PAVILLON COLOMBE

7th October, 1921

Rutger B. Jewett Esqr
c/o D. Appleton Company
35, West 32nd Street
New York

Dear Mr. Jewett,

Many thanks for your letter of Sept. 9th which I should have answered sooner if I had not been taking a short holiday in England. I hope soon to hear that the last chapters of "The Glimpses of the Moon" have reached you safely, and that you and Mr. Vance have been amused by the end.

With regard to the publication of "A Son at the Front" you need have no anxiety. The book is still unfinished, and I do not expect to be able to deliver the complete manuscript to Messrs. Scribner before 1923. In any case you may be sure I should not have consented to any arrangement that would have interfered with those already made with you for the publication of "The Glimpses". I appreciate very much all the trouble you have taken in placing my books serially, and in making them known in book form to as many thousands as can be induced to read them, and I earnestly hope that your efforts in this direction will be as successful as regards "The Glimpses" as they have been for "The Age".

I should like to leave the question of the book publication of "The Old Maid" in suspense for two or three months longer, as my doctor insists on a complete rest from writing for the present. As soon as I feel better, and he lifts the embargo, I will write to you on the subject.

Thanks again for your interest and help, and believe me,

Yours sincerely

D. APPLETON & COMPANY,

35 WEST 32ND STREET,
NEW YORK.

LONDON OFFICE 25 BEDFORD ST. COVENT GARDEN
CABLE ADDRESS HILANDERO

October 8, 1921

My dear Mrs Wharton:

The enclosed letter
from Karl Harriman explains why I can
not send you a clean set of proofs for
"The Old Maid." I have, however, sent
forward an unrevised set which may serve
your purpose. Mrs Jones corrected a
set for the magazine. It is these
corrections to which Harriman refers in
the first paragraph of his letter.

The final chapters of
"Glimpses of the Moon" have come, and
go forward to the Pictorial to-day.

Congratulations, not only
upon finishing the work but upon its
triumphant conclusion. For once the
high note of happiness was inevitable, and
I believe the story will equal in popu-
larity the "Age of Innocence."

I have been talking to
the editor of the Saturday Evening Post
about a possible serial from you, or
some short stories. He is definitely
interested. They pay good prices,
and as it is the most popular man's
magazine in the country, I believe it

PAVILLON COLOMBE

22 Octobre 1921

Rutger B. Jewett Esqr

W

Dear Mr. Jewett,

Many thanks for your letter of October 18th, enclosing
one from Mr. Harriman on the subject of the proofs of "The Old
Maid".

Unrevised proofs are of no earthy use to me, as my object
in asking for them is to assure myself that my work does not go
to press, as it did in the case of "The Age of Innocence", packed
with misprints. In this case I shall have to let the magazine
take the risk of these misprints, but I do beg you to let me have
all my book proofs in good time in future. I wish to do all the
proof correcting for my books myself, now that postal difficulties
no longer exist. It is too much to ask of my sister-in-law to
deal with my book proofs, and in fact I did so only because, during
and after the war, the postal delays were so great.

I am glad that you like the end of "The Glimpses of the
Moon". The few friends who have read the manuscript here are much
pleased with it.

With regard to a story or serial for the Saturday Evening
Post, I will write to you as soon as I have had a few months' rest.
If I decide to write another story to balance The Old Maid we might
give them that.

Many thanks for your cable announcing that the final
Pictorial payment for "The Glimpses" has been deposited with the
Lincoln Trust.

I am looking into the matter of the South American transla-
tion of "The Age of Innocence". My French publisher has certainly
not authorized the translation. Does not my English copyright
protect me in South America? Will you kindly let me know about
this?

Yours sincerely

D. APPLETON & COMPANY,

LONDON OFFICE 25 BEDFORD ST. (COVENT GARDEN)
CABLE ADDRESS HILANDERO

October 27, 1921

My dear Mrs Wharton:

Here is another royalty statement.
An additional check will be credited to your ac-
count on November first for $2,675.36.

In examining these royalty accounts
covering sales from January 1, 1921, to June 30,
1921, I am delighted to see that the "Age" has
sold over 20,000 copies and is still selling.
We shall keep it alive during the coming year and
push hard so as to have a market ready for "Glimpses
of the Moon" next July.

I see that "French Ways and Their Meanings",
although the sales are now small, has more than justi-
fied itself and is earning additional royalties.
Some of the earlier books show an advance but I trust
that some day we shall be able to place them on the
right side of the ledger.

The editor of the Red Book was on from
Chicago this week, lunched with me and discussed the
serialization of "The Old Maid" in detail. At present
he plans to run the serial in the magazine during the
spring or early summer of 1922. Keller is working
hard at illustrations and we hope his pictures will
be not only historically correct but a real addition,
instead of a detriment, to the story.

I believe that the best business policy
for you and for us would be to issue "The Old Maid"
first as a separate volume, bringing it out late in
the fall, four or five months after we issue "Glimpses
of the Moon." We could produce "The Old Maid" in
holiday dress, and it would enjoy a special sale during
the Christmas season. The catalogue price would
depend upon the cost of production. If Keller's
pictures are satisfactory, we could include some in
the book.

It will make a small volume, so we can
not pay as much royalty as we would on a full length
novel. I think 15 cents a copy would be a fair
figure for this holiday book.

page two --

My idea is that we can make some extra money for you and for ourselves with this special edition, then some day in the future when you have written a group of stories dealing with old New York, we can include "The Old Maid" in such a collection and carry it on our list in two versions.

Let me know if this plan appeals to you. I have thought long and seriously over the matter and believe this to be the most advantageous plan for us both.

The editor of the Red Book is keen for another short story or novelette. The Saturday Evening Post is interested in a long novel similar to the "Glimpses" or "The Age of Innocence." Do you care to go back to old New York for another long novel, one which you would write after you finish "Their Son at the Front," and the short stories which are now waiting to be written?

As you know, I am holding for you in our safe the opening chapters of "Their Son."

Mrs Wharton

ROYALTY STATEMENT.

FROM JAN 1 1921 TO JUN 30 1921
Mrs Wharton

In Account with D. APPLETON & COMPANY.

29-35 WEST 32ND STREET,
NEW YORK NOV 1 1921 192

AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF TWO YEARS FROM PUBLICATION STATEMENTS
ARE ISSUED ONLY WHEN SALES HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE GIVEN 1/2 YEAR
OR WHEN SPECIAL REQUEST IS MADE BY THE AUTHOR.

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["ROYALTY STATEMENT.", "FROM JAN. 1 1921 TO JUN. 30 1921", "MRS. WHARLON.", "PAVILLON COLOMBE FORMERLY", "'JEAN MARIE'", "ST BRICE SOUS FORET", "S. & O. FRANCE", "In Account with D. APPLETON & COMPANY.", "29-35 WEST 32ND STREET,", "NEW YORK NOV. 1 1921 192", "AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF TWO YEARS FROM PUBLICATION STATEMENTS\nARE ISSUED ONLY WHEN SALES HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE GIVEN 1/2 YEAR\nOR WHEN SPECIAL REQUEST IS MADE BY THE AUTHOR.", "<table><thead><tr><th>TITLE OF BOOK</th><th>NO.SOLD</th><th>PRICE</th><th>RATE</th><th>AMOUNT</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>French Ways and their Meanings</td><td>37</td><td>2.00</td><td>20%</td><td>14.80</td></tr><tr><td>\" \" \" \" \"</td><td>87</td><td>1.50</td><td>20%</td><td>2.61</td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></

["ROYALTY STATEMENT.", "FROM", "TO", "JUN 30 1921", "Mrs. Wharton", "In Account with D. APPLETON & COMPANY.", "29-35 WEST 32ND STREET,", "NEW YORK NOV 1 1921 192", "AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF TWO YEARS FROM PUBLICATION STATEMENTS\nARE ISSUED ONLY WHEN SALES HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE GIVEN 1/2 YEAR\nOR WHEN SPECIAL REQUEST IS MADE BY THE AUTHOR.", "<table><thead><tr><th>TITLE OF BOOK</th><th>NO.SOLD</th><th>PRICE</th><th>RATE</th><th>AMOUNT</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Summer</td><td>25</td><td></td><td>30¢</td><td>750</td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td

D. APPLETON & COMPANY,

November 2, 1921

My dear Mrs Wharton:

English-American copyright
is no more of an obstacle to those
South American pirates than the tissue
paper was to the circus riders of our
youth, who jumped with spurious cour-
age through the hoops. I shall try
to trace the matter down and see if
anything can be done to collect from the
Argentine newspaper.

Harriman will send me page
proofs of "The Old Maid" later on and
I shall forward these to you. After
you have examined them you can return
them to me, to be used as copy for the
compositors when the book is set up."
I wrote last week outlining what seems
to me advantageous plans for publication.

There is absolutely no hurry
for you to make any decisions in ref-
erence to future serials.

My idea would be to sell
Harriman any short story or novelette
of "The Old Maid" period, and take up
the question of a new long serial with

the Saturday Evening Post, whenever your
plans for such a serial mature.

Here is a naive letter which
will amuse you. It was enclosed in a
letter to us. We have sent the progres-
sive hostess a post card photograph such
as we send out for editorial purposes.
Evidently God in his heaven has decided
to make this your proud month with the
Hickory, N.C. Book Club.

Years ago I resolved to take
the advice of a wise cynic and, whenever
a new book was published, read an old
one. I am still under the rekindled
spell of Madame de Treymes. You have
probably forgotten your own pen picture
of her but it has been etched on my
memory for years. What a perfect analysis
of beauty!

Yours faithfully,

Tugten Bleedra Juvan

Mrs Wharton

PAVILLON COLOMBE

9 November 1921

Rutger B. Jewett Esqr
c/o Appleton & C°
35, West 32nd Street
New York

Dear Mr. Jewett,

Many thanks for your kind letter of Oct. 27th, enclosing
my royalty accounts from Jan. to June 30th of this year.

I note that a cheque for $52675.36 was credited to my
account on Nov. 1st, for which also many thanks.

I am very glad to hear of the continued sales of "The
Age of Innocence", and hope that your kind anticipations regard-
ing "The Glimpses of the Moon" will be fulfilled. There are,
by the way, one or two verbal omissions to be filled in of which
I enclose a memorandum herewith.

Manuscript of "A Son at the Front". Will you kindly send this
manuscript to Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, 2I, East 11th Street? With
my mania for verbal revision I have found it necessary to make
a fresh copy for Messrs. Scribner, so the one you have will be
brought back to me by my sister-in-law when she joins me in the
south this winter.

"The Old Maid". With regard to this tale, I am not greatly
inclined to publish it as it stands. It seems to me that in a
volume with one other tale of about the same length, and of the
same setting, the whole to be called perhaps "Old New York", it
would have a much better chance of a good sale. Please let me
think this over a little longer. The tale in question could be
given to The Red Book on the same terms as "The Old Maid".

A novel for "The Saturday Evening Post". I cannot think of beginning to write as yet, but my head is always swimming with subjects, and what interests me particularly at present is the idea of a novel I have long had in mind, to be called "Homo Sapiens". It would be about the son of Newland Archer, who marries Beaufort's illegitimate daughter at the end of "The Age". Newland Archer and the Countess Olenska would reappear, and Homo Sapiens would of course be the omniscient youth of the present date, who has settled in advance all social, religious and moral problems, and yet comes to grief over the same old human difficulties.

Rutger B. Jewett Esqr

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I think I shall write this novel in any case, but I must tell you frankly that if I do it will have to be accepted in advance by whoever wishes to publish it serially. I cannot again be called at the eleventh hour to replace one novel by another, and I have definite offers in advance for anything I may write hereafter.

But all these plans are purely speculative at present, as I expect to rest during the whole winter.

Novels of Dmitry Merejkovsky. I have just heard that Merejkovsky, who is living in Paris, has two or three Russian books which have not yet been translated into English. Knowing the success of his former novels in America, I volunteered to give you the first chance at these books, and have asked to have them sent to you. I have not read them but they all sound interesting. He would be very much obliged if you would kibdly cable if you care to avail yourself of this opportunity, as he wants to offer them to another publisher if they do not interest you; but I suppose they will, as I believe his sales in America have always been very high.

