ERIC S. PINKER AND ADRIENNE MORRISON INCORPORATED

LITERARY, DRAMATIC, RADIO AND MOTION PICTURE REPRESENTATIVES

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Talbot House
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March 29th, 1935

Mrs. Edith Wharton
Sainte-Claire le Chateau
Hyères (Var), France

My dear Mrs. Wharton:

I have just had an extremely pleasant and most interesting talk with Mrs. Cadwalader Jones and am writing at once to say that of course I shall be honored and delighted to be allowed to add your name to my list of clients.

Mrs. Jones left with me the manuscript of your new story CONFESSION which I will read at once and write to you about next week. I have not much time in which to catch the mail so would only say now that I would consider it most advisable for you to break away from Appleton-Century for your English book rights and make a new contract with a first-class English publishing house. Heinemann and Cape are both still very good as is also Macmillan's in London but Gollancz as you probably know has been coming to the fore very rapidly of recent years and from many points of view is perhaps to be considered preferable to almost any other firm.

Mrs. Jones left with me the memorandum you sent her and I note what you say of the history of your relations with the Cosmopolitan magazine. I quite sympathize with your feelings towards that organization and understand that for the moment at any rate you prefer not to have any more dealings with it. There is one thing to be said for the Cosmopolitan, namely that the magazine is at present the only steady market for novelettes of which Mr. Burton has been making a regular feature. The other magazines find stories of more than average short story length difficult to handle although naturally exceptions can always be made in the case of an author of your reputation and I do not mean to suggest that Cosmopolitan would be the only outlet for novelettes.

I shall start work next week immediately after reading CONFESSIONS and will as I say write you again on the next mail.

With again very many thanks for giving me the opportunity to become associated with your work, I am

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April 5th, 1935

Mrs. Edith Wharton
Sainte-Claire le Chateau
Hyères (Var) France

My dear Mrs. Wharton:

I have read CONFESSION and like it tremendously. I took it to Phila-
delphia for consideration by The Saturday Evening Post and The Ladies'
Home Journal preferably the latter where it ought to fit very well.

Mrs. Jones brought me in today a copy of THE LOOKING GLASS which she had obtained from Appleton-Century. I shall read this at once and hope to find a place for it although Mr. Williams has covered a good deal of ground with no success having offered the story to The Saturday Evening Post, The Ladies' Home Journal, Liberty, Collier's, McCall's and The American Magazine. Assuming that the fiction editor of Collier's, as is his wont, covered the story for The Woman's Home Companion as well, only The Delineator and Red Book are left of the first-class magazines which pay top prices as I presume you would not want the story offered to Pictorial Review that magazine now being owned by Hearst.

I await expression of your wishes in regard to a new publisher in Eng-
land thinking it best not to take any steps until I hear from you.

Speaking of England could you let me have duplicates of CONFESSION and THE LOOKING GLASS to try for English magazine publication? If you would like this perhaps to save time you would send the manuscripts to my brother Ralph Pinker who is in charge of the English office. My brother's address is Talbot House, Arundel Street, Strand, W. C. 2, and I am writing him that he may expect to hear from you.

At Mrs. Jones' suggestion I am adding my understanding that I am to
handle your work on the customary basis of 10% commission.

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May 18th, 1935

Dear Sir,

As you probably know, Mrs. Wharton has been very seriously ill for over a month, and is quite unable yet to attend to her correspondence.

Her convalescence will be a long one, and as soon as she is fit to normal life, she will answer your two letters of March 29th and April 5th about her novels, "Confession" and "The Looking Glass". In the meanwhile, she hopes that you are still trying to place them.

I am getting copies ready to be sent to your brother, Mr. Ralph Pinker, and Mrs. Wharton will probably give him her instructions about them.

Believe me,

Yours very truly

Secretary.

Mr. Eric S. Pinker
9, East 46th Street
New York,

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My chief object, however, is to find a good English publisher
for "The Buccaneers", which I hope to finish within the next three or
four months. For several years past I have been trying to get away
from Appleton for the English edition of my books. They do not
advertising in England and are utterly unknown in the London book-
world. I tried again and again to convince Jewett that it would be an
much for their interest as for mine that I should return to my former
plan of having an English published in England, but it worried him
so much that I did not like to insist. Now I am going to assert myself,
and I hope they will be reasonable enough to see that I am right. I
regret to say, also, that in these hard times more favourable review-
ing is given in England to books which are brought out by English
publishers. They put every obstacle in the way of the American publish-
er who is foolish enough to have an office in London, and I am tired
of being asked by my English friends why they can never find my books
in London, and why they are not advertised.

I do not know who is considered the best fiction publisher
in England now; of course it would have been Heinemann a few years
ago, but I think they have wound up. Cape is a personal friend of mine,
and I should be glad to go to him, but of course Pinker can give the
best advice about this.

While we are on the subject of movies, which as you know is
a very unfamiliar ground to me, I want to mention that Kenneth Clark,
who is here at present, is eager to have a film made out of "Summer".
He has just read the book for the first time, and as he has a good
deal of knowledge about films, and is so enthusiastic about this idea,
I thought I would pass it on to you and Ned. Kenneth says that if
Katherine Hepburn could do the heroine, he thinks its success would
be assured. It is, of course, a splendid part for a woman, and the old
lawyer is also a good part. I don't think that a film has ever been
made from "Summer" as it is the least known of my books, but in any
case it must have been a silent film, and I suppose, therefore, it would
not interfere with a new one.

