{"id":459,"date":"2021-02-11T22:43:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T03:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/book-arts-baltimore\/?p=459"},"modified":"2022-05-09T15:12:04","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T19:12:04","slug":"sara-haardt-menckens-inscribed-copy-of-zelda-fitzgeralds-novel-save-me-the-waltz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/book-arts-baltimore\/sara-haardt-menckens-inscribed-copy-of-zelda-fitzgeralds-novel-save-me-the-waltz\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Haardt Mencken\u2019s Inscribed Copy of Zelda Fitzgerald\u2019s Novel, Save Me the Waltz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In November 2020, a librarian at the Goucher College Library was processing uncatalogued books in the Special Collections stacks when she discovered a copy of Zelda Fitzgerald\u2019s only novel, <em>Save Me the Waltz<\/em> (NY: Scribner\u2019s, 1932).\u00a0 <!--more-->Copies are very rare.\u00a0 Only 3010 copies were printed by Scribner\u2019s (F. Scott\u2019s publisher), not a shockingly low number for a first novel even by an author with strong family connections.\u00a0 It was not well-received.\u00a0 Rare book dealers typically report that it sold only 1392 copies, many of which, by now, have found their way to institutional libraries.\u00a0 Princeton University has Scott Fitzgerald\u2019s copy along with most of his private papers and manuscripts.\u00a0 Scott fiercely opposed Zelda\u2019s publication of the novel because it was based in large part on the couple\u2019s intimate relationship.\u00a0 Scott believed he had sole right to mine this material, including Zelda\u2019s diaries, for his own novels, including <em>Tender Is the Night<\/em>, which he would finally publish in 1934.\u00a0 This opposition may have accounted for the low sales and Zelda\u2019s novel\u2019s rarity.<\/p>\n<p>This would be \u201ccopy 2\u201d in Goucher\u2019s collection, which might explain why it remained uncatalogued for decades after its donation, by H.L. Mencken, along with the rest of Sara Haardt Mencken\u2019s library, to her alma mater and former employer (English Department).\u00a0 Her death in 1935, after only five years of marriage, left him grief stricken.\u00a0 This double \u201cassociation copy\u201d is both poignant and important.\u00a0 Inside the front cover is a pasted-in label with a gift inscription from Zelda to Sara that shows evidence of their friendship, and of Zelda\u2019s tragically worsening mental health.<\/p>\n<p><em>Save Me the Waltz<\/em> was completed in the period when Scott and Zelda lived in Towson and Baltimore, where they entertained the early C20 art\/lit crowd even while their health fell apart.\u00a0 After a fire at La Paix, the Towson mansion they were renting while Zelda was being treated by psychiatrists at Johns Hopkins Hospital, they moved to 1307 Park Avenue in Baltimore.\u00a0 The house is a fifteen-minute walk from the Menckens\u2019 apartment at 704 Cathedral Street.\u00a0 But Scott\u2019s rapidly increasing alcoholism and Zelda\u2019s schizophrenia soon put an end to their public life.\u00a0 Before the end, however, Zelda may have remembered her conversations with Sara Haardt in Hollywood when Sara was writing for the movies, before her marriage to Mencken. \u00a0Zelda\u2019s decision, in 1933 or 1934, to send Sara a copy of her novel, seems both sensitive and possibly significant, a gesture by\u00a0 one woman writer to another, both married to more famous male authors but with much different relationships. \u00a0Whereas Scott Fitzgerald opposed Zelda\u2019s writing, H. L. Mencken supported Sara\u2019s work and treated her as an equal.\u00a0 Sally Cline (2002) has written that Zelda and Sara earlier had discussed Sara\u2019s writing project about women married to famous men.\u00a0 Their shared experience of trying to break into print while married to well-established authors may have been on Zelda\u2019s mind as she addressed the \u201cseasons greetings\u201d label \u201cTo Sarah [sic] \/ Merry Christmas \/ Zelda Fitzgerald.\u201d\u00a0 Her handwriting tells its own story.<\/p>\n<p>The erroneous &#8220;h&#8221; Zelda added to Sara\u2019s name really is a separate character, as if an afterthought, following &#8220;Sara,&#8221; which appears to have been written as a dip-pen was running out of ink.\u00a0 Scott Fitzgerald was a notoriously bad speller, but nothing in Zelda\u2019s surviving manuscripts suggests she shared the affliction, especially regarding the name of a lifelong friend she first knew when they were children in Montgomery, Alabama.\u00a0 Rather, her pen work seems to have been under some physical and\/or mental strain.\u00a0 The ink is smeared on the &#8220;S&#8221; of \u201cSara,\u201d and on the \u201ct\u201d and &#8220;ger&#8221; of \u201cFitzgerald.\u201d\u00a0 The word, \u201cChristmas,\u201d is barely legible.