I enclose his card, with the cable address of the American Chamber of Commerce: "Nacirema, Paris". To make the object of the cable clear you might say something of this sort: "Accept Russian novels", and Mr. Walter Berry, the President of the Chamber of Commerce, will know what the cable means, and transmit your answer.

It goes without saying that this answer is to be sent after you have looked at the books!

Thanks again for your letter, and believe me,

Yours sincerely

Hotel de Crillon

Paris, November 18th, 1921

Rutger B. Jewett Esqr
c/o Appleton & Co
35, West 32nd Street
New York

Dear Mr. Jewett,

Many thanks for your letter of Nov. 2nd in which you tell me that you will do what you can about the pirated translation of "The Age of Innocence" by La Prensa.

Thank you also for the kind things you say about "Madame de Treymes". I have not met the lady myself for several years, but your flattering appreciation of her encourages me to renew our old acquaintance at the earliest opportunity.

It was very good of you to send my photograph to the poor lady at Hickory, N.C. The letter was so touching that I should not have liked to leave it unanswered, and you did just the right thing.

Yours sincerely

28 November 1921

Dear Sirs,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to enclose herewith a
cheque for -12½ in payment of twocopies of "The Age
of Innocence", and begs to say that the books have not
yet arrived.

Believe me,

Yours very truly

Messrs. Appleton & Co
25, Bedford Street
Londres W.C.2.

D. APPLETON & COMPANY,

November 29, 1921

Dear Mrs Wharton:

Many thanks for your good letters of
November 9 and 18, also for reminding me of Dmitry
Merejkovsky's fine work. I am having a careful
survey made to find out which books are open for the
American market. As you know, some of his earlier
stories have been published here. Thank you for
asking to have the new novels sent me. I shall
have them read as soon as they arrive and cable the
author through Mr Walter Berry. Who will send
these French editions to me?

Glimpses of the Moon. -- I sent your
additional data to the editors of the Pictorial so
that the verbal omissions are now supplied.

Manuscript for "Their Son at the Front."--
This has been sent to Mrs Cadwalader Jones.

Old New York. -- Take your own time in
making the decision as to the contents of this volume.
There is something to be said for both styles of format.
"The Old Maid", although a novelette, is strong enough
to stand as a unit if you think best. It could be
issued like "Madame de Treymes" or "Ethan Frome."
On the other hand, if the companion story is in the
nature of a sequel, or supplements the earlier story,
there might be value in issuing the two together.
Opposed to this plan is the prejudice on the part of
the bookseller against a collection of short stories
published in book form. He would put in this cate-
gory two stories bound in the same volume. Perhaps
you plan more than two stories of "Old New York."

Saturday Evening Post Serial. -- You are
quite right in demanding that the story arranged for
in advance be accepted. I cannot imagine an editor
expecting to contract for a serial upon any other basis.
The Pictorial Review episode was an abnormal case, due

December 12th 1921

Dear Mr. Jewett,

Many thanks for your letter of Nov. 29th. With regard
to Merejkovsky's novel, Mr. Walter Berry sent them to you some
time ago and you ought to have received them soon after
writing.

Old New York.- I am rather discouraged by your saying that you
think two stories of about 30.000 words in one volume would
rank as a volume of short stories in the eyes of the booksellers.
Since my return here I have begun a story which is not a sequel
of "The Old Maid" but a rather dramatic episode in the setting
of the New York of the seventies. I will send it to you in
any case when it is finished as I think it ought to sell well
for magazine publication; but of course if you still think,
after reading it, that it will interfere with the success of "The
Old Maid", it had better be published in some other form. I
still think that under the name of Old New York the two would
do well, on account of the local colour. I do not think it
would be necessary to add any more story to the volume.

It is very restful to be here again, and I am defying
the doctor's orders and working regularly. I hope I shall be
able to keep it up.

Yours sincerely

Hyères, 26 January 1922

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Wharton has just heard through Mrs.Cadwalader
Jones that you wish a duplicate copy of the Glimpses of the
Moon. Mrs. Wharton did not understand that a copy would be
required, and has none ready, but I will send it to you in
batches of a few chapters as quickly as possible beginning next
week.

Believe me,

Rutger B. Jewett Esqr
35, West 32nd Street
New York City

30 January 1922

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to say that she is sending you
today, by post, the first nine chapters of the new copy of
"The Glimpses of the Moon" (page I to page 77 inclusive).

Believe me,

Yours very truly

Secretary.

Rutger B. Jewett Esqr
c/° D. Appleton Company
35, West 32nd Street
New York.

D. APPLETON & COMPANY,

6 February 1922

My dear Mrs Wharton:

The editors of the Pictorial Review hold on to their copy of "Glimpses of the Moon" so firmly that I was forced to ask Mrs Jones to secure a duplicate manuscript from you if possible.

The original copy is being used by the magazine illustrator and compositors, and they can not let us have it for composition until the closing installment is complete. This would make it impossible for us to send you proofs of the book in time for satisfactory proof reading. It is to avoid needless rush and pressure at your end of the line that I wish a carbon or duplicate copy of manuscript.

Our salesmen started out in January and are selling the "Glimpses" from an advance sample copy. We feel that this book will repeat and perhaps surpass the success of the "Age of Innocence." It will be our leading novel of the year and we shall do everything in our power to make a big success of it.

Here are a few newspaper clippings which may amuse you, one dealing with censorship of books, the other with the seating of Senator Newberry, - disgraceful performance.

How is the companion story to "The Old Maid" progressing? If the new story is as long as the earlier one, I believe your suggestion of combining the two in one volume to be the best plan of publication. They can be issued under the general title, "Old New York" and could be published early in 1923, after the "Glimpses of the Moon" has had the field.

Mrs Asquith holds the center of the stage at present in New York. She talks twaddle but the public crowds the hall and pays big prices to hear her. I do not know whether vanity or poverty has put her on the platform. There is not much honor in the performance for either her or her audience.

Mrs Wharton

15th February 1922

Dear Mr. Jewett,

I write to tell you how sorry I am for the delay in
sending you the copy of "The Glimpses of the Moon". Just
after the last chapters were sent my Remington broke down,
and has only just been repaired. You have seen Hyères, and
you judge how impossible it is to have a typewriter mended
here, and how difficult more impossible to hire another.

I am finishing the last pages of my second story,
"New Year's Day", and will send you this manuscript as soon
as the copy of "The Glimpses of the Moon" is finished, which
will be in about ten days.

Yours very sincerely

D. APPLETON & COMPANY,

20 February 1922

My dear Mrs Wharton:

Two install-
ments of the GLIMPSES have
arrived, -- 17 chapters in all.

I am delighted
and know that this will save you
much pressure of work later on.
We can have these opening chap-
ters set up in type and send you
galley proofs so that you will
not be working under the guns.

Many thanks.

24 February 1922

Dear Mr. Jewett,

I write this line to say that, in the absence
from New York of Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, I authorize you
to represent me in any transaction concerning the dramatiza-
tion of my novels or theirATERPRODUCTION.

Believe me,

Yours sincerely

25 February 1922

Dear Mr. Jewett,

I am sending you by post today the concluding chapters
of "The Glimpses of the Moon" (from chapter XVIII inclusive
to the end of the book).

I have left in blank the name of the picture-show at
which Nat Fulmer's paintings are exhibited because I do no
longer know the names of the fashionable New York shows. My
sister-in-law will be here soon, and she will fill this omission
for me.

Next week I will send you my new story, "New Year's Day".
If, as I imagine, the Fifth Avenue Hotel still exists I think
it would be better to change the name of the hotel in the story,
and I will find a name as soon as possible. You will see that
in this tale I have put in parenthesis under the title "The
'Seventies", and I think it would be useful to put under the
title of the "Old Maid", "The 'Forties". Of course it is not
necessary to use these sub-titles for magazine publication, but
only when the stories are joined together in a volume.

My sister-in-law writes to ask me to authorize you by
letter to represent me during her absence in any theatrical or
film transaction; so I enclose a separate letter for that
purpose.

Thank you for kindly assuming this charge (though I
fancy it will be a sinecure), and believe me,

Yours sincerely

D. APPLETON & COMPANY,

1 March 1922

My dear Mrs Wharton:

Congratulations upon
bringing NEW YEAR'S DAY to a triumphant
finish, in spite of broken Remingtons
and the general cussedness of inanimate
things.

I have written acknowledging
two installments of copy for GLIMPSES
OF THE MOON and am now looking forward
to receiving the outstanding chapters
of the novel, also manuscript for NEW
YEAR'S DAY, when typewritten.

I shall offer the new story
first to the editors of the Red Book,
as they issued THE OLD MAID. The editor
of the Delineator is also interested
and has asked for a chance at one of
your novels or novelettes.

I have mailed you two monthly
issues of the Red Book, containing in-
stallments of your story; the third
issue will finish the serial.

Magazine proofs of the open-
ing chapters of GLIMPSES OF THE MOON

Sainte-Claire-du-Chateau
HYERES
Var

10 March 1922

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to say that she has answered
the letter enclosed in yours of Feb. 24th, (a request to
publish "With the Tide").

She hopes that "New Year's Day" will reach you safely
and promptly. She has just been reminded that the Fifth
Avenue Hotel was turned down nearly twenty years ago, and
she therefore sees no objection to using its name in her
story.

Yours very truly

Secretary.

Rutger B.Jewett Esqr
35, West 32nd Street
New York.

Sainte-Claire-du-Chateau

HYERES. Var

Hyères, March 11th, 1922

Dear Sir,

In answer to your letter just received, Mrs. Wharton wishes me to say that she is very sorry not to have another photograph to send you for the moment. She will try to get one done in a few days, and if she obtains a good result she will not fail to send one to you.

Believe me,

Yours very truly

Secretary.

Messrs. D. Appleton & Co
25, Bedford Street
Covent Garden
London.

D. APPLETON & COMPANY,

21 March 1922

My dear Mrs Wharton:

NEW YEAR'S DAY. -- The two packages containing manuscript of "New Year's Day" have just arrived. I shall read the story at once and send it forward to the editor of the Red Book. I promised him the first chance at the story as he had purchased "The Old Maid." Congratulations upon finishing the new story. Here's hoping I may place it for you advantageously as a serial.

GLIMPSES OF THE MOON. -- The first twenty-four galleys have gone forward to you, more follow this week. I enclose some queries which have been raised by the proof readers, so I send them forward for you to consider when revising galley proofs.

I also enclose an extraordinary request from the Chairman of the Publicity Committee of the American Institute of Banking. It reminds me of one of Joe Jefferson's favorite yarns which he was fond of telling at the supper table at the Players Club. I have pinned a copy of this story to the request from the bank.

When you return the corrected galleys, please remember to send back the original manuscript with the proofs, so that we can check up the errors with the compositor.

If Mrs Jones is with you, please remember me to her most kindly.

Yours faithfully,

Mrs Wharton

23 Mars 1922

Dear Mr. Jewett,

Many thanks for your letter of March 10th with
the amusing enclosures.

My sister-in-law, who has arrived, is rather vague
about the names of fashionable picture-shows in New York,
so I should be much obliged if you would make a suggestion.
I do not think the exhibition should be a "one man" show,
as the painter is not supposed to have reached sufficiently
importance at that time; his success dates from the fact of
his picture having been discovered at the exhibition by a
critic who writes about it.

Many thanks for answering the Alabama letter for me.
What rubbish all that sort of thing is, and how sham "culture"
keeps back the real thing.

Yours sincerely

P.S.- I assume that you regard the letter of Mrs. or Miss
Cutting as a joke, and not as requiring an answer. It seems
to me one of the most monstrous growth which American
editorial effort has as yet evolved.

