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25. James Putnam to JM, August 25, 1936, NYPL.

26. GB to MM, November 25, 1936, NYPL.

27. David O. Selznick to Kay Brown, July 15, 1936, HRC.

28. Dorothy Modisett to LC, December 9, 1936, NYPL.

29. Russell Birdwell to Louis N. Freedman, October 6, 1936, Columbia.

30. JM to K. T. Lowe, August 3, 1936, UGA.

31. James Putnam to H. O. Owen, August 31, 1936, NYPL.

32. James Putnam to JM, August 11, 1936, NYPL.

33. ALW to HL, October 16, 1936, NYPL.

34. SM, “Memoir,” 113-B.

35. SM, “Memoir,” 113-C.

36. SM, “Memoir,” 114-A.

37. JM to GB, October 6, 1936, UGA.

38. James Putnam to JM, August 11, 1936, NYPL.

39. GB to JM, September 3, 1936, as quoted in SM to GB, September 21, 1936, NYPL.

40. SM to GB, September 21, 1936, NYPL.

41. MM to Allan Taylor, October 5, 1936, UGA.

42. Paul Anderson, interview by John Wiley, Jr., January 2010.

43. MM to Allan Taylor, October 5, 1936, UGA.

44. Allan Taylor to MM, October 3, 1936, UGA.

45. MM to HL, September 23, 1936, NYPL.

46. MM to HL, September 23, 1936, NYPL.

47. MM to HL, September 25, 1936, NYPL.

48. HL to MM, October 6, 1936, NYPL.

49. HL to MM, October 6, 1936, NYPL.

50. Henry W. Taft to GB, October 6, 1936, NYPL.

51. James Putnam to JM, October 6, 1936, NYPL.

52. SM, “Memoir,” 114-A.

53. JM to LC, October 20, 1936, NYPL.

54. HL to JM, October 26, 1936, NYPL.

CHAPTER 8: THE RELUCTANT CELEBRITY

1. Sidney Howard to MM, November 18, 1936, UGA.

2. JM to GB, November 28, 1947, NYPL.

3. Oscar R. Strauss, Jr., to MM, August 17, 1936, UGA.

4. HL to Accounting, November 6, 1936, NYPL.

5. HL to Mr. Myers, October 15, 1936, NYPL.

6. “
Gone With Wind
Pages Are Recovered by Ruse,”
Atlanta Constitution
, November 14, 1936.

7. “Random Notes on the N.Y. Times Book Fair,”
Publishers Weekly
, November 21, 1936.

