The thurber letters, p.91
The Thurber Letters, page 91
Churchill, Allen, 411-13, 414-15
Churchill, Mrs. Winston, 474-76
Churchill, Winston, 274, 390, 656, 720
Citizen, 235
Civil War, 145-46, 165, 174, 200-201, 271-72, 503, 555, 614-15, 696-98
Clark, Frances, 691
Clark, Mark, 402
Clarke, Marguerite, 16
Clean Town, A (Elliott Nugent and J. C. Nugent), 88-89
Clendenning, Logan, 533
Cleveland News Leader, 85
Clooney, Rosemary, 596
clothing, Thurber drawings on, 391-92
Coates, Elsa, 251, 258
Coates, Robert M., 153, 159, 165, 173, 191, 202, 212, 213, 214, 225-26, 239, 240, 258, 274, 275, 305, 307, 367, 429-30, 587, 609, 693, 742
JT letter to (1961), 758
New Yorker casuals of, 260-62, 286-87
poker face, 278
Cobb, Irvin, 513
Coburn, Miss, JT letter to (1953), 598
Cochet, Henri, 751
Cogin, Geraldine, JT letter to (1945), 377-78
Cohan, George, 543
Cole, Betsy, 574-75
Cole, Irene, JT letter to (1961), 758-59
Coleman, Willie, 193, 195, 198, 459
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 327, 350, 749
collectivism, 249-50
Collier's magazine, 30, 610
Columbia Broadcasting System, 379
Ann Honeycutt as assistant program producer, 103, 161-64
Columbia University, Jester Award for Humor, 454-59, 745
Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, The, 6, 79-91, 575, 629, 737
JT fire story (1921), 80-81
JT plans after working on, 81
commas, 643, 656-57
Comments, The New Yorker, 8, 275-76, 286, 292, 419, 420, 648, 673-74
Communism, 172-78, 212, 432, 534-35, 541, 549-50, 554, 597-98, 673
Conan Doyle, Arthur, 102-3
Congressional House UnAmerican Activities Committee, 2, 9, 419-20
Congressional Record, JT piece on Mary Thurber in, 528, 541, 614
Connell, Louise, JT letters to (1939), 309-11
Connell, Richard
JT letters to (1939), 309-11
JT Who's Who biography and, 347
Connelly, Marc, 319, 323, 343, 389, 480
Conniff, George, 377
Conniff, James C. G., JT letter to (1945), 377
Connolly, Cyril, 619
Conrad, Joseph, 294, 332, 443, 651, 704, 723-24, 733
consciousness, 249
Cook, Joe, 205
Cook, Ted, 646-47
Cooke, Alistair
JT letter to (1957), 680
Omnibus, 732-33
Cooke, Charles, 311, 440
Cookson, Jane, JT letters to (1948), 445-46
Coolidge, Calvin, 107, 630
Cooper, Gary, 478
Corcoran, Barbara, 757
Cosmopolitan, 447, 458, 468, 591
Costello, Maurice, 757
Costello, Tim, 646-47, 662, 731
“Couple of Hamburgers, A” (Thurber), 203
Coward, Noel, 10, 208-9, 238-39, 389, 645, 689, 690-91, 696
Cowley, Malcolm, 7, 159, 161, 298, 406-7, 557, 669
JT letters to (1934), 172-78
JT letters to (1935-1936), 211-13
JT letters to (1945), 372-73
JT letters to (1951), 506-7
JT letters to (1954), 617-21
Craven, Frank, 88
Crawford, Cecil, 161
“Cricket and the Wren, The” (Thurber), 712
Crosby, John, JT letter to (1957), 683-84
Crouse, Russel, 84-85, 87-88, 684-85
Cubitt, T. Astley, 220-21
Culross, Donald, 313
Cummings, Parke, 294
Cunningham, Cooky, 658
Cunningham, John J., JT letter to (1945), 378
Curie, Marie, 285
Curtis-Brown, 394-95,
Cutting, Bronson, 640-41
cyclical behavior, 698-99, 731
“Daguerrotype of a Lady” (Thurber), 448, 451-52, 467
Daily News, The, 511
Damon, Dean, 433
Damon, Virgil “Duke,” 14
JT letter to (1937), 237-38
“Dark Suspicions” (Thurber), 545-46, 553-54, 557, 559-60
Darrah, Dave, 629-30
Darrow, 569
Dashiell, Fritz, 452
Davies, Morgan, 659
Davis, Beatrice Sherwood, 86
Davis, Curly, 86
Davis, Elmer, 389, 550, 612
JT letter to (1956), 650-52
Davis, Jefferson, 711
Dawson, Alexander, 288, 290-91
“Daws on the Dial, The” (Thurber), 649-50, 660
Day, Clarence, 169, 609
Day, Robert J., 292
“Dead Roses” (E. Nugent), 61