D. APPLETON & COMPANY,

March 30, 1922

My dear Mrs Wharton:

## GLIMPSES OF THE MOON. --

All galley proofs have gone forward. You will find on these proofs queries raised by the compositors. Here are additional points raised by the proof reader.

After you have examined these proofs, let me know whether it will be necessary to send page proofs. We can have your corrections checked up in our own proof reading department if this is satisfactory to you, and it will save much time. If the errors in the galleys are slight it should not be necessary for you to read a second set of proofs.

## NEW YEAR'S DAY. --

This story is being read by the editor of the Red Book. In this story you placed Ouida's novels and the New Republic in the same period. Would it not be well to substitute the Nation or North American Review for the New Republic, as this magazine has been in existence only a few years.

I have acknowledged the enclosed letter, stating that you were in Europe.

Mrs Wharton

DU CHATEAU

April 5th, 1922

Dear Mr. Jewett,

Many thanks for your letter of March 21st.

New-Year's Day.- I am glad the story has reached you, and
hope that you will be able to do as well by it as you have
by its predecessors.

Glimpses of the Moon.- Chapters I to have been revised,
revised, and will be returned by this post. I return here-
with your proof-readers' enquiries; and may I suggest that
it will save me some inconvenience if your proof-readers will
confine themselves to correcting obvious misprints (which they
always overlook), and will not in any way interfere with my
manuscript. There has been much unnecessary labour in re-
correcting their corrections in the chapters already printed,
and I must beg you again to have it understood once for all
that I prefer my spelling and punctuation to theirs. It is
only a loss of time for both of us if my copy is scribbled
over by their suggestions before going to the printer.

The letter of the Bankers Publicity Committee had an
immense success at a small dinner which I went to yesterday
evening. I have received nothing so good in this line since
the President of the Orangine Company made me an Honorary
member of the Orangine Club because I had mentioned their
drug (in the House of Birth.)

Yours sincerely

P.S.- My sister-in-law is with me and thanks you for your
message of remembrance.

April 11th, 1922

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to answer your letter of March
30th for her, as she is just leaving Hyères tomorrow morning
for a few days.

<u>Glimpses of the Moon.</u> - She will take note of the suggestions
made by the proof-readers in revising the proofs, all of
which have now been received.

<u>New Year's Day.</u> - "The New Republic" mentioned in New Year's
Day was Mallock's of that name, which created a great sensation
when it appeared. Mrs. Wharton thinks it came out in the
Seventies.

<u>Page-proofs of The Glimpses of the Moon.</u> - Mrs. Wharton would
decidedly prefer to have the page proofs sent to her.

Yours truly

Secretary.

Rutger B. Jewett Esqr
Appleton & Company
35, West 32nd Street
New York.

THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS

Mrs. Edith Wharton
Chateau Sainte-Claire
Hyères, France

D. APPLETON & COMPANY,

27 April 1922

My dear Mrs Wharton:

Yesterday I closed contracts with the editor of the Red Book Magazine for your short story, NEW YEAR'S DAY. There were several points which called for negotiation but finally I sold the story for $6,000.00.

NEW YEAR'S DAY is shorter than THE OLD MAID by more than five thousand words, so the rate of payment is the same or better for the new story. The editors found the theme of NEW YEAR'S DAY a trifle strong for home circulation. They were a bit fearful of offending subscribers, but their desire to have a companion story to THE OLD MAID, and the masterly manner in which you told the story finally won the day.

I am glad, for several reasons. I did not wish to be forced to show the story to more than one editor; moreover, I thought it was good business policy to issue this new story in the same magazine which had published the earlier story.

The magazine is made up for long in advance. The editors do not know exactly when they can print the story but they agree to pay the six thousand dollars this summer, in three installments, beginning in June. As the checks are received I shall notify you and have them deposited in your bank as usual.

The magazine editors wish to know if you are planning to write another story of Old New York. What have you on your desk at present?

For book publication a third story, if it dealt with approximately the same period of New York life, might be desirable. The two stories would make a book of only fifty thousand words. This is long enough for a short volume but another story, if it fitted into the series, would make a better selling proposition in book form. There is no hurry about this as we should not issue the volume before the autumn of 1923.

E.W. -- page two --

Page proofs of GLIMPSES OF THE MOON are now going forward to you in installments. When the manuscript was sent to the compositors, instructions were given that your spelling and punctuation were to be followed absolutely, and that corrections could be made by you later in galley proofs if desired. Type-setters, however, as we all know by bitter experience, have certain rules which, like those of the Medes and Persians, are followed and all special requests ignored. I am sorry you were subjected to the annoyance of restoring your own spelling in the proof.

The best picture exhibition of the year, also the most fashionable, is known as the National Academy. I suggest that you select this exhibition for the one which you mention in GLIMPSES OF THE MOON.

I know you would enjoy Miss Cutting's literary suggestions. If memory does not play me false, she wished you to write personal opinions on the problem of "Father and Son." I feel ignored and had hoped to be asked to write on the subject of "Mother and Daughter."

Please remember me to Mrs Cadwalader Jones. I enjoyed a jolly dinner and opera party at her home one evening this month with your most delightful niece.

Under separate cover I am sending you Valentine's Manual of Old New York. It contains some illustrations, cuts, programs, etc. which may interest you. Some of the material is appalling stuff; on the other hand, you will find some things of value.

A few days ago I sent you a copy of ABBE PIERRE, one of the books on our spring list which has been received most kindly by the critics and the reading public. I hope you will discover merit in it.

Yours faithfully,

Rupin Blunderblass

Mrs Wharton

ROYALTY STATEMENT.

FROM

JUL 1 1921

TO

DEC 31 1921

MRS. WHARTON

PAVILLON COLOMBE FORMERLY

JEAN MAF E

ST BRICE SOUS FORET

S & O. FRANCE

29-35 WEST 32ND STREET,

NEW YORK

1922

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["ROYALTY STATEMENT.", "FROM", "JUL 1 1921", "TO", "DEC 31 1921", "Mrs. Wharton", "In Account with D. APPLETON & COMPANY.", "29-35 WEST 32ND STREET,", "NEW YORK 192", "AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF TWO YEARS FROM PUBLICATION STATEMENTS\nARE ISSUED ONLY WHEN SALES HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE GIVEN 1/2 YEAR\nOR WHEN SPECIAL REQUEST IS MADE BY THE AUTHOR.", "<table><thead><tr><th>TITLE OF BOOK</th><th>NO.SOLD</th><th>PRICE</th><th>RATE</th><th>AMOUNT</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>The Marne</td><td>5</td><td>150</td><td>20%</td><td>150</td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><

["ROYALTY STATEMENT.", "FROM JUL. 1 1921 TO DEC. 31, 1921", "Mrs. Wharton", "In Account with D. APPLETON & COMPANY.", "29-35 WEST 32ND STREET,", "NEW YORK MAY 1 1922", "AFTER THE EXPIRATION OF TWO YEARS FROM PUBLICATION STATEMENTS\nARE ISSUED ONLY WHEN SALES HAVE BEEN MADE IN THE GIVEN 1/2 YEAR\nOR WHEN SPECIAL REQUEST IS MADE BY THE AUTHOR.", "<table><thead><tr><th>TITLE OF BOOK</th><th>NO.SOLD</th><th>PRICE</th><th>RATE</th><th>AMOUNT</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>The Reef</td><td>29</td><td></td><td>30¢</td><td>870</td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td

D. APPLETON & COMPANY

35 WEST 32ND STREET
NEW YORK

2 May 1922

My dear Mrs Wharton:

The enclosed statement
shows the amount of royalty earned to
the end of December, 1921. A check of
$3,689.87 has been deposited with the
~~Lincoln Trust~~ Company to your account.

Page proofs of GLIMPSES
OF THE MOON have all been mailed to you.

Best wishes to Mrs Cadwalader
Jones. Tell her that Paderewski is back
from California. I dined with him last
evening and found him depressed, worried
over the fate of Poland. No wonder.
For eccentricity of thought, diversity of
opinion, and conflicting plans, Poland
is equalled only by Ireland. I remember
old Lord Waredale telling me once that
if you got two Poles together you had
three opinions immediately.

May 9th, 1922

Dear Mr. Jewett,

Many thanks for your letter of April 27th telling me that you have sold "New Year's Day" to the Red Book Magazine. The arrangement you have made is perfectly satisfactory to me, and I am most grateful to you for taking so much trouble.

With regard to a third story for the Old New York volume it is not impossible that I may write one between now and next year. If I do I will let you know in good time.

I note that the page proofs of "The Glimpses of the Moon" are on their way — and this reminds me that the other day I received from my niece (with whom I am glad to know that you have been spending a pleasant evening) a newspaper cutting about the serial publication of the book in which the title is given as "Glimpses of the Moon". As I suppose the notice emanated from the Red Book I should be ever so much obliged if you would kindly ask the editor not to drop out the article. I don't like trifling with quotations from Shakespeare, and especially from Hamlet, and "The Glimpses of the Moon" it is and must be.

As I see that the last number of the serial publication appears in August, I suppose you are keeping to your plan of bringing out the book in July. If the advance sales are encouraging, I should be extremely obliged if you saw your way to passing me somewhat larger advance royalty than you originally contemplated. It is simply a question of wishing to profit by the exchange, and if I venture to make the suggestion it is because I know that I can get practically any advance royalty I like from other publishers.

I hope the prognostications regarding the sale of The Glimpses of the Moon continue to be as favourable as when you last wrote.

Thank you ever so much for finding the right picture-exhibition for my painter.

Yours sincerely

17 May 1922

Dear Mr. Jewett,

Many thanks for your letter of May 2nd enclosing
royalty statements to the end of December 1921. I have
already received a notice from the Lincoln Trust Company,
advising me of the deposit of your cheque for $3,689.87, for
which all my thanks.

Believe me,

Yours sincerely

Rutger B. Jewett Esqr
35, West 32nd Street
New York.

May 25th 1922

Dear Sirs,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to say that she tried to have
a snapshot portrait enlarged but it was a failure. She will
try to be photographed again before leaving here, and if the
result is successful, will send you one at once.

She asks me to call your attention to the fact that
the title of her forthcoming novel is "The Glimpses of the
Moon" and not "Glimpses of the Moon".

Believe me,

Yours truly

Secretary.

Messrs. Appleton & Co
25, Bedford Street
Covent Garden
London

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS:
"HILANDERO, WESTRAND, LONDON."
TELEPHONE,
GERRARD 6283.

D. APPLETON & COMPANY,

25, BEDFORD STREET,
COVENT GARDEN, LONDON.

Wednesday, 24th May, 1942.

MADAMOISELLE JEANNE DUPRAT,
Sainte-Claire-du-Chateau,
HIMERES, Var.
S.FRANCE.

Dear Madamoiselle Duprat,

Some considerable time ago you very kindly
said that if there was a new photograph of Mrs Wharton
available, you would let us know ; but as we have not
heard from you, we venture to remind you that we are
hoping shortly to publish some of the moon, and should
be glad to have any photograph or material which we could
use in the public press.

If there is anything special in the place of
review copies that Mrs Wharton should like to attend to,
we shall be pleased to hear from you as soon as possible
so that we can have the matter settled in hand.

Very sincerely yours,
D. Appleton & Company

THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON

To be sent to:

Mrs. Max Farrand
Reef Point
Bar Harbour, Maine

Royal Cortiádoz Esqre
70, Fifth Avenue
New York

Miss F.E.Thayer
60, West 10th Street
New York

The Hon. Robert Grant
211, Bay State Road
Boston, Mass

Mrs. G.C.Lodge
Nahant
Mass.

Sinclair Lewis Esqre
(care of his publishers)

F. Crowninshield Esqr
 Editor of "Vogue")

Mrs. R.T. Auchmuty
Lenox
Mass.

Miss Sara Norton
19, Chestnut Street
Boston.

