The Correspondence of Stephen Crane (review)
This edition supersedes the one-volume edition of Crane's letters prepared by R. W. Stallman and Lillian Gilkes and published in 1960. Like Stallman and Gilkes, Wertheim and Sorrentino include letters both to and from Crane, letters by his wife Cora to correspondents other than Crane, and Crane's inscriptions in books. Both editions include such ancillary materials, presumably, to fill out the sometimes sketchy narrative of Crane's rather short life. Wertheim and Sorrentino include much new material. "Of the more than