Item #E20548 "An Instance Of Apparent Plagerism": F. Scott Fitzgerald, Willa Cather, and the First Gatsby Manuscript (in) The Princeton University Library Chronicle, Spring 1978. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli.

"An Instance Of Apparent Plagerism": F. Scott Fitzgerald, Willa Cather, and the First Gatsby Manuscript (in) The Princeton University Library Chronicle, Spring 1978

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Library, 1978. Softcover. Printed stiff wrappers. Sequentially paginated pp129-193. Illustrated. Fine. The Bruccoli article appears on pp. 171-178 and is illustrated with reproductions of Fitzgerald's letter ot Cather and with manuscript pages of The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald had written to Cather expressing concern that he had inadvertantly used, to describe Daisy Buchanan, a passage from Cather's 1923 "A Lost Lady", a book he had not read prior to writing the frist draft of Gatsby. Cather reassured him that she found nothing objectionable and he enjoyed reading Gatsby before she had received the letter. Fine. Item #E20548

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