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our — disappearing, and all that
“Oh, yes, there was something else I meant to be serious about. Sargent said something about our — disappearing, and all that. Well, Sargent has always been enamored of puttering around a garden somewhere in an alias and old trousers with me to make him lemonade when he gets overheated — and so far I’ve humored him — but I’ve really never thought very much of the idea. That would be — for me — a particularly stupid way of going to seed... Tonight has really made a good many things — clear to me. Things that were moving around in my mind, though I didn’t know quite what to call them.”
ex Stephen Vincent Benét, Young People’s Pride, Illustrations by Henry Raleigh (1922) : 276-277
NYPL copy/scan (one of three at hathitrust) : link
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first encountered — via search for “foible” + “puttering” — at Harper’s Bazar (September 1922) : 124
U Michigan copy/scan (via google books) : link
(where Henry Raleigh’s illustrations also appear)
The novel treats the situations of young people — flappers among them — out of college, out of war, trying to sort out their lives. Fitzgerald is mentioned in reviews, and W. B. Trites also comes to this mind.
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943)
wikipedia : link
from which —
His grandfather and namesake led the Army Ordnance Corps from 1874 to 1891 as a brigadier general and served in the Civil War. His paternal uncle Laurence Vincent Benét was an ensign in the U.S. Navy during the Spanish–American War who later manufactured the French Hotchkiss machine gun.
obituary at The New York Times (March 14, 1943) : link (paywall)
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on Henry Raleigh (1880-1944), see —
See David Apatoff, “What Happened When a Fashionable Artist Turned Unfashionable” —
With a yacht, a mansion, and glittering New York parties, Henry Raleigh led a glamorous life as an illustrator — until the world moved on without him.
at The Art of the Post (February 20, 2019) : link
the wonderful gallery of his work at
Lilium’s Compendium : link
10 December 2024