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Notes
Dreiser-Mencken Letters: The Correspondence of Theodore Dreiser & H. L. Mencken, 1907-1945, ed. Thomas P. Riggio, 2 vols. (1986) 2: 682 (cited hereafter as Dreiser-Mencken).
In a letter to Mencken of 10 April 1911, Dreiser indicated that this "next" book "is called 'The Genius'" (Dreiser-Mencken 1:67). He did not then use quotation marks in the title.
Microfilm copy, Theodore Dreiser Collection, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, University of Pennsylvania (cited hereafter as UPDC). Materials from this collection are quoted here by the kind permission of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library.
Letters of Theodore Dreiser, ed. Robert H. Elias, 3 vols. (1959) 1: 122-123 (this edition is cited hereafter as Letters); Dreiser-Mencken Letters 1: 78.
See Richard Lingeman, Theodore Dreiser: An American Journey, 1908-1945 (1990) 37, 43; W. A. Swanberg, Dreiser (1965) 187; Robert H. Elias, "Bibliography and the Biographer," The Library Chronicle 38 (1972): 29-30; Donald Pizer, The Novels of Theodore Dreiser: A Critical Study (1976) 137-138.
Handwritten ms. signed "E. R. O'N___." with attached dated notation, UPDC. Also Elias, "Bibliography" 29-31; Mrs. M. A. M. Phillips to Dreiser, Wednesday afternoon [1911], UPDC.
Letter and untitled four-page report, UPDC. Materials from the Lengel Collection are quoted here by the kind permission of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library.
Untitled ms. by Vivian, November 1913, UPDC. See also Floyd Dell, Homecoming: An Autobiography (1933) 208-209.
Dreiser to Fremont Older, 27 November 1923, Letters 2: 418; and Dreiser to Mencken, 12 November 1912, Dreiser-Mencken 1: 107. See also Thomas P. Riggio, "Introduction" to Theodore Dreiser, American Diaries, 1902-1926, ed. Riggio, James L. W. West III, and Neda M. Westlake (1983) 8 n. 5, which includes Riggio's denial that "The Rake" is an early version of The "Genius".
Louis J. Oldani, "A Study of Theodore Dreiser's The 'Genius'" (Ph.D. diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1972) 64-65; Elias, "Bibliography" 41-44.
Lengel to Dreiser, 31 May and 11 July 1913, UPDC, and "Possible Insert" to Lengel's "A Pregnant Night in American Literature," unpublished ms., 1960, William C. Lengel Collection, University of Pennsylvania.
Dreiser-Mencken 1: 120, 122. This second loss has never been explained or documented. See Pizer 135, 357 nn. 7 & 10: "now, almost two years after completing the novel, [Dreiser] was again left with only his original holograph."
13 September 1914, Dreiser-Mencken 1: 157. See also Mencken to Dreiser, 17 August 1914, Dreiser-Mencken 1: 151.
18 September 1914, Dreiser-Mencken 1: 57. See the exchange of letters on this matter: Mencken to Dreiser, 6, 13, 14, and 17 October 1914 and Dreiser to Mencken, 8, 13, and 15 October 1914, Dreiser-Mencken 1: 159-163.
13 October 1914, Dreiser-Mencken 1: 160. Letters between Mencken and Dreiser cited in this and note 19 amend Carl Bode's claim: "When in August 1914 Mencken and Nathan gained control of the Smart Set, they planned at once to print some pieces by Dreiser. They settled on his plays since his novels could not be excerpted well and his short stories did not impress them very much." Mencken (1969) 106.
Dreiser-Mencken 1: 368. Pizer claims that "one carbon, completely unedited, was sent to Mencken" (Novels 135-136).
Dreiser-Mencken 1: 169. See also Dreiser to Mencken, 12 December 1914, and Mencken to Dreiser, 11 December 1914, Dreiser-Mencken 1: 169-170.
Dreiser to Mencken, 12 December 1914, Dreiser-Mencken 1: 170. See also Mencken to Dreiser, 15 December 1914.
Dreiser-Mencken 1: 166. Town Topics for 8 June 1914, for example, stated that Dreiser was "now hard at work on his next novel, The Genius."
Though what Boxes 163 and 163 (84 and 85) contain is partly ribbon copy and 160 and 161 (87) for the most part carbon copy, some chapters in 160 and 161 appear to be ribbon copy (Chapters 13-21, 56-57, 59-62, and 64, for example), carbon copy of those chapters being found in Box 162 (84). Similarly, Chapters 85-86, 89, 91, 94, 100-102, and 105 in Box 161 (87) appear to be ribbon copy, whereas the same chapters in Box 163 (85) are carbon copy. Chapter 73 in Boxes 163 (85) and 161 (87) is in each case a mixture of ribbon-copy pages and carbon-copy pages. A parallel combining of ribbon-copy pages with first and second carbon copies occurs in Box 164 (86a and b).
See Letters to Louise: Theodore Dreiser's Letters to Louise Campbell, ed. Louise Campbell (1959) 83. Also Diana Rice, "Terrible Typewriters on Parnassus," The New York Times Magazine 27 April 1924: 11.
The present study does not treat the serial cuts made in pencil by William C. Lengel on the typescript in Boxes 162 (84) and 163 (85), the copy which Mencken read between 8 December 1914 and 5 January 1915.
See, for example, Chapter 12: 105 and 114; Chapter 14: 130; Chapter 15: 139; Chapter 16: 154 and 157; Chapter 25.
For transpositions see Chapter 1: 6 and 10; Chapter 2: 16; Chapter 8: 67; Chapter 10: 89. For omissions see Chapter 2: 20-21; Chapter 3: 34; Chapter 10: 91. For punctuation changes see Chapter 5: 44; Chapter 6: 50; Chapter 10: 85; Chapter 12: 105.
Chapman's and Dell's letters, UPDC. The present study has entailed examination of the thousands of pages of holograph, typescripts, and galley proof in addition to the published text of The "Genius", each version displaying its peculiar traits. Here I can discuss only the three editings and a representative sample of the alterations introduced by Dreiser, by Chapman, and by Dell. The fuller significance of the innumerable variants among the several forms of the text can emerge only with schematic setting forth of the total pattern of changes.
My Life with Dreiser (1951) 304. See also Vrest Orton's counterclaim in Dreiser-ana: A Book About His Books (1929) 35.
For the editing period, see Dreiser's letters to Mencken from 22 June to 8 December 1914, Dreiser-Mencken 1: 144-168.
Dreiser to Mencken, 30 November and 8 December 1914, Dreiser-Mencken 1: 166, 168. For prior practice, see Dreiser to Mencken, 18 July 1913 and 25 and 31 March, 22 June, 10 August, 15 October, and 10 November 1914, Dreiser-Mencken 1: 120-122, 136, 138, 144, 149, 163, 164.
Oldani 120. See also Dreiser to Mencken, 9 October 1915, Dreiser-Mencken 1: 201. Dreiser occasionally reverted to enclosing the full title in double quotation marks, as in his 29 January 1916 diary entry (American Diaries 128).
Pages 754, 914, 923. See also 716-717, 929, 931, 972, 1017-1018, 1042, 1090, 1092, 1143, 1151-1154, 1248, 1266.
See pages 565-566, 597, 636, 644, 650-651, 726-727, 832-833, 949, 980, 1017-1018, 1031, 1037-1040, 1042, 1159-1161.
Orton 35, for example. See Pizer, Novels 135-136, and James L. W. West III, "The Chace Act and Anglo-American Literary Relations," Studies in Bibliography 45 (1992): 303-311.
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