D. APPLETON & COMPANY,

1 June 1922

Dear Mrs Wharton:

Upon receipt of your letter of May 9th, we changed the title of the new book to "The Glimpses of the Moon." We had followed the magazine title in our original plans, finding the shorter title more advantageous in many respects, and not realising that you had any decided preference in the matter, as in many of your letters you had referred to the story as "Glimpses of the Moon." Change of title has been ordered, however, so that in the book it will appear as you desire it, and I have requested the magazine editor to change it in future instalments.

The enclosed letter from Karl Harriman, Editor of the Red Book Magazine, speaks for itself. I shall hope to receive the first check and deposit to your account by the end of this week or the first of next.

Valentine's Manual is a mad mixture; I am glad you found it of interest. Harriman will rejoice if it prompts you to write another story of Old New York.

I have already sent you forward his prayer that the next story be less strong in theme. No magazine editor can disregard the tastes and prejudices of his subscribers, who contract in advance for a year's supply of magazines. As Harriman stated his case, he made a contract with his readers that they could place the Red Book for the coming year on the round center table under the library lamp, to be enjoyed by the whole family. This, he states, places certain obligations on his soul, which he is bound to fulfil. If a story is too frank, it means letters of protest and loss of subscribers.

I have several requests on file from editors. Outside the yellow group of Hearst periodicals there are comparatively few magazines that pay the prices which I have been securing for your serials and short stories, so I do not bother with any requests from any sources which cannot pay top-notch prices. Here are some trails which are worth following:-

W. -- page 2 --

1. Ladies' Home Journal. -- They pay good prices but can print only certain types of stories, never anything that deals too frankly with the sex problem.

2. Saturday Evening Post. -- This magazine prefers modern stories, preferably of American life. A magazine for men rather than for women, which means that more frankness is permitted than for the Ladies' Home Journal, but they have not the same freedom that is granted in the Red Book or Pictorial Review.

3. Woman's Home Companion. -- A good medium, can pay high prices, not afraid of sex when handled in a serious way, especially if some moral lesson is included.

4. Pictorial Review. -- You know the make-up of this magazine.

5. Delineator. -- Can pay high prices; are almost as restricted in choice of stories as the Ladies' Home Journal.

6. Red Book. -- The editors are interested in anything you write, but at present prefer stories of Old New York which fit in with the stories already purchased.

I have discussed the possibilities of future work with the editors of all the above magazines, as well as others, which I do not consider seriously at present. When you have time, let me know what short stories you have under way, also when you will begin a new serial.

I should like to place one of your big serials with the Woman's Home Companion, where Margaret Deland's latest novel appeared serially. The Delineator will also pay me a big price for a serial if the general theme squares with their editorial policy.

We shall have "The Glimpses of the Moon" ready for book publication by the time the magazine has issued the closing instalment and shall rush the book out upon the market immediately. The men are selling it well from advance samples all over the country. One of our salesmen is now on the Pacific Coast, another starts for the Gulf States next week, and by the end of the summer the other men will have covered the Mississippi Basin, New England, and the Eastern states.

In order that you may take advantage of foreign exchange, we shall be only too glad to pay some additional advance royalty when the book is issued.

Every good wish to you and Mrs Jones, if she is with you.

Mrs Wharton

6 June 1922

Dear Mrs Wharton:

Yesterday the Red Book Magazine sent us the first check, part payment, for your story NEW YEAR'S DAY. We cabled you that we had deposited the check to your account.

The editor of the Pictorial Review wishes me to write you that "The Glimpses of the Moon" has been very successful as a serial, even more popular than "The Age of Innocence." He wishes to know what your plans are for your next story. He would like to secure another serial from you, preferably a novel of to-day with the background of New York society.

I have been talking with the representative of another magazine and if you write a novel which squares with their editorial plans I can get for you twenty thousand dollars, or perhaps more. Their preference is for a story somewhat similar to the one desired by the Pictorial, namely, a novel of modern New York society life. The happy whimsical ending of "The Glimpses of the Moon" was of especial value in serial form.

Have you a new novel in mind? If so, please send me a rough outline as you have done in the past with other stories.

Last week I sent you a detailed statement showing what type of story was desired by the magazines paying big prices.

Please examine the enclosed memorandum from our Treasurer and let me know just what you wish me to do in reference to the wording of cables.

The enclosed clipping is subject for grim amusement.

Yours very sincerely,

Mrs Wharton
Pavillon Colombe
St. Brice sous Foret
France

June 6, 1922.

Mr. Jewett:-

In sending cables to Mrs. Wharton advising her of deposits made to her account, I suggest that we arrange with her that our cables to her only give the sums deposited.

This would mean a considerable saving to her in cable charges during the course of the year and I imagine she will know from previous advices about when collections on serials are to be made and on what stories.

For example; have just received from the RED BOOK MAGAZINE $2,000, if we cabled her as follows:

WHARTON
MUNROE
PARIS

TWO THOUSAND

APPLETON

She would know from this that we have collected and deposited the sum of $2,000 and would know how properly to check it up on her account. Your advice confirming the deposit of these checks I imagine goes to her promptly and in any event she would not be without definite information longer than a week or ten days.

The cable going today is a little more descriptive than suggested above so that she will know that it is the RED BOOK check which we are depositing.

I am making the above suggestion so that you may write about it if it is worth while.

D. APPLETON & COMPANY

35 WEST 32ND STREET
NEW YORK

23 June 1922

Dear Mrs Wharton:

The third instalment of "The Glimpses of the Moon" has just been put on the news-stands. The closing instalment will be out by the middle of July and we plan to get the book on the market at the same time.

The editors make up the magazine months in advance, and therefore were not able to change the title. They were sorry that they had shortened it but said they could not change back now.

Best wishes,

Yours very sincerely,

Puga Bleachin

Mrs Wharton

26 June 1922

Dear Mr. Jewett,

In answering your letter of June 6th, I fear that I forgot to reply to the memorandum from your Treasurer suggesting an abridged formula for cabling the sums deposited to my credit at the Lincoln Trust Company.

I think the suggestion an excellent one, and it is understood henceforth that whenever you deposit a sum for me, from whatever source, your cable will simply give the amount (for instance, "two thousands"), and all details will be given by letter. As I usually know in advance from what source the sum in question is likely to come, I see no difficulty in omitting details in the cable.

Yours sincerely

Rutger B. Jewett Esqr
D.Appleton & Company
35, West 32nd Street
New York.

D. APPLETON & COMPANY,
PUBLISHERS.

29-35 WEST 32ND STREET.
NEW YORK.

LONDON OFFICE: 25 BEDFORD ST. (COVENT GARDEN)
CABLE ADDRESS, HILANDERO

29 June 1922

Dear Mrs Wharton:

Three cheers; I am perfectly delighted with the plan of the new story of Old New York. I shall give Harriman the theme when I see him. In the meantime I am busy collecting the additional payments for NEW YEAR'S DAY.

The book market for THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON will be open between the middle and the end of July. We shall have the volume ready and shall publish as soon as the last instalment of the magazine is on the newsstands. I think you will like the appearance of the book. The cover is dignified and the paper jacket will catch the eye of the hurried shopper as well as the book lover who is examining copies of new publications.

I have sent you two lists of magazines where future serialization is possible and profitable. It reads like a dull catalogue of ships, but for your next full length novel I plan to secure a price which will swell your bank account twenty thousand dollars or more.

Perhaps it is difficult for you to sense the limitations which bind the magazine editor. They are not the only victims of the bromidic taste and the moral tremors of our dear reading public. One of our novels was strangled because youth and innocence was led astray by a young priest. The public would have stood for a villain had he been a painter or a writer, but I have a sneaking idea that with the world to choose from, neither artist or poet would be so restricted in his selection of a victim as the priest, and perhaps the story was more true to life as planned by the author of the tale.

In a recent issue of the Publishers Weekly I note that a grand jury in New Zealand has just found a publisher guilty of blasphemy because he included *In his paper a poem of Sassoon's*. Stewart & Kidd, one of our American publishers, was recently fined a thousand dollars for selling unexpurgated editions of

6 July 1922

Dear Mrs Wharton:

A representative of one of the
popular magazines has come forward with a very good
and definite offer for a serial. The editors
wish a novel picturing fashionable American life.
They will be satisfied with any period that best
pleases you, but prefer a story of to-day. On
the other hand, a story of Old New York, or even
of the period of "The House of Mirth" will be
satisfactory for serialization.

For a full length serial, which means
80,000 words or over, they will make a contract
which will net you $22,500. Will you be able to
write such a story and deliver the manuscript
within a year?

This is an exceedingly good offer.
The magazine has a clientele similar to the Pic-
torial Review and the Woman's Home Companion, and
is a good medium for your next serial.

Have you any photographs of the Pavillon
Colombe, - anything that will show the house or
garden? Also if possible a new photograph of
yourself, an informal kodak picture taken in your
library or garden would be of service.

If we can send out such a photograph
with copies of the new book, the editors in making
up the literary pages will use pictures to illus-
trate the review of the book. This gives extra
prominence to the review and in many cases will
secure first position in the review section.
I hope you can send me something by the return mail.

You are quite right about young Stewart.
He is a man of high promise. His comic "History",
like most parodies, was too long and not so funny
in execution as in general plan. I owe him
several good laughs, however, I remember how
thoroughly I enjoyed the suggestion that the discovery
of America was due to King Ferdinand's jealousy of

D. APPLETON & COMPANY

35 WEST 32ND STREET
NEW YORK

7 July 1922

Dear Mrs Wharton:

The editors of the Red Book write that they will send us the second check for NEW YEAR'S DAY early next week. You may therefore expect a cable from us announcing the amount deposited about the 11th or 12th of July.

The next check to be deposited will be the advance royalty for "The Glimpses of the Moon." Here's hoping that we may be able to swell your account with a goodly amount about July 22nd or 24th.

Pavillon Colombe
Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt
Seine-et-Oise

July 18th, 1922

Dear Mr. Jewett,

I have your letters of July 6th and 17th, and will
answer the long one, of the 6th, in a day or two. I am not
very well and this is only a line to say that, with my usual
thoughtlessness, I have forgotten to have a snapshot of
myself taken. I am sending you a photograph of the Pavillon
Colombe, which is much more interesting, and which I hope
will reach you in time.

Yours very sincerely

Rutger B. Jewett Esqr
c/o Appleton & Co
35, West 32nd Street
New York.

CHELLE MARGEMOISETTE'

July 19th 1922

Dear Mr. Jewett,

Many thanks for your letter of July 10th notifying me
of the second payment of the Red Book on the serial publication
of "New Year's Day".

Six copies of "The Glimpses of the Moon" came yesterday,
so I suppose the book has appeared sooner than you intended
when you wrote, unless the six copies are all "advanced". Thank
you very much for sending them. The make up of the book is
very good, and I have found very few misprints. I will send
you a list for future printings when I have read the book more
thoroughly.

Yours very sincerely

Rutger B. Jewett Esqr
c/° Appleton & C°
35, West 32nd Street
New York.

125 West 12th. Street, City

July 17, '22

Dear Rutger:—

Good, glad news! We will hear later what train you want us to take on Saturday. I hope we get another spell of weather such as we had over the past weekend at Pawling.

I agree with Mrs. Gerould about the Wharton book. I have said in my review that I think it is her best work. It's really a wonderful piece of work, and the deuce of a good story besides. I believe my review appears next Sunday in the Herald. I guess Smyth will feature the Gerould review.

It will be fine to see you, and to be back at your FARM.

19 July 1922

Dear Mrs Wharton:

The enclosed letter is from Hildegarde Hawthorne, grand-daughter of our friend, the creator of "The Scarlet Letter."

We have arranged to have "The Glimpses of the Moon" reviewed by Katharine Gerould in the Times book supplement, and by Hildegarde Hawthorne for the Herald book supplement, on Sunday, July 23rd. Their opinions have no bearing upon the merit of the novel; their printed word, however, is of vast importance from the point of view of publicity, as both the Herald and the Times issue book supplements which are copied by other papers throughout the country, and therefore have a wide influence.