8. MM to Herschel Brickell, December 8, 1936, UGA; MM to Kay Brown, September 12, 1938, UGA.

9. George W. Stimpson to Macmillan, November 9, 1936, NYPL; LC to George W. Stimpson, November 18, 1936, NYPL.

10. MM to Julia Willett, September 9, 1936, UGA.

11. MM to LC, April 8, 1937, NYPL.

12. Ralph McGill, “
Gone With the Wind
,”
Red Barrel
, September 15, 1936.

13. MM to Raymond G. Carpenter, July 25, 1936, UGA.

14. MM to Vivian Coates, November 4, 1936, UGA.

15. Kathryn Clack to MM, November 30, 1936, UGA.

16. Mrs. Will Carter to MM, February 1937, UGA.

17. MM to HL, December 3, 1938, NYPL.

18. Walker,
Margaret Mitchell and John Marsh
, 340.

19. MM to HL, May 31, 1937, NYPL.

20. Mitchell,
Gone With the Wind
, 668.

21. R. E. Hutchinson to James Putnam, September 2, 1936, NYPL.

22. Norman Berg, “The Real Story of
Gone With the Wind
,”
Atlanta Constitution
, November 29, 1936.

23. JM to Mary Marsh, September 26, 1936, UGA.

24. MM to James Putnam, April 22, 1937, NYPL.

25. MM to Herschel Brickell, October 9, 1936, UGA.

26. Albert C. Leitch, “
Gone With Wind
Presses Going Strong, Pass 656,000,”
Atlanta
Constitution
, October 21, 1936.

27. MM to GB, November 17, 1937, NYPL.

28. Katharine Bleckley to MM, September 2, 1936, UGA.

29. MM to LC, March 5, 1937, UGA.

30. Edwin Granberry, “The Private Life of Margaret Mitchell,”
Collier's
, March 13, 1937.

31. Zane, “My Dearly Beloved Young Lady,” 21.

32. Zane, “Peggy,” 11.

33. MM to LC, March 5, 1937, UGA.

34. MM to Robert L. Bullard, March 15, 1937, UGA.

35. MM to Harris Dunn, December 12, 1936, Smith College.

36. MM to K. T. Lowe, August 29, 1936, UGA.

37. JM to James Putnam, August 11, 1936, NYPL.

38. MM to Mr. Osbourne, November 30, 1936, UGA.

39. MM to Mrs. Williams, March 11, 1937, AHC.

40. MM to Mary Davenport Combes, August 19, 1948, UGA.

41. Medora Field Perkerson, “Double Life of Margaret Mitchell,”
Atlanta Journal
Sunday Magazine
, May 16, 1937; MM to Lucy Caldwell, November 17, 1936, UGA.

42. MM to Herschel Brickell, November 17, 1937, UGA.

43. MM to Paul Jordan-Smith, September 23, 1936, UGA.

44. Paul Jordan-Smith to MM, October 11, 1936, UGA.

45. L. Markowitz to MM, October 27, 1936, UGA.

46. MM to L. Markowitz, October 28, 1936, UGA.

47. MM to Alec Blanton, September 23, 1936, NYPL.

48. Alec Blanton to MM, September 29, 1936, NYPL.

49. Ball, “Margaret Mitchell Seeks.”

50. SM, “Memoir,” 118.

51. Ball, “Margaret Mitchell Seeks.”

52. Lamar Q. Ball, “Fame's Tempo Has Been Quickened, According to Margaret Mitchell,”
Atlanta Constitution
, November 11, 1936.

53. Lamar Q. Ball, “All Modern Publishing Records Smashed by
Gone With the
Wind
,”
Atlanta Constitution
, November 13, 1936.

54. Ball, “All Modern Publishing Records.”

55. SM, “Memoir,” 118.

56. MM to Ginny Morris, April 21, 1937, UGA.

57. Ginny Morris to MM, April 29, 1937, UGA.

58. LC to MB, December 12, 1954, UGA.

59. Barnes, interview.

60. “
Gone With Wind
Nearing Million,”
Atlanta Constitution
, December 3, 1936.

61. Macmillan sales statement for
Gone With the Wind
, August 1, 1937, NYPL.

62. Michener, “Introduction.”

63. Notes on Farr manuscript by MB, May 21, 1965, Emory.

64. “News from Publishers,”
Publishers Weekly
, December 5, 1936.

65. MM to LC, December 4, 1936, NYPL.

66. HL to GB, December 8, 1936, NYPL.

67. MM to HL, January 8, 1937, NYPL.

68. MM to Gladys Platner, April 18, 1940, Smith College.

69. JM to Mary Louise Nute, December 14, 1936, as quoted in Walker,
Margaret
Mitchell and John Marsh
, 343.

70. MM to LC, April 23, 1937, NYPL.

71. Zane, “My Dearly Beloved Young Lady,” 15.

72. Statement by MM, August 1, 1936,
GWTW
Literary Rights office, Atlanta.

CHAPTER 9: GONE WITH THE WIND, INC.

1. Statement by MM, August 1, 1939,
GWTW
Literary Rights office, Atlanta.

2. Statement by MM, August 1, 1939,
GWTW
Literary Rights office, Atlanta.

3. Zane, “Peggy,” 12.

4. MM to LC, March 5, 1937, UGA.

5. Ruth Hinman Carter to MM, November 21, 1936, UGA.

6. MM to LC, March 5, 1937, UGA.

7. MM to LC, March 5, 1937, UGA.

8. MM to LC, March 5, 1937, UGA.

9. MM to Herschel Brickell, February 8, 1937, UGA.

10. Perkerson, “Double Life of Margaret Mitchell.”

11. Faith Baldwin, “The Woman Who Wrote
Gone With the Wind
, An Exclusive and Authentic Interview,”
Pictorial Review
, March 1937.

