[1] Christian Science.

[2] A Christian Science practitioner.

[3] Mr. Crane’s employee.

[4] “My novel about the Isle of Pines has been somewhat blown to pieces by that blasting letter of yours. However I am busy thinking up plots for Smart Set stories. You see, I want to make my literary work bring me in a living by the time I reach twenty-five and one cannot begin too soon.” (Letter to his mother, Oct. 6, 1917.)

[5] Crane’s landlady. “Mrs. Walton and I are working out movie scenarios. She has had considerable experience and is of great help to me.” (Letter to his mother, Oct. 8, 1917.)

[6] “Mother, when you arrive, I hope you will take up the Noyes dancing and enter the movies. You will find it fun I am sure, and I shall help you too. I am really getting a reputation for poetry and can find space now in at least two magazines for most of my better work.” (Letter to his mother, Oct. 26, 1917.)

[7] Postcard. On the reverse side, over a photograph of Brooklyn Bridge, Crane wrote: “Knowing your predilection for bridges, I send you this!”

[8] “Garden Abstract”; see Brom Weber, Hart Crane (New York: Bodley Press, 1948), p. 76.

[9] “Garden Abstract.”

[10] “Episode of Hands”; see Weber, op. cit., p. 384.

[11] “Porphyro in Akron,” together with the comment: “The last is so far the only satisfactory part. I include the first two sections merely as hints for direction of the theme.” See Weber, op. cit., pp. 89-90.

[12] See Weber, op. cit., pp. 91-92.

[13] “Black Tambourine”; see Weber, op. cit., pp. 95-6.

[14] “The Bridge of Estador”; see Weber, op. cit., p. 385.

[15] See Weber, op. cit., pp. 108-9.

[16] “The Bottom of the Sea Is Cruel.” Sent to Munson, Oct. 1, 1921.

[17] John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, III, ii, 66-70.

[18] The rest of this letter has been lost.

[19] “Glad you really like my Silenus letter.” (Letter to Munson, June 28, 1922.)

[20] See Weber, op. cit., p. 176.

[21] “Sunday Morning Apples.”

[22] “The Bottom of the Sea Is Cruel.”

[23] It was accepted by Josephson.

[24] The Double Dealer.

[25] Secession.

[26] Sommer’s work was accepted by The Dial.

[27] “Faustus and Helen” III.

[28] “Stark Major.”

[29] See Weber, op. cit., pp. 426-28.

[30] See Weber, op. cit., pp. 428-9.

[31] See Weber, op. cit., p. 224. For line 13, word 2, read: alternating.

[32] “Interludium.”

[33] E. E. Cummings.

[34] Crane had written his father a six-line letter on Oct. 20, 1923 requesting that his father telephone him on the occasion of his next New York visit. Mr. Clarence A. Crane regarded this letter as an aggressive unaffectionate note after three years of silence on Crane’s part (Letter, Oct. 27, 1923, C.A.C. to H.C.). Crane replied on Nov. 13th, informing his father of his trip to Woodstock. His father’s letter acknowledged that he viewed the Nov. 13th letter as a sign of friendship, and stated that he would be in New York sometime in 1924 (Letter, Dec. 10, 1923, C.A.C. to H.C.). On account of business expansion and relocation problems, it seemed doubtful that Crane’s father would be in New York as expected. Accordingly, in a letter of Jan. 7, 1924, he offered his son a travelling salesman’s job. After three years of satisfactory performance, his son would assume control of the wholesale portion of the business. This letter of Jan. 12, 1924, is Hart Crane’s response to the offer. His father responded sympathetically; he sent his son a check, stated that he would continue to provide financial assistance, recognized the sincerity and wisdom of his son’s choice, and attempted to demonstrate a similarity between them by asserting that he (like his son) was primarily interested in “accomplishment” rather than “money” (Letter, Jan. 15, 1924, C.A.C. to H.C.). Hart Crane viewed his father’s letter of the 15th as a “sincere and cordial document” (Letter, Jan. 19, 1924, H.C. to his mother).