death, 108-9, 699-700, 723-24
Death in the Afternoon (Hemingway), 620
Death of the Heart, The (Bowen), 399-401, 403, 431
Deaton, Charles, JT letter to (1957), 670
De Kruif, 256
Delaney, Jack, 146
Delehanty, Thornton, 135, 658
Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 470-71, 472
Dempsey, Jack, 631
De Paepe, Duane, JT letter to (1955), 638-39
“Departure of Emma Inch, The” (Thurber), 202-3, 329, 331-32
Detective Story (play), 469
De Voto, Bernard, 251
De Vries, Jan, 399
De Vries, Katinka, JT letters to (1960), 726, 754-55
De Vries, Peter, 3, 412, 444, 566, 615, 693, 753
death of daughter, 726
joins The New Yorker as poetry editor, 8, 361-65, 369
JT letters to (1943), 358-59
JT letters to (1944), 361-65
JT letters to (1947), 418-19
JT letters to (1952), 542, 568-70
JT letters to (1953), 586-87
JT letters to (1954), 630-31
JT letters to (1956), 657-59
JT letters to (1960), 726
JT letters to (1961), 754-55
meets JT, 8, 358-59
No, But I Saw the Movie, 542
as reference for JT, 492
The Years With Ross (Thurber) and, 708
Dickens, Charles, 742
Dickinson, Burris, JT letter to (1953), 592-93
Dietz, Howard, 631
Dijon, France, JT visits, 264, 266
Dingwall, Eric John, 678
Dionne quintuplets, 224, 749
Disney, Walt, 142
“Doc Marlowe” (Thurber), 203, 204
Doeg, Johnny, 317
Dolan, Red, 369
Donahey, Victor, 171
Dos Passos, John, 452, 453
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 148-50
Dover, JT visits, 241-42
drama activities of JT, 87, 253-54, 355, 357
acting, 531, 729
The Call, 61
“The Catbird Seat”, movie sale of, 671-72, 716
The Fourth Mrs. Bluebeard, 60-61
The Male Animal (play with E. Nugent), 3, 7-8, 314-21, 323-26, 329, 340, 342, 352, 431, 432, 466, 483, 489, 502, 527, 541, 616-17, 626, 715, 719, 720, 729
on Broadway, 546, 551-52, 557, 560, 564, 573
movie rights to, 657
notices in The New Yorker, 564
television rights to, 709
Many Moons, 87
“Monroe stories” off-Broadway, 639-40
play about Harold Ross (never produced), 9, 431-33
The Scarlet Mask (O.S.U. dramatic group), 6, 60-61, 79-80, 87, 531, 575, 624-25, 719
Thurber Carnival
as long-playing record, 716
as musical revue, 3, 10, 712, 713, 714-15, 716, 718-20, 725, 729, 733-43, 749-55
Tony Award, 729
The Welcoming Arms (play about Bermuda), 653, 658, 675
See also written works of JT
Dramatist's Guild, 367-68
Draper, Paul, 317
drawings/cartoons of JT, 6-7, 8, 133, 134, 145, 154 295, 301-2, 315-16, 375-76
captions for, 152-53, 204-5, 282, 283, 302-3, 341-43, 353-55, 418-19, 569
on clothing, 391-92
collections
“The Masculine Approach,” 312
“Our New Natural History” series, 375-78, 396, 428, 586
“The Patient” series, 247, 312, 428
“Pet Department,” 133, 134, 719
The Seal in the Bedroom & Other Predicaments, 210, 223-24, 312, 389, 491, 496
Thurber Dogs, 646-47
The War Between Men and Women, 312, 719
Columbus showing, 236-37
as gifts, 154, 157, 235-36, 243, 371-72, 389-90, 392, 405-6
Hollywood showing (1937), 239
honored at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (1931), 141-42
for How to Raise a Dog (Kinney and McKelway), 301-2, 562, 601
“Intelligent Woman,” 236-37
London showing (1937), 239, 241, 521-22
new captions for, 418-19, 433-35, 438, 569, 570, 644
New Yorker cover, 315-16, 318-19
New Yorker rejections of, 231-33, 242-43, 247, 268, 274, 275, 303
pasting up parts of, 436-37, 438
rights and, 268, 322
sales of New Yorker rejections in Europe, 243-44, 247, 274
San Francisco showing (1937), 239
“The Seal in the Bedroom,” 152-53, 236
self-portrait for Time magazine, 9
dreams, 426, 568, 619-20
Dreiser, Theodore, 64
