The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder

  Bridgman, Ray, 203

  Bridie, James, A Sleeping Clergyman, 279n100

  Bromwell, Frank, 33

  Bronte, Anne, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 33

  Brontë, Charlotte:

  Jane Eyre, 31

  Shirley, 31

  Villette, 30, 33

  Brontë, Emily, Wuthering Heights, 33 Brooke, Rupert, “The Great Lover,” 96

  Brooks, Rev. Raymond C., 50

  Brooks, Van Wyck, TNW letter to, 379

  Brown, H. Leggett, 306

  Brown, Martin, A Very Good Young Man, 119n209, 121

  Browne, E. Martin, TNW letter to, 659–61

  Browne, Sir Thomas, Religio Medici, 72

  Brownell, Frank, 147

  Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 31

  Browning, Robert, 31

  Bruckner, Anton, 258, 684

  Bruerton, Courtney, 464n170

  Brunauer, Dalma H., TNW letter to, 700–701

  Buber, Martin, 640

  Budapest String Quartet, 475

  Bull, Ole Bornemann, 253n39

  Burckhardt, Jacob, 572

  Burgtheater, Vienna, 247n23

  Burke, Edmund, 311

  Bushnell, Horace, 116

  Bute, Mary Ellen, 691

  Bynner, Witter, 285–86

  C

  Cabell, James Branch, 220

  Caesar, Julius, 49, 440, 450, 453–54, 461

  Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 540, La Vida es Sueño, 636–37

  Campbell, Ellie Jones, 181

  Campbell, Gladys, 313n171

  Campbell, Joseph, 412n91

  Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, 264, 301, 609

  Camus, Albert, 442

  Canby, Mrs. Henry Seidel, 248

  Canfield, Cass, 271, 686

  TNW letters to, 221–22, 250, 552–54, 595–96, 653–54

  Capote, Truman, 560

  Carew, Helen, 328n200

  Carr, Rosemary, 147n25, 198

  Carré, Michael, Pierrot the Prodigal, 91

  Carroll, Paul Vincent, The Strings, My Lord, Are False, 394n58

  Carter, John F., Jr., 117n202

  Catelier, Jacques, 286

  Cather, Willa, 492

  Death Comes for the Archbishop, 237

  Catherine the Great, 493n23

  Catullus, 543

  Cecil, Lord David, 591, 642

  Century Club, New York, 360

  Century Magazine, The, 191

  Cerf, Bennett, 306

  Cervantes, Miguel de, Don Quixote, 634

  Chagall, Marc, 640

  Chamberlain, Neville, 366

  Champion, Gower, 618

  Chandlee, Harry, 368n12

  Channing, Carol, 618n72

  Chapin, Schuyler, TNW letter to, 651–53

  Chaplin, Charlie, 242, 243–44, 384, 396

  Chappell, Delos, 350

  Chatterton, Ruth, 167

  Chautauqua Institution, 66n121

  Chavadjadzies, Paul, 614

  Chefoo, China:

  China Inland Mission Schools in, 4, 18, 125

  TNW’s letters from, 11–25

  Chekhov, Anton, 226, 510, 695

  The Three Sisters, 204, 399n70, 407, 685

  Cherry Lane Theatre, New York, 691n203

  Chesterton, G. K., 223

  Chicago Evening Post Literary Review, 189n106

  Chicago World’s Fair, 261n66

  China:

  Manchu dynasty in, 20n31

  TNW’s father with consulate in, 3, 23n34

  TNW’s years in, xxxiv, 3, 4, 11–25, 125

  Chopin, Frédéric, Preludes, 24, 26

  Churchill, Winston, 435

  Cicero, 29, 49, 79n139, 450

  Cincinnati Little Theatre, 112

  Circle in the Square, New York, 483, 581, 600n34

  Civic Repertory Theatre, 204n136

  Clair, René, 399

  Claire, Ina, 691

  Clark, Eleanor, 602n41

  Claudel, Paul, 592

  L’Oiseau noir dans le Soleil Levant, 589

  Clay, Lucius D., 598

  Clift, Montgomery, 444–45, 498, 506

  TNW letter to, 415–16

  Clurman, Harold, 627n91

  Cocteau, Jean, 310n165, 365

  The Eagle Has Two Heads, 590n9

  La Machine infernale, 491

  Codman, Charles R., 338

  Coffin, Catherine, 498

  TNW letters to, 612–14, 621–23, 656–58

  Coffin, Edmund, 623n81

  Coffin, Margot (Lindsay), 623n81

  Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 623n81

  Cohan, George M., 390

  Hit-the-Trail Holiday, 77

  Cohn, Harry, 350

  Cohn, Janet, 393n57

  Colefax, Sibyl, 306, 444, 490, 553, 554, 591

  and The Skin of Our Teeth, 391, 430

  TNW letters to, 237–40, 246–47, 255–59, 307–10, 328–31, 363–66, 376–77, 380–81, 405–7, 433–36, 449–50, 465–67