It is for this reason that I was keen to have advance copies of the book placed in the hands of critics who would understand something of what you had in mind in writing the story. I have reason to believe from what I hear from Mrs Gerould and from Hildegarde Hawthorne that both reviews will be friendly and favorable. This is very satisfactory and should produce good reviews in other papers and literary journals. Critics, like clerks in the book shop, are like sheep and follow more or less as led. If we can get "The Glimpses of the Moon" included on the list of best sellers early in the game, everybody will sing its praises and pass on the good word.

Publicity is a weird game. Many a fine book has been strangled at birth because some critic writing for an important publication, has been prejudiced against the theme of the style, or perhaps because his breakfast coffee disagreed with him.

By the first of next week we shall have the advance sales report in and checked up, and I shall cable you the amount which we have been able to credit to your bank account. Here's trusting the amount will please us both; I believe it will.

Mrs Wharton

D. APPLETON & COMPANY

35 WEST 32ND STREET
NEW YORK

24 July 1922

Dear Mrs Wharton:

Here is Mrs Gerould's
review.

I have just cabled you that we have deposited twelve thousand collars to your account as an advance against royalty. This is some odd thousand more than the amount earned on the day of publication, but in spite of this, I hope we shall be forced to pay you an additional check three months from the day of publication, which is the date for the next accounting, as per contract.

Did I send you a copy
of an English novel entitled, "WAY OF
REVELATION?" I meant to do so.

Yours faithfully,

Ruger Blacher каньт

Mrs Wharton

TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS:
"HILANDERO, WESTRAND, LONDON."
TELEPHONE.
GERRARD 6283.

D. APPLETON & COMPANY,

25. BEDFORD STREET,
COVENT GARDEN, LONDON.

Tuesday 25th. July 19222

MME. JEANNE DUPRAT,
Pavillon Colombe,
Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt,
Seine-et-Ouïse.

Dear Madam,

In reply to your letter of the 25th. inst., we would say that the English edition of THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON is scheduled to appear on the 5th. September. This date has been fixed by us after careful consideration so that it should not clash with any other publication which has so far been announced. As you will understand the month of August is a holiday month, with the English Bank holiday period included, and we do not think it advisable to publish the book earlier, even if we were able to manufacture it. In any event it is not possible to get the book bound at an earlier date as the bookbinders' holiday occurs in August when the factories are completely closed for eight or ten days.

We can send to Mrs. Wharton by return, twenty copies of the American edition if this edition would be suitable, but in your letter you ask for the English edition, and we are, therefore, not sending the American edition until we hear from you.

Mme. Jeanne Duprat. Page 2.

In order not to delay the continental sales we are
filling the continental orders with the _American edition_;
but we are not supplying the American edition to customers
in England.

We shall, therefore, hold Mrs. Wharton's list and
send eight copies to the English addresses directly the
English edition is ready, namely, on the 5th. September
next. You will appreciate that it would not be possible
to allow anybody in England to have a copy in advance of
the English publication date.

Trusting that this explanation is quite clear to you,

Very sincerely yours,

P.S. Kindly let us know by return if we are to send twenty
copies of the American edition to Mrs. Wharton.

25th July 1922

Dear Mr. Jewett,

When I answered your letter of July 6th I left aside
for further consideration the offer you transmitted me of $22.500
for the serial rights of a novel of New York life.

You do not mention from what magazine this offer comes,
but I assume that it is not one of the Hearst group, as my
determination not to publish in any magazine belonging to that
blackguard is as strong as ever; but still I should like to know
from whom the offer comes. If there are no unforeseen objections
I shall be very glad to accept it, provided the time limit can
be extended. In the interest of my editor and my publisher I
must not be asked to write too fast. As to subject, I am not
prepared to say now what it is likely to be; I want to devote the
next few months to "Failure", the third story of the Old New York
volume.

Yours sincerely

Rutger B. Jewett Esqr
c/o D.Appleton & Co
35, West 32nd Street
New York.

1 August 1922

Dear Mrs Wharton:

What a dream of beauty the photograph of the Pavillon Colombe suggests. When I was a small boy I remember being forced to write for punishment an astounding line, to the effect that "architecture was frozen music." I completed the task, and then wrote at the bottom, "Bunk." Your Pavillon shows me how ignorant I was in the days of youthful sin. Not that I claim to have advanced much. Greek marbles and mountains have always seemed to me the most beautiful things in the world, but of late years I have bowed a humble head to architectural treasures.

"The Glimpses of the Moon" promises to be a definite success. We have organized a big advertising campaign and it is producing results all over the country. I shall send you proofs of advertisements and other forms of publicity from time to time, although they may bore you rather than prove a source of interest. Some of the methods to enlist the interest of the clerks in book stores and the retail trade generally are strange and amusing. I often wonder if overshoes and pickaded oysters are sold by morons. This seems to be the mental status of the average book clerk.

Yes, I captured six advance copies of the book to send you. I had on file a list of others to whom you wished copies sent and your orders have been filled.

Please send forward a marked copy and corrections can be made for future printings, of which I trust many will be necessary.

Please send me a snapshot of yourself. In fact, our Publicity department is something of an Oliver Twist, and I could use many informal photographs during the coming months if I had them on my desk.

Mrs Wharton

August 1st, 1922.

Memo. to Mr. Jewett:-

Please send to Mrs. Wharton the attached bank receipt for $12,000.00 covering the deposit made by us for her account with the Lincoln Trust Company representing, royalties on the advanced sales of "The Glimpses of the Moon", and say to her that The Mechanics and Metals National Bank have recently taken over the Lincoln Trust Company and that that accounts for the fact that the receipt is from The Mechanics and Metals Bank.

The Mechanics and Metals National Bank is a very strong financial Institution.

August 2nd 1922

Dear Mr. Jewett,

I must begin by thanking you for the deposit of SI2,000 placed to my credit on the appearance of "The Glimpses of the Moon". Thanks also for your last letters enclosing various specimens of the Art of advertising. I am overcome at all the superlatives applied to my book, and hope you will succeed in creating in the minds of my readers the impression produced in mine when I read what a great novelist I am.

Meanwhile I am getting letters from friends in America, asking if it was I who have sent them a copy of "The Glimpses of the Moon". In all cases they say there was no indication in the volume as to who the sender was. Surely you have the little slips "With the author's compliments" which are usually sent with each copy in such cases?

My niece Mrs. Farrand is here, and I have written to Mrs. Auchmuty to explain that it was I who sent the book, but I should be much obliged if you would kindly let some one in the office write a word of explanation to the friends whose names I enclose, as I should like them to know that the books sent come from me.

Thank you very much for sending me Mrs. Hildegarde Hawthorne's reviews. I thought it very well done, for, like many novelists, I suppose, I do like my reviewers to take the trouble to tell their readers what the book in question is about, and this trifle is usually overlooked by American critics, and sometimes by the English.

I was very amused to hear that Mrs. Gerould was to review the book. She is a cousin of my old friend, Morton Fullerton, and it was I who sent her first manuscript to Mr. Scribner, and called his attention to the literary promises which she already gave. So you see I deserve a good word from her.

I was very much disappointed to hear from Mr. Blaber that the English edition of the book would not appear until September. He put it on the ground that the holiday season was not a suitable time for publication of novels, but I see that a number have just come out in England, and I think it is always regrettable when there is an interval of several weeks between the two publications.

Another point to which I wish to call your attention is

August 2nd 1922

Dear Sirs,

Mrs. Wharton asks me to enclose herewith a cheque
for L5.9.0 in payment of the twenty copies of "The Glimpses
of the Moon", sent to her, and would be much obliged if you
would send her six more to the above address.

With many thanks, believe me,

Yours truly

Secretary.

D.Appleton & Company
25, Bedford Street
Covent Garden W.C.2.

Copy of letter from Addison Mitchell

August 6.

GLACIER HOUSE
Glacier B. C. Canada

Dear Rutger:

We've all "Glimpsed the Moon" I suppose - and as for me -
Susy's banner floats over mine! (She had the help of a strong man).
What troubles me is - are they keeping it up or are old habits and
circumstances stronger than their love-born white ideals. Somehow I
close the book without perfect faith - but perhaps - that is my
cloud floating over me and my moon and is not over them at all.

Sometimes it is hard to see - by moonshine - but I am
glad that they did. You have to like Susy - and only a rhinoceros
hide could resist that "And I should like, just for a while, to feel
I had something in life of my very own - something that nobody had lent me -
like a fancy dress or a motor or an opera cloak!" Wouldn't that put a
bend in any man's "perpendicularity" - if he loved her?

Love can beckon up and Love can beckon down. Gratefulness
should be at the end of one (for haven't we all happened to love villains!
and forgiveness at the end of the other.

The ego in Nick was not so big that it hid his rightness.
Some man would have been flattered that love of him - Susy could take
cigars! Their moon was such a dear. Mine has blinked at things (not
cigars) How clever - clever Mrs. Wharton is! The book jolts you to a
definite outline of "Standard", for while its circle may be very wide
of our own still - somehow - our smaller one seems to fit into it
somewhere and needs a fresh glimpse of the moon. Rutger - I should
like to know Susy and Nick through full moons. Please ask Mrs. Wharton
to "manage" it.

August 7th, 1922

Dear Mr. Jewett,

Thank you very much of your letter of July 24th
enclosing Mrs. Gerould's review of "The Glimpses". She certainly
provides you with a set of wonderful phrases for advertising,
and I only hope they will arouse a due degree of enthusiasm
from Maine to California. It was very kind of her to take
so much trouble about reviewing the book.

I have already thanked you for the deposit of SI2,000
and I join with you in hoping that an additional sum may be
due to me in three months' time.

No, you have not sent me "Wat of Revelation". I have
heard of it but have not seen it and should be much interested
in reading it.

With many thanks,

Yours sincerely

Rutger B. Jewett Esqr
35, West 32nd Street
New York.
Etats Unis d'Amérique.

August 7th, 1922

Dear Sirs,

Mrs. Wharton wishes me to enclose herewith her
cheque for LI.12.8 in payment of your invoice for 6 copies
of "The Climpses of the Moon", also enclosed.

Believe me,

D. Appleton & Company
25, Bedford Street
Covent Garden W.C.2.
London.

10 August 1922

Dear Mrs Wharton:

You and I settled the Hearst situation
definitely when I extricated you from the contract
for a novel and persuaded his editor to accept the
articles on France to cancel all claims.

You feel no more strongly on the subject
of the gentleman in question than I do, and even if
this were not the case, I should never, knowing your
feeling in the matter, place a manuscript of yours
in any of his magazines.

The periodical which I have in mind for
your next story is McCall's Magazine, a publication
similar to the Woman's Home Companion and the Pictorial
Review. The name will mean nothing to you but I
shall send you a recent copy. It is one of the popular
magazines which has secured an enormous circulation,
especially among women, in the past year. They are
able to pay big prices and are willing to do so for
your next story. As their schedule is made up far
in advance an approximate date of delivery of manuscript
is most desirable. For business reasons it would be
better for you and for us if you could finish your story
by August next, or earlier if possible, so that we could
follow up the success of "The Glimpses of the Moon" with
your next full length novel.

If you could write this story in six or
eight months it might be possible to run it serially
in time to open the book market by September 1923.
If, however, it is necessary to hold over book publica-
tion until Spring 1924, we could bring out your collec-
tion of stories of Old New York a year from now, issuing
it between the "Glimpses" and the next big novel.

We are working hard to put "The Glimpses of
the Moon" at the head of the list of best sellers. We
keep the retail trade supplied with fresh ammunition
every week. Posters, circulars, and special post cards,
etc., keep the clerks and buyers aware of the fact that

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"The Glimpses of the Moon" is a successful book, a piece of merchandise worth selling. At the same time we are advertising all over the country to secure the interest, not only of those who are interested in good literature, but of the general fiction reading public.

With the exception of a few intelligent critics, most of the reviewers have abused the people described in your novel without a glimmer of knowledge of the story you have told. These adverse criticisms, however, are only part of the game, bunkers to be cleared, but obstacles which can be surmounted.

