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Notes
The Newberry Library, Sherwood Anderson Papers, Outgoing Letters: 3 Aug. 1925 to David Karsner. Subsequent references to Newberry Outgoing and Incoming Letters are indicated parenthetically; I have transcribed all letters accurately, without the use of "sic."
Anderson worked in business and lived in the Cleveland-Elyria area from 1906 to late 1912 or early 1913. In The Road to Winesburg (1972), p. 175-176, William A. Sutton, a thorough biographer of Anderson's early years, notes that Anderson probably began writing seriously in 1909 in Elyria, Ohio. Subsequent references to Sutton's text appear parenthetically.
The Newberry Library, Sherwood Anderson Papers, Works: Mary Cochran folders. This summary is of Typescript A, so labeled in William S. Pfeiffer, "An Edition of Sherwood Anderson's Mary Cochran," Diss. Kent State University 1975.
Floyd Dell, Women as World Builders: Studies in Modern Feminism (1913), p. 9. Subsequent references to Women are indicated parenthetically.
Howard M. Jones and Walter B. Rideout, eds., Letters of Sherwood Anderson (1953), p. 3: 6 Nov. 1916. Subsequent references to Letters are indicated parenthetically and include the question marks inserted by Jones and Rideout before those dates which they could not definitely verify.
The Newberry Library, Sherwood Anderson Papers, Works: undated newspaper clipping entitled "Literary Notes" and cataloged under "Reviews of Windy McPherson's Son." Evidence within the clipping suggests that it was published in late summer, 1916.
The Newberry Library, Sherwood Anderson Papers, Reserved Box 7: 25 October 1916 to Miss Marietta Finley. Subsequent references to Reserved Box 7 are indicated parenthetically. The outgoing letters in this Newberry file box, all written to Marietta Finley, were secured by William A. Sutton from Mrs. E. Vernon Hahn (the former Miss Finley). Sutton has permitted me to cite several letters here.
The following evidence supports this May, 1920 dating: the last paragraph in the letter mentions Anderson's imminent departure from Fairhope to Kentucky and later to Chicago. This paragraph is very similar to one in a letter written in Fairhope to Waldo Frank, possibly in late May, in which Anderson also refers to his upcoming departure for Kentucky and Chicago (Jones and Rideout, Letters, p. 56: ? 21 May 1920).
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