The Talented Miss Highsmith (101 page)

5.
Masonic Lodge No. 158, Winchester, Tennessee: entries for William Stewart.

6.
Stewart family history compiled by Samuel Smith Stewart, 1935.

7.
Marshall Wingfield,
General A. P. Stewart, His Life and Letters
(Memphis, TN: West Tennessee Historical Society, 1954), pp. 204–5.

8.
Obituary: “Mrs. D.C. Coates, 88, to Be Buried Today,”
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
, 7 Feb. 1955.

9.
Wingfield,
General A. P. Stewart,
pp. 204–5.

10.
CWA Don Coates, 7 Sept. 2002.

11.
CWA Don Coates, 22 Aug. 2003.

12.
Houston Chronicle
, “Fisher Dye Works Owner Does Pictures on Paper by Embroidery,” 7 Aug. 1955. “He often watched his mother, the late Mrs. Willie Mae Coates, as she embroidered an old picture of the family homestead in Coates Bend, Alabama. So about six years ago he decided to try the art himself.”

13.
Joan Dupont, “The Mysterious Patricia Highsmith,”
Paris Metro
, 9 Nov. 1977.

14.
CWA Don Coates, 22 Aug. 2003.

15.
Ibid.

16.
CWA Dan Walton Coates, 22 Nov. 2003.

17.
Ibid.

18.
CWA Don Coates, 22 Aug. 2003.

19.
PH letter to SH, 29 Aug. 1970.

20.
Eugene Walter letter to PH, 14 Sept. 1992.

21.
MCH letter to PH, undated.

22.
MCH letter to PH, undated.

23.
Diary 12, 23 Jan. 1953.

24.
MCH letter to PH, undated.

25.
Cahier 36, 28/5/85.

26.
Cahier 9, PH transcription of high school notebooks, Apr. 27, 1938. “Mother warns me about letters to Cralick & Marj.”

27.
CWA Annabelle Potin, 24 Mar. 2007.

28.
MCH letter to PH, undated.

29.
Cahier 16, 7/5/47.

30.
CWA Don Coates, 11 May 2002.

31.
CWA Don Coates, 14 Apr. 2002.

32.
CWA Dan Walton Coates, 22 Nov. 2003.

33.
An “orphan” who still has parents is Judith Thurman's useful description throughout her biography of Colette,
Secrets of the Flesh
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999).

34.
CWA Don Coates, 22 Aug. 2003.

35.
PH,
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
(Boston: The Writer, 1966), p. 20.

36.
Ibid.

37.
CWA Dan Walton Coates, 22 Nov. 2003.

38.
PH, “An American Book Bag,” circa 1974, 6 carbon pages, publication unknown.

39.
MCH letter to PH, undated.

7. La Mamma; Part 3

1.
Cahier 1, 2/7/39.

2.
CWA Dan Walton Coates, 22 Nov. 2003.

3.
“Slimming Sickness,”
London Sunday Times
, 9 Feb. 1969.

