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Vanity Fair published articles, 1920

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents “The Inevitable Literary Biography: With the Usual Apologies to Arthur Symons, Holbrook Johnson, and Frank Harris” “How Akmen Amused the Princess: A Wonder Tale in Rhythmic Prose by Lord D-NS-NY” April (fiction) Eugene Brieux’s “Les Americains Chez Nous: A Review of a Much Talked about Play,” May “The Progress of Psychoanalysis,” August “The Gulf in American Literature: A Discussion of the Irreconcilable Breach between the Illiterates and the Illuminati,” September “Things I Consider...
Dates: 1920

Vanity Fair published articles, 1921

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
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“Things I Consider Underrated: Three Little Essays in Constructive Criticism,” March “The New Englander Abroad: With an Account of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Infidelity to the Venus di Medici,” April “The Oppressor,” Found in: The Liberator (May) pp25-28 (short story) “H.L. Mencken,” Found in: New Republic (June)

Dates: 1921

Vanity Fair published articles, 1922

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents “The Aesthetic Upheaval in France: The Influence of Jazz in Paris and Americanization of French Literature and Art,” February “The Ballets of Jean Cocteau,” March “Night Thoughts in Paris: A Rhapsody” Found in: New Republic (March) “The Poetry of Mr. W.B. Yeats” Found in: The Freeman, March 29 These United States- V, “New Jersey: The Slave of Two Cities” Found in: Nation 114 (June) Review of James Joyce Ulysses, Found in: New Republic, July Review of Edith Wharton Glimpses of the Moon,...
Dates: 1922

Vanity Fair published articles, 1923

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents “The School of Strachey” January (joint review) “Songs without Music: Notes on Current American Poetry and Biography,” February “Things I consider Underrated,” March “Ballads and Blast-Furnaces: Notes on Industry, Folk-lore, Criticism, and Poetry,” March (joint review) “Many Marriages” review of two novels and a collection of essays by Sherwood Anderson, Found in: Dial, April “Sherwood Anderson’s Babbitt: Novels and a Book of Essays,” April (joint review) “A Selection of Bric-a-Brac: Notes...
Dates: 1923

Vanity Fair published articles, 1924

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 5
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“Wanted: A City of Spirit: Reflections upon the Spiritual Problems Which Confront the Younger Generation in America,” January (Wilson’s last piece in Vanity Fair)

“Bernard Shaw since the War,” Found in: New Republic, August

Review of Herbert S. Gorman James Joyce: His First Forty Years, Found in: Dial, November

Dates: 1924

New Republic published articles, 1925

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents Reviews of Karl P. Harrington Catullus and His Influence and Grant Showerman Horace and His Influence, found in: Dial, February“The Last Phase of Anatole France,” 11 February“Notes on Modern Literature,” 4 March“W.B. Yeats,” 15 April“Boswell and Others,” 1 July“A Novel of Henry Adams [Democracy],” 11 October“The Critic as Politician.” 2 December (reprinted as “The Critic Who Does Not Exist” in The Shores of Light)...
Dates: 1925

New Republic published articles, 1926

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

“T.S. Eliot and the Seventeenth Century,” 7 January

“Kipling’s Debits and Credits,” 6 October

“Anti-Literature,” 13 October

Satire on “A Publisher’s List” Found in: New Republic, 27 October

“Modern Literature: Between the Whirlpool and the Rock,” November

Dates: 1926

New Republic published articles, 1927

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents Review of Dorothy Parker Enough Rope, JanuaryReview of J.W.N. Sullivan Aspects of Science: Second Series, 26 JanuaryReviews of John Galsworthy Plays: Sixth Series, Representative Plays and Verse New and Old, 9 FebruaryReview of Pelham Edgar Henry James, Man and Author, 16 MarchReview of The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse, edited by David Smith, 30 MarchReview of Gertrude Stein Composition as Explanation, The Making of...
Dates: 1927

New Republic published articles, 1928

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
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“Meditations on Dostoyevsky: Bad Quarter Hour of a Literary Critic,” 24 October (Largely incorporated in I Thought of Daisy, 1929)

Dates: 1928

Vanity Fair published articles, 1929

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Comments on Sacco-Vanzetti in Lantern

“An Antidote to Despair,” review of Walter Lippmann A Preface to Morals, Found in: New Republic, 10 July

Dates: 1929

I Thought of Daisy 1929 edition- American editions, 1929-1968

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 11
Content Description From the Collection: The Lewis M. Dabney III papers consist of manuscripts, notes, transcripts, articles, reviews, personal journals, bibliographic sources, audio cassettes, and compact discs, relating primarily to his research on the life and works of Edmund Wilson, an American writer and critic in the twentieth century. In addition to copies and transcripts of Wilson's writing journals, there is correspondence across a large network of intimate relationships, friends, and acquaintances of Wilson. The...
Dates: 1929-1968