MEMORANDUM.

All the English editions of my books were brought out by London publishers (John Lane, Murray and Macmillan) until Appleton opened an office in London. This was in the height of the boom time, and though I was very reluctant to give up Macmillan, Appleton was doing such good business for me in America, and was so pressing to having to editing of my books in England, that I did not like to refuse. However, I soon saw that the London office of Appleton, was a very poor affair, which did no advertising and received very little notice from reviewers and writers of book-notes; and I tried again and again to free myself, and go back to an English publisher. Heinemann and Cape both made very handsome offers which I was most anxious to accept, but the last time I wrote to Mr. Jewett on the subject, Mr. Williams wrote that he was ill, and that the suggestion would gave worried him so, that he begged I would leave the matter in suspense; and I did so.

For the last year, of course, I have suffered considerably from the depression. The Appletons, who have always placed my serial fiction to the best advantage, are apparently unable to do anything, and Louis Bromfield tells me that I am much more likely to do well in the hands of an experienced agent.

It is for this reason that I have kept back "Confession", and should like to have Mr. Pinker's advice about it.

In this connection I must also mention my brief contact with the Hearst magazines. For years I have steadily refused to publish in any paper edited or financially supported by Mr. Hearst, though all my friends, in particular Bromfield and Aldous Huxley, have given their fiction to Hearst, even immediately after the war, when he had shown himself to be a traitor to his own country and to the allies.

Two years ago, I received a letter from a Miss Giles, who said that Mr. Burton had taken over the Cosmopolitan magazine, and was re-organizing it on a more literary basis. She asked to come and see me, and I saw her in Paris. My first question was of course whether the Cosmopolitan was still in Heart's hands. She replied that he had money in it, but had nothing to do with the policy of the magazine, and in fact did not occupy himself with it at all. She said that Mr. Burton was anxious to produce in America one magazine of some literary value, in which fiction should be represented by serious novelists. He had instructed her to offer me $5,000 for a short story, $10,000 for a "long-short", (about 25,000 words), and a proportionate amount for a novel of about 100,000 words. I had just finished "Bread Upon the Waters" (the story of the Kouradjine family), and she bought this at once for $5,000.

It had a great success, and the film rights were sold for me immediately afterward; so Mr. Burton had no cause to complain of the quality of the work which I gave him. However he tried to get out of paying the $5,000, and it was only after a struggle that Mr. Jewett obtained the money for me.

Miss Giles had asked me to do a long-short story next, and I

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set to work, and was hard at it when Mr. Burton cabled that he wished
the novel. I immediately turned to the novel, and soon afterward he
cabled again that he now wanted the long-short story. I began to be
tired of these vagaries, and asked Mr. Jewett to see him for me, and
get a definite answer from him. Mr. Jewett wrote that it was perfectly
impossible to get any answer, and his previous dealings with all the
Heart editors had shown him that they could never be relied upon,
either to make a definite offer or pay up when the time came.

I therefore wrote to Mr. Jewett that I wished to withdraw al-
together from any arrangements with Mr. Burton, and though I occasion-
ally get an admiring cable from him, I have never received any
definite offer at all. In these circumstances I think it would be
better for Mr. Pinker to avoid the Hearst group altogether.

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June 2nd, 1935

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Wharton asks me, at the suggestion of your brother, Mr. Eric Pinker, to send you a copy of her story, "The Looking-Glass". It has not been sold in America, and can therefore be disposed at once to an English review or magazine.

Mrs. Wharton usually receives from 15 to 20 guineas for re-printing in England after magazine publication in America; but she will naturally expect a considerably increased amount for first rights.

Mrs. Wharton has been very seriously ill, and is unable to attend to literary matters for the last two months, but is now able to deal with her correspondence. She begs that you will address your answer to her home near Paris, as follows:

Pavillon Colombe
Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt
(Seine-et-Oise)
France

Believe me,

Yours very truly

Secretary

Mr. Ralph Pinker, Talbot House, Arundel Street, Strand London W.C.2.

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May 28th, 1935

Mrs. Edith Wharton
Sainte-Claire le Chateau
Hyeres (Var) France

My dear Mrs. Wharton:

I was so sorry to hear a report that you had been ill but Mrs. Jones tells me that it was not serious and that it is now mainly a question of your taking things quietly for a while. There are some matters which I want to take up with you and at Mrs. Jones' suggestion I am writing you directly about these as she feels that you will by now be well enough to deal with them and be able to give me a sufficient reply even if brief.

First I would like to know whether you would be willing to allow an editor to reduce the length of your stories for magazine purposes assuming that you would not want to bother to do this yourself. This is in particular reference to CONFESSION which I have as yet been unable to sell due largely to the fact that it is a very difficult length for most magazines to fit in and that it would not divide very well into two parts. Collier's like the story very much and I think there might be a sale there if you were willing to allow the editor the privilege of cutting it down.

The second point, which also has relation to CONFESSION in that Cosmopolitan magazine is about the only one with a policy of publishing stories of this length, is in regard to the magazines owned by Mr. Hearst. If you still feel very strongly that you do not wish under any circumstances to sell to any of these magazines I naturally would not presume to attempt to change your mind but I would like to submit some points for your consideration.

