i t y
1. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: Second Series (1844; repr. Boston: Houghton
Mi›in, 1891), 53–54; Hey, 117; and Moods: Cadenced and Declaimed (New York:
Boni & Liveright, 1926), 290.
2. Roger Asselineau, The Transcendentalist Constant in American Literature
(New York: New York University Press, 1980), 99; John J. McAleer, “Dreiser’s
Poetry,” DN 2 (Spring 1971): 20; Richard W. Dowell, “The Poetry of Theodore
n o t e s t o p a g e s 3 1 6 – 3 2 6
4 4 9
Dreiser,” Contemporary Education 56 (Fall 1984): 55–59; and H. L. Mencken, A Book of Prefaces (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1917), 146. See chapter 9.
3. Moods, 177, 169, 182.
4. TDCR, 525–26; and see Edgar Lee Masters, Whitman (New York: Charles
Scribner’s Sons, 1937).
5. ML, 127–35.
6. It is asserted in Richard Lingeman, Theodore Dreiser (New York: G. P. Put-
nam’s Sons, 1990), 2: 178, that Dreiser visited Mayen a second time in his life,
but see Renate von Bardeleben, “Personal, Ethnic, and National Identity:
Theodore Dreiser’s Di‹cult Heritage,” in Interdisziplinarität Deutsche Sprache
und Spannungsfeld der Kulteren, ed. Martin Forster and Klaus von Schilling
(Frankfurt and New York: Peter Lang, 1991), 335.
7. ML, 136–38; and New York Herald Tribune, October 23, 1926.
8. Donald Pizer, Richard W. Dowell, and Frederic E. Rusch, eds., Theodore
Dreiser: A Primary Bibliography and Reference Guide (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1991),
12. “The Beautiful” appeared in “Recent Poems of Love and Sorrow,” Vanity Fair
27 (September 1926): 54.
9. New York Herald (Paris Edition), undated, quoted in W. A. Swanberg,
Dreiser (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1965), 314.
10. Donald Friede, The Mechanical Angel (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948),
42–43.
11. ML, 139–42, 159, 184; Claude Bowers, My Life (New York: Simon and
Schuster, 1962), 163; and Roark Mulligan, “Dreiser’s Private Library,” DS 33 (Fall
2002): 40–67.
12. Maggie and Mark Walker to Jerome Loving, June 19, 2001; O‹ce of War
Information (OWI) Radio Broadcast, July 1944 (Texas); and T. R. Smith to TD,
February 15, 1927 (Penn). In 1905, Henry had also published Lodgings in Town
(New York: A. S. Barnes), an impressionistic study of his experiences in Man-
hattan at the turn of the century.
13. When Hamlin Garland first met Dreiser at a lunch on February 7, 1904,
he spoke of Dreiser’s afterward returning “to his work as [boss] of a gang of ex-
cavators” ( Hamlin Garland’s Diaries, ed. Donald Pizer [San Marino: Hunting-
ton Library, 1968], 123).
14. DML, 1: 231.
15. Published as “The Mercy of God,” without the quotation marks around
“Mercy,” American Mercury 2 (August 1924): 457–64. For the citations for the
original publications of the stories in Chains (excluding “Khat” and “The Prince
Who Was a Thief,” which had not been previously published), see Joseph Gri‹n,
The Small Canvas: An Introduction to Dreiser’s Short Stories (Rutherford, N.J.:
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1985).
16. Chains: Lesser Novels and Stories (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927), 374,
383, 390–91; and Moods, 177.
n o t e s t o p a g e s 3 2 7 – 3 3 4
4 5 0
17. For example: “If ye’d ever make a study ave the passion ave love in the
sense that Freud an’ some others have ye’d understand it well enough. It’s a great
force about which we know naathing as yet” (see CP, 330).
18. Robert Edwin Wilkinson, “A Study of Theodore Dreiser’s The Financier”
(Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1965), 40–113. See also James Hutchin-
son, “The Creation (and Reduction) of The Financier, ” Papers on Language and
Literature 27 (Spring 1991): 243–59; his “The Revision of Theodore Dreiser’s The
Financier, ” Journal of Modern Literature 20 ( Winter 1996): 199–213; and Kevin
W. Jett, “Vision and Revision: Another Look at the 1912 and 1927 Editions of
Dreiser’s The Financier, ” DS 29 (Spring and Fall 1998), 51–73.