I Thought of Daisy 1929 edition- Unpublished journal entry used in Coney Island chapter, 1919

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 12
Content Description From the Collection: The Lewis M. Dabney III papers consist of manuscripts, notes, transcripts, articles, reviews, personal journals, bibliographic sources, audio cassettes, and compact discs, relating primarily to his research on the life and works of Edmund Wilson, an American writer and critic in the twentieth century. In addition to copies and transcripts of Wilson's writing journals, there is correspondence across a large network of intimate relationships, friends, and acquaintances of Wilson. The...
Dates: 1919

I Thought of Daisy 1929 edition- Reviews, 1929 (3 items), 1967

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 13
Content Description From the Collection: The Lewis M. Dabney III papers consist of manuscripts, notes, transcripts, articles, reviews, personal journals, bibliographic sources, audio cassettes, and compact discs, relating primarily to his research on the life and works of Edmund Wilson, an American writer and critic in the twentieth century. In addition to copies and transcripts of Wilson's writing journals, there is correspondence across a large network of intimate relationships, friends, and acquaintances of Wilson. The...
Dates: 1967

I Thought of Daisy 1929 edition- Comments on song, 'Mamie Rose', 2000

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 14
Content Description From the Collection: The Lewis M. Dabney III papers consist of manuscripts, notes, transcripts, articles, reviews, personal journals, bibliographic sources, audio cassettes, and compact discs, relating primarily to his research on the life and works of Edmund Wilson, an American writer and critic in the twentieth century. In addition to copies and transcripts of Wilson's writing journals, there is correspondence across a large network of intimate relationships, friends, and acquaintances of Wilson. The...
Dates: 2000

I Thought of Daisy 1929 edition- Neale Reintiz prefatory note and afterword, 2002

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 15
Content Description From the Collection: The Lewis M. Dabney III papers consist of manuscripts, notes, transcripts, articles, reviews, personal journals, bibliographic sources, audio cassettes, and compact discs, relating primarily to his research on the life and works of Edmund Wilson, an American writer and critic in the twentieth century. In addition to copies and transcripts of Wilson's writing journals, there is correspondence across a large network of intimate relationships, friends, and acquaintances of Wilson. The...
Dates: 2002

I Thought of Daisy 1929 edition- Neale Reintiz on Wilson, "A Portrait of the Critic as a Young Artist"

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 16
Content Description From the Collection: The Lewis M. Dabney III papers consist of manuscripts, notes, transcripts, articles, reviews, personal journals, bibliographic sources, audio cassettes, and compact discs, relating primarily to his research on the life and works of Edmund Wilson, an American writer and critic in the twentieth century. In addition to copies and transcripts of Wilson's writing journals, there is correspondence across a large network of intimate relationships, friends, and acquaintances of Wilson. The...
Dates: 1920's

I Thought of Daisy 1929 edition-Edmund Wilson on 1920's, letter, 1947

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 17
Content Description From the Collection: The Lewis M. Dabney III papers consist of manuscripts, notes, transcripts, articles, reviews, personal journals, bibliographic sources, audio cassettes, and compact discs, relating primarily to his research on the life and works of Edmund Wilson, an American writer and critic in the twentieth century. In addition to copies and transcripts of Wilson's writing journals, there is correspondence across a large network of intimate relationships, friends, and acquaintances of Wilson. The...
Dates: 1947

I Thought of Daisy 1929 edition- -Dabney notes on Wilson's letters from the 1920s and 1930s, 1986

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 18
Content Description From the Collection: The Lewis M. Dabney III papers consist of manuscripts, notes, transcripts, articles, reviews, personal journals, bibliographic sources, audio cassettes, and compact discs, relating primarily to his research on the life and works of Edmund Wilson, an American writer and critic in the twentieth century. In addition to copies and transcripts of Wilson's writing journals, there is correspondence across a large network of intimate relationships, friends, and acquaintances of Wilson. The...
Dates: 1986

Axel's Castle Early draft of chapter on symbolism (photocopy from Princeton University)

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 19
Content Description From the Collection: The Lewis M. Dabney III papers consist of manuscripts, notes, transcripts, articles, reviews, personal journals, bibliographic sources, audio cassettes, and compact discs, relating primarily to his research on the life and works of Edmund Wilson, an American writer and critic in the twentieth century. In addition to copies and transcripts of Wilson's writing journals, there is correspondence across a large network of intimate relationships, friends, and acquaintances of Wilson. The...
Dates: 1930's

Axel's Castle reviews, 1930-1931

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 20
Content Description From the Collection: The Lewis M. Dabney III papers consist of manuscripts, notes, transcripts, articles, reviews, personal journals, bibliographic sources, audio cassettes, and compact discs, relating primarily to his research on the life and works of Edmund Wilson, an American writer and critic in the twentieth century. In addition to copies and transcripts of Wilson's writing journals, there is correspondence across a large network of intimate relationships, friends, and acquaintances of Wilson. The...
Dates: 1930-1931