![]() ![]() Steward biographer Justin Spring contributes a foreword. But the other side of that coin is imagining the glee with which he wrote essays such as “On How to Cook a Wolf” and “On Men and Their Feathers,” and relishing the chance to enjoy these subversive gems now. Among Steward’s most detailed records was the Stud File, an alphabetized card catalogue with a different index card for every sexual conquest. As editor Mulderig observes in his introduction, it’s melancholic to think that Steward may have assumed his fine work would never find an appreciative audience. The first column, “The Victim’s Viewpoint,” features a patient’s musings on “the Dentist as Iago.” Steward’s focus quickly broadened to a wider range of topics, including wartime life, opera, teetotalers, and men’s fashion. ![]() The essays that followed, under the pen name Philip Sparrow, were elegantly constructed, bitingly funny, and likely to be utterly baffling to the original readership-particularly the coded gay references. Samuel Steward did not have sex with Rudolph Valentino. In 1944, he was asked by his dentist, the journal’s editor, to write a column providing a “worm’s-eye view” of dentistry. Steward, a once-neglected figure in queer history, palled around with Gertrude Stein, kept a “stud file” of his sexual conquests, and ran a successful tattoo parlor catering to sailors. Samuel Stewards Stud File is currently on display at the Beiencke Library, Yale University, New Have, through April 29, 2013, as part of the exhibition 'By Hand. Toklas, George Platt Lynes, and Thornton Wilder. ![]() Correspondents include Gertrude Stein, Alice B. This remarkable collection assembles Steward’s essays for an unlikely venue: the Illinois Dental Journal. Samuel Steward papers Samuel Steward papers Scope and Contents Correspondence, writings, diaries, photographs, artwork, research materials, printed materials, and other papers by, to, or related to Samuel Steward. ![]()
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