19. In addition to the review in the Cincinnati Enquirer, other reviews of the
revision of The Financier are to be found in the New York World of April 18, the
Washington Evening Star of July 14, and the Asheville Times of August 7, 1927.
For royalty figures, see Dreiser’s summary records for June 30, 1933 (by which
time the novel had sold 8,528 copies) at Penn.
20. Arthur Garfield Hays, City Lawyer (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942),
315; and “Publisher Loses Boston Test Case,” New York Times, April 23, 1927.
Hays served as Friede’s primary counsel.
21. Friede, Mechanical Angel, 135, 90; and “‘Vanity, Vanity,’ Saith the Preacher,”
TM.
22. Clara Clark Jaeger to Jerome Loving, February 8, 2001; and Marguerite
Tjader [Harris], Love That Will Not Let Me Go: My Time with Theodore Dreiser,
ed. Lawrence E. Hussman (New York: Peter Lang, 1998), 86n.
23. Louise Campbell to Dawes Hotel, October 27, 1926; John Hanson to
Arthur Pell, July 20 and September 28, 1927; G. R. Bartels to TD, February 12
and March 26, 1929; TD to William A. Adams, June 19, 1929; and TD to John
Hanson, February 11, 1930 (Penn).
24. DRD, 156, 158.
25. John P. Diggins, The American Left in the Twentieth Century (New York:
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973), 94–106; see also Daniel Aaron, Writers on the
Left (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961).
26. Quoted in Paul Hollander, Political Pilgrims (New York: Oxford Uni-
versity Press, 1981), 122.
27. DRD, 27–30; and Dreiser Looks at Russia (New York: Horace Liveright,
1928), 9.
28. DRD, 31–34.
29. TD to Helen Richardson, October 20, 1927 (Penn).
30. DRD, 40–42.
31. DRD, 43, 49–50; and Vincent Sheean, Dorothy and Red (Boston: Hough-
ton Mi›in Company, 1963), 79.
32. DRD, 56; and Sheean, Dorothy and Red, 59.
33. Sheean, Dorothy and Red, 59–60; and DRD, 71–72.
n o t e s t o p a g e s 3 3 4 – 3 4 0
4 5 1
34. DRD, 65; Ruth Epperson Kennell, Theodore Dreiser and the Soviet Union, 1927–1945 (New York: International Publishers, 1969), 94, 216; and GW, 1: 316,
349.
35. Kennell, Dreiser and the Soviet Union, 22–23.
36. DRD, 82; and James L. W. West III, “Dreiser and The Road to Buenos
Ayres, ” DS 25 (Fall 1994): 3–22.
37. DRD, 88; and Dreiser Looks at Russia, 123, 16.
38. DRD, 90–91.
39. DRD, 98–101, 194.
40. Kennell, Dreiser and the Soviet Union, 69.
41. DRD, 143–46; and Horace Liveright to TD, August 24, 1927 (Penn):
“Patrick Kearney tells me that he had dinner with you a few nights ago and that
you believe Sacco & Vanzetti to be guilty.”
42. ML, 133.
43. DRD, 269, 275–76, 281.
44. “Dreiser Looks at Russia,” New York World, March 19–28, 1928; Ruth Ken-
nell to TD, February 8, 1928; Chicago Daily News, February 6, 1928, reprinted
in both Kennell, Dreiser and the Soviet Union and DRD. For Churchill, see Robert
van Gelder, “An Interview with Theodore Dreiser,” New York Times Book Re-
view, March 16, 1941.
45. W. E. Woodward, The Gift of Life (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1947),
315–16.
46. L, 2: 468–71; and Foreword to TD, Notes on Life, ed. Marguerite Tjader
and John J. McAleer (University: University of Alabama, 1974), vii.
47. MS. drafts on “A Secretary of Arts” and the “Russian Ballet Project”
(Texas); and Otto H. Kahn to TD, February 25, 1929 (Virginia). See also Hy
Kraft, On My Way to the Theater (New York: Macmillan, 1971), 70–73.