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Gertrude Stein
The Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas papers are in 173 boxes in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale Collection of American Literature (YCAL). The Carl Van Vechten, Mabel Dodge Luhan and Florine Stettheimer papers are there too. The personal papers of Virgil Thomson are in the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries. Annette Rosenshine’s papers are at the Bancroft Library.
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Pigeons on the grass alas
Four Saints in Three Acts
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The two things you never asked
Virgil Thomson
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I like all the people who
Gertrude to Samuel Steward. See Dear Sammy
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Why don’t you read
cited in Rogers, When This You See Remember Me
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To try is to die
Everybody’s Autobiography
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I have it, this interest in
The Making of Americans
297
father Mussolini and father
Everybody’s Autobiography
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You see it is the people
Haas, ‘Gertrude Stein Talking’
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I guess you know
Gertrude to Harriet Levy, undated, Yale
299
Our little Gertie is a
Brinnin, J.M., The Third Rose
299
She had sound coming out of
Two: Gertrude Stein and Her Brother
299
liked to buy things
The Making of Americans
299
sharp and piercing
Ibid.
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Come on papa
Ibid.
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His children never could lose
Ibid.
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And then he would be full up
Ibid.
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You have to take care of her
Ibid.
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a sweet gentle little woman
Ibid.
302
She was never important to
Ibid.
302
dragged a little wagon
Quoted in Rosalind Miller, Gertrude Stein: Form and Intelligibility
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In other lands
The Making of Americans
303
Evolution was all over
Ibid.
303
He always liked to think about
Ibid.
303
It is better if you are
Everybody’s Autobiography
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was not a pleasant person
Ibid.
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a very good nose
Ibid.
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We had already had
Ibid.
305
was more a bother than
Ibid.
305
Medieval means that life
Wars I Have Seen
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naturally was not satisfied
Everybody’s Autobiography
306
I remember going to court
Ibid.
306
He saw not any one
R.E. Duncan, ‘Interview’
306
There were so many debts
Everybody’s Autobiography
308
a tall American version of
Q.E.D.
308
passionate yearnings
Gertrude Stein: Form and Intelligibility
308
Books, books, books
Ibid.
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the middle class ideal
Q.E.D.
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You are so afraid of losing
Ibid.
308
feared passion in its
Ibid.
308
That is what makes it
Ibid.
308
a hopeless coward
Ibid.
309
unillumined immorality
Ibid
309
very strong medicine to
Sarah Stein to Gertrude, undated, 1893, YCAL
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turgid and complex world
Q.E.D.
310
The pain of passionate longing
Ibid.
310
Oh you stupid child
Ibid.
310
She said she found it
Ibid.
311
would ask her questions
Everybody’s Autobiography
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You have no idea how
Ibid.
311
Remember the cause of women
Ibid.
312
a young mathematician
Ibid.
312
every kind of men
The Making of Americans
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The time comes when nothing
Q.E.D.
313
their pulses were differently
Ibid.
313
Paris was where the twentieth
Paris France
313
Our roots can be
Lectures in America
314
I’ve got my house
Leo to Mabel Weeks, 8 April 1903, YCAL
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Gertrude and Sister C.
Cone Archives, Baltimore Museum of Art
316
Leo never did paint there
EA
316
a German woman, a German
Three Lives
317
‘Do you know Cézanne?’
Leo Stein, Appreciation
318
a Columbus setting sail
Ibid.
318
We is doin business
To Mabel Weeks, undated, YCAL
319
Cézanne gave me a new feeling
Haas, ‘Gertrude Stein
