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Miss Ginevra King Letters To F. Scott Fitzgerald (1915-1916)

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I suppose by now you are “greasy grinding” at college. Cheer up! I will be in a day, too. I went in to the photographer’s the other day and ordered some more of my homely pictures so you’ll get one perhaps in about a week or ten days. Verily though, I think in truth that you ought to return the compliment to me, as I have but a faint recollection of yellow hair and big blue eyes and a brown corduroy waist-coat that was very good-looking! I left St. Paul on Thursday evening as you probably know, and that afternoon Reuben, Bob Dunn, Marie and I went sliding at the Country Club. It wasn’t any good, so Bug2 and I hitched a toboggan on the back of Reuben’s car and had a swell!! ride— The expression that you were trying to think of that I use was undoubtedly “for the love of the trees” not very poetic or original, I assure you. Scott, what an amazing way you ended your letter! It was the most characteristic thing I’ve heard in a long time “Temporarily Devotedly Yrs.” Is it still? I wonder— I

Miss Ginevra King Letters To F. Scott Fitzgerald (1915-1916) Miss Ginevra King Letters to F. Scott Fitzgerald (1915 - 1916) 1. TO F. SCOTT FITZGERALD En Route to Westover School, Middlebury, Connecticut by train [January 11, 1915] Monday Dear Scott—: At present I’m on the train, and oh, but it’s rough and rocky on the Lake Shore. 1 I suppose by now you are “greasy grinding” at college. Cheer up! I will be in a day, too. I went in to the photographer’s the other day and ordered some more of my homely pictures so you’ll get one perhaps in about a week or ten days. Verily though, I think in truth

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