12. JM to Edwin Granberry, notes, n.d., UGA.

13. Granberry, “The Private Life of Margaret Mitchell.”

14. MM to LC, January 19, 1937, Barnes.

15. Andrew Sparks, “Margaret Mitchell Wanted No Memorials,”
Atlanta Journal
, April 9, 1961.

16. MM to LC, January 19, 1937, Barnes.

17. “Record of Sales Mitchell:
Gone With the Wind
,” August 1, 1937, NYPL.

18. McLellan, “The Making of a Best Seller.”

19. SM, “Memoir,” 114-A.

20. SM, “Memoir,” 127.

21. SM, “Memoir,” 129.

22. Extract of draft letter from JM, June 1937, UGA.

23. Photo caption,
Publishers Weekly
, February 27, 1937.

24. MM to HL, June 7, 1937, NYPL.

25. MM to Miss Thompson, October 5, 1936, NYPL.

26. Ginny Morris to MM, June 2, 1937, UGA.

27. MM to Mrs. Wilbur Kurtz, February 5, 1937, UGA.

28. MM to Norman Berg, notes, October 22, 1936, UGA.

29. “Romance Unending,”
The Times
, October 3, 1936.

30. Ball, “Fame's Tempo Has Been Quickened.”

31. MM to Herschel Brickell, April 8, 1937, UGA.

32. “Give and Take of Bestsellers,”
Publishers Weekly
, December 26, 1936.

33. MM to Herschel Brickell, February 22, 1937, UGA.

34. LC to JM, January 14, 1938, UGA.

35. Statement by MM, August 1, 1939,
GWTW
Literary Rights office, Atlanta.

36. MS to MM, January 14, 1938, UGA.

37. MS to SM, October 20, 1936, UGA; MS to SM, January 25, 1937, UGA.

38. MS to SM, January 25, 1937, UGA.

39. JM to MS, January 28, 1937, UGA.

40. MM to Mary Marsh, April 17, 1936, UGA.

41. “National Book Awards for 1936,”
Publishers Weekly
, February 27, 1937.

42. MM to Julian Harris, May 5, 1937, Smith College.

43. MM to GB, May 3, 1937, NYPL.

44. MM to GB, May 10, 1937, NYPL.

45. MM to HL, May 11, 1937, NYPL.

46. [Harrison Smith], “
Gone With the Wind
,”
Saturday Review of Literature
, September 3, 1949.

47. RB to Mr. McGill, May 7, 1937, NYPL; “Pulitzer Prizes Awarded,”
Publishers
Weekly
, May 8, 1937.

48. MM to Marsh family, June 21, 1937, UGA.

49. J. G. Robertson, Jr., to MM, May 11, 1937, UGA.

50. Nobel Prize, “Nomination and Selection of Literature Laureates,” at
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/nomination
(accessed August 19, 2010).