drunk, as term, 507
Duffy, Charles, JT letter to (1939), 321-22
Duggan, Pat, JT letters to (1946), 385-87
Dulcy (Nugent), 582
Durant, Will, 621
Durgin, Cyrus, JT letter to (1960), 718-20
Dwiggins, Clare Victor, 595
Eastman, Max, 208, 214, 231, 239, 317, 339, 412, 508, 632
Edison, Thomas, 737
Edman, Irwin, JT letter to (1953), 603
egoism, 195
Eiffel Tower (Paris), 43, 62, 94
Einstein, Albert, 285, 617
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 548, 550, 551, 662, 697-98
Eliot, T. S., 247, 358, 492, 505, 621
Elliott, Don, 718
Elliott, Maxine, 274
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 192, 327, 350, 541, 610
emotions, 197, 199
English Derby, 300
English Review, 519
Englund, Ken, 436
JT letters to (1946), 384-85, 387-88
Enjoyment of Laughter, The (Eastman), 208, 632
Ernst, Morris, 329, 389-90, 625
JT letter to (1945), 371-72
Esquire, 177-78, 284
“Essay on Dignity” (Thurber), 205
Eureka College, honorary doctorate hoax and, 592-93
“Evening's at Seven, The” (Thurber), 210
Express, 248
eye problems of JT, 2, 3, 237-38
care of the eyes and, 332-33
cataract surgery, 328, 351, 416-17
driving skill and, 205-7, 209
eye operations, 2, 3, 8, 328, 334, 336-38, 351, 418, 730
glasses and, 238, 314-15, 339, 417
iritis, 426-27
loss of left eye, 5, 76, 104, 238, 257, 369, 416-17
use of dictation, 2, 8, 9, 340, 367, 488
vision, 317, 327, 351, 355, 391-92, 501, 628, 651-52, 747-48
Zeiss loop and, 8, 355
Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated (Thurber), 7, 311, 312, 545, 561, 721
Fabray, Nanette, 709
Fadiman, Clifton, 275, 358, 477, 479, 641, 740-41, 745, 748
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 55, 478, 757-58
“Fairly Intelligent Fly, The” (Thurber), 575
Faithful, Starr, 561
Famous Poems Illustrated (Thurber), 311, 312
Fancher, Mollie, 444-45
Fanchon, 525
Fant, Roy, 472
Farmers Hotel, The (O'Hara), 536
Farrington, Frank, 605
fascism, 212, 296, 432
Faulkner, Virginia, 566-67, 568
Faulkner, William, 609, 633, 669
JT letter to (1956), 662-63
Fawcett, Novice, 715
Fay, Anna Eva, 102-3
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), “Americans to be watched” list, 2, 9, 419-20
Feldman, Sandra, JT letter to (1949), 459-60
female friends of JT
Althea Adams. See Adams, Althea; Gilmore, Althea Adams Thurber (former wife); Thurber, Althea Adams (wife)
cousin Isabelle, 123, 134
early years, 15-16
Minnette Fritts (Proctor), 5, 13, 16, 17, 18-19, 20-21, 25, 31, 55, 57, 72, 82, 83, 87, 127-40, 351-52, 427, 461, 488, 580, 582, 658
Ann Honeycutt (McKelway). See Honeycutt, Ann misogyny of JT and, 7, 13, 60
Ninette (Paris), 60, 679
Eva Prout (Geiger), 5-6, 13, 16-17, 18-19, 21, 24-25, 29-30, 55-56, 57-58, 61-75, 77, 111-13, 131, 264, 350, 415, 524, 525-26, 544, 582, 632
Red Cross girls in France, 32, 42-43, 46-54, 593-94
relationships with women (general), 13, 14, 58, 82, 83, 120-21, 124-26, 131-33, 137-40, 159-60, 658, 671
Remonde (Paris), 60, 679
Charmé Seeds, 43, 111, 161, 305, 525
Paula Trueman, 134-38, 143, 146, 307, 350, 507, 593, 639, 640, 658, 692, 695
Katharine Angell White. See White, Katharine Angell
Jane Williams. See Williams, Jane
Helen Wismer, 146. See also Thurber, Helen Wismer (wife)
Ferber, Edna, 316, 691
Ferguson, Joe, 432
Ficke, Arthur, 566
field hockey, 473-74
Field of the Cloth of Gold (France), 36
Fields, WC, 527, 762
“Figgerin' of Aunt Wilma, The” (Thurber), 479
“File and Forget” (Thurber), 448-49, 573, 603, 650
“Final Note on Chanda Bell, A” (Thurber), 477
finances of JT, 671-72
advertising/promotional campaigns and, 237, 382-83, 456-57, 597, 728-29
