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- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- King, Ginevra, 1898-1980
- Title:
- Ginevra King Collection Relating to F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/w3763683h
- Dates:
- 1913-1949
- Size:
- 1 box and 0.8 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of material relating to Ginerva King's romantic relationship with American author F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of material relating to King's romantic relationship with Fitzgerald. Included are King's diary (1913-1914), typescript of her letters (11 Jan. 1915 - 7 July 1917) to Fitzgerald that he gave to her (in the 1930s?), undated carbon copy of "Love? Story" by King, ALS by Fitzgerald to King (21 July 1918), 2 TLsS by Dan Piper to King (1917), 6 TLsS by Arthur Mizener to King, and an issue of "Town and Country" magazine (1 July 1918).
- Arrangement
This collection is unarranged.
- Collection Creator Biography:
King, Ginevra, 1898-1980
Ginevra King (1898-1980) was a beautiful debutante from Lake Forest, Illinois, with whom Fitzgerald had a romantic relationship from 1915 to 1917. For Fitzgerald, King was the archetype of an attractive, independent, upperclass woman, and she provided inspiration for characters in his later fiction.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
AM 2004-2. Gift.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
Folder inventory added by Lisa Yankowitz 2013 in 2012.
In 2022, restrictions on the collection where researchers were required to use surrogates were lifted as part of a restrictions review project.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Ginevra King Collection Relating to F. Scott Fitzgerald; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/w3763683h
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box 1