CHAPTER 10: DEFENDING SCARLETT'S HONOR

1. GB to MM, February 26, 1937, UGA.

2. SM to Macmillan, February 23, 1937, NYPL.

3. GB to MM, February 16, 1937, UGA.

4. Reed Harris to Editor-In-Chief, May 2, 1937, NYPL.

5. Edwin Smith to GB, June 18, 1937, NYPL.

6. GB to Walbridge Taft, June 21, 1937, NYPL.

7. Walbridge Taft to GB, June 24, 1937, NYPL.

8. HL to GB, May 17, 1937, NYPL.

9. HL to MM, May 20, 1937, NYPL.

10. GB to SM, July 25, 1937, NYPL.

11. GB to SM, July 27, 1937, NYPL.

12. GB to Miss Hutchinson, September 21, 1937, NYPL.

13. GB to MM, March 14, 1938, NYPL.

14. GB to SM, March 4, 1938, NYPL.

15. MM to GB, March 8, 1938, NYPL.

16. MS to HL, April 7, 1937, NYPL.

17. SM to GB, April 12, 1937, NYPL.

18. GB to SM, April 14, 1937, NYPL.

19. SM to GB, April 23, 1947, NYPL.

20. Lucius Beebe, “This New York,”
New York Herald Tribune
, June 5, 1937.

21. Sidney L. Samuels to SM, July 1, 1937, NYPL.

22. Thompson & Barwise to Mitchell & Mitchell, July 24, 1937, UGA.

23. W. L. Brusse to MS, April 10, 1937, NYPL.

24. Everett Hale to W. L. Brusse, April 22, 1937, NYPL.

25. Macmillan Canada to Everett Hale, May 21, 1937, NYPL.

26. Hugh Eayrs to Everett Hale, May 21, 1937, NYPL.

27. Frederic Melcher to MS, May 25, 1937, NYPL.

28. MS to HL, June 29, 1937, NYPL.

29. MM to Julian Harris, July 28, 1937, Emory.

30. MM to Mrs. Louis Davent Bolton, July 22, 1937, AHC.

31. Transcript of telephone conversation between Richard Brett and William Bratter, August 3, 1937, NYPL.

32. SM to GB, August 4, 1937, NYPL.

33. RB to Walbridge Taft, August 5, 1937, NYPL.

34. RB to SM, August 12, 1937, NYPL.

35. RB to Hugh Eayrs, August 5, 1937, NYPL.

36. RB to Alec Blanton, August 17, 1937, NYPL.

37. H. C. Beaty to RB, August 24, 1937, NYPL.

38. RB to SM, August 25, 1937, NYPL.

39. GB to SM, September 15, 1937, NYPL.

40. GB to JM, September 2, 1937, UGA.

41. MM to GB, September 24, 1937, UGA.

42. JM to MS, August 23, 1937, NYPL.

43. GB to JM, September 3, 1937, NYPL.

44. MM to GB, September 24, 1937, UGA.

45. JM to GB, September 8, 1937, NYPL.

46. MS to GB, September 11, 1937, NYPL.

47. MM to GB, September 24, 1937, UGA.

48. MM to GB, September 24, 1937, UGA.

49. William M. Doerflinger to Herschel Brickell, June 28, 1937, NYPL.

50. Macmillan, press release, July 2, 1937, NYPL.

51. “From the Macmillan Company,” [1937], NYPL.

52. Macmillan, notice for
Gone With the Wind
,
Publishers Weekly
, September 25, 1937.

53. Memorandum by W. M. Doerflinger, June 22, 1937, NYPL.

54. MM to GB, September 24, 1937, UGA.

55. HL to MM, October 5, 1937, NYPL.

56. MS to GB, June 1, 1938, NYPL.

57. Czechoslovakian edition of
Gone With the Wind
, inscribed to HL, Kearney Public Library, Kearney, New Jersey.

58. MM to GB, October 19, 1937, NYPL.

59. MM to GB, November 1, 1937, NYPL.

60. GB to MM, October 25, 1937, NYPL.

61. Kakon Stangerup, review of
Gone With the Wind
,
Nationaltidende
, September 1937.

62. Ven Nyberg, review of
Gone With the Wind
,
Svenska Dagbladet
, October 1937.

63. Review of
Gone With the Wind
,
Kaleva
, December 1937.

64. GB to MM, November 15, 1937, NYPL.

65. Madeleine Baxter to MM, August 13, 1938, UGA.

66. Lukacs Gyula to MM, [1937], UGA.

67. “Amazing Demand for American Novel,”
Cape Argus
, August 28, 1937.

68. MM to HL, July 15, 1940, NYPL.

69. MS to MM, March 14, 1938, UGA.

70. MM to HL, May 30, 1938, NYPL.

71. MS, “GWTW: Report on Foreign Publishers,” December 3, 1943, UGA.

72. Howard S. Cady to John M. Born, April 21, 1938, NYPL.

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