F. SCOTT FITZGERALD SOCIETY ARCHIVE de [Fitzgerald, F. Scott]

A small group of letters concerning the founding of The F. Scott Fitzgerald Society and several early issues of the organization's newsletter. This collection includes seven letters written by professors Jackson Bryer and Alan Margolies to Nicholas Patrick Beck, an avid F. Scott Fitzgerald collector and scholar, who was also a journalism professor at California State University, Los Angeles. Several of the letters are related to Beck helping connect Bryer with a few people who had been close to Fitzgerald that Beck knew and the Society wanted to serve on their advisory board. Beck provided Bryer with contact information for Fitzgerald's secretary Francis Kroll Ring, as well as the author Budd Schulberg, whom Beck wrote a bio-bibliography about and who agreed to serve on the advisory board. In addition, in the first issue of the newsletter from April 1991, Beck contributed an essay about author Charles M. Warren, who had collaborated with Fitzgerald on a screenplay for Tender is the Night. The collection includes Volumes 1-3 of the newsletter, Volume 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21 and 22, which was published in December 2012. In addition there are various related materials, including flyers with calls for submissions to conferences, as well as a program for the International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conferenced held in Asheville in 1998. The materials are housed in sleeves in a three-ring binder, all in very good or better condition.