The book has already sold well over 50,000 and we will shortly pass the 60,000 mark.

I am glad you are planning your third story of Old New York. Perhaps you will become so interested in this period that you may decide to place your next novel in days that are past rather than in the present.

I realize thoroughly that you cannot be hurried. I do not mean to press you unduly in writing you frankly of the needs of the magazine editor, but as I stated earlier, in this letter, they make their own plans far in advance and demand from me approximate dates when future work may be expected.

I wish the Atlantic Ocean did not roll between your desk and mine. There are many things I should like to talk over with you face to face.

Yours faithfully,

Mrs Wharton

P.S. If you are not able to meet the wishes of McCall's Magazine in point of time, let me know approximately when you can finish the story and I shall make every effort to secure an extension of time.

II Aòùt 1922

Dear Mr. Jewett,

Many thanks for your letter of August 1st.

I am very glad that "The Glimpses of the Moon" has
started so successfully on its career, and am much amused and
edified by the proofs of the advertisements which you have so
kindly sent me. Thank you also for the reviews. I promise, in
exchange, to send you a snapshot of myself next week, though
I don't guarantee that it will be worthy of reproduction. My
niece, Mrs. Farrand, who is a very good photographer, did numerous
photographs of me and of the garden while she was here, but
she would not have them developed until her return to America
at the end of August. I will ask her to send you some next month.

I enclose a list of misprints for future editions.

Lastly, many thanks, for the receipt of the Mechanics
and Metals National Bank. I had already been advised by the
Lincoln Trust Company that they were to be swallowed up by the
M. and M.B.

Yours sincerely

P.S.- Will you kindly forward the enclosed letter to
Mrs. Gerould, whose exact address I do not know.

August 11th, 1922

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Wharton asks you to be kind enough to send copies of the English Edition of "The Glimpses of the Moon" to the following:

Miss Dorothy Ward
2, Eccleston Square
S.W.

Miss Theodora Bosanquet
38, Cheyne Walk
Chelsea
London S.W.

Mrs. Wharton asks you to strike off Mr. J. Hugh-Smith's name from her list. She has given him a copy of the American edition.

Believe me,

Mr. Blaber
25, Bedford Street
Covent Garden
London.

D. APPLETON & COMPANY,

August 22, 1922.

My dear Mrs. Wharton:

We have been working hard to secure a definite
offer for the film rights of "The Glimpses of the Moon". There
has been a sad slump in the moving picture industry and it is
difficult to close favorable contracts, except for books which
are specially fitted for the film.

We have been in negotiation with several producers
and we have reached finally a basis for contracts. This morning
I cabled you asking if you would accept Fifteen thousand (15,000)
dollars. I believe that we can secure this amount, less the ten
per cent. commission, from one of the most responsible producing
firms. You wrote that you wished me to act for you. If it becomes
necessary to do so I shall accept this offer if it is imperative
to close with the producer, rather than lose the sale. I trust,
however, that you are in Paris and will receive our cable so that
you can reply within a few days.

If we succeed in placing 'The Glimpses' for the
film, I shall open up once more movie possibilities for "The Age
of Innocence". This earlier novel has been considered but re-
jected by the leading producers. We may be able, however, to
catch their interest in connection with 'The Glimpses'. If so,
will you authorize me to close if we can get an offer which will
net you seventy-five hundred (7,500) or eight thousand (8,000)
dollars? This would seem to me all we could hope for.

Mrs. Wharton,
Pavillon Colombe,
St. Brice sous Foret.

HEMSTREET'S
PRESS CLIPPING
BUREAU

50 Park Place

New York City

AUG 19 1922

August 19, 1922

THE WORLD'S BOOKS

EUPHUES AND OTHERS

"PHILAUTUS dispatching a messenger with this letter speedily to Euphues, went into the fields to walk there, either to digest his choler, or chew upon his melancholy." This is the way still of many people, when they wish to think their sad thoughts more freely, once they have uttered with finality what they have considered had to be said. It is, as we see by this quotation from Lyly of the sixteenth century, an old, old device of the fiction writer to make his characters walk off their vehemence; but it is a device that is based soundly on human nature.

It is like meeting an old friend to see how Mrs. Wharton does this same old thing in "The Glimpses of the Moon." There we are told that Susy Lansing "fled on toward the lights of the streets," and "she stopped at a street-corner, drawing long panting breaths as if she had been running a race. Then, slowly and aimlessly, she began to saunter along a street of small private houses in damp gardens that led to the Avenue du Bois. She sat down on a bench. Not far off, the Arc de Triomphe raised its august bulk, and beyond it a river of lights streamed down toward Paris, and the stir of the city's heart beats troubled the quiet in her bosom. But not for long." No, not for long, for she wanted to go on until she was satisfied. It seems new enough in manner as one reads it in the course of the story; but it is, after all, the same thing that Lyly was saying point blank nearly four centuries ago, and one may get a more philosophical sense of the eternal materials of fiction throughout the ages if one will but realize that the incident is not new.

Don Marquis burlesques this device of the novel writers, or rather the producers of lyric outbursts, who do the same sort of thing, in one of his "sad" poems:

I oft stand in the snow at dawn,
Harking the drear church chime,
Thinking long thoughts, with arctics on,
And wailing, "Winter time!"

In the little red moral volumes of the forties and
fifties, the distressed ones used to like to go out
into the woods, the fields, or the snow, until the
air, the nobleman's great park, or the gaily lighted
streets had done their work in helping bring the
story to a happy conclusion. Take "New Year's
Day, A Winter's Tale," by Mrs. C. F. Gore, for
instance, or "Flora; or Self-Deception," by A. L.
O. E. There the poor heroine toils with difficulty
along the path, with her feet sinking into the white
mass at every step, but she never pauses even to
shake the snow flakes from her mantle. As an art-
ist, Mrs. Wharton works with a little more finish

than that; but it is the same essential impulse that
she cannot get away from using. A comparison of
her work with that of Mrs. Gore shows the dif-
ference between very modern skill and early Vic-
torian sentimentality; but how slight the difference
is. "The Glimpses of the Moon" would be, for
that reason, an easy book to burlesque, for Susy
Lansing, like Euphues, has simply come to the
noble decision that she would rather macerate
herself with melancholy than pine in folly, and
Mrs. Wharton, instead of putting her into a con-
venient limousine, lets her go on and on afoot in
the open air, to chew upon her melancholy and
digest her choler.

HILANDERO

NEW YORK

Glimpses film accept fifteen thousand dollars

Envoi de Madame Wharton, Pavillon Colombe, St Brice sous Forêt
Seine-et-Oise

HILANDERO

NEW YORK.

JEWETT AGE INNOCENCE FILM AGREE SUGGESTED TERMS.

Madame Wharton, Pavillon Colombe, St-Brice-sous-Forêt (S.&.O.)

HILANDERO

NEW YORK

Jewett you will receive visit from Irwin Strauws who
has dramatized Age of Innocence and says two managers ready
to produce please report impression.

Envoi de Madame Wharton, Pavillon Colombe, St Brice-sous-Forêt
(S.&.O.)

25 August 1922

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Wharton wishes me to ask you to be kind enough to
send a copy of her book "The Age of Innocence" to:

and charge it to Mrs. Wharton's account.

Yours very truky

Secretary.

Mr. Blaber
c/ & Appleton & C°
25, Bedford Square
London.

LONDON OFFICE: 25 BEDFORD ST. (COVENT GARDEN)
CABLE ADDRESS: HILANDERO

August 25, 1922.

Dear Mrs. Wharton:

This morning I had a talk with the editor of "The Pictorial Review". He wishes to serialize your next long novel and states he is quite willing to meet the price of the other magazine. As a matter of fact, 'The Pictorial' offer will net you more than the earlier offer which was brought me through an agent for "McCall's Magazine" and there will be an agent's commission to pay. I hope to be able to deal direct with 'The Pictorial' eliminating the agent's commission and securing for you Twenty-five thousand (25,000) dollars instead of Twenty-two thousand five hundred (22,500) dollars which was what the other offer would net you. As in the case of your other magazine serials, we shall charge no commission for our services.

I sent you a copy of "McCall's Magazine" so you are now able to compare the two publications and I wish you would write me as soon as possible what you desire to do. My suggestion is to allow 'The Pictorial' to have the story following 'The Glimpses' as they have advertised your serials liberally and now are willing to meet the advance price which I demanded.

Your cable in reference to the film rights for 'The Glimpses' has just come and we have notified the Famous Players of your acceptance of their offer. We hope to make contracts within a few days and shall cable you when we deposit the check. As I wrote you a few days ago, there is a ten per cent. commission to be deducted from the Fifteen thousand (15,000) dollars paid by the film producers.

Here are two interesting reviews of 'The Glimpses', one by Boynton in "The Independent" the other by Canby in the Literary Review of "The New York Evening Post". I also enclose a copy of a letter as it sounds the same note that Canby and "F. P. A." have strick; namely, that you have not finished with Susy and Nick. There are unwritten chapters to come.

Mrs. Wharton.

26 August 1922

Dear Mr. Jewett,

I have received your letter of August 10th, and must
apologize for having given you the impression that I thought
you had forgotten my sentiments about Mr. Hearst. I asked the
question simply because I know that Hearst is buying a new
magazine every day, and it seemed possible that, in the multiplicity
of your occupations, this particular point might have escaped your
mind for the moment. But I apologize humbly for having thought
that temporary oblivion possible.

McCall's Magazine. - Thanks for the copy of McCall's Magazine, which has arrived. With regard to a date, it would be quite useless for me to fix an earlier one for the delivery of the completed manuscript than the autumn of 1924. As you know, I am always glad if I can give my work at an earlier date than that fixed in advance, but I could not possibly commit myself now to give the book sooner than this. As to the subject, I shall have to think it over, and as soon as it takes shape I will write you again.

Old New York. - I will begin work on the third story for the Red Book as soon as I can, but I have been rather tired again lately and am taking a complete rest at present.

Film of The Glimpses of the Moon - I received two or three
days since your cable transmitting an offer of 15,000 dollars cash
for the film rights of "The Glimpses of the Moon", to which I
replied as follows:

"Glimpses film accept fifteen thousand dollars."

My sister-in-law thinks I ought to have waited until the
play was dramatized, but I assume that you thought it advisable
to accept this offer and had you seen any objection you would have
mentioned it in your cable.

Dramatization of "The Age of Innocence".- I have just

Mr. Jewett.

- 2 -

sent you the following cable:

"Jewett you will receive visit from Irwin Strauws who has dramatized Age of Innocence and says two managers ready to produce please report impression".

I had a visit yesterday from a Mrs. Louis Stumer who said that she was part owner of the Red Book Magazine. She read me a letter from Mr. Irwin Strauws who is her cousin, and which he said that he had dramatized "The Age of Innocence", and that two managers were ready to take it. This is all I know about the offer, as I never before heard of either Mrs. Stumer or Mr. Strauws, but I thought it might be worth while to send him to you, as his letter seemed straightforward and precise.

Of course if the matter-turns out to be interesting there will be many questions to settle before I reach a final decision; but it is useless to go into these until I hear from you after his visit.

Thank you once more most cordially for all the trouble you take about my work; I hope before long to tell you "de vive voix" how much I appreciate it. Is there no chance of my showing you my southern garden this winter?

My only amateur-photographer has been away and will not be back till next week, but I will send you the snapshot then without fail.

Yours sincerely

27 August 1922

Dear Sir,

Mrs. Wharton wishes me to ask you to be kind enough to send her two copies of the American edition of "The Glimpses of the Moon", to her usual address, as above, and two other copies, also addressed to her, as follows:

Mrs. Wharton
Lamb House
Rye Sussex

Also a third copy of the book to:

The Marquise de Montebello
Chateau de Stors
par l'Isle-Adam (S.&O.)

enclosing this card in the package.

All these books must be charged to Mrs. Wharton's account.

Believe me,

Yours truly

Secretary.

August 29, 1922.