[35] “And there have been other complications which may afford you the pleasure of vindictiveness against my ideas and standards....” (Letter, Feb. 14, 1924, H.C. to C.A.C.) Crane’s father resented this remark, and denied ever being able to derive pleasure from such an attitude to his son’s life and work. He explained his attitude as a failure to understand how his son could ever hope to support himself unless he took his advertising work seriously, and stated that he would be more sympathetic if his son were to regard his writing as an “avocation” rather than a “vocation,” a hobby similar to the pastime of “golf.” (Letter, Feb. 21, 1924, C.A.C. to H.C.) In the letters which follow Hart Crane’s rejection of a place in his father’s business, the elder Crane appears bitterly hurt that his son doesn’t want to work with him. At the same time, he makes it quite clear that he has a genuine affection for his son, and reiterates that he does not question the devotion to poetry, only its inability to provide financial returns. Later, in a letter of Nov. 25, 1925, he introduces the point that he believes his son to be interested in “pleasure,” rather than in following his own example of a man who “worked strenuously.”

[36] See Weber, op. cit., p. 395.

[37] An early version of “Voyages IV.”

[38] Crane had visited Cleveland.

[39] A version of “At Melville’s Tomb.”

[40] Crane had asked his father for money in a letter of Nov. 4, 1925. His father responded with a check for $50, accompanied by a letter in which he expressed resentment at his son’s contemptuous tone and was himself sarcastic at his son’s expense. (Letter, C.A.C. to H.C., Nov. 17, 1925). Replying to this letter of Nov. 21, 1925, C.A.C. denied being uninterested in his son’s life, denied that “‘fate’” had caused their estrangement, and put the blame on his son instead. He reiterated his belief in the necessity for earning a living and putting writing on a subsidiary level, and expressed a desire for friendlier relations in the future. (Letter, C.A.C. to H.C., Nov. 25, 1925.)

[41] “The Flower in the Sea,” by Malcolm Cowley, dedicated to Crane.

[42] See Weber, op. cit., pp. 430-432.

[43] The Oresteia of Aeschylus, trans. George Warr (Longman’s Green: 1910).

[44] George Francis Dow, Whale Ships and Whaling (1925).

[45] See Philip Horton, Hart Crane (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1937), pp. 323-28.

[46] Early version of lines for “Ave Maria.”

[47] An early version of “The Mango Tree.”

[48] Thomas Frank.

[49] “Ave Maria” (The Bridge).

[50] “Cutty Sark” (The Bridge).

[51] See Weber, op. cit., pp. 437-40.

[52] If not a simple error, Crane has coined a combination of “petulant” and “pestilent.”

[53] An early version of “To Emily Dickinson.”

[54] “Ode to the Confederate Dead.”

[55] Review of White Buildings in The Dial (Feb. 1927).

[56] Marichalar had written on Crane in Revista de Occidente (Madrid), February 1927.

[57] “Bacardi Spreads the Eagle’s Wings.”

[58] “The Hurricane.”

[59] Charlie Chaplin.

[60] Cowley’s Blue Juniata.

[61] Gorham Munson, at this time an editorial adviser for Doubleday, Doran.

[62] See letter 340, April 23, 1930.

[63] In a letter to Crane, June 10, 1930.

[64] Crane’s “Plans for Work” in his application for a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1931-32.

[65] A hotel. Crane had been living in Miss Porter’s home.

[66] Miss Porter’s cook.

[67] Crane’s Mexican servant.

[68] “The Broken Tower.”

[69] “The Broken Tower.”

[70] The manuscript of “The Broken Tower” alluded to here was apparently never received by Mr. Zabel or Poetry (Chicago), of which he was an editor. A letter from Mr. Zabel, dated April 24, 1932, in response to this note from Crane, has been found; it explicitly states that the poem in question was not received either by Harriet Monroe or himself. It is of interest that Crane’s ms. copy of the poem is dated March 25, 1932.

[71] Contempo (July 5, 1932).