  TNW’s friendship with, xxxvi, 233, 315, 357

  Coleman, Roger, 181, 201, 207

  Colette, 304, 635

  Coley, Thomas, 444

  Collinge, Patricia, 399

  Colman, Ronald, 267

  Colonna, Vittoria, 134

  Colum, Padraic, 379

  Comden, Betty, 698n218

  Compagnie des Quinze, 258

  Compton, Fay, 388

  Comstock, Polly, 146

  Conant, James B., 376, 379

  Congreve, William, 520

  Connolly, Marc, 257, 274, 332, 338, 380, 440n129

  Constant, Benjamin, Cécile, 502

  Coolidge, Philip, 444

  Cooper, Merion C., 272, 276

  Copeau, Jacques, 126, 589

  Copeland, Charles Townsend, 102

  Copenhagen, Otto von, 693

  Copland, Aaron, 622

  TNW letter to, 488–89

  Cordoba, Pedro de, 346

  Corneille, Pierre, La Mort de Pompée, 648n130

  Corneille, Thomas, 648

  Cornell, Katharine, 180, 232, 259n63, 260n64, 591, 681

  in Alien Corn, 263n71

  in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, 254–55

  in Ethan Frome, 308

  in Romeo and Juliet, 308n154

  in Saint Joan, 308n154

  in The Three Sisters, 407

  TNW letter to, 254–55

  Couperus, Louis Marie Anne, 170

  Coward, Noël, 264

  Blithe Spirit, 388

  In Which We Serve, 388n51

  “London Pride,” 388

  TNW letter to, 388

  Coward-McCann, 191n110, 221, 222, 231

  Cowl, Jane, 353

  Cowley, Malcolm, 316

  TNW letters to, 501–3, 701–2

  Craig, William C., 496

  Crane, Josephine Porter Boardman, 366

  Craven, Frank, 325, 328, 333, 335, 339, 348, 368n12

  Crawford, Cheryl, 356, 435, 627

  TNW letter to, 639–41

  Crews, Laura Hope, 167

  Croce, Benedetto, 258, 426

  Cross, Wilbur L., 181, 556

  Cukor, George, 272, 399

  Culp, Julia, 45

  Cunard, Lady, 258

  Curtis, Roy, 205n137

  Curtius, Ernst, 465

  Czerny, Karl, 26

  D

  Dakin, Arthur Hazard, 675

  Dakin, Janet Wilder, see Wilder, Janet Frances

  Dakin, Winthrop Saltonstall, 403n77, 675

  TNW letter to, 573–75

  Daly, Arnold, 520

  Daly, James, 546n125

  Dana, Anna English, 351

  Dana, J. Dwight, 230

  death of, 499n40

  TNW letters to, 271–72, 275–76, 290–91, 293–94, 324–26, 337–38, 339, 343–44, 350–51, 389–90

  Dane, Clemence, Granite, 206

  Dante Alighieri, 197, 245, 247, 342, 507

  Da Ponte, Lorenzo, 680

  Dark Angel (film), 267

/>   Darrach, Marshall, 37

  Dart, Capt. Rollin, 341n218

  Davidson, Eugene, 518 Davies, Hubert Henry:

  Doormats, 164, 165n60

  The Mollusc, 165n60

  The Outcast, 80n142, 164, 165n60

  Davies, Marion, 284

  Davis, Owen, Jezebel, 260

  Davis, Robert Frederick, 293–94, 298n134, 301, 303–4, 372–73

  Day, Huntington T., TNW letter to, 367–68

  de Bosis, Adolfo, 126, 144, 145, 463

  de Bosis, Lauro, 144n19, 257

  Delsarte, François, 551

  de Mayo, Margarita, TNW letter to, 485

  De Mille, Cecil B., 350, 455

  De Morgan, William Frend:

  Joseph Vance: An Ill-Written Autobiography 25, 30

  Somehow Good, 30

  de Sica, Vittorio, 464, 473–74, 480, 545n122

  Deslys, Gaby, 56, 57

  Devil and the Deep (film), 281n105

  de Wilde, Brandon, 650n132

  Dial, The, 154, 155

  Dickens, Charles, 353

  David Copperfield, 19

  Dickinson, Emily, 495, 579

  Dickinson, William Austin, 580n183

  Dietrichstein, Leo James, 94

  Diggers, TNW’s thoughts on, 647

  D’Indy, Vincent, Symphony on a French

  Mountain Air, 119

  Disney, Walt, 282

  Fantasia, 389

  Disraeli, Benjamin, 374

  Distant Thunder (film), 703, 704

  Dodd, Lee Wilson, The Changelings, 167

  Dodd, Martha Eccles, 268

  Donn-Byrne, Brian, Messer Marco Polo, 191

  Donne, John, 104

  Donovan, Grace, 569

  Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.), TNW letter to, 300–301

  Dos Passos, John, 400n72

  Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 171

  The Brothers Karamazov, 203–4, 634

  Double Dealer, The, 155, 158

  Douglas, Melvyn, 384

  Douglas, Stephen A., 20n30

  Douglas, William, 146

  Dowson, Ernest, 86, 119

  Dramatist Guild, 324, 341

  Draper, Muriel, 274

  Draper, Ruth, 253, 257

  Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet (film), 399n71

  Dreiser, Theodore, Sister Carrie, 489n10

  Du Bos, Charles, 257

  Ducreux, Louis, 549, 550

  Duhamel, Georges, 315

  Dukes, Ashley, Jew Süss, 270

  Duncan, Isadora, 551

  Dunham, Katherine, 270n85

  Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord, The Lost Silk Hat, 105

  E

  Echegray, José, El Gran Galeoto, 180n92

  Eckstein, Gustav, 591

  Eddy, Mary Baker, 257

  Eddy, Nelson, 384

  Edge of Darkness (film), 407n84

  Edinburgh Festival, 480, 481, 527–28, 531, 655n143

  Edington, Vincent, Inc., 275

  Edward VII, king of England, 467

  Einstein, Albert, TNW letter to, 351–52

  Eldridge, Florence:

  and The Skin of Our Teeth, 394n59, 406, 407, 409–10, 417n96

  in Years Ago, 444

  El Greco, 211

  Eliot, T. S., 666, 695

  “Modern Education and the Classics,” 616n70

  Sweeney Agonistes, 588

  The Cocktail Party, 491

  Elser, Frank B., Mr. Gilhooley, 308

  Ely, John, 290–91

  Embree, Etta Parsons, 110

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 502

  Empson, William:

  Milton’s God, 597

  “The Theme of Ulysses,” 695

  Epstein, Jacob, Nina Forrest, 240n9

  Eulenberg, Herbert, 77

  Euripides, 301, 416

  Medea, 619n76

  Evans, Edith, 242, 245, 247, 609

  Evans, Rowley Turbeville, 22, 45

  Ewell, Tom, 538

  F

  Fairbank, Janet Ayer, 264

  Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 384

  Farquhar, George, The Beaux’ Stratagem, 356, 371

  Farrar, John, 7

  Farrell, James T., 651

  Farrow, Mia, 667, 668, 673–74, 681

  in The Great Gatsby, 686

  in The Three Sisters, 685–86

  TNW letters to, 669–71, 682–85

  Farwell, Byron, TNW letter to, 436–38

  Faulkner, William, 155, 471, 556

  Absalom, Absalom!, 578n178

  Fäy, Bernard, 591

  Fellowes, Daisy, 304, 306

  Fénelon, 238

  Fenollosa, Ernest Francisco, 588

  Ferber, Edna, 269n80, 380

  Ferguson, Elsie, 80, 91

  Fielding, Henry, 556, 654

  Findley, Timothy:

  The Butterfly Plague, 655n144

  TNW letter to, 655–56

  First Coast Artillery Corps:

  TNW in, 123n216, 123

  TNW’s letters from, 123–24

  Fiske, Minnie Maddern, 308, 681

  Fitch, Albert Parker, 164

  Fitts, Norman, TNW letter to, 240–41

  FitzGerald, Edward:

  correspondence of, 31

  The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (transl.), 31

  Fitzgerald, Frances Scott “Scottie,” 224n178, 225, 602

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 227, 633

  All the Sad Young Men, 225n181

  The Great Gatsby, 220

  TNW letters to, 220–21, 224–26

  Fitzgerald, Geraldine, 681n182

  Fitzgerald, Zelda, 227

  TNW letter to, 224–26

  Flanagan, William, 516n72

  Flandreau, Charles Macomb, Viva Mexico!, 665

  Fontanne, Lynn, 306, 376, 568

  TNW letter to, 391–93

  TNW’s friendship with, 239, 259n63, 261, 264

  Footner, Hurlbert, Shirley Kaye, 91

  Forbes-Robertson, Jean, 239

  Forbes-Robertson, Johnston, 42

  Foresman, Edwin Clyde, 644

  death of, 129, 211n150, 214–15

  as housemaster at Davis, 127, 152, 157–58, 176

  Foresman, Emily, 127, 157, 215n156

  Foresman, Grace Christy, 127, 157, 176, 645

  TNW letters to, 214–15, 326–27, 643–44

  Forrest, Nina (Lamb), 240n9

  Forster, E. M., 591n10

  A Passage to India, 315

  Foster, Joe, 269

  Fowlie, Wallace, Mallarmé, 552

  France, Anatole, 310n165, 316

  Francis, Graham, 547

  Francis of Assisi, Saint, 87, 114n190

  Frankfurter, Felix, 384

  Frantz, Sarah Morton, 189

  TNW letter to, 287–88

  Franz Ferdinand, Archduke, assassination of, 39n76

  Frazer, James G., The Golden Bough, 182

  Frazier, William, TNW letter to, 295–96

  Freedman, Harold:

  TNW letters to, 393–95, 626–28

  as TNW’s agent, 255, 325, 341, 343, 364n3, 417

  Freeman, Douglas Southall, Tee’s Lieutenants, 426

  Freiman, Elizabeth Goodman, 563n154

  Freud, Anna, 303, 429

  Freud, Sigmund, 145, 299, 302–3, 304, 449, 642, 702

  Friedell, Egon, 257

  Fröbel, Friedrich Wilhelm August, 136

  Frohman, Charles, 408, 417

  Frost, Robert, 642

  TNW letter to, 411–12

  “West-Running Brook,” 412

  Frost, William Goodell, TNW letter to, 109

  Fry, Wilfred, 75

  G

  Gable, Clark, 403

  Gahagan, Helen, 384

  Gallup, Donald, 499

  Gameliel, Rabbi, 103

  Gammon, Agnes, 82

  Gammon, Mary Stanley, 59, 82

  Gannett, Lewis Stiles, TNW letter to, 294–95

  Garbo, Greta, 282

  García Lorca, Federico, 541

&n
bsp; Garnett, Constance, 634n103

  Garnett, Richard, 144

  Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn:

  Cranford, 31

  Life of Charlotte Brontë, 31, 32–33

  Genet, Jean, 502

  George, Grace, 59, 62n112, 77

  Gershwin, George, 260

  Gibson, Violet, 201n128

  Gide, André, 458

  Gielgud, John, 450, 523, 622, 670

  Gilbert, Susan, 580n183

  Gillmore, Margalo, 417n96

  Gingold, Hermione, 686

  Giorgione, Pastoral Concert, 63

  Giotto di Bondone, The Virgin’s Meeting with St. Anne, 671

  Giraudoux, Jean, 365, 548

  Bella, 404

  Siegfried et le Limousin, 164

  Gish, Lillian, 118, 266, 546n125

  TNW letter to, 454–56

  Glasheen, Adaline, xxxvii

  TNW letters to, 694–95

  Glazer, Benjamin, 340n217

  Glenn, C. Leslie, 212, 384

  TNW letters to, 210–13, 291–93, 687–88

  TNW’s friendship with, xxxvi, 127, 216

  Glenn, Georgiana, 384

  Gluck, Alma, 45

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 292–93, 299, 469–70, 475, 584, 681–82

  Die Wahlverwandtschaften, 631n100

  Elective affinities (transl.), 631

  Faust, 298n133, 401n74

  Goethe Bicentennial Festival, Aspen, Colorado, 361, 464, 465, 466n173, 468–70, 469, 477, 485n1

  Goldbeck, Eva, 190

  Golden, John, 451, 453

  Golden Boy (film), 350

  Goldoni, Carlo, 520

  Mirandolina, 56

  Goldsmith, Oliver, She Stoops to Conquer, 163n51

  Goldstone, Richard:

  TNW letters to, 642–43, 661–63

  unauthorized biography of TNW by, 595–96, 642–43, 661–63, 687n196, 701–2

  Goldwyn, Sam, 232, 267, 278, 279, 282, 339

  Goodenough, Erwin R., 616

  Goodnow, Edward P., 332

  Gordon, Max, 417

  Gordon, Ruth, 458, 523, 544, 691

  in The Amazing Adele, 490n13

  in A Doll’s House, 234, 324n192, 338

  in Ethan Frome, 308

  and Findley, 655n143

  and Harris, 251, 408

  and Kanin, 441n130, 576, 680

  as letter writer, 553, 554

  in The Matchmaker, 480, 504, 538n109, 549, 553, 611, 680

  and movies, 282, 407n84, 490

  in Saturday’s Children, 590

  singing lessons for, 618

  in A Sleeping Clergyman, 279n100, 285n114

  in Three Sisters, 407

  TNW letters to, 259–62, 345–47, 387, 398–99, 441–42, 443–46, 522, 548–50, 590–92, 619–21, 685–86

  TNW’s friendship with, xxxvi, 257, 263, 274, 285, 330, 506, 586, 680, 693

  Gottlieb, Morton, 653

  Graham, Martha, 206n141, 330n203

  Grainger, Percy, 45

  Grant, Cary, 281, 473–75

  TNW letter to, 473–75

  Granville-Barker, Harley, 47, 48n92, 94, 301