To begin with in your Memorandum which Mrs. Jones gave me you mention that Mr. Burton "tried to get out of paying the $5,000 ( for BREAD UPON THE WATERS) and it was only after a struggle that Mr. Jewett obtained the money for me". When Mr. Burton found out that I was now acting for you he asked about the prospects of obtaining some more of your work and I was impelled to tell him of how you felt and your reasons for such feeling. Mr. Burton then of his own accord checked up on the matter of the payment for the short story and informs me that the manuscript was given to Cosmopolitan on October 31, 1934, accepted on November 3 and a check sent to Mr. Jewett on November 20. I passed on these dates to Mr. Williams and asked him to check them for me but I have heard nothing from him since and cannot under the circumstances very well press him for the information. I am telling you this because while the affair is past and done with it evidently and very naturally gave you a bad impression of the Cosmopolitan magazine and its business methods and while the magazine is notoriously 'slow pay' in this particular instance if Mr. Burton's statements are correct - and I think they must be - the payment for your story was made about as quickly as could be expected and they evidently

Mrs. Edith Wharton

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May 28th, 1935

made a special effort to be prompt in settlement with you because they
sent your check very much more quickly than has been their habit for some
time.

My intention in all this is of course to lead up to the suggestion that
you might reconsider your ban on the Hearst magazines because from the
commercial point of view the elimination of Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeep-
ing, Pictorial Review and Harper's Bazaar as possible markets leaves the
field considerably restricted. Mr. Burton of Cosmopolitan has a great per-
sonal enthusiasm for your work and this enthusiasm has been proved to a
certain extent by his purchase of your short story at what at any time
would be a very high price and could I think be proved again. With re-
gard to Mr. Hearst himself it may perhaps be said on behalf of my plea
that his connection with his magazines is purely financial and none of
them is like the Saturday Evening Post in following what could be defined
as an editorial policy in any social or political sense. In other words
it is I think fair to regard the Hearst magazines as being in a different
category from the newspapers and while I agree to a certain extent to Mr.
Jewett's opinion mentioned in your Memorandum that Hearst editors are apt
to be difficult to deal with they are certainly not impossible and after
considerable experience I have been able to get to a point with them where
I can obtain very fair results.

The third point I should like to take up with you is as to whether or not
you want me to handle the serial rights of THE BUCCANEERS. I understand
from Mrs. Jones that you cabled Mr. Williams that you had decided to have
me handle your "magazine rights" in future and I assumed that this meant
that you would expect me to act as your agent in all dealings with maga-
zines and would therefore include the sale of the serial rights to THE
BUCCANEERS. I understand that Mr. Williams has shown the first part of
the manuscript to a number of editors but found a definite interest only
on the part of the Woman's Home Companion. Being uncertain about my au-
thorization I have naturally taken no definite steps towards trying to
negotiate the serial rights of THE BUCCANEERS and in any case nothing fi-
nal can be done until the book is finished but inquiries that I have made
convince me that interest in the serial possibilities of THE BUCCANEERS
is by no means limited to the Companion and that in the present favorable
state of the magazine market an exceptionally good deal could be made. I
trust that you will not mind my frankness when I say that I realize you
have to consider the fact that Mr. Williams can very possibly sell THE
BUCCANEERS to the Woman's Home Companion and that you would not have to
pay him any commission but with my more specialized knowledge of the busi-
ness and my constant relations with the magazines I believe that I could
with a little manipulation for which the moment is exceptionally favorable

Mrs. Edith Wharton

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May 28th, 1935

do something quite handsome for you. A little healthy competition with the Companion would be very good for your bank account and I would like to be able to ring Cosmopolitan in on this too. To be perfectly clear the idea is that I should be authorized to handle THE BUCCANEERS with the Woman's Home Companion as well as the other magazines. You will understand that I can only achieve the best results when I have the whole matter under my control.

If you consider this suggestion favorably it will be a help to know what prices you have previously received from the various magazines for serial rights of novels. The magazines as you doubtless know are apt to plan their serial schedules a long way ahead and if I am to handle THE BUCCANEERS it would be of great assistance if I could know even approximately when you expect to finish the book.

I understand from Mrs. Jones that Mr. Williams claims that your present contract with Appleton-Century covers English and American rights in THE BUCCANEERS and one novel to follow and if this is so we cannot of course do anything about getting a new publisher for you in England at present although I have on occasions been able to persuade publishers to change contracts and might possibly be able to do so in this case if I knew exactly what the conditions were. If you would like me to look into this possibility perhaps you could send me a copy of your existing contract with Appleton's as Mrs. Jones does not seem to have one and I cannot very well go to Mr. Williams for this.

For your convenience I repeat in brief enumeration the three questions which I am submitting to you.

A: May I allow editors to cut your stories if found too long for a particular magazine?

B: Will you consider removing your ban on the Hearst magazines?

C: Am I authorized or will you authorize me to handle the serial rights of THE BUCCANEERS?

In the event that the answer to this last question is "yes" I would appreciate it if you would write and so notify Mr. Williams.

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June 11th, 1935

Eric S.Pinker Esqr
Nine East Forty-Sixth Street
New York

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to answer your letter of May 28th, which has only reached her as she has been travelling slowly by motor from Hyères to Paris.

She is resting a few days at Fontainebleau, near Paris, before going to St-Brice, and therefore wishes me to write in her place, so that this letter may catch the next steamer.