book contracts and, 583, 625, 688, 718
contract with The New Yorker and, 235, 360, 447, 674
early years and, 575, 580-81
movie rights to The Male Animal, 657
New Yorker draw account and, 166, 232-33, 263
New Yorker word rates and, 261, 293-94, 338-39, 340, 414
overseas rights, 583
quantity bonus, 674
reprint rights, 262, 322, 367-68, 373-75, 394-95, 398-99, 417-18, 428-30, 433, 445, 448, 509-10, 650
stock in The New Yorker and, 239, 262
subsidiary rights, 448, 583, 657
taxes and, 483, 581, 607, 608, 625
fingerprints, 379
Finn, Karl, 16
“First Time I Saw Paris, The” (Thurber), 679
Fisher, Bessie (aunt), 290
Fisher, Bessie May (Red Cross girl), 42-43, 593-94
JT letter to (1919), 46-54
Fisher, Dale, 606
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 220
Fisher, Earl (cousin), 656
Fisher, Grant (uncle), 290
Fisher, Jake, 550
Fisher, Kirt (uncle), 289, 290
Fisher, Willie (uncle), 290
Fiske, Dorothy, JT letter to (1946), 394-95
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 240, 447, 506-7, 571, 620, 634, 694-95, 737
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 507, 549, 695
Flagg, James Montgomery, 239
Flanner, Jack, 260
Flanner, Janet, 278, 293, 300, 510-11, 675
JT letter to (1956), 652-54
Flashner, Amy, 596
Fleischmann, Raoul, 293, 299, 348, 413, 510, 518, 682, 685
Flint, Ruth, 529
Florida
JT trip to (1938), 147-58
E. B. White trip to (1957), 677-78
Flynn, Errol, 318
Folies Bergere (Paris), 94, 95
Fontainebleu (France), JT visits, 43, 53, 264, 266
Foord, Fritz, 188-99, 258
Foord's sanitarium, Kerhonkson, New York, 276
Wolcott Gibbs visits (1937), 266-69
JT visits (1935), 188-99
Ford, Corey, 459, 530
Ford, Ford Madox, 737
Ford, Henry, 737
Ford, Paul, 719, 754
Ford Foundation, 721
Fordyce, Ann, 215, 658
Forgotten Language, The (Fromm), 620
Forster, E. M, 229
Forster, Louis, 433, 435
Fortune magazine, 350, 509, 681
Forum, 239-40
Foster, David, JT letter to (1953), 590
Foster, Estelle (Red Cross girl), JT letter to (1919), 46-54
Fourth Mrs. Bluebeard, The (Thurber play), 60-61
Fowler, Henry, 246, 655-56
Fox, Ruth, 337, 339
“Fox and the Crow, The” (La Fontaine), 645
Franck, Cesar, 465
Frank, Melvin, 738
Frankforter, Alice, 294
Franklin Simon promotional campaign, 728-29
Frazer, Robert, 288
Fredericks, Carlton, 716
Freedland, Michael, JT letter to (1961), 747-49
Freeman, Douglas Southold, 696
Freeman, Harry, 207, 212, 213
French, Samuel, 483
Freud, Sigmund, 298, 426, 443, 617, 620
Friendly, Fred, 652
Friends of the Friends, The (James), 59
Fritts, Minnette, 5, 13, 16, 17, 18-19, 20-21, 25, 31, 55, 488, 580, 582, 658
See also Proctor, Minnette Fritts
Fromm, Erich, 620
From the Terrace (O'Hara), 688
Frost, Robert, 732
Fulbright, Senator, 595
Funke, Lewis, 549, 553-54
JT letter to (1952), 547-48
Further Fables for Our Time (Thurber), 721, 762
Futch, Dutch, 153
Gable, Clark, 478
Galloway, Tod, 658
gambling, 148, 149
Gannett, Lewis, 632, 641, 673
JT letters to (1956), 655-57
Gardiner, Julia, 608-9
JT letters to (1925), 93-95
JT letters to (1937), 241-42
JT letters to (1950), 490-91
Gardiner, Ted, 6, 552, 607
JT letters to (1925), 93-95
JT letters to (1937), 241-42
JT letters to (1950), 490-91
JT letters to (1961), 757-58
Garfield, John, 369
Garfield, John Morehead, 368
Garnett, David, 241, 249-50, 251, 312, 555
Garroway, Dave, 634-35
Garson, Greer, 378
Geiger, Ernest, 62, 77, 526
JT letters to (1924), 111-12
marriage to Eva Prout, 111
“Menaces in May” (Thurber) and, 112-13
Geiger, Eva Prout, 350, 415
JT infatuation with, 131
JT letters to (1924), 111-12
