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Book VI

. Life, not death—: The other one; Work fast, man; I went with Eleanor; Writers sweet and sour; Mexican night; Dinner in Thessaly; After a conference; The dance is on; One by one; God bless the Americas; The fortunate one.

63. Translation:

_Intimidad de un novelista; memorias de Sherwood Anderson._ Buenos Aires, Editorial Claridad [1947] 520p. Tr., Francisco Madrid. (Coleccion de viajes, memorias y aventuras. vol. 2)

_THE SHERWOOD ANDERSON READER. 1947_

64. THE | Sherwood | Anderson | READER | Edited, with an Introduction, | by Paul Rosenfeld | [publishers’ device] HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY · BOSTON 1947 | [single line] | The Riverside Press Cambridge

xxx, 850p. 21 × 14 cm. Light tan cloth stamped in red and green on spine and cover. Top edge stained red.

Contents: Introduction; Nobody laughed; Blackfoot’s masterpiece; Paper pills; Hands; Tandy; The untold lie; Unlighted lamps; The New Englander; Chicago; Song of the soul of Chicago; Chicago again; The egg; I want to know why; The contract; The sad horn-blowers; The man with the trumpet; The lame one; The dumb man; Brothers; One throat; When we care; Song of Theodore; The book of the grotesque; Alfred Stieglitz; Foreword from _Horses and men_; The man’s story; Milk-bottles; A meeting South; The return; Meeting Ring Lardner; Brother death; A part of earth; The yellow gown; A writer’s conception of realism; We little children of the arts; The sound of the stream; Morning roll-call; I’m a fool; A sentimental journey; Justice; A dead dog; The death of Bill Graves; Daughters; An Ohio pagan; The man with a scar; River journey; Smyth County News (Editorials); Father Abraham; a Lincoln fragment; Machine song; Loom dance; Mill girls; The TVA; Tough babes in the woods; ‘Please let me explain’; Bud (As Kit saw him); Brown bomber; Dedication of the Memoirs; Introduction to the Memoirs; Discovery of a father; Girl by the stove; White spot; All will be free; I build a house; The American small town; The corn-planting; A walk in the moonlight; His chest of drawers; Not sixteen; Tim and General Grant.

The following items included in this volume were previously unpublished: Nobody laughed; A part of earth; Morning roll-call; Daughters; Father Abraham: a Lincoln fragment; White spot; Tim and General Grant.

65. Translations:

_Il meglio di Sherwood Anderson._ Milan, Longanesi, 1954. 1048p. Tr., Marcella Hannau.

_Ur ingenstans in i ingenting._ Stockholm, C. E. Fritze, 1952. 287p. Tr., Olov Jonason. Preface, Artur Lundkvist.

_THE PORTABLE SHERWOOD ANDERSON. 1949_

66. The Portable | Sherwood Anderson | Edited, and with an introduction, by | Horace Gregory | New York | The Viking Press | 1949

vi, 631p. 17 × 11 cm. Brown cloth stamped in dark brown.

Contents: Editor’s introduction; The chronology of Sherwood Anderson’s life and books; A selected bibliography on Sherwood Anderson. From _Winesburg, Ohio_: Hands; The philosopher; Godliness; The strength of God; The teacher; Loneliness; Departure. _Poor white._ Selected stories: The contract; The egg; I’m a fool; The man who became a woman; A meeting South; Death in the woods. Men and women: Four American impressions: Gertrude Stein, Paul Rosenfeld, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis; Dreiser. Reportage and editorial: The American county fair; In Washington. A selection of letters: To Alfred Stieglitz, John Anderson, Burton Emmett, Ferdinand Schevill, Edmund Wilson, Dorothy Dudley, Burton and Mary Emmett, Theodore Dreiser, John L. Lewis, Henry Goddard Leach, Mary Blair, James Boyd, Paul Appel, Maxwell Perkins, Ettie Stettheimer, Gilbert Wilson, and Anita Loos.

67. Reprint:

New York, Viking Press [1956] vi, 631p. (Viking Paperbound Portable, P42)

_LETTERS. 1953_

68. Letters of | SHERWOOD ANDERSON | SELECTED AND EDITED WITH AN | INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY | Howard Mumford Jones | IN ASSOCIATION WITH | Walter B. Rideout | With Illustrations | [publishers’ device] | Little, Brown and Company · Boston

xxv, 479p. 22½ × 14½ cm. Black cloth stamped in gold on spine.