Mrs. Wharton was very much surprised when you told her that her contract with Appleton covered not only "The Buccaneers" but a novel to follow it; she has never before made such a contract, and thought that it was a mistake. But I have pointed out to her that in this case the condition was as stated, probably because she had planned some years ago a novel which was promised to Appleton, and never finished, and which Mr. Jewett had in mind in this case.

However, the important matter at present is rerial publication, and Mrs. Wharton has a letter from Mr. Williams willingingly agreeing that arrangement for serial publication of the next books and novels should be put in the hands of an agent. Therefore there is no reason for your not offering "The Buccaneers", and Mrs. Wharton is writing to Mr. Williams to that effect.

Mrs. Wharton asks me to say that with regard to the Hearst publications, she is willing to consider what you suggest and if you can place "Confession" for a good price with Mrs. Burton she agrees to the arrangement. Mrs. Wharton does not think that it would be possible to have "Confession" cut down, and certainly cannot consent to its being done by any one but herself.

Mrs. Wharton's address till further notice is as above
above, and she will be there in a few days.

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June 20th, 1935

Mrs. J. Friderich
c/o Mrs. Edith Wharton
Pavillon Colombe
St. Brice-Sous-Forêt
(S & O) France

Dear Madam:

I write to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 11th. Please thank Mrs. Wharton very much for giving me her authorization to handle the serial rights of The Buccaneers and her future books and stories. I am very glad that all these matters are now in the clear as I feel confident that I can do very well with Mrs. Wharton particularly in the matter of the serialization of The Buccaneers. Mr. Williams received Mrs. Wharton's letter and is sending me over the manuscript of the book.

Mrs. Wharton doubtless understands that I now have to mark time until The Buccaneers is finished or at least until I receive a considerable further portion of the manuscript. I naturally realize as I assume to be the case that Mrs. Wharton has not been able to do any further work on The Buccaneers for sometime but as I think I mentioned in a previous letter it will be most helpful if I may be kept informed of how the book is progressing and the probable date of its completion.

Another matter has just come to my notice which perhaps you will be kind enough to take up with Mrs. Wharton as opportunity occurs. It appears that early in 1933 the Woman's Home Companion ordered a short story from Mrs. Wharton. The story, called Duration, was delivered in May of that year but the Companion did not like it, have never published it and have no intention of doing so. In view of this Mr. Jewett, presumably with Mrs. Wharton's authorization, agreed to replace Duration with another and more acceptable story. Since that two stories, Kouradjine Ltd. and Roman Fever, were offered by Mr. Jewett to the Companion but subsequently withdrawn for unknown reasons for which there appears to be no record.

From the correspondence relating to this matter which the Companion has shown me there would appear to be no doubt that Mr. Jewett agreed on behalf of Mrs. Wharton to give the Companion another acceptable story. This is a somewhat disadvantageous situation and I have been trying to think of a satisfactory way of clearing it up. One which has occurred to me is to arrange that the $3000 paid by the Companion for Duration be deducted from the amount paid for the serial rights of The Buccaneers

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June 20th, 1935

in the event that I am able to make a deal with the Companion for these
rights. It seemed to me that Mrs. Wharton might prefer this way out as
it would clear the decks with the Companion and enable us to start afresh
with new business with that magazine and I hope to be able to obtain such
a substantial price for The Buccaneers from the Companion that the deduct-
ion of $3000 from this will not seem like very much. The commitment made
by Mr. Jewett to the Companion while apparently quite definite as I have
said is undefined in that it calls for Mrs. Wharton to submit an unlimited
number of stories to the Companion until the magazine finds one which it
considers acceptable and no stipulation was made as to the length of the
stories.

Further in connection with The Buccaneers it would be of great assistance
to me if I could know what prices Mrs. Wharton has previously received
for serial rights to her novels so that I can be guided by these in my
negotiations for the present book.

I am very glad that Mrs. Wharton has seen her way to reconsider her atti-
tude in regard to the Hearst magazines. I hope very much this will enable
me to make a deal for Confessions with the Cosmopolitan. I also note what
Mrs. Wharton feels about a possible cutting of this story and that if such
a thing is suggested she would want to do it herself.

Yours very truly,

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July 1st, 1935

Dear Mr. Rinker,

I am dictating an answer to your letter of June 20th
to my secretary, Mme Friderich.

**_The Buccaneers_**. I note that you cannot place the book until it is finished. This is the first time that I have been told that a novel of mine could not be sold before its completion. All the others have been sold long before they had reached the stage to which I have carried "The Buccaneers"; but if the new magazine editors have no confidence in my ability to end a novel, I can only ask you to wait until I am well enough to finish this one. I hope I shall be able to do it within a few months, but I am not yet able to undertake any continuous work.

**_The Woman's Home Companion._** I agree with you that the only thing to do about this magazine is to deduct the $3,000 from the price of "The Buccaneers", should they take this novel. But I cannot imagine that they will do so, as their standards in fiction are unintelligible to me.

I have no idea why Mr. Williams withdrew "Kouradjine Limited" (now called "Charm Incorporated"), and "Roman Fever", but I suppose he must have done so because the editor of the Woman's Home Companion could not make up his mind, or would not pay a fair price.