See also Prout, Eva
Gellhorn, Martha, 608
Churchill, Mrs. Winston, 474-76
Churchill, Winston, 274, 390, 656, 720
Citizen, 235
Civil War, 145-46, 165, 174, 200-201, 271-72, 503, 555, 614-15, 696-98
Clark, Frances, 691
Clark, Mark, 402
Clarke, Marguerite, 16
Clean Town, A (Elliott Nugent and J. C. Nugent), 88-89
Clendenning, Logan, 533
Cleveland News Leader, 85
Clooney, Rosemary, 596
clothing, Thurber drawings on, 391-92
Coates, Elsa, 251, 258
Coates, Robert M., 153, 159, 165, 173, 191, 202, 212, 213, 214, 225-26, 239, 240, 258, 274, 275, 305, 307, 367, 429-30, 587, 609, 693, 742
JT letter to (1961), 758
New Yorker casuals of, 260-62, 286-87
poker face, 278
Cobb, Irvin, 513
Coburn, Miss, JT letter to (1953), 598
Cochet, Henri, 751
Cogin, Geraldine, JT letter to (1945), 377-78
Cohan, George, 543
Cole, Betsy, 574-75
Cole, Irene, JT letter to (1961), 758-59
Coleman, Willie, 193, 195, 198, 459
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 327, 350, 749
collectivism, 249-50
Collier's magazine, 30, 610
Columbia Broadcasting System, 379
Ann Honeycutt as assistant program producer, 103, 161-64
Columbia University, Jester Award for Humor, 454-59, 745
Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, The, 6, 79-91, 575, 629, 737
JT fire story (1921), 80-81
JT plans after working on, 81
commas, 643, 656-57
Comments, The New Yorker, 8, 275-76, 286, 292, 419, 420, 648, 673-74
Communism, 172-78, 212, 432, 534-35, 541, 549-50, 554, 597-98, 673
Conan Doyle, Arthur, 102-3
Congressional House UnAmerican Activities Committee, 2, 9, 419-20
Congressional Record, JT piece on Mary Thurber in, 528, 541, 614
Connell, Louise, JT letters to (1939), 309-11
Connell, Richard
JT letters to (1939), 309-11
JT Who's Who biography and, 347
Connelly, Marc, 319, 323, 343, 389, 480
Conniff, George, 377
Conniff, James C. G., JT letter to (1945), 377
Connolly, Cyril, 619
Conrad, Joseph, 294, 332, 443, 651, 704, 723-24, 733
consciousness, 249
Cook, Joe, 205
Cook, Ted, 646-47
Cooke, Alistair
JT letter to (1957), 680
Omnibus, 732-33
Cooke, Charles, 311, 440
Cookson, Jane, JT letters to (1948), 445-46
Coolidge, Calvin, 107, 630
Cooper, Gary, 478
Corcoran, Barbara, 757
Cosmopolitan, 447, 458, 468, 591
Costello, Maurice, 757
Costello, Tim, 646-47, 662, 731
“Couple of Hamburgers, A” (Thurber), 203
Coward, Noel, 10, 208-9, 238-39, 389, 645, 689, 690-91, 696
Cowley, Malcolm, 7, 159, 161, 298, 406-7, 557, 669
JT letters to (1934), 172-78
JT letters to (1935-1936), 211-13
JT letters to (1945), 372-73
JT letters to (1951), 506-7
JT letters to (1954), 617-21
Craven, Frank, 88
Crawford, Cecil, 161
“Cricket and the Wren, The” (Thurber), 712
Crosby, John, JT letter to (1957), 683-84
Crouse, Russel, 84-85, 87-88, 684-85
Cubitt, T. Astley, 220-21
Culross, Donald, 313
Cummings, Parke, 294
Cunningham, Cooky, 658
Cunningham, John J., JT letter to (1945), 378
Curie, Marie, 285
Curtis-Brown, 394-95,
Cutting, Bronson, 640-41
cyclical behavior, 698-99, 731
“Daguerrotype of a Lady” (Thurber), 448, 451-52, 467
Daily News, The, 511
Damon, Dean, 433
Damon, Virgil “Duke,” 14
JT letter to (1937), 237-38
“Dark Suspicions” (Thurber), 545-46, 553-54, 557, 559-60
Darrah, Dave, 629-30
Darrow, 569
Dashiell, Fritz, 452
Davies, Morgan, 659
Davis, Beatrice Sherwood, 86
Davis, Curly, 86
Davis, Elmer, 389, 550, 612
JT letter to (1956), 650-52
Davis, Jefferson, 711
Dawson, Alexander, 288, 290-91
“Daws on the Dial, The” (Thurber), 649-50, 660
Day, Clarence, 169, 609
Day, Robert J., 292
“Dead Roses” (E. Nugent), 61
death, 108-9, 699-700, 723-24
