Monday, May 10, 1926.

Dear Scott and Darling Zelda:—

I just got through reading the current Bookman and it certainly gave me the impression that you, Scott (or Fitz), are having a violent affair with Jonnie Farrar¹. I was touched particularly by his assertion that he was glad you were coming back this fall, though you and he quarreled a great deal.

Ellis and I are exceedingly grateful to you, Scott, not you, Zelda, for dedicating "All the Sad Young Men" to us. I had read all of it except the first story, which I think, is the best story. I think also that you were a sap not to have made a novel of it.

"Gatsby," I see by the papers, closed Saturday night owing to Rennie's impending trip to England. It's too bad it couldn't have run on, but it would have been a mistake to continue it with somebody else in the lead. If there was ever a man that fitted a part and vice versa, etc.

In case you haven't heard of the Pulitzer awards—George Kelly got the first prize for his play, "Craig's Wife." Aleck Woolcott said he would have given it to Marc Connolly's "The Wisdom Tooth," which is a damn good play, and Percy said he would place both "Gatsby" and "The Wisdom Tooth" ahead of the winner. The fact that Owen Davis was on the committee may have ruined "Gatsby's" chance. It's too bad you couldn't have seen "Gatsby." I think you'd have been pleased...

... Write and tell me your plans. If you want me to be looking up a house in Great Neck, let me know and I'll be glad to serve.

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¹ In 1926, John Farrar, later to be a successful book publisher, was editor of The Bookman. The reference here is to Farrar's review of All the Sad Young Men, which he termed the "very best" of Fitzgerald's short stories.

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