With regard to the price of my novels, the last ones range
as follows:

"The Gods Arrive" (the last of all) $50.000

"Hudson River Bracketed" $42.000

and the previous ones ranging from $30.000 to $40.000 for many years
passed.

Yours very truly

P.S. If I could send you a short story within the next fortnight or three weeks, which would satisfy the mysterious requirements of the Woman's Home Companion, it would be better than your plan of deducting $3.000 from the eventual price of "The Buccaneers", which after all they may not take. I will do my best to send something before the end of July.

August 14th, 1935

Dear Mr. Pinker,

Many thanks for your cable received this morning,
informing me that you have sold "The Looking-Glass" and
"Confession" to the Cosmopolitan for a very satisfactory
price.

I hope that this is one of the much needed indications
that business is reviving in America.

I am not sure whether I have already asked you to
deposit all payments made for my literary work with The Bankers'
Trust Co, New York. At the same time I should be much obliged
if, in selling my stories, you would always stipulate that the
title must not be changed without my being consulted. I have
just discovered that one of my stories has been published in
The Red Book under the title of "Poor Old Vincent" without my
knowledge or authority, and I am writing to Messrs. Appleton & Co
through whom the sale was made, to protest energetically. I am
always willing to consider a change of title, but on no account
to authorize the making of such a change without my permission.

I have written about 25,000 words more of "The Buccaneers"
and can send this instalment if you think that anything is to
be gained by it. I suppose I have about 40,000 to 50,000 words
more to write.

Yours sincerely

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August 13, 1935

Mrs. Edith Wharton
Pavillon Colombe
St. Brice-Sous-Foret (S & O)
France

Dear Mrs. Wharton:

I am glad to be able to report to you that I have sold THE LOOKING GLASS and CONFESSION to the Cosmopolitan Magazine and have arranged that they shall pay $7000 for the American serial rights to the two stories.

I think that under the circumstances this may be considered a satisfactory deal and I hope very much that you will be pleased.

Cosmopolitan is to pay for the stories next month and will use them at early dates so that Appleton Century will be enabled to publish the volume at the beginning of next year.

I hope that you are now fully recovered and have been able to take up work again on THE BUOGANEERS. It will be most helpful if I can receive word of your progress on this as soon as you can give me an approximate idea of when the book will be finished.

September 1st, 1935

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to thank you for your letter of
August 13th, confirming the good news of the serial sale of
"Confession", and "The Looking-Glass".

Mrs. Wharton is sending to Mr. Edward Sheldon, 35, East
84th Street, chapters XVI to XXI inclusive of "The Buccaneers".
She has asked Mr. Shemdon to pass the manuscript on to you as
soon as he has read it, and she hopes this will give a sufficient
idea of the book to make the arrangement for serial publication
possible. If Mrs. Wharton continues to gain in health she hopes
to finish "The Buccaneers" within the next six months.

Believe me,

Yours very truly

Secretary.

Mr. Eric S. Pinker
9, East 46th Street
New York N.Y.

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Sept. 24th, 1935

Mrs. Edith Wharton,

IN ACCOUNT WITH

Eric S. Pinker & Adrienne Morrison Inc.

Received from the Cosmopolitan Magazine
For 1st American & Canadian serial
rights to the short story entitled,
"The Looking Glass" $2500.00

LESS

commission - 10% $250.00 350.00

Amount due - check sent to Banker's Trust Co. $2250.00

$2500.00 is the amount allocated by the Cosmopolitan Magazine for "The Looking Glass", and $4500.00 for "Confession".

October 3rd, 1935

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to acknowledge with thanks
your letter of Sept. 24th, advising her that you have placed
to her credit with the Bankers' Trust Co, the sum of $2.250
in payment of the serial rights of "The Looking-Glass".

Believe me,

Mr. Eric S. Pinker

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October 3rd, 1935

Mrs. Edith Wharton
Pavillon Colombe
St. Brice-Sous-Foret
(S. et O.), France

Dear Mrs. Wharton:

I am sorry to say that the Woman's Home Companion, having read the further portion of *The Buccaneers*, does not feel able yet to make a decision. Miss Lane while she likes the story very much feels that she must see the whole thing before she is able to judge whether or not the book will divide suitably into installments.

This is disappointing but on the other hand I have been able to persuade Miss Lane to release us from the definite obligation which previously existed to submit the complete manuscript to The Companion before we could negotiate with anyone else and Miss Lane has now agreed that I am free to sell the serial rights of the novel to any other magazine which may be willing to make a contract on the strength of the incomplete manuscript. I shall therefore now proceed with this object and will of course let you know what transpires.

I presume that in the case of your previous novels you have given permission for the stories to be out for serial purposes but I should like to be sure that this is correct and that you would be willing to give such permission in the case of *The Buccaneers*. As I understand from you that this novel will run to about 120,000 words any magazine will in all probability wish to reduce the length by 25 to 30,000 words on account of its space restrictions.

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October 18th, 1935

Dear Mrs. Wharton:

I thought you would like to know that Cosmopolitan is using *The Looking Glass* in their December number and I shall see that a copy is sent to you. *Confession* has not yet been scheduled but the plan is to publish it in an early issue.

I dealt with the letter your secretary forwarded me from the Hollywood agent and hope you will not hesitate to forward to me any letters in connection with your business which you do not wish to handle personally. I hope I need not assure you that I am always completely at your service and shall be only too glad to take care of any matters however small.