Death in the Afternoon (Hemingway), 620
Death of the Heart, The (Bowen), 399-401, 403, 431
Deaton, Charles, JT letter to (1957), 670
De Kruif, 256
Delaney, Jack, 146
Delehanty, Thornton, 135, 658
Dell Publishing Company, Inc., 470-71, 472
Dempsey, Jack, 631
De Paepe, Duane, JT letter to (1955), 638-39
“Departure of Emma Inch, The” (Thurber), 202-3, 329, 331-32
Detective Story (play), 469
De Voto, Bernard, 251
De Vries, Jan, 399
De Vries, Katinka, JT letters to (1960), 726, 754-55
De Vries, Peter, 3, 412, 444, 566, 615, 693, 753
death of daughter, 726
joins The New Yorker as poetry editor, 8, 361-65, 369
JT letters to (1943), 358-59
JT letters to (1944), 361-65
JT letters to (1947), 418-19
JT letters to (1952), 542, 568-70
JT letters to (1953), 586-87
JT letters to (1954), 630-31
JT letters to (1956), 657-59
JT letters to (1960), 726
JT letters to (1961), 754-55
meets JT, 8, 358-59
No, But I Saw the Movie, 542
as reference for JT, 492
The Years With Ross (Thurber) and, 708
Dickens, Charles, 742
Dickinson, Burris, JT letter to (1953), 592-93
Dietz, Howard, 631
Dijon, France, JT visits, 264, 266
Dingwall, Eric John, 678
Dionne quintuplets, 224, 749
Disney, Walt, 142
“Doc Marlowe” (Thurber), 203, 204
Doeg, Johnny, 317
Dolan, Red, 369
Donahey, Victor, 171
Dos Passos, John, 452, 453
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 148-50
Dover, JT visits, 241-42
drama activities of JT, 87, 253-54, 355, 357
acting, 531, 729
The Call, 61
“The Catbird Seat”, movie sale of, 671-72, 716
The Fourth Mrs. Bluebeard, 60-61
The Male Animal (play with E. Nugent), 3, 7-8, 314-21, 323-26, 329, 340, 342, 352, 431, 432, 466, 483, 489, 502, 527, 541, 616-17, 626, 715, 719, 720, 729
on Broadway, 546, 551-52, 557, 560, 564, 573
movie rights to, 657
notices in The New Yorker, 564
television rights to, 709
Many Moons, 87
“Monroe stories” off-Broadway, 639-40
play about Harold Ross (never produced), 9, 431-33
The Scarlet Mask (O.S.U. dramatic group), 6, 60-61, 79-80, 87, 531, 575, 624-25, 719
Thurber Carnival
as long-playing record, 716
as musical revue, 3, 10, 712, 713, 714-15, 716, 718-20, 725, 729, 733-43, 749-55
Tony Award, 729
The Welcoming Arms (play about Bermuda), 653, 658, 675
See also written works of JT
Dramatist's Guild, 367-68
Draper, Paul, 317
drawings/cartoons of JT, 6-7, 8, 133, 134, 145, 154 295, 301-2, 315-16, 375-76
captions for, 152-53, 204-5, 282, 283, 302-3, 341-43, 353-55, 418-19, 569
on clothing, 391-92
collections
“The Masculine Approach,” 312
“Our New Natural History” series, 375-78, 396, 428, 586
“The Patient” series, 247, 312, 428
“Pet Department,” 133, 134, 719
The Seal in the Bedroom & Other Predicaments, 210, 223-24, 312, 389, 491, 496
Thurber Dogs, 646-47
The War Between Men and Women, 312, 719
Columbus showing, 236-37
as gifts, 154, 157, 235-36, 243, 371-72, 389-90, 392, 405-6
Hollywood showing (1937), 239
honored at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (1931), 141-42
for How to Raise a Dog (Kinney and McKelway), 301-2, 562, 601
“Intelligent Woman,” 236-37
London showing (1937), 239, 241, 521-22
new captions for, 418-19, 433-35, 438, 569, 570, 644
New Yorker cover, 315-16, 318-19
New Yorker rejections of, 231-33, 242-43, 247, 268, 274, 275, 303
pasting up parts of, 436-37, 438
rights and, 268, 322
sales of New Yorker rejections in Europe, 243-44, 247, 274
San Francisco showing (1937), 239
“The Seal in the Bedroom,” 152-53, 236
self-portrait for Time magazine, 9
dreams, 426, 568, 619-20
Dreiser, Theodore, 64
drunk, as term, 507
Duffy, Charles, JT letter to (1939), 321-22
