A Handwritten Letter From 21-Year-Old Scott Fitzgerald

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The recipient of this letter
—dated December 22, 1917—

was the first cousin of

Winston Churchill.

If you can enlarge the image,
the letter is very readable.

Shane Leslie was given

the manuscript of what became

Scott Fitzgerald's first novel

It was ultimately titled

THIS SIDE OF PARADISE 

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Footnotes
As requested by Scott Fitzgerald,
Sir Shane Leslie,
(a friend of Tolstoi)
gave the 80+ page manuscript
to esteemed editor  Maxwell Perkins

Perkins responded most encouragingly
to Fitzgerald but rejected
"The Romantic Egoist"
(sic)

Two years later, a re-titled
—and expanded—
manuscript was accepted
for publication

Exactly one week after publication,
Scott Fitzgerald married Zelda Sayre

The next
GoFather/Fitzgerald page
is  here
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