I regret very much that I did not see the article on Mrs. Cadwalader Jones in the London TIMES but I should very much like to read it and perhaps if it is not too much trouble you will let me know the date the article appeared so that I can obtain a copy of the paper.

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Hotel de Crillon

Place de la Concorde

Paris.

November 25th, 1935

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to make her excuses for the delay in
answering your two letters of Oct. 3rd and 18th. She came back from
England very much exhausted after Mrs. Cadwalader Jones's death and
funeral in England, and for some time her correspondence had to be
put aside.

With regard to the article on the London Times, Mrs.
Wharton is extremely sorry but she has no copy with her here. The
article was by Miss Ward, and it must have appeared on Sept. 24th.

With regard to shortening The Buccaneers for magazine
purposes, Mrs. Wharton has no objection to it.

Mrs. Wharton notes that you are dealing with the letter
from the Hollywood agent, and will be glad in future to send any
inquiries of the same sort which may be addressed to her.

She thanks you very much for sending a copy of the current
issue of Cosmopolitan, containing "The Looking-Glass".

Yours very truly

Secretary

Eric S. Pinker Esqr
9, East 46th Street

New York

COPY

December 17th, 1935

My dear Mrs. Wharton,

I have received a letter from William Dorsey
Blake asking for permission to make a dramatization of your
story, "Charm". I have ascertained that Mr. Blake is a young
man who has written one fairly promising but as yet unproduced
play and apparently has nothing else to recommend him. I have
told Mr. Blake that I am writing to ask whether you would be
willing to give him permission to have a try at a dramatization
and perhaps you will let me know what reply you would like me
to make to his request.

From Eric S.Pinker Esqr, 9, East 49th Street New York

April 27th, 1936

Dear Mr. Pinker,

Thanks for your letter of April 22nd.

In the circumstances it seems to me hardly worth
while to authorize a German translation of "Ethan Frome". I
should have to go through the whole translation to be sure that
it satisfied me, and before taking this trouble I should like to
know exactly what the payment would be. If, as I suppose, it is
negligible, I prefer to do nothing about it.

Yours sincerely

May 12th, 1936

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to thank you for your letter
of May 5th on the subject of the second rights of The
World Over.

She wishes me to ask if this term applies, as
she supposes, to continental editions? If so, the matter
is already settled, as she has made an arrangement
with Albatross for continental publication. The term
"second right" is unfamiliar to Mrs. Wharton, and if she
is mistaken in her interpretation, she begs that you
will let her know.

Yours very truly

Secretary

J.R.Pinker Esqr

JAMES B. PINKER & SON
J. RALPH PINKER

LITERARY DRAMATIC & FILM AGENTS

TELEGRAMS & CABLES:
BOOKISHLY, LONDON
TELEPHONE: TEMPLE BAR 7364

TALBOT HOUSE
ARUNDEL STREET
STRAND
LONDON W.C.2

Mrs. Edith Wharton,
Sainte-Claire le Chateau,
Hyeres,
(Var).

20th May, 1936.

Dear Mrs. Wharton,

I write to acknowledge the letter of the 12th May referring to the question of second rights in the stories from The World Over. Actually I wished to refer to the second serial rights, i.e. the right to reprint stories in serial form, in newspapers and magazines such as The Argosy, etc. Certain magazines are always open to reprint stories provided that a certain time has elapsed since they were first published in magazine form and these magazines will often pay quite good fees. I should be glad if you would be kind enough to let me know whether you are willing to allow me to negotiate your stories in this way.

I have to point out however that there is a certain complication here. In some cases, the magazines which originally buy the stories, buy the entire British serial rights. Other magazines buy only the first British serial rights. If the British serial rights were originally sold, then it is no longer possible to re-sell the stories serially on behalf of the author. If only the first British serial rights were sold, the author retains the right to resell the stories serially.

If you are not certain as to which rights were sold and care to let me have the names of the magazines that originally bought the stories over here, I could always find out from the editors what rights were disposed of.

Sincerely yours,

Pavillon Colombe
Saint-Brice-sous-Foret
(Seine-et-Oise)

28 May 1936

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to say that as far as she knows none of her stories have been sold with the entire British serial rights. She has sold a great many to British serials after publication in America, but to make sure will look up the matter, and send you a definite answer in about a fortnight, as she is now travelling.

J.Ralph Pinker Esqr
Talbot House
Arundel Street
Strand London W.C.2.

October 9th, 1936

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Whartons asks me to acknowledge your letter of
Sept. 29th, and to say that you probably received, shortly after,
writing, four more chapters of "The Buccaneers". Mr. Edward Sheldon,
to whom they were sent, and who has acknowledged their receipt
by cable, was to forward them to you immediately after reading
them, and has doubtless done so.

Mrs. Wharton is working very slowly, because she has not
yet recovered her strength sufficiently to write as rapidly as she
used to, and she sees no reason for putting aside other work unless
you can obtain a definite offer for the serial rights of the book.

She is particularly anxious that what she is doing should be up
to the standard of the earlier part of the book, and therefore does
not wish to be hurried; and as she has other work on hand as well,
she does not wish to sacrifice this to the uncertain future of the
Buccaneers". Any magazine editor can easily estimate the book
from what has been done, and of course Mrs. Wharton would put aside
all other work if she had a good offer for this serialization.

