FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). Autograph letter signed ("F. Scott Fitzgerald"), to James Rennie (1890-1965), Villa St. Louis, Juan-les-Pins, Alpes Maritime, France, [17 July 1926]. one page, 4to, closed tear along center crease, staining along edges and center crease, dated along bottom edge in a different hand .
FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). Autograph letter signed ("F. Scott Fitzgerald"), to James Rennie (1890-1965), Villa St. Louis, Juan-les-Pins, Alpes Maritime, France, [17 July 1926]. one page, 4to, closed tear along center crease, staining along edges and center crease, dated along bottom edge in a different hand . "I SOBERED UP IN PARIS AND SPENT THREE DAYS TRYING TO GET BRIGHAM INTO SHAPE" FITZGERALD GIVES UP ON A PLANNED DRAMATIZATION OF THE LIFE OF BRIGHAM YOUNG that he evidently cooked up in a drunken revel with a Canadian actor. "...I sobered up in Paris and spent three days trying to get Brigham into shape," he writes. "Then down here I worked on it some more and made a tentative working outline. But I don't believe that I could make the grade, and the more I struggle with it the more I'm convinced that I'd simply ruin your idea by making a sort of half-ass compromise between my amateur idea of 'good theatre' and [Morris] Werner's book. I think your instinct has led you to a great idea but that my unsolicited offer was based more on enthusiasm than on common sense. So I bequeath you the notion of the god which I think in other hands could be made quite solid, and rather ungracefully retire hoping that [playwright Marc] Connolly or [producer Edward] Craig will make you the sort of vehicle of it that's in your imagination..." Fitzgerald thanks Rennie and his wife, Dorothy Gish, for visiting his wife after her appendectomy. "It was so nice of you both to come and see Zelda...You're a man after my own heart, and I feel that we have by no means seen the last of each other, even in a theatrical way." The idea was inspired by a 1925 biography of Brigham Young by American author Morris Werner (a 22 March 1973 letter from Werner is included with the lot). Still in the flush of his Gatsby triumph, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald were enjoying the high life and summering on the fashionable Cote d'Azur in the South of France. Published in Bruccoli and Duggan, 197-198.
FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). Autograph letter signed ("F. Scott Fitzgerald"), to James Rennie (1890-1965), Villa St. Louis, Juan-les-Pins, Alpes Maritime, France, [17 July 1926]. one page, 4to, closed tear along center crease, staining along edges and center crease, dated along bottom edge in a different hand .
FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). Autograph letter signed ("F. Scott Fitzgerald"), to James Rennie (1890-1965), Villa St. Louis, Juan-les-Pins, Alpes Maritime, France, [17 July 1926]. one page, 4to, closed tear along center crease, staining along edges and center crease, dated along bottom edge in a different hand . "I SOBERED UP IN PARIS AND SPENT THREE DAYS TRYING TO GET BRIGHAM INTO SHAPE" FITZGERALD GIVES UP ON A PLANNED DRAMATIZATION OF THE LIFE OF BRIGHAM YOUNG that he evidently cooked up in a drunken revel with a Canadian actor. "...I sobered up in Paris and spent three days trying to get Brigham into shape," he writes. "Then down here I worked on it some more and made a tentative working outline. But I don't believe that I could make the grade, and the more I struggle with it the more I'm convinced that I'd simply ruin your idea by making a sort of half-ass compromise between my amateur idea of 'good theatre' and [Morris] Werner's book. I think your instinct has led you to a great idea but that my unsolicited offer was based more on enthusiasm than on common sense. So I bequeath you the notion of the god which I think in other hands could be made quite solid, and rather ungracefully retire hoping that [playwright Marc] Connolly or [producer Edward] Craig will make you the sort of vehicle of it that's in your imagination..." Fitzgerald thanks Rennie and his wife, Dorothy Gish, for visiting his wife after her appendectomy. "It was so nice of you both to come and see Zelda...You're a man after my own heart, and I feel that we have by no means seen the last of each other, even in a theatrical way." The idea was inspired by a 1925 biography of Brigham Young by American author Morris Werner (a 22 March 1973 letter from Werner is included with the lot). Still in the flush of his Gatsby triumph, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald were enjoying the high life and summering on the fashionable Cote d'Azur in the South of France. Published in Bruccoli and Duggan, 197-198.
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