Dear Mrs. Wharton:

Yesterday Mr. Straus came to see me in reference to his dramatic version of "The Age of Innocence". He is a young lawyer. This is his first attempt at a playwright. He seems alert and intelligent, claims to have access to dramatic managers and producers.

I explained to him that we should be glad to receive any good offer from a reliable producer, if he could secure immediate action; that we were unwilling to hold the matter open indefinitely as it would jeopardize the chances of selling the film rights of your novel.

Owing to the demand for plays and films based upon novels we were forced to establish a regular department to handle this work for our author who wished us to act for them. The head of this department is dealing now with a good film producer and hopes to receive, in the near future, an offer for the movie rights of "The Age of Innocence". Nothing will be done until the question of the play is definitely settled.

If Mr. Straus has a play which can secure a Broadway production it will increase the value of your story for film production later. It will be poor business, however, to hold the matter open indefinitely as such delay will kill the renewed interest which we have created in the moving picture world by advertising both 'The Glimpses' and 'The Age' in Los Angeles - the Mecca of the film producers. For the past month we have been running large advertisements announcing the great success of "The Glimpses of the Moon" in book form, inserting these notices in the Los Angeles and Hollywood papers. As a result of this campaign the head of our Moving Picture Department has created a demand for the film rights of 'The Glimpses' and we hope to close with the Famous Players this week.

We believe we can rekindle interest in "The Age of Innocence" with these film producers as we had several good firms bidding on 'The Glimpses'. We hope to sell 'The Age' to one of the firms which was unable to meet the price demanded by us for 'The Glimpses' and which we trust will be willing to take 'The Age' instead at a lower figure. I have written you in a previous letter the prices we are asking for 'The Age'.

I shall keep you informed of progress made in plans
for the dramatic version of 'The Age'.

No manager has read the Straus play which is not yet
complete. He hopes to finish it this week and then submit it to
a manager. He tells me that he has discussed his play with two
managers, one of whom was definitely interested and offered to
make a contract, provided the dramatic version was satisfactory.

Speaking of publicity, I enclose an advertisement for
a film announced for production at the Lyric Theatre which strikes
me as the most grotesque bit of advertising I ever saw. Had the
bible been made as interesting in my youth who knows - I might have
developed into a Bishop or a Billy Sunday. Am I wrong or is this
announcement genuinely comic?

Yours faithfully,

Mrs. Wharton,
Pavillon Colombe,
St. Brice sous Foret (S & O)
France.

29th August 1922

Dear Mr. Jewett,

Many thanks for your letters of August 15th and 18th, with their innumerable enclosures. I would give all the reviews, I mean all the most favourable ones, for such a letter as Miss Gale's, not only because I admire her work so much, and consequently value her approval in proportion to my admiration, but also because she has put her finger on the very central nerve of my book. This does not happen more than once or twice, even in a long career. Thank you for sending the letter.

I am glad that you are pleased with the sale of the book, and I see it all turning into annuals and perennials. As you have the soul of a gardener, you will understand.

My niece has gone home, so I could not give your message.

With renewed thanks,

Yours sincerely

R.B.Jewett Esqr
c/o D. Appleton & Co
35, West 32nd Street
New York.

D. APPLETON & COMPANY

35 WEST 32ND STREET
NEW YORK

September 1, 1922.

Dear Mrs. Wharton,

Here are copies of assignment of motion
picture rights for "Glimpses of the Moon!"
Please sign and return to me.

The producers state that they will need
proper consular acknowledgment appended to
this document under your signature. This
acknowledgment should be taken before a
U. S. consular officer, if convenient, other-
wise they will be willing to accept the ack-
nowledgment of a notary or other officer qual-
ified to certify to the execution of the
deeds.

The deal will be perfected next week.
They will not withhold payment until your
assignment is returned. They accept our
statement that you will agree to the terms
and sign the document.

A few days ago I sent you a recent issue
of "Life", containing a cartoon of our com-
mon admiration - W. R. Hearst.

Returned with interest contract
Sept 14-1922. London: W. N. & S.

7 September 1922

Dear Mrs Wharton:

Your cable accepting the offer
of the Pictorial Review for your next full
length serial came this morning and I have
notified Mr Vance of your decision. Also
I have written declining the offer from McCall's
Magazine, stating that perhaps sometime in the
future you would be free to consider their offer
if it was still open, but that this was all too
far ahead to make any definite promises.

I feel very cheerful over this serial
offer, which is a top-notch one. When you know
your plans more definitely, please tell me when
you hope to write the Pictorial serial. As I
have written you in a previous letter, Mr Vance
desires if possible to receive the manusdript early
in the autumm of 1923. He says that if you can
send it forward earlier, so much the better.
On the other hand, if you cannot complete the novel
early in the autumm, a bit later will be a possible
date for him, though not so advantageous.

We are preparing a full page advertise-
ment quoting from reviews of "The Glimpses of the
Moon" by the worthwhile critics. This broadside
will be our answer to the Young Intellectuals who,
like young terriers worrying a muff, have lashed
themselves into idle rage over your novel.

I have written Mrs Farrand about the
photographs and hope she will send me the pictures
soon.

Mrs Wharton

Y APPLETON
HEMSTREET'S

PRESS CLIPPING
BUREAU

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Current Opinion

New York City

SFP -- 1922

Edith Wharton's New Novel—Elsewhere in the pages of this magazine is reviewed Mrs. Wharton's new book, “Glimpses of the Moon.” It is the general policy of this magazine to present no book to its readers that is not worth buying and reading. To this policy this book of Mrs. Wharton's is the exception. We would recommend nobody to buy it or to read it.

It is difficult to understand how this sort of writing can be of any value to any human being. It may have good artistic technique, but the kind of people written about are of no value to the world either in or out of the pages of fiction.

We agree with Heywood Broun: "Even Mrs. Wharton has not sufficient skill in writing to make the doings of so dowdy a cast of characters enthralling."

D. APPLETON & COMPANY

35 WEST 32ND STREET
NEW YORK

11 September 1922

Dear Mrs Wharton:

Your letter in reference
to Zona Gale's opinion of "The
Glimpses" must go forward to her,
it shows such a feeling of
appreciation.

Here is a proof of the full-
page broadside which I wrote you
we were issuing in the newspapers
and also sending out as a circular.
The Eliot-Ruskin episode is perti-
nent.

Wilson Follett in his review
considers "The Glimpses of the Moon"
but the prelude to the true story
of Susy and Nick.

THE ATLANTIC'S BOOKSHELF

These reviews of recent books of unusual value are based upon lists furnished through the courteous coöoperation of such trained judges as the following: American Library Association Book List, Wisconsin Free Library Commission, and the staffs of the public libraries in Springfield (Massachusetts), Newark, Cleveland, Kansas City, and St. Louis.

The Glimpses of the Moon, by Edith Wharton.
New York: D. Appleton & Co. 12mo. viii +
364 pp. $2.00.

It sounds strange, if not absurd, to speak of
the promise of a mature writer whose past is cram-
med with solid performance. Yet, to say the truth
of *The Glimpses of the Moon* one must describe it
as either the promise of new powers or the col-
lapse of old ones; and I prefer to take it as promis-
sory. To call it Mrs. Wharton at her best would
be an inane slight to *The Valley of Decision*,
whose scope and nobility this book has not, any
more than it has the enameled brilliancy of *The
House of Mirth*, or the superb technical self-suffi-
ciency of *Ethan Frome*. *The Glimpses of the Moon*
will never, as a destination, content those who
have learned to admire its author in terms of the
others; like *The Fruit of the Tree*, it is too imper-
fectly wrought through, too lacking in the integ-
rity and totality of the first-rate novel. It holds
together only by the magic of good writing, and
only while you read it. But, as a stage, it may
arrest those who cannot take it seriously as a des-
tination; and, while some may read in it only the
collapse of a great ironist into sentimentality, oth-
ers, no less exacting, will find themselves excited
by the sudden appearance in Mrs. Wharton, after
all these years, of a quality perhaps fully as great
as irony in its meaning to the novel — that is, the
great gift of what is but feebly named when one
has called it compassion.

One guesses that Mrs. Wharton herself has
been all but bowled over by the impact of this
strange, new, artistic experience, and that, in the
excitement of emotional sympathies never before
allowed so largely to rule, she has left her art a
little in abeyance. The consummation to which
this novel points will consist, of course, in the
eventual union of what Mrs. Wharton has al-
ways had with what unprecedented warmth she
has here gained. Let that occur, and her true
masterpiece will have come as late in her career
as once it seemed to have come early.

What she actually does in *The Glimpses of the Moon* is to present the case of a pair of married lovers, too idealistic to be good worldlings, and too worldly to be confirmed practising idealists, who do in the end take the final plunge out of their environment (the very same which poor Lily Bart could not surrender without losing her clutch on life itself), and who do, in Emerson's phrase, give all to love. They are two modern enough young folk, a little cynical, a little disillusioned, but secretly tender and very effectively equipped with sundry honorable if old-fashioned inhibitions. The trouble is, Mrs. Wharton cannot seem to clinch her thesis — which is, in effect,

that even in this materialistic world it is possible
for the spoiled children of unearned luxury to
sacrifice material values to spiritual and count
the bargain a good one — without somewhat al-
tering and denaturing her characters. She de-
scends, moreover, to a typical novelist's subter-
fuge for prolonging suspense by keeping her lovers
apart; and in bringing them together at last she
assumes a good deal of what was to have been
proved. In the end, she has but got to the begin-
ning of this particular story. But even that is an
altogether surprising quarter in which to find her.
As for the story, it is a glorious one; and glorious-
ly, one must have faith, she will yet tell it.

WILSON FOLLETT.

This Freedom, by A. S. M. Hutchinson.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1922. 12mo.
x+372 pp. $2.00.

MR. HUTCHINSON's new novel narrates the
tragic attempt of a woman to succeed as a wife
and mother and in a career at the same time.
Though to the present reader the logic of the
conclusion is not convincing, the book is excel-
lently planned and the story is carried on with
equal rapidity and skill. The four parts, entitled
'The House of Men,' 'The House of Women,'
'The House of Children,' and 'The House of
Cards,' — recounting in turn the heroine's life as
a child at home, as a growing girl in school and
boarding-house, as a wife who is also in business,
and, finally, as a mother, — mark the four stages
of her history, from her early bewilderment over
the predominance of men in society, through her
growing sense of the unfairness of that predomi-
nance, on through her achievement of 'freedom'
in a career and her rather impulsive marriage,
and to the end in which the realization comes to
her that by succeeding in the career she has
failed disastrously as a wife and mother.

In the first two parts, because he is at his best
in sentiment, humor, and caricature, the author
sustains his story with much skill, although even
here his addiction to rhetorical exclamation and
repetition at times becomes wearisome. The
portrayal of Rosalie, the heroine, as a little girl,
and of her father and her Aunt Belle, is particu-
larly vigorous and true, and certain scenes, such
as the suicide of Anna, the secret drinking of
Miss Keggs, and the jealous letter of Miss Sal-
mon, are narrated with some power. Altogether,
the first half of the novel is excellent, showing
more unity of both character and atmosphere
than did If Winter Comes.

In the second half, however, in which Rosalie
has won her freedom by achieving a position in

12 September 1922

Dear Mrs Wharton:

**THE AGE OF INNOCENCE** -- Mr Strauss reports that his dramatization is in the hands of a producer and that he now awaits his verdict.

**FILM OF "THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON"** -- In view of the big slump in the moving picture industry and the wretched state of the theatrical market, we feel that we secured for you a very favorable offer, otherwise we should not have submitted it to you. Miss Marbury tells me that Louis Vance is planning to dramatize the novel. If so there is plenty of time for him to show it to a manager before the film is made and released.

**MRS FARRAND** -- A letter has come from Mrs Farrand stating that she will send forward some pictures when films have been developed.

**MC'CALL'S MAGAZINE** -- The editors of this magazine are deeply disappointed that they did not secure your new story for serialization when written. I believe they are the victims of their own mistake in handling the matter through a literary agent instead of coming to us direct.

