Author's Note
With an Explicit Reference to
Goethe's Dichtung & Wahrheit
in Grove's mss Draft for the 1939 Preface to
A Search for America
(4th Edition, Ryerson 1939)

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Reference to Goethe's Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit: Grove's IMS Notebook, 1939 University of Manitoba Grove Collection, Mss 2, Box 6, Fd. 14 Click here tor an enlarged version of this mss Published Version"Purged" of Goethe Reference [emphasis added]: AUTHOR'S NOTE TO THE FOURTH EDITION ..."Every work of so-called imaginative literature, good or bad, is necessarily at once both fact and fiction; and not only in the sense that fiction is mingled with fact. In every single part fact and fiction are inextricably interwoven." ... / F. P. G. / Simcoe, Ontario,/ February, 1939"

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Source References:
Black Notebook, "My Life" (working title for 1946 autobiography, In Search of Myself). Frederick Philip Grove Collection, Mss 2
Grove, Frederick Philip. A Search for America. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1939 (4th edition).
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