_On verso of title-page_ (p.[iv]): Copyright 1953, by Eleanor Anderson.

_Essays and Stories_

69. City plowman. _In_ Frank, Waldo, and others, editors. _America and Alfred Stieglitz._ Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, Doran, 1934. p.303-08.

70. Harry breaks through. _In_ Kreymborg, Alfred, and others, editors. _The new caravan._ New York, W. W. Norton, 1936. p.84-89.

71. I want to be counted. _In_ National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners. _Harlan miners speak._ New York, Harcourt, Brace [1932] p.298-312. (“An address delivered before a meeting held by the National Committee ... in New York City on December 6, 1931, to protest the legal and illegal terror in the Harlan, Kentucky, coal fields”)

72. Man and his imagination. _In_ Centeno, Augusto, editor. _The intent of the artist._ Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1941. p.39-79.

73. Ohio: I’ll say we’ve done well. _In_ Gruening, Ernest Henry, editor. _These United States; a symposium._ First series. New York, Boni and Liveright [1923] p.109-17.

74. There she is—she is taking her bath. _In_ Kreymborg, Alfred, and others, editors. _The second American caravan._ New York, Macaulay, 1928. p.100-11.

_Introductions and Forewords_

75. _Alfred Stieglitz presents 7 Americans; A catalogue of an exhibition at the Anderson Galleries, New York, March 9-28, 1925._ [New York, 1925] Introduction in form of a poem entitled “Seven alive,” p.3.

76. Crane, Stephen. _The works of Stephen Crane._ Volume XI: Midnight sketches and other impressions. New York, Alfred A. Knopf [1926] Introduction, dated September 1926, p.xi-xv.

77. Dreiser, Theodore. _Free and other stories._ New York, Modern Library [1918] Introduction, p.v-x.

78. Jolas, Eugène. _Cinema._ New York, Adelphi Company, 1926. Introduction, dated June 1, 1926, p.9-10.

79. McKee, Philip. _Big town._ New York, John Day [1931] Foreword, p.1-9.

80. Shaw, Lloyd. _Cowboy dances._ Caldwell, Idaho, Caxton Printers, 1939. Foreword, in the form of a letter written from Marion, Virginia, p.5. Revised edition, 1949.

81. Sklar, George and Albert Maltz. _Peace on earth._ New York and Los Angeles, Samuel French; London, Samuel French, Ltd., 1934. Foreword, p.v-vi.

82. Whitman, Walt. _Leaves of grass._ New York, Thomas Y. Crowell [1933] Introduction, entitled “Walt Whitman,” p.v-vii.

_Letters_

83. Desperate need. _Nation_ 135:506 November 23, 1932. Letter to the Editor concerning the Prisoners’ Relief Fund.

84. The herald angel sings. _New York Times_ December 10, 1933, section 10, p.4. Letter to the Drama Editor, dated December 4, 1933, regarding the Theatre Union’s production of “Peace on earth.”

85. Letter [to V. F. Calverton] _Modern Quarterly_ 2:81 Fall 1924. In reference to Calverton’s article on Anderson: see item 529.

86. Letters from Sherwood Anderson. In _Paul Rosenfeld, voyager in the arts_, edited by Jerome Mellquist and Lucie Wiese. New York, Creative Age, 1948. p.197-232.

87. The letters of Sherwood Anderson. _Atlantic Monthly_ 191:30-33 June 1953. Letters to Roy Jansen and George Freitag, edited by H. M. Jones.

88. Letters of Sherwood Anderson. _Berkeley_ no.1:1-4 [1947] Letters to Robert Morss Lovett and Ferdinand Schevill.

89. Letters of Sherwood Anderson. _Harper’s Bazaar_ 73:130, 201-03 February 1949. Letters to John Anderson and Theodore Dreiser.

90. [Letters to Gertrude Stein] In _The flowers of friendship; letters written to Gertrude Stein_, edited by Donald Gallup. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. Includes eleven letters from Anderson.

91. Letters to Van Wyck Brooks. _Story_ 19:42-62 September-October 1941.

_Dramatizations_

92. _Above suspicion._ In _The Free Company presents; a collection of plays about the meaning of America_. New York, The Free Company; New York, Dodd, Mead, 1941. p.269-301. Reprinted as a pamphlet by the Free Company in the same year.

93. _I’m a fool._ Dramatized by Christopher Sergel. Chicago, Dramatic Publishing Company [1942] 34p.

94. Mother. A one-act play. _In_ Wilde, Percival, editor. _Contemporary one-act plays from nine countries._ Boston, Little, Brown, 1936. p.43-58.

