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FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. Document signed ("F. Scott Fitzgerald"), the agreement between him and the producer Lester Cowan for "the Writer to write, compose, and prepare a complete screenplay based upon the literary material or story entitled 'Babylon Revisited.' Los Angeles, 8 April 1940. 8 pages, folio, double-spaced, carbon copy, stapled to blue printed and typed law firm backing cover , signed by Fitzgerald at end at space designated "Writer." The agreement, comprising nine terms, calls for Fitzgerald's "employment" to begin April 8 and to run for four weeks with payment of $2,5000. If needed, an additional four weeks for rewriting and revisions would be paid for also at the $2,500 figure. [ With :] FITZGERALD, F.S. Six telegrams from Fitzgerald to Lester Cowan (at Columbia Studios and in New York), Encino and Los Angeles, 1 May - 14 August 1940. together 6 pages, oblong 8vo , arranging meetings with the producer, discussing casting, etc. 14 May: "More and more think [Shirley] Temple would be ill advised even as gift. Expect to see you drop from parachute any day now..." 23 May: "Believe that performer mentioned is much too frozen a character for script in public...also the sight of her with doll would be rather absurd..." [ And with :] A typed copy of a 26 June 1940 Fitzgerald letter to Cowan, 2 pages, 4to, labelled "(COPY)" at head , regarding rewriting the screenplay and casting for the movie. The text of this letter not in Letters , ed. M.J. Bruccoli & M.M. Duggan; A typed or carbon copy of a 6 May 1940 Cowan letter to Fitzgerald, 1 page, 8vo ; A TLS from John Biggs, Jr., Executor of the Estate of F. Scott Fitzgerald, to Cowan, Wilmington, Del., 14 March 1941, 1 p., 4to , regarding the sums paid by Cowan to Fitzgerald, the inquiry made for tax purposes; A carbon copy of Cowan's reply to Biggs, 25 July 1941, 1 p., 4to : "In response to your letter of March 14th...he received a total of $6,000 from me, which was divided as follows: $1,000 for the original story, and $5,000 for the screen play. The latter was covered by an employment contract dated April 8, 1940, between Mr. Fitzgerald and myself [see above]..."; A telegram to Cowan from his assistant Bob, Los Angeles, 17 May 1940, 1 p., oblong 8vo , telling him to call Fitzgerald. (12)