4.
Cahier 9, PH transcription of high school notebooks, Dec. 14, 1937.

5.
Ibid., Feb. 1938.

6.
Cahier 9, PH transcription of high school notebooks, Feb.–Mar. 1938.

7.
Ibid.

8.
The Book Programme
, BBC2, 11 Nov. 1976.

9.
PH letter to SH, 29 Aug. 1970.

10.
Cahier 20, 7/27/51.

11.
CWA Dan Walton Coates, 22 Nov. 2003.

12.
Ibid.

13.
MCH letter to PH, 26 Nov. 1970.

14.
Cahier 3, 1/30/41.

15.
PH letter to MCH, 9 Apr. 1971.

16.
CWA Don Coates, 20 Apr. 2002.

17.
MCH letter to PH, May, no year, presumably 1971.

18.
MCH letter to PH, undated.

19.
Diary 2, 11 June 1942.

20.
Cahier 31, 1/12/70.

21.
Diary 12, Dec. 25, 1952.

22.
Ibid. Jan. 27, 1953.

23.
Ibid. Jan-Feb. 1953.

24.
Ibid. Jan. 13, 1953.

25.
Ibid. Jan. 23, 1953.

26.
Ibid.

8. La Mamma: Part 4

1.
CWA Marijane Meaker, 1 Feb. 2003.

2.
Karl Augustus Menninger,
The Human Mind
(New York: Knopf, 1930), p. ix.

3.
Ibid., p. 5.

4.
PH, “A Try at Freedom,” undated, unpublished.

5.
Ibid.

6.
Pupil's record card for PH, 1930–33, New York State Dept. of Education (P.S. 122, Queens, New York).

7.
PH, “A Try at Freedom.”

8.
Ibid.

9.
Ibid.

10.
PH letter to Karl Menninger, 8 Apr. 1989.

11.
Janet Watts, “Love and Highsmith,”
Observer Magazine
, 9 Sept. 1990.

12.
CWA Janine Hérisson, 29 Oct. 2002.

13.
PH, “Christmases—Mine or Anybody's,” marked “sent to
Granta
23 March 1990.”

14.
Cahier 13, 3/4/46.

15.
Jeva Cralick letter to PH, undated.

16.
CWA Vivien De Bernardi, 15 Aug. 2002.

17.
CWA Peter Hyun, 26 Apr. 2008.

18.
Ned Rorem letter to the author, 10 Jan. 2008.

19.
PH, “E. 57th St. Tomboy,”
Saturday Review
, 1 Apr. 1950.

20.
Karl Menninger letter to PH, 17 Mar. 1989.

21.
Cahier 4, 8/29/40.

22.
PH,
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction,
p. 22.

23.
Ibid., p. 16.

24.
Cahier 31, 1/2/70.

25.
Cahier 10, Jan. 5, 1940.

26.
PH,
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
, p. 3.

27.
Ibid.

28.
PH letter to BKS, 22 Feb. 1972.

29.
Paul Ingendaay, Afterword,
Nothing That Meets the Eye
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2002), p. 442.

30.
CWA Vivien De Bernardi, 15 Aug. 2002.

31.
PH, “Between Jane Austen and Philby,”
Vogue,
September 1968.

32.
Ibid.

33.
Diary 10, May 16, 1950.

34.
PH, “Between Jane Austen and Philby.”

35.
“PH, “Some Christmases—Mine or Anybody's.”

36.
Ibid.

37.
Ibid.

38.
Cahier 2, 7/8/40.

39.
Ibid.

40.
Cahier 17, 3/8/48.

41.
Ibid.

42.
PH,
The South Bank Show
, Episode 125, 14 Nov. 1982.

43.
PH letter to DOC, Montmachoux, 26 Dec. 1968.

44.
Cahier 19, 4/2/50.

45.
Ibid.

46.
Cahier 13, 9/20/45.

47.
Cassette tape recorded by DOC and sent to PH in Moncourt, Aug. 1975.

48.
PH letter to DOC, 31 Aug. 1976.

49.
PH letter to Bettina Berch 2 July, 1983.

9. Greek Games

1.
PH, “A Try at Freedom.”

2.
Cahier 9, PH transcription of high school notebooks, Aug. 1938.

3.
Ibid., 1937.

4.
Ibid., Aug. 7, 1939.

5.
Ibid., 1938.

6.
Ibid., Sept. 1937.

7.
Ibid., Feb. 2, 1938.

8.
Ibid., Feb. 4, 1938.

9.
Ibid.

10.
Ibid., Sept.–Oct. 1938.

11.
Ibid., Sept. 1937.

12.
PH, “A Try at Freedom.”

13.
PH to Joan Dupont, quoted in a letter to KKS, 14 Mar. 1988.

14.
Ibid.

15.
Programme, Barnard College Greek Games, 1939 (BCA).

16.
BCA.

17.
Archives, Julia Richman High School.

18.
Cahier 36, 29/12/83.

19.
Ted Solotaroff, ed.,
Alfred Kazin's America
(New York: HarperCollins, 2003), p. 45.

20.
Cahier 36, 29/12/83.

21.
CWA Alice Gershon Lassally, 22 Feb. 2003.

22.
CWA Helen Kandel Hyman, 16 Feb. 2003.

23.
CWA Alice Gershon Lassally, 22 Feb. 2003.

24.
CWA Helen Kandel Hyman, 16 Feb. 2003.

25.
Ibid.

26.
CWA Alice Gershon Lassally, 22 Feb. 2003.

27.
CWA Rita Rohner Semel, 18 Feb. 2003.

28.
“A Minute on the Death of Miss Ethel G. Sturtevant,” presented at the Faculty Meeting at Barnard College by Professor Cabell Greet, 28 Oct. 1968.

29.
Cahier 6, 4/24/42.

30.
Diary 1, Jan. 1–17, 1940.

31.
Diary 8, 4/8/47.