95. Textiles. A play for the radio. _In_ Kozlenko, William, editor. _Contemporary one-act plays._ New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1938. p.1-22.

96. _The triumph of the egg._ A drama in one act; dramatized by Raymond O’Neil. Chicago, Dramatic Publishing Company [1932] 25p.

97. _Winesburg, Ohio. A drama in three acts._ Dramatized by Christopher Sergel. New York premiere, February 5, 1958. Unpublished.

_Contributions to Periodicals_

Reprintings in collections of Anderson’s work are indicated as follows:

_ALN_ _Alice and The Lost Novel_ _BD_ _Beyond Desire_ _DW_ _Death in the Woods_ _HM_ _Horses and Men_ _HT_ _Hello Towns_ _KB_ _Kit Brandon_ _LSA_ _Letters of Sherwood Anderson_ _MAC_ _Mid-American Chants_ _NGR_ _Nearer the Grass Roots_ _NS_ _No Swank_ _NT_ _New Testament_ _PA_ _Puzzled America_ _PSA_ _Portable Sherwood Anderson_ _PW_ _Perhaps Women_ _PWO_ _Plays, Winesburg and Others_ _SAM_ _Sherwood Anderson’s Memoirs_ _SAN_ _Sherwood Anderson’s Notebook_ _SAR_ _Sherwood Anderson Reader_ _SS_ _Story Teller’s Story_ _TE_ _Triumph of the Egg_ _WO_ _Winesburg, Ohio_

98. Aching breasts and snow-white hearts; being some fan letters of Ezra Bone of Elmore, Tennessee, to Gloria Swanson. _Vanity Fair_ 25:51, 108 January 1926.