Duggan, Pat, JT letters to (1946), 385-87
Dulcy (Nugent), 582
Durant, Will, 621
Durgin, Cyrus, JT letter to (1960), 718-20
Dwiggins, Clare Victor, 595
Eastman, Max, 208, 214, 231, 239, 317, 339, 412, 508, 632
Edison, Thomas, 737
Edman, Irwin, JT letter to (1953), 603
egoism, 195
Eiffel Tower (Paris), 43, 62, 94
Einstein, Albert, 285, 617
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 548, 550, 551, 662, 697-98
Eliot, T. S., 247, 358, 492, 505, 621
Elliott, Don, 718
Elliott, Maxine, 274
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 192, 327, 350, 541, 610
emotions, 197, 199
English Derby, 300
English Review, 519
Englund, Ken, 436
JT letters to (1946), 384-85, 387-88
Enjoyment of Laughter, The (Eastman), 208, 632
Ernst, Morris, 329, 389-90, 625
JT letter to (1945), 371-72
Esquire, 177-78, 284
“Essay on Dignity” (Thurber), 205
Eureka College, honorary doctorate hoax and, 592-93
“Evening's at Seven, The” (Thurber), 210
Express, 248
eye problems of JT, 2, 3, 237-38
care of the eyes and, 332-33
cataract surgery, 328, 351, 416-17
driving skill and, 205-7, 209
eye operations, 2, 3, 8, 328, 334, 336-38, 351, 418, 730
glasses and, 238, 314-15, 339, 417
iritis, 426-27
loss of left eye, 5, 76, 104, 238, 257, 369, 416-17
use of dictation, 2, 8, 9, 340, 367, 488
vision, 317, 327, 351, 355, 391-92, 501, 628, 651-52, 747-48
Zeiss loop and, 8, 355
Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated (Thurber), 7, 311, 312, 545, 561, 721
Fabray, Nanette, 709
Fadiman, Clifton, 275, 358, 477, 479, 641, 740-41, 745, 748
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 55, 478, 757-58
“Fairly Intelligent Fly, The” (Thurber), 575
Faithful, Starr, 561
Famous Poems Illustrated (Thurber), 311, 312
Fancher, Mollie, 444-45
Fanchon, 525
Fant, Roy, 472
Farmers Hotel, The (O'Hara), 536
Farrington, Frank, 605
fascism, 212, 296, 432
Faulkner, Virginia, 566-67, 568
Faulkner, William, 609, 633, 669
JT letter to (1956), 662-63
Fawcett, Novice, 715
Fay, Anna Eva, 102-3
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), “Americans to be watched” list, 2, 9, 419-20
Feldman, Sandra, JT letter to (1949), 459-60
female friends of JT
Althea Adams. See Adams, Althea; Gilmore, Althea Adams Thurber (former wife); Thurber, Althea Adams (wife)
cousin Isabelle, 123, 134
early years, 15-16
Minnette Fritts (Proctor), 5, 13, 16, 17, 18-19, 20-21, 25, 31, 55, 57, 72, 82, 83, 87, 127-40, 351-52, 427, 461, 488, 580, 582, 658
Ann Honeycutt (McKelway). See Honeycutt, Ann misogyny of JT and, 7, 13, 60
Ninette (Paris), 60, 679
Eva Prout (Geiger), 5-6, 13, 16-17, 18-19, 21, 24-25, 29-30, 55-56, 57-58, 61-75, 77, 111-13, 131, 264, 350, 415, 524, 525-26, 544, 582, 632
Red Cross girls in France, 32, 42-43, 46-54, 593-94
relationships with women (general), 13, 14, 58, 82, 83, 120-21, 124-26, 131-33, 137-40, 159-60, 658, 671
Remonde (Paris), 60, 679
Charmé Seeds, 43, 111, 161, 305, 525
Paula Trueman, 134-38, 143, 146, 307, 350, 507, 593, 639, 640, 658, 692, 695
Katharine Angell White. See White, Katharine Angell
Jane Williams. See Williams, Jane
Helen Wismer, 146. See also Thurber, Helen Wismer (wife)
Ferber, Edna, 316, 691
Ferguson, Joe, 432
Ficke, Arthur, 566
field hockey, 473-74
Field of the Cloth of Gold (France), 36
Fields, WC, 527, 762
“Figgerin' of Aunt Wilma, The” (Thurber), 479
“File and Forget” (Thurber), 448-49, 573, 603, 650
“Final Note on Chanda Bell, A” (Thurber), 477
finances of JT, 671-72
advertising/promotional campaigns and, 237, 382-83, 456-57, 597, 728-29
book contracts and, 583, 625, 688, 718
