ALS signed “Scott F.,” one page, 4.75 x 7, March 27, 1921. Letter to “Tom,” written from Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald’s childhood home at “6 Pleasant Ave, Montgomery Ala.,” in full: “Congratulations on your magnificent engagement. Send me an invitation & I’ll drink some of your wedding liquor. Our adress [sic] is 38 W 59th St & our phone is Plaza 7780. Please call when you next come to N. Y.” Affixed to the rear pastedown of a 1920 hardcover edition (second printing) of This Side of Paradise. Autographic condition: fine, with trimmed edges to the letter. Book condition: VG-/None. The recipient of this letter lived across the street from 6 Pleasant Avenue, Zelda Sayre’s home until 1920 when she married F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Fitzgeralds then lived at 38 West 59th Street in Manhattan from October 1920 through April 1921, the period in which Scott wrote his second novel, The Beautiful and the Damned. When Zelda learned she was pregnant in February 1921 she traveled home to Montgomery, followed a month later by Scott. In May 1921, they took their first trip to Paris; the magazine photo affixed to the front endpaper of Fitzgerald, Zelda, and their daughter Scottie is from a later visit, at their Parisian apartment at 14 rue de Tilsitt, where they lived from late April–August 1925. An ideal Fitzgerald letter that captures the booze-infused extravagance of the early Jazz Age. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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