99. Adventures in form and color. _Little Review_ 7:[64] January-March 1921.

100. Advertising a nation. _Agricultural Advertising_ 12:389 May 1905.

101. Alfred Stieglitz. _New Republic_ 32:215-17 October 25, 1922. _SAN_, _SAR_.

102. America on a cultural jag. _Saturday Review of Literature_ 4:364-65 December 3, 1927.

103. American spectator. _American Spectator_ 2,no.16:1 February 1934.

104. Another wife. _Scribner’s Magazine_ 80:587-94 December 1926. _DW._

105. An apology for crudity. _Dial_ 63:437-38 November 8, 1917. _SAN._

106. At Amsterdam. _New Masses_ 8:11 November 1932.

107. At the mine mouth. _Today_ 1:5, 19-21 December 30, 1933. _PA_ (with revisions).

108. An awakening. _Little Review_ 5:13-21 December 1918. _WO._

109. Backstage with a martyr. _Coronet_ 8:39-41 July 1940. _SAM._

110. Beauty. _Harper’s Bazaar_ 63:78-79, 118 January 1929. _ALN_ (entitled “Alice”), _DW_ (entitled “Like a queen”).

111. Betrayed. _Golden Book_ 1:743-44 May 1925. Concerns Nathaniel Wright Stephenson’s biography of Lincoln.

112. Blackfoot’s masterpiece. _Forum_ 55:679-83 June 1916. _SAR._

113. Blue smoke. _Today_ 1:6-7, 23 February 24, 1934. _PA._

114. Boardwalk fireworks. _Today_ 5:6-7, 19 November 9, 1935.

115. Broken. _Century_ 105:643-56 March 1923. _HM_ (entitled “A Chicago hamlet”).

116. Brothers. _Bookman_ (N.Y.) 53:110-15 April 1921. _TE_, _SAR_.

117. Brown boomer. _Signatures_ no.3:302-08 Winter 1937-1938. _SAR_ (with corrected title, “Brown bomber”).

118. Burt Emmett. _Colophon_ n.s.1,no.1:7-9 Summer 1935.

119. A business man’s reading. _Reader_ 2:503-04 October 1903.

120. Business types: the boyish man. _Agricultural Advertising_ 11:53 October 1904.

121. Business types: the discouraged man. _Agricultural Advertising_ 11:43-44 July 1904.

122. Business types: the good fellow. _Agricultural Advertising_ 11:36 January 1904.

123. Business types: the hot young ’un and the cold old ’un. _Agricultural Advertising_ 11:24-26 September 1904.

124. Business types: the liar—a vacation story. _Agricultural Advertising_ 11:27-29 June 1904.

125. Business types: the man of affairs. _Agricultural Advertising_ 11:36-38 March 1904.

126. Business types: silent men. _Agricultural Advertising_ 11:19 February 1904.

127. Business types: the solicitor. _Agricultural Advertising_ 11:21-24 August 1904.

128. Business types: the traveling man. _Agricultural Advertising_ 11:39-40 April 1904.

129. Business types: the undeveloped man. _Agricultural Advertising_ 11:31-32 May 1904.

130. Carl Sandburg. _Bookman_ (N.Y.) 54:360-61 December 1921.

131. Caught. _American Mercury_ 1:165-76 February 1924. _SS_ (entitled “Epilogue”).

132. Censorship. _Laughing Horse_ no.17:[5] February 1930.

133. Chicago—a feeling. _Vanity Fair_ 27:53, 118 October 1926.

134. City gangs enslave moonshine mountaineers. _Liberty_ 12:12-13 November 2, 1935.

135. Cityscapes. _American Spectator_ 2,no.16:2 February 1934.

136. Communications. _American Spectator_ 1,no.11:2 September 1933.

137. Confessions and letters: questionnaire. _Little Review_ 12:12-13 May 1929. Reprinted: _The Little Review Anthology_, p.354-55.

138. The contract. _Broom_ 1:148-53 December 1921. _SAR_, _PSA_.

139. The corn planting. _American Magazine_ 118:47, 149-50 November 1934; _Penguin Parade_ 1:115-22 November 1937. _SAR._

140. Cotton mill. _Scribner’s Magazine_ 88:1-11 July 1930.

141. Country town notes. _Vanity Fair_ 32:63, 112, 126 May 1929.

142. The country weekly. _Forum_ 85:208-13 April 1931.

143. County squires. _Vanity Fair_ 33:63, 128 October 1929.

144. A criminal’s Christmas. _Vanity Fair_ 27:89, 130 December 1926. _HT._

145. The cry in the night. _Vanity Fair_ 37:49-50, 80 September 1931.

146. The dance is on. _Rotarian_ 58:7 June 1941. _SAM._

147. Danville, Virginia. _New Republic_ 65:266-68 January 21, 1931. _SAM_ (as part of chapter “I become a protester”).

148. A dead dog. _Yale Review_ 20:554-67 Spring 1931. _SAR._

149. Death in the woods. _American Mercury_ 9:7-13 September 1926. _DW_, _PSA_. A French translation, “Mort dans les bois,” by Hélène Boussinesq appeared in _Europe_ 15:5-22 September 15, 1927.

150. Delegation. _New Yorker_ 9:36, 38 December 9, 1933.

151. Discovery of a father. _Reader’s Digest_ 35:21-25 November 1939. _SAM_, _SAR_.

152. Domestic and juvenile. _Vanity Fair_ 34:35-37 March 1930.

153. The door of the trap. _Dial_ 68:567-76 May 1920. _TE._

154. Dreiser. _Little Review_ 3:5 April 1916.

155. Educating an author. _Vanity Fair_ 28:47-48 May 1927.

156. Elizabethton, Tennessee. _Nation_ 128:526-27 May 1, 1929. _NGR_, _PA_.

157. An estimate of “Mr. and Mrs. Philip Wase”. _Vanity Fair_ 25:57, 94 November 1925. _SAN_ (entitled “After seeing George Bellows’ Mr. and Mrs. Wase”).

158. Explain! Explain! Again explain! _Today_ 1:3 December 2, 1933.

159. Factory town. _New Republic_ 62:143-44 March 26, 1930.

160. The far West. _Vanity Fair_ 27:39-40, 104 January 1927.

161. The farmer wears clothes. _Agricultural Advertising_ 9:6 February 1902.

162. Feud. _American Magazine_ 119:71, 112-14 February 1935.

163. The fight. _Vanity Fair_ 29:72, 106, 108 October 1927. _DW._

164. Five poems (A dreamer; Man walking alone; Half-gods; Ambition; A man standing by a bridge). _American Mercury_ 11:26-27 May 1927. _NT._

165. For what? _Yale Review_ 30:750-58 June 1941. _SAM_ (entitled “We little children of the arts”), _SAR_.

166. Four American impressions. _New Republic_ 32:171-73 October 11, 1922. Concerns Gertrude Stein, Ring Lardner, Paul Rosenfeld, and Sinclair Lewis. _SAN._ The section on Rosenfeld is reprinted in _Paul Rosenfeld, voyager in the arts_. New York, Creative Age press, 1948. p.233.

167. From Chicago. _Seven Arts_ 2:41-59 May 1917. (