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

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Great, thanks, Dave!

"The Smart Set" was published in New York; hence, all the issues
between 1900 and 1923 are in the public domain in the U.S. In fact,
now that we have entered 2020, all the issues in 1924 should also be
in the public domain.

As you mentioned, after seeing the PDF, I was able to determine that
"The Smart Set" (1900-1923) was in ProQuest database of "American
Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries". Unfortunately, I
do not have access to that database.

The website of crl.edu states "The Center for Research Libraries (CRL)
is an international consortium of university, college, and independent
research libraries." "The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is an
independent not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization."

It would be great CRL would coordinate with HathiTrust, Internet
Archive, or Google to scan all issues 1990-1924 "The Smart Set".

Garson

On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 1:44 PM <dave at wilton.net> wrote:
>
> 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:
> >
> >
> > Garson,
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > [ http://wordorigins.org/documents/Maugham.pdf ](
> > http://wordorigins.org/documents/Maugham.pdf )
> >
> > -----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
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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