INTRODUCTION
29.
13dec1924:
" I am
beginning to feel my 53 years."
-- FPG will be 46 some six
weeks later, on February 14, 1925 [this confirms his
favourite 7-year time-framing of his age, bringing his year-of-birth
down from 1879 to 1872].
"The other day I counted my completed
Mss. - those
which I could send out if I had a public or even a publisher:
there are 14 of them."
"A word re: Pioneers. The work as originally
planned and written does no longer exist. Though, on looking
through the drawers that hold my Mss., I find an old typed
copy of part I which I shall send you with my compliments."
... An ingenious publisher who loved the book but could not
publish it suggested the marvelous title 'Twixt Love and
Passion'. There are only 2 Mss. in existence, one of them
traveling in the U.S.A. The other is in the hands of Associated
Readers of Canada, Ltd. ... [shortened]
on the advice of the Macmillan's. However, 5 publishers only
have so far declined to publish the condensed thing which
certainly is not "slow" moving
any longer."
The "Weatherhead Fortunes" ... is
a study of décadence. ...
I have tried to put the thing on earth - the same as I tried,
in the Pioneers, to put the corrupt, sexually hypertrophied
woman of French upper-class novels on the soil."
"I am now engaged in a new novel, in which
I am trying to put the "hero" - that legendary man of the
middle ages - among
the things of reality." [Settlers?] ... "By the way, to that
new novel ... I am going
to give the enticing sub-title "A story
of the Western Rebellion of 1990 [check: 1909?]."
"I have some 20 short stories circulating.
Nobody wants them. They tell the truth as I see it. They
are, I am afraid, too raw for this age."
32. 1jan1925:
" ... I should do as I suggested: print
a book myself. I enclose the draft of an advance notice
which I would like to print at once, let me say in 200 copies,
to send to everybody of whom I know as having taken an interest
in my work. I should be very much obliged if you could
point out to me likely printers in Winnipeg."
-- see FPG in 1902 [to WK], & 1939
[Two Generations].
34. 10dec1924:
"... my experience with the Return
of the Native is rather puzzling to me. I am making
a very careful analysis of the book - without writing it
down, of course. It is the absolutely first book which
has compelled me to do so in order to make clear to myself
in what its fascination and repulsion consist. I remember
the time when Ibsen greatly puzzled me. Hardy puzzles me
in somewhat the same way. Neither of them is quite fair
to Life. And yet, their misrepresentations are those of
men of great and compelling genius."
51. 13dec1924:
" Through A.J. Jones, my short-story agent
in N.Y., Harper Bros. have asked me to submit things to them,
a novel or so. I have, of course, not acted upon it, but
am keeping them in mind for the serializing of Our Daily
Bread."
-- FPG will be 46 some six weeks
later, on February 14, 1925 [this confirms his favourite
7-year time-framing of his age, bringing his year-of-birth
down from 1879 to 1872].
"The other day I counted my completed
Mss. - those which I could send out if I had a public or
even a publisher: there are 14 of them."
52. 9jun1925:
"same trouble with Harper's. I don't mind
writing the trash some magazines want when I'm hard pressed
for money. But it will not appear under my name."
-- FPG used three known pseudonyms
as Greve. -- Grove proposed "Andrew R. Rutherford", name
of Greve's Bonn friend's maternal grandfather, to McClelland
& Stewart in 1919, and the same pen-name appears in relation
with his unpublshed novel Jane Atkinson [e-Ed.,
2000]. -- Remarks like this point to existence of
more assumed names in North America.
"The other day I counted my completed
Mss. - those which I could send out if I had a public or
even a publisher: there are 14 of them."
29. 13dec1924:
" I am beginning to feel my 53 years."
-- FPG will be 46 some six weeks
later, on February 14, 1925 [this confirms his favourite
7-year time-framing of his age, bringing his year-of-birth
down from 1879 to 1872].
"The other day I counted my completed
Mss. - those which I could send out if I had a public or
even a publisher: there are 14 of them."
29. 13dec1924:
" I am beginning to feel my 53 years."
-- FPG will be 46 some six weeks
later, on February 14, 1925 [this confirms his favourite
7-year time-framing of his age, bringing his year-of-birth
down from 1879 to 1872].
"The other day I counted my completed
Mss. - those which I could send out if I had a public or
even a publisher: there are 14 of them."
29. 13dec1924:
" I am beginning to feel my 53 years."
-- FPG will be 46 some six weeks
later, on February 14, 1925 [this confirms his favourite
7-year time-framing of his age, bringing his year-of-birth
down from 1879 to 1872].
"The other day I counted my completed
Mss. - those which I could send out if I had a public or
even a publisher: there are 14 of them."
29. 13dec1924:
" I am beginning to feel my 53 years."
-- FPG will be 46 some six weeks
later, on February 14, 1925 [this confirms his favourite
7-year time-framing of his age, bringing his year-of-birth
down from 1879 to 1872].
"The other day I counted my completed
Mss. - those which I could send out if I had a public or
even a publisher: there are 14 of them."
29. 13dec1924:
" I am beginning to feel my 53 years."
-- FPG will be 46 some six weeks
later, on February 14, 1925 [this confirms his favourite
7-year time-framing of his age, bringing his year-of-birth
down from 1879 to 1872].
"The other day I counted my completed
Mss. - those which I could send out if I had a public or
even a publisher: there are 14 of them."
29. 13dec1924:
" I am beginning to feel my 53 years."
-- FPG will be 46 some six weeks
later, on February 14, 1925 [this confirms his favourite
7-year time-framing of his age, bringing his year-of-birth
down from 1879 to 1872].
"The other day I counted my completed
Mss. - those which I could send out if I had a public or
even a publisher: there are 14 of them."
29. 13dec1924:
" I am beginning to feel my 53 years."
-- FPG will be 46 some six weeks
later, on February 14, 1925 [this confirms his favourite
7-year time-framing of his age, bringing his year-of-birth
down from 1879 to 1872].
"The other day I counted my completed
Mss. - those which I could send out if I had a public or
even a publisher: there are 14 of them."
29. 13dec1924:
" I am beginning to feel my 53 years."
-- FPG will be 46 some six weeks
later, on February 14, 1925 [this confirms his favourite
7-year time-framing of his age, bringing his year-of-birth
down from 1879 to 1872].
"The other day I counted my completed
Mss. - those which I could send out if I had a public or
even a publisher: there are 14 of them."
29. 13dec1924:
" I am beginning to feel my 53 years."
-- FPG will be 46 some six weeks
later, on February 14, 1925 [this confirms his favourite
7-year time-framing of his age, bringing his year-of-birth
down from 1879 to 1872].
"The other day I counted my completed
Mss. - those which I could send out if I had a public or
even a publisher: there are 14 of them."
29. 13dec1924:
" I am beginning to feel my 53 years."
-- FPG will be 46 some six weeks
later, on February 14, 1925 [this confirms his favourite
7-year time-framing of his age, bringing his year-of-birth
down from 1879 to 1872].
"The other day I counted my completed
Mss. - those which I could send out if I had a public or
even a publisher: there are 14 of them."
29. 13dec1924:
" I am beginning to feel my 53 years."
-- FPG will be 46 some six weeks
later, on February 14, 1925 [this confirms his favourite
7-year time-framing of his age, bringing his year-of-birth
down from 1879 to 1872].
"The other day I counted my completed
Mss. - those which I could send out if I had a public or
even a publisher: there are 14 of them."
