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This Side of Paradise (1920), p. 25; for the rejected fragment see Matthew J. Bruccoli, The Composition of Tender is the Night A Study of the Manuscripts (1963), pp. 44-45; The Great Gatsby (1925), pp. 73-76.

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No typescript of This Side of Paradise appears to survive, but there are errors in the published text that could only have been made by non-authorial hands. For example, on page 183 of the first edition, the sentences and paragraphs are badly jumbled because whoever typed the section misunderstood Fitzgerald's marginal notes in the manuscript.

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Copyright © 1972 by Charles Scribner's Sons. From an Office Memo prepared by Robert Bridges of Charles Scribner's Sons. Used by permission of Charles Scribner's Sons. (I have preserved all errors and irregularities in this list and the many errors in the lists and letters that follow.)

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The Young Visiters (1919) was written by a nine-year-old girl named Daisy Ashford. Her errors in spelling and word usage were preserved in the book, as the title shows.

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Fitzgerald was counting Bridges' list as number one, his own first list as number two, and this list, his second, as number three.

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The first paragraph of this letter has been published in Dear Scott/Dear Max The Fitzgerald-Perkins Correspondence (1971), p. 31. The second paragraph of the letter and the list of errors are reproduced with the permission of Harold Ober Associates, Incorporated. Copyright © 1972 by Frances Scott Fitzgerald Smith.

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Reproduced with the permission of Collins—Publishers; London, England. Despite these promises, the English edition was no better than the American edition. Collins' text departs from the Scribners first printing in some 850 readings, not counting minor features of house styling. Most of the variants are what one usually finds between an American and an English text, but others are clearly errors or editorial sophistications.

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The bracketed information was supplied by Adams and appears here as it did in his column.

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Copyright © 1972 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Excerpt from letter dated 30 July 1920, Maxwell E. Perkins to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Used by permission of Charles Scribner's Sons. Neither list mentioned in Perkins' letter survives in the Scribner Archive, but some notice of the new errors must have been sent to the printers since one of the new mistakes from Fitzgerald's fourth list was located and altered in the plates. See the next two sentences of this article for details.

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This collation was first done by Matthew J. Bruccoli and published in his article "A Collation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise," SB, 9 (1957). That collation, done on an early Hinman Machine, turned up 31 variants. The present collation, done in August 1970 on Professor Bruccoli's Lindstrand Comparator and checked against copies of This Side of Paradise in his Fitzgerald collection, has brought to light 11 new variants.

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A partial record of Fitzgerald's attempt to mend the errors in This Side of Paradise survives in his personal copy of the novel. A first printing of the first edition, this copy has Fitzgerald's comments and corrections marked in it. Professor Bruccoli has prepared a full table of these markings and has published it in the 1971 Fitzgerald/ Hemingway Annual.

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"The Literary Spotlight," Bookman, 55 (March 1922), 22.

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Quoted from a 1961 House of Books catalog in Fitzgerald Newsletter, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli (Washington: Microcard, 1969), p. 80. No date is given with the inscription.

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Fitzgerald to Perkins, 24 December 1938, Scribner Archive, Princeton. Fitzgerald was especially anxious during his last years to give his old books new life. In his last letter to Perkins, written on 13 December 1940, eight days before his death, he appended a postscript asking how much it would cost for him to purchase the plates of This Side of Paradise. Both of these letters are printed in The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, ed. Andrew Turnbull (1963), pp. 280-281 and 290-291.

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From an unpublished typescript version of Fitzgerald's 1937 essay "Early Success," Fitzgerald Papers, Princeton. Reproduced by permission of Harold Ober Associates, Incorporated. Copyright © 1972 by Frances Scott Fitzgerald Smith.