Yours very truly

Secretary

Eric S.Pinker Esqr
9, East 46th Street, New York

February 9th, 1937

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to send you by same post, her story, "Week-End", which she hopes you will be able to sell to the best advantage, as she is much in need of earning a little money after her long rest.

Mrs. Wharton wishes me to add that she has in contemplation an article called "A Little Girl's New York", of which I send the introductory page, in order that you may see what it would be. She thinks that this will probably be easy to place in The Atlantic, or one of the other reviews.

Mr. Williams, of Appleton-Wentury Company, whom Mrs. Wharton saw here last week, tells her that magazines are giving much higher prices owing to the fact that they are receiving so many more advertisements, and Mrs. Wharton hopes very much to benefit by this improvement.

She also asks me to say that she will write you fully about "The Buccaneers" in a week or two.

Yours very truly

Secretary

Eric S. Pinker Esqre
9, East 46th Street New York

March 6th, 1937

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Wharton wishes me to enclose a list of
corrections to be made in her article "A Little Girl's
New York", as well as three pages retyped to replace the
ones sent with her story, "Week-End", namely pages 31-33-33,
on which she has made a few verbal changes.

These two manuscripts were sent off in haste,
and Mrs. Wharton begs that you will have these corrections
made for her.

With many thanks,

Yours very truly

Eric S. Pinker

Wickersham 2-0270-1-2-3

Cable Address
Bookishly

February 26, 1937

Dear Mrs. Wharton:

I received your new short story *Week-End* yesterday and am getting to work with it immediately. It is very nice to have a manuscript from you again. While I personally like *Week-End* very much, I fear that it may be a little difficult to sell to the first line magazines as there is among them a deep seated editorial prejudice against anything to do with the supernatural. However, I hope that the merits of the story and the appeal of your name will be sufficient to overcome this prejudice and naturally you may, as always, rely upon my very best efforts upon your behalf.

I also received the introductory page of your proposed article which looks as if it would be extremely interesting. I think that undoubtedly this would find a place in one of the reviews but I believe there also might be a distinct possibility of selling it to one of the big circulation magazines and thus obtain a much better price. I should like to know when I can expect to receive the complete manuscript of the article and how long you plan to make it.

I am very glad to know from Mrs. Friderich's letter that you will be writing me about the *Buccaneers* in a week or two. I am very much afraid that I am not going to be able to make a sale of that without the whole or at least considerably more of the manuscript but when you have finished the story the chances of obtaining a really good price should be excellent.

Mr. Williams called me up on his return and told me of his visit to you and I was delighted to hear from him that you were in such good health.

asn.

Sainte-Claire le Chateau
HYERES

(Var)
France

Hyères, March 6th, 1937

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Wharton has just received your letter acknowledging the receipt of "Week-End", and the first page of "A Little Girl's New York". The article will have reached you by this time, so Mrs. Wharton will await further news from you about it.

She is very much surprised that the American magazines do not now wish for ghost stories, but their demands change so incessantly that she feels it is almost hopeless to meet them. All her ghost stories published in American magazines have aroused much more interest and curiosity than any other stories, judging from the number of letters she always receives after publishing a tale of this kind.

Mrs. Wharton is not quite clear as to the difference existing in America between a review and a magazine. She has no objection to selling the article to a magazine if you recommend her doing so.

I enclose a letter just received from the English representative of the Cosmopolitan Magazine. Mrs. Wharton would be much obliged if you would see Mr. Burton on this matter. She has no "old New York" subject in mind at present, and her feeling is that she has used all her material in this line; but of course a new subject may occur to her at any moment.

Meanwhile she would like to know:

a) Does Mr. Burton ask her to write a story on "appro"? She could hardly do this at present as she is occupied with the last part of "The Buccaneers".

b) The price which she received for the last story of hers, published by Mr. Burton, was $5,000, and she gathers from this letter that the same tariff would be maintained?

Yours very truly

Eric Pinker Esqr

Secretary

NINE EAST FORTY-SIXTH STREET - NEW YORK

Wickersham 2-0270-1-2-3

Cable Address
Bookishly

March 11, 1937

Dear Mrs. Wharton:

I write to let you know that I have received the
manuscript of A LITTLE GIRL'S NEW YORK from Mr.
Sheldon. This is an extremely charming piece
and I hope very much to be able to find a good
and remunerative place for it.

Mr. Sheldon asked me if he could read WEEK-END and I promised to lend him the manuscript if it comes into the office again.

I should like, if I may, to submit a suggestion
to you in regard to this story. I have had one
refusal with the editorial criticism that the
reader is left unsatisfied at the end because
there is no explanation of the mystery either
natural or supernatural. I anticipate that this
is a criticism which may be made in other quarters
and I am wondering whether you would consider
adding something to the end of the story -- per-
haps only a few lines to satisfy the average maga-
zine reader's desire for something at least
approaching a conclusive ending.

esp:w

Wickersham 2-0270-1-2-3

Cable Address
Bookishly

March 18, 1937

Mrs. J. Friderich
Sainte-Claire le Chateau
Hyeres (Var)
France

Dear Mrs. Friderich:

The corrections have arrived for Mrs. Wharton's article A LITTLE GIRL'S NEW YORK and also for the story WEEK-END. We will be glad to add these to the manuscripts.

