[Ads-l] Request April 1921 issue of The Smart Set containing important story by W. Somerset Maugham

[dave at WILTON.NET]

Yes, it's continued in a second file with no metadata, which is why I missed it. The target quote is there on the first page.

http://wordorigins.org/documents/Maugham2.pdf

The database, in case you need it, is Proquest's American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries.


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Fantastic! Thank you very much for your efforts, David.

I examined the PDF and found that it ended in chapter seven of the W.
Somerset Maugham's story with the sentence: "Her presence is a peril here." Yet, the full story continues beyond chapter seven. Below is the target quotation. It occurs about eight paragraphs after the end of the PDF.

[Begin excerpt]
“I have no doubt you have a sufficiently good opinion of yourself to bear mine with equanimity,” he retorted.
[End excerpt]

Would you please check to see if the database has a PDF with the above text?

Garson

On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 8:59 AM dave at wilton.net <dave at wilton.net> wrote:
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> Garson,
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> I found the April 1921 issue that contains the Maugham story. It's 8 MB, so I'm not emailing it. You can download it here:
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> [ http://wordorigins.org/documents/Maugham.pdf ]( 
> http://wordorigins.org/documents/Maugham.pdf )
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "ADSGarson O'Toole" <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM>
> Sent: Sunday, February 9, 2020 5:24am
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: [ADS-L] Request April 1921 issue of The Smart Set containing 
> important story by W. Somerset Maugham
>
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> The April 1921 issue of "The Smart Set" contains the short story "Miss 
> Thompson" by W. Somerset Maugham which was adapted into a very popular 
> play called "Rain" in 1922. Subsequently, three films and an opera 
> were based on the tale.
>
> The issue appears to be missing from the Google Books database and the 
> HathiTrust database. The contents of the issue are in the public 
> domain, I believe, and it would be great if someone could scan it and 
> add it to the HathiTrust database.
>
> Does some list member have access to this issue? Is some list member 
> familiar with the procedure employed to add scans to the HathiTrust 
> database?
>
> This topic came to my attention because recently I received a request 
> to explore a quotation which I traced to Maugham's short story.
>
> https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/02/08/bear/
>
> Garson O'Toole
> Quote Investigator
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