Letter, [1922 July?], The Yatch [i.e. Yacht] Club, Dellwood, White Bear Lake, Minn., to Oliver Jenkins.

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Letter, [1922 July?], The Yatch [i.e. Yacht] Club, Dellwood, White Bear Lake, Minn., to Oliver Jenkins.

Holograph, signed. On Fitzgerald's stationery with heading "F. Scott Fitzgerald, Hack writer and plagarist, Saint Paul Minnesota." Fitzgerald replies to Jenkins request that he look through his unpublished poetry. He says that he is "very interested in seeing your novel but I don't feel you've hit on a good title. It's strained [underscored] like the Beautiful & Damned [underscored]."

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