March 23rd, 1937

Dear Mr. Pinker,

I enclose herewith a new ending of "Week-End".
for the use of magazine morons. Would it help them
if I called the story "All Souls", as I had originally
thought of doing? I leave this to you.

Yours verytruely

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Sainte-Claire le Chateau

HYERES

LORVELL' (Var)

April 23rd, 1937

MUCH IS TOLD IN MOLK AS I CAN SPOT SO GO WHEN JENS IS A FIVE SPUN
OF REBELLION' AND THE TITLES OF THESE IS TO TRUMP ON THE BUCANEES'
BECAUSE I HAVE MISTAKEN IT. I WOULD BE OK TO ADOPT A NEW STYLE

Dear Mr. Pinker,

I have your letter of April 13th, and am surprised

that there is no mention in it of "A Little Girl's New York",

OR I HAVE MET A JESUS FROM ONCE ON THE ISLES'

which you have now had in hand for some time. I mention this
as a reference to some articles' and a few paragraphs to come

because Messrs. Appleton are very anxious for me to write a
FIVE MARCHES ANGELICAE' AND I UNDERSTAND SO WELL THAT IF ANY OF THEM
series of articles on the subject of my childhood in New York
(and elsewhere), but this seems to me useless if I cannot

SEE A COPY OF THE PROPOSED ON THE ISLES IN NEW YORK
place the magazine article. You appeared to think that it

NOTICE MENTION IS MADE OF THEM IN THE ISLES' SO WE MAY BE
would be very easy to dispose of this article, and I am

MUCH AS I WOULD LIKE TO DO SOME TIME. I MEASURED FIVE
BEGINNING TO WONDERS IF I HAVE MISSED A LETTER FROM YOU ABOUT IT
IF YOU DID NOT MENTION IN THE ORIGIN THE VILLAGE IS A NEW YORK'

Will you please tell Mr. Burton that I cannot offer

TO WRITE A STORY WHICH HE MAY, OR MAY NOT, FIND SUITED TO HIS

DEAR MR. BURTON

series after I have written it? I must stick to my positive
engagements, and the first of these is to finish "The Buccaneers
which is slow work as I am able to do much less at a time
than formerly.

WILL YOU MARRY ME?

Yours sincerely

(AveL)

HYERES

GAYLFE-CLARE TO CHURCH

May 8th, 1937

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to enclose a list of alterations to be made in her short story, "All Souls", as well as six pages retyped to replace the ones already existing in the copy, on which she has made a few verbal changes.

The pages are 4 - 11 - 13 - 19 - 22 - 29.

Believe me,

Yours very truly

Secretary

on another page we had to make some changes to the copy - II - 13 - 18 - 28 - 36.

The title should be in bold type, not in italics.

We asked Mr. Wharton to make us a copy of it.

DEAR BYL'

Eric S. Pinker, 9, East 46th street, New York

WASL 8TH 1937

May 8th, 1937

Будьcareful' &' what's the key? Mea dolg

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to enclose a list of
alterations to be made in her short story called "All Souls," and also new copies of pages 4 - 11 - 13 - 19 - 22 - 29, on which she had to be ma

december

XONIS AGILIS PLNTA

BETWEEN US

LYE BARKER IS 4 - 11 - 13 - 18 - 33 - 38.

IN THE COUNTRY ON A HUNGER WIFE, AT HER MOTHER'S CHURCH.

BY HER MOTHER TO LEARN WHAT SHE OUGHT TO EXPLAIN TO HER MOTHER.

WILL MARY LUCY WAKE UP TO SEE ONE OF HER RELATIONS?

MAY 9TH 1937

ALL SOULS:

Page I Change title "Week-End" for "All Souls".

Page 5 line 6 from top: Instead of: "Sara always told", read: "Sara always said."

Page 6 line 8 from bottom: The paragraph should start as follows: "The foot, at first, had not been very painful; but toward".

Page 10 line 9 from top: instead of: "were people so sure that was"
read: "were people so sure that absence of noise was"

Page 12 Line I from bottom: Instead of "ing her downstairs", read: "ing the maid downstairs".

Page 14 line 2 from top: Instead of: "and movement", put "and all movement".

Page 16 line 5 from top: Instead of: "on the Mary Celeste", put: "on board the Mary Celeste".

Page 17 line 8 from top: Instead of: "crashed on the tiles", put "crashed down on the tiles".

Page 26 line 12 from top: Instead of: "And Nixon came himself..."
read: "And Nixon came with the car himself..."

Page 27 line 2 from bottom: Instead of "met coming up", read: "had met coming up".

" " line 7 from bottom: Instead of "been with her for a long" read: "been with Mrs. Clayburn for a long".

June 9th, 1937

Dear Sir,

As you appear not to have been able to arrange for
the serial publication of "All Souls", Mrs. Wharton begs
you to send that story at once to Messrs. Appleton to be
included in a volume of stories called "Ghosts", which they
are preparing for the early autumn.

Believe me,

Yours very truly

July 26th, 1937

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Wharton unfortunately is not sufficiently
well to attend herself to her business correspondence.
I am writing in her name to ask you to enter directly into
communication with Messrs.D.Appleton-Century Co, in order
to ascertain whether any of the stories of the forth-
coming volume, "Ghosts", have already appeared in England.

I could send a duplicate of the manuscript in
galleys, if you desire to have it, for the purpose you
mention.

Believe me, dear Sir,

Yours very sincerely