When Mr Reynolds brought me their offer, I told him that I doubted if you could write the new novel within the time granted by terms of offer, but that in other respects I considered the offer a good one and one which I could submit to you. At the time I told him that I had already sent you requests from several other editors who wished to secure your new book for serialization, among them Mr Vance, who, I told Mr Reynolds, I felt should have special consideration because he had published "The Age of Innocence" and "The Glimpses of the Moon", both of which he had featured well and handled serially in a satisfactory manner.

Reynolds claimed that Vance had told him only a few weeks before that he was not interested in your work at the price which I had placed upon it. I believed this to be a fact, but later found out from Mr Vance that quite the contrary was the case. Vance

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said he knew I had received a big offer for your
next serial but was willing to meet it. Therefore I suggested that he write me a definite offer, which I should be glad to forward to you, as I had the other ones.

Your letter of August 26th stating that
you were unwilling to commit yourself to a date for
delivery of manuscript earlier than the autumn of
1924 came after I received your cable announcing
that you had accepted the offer of the Pictorial
Review.

To-day I have written the editor of
McCall's Magazine explaining that you were unable to
fulfil the terms of the time clause included in his
offer, and that the matter was settled as you had
accepted the offer of Mr Vance.

I am writing you fully in reference to
this matter as Reynolds has cabled you about it.
I do not know what he has cabled but there is no
need for you to concern yourself about him, one way
or the other. He barged into the situation
uninvited and is trying to stir up trouble for the
sake of the commission. Perfectly all right from
his point of view, but of no interest to you or to us.

Mrs Wharton

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PICTORIAL TRANSACTION CLOSED FOR TWENTYFIVE THOUSAND
VANCE VOLUNTARILY AGREES TO PAY TWENTYSEVEN THOUSAND TO NET
YOU SAME AMOUNT AS MCCALLS OFFER LETTER FOLLOWS

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Waterlow & Sons Limited, London Wall, London.

14 September 1922

Dear Mrs Wharton:

Upon the receipt of your cable yesterday, I sent you a reply addressed to 74 Portland Place, London, explaining that the transaction had been closed with the Pictorial. When I received your previous cable telling me that you had decided to take Mr Vance's offer, I wrote him accepting his proposition. I also wrote to Mr Reynolds, the literary agent representing McCall's Magazine, stating that you could not accept their offer.

As soon as I received your second cable I got in touch with Mr Vance, who met the issue in a fine spirit. Although we had sold him your future serial for $25,000 he was unwilling that you should be a loser financially by the transaction, and voluntarily agreed to pay two thousand dollars more than the contract called for.

I enclose his letter, which covers the situation completely. I deeply regret the complication which arose with McCall's Magazine. It was due entirely to a lack of frankness on the part of the literary agent. He misrepresented matters to them, claiming that he was authorized to sell your serial to them. He not only misrepresented matters to them, but lied deliberately to Vance and to me.

I suppose it is impossible for these agents to be straight. They make their commissions by misrepresenting facts to all parties concerned. I refuse to deal with them except when it is absolutely necessary.

Some years ago before I undertook to place your serials and short stories for you, Mr Sears accepted a magazine offer through Reynolds. As a result, I inherited him as one of the complications of life. He has tried repeatedly to barge in. I was forced sometime ago to tell him that I could not accept offers through him from editors with whom I was in

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personal touch or correspondence. I stated
bluntly that I was interested in your bank
account but not in his commissions, that I
could get better prices from editors than he
could, and that as we deducted nothing from
the amount received, you were richly the gainer,
and that was the only phase of the matter of
interest to me.

McCall's Magazine has been
reorganized recently, and are trying to get
authors of higher rank on their list of con-
tributors. They are making a good magazine
and spending large sums for stories, feeling
that the high prices paid are warranted because
of the advertising value of authors' names, if
they can secure writers of the first class.

Reynolds told me that $25,000 was
their top price and perhaps at the time it was.
This additional five thousand may be a subse-
quent offer. As I was dealing with the magazine
through their agent, and not directly with the
editors, I do not know.

Have you heard anything more of the
proposed dramatization of "The Glimpses of the Moon"?
Yesterday I learned that there was a chance of in-
teresting Somerset Maugham in preparing such a
dramatization, with Belasco as producer. This
would make a very strong combination if it could
be effected. I will let you know later if a
definite proposition is made.

Mrs Wharton

PICTORIAL REVIEW

ARTHUR T. VANCE, EDITOR

THE PICTORIAL REVIEW BUILDING

NEW YORK

MR. VANCE'S OFFICE

September 13/22.

Mr. Rutger Jewett,
D. Appleton & Company,
New York.

My dear Mr. Jewett:

I am just dumfounded at what you told me this morning. In all my twenty-five years as a magazine editor, I have never heard of so unethical a performance on the part of a supposedly reputable magazine. Not that I blame the magazine in question for being disappointed in not getting Mrs. Wharton's serial, but when both they and the literary agents definitely knew the transaction had been closed, that they should be such poor losers as to try in such an underhand way to go over your head and reopen the question - well I will restrain myself and say that it is beyond me. But such methods of doing business won't get them very far I am sure.

Meanwhile, I appreciate greatly Mrs. Wharton's attitude in the matter and I want to see that she doesn't sustain any actual loss. In this other proposition, after paying the agents' commission, she would net $27,000 on the serial rights to the story and I am going to meet that price because I want her to feel that she is not making a sacrifice by sticking to her agreement with us. Our relations have been so pleasant and her two other serials

"Glimpses of the Moon" and "The Age of Innocence" were so splendidly received by our readers that I do wish Mrs. Wharton would regard herself as one of the Pictorial Review family. And I am sure we can promise her a square deal in every way.

Also please tell her not to worry about the matter of the date. We will run the story when we get it, although I would like to have it by the fall of 1923, so that I could give it publication early in 1924.

Again let me say that I appreciate greatly your many courtesies in this matter and especially your sense of fair play.

ATV.MD

METROPOLITAN

432 FOURTH AVENUE NEW YORK

Sept. 14, 1922

CARL HOVEY
Managing Editor

Dear Rutger:

Some time ago I talked with you on the telephone about the possibility of asking Mrs Wharton to write an article for our Girl of To-Day section. I am sending you a copy of our October issue to show what the section is like. It consists of a discussion on the one hand and for the rest of it, personality sketches of girls who have accomplished something. The articles are a thousand words long as a minimum.

Do you think Mrs. Wharton could be persuaded to write a thousand or fifteen hundred words or so on some subject on which it would be interesting to have her address the younger generation of girls? As to the subject, it would be better to ask her to write on something which would interest her, but I will make a suggestion: Mrs. Wharton might write on the question as to whether it is better for a girl who aims at the achievement of an independent career to cut loose from her social environment and opportunities or to try to make her way by utilizing the surroundings in which she may have been born. Almost every girl has to make this choice. Some leave home and go to a large city to take their chance. Other who already live in a large city quite cut themselves off from the family social circle. Still others, no doubt, follow the course of their personal ambition along lines which lead them to make use of every social advantage which may have come to them at birth.

I merely suggest this subject as a possible one. There are so many others.

I should be deeply obliged to you personally if you will forward this request to Mrs. Wharton if you think fit. Owing to our plan for making this supplement I cannot offer Mrs. Wharton a fiction price for doing the article. I can pay one hundred dollars for it. The publicity value which a magazine of our standing and circulation gives is a matter that may be taken into consideration, however. If Mrs. Wharton agrees to write the article, we shall, in the natural course of things, print her photograph and a considerable caption relating to her"Glimpses of the Moon".

Believe me, with best regards to you,

Mr. Rutger Jewett,
D. Appleton & Co.
35 West 32nd St.
New York

D. APPLETON & COMPANY

35 WEST 32ND STREET
NEW YORK

22 September 1922

Dear Mrs Wharton:

Our Treasurer tells me that we have deposited to your account $9,000.00 the second royalty payment for "The Glimpses of the Moon."

The book is still going strong and we have doubled our appropriation for publicity and our advertising campaign is booming. If we do not put this book over it will not be from any lack of enthusiasm. There is strong team play in all departments.

Canby hit the nail on the head when he drew attention to the fact that Nick's reactions were those of a gentleman. This is perhaps a nice point which the young reviewers do not understand, nor would consider important if they did.

Joseph Lincoln asked me once in the spirit of despair how it was possible for a young Jew to criticize intelligently a book dealing with Cape Cod life and sea captains of clipper-ship days. These young reviewers are clever but after all that does not imply any background or standards for judgment.

25th September 1922

Dear Mr. Jewett,

**McCall's Magazine.**— I have received several letters from you in the last few days, but will deal first with one from Mr. Paul Reynolds, enclosing cables and letters exchanged between you and him on the subject of McCall's desire to buy my next novel.

As I gather from your letters of Sept. 12th and 14th that you consider the matter entirely closed, and that Mr. Reynolds has exceeded his rights in trying to get the novel away from the Pictorial, I have just sent him the letter of which I enclose a copy. It is impossible, at such a distance, to intervene in the matter personally, and I rely entirely on your kindness to settle it for me.

**Pictorial Review.**— With regard to the novel in question, as accepted by the Pictorial, you say, writing on August 31st:

> "Vance does not demand that the story be finished at any stated date. What he wishes now is the assurance that the novel will go to him for serialization when written."

and in your letter of Sept. 14th you enclose a very kind letter from Mr. Vance, in which he says:

> "Also please tell her not to worry about the matter of the date. We will run the story when we get it."

But he adds:

> "I should like to have it by the fall of 1923."

In reply to this I can only quote again my own words in my letter to you of August 26th:

> "With regard to a date, it would be quite useless for me to fix an earlier one for the delivery of the completed manuscript than the autumn of 1924. As you know, I am always glad if I can give my work at an earlier date than that fixed in advance, but I could not possibly commit myself now to give the book sooner than this."

Mr. Vance must not be deluded for a moment with the idea that I can sit down now and write another novel to be delivered to him in a year. It is absolutely out of the question, and it

R.B.Jewett Esqr.

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is only fair to put this to him again as soon as possible, and
quite definitely, on account of his own magazine plans. He has been
so liberal in his offer that I wish I could meet his wishes by turn-
ing out novels at his rate of speed; but if I promised to do so the
result would be disappointment.

I am considering the subject of the novel now, and will let
you know as soon as I have decided.

Old New York. - In your letter of August 31st, received while I was
in England, you ask a question that I fear I forgot to answer with
regard to the tales for the "Old New York" volume. You say that in
looking over my letters you find references to the following short
stories: "The Artist", "A Cup of Coffee", and "Failure" - and that
you would like to know which I mean to include in the volume. I
had meant to give up "The Artist" and "A Cup of Coffee" (as to the
latter I confess I have no recollection whatever), and to write only
"Failure", to which I have now given the better name of "False Dawn".
This is the story of the young man who goes abroad on a grand tour
in the 'forties, buys pictures by the Italian Primitives with the
advice of the young Ruskin, and comes home to find that no one will
look at his collection. I have already written about 4,000 words,
and I suppose the tale will run to 8,000 or 9,000. I understood
from you that the Red Book was pleased with the subject, or at any
rate that you were.

Will not this, with "The Old Maid" and "New Year's Day", be
enough for a volume? I hope to finish "False Dawn" by the middle
of November, and have it in your hands soon afterward, so that the
Red Book might begin publication by January. I suppose it will run
two numbers, which would permit you to bring out the volume in the
early spring, say March or April; unless you prefer to hold it over
and eventually make a larger volume. I could easily give you another
story later; but after finishing "False Dawn" I want to turn my
mind to the novel for the Pictorial.

Scribners, and "A Son at the Front". - I have just heard from Messrs.
Scribners that they are beginning the publication of "A Son at the
Front" in next December's number of the magazine. They say it will
run for ten numbers, which presumably means that the volume will be
published in September 1923, and you will understand my wish that
its appearance should not be interfered with by the publication of
"Old New York" at the same date, or within a few months afterward.