\u00a0 Comparison with her 1919 signature, as \u201cZelda Sayre\u201d in her copy of Wilde\u2019s <em>Picture of Dorian Grey<\/em> (auctioned by PBA Galleries\u00a0 in 2007), shows the confident, controlled pen work of a woman declaring ownership of a well-read book.\u00a0 The gift inscription appears to be written by someone barely holding on.<\/p>\n<p>Neither woman had long to live as a fully functioning adult.\u00a0 After long illness, Sara Haardt Mencken died of complications of tuberculosis in 1935, and in the following year Zelda Fitzgerald was transferred to Highland Hospital, Asheville, North Carolina, where she would die in a fire in 1948, eight years after Scott\u2019s fatal heart attack in Hollywood.\u00a0 H. 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Mencken never remarried and died in 1956.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Arnold Sanders is Emeritus Professor of English at Goucher College where he teaches Literature 341, \u201cArcheology of Text,\u201d in alternating Fall semesters (Fall 2021): <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.goucher.edu\/eng241\/\">http:\/\/faculty.goucher.edu\/eng241\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/book-arts-baltimore\/files\/2021\/02\/Zelda-Fitzgerald-Save-title-page-1932-scaled.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-462\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/book-arts-baltimore\/files\/2021\/02\/Zelda-Fitzgerald-Save-title-page-1932-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/book-arts-baltimore\/files\/2021\/02\/Zelda-Fitzgerald-Save-title-page-1932-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/book-arts-baltimore\/files\/2021\/02\/Zelda-Fitzgerald-Save-title-page-1932-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/book-arts-baltimore\/files\/2021\/02\/Zelda-Fitzgerald-Save-title-page-1932-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/book-arts-baltimore\/files\/2021\/02\/Zelda-Fitzgerald-Save-title-page-1932-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/book-arts-baltimore\/files\/2021\/02\/Zelda-Fitzgerald-Save-title-page-1932-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/book-arts-baltimore\/files\/2021\/02\/Zelda-Fitzgerald-Save-gift-inscription-Sara-Haardt-Mencken-1932-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-461\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/book-arts-baltimore\/files\/2021\/02\/Zelda-Fitzgerald-Save-gift-inscription-Sara-Haardt-Mencken-1932-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/book-arts-baltimore\/files\/2021\/02\/Zelda-Fitzgerald-Save-gift-inscription-Sara-Haardt-Mencken-1932-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/book-arts-baltimore\/files\/2021\/02\/Zelda-Fitzgerald-Save-gift-inscription-Sara-Haardt-Mencken-1932-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/book-arts-baltimore\/files\/2021\/02\/Zelda-Fitzgerald-Save-gift-inscription-Sara-Haardt-Mencken-1932-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/book-arts-baltimore\/files\/2021\/02\/Zelda-Fitzgerald-Save-gift-inscription-Sara-Haardt-Mencken-1932-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/book-arts-baltimore\/files\/2021\/02\/Zelda-Fitzgerald-Save-gift-inscription-Sara-Haardt-Mencken-1932-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/book-arts-baltimore\/files\/2021\/02\/Zelda-Sayre-1919-Signature-PBH-Gallery-Wilde-Dorian-Grey-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-460\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/book-arts-baltimore\/files\/2021\/02\/Zelda-Sayre-1919-Signature-PBH-Gallery-Wilde-Dorian-Grey-copy-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/book-arts-baltimore\/files\/2021\/02\/Zelda-Sayre-1919-Signature-PBH-Gallery-Wilde-Dorian-Grey-copy-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/book-arts-baltimore\/files\/2021\/02\/Zelda-Sayre-1919-Signature-PBH-Gallery-Wilde-Dorian-Grey-copy-1024x833.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/book-arts-baltimore\/files\/2021\/02\/Zelda-Sayre-1919-Signature-PBH-Gallery-Wilde-Dorian-Grey-copy-768x625.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/book-arts-baltimore\/files\/2021\/02\/Zelda-Sayre-1919-Signature-PBH-Gallery-Wilde-Dorian-Grey-copy.jpg 1383w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November 2020, a librarian at the Goucher College Library was processing uncatalogued books in the Special Collections stacks when she discovered a copy of Zelda Fitzgerald\u2019s only novel, Save Me the Waltz (NY: Scribner\u2019s, 1932).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72351,73429,1],"tags":[204,76220,76669,4535],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-community-contributions","category-uncategorized","tag-archives","tag-arnold-sanders","tag-goucher-special-collections-archives","tag-image"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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