contract with The New Yorker and, 235, 360, 447, 674
early years and, 575, 580-81
movie rights to The Male Animal, 657
New Yorker draw account and, 166, 232-33, 263
New Yorker word rates and, 261, 293-94, 338-39, 340, 414
overseas rights, 583
quantity bonus, 674
reprint rights, 262, 322, 367-68, 373-75, 394-95, 398-99, 417-18, 428-30, 433, 445, 448, 509-10, 650
stock in The New Yorker and, 239, 262
subsidiary rights, 448, 583, 657
taxes and, 483, 581, 607, 608, 625
fingerprints, 379
Finn, Karl, 16
“First Time I Saw Paris, The” (Thurber), 679
Fisher, Bessie (aunt), 290
Fisher, Bessie May (Red Cross girl), 42-43, 593-94
JT letter to (1919), 46-54
Fisher, Dale, 606
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 220
Fisher, Earl (cousin), 656
Fisher, Grant (uncle), 290
Fisher, Jake, 550
Fisher, Kirt (uncle), 289, 290
Fisher, Willie (uncle), 290
Fiske, Dorothy, JT letter to (1946), 394-95
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 240, 447, 506-7, 571, 620, 634, 694-95, 737
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 507, 549, 695
Flagg, James Montgomery, 239
Flanner, Jack, 260
Flanner, Janet, 278, 293, 300, 510-11, 675
JT letter to (1956), 652-54
Flashner, Amy, 596
Fleischmann, Raoul, 293, 299, 348, 413, 510, 518, 682, 685
Flint, Ruth, 529
Florida
JT trip to (1938), 147-58
E. B. White trip to (1957), 677-78
Flynn, Errol, 318
Folies Bergere (Paris), 94, 95
Fontainebleu (France), JT visits, 43, 53, 264, 266
Foord, Fritz, 188-99, 258
Foord's sanitarium, Kerhonkson, New York, 276
Wolcott Gibbs visits (1937), 266-69
JT visits (1935), 188-99
Ford, Corey, 459, 530
Ford, Ford Madox, 737
Ford, Henry, 737
Ford, Paul, 719, 754
Ford Foundation, 721
Fordyce, Ann, 215, 658
Forgotten Language, The (Fromm), 620
Forster, E. M, 229
Forster, Louis, 433, 435
Fortune magazine, 350, 509, 681
Forum, 239-40
Foster, David, JT letter to (1953), 590
Foster, Estelle (Red Cross girl), JT letter to (1919), 46-54
Fourth Mrs. Bluebeard, The (Thurber play), 60-61
Fowler, Henry, 246, 655-56
Fox, Ruth, 337, 339
“Fox and the Crow, The” (La Fontaine), 645
Franck, Cesar, 465
Frank, Melvin, 738
Frankforter, Alice, 294
Franklin Simon promotional campaign, 728-29
Frazer, Robert, 288
Fredericks, Carlton, 716
Freedland, Michael, JT letter to (1961), 747-49
Freeman, Douglas Southold, 696
Freeman, Harry, 207, 212, 213
French, Samuel, 483
Freud, Sigmund, 298, 426, 443, 617, 620
Friendly, Fred, 652
Friends of the Friends, The (James), 59
Fritts, Minnette, 5, 13, 16, 17, 18-19, 20-21, 25, 31, 55, 488, 580, 582, 658
See also Proctor, Minnette Fritts
Fromm, Erich, 620
From the Terrace (O'Hara), 688
Frost, Robert, 732
Fulbright, Senator, 595
Funke, Lewis, 549, 553-54
JT letter to (1952), 547-48
Further Fables for Our Time (Thurber), 721, 762
Futch, Dutch, 153
Gable, Clark, 478
Galloway, Tod, 658
gambling, 148, 149
Gannett, Lewis, 632, 641, 673
JT letters to (1956), 655-57
Gardiner, Julia, 608-9
JT letters to (1925), 93-95
JT letters to (1937), 241-42
JT letters to (1950), 490-91
Gardiner, Ted, 6, 552, 607
JT letters to (1925), 93-95
JT letters to (1937), 241-42
JT letters to (1950), 490-91
JT letters to (1961), 757-58
Garfield, John, 369
Garfield, John Morehead, 368
Garnett, David, 241, 249-50, 251, 312, 555
Garroway, Dave, 634-35
Garson, Greer, 378
Geiger, Ernest, 62, 77, 526
JT letters to (1924), 111-12
marriage to Eva Prout, 111
“Menaces in May” (Thurber) and, 112-13
Geiger, Eva Prout, 350, 415
JT infatuation with, 131
JT letters to (1924), 111-12
See also Prout, Eva
Gellhorn, Martha, 608
