1. Bruccoli has already presented the facsimile of the corrected galleys inThe Great Gatsby. The Revised and Rewritten Galleys, The F. Scott Fitzgerald Manuscripts, Vol. III (New York: Garland, 1990).
2. West, xxi.
3. Ceterum eidem Vario ac simul Tuccae scripta sua sub ea condicione legavit, ne quid ederent, quod non a se editum esset. Edidit autem auctore Augusto Varius, sed summatim emendata, ut qui versus etiam inperfectos sicut erant reliquerit (“In his will he left his writings to this same Varius and to Tucca, with the order that they should not publish anything that he himself would not have published. Thus Varius published the poem with the support of Augustus, but he edited very lightly and he left in even the unfinished verses [half-lines], just as Virgil had left them”), Aelius Donatus,Vita Vergilii, 40–41.
4. F. Scott Fitzgerald,The Great Gatsby, ed. M.J. Bruccoli (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991) (hereafter Bruccoli,Gatsby), Appendix 2, pp. 206–08. Almost identical information is given in Fitzgerald,The Great Gatsby: A Facsimile of the Manuscript, ed. M.J. Bruccoli (Washington, DC: Microcard Editions Books, 1973) (hereafterFacsimile) 66.
5. Fitzgerald to Perkins, ca. 24 April 1925,Dear Scott/Dear Max: The Fitzgerald-Perkins Correspondence, ed. John Kuehl and Jackson R. Bryer (New York: Scribners, 1971) (hereafterDear Scott/Dear Max), 101.