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Notes
Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, historical editors, John C. Berkey and Alice M. Winters; textual editor, James L. W. West III; general editor, Neda M. Westlake (1981).
See James L. W. West III, "Nicholas Blood and Sister Carrie," Library Chronicle, 44 (1979), 32-42.
Typescript account by Doscher entitled "An Episode in the Life of 'Sister Carrie,'" in the Dodge correspondence file, Dreiser Papers, Univ. of Pennsylvania Library.
Contract between Dreiser and B. W. Dodge & Co., dated 6 June 1907, Dodge correspondence file, Dreiser Papers, Univ. of Pennsylvania Library.
See Neda M. Westlake, "The Sister Carrie Scrapbook," Library Chronicle, 44 (1979), 71-84, and Robert H. Elias, Theodore Dreiser: Apostle of Nature, emended ed. (1970), pp. 136-138.
Quoted in R. W. Stallman, Stephen Crane: A Biography (1968), p. 184; see also pp. 179-180 and 182.
See Joseph Katz, "Theodore Dreiser and Stephen Crane: Studies in a Literary Relationship," Stephen Crane in Transition: Centenary Essays, ed. Katz (1972), pp. 174-204.
The important British reviews of 1901 and the significant American reviews of both 1900 and 1907 are republished in Theodore Dreiser: The Critical Reception, ed. Jack Salzman (1972). See also Salzman's "The Critical Recognition of Sister Carrie, 1900-1907," Journal of American Studies, 3 (1969), 123-133.
The copies from institutional libraries that I have examined are as follows: Univ. of Pennsylvania Library *AC9.D8144.900sc and 900s.1907, and 49-D-549; Lilly Library PS3507.R55.S6.1907, copies 1 and 2; Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. PS3507.R55. S5.1907; SUNY Binghamton PS3507.R55.S5.1907, 1907b, 1907c, 1907d, and 1908. I have also worked with four copies in my personal collection. I am indebted to Marion Hanscom, Special Collections Librarian at SUNY Binghamton, for going to unusual lengths in order that I might examine the copies in his collection.
The original Doubleday, Page & Co. plates of Sister Carrie were signed in eights with arabic numerals, [1] 2-35, in the lower left corners of every sixteenth page. Most of the later reprints from these venerable plates were imposed in sixteens, but no one ever bothered to chisel off the signature markings. They are present as late as 1932 in the Modern Library reprint of Sister Carrie, which is itself gathered in sixteens.
McDonald, A Bibliography of the Writings of Theodore Dreiser (1928), p. 34. The two printings can also be differentiated by gutter measurements. The gutter distances in the first printing between pp. 134-135, 326-327, and 422-423 are respectively 37.5, 38, and 38 mm. The same measurements in the second printing are 35.5, 36, and 36 mm.
This report is part of the Dodge correspondence, Dreiser Papers. Under his agreement with Dodge, Dreiser received 15 &c.nt; each for the first 3,000 copies sold and 22½ &c.nt; for the remaining 1,617, for a total of $813.82. Also included on the report is a statement of Dreiser's theoretical salary, $35.00 a week for twelve weeks, or $420.00 Royalties and salary totalled $1,233.82, which was deducted from the $4,000 Dreiser owed the firm for the fifty shares of stock.
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