156 Charles Francis Adams warns: ibid., 366.
156 Fifth Avenue Conference: N.Y. Times, May 16, 1876. See also, Garraty, Lodge, 44-47.
156 “weighty and reliable of our friends”: Ford, 273.
157 “Oh, they reenacted the moral law”: Garraty, Lodge, 47.
157 The “saving element”: N.Y. Tribune, May 17, 1876.
157 “Men whose names ring”: Boston Evening Transcript, May 16,1876.
157 “fight Conkling at all events”: quoted in Jordan, 239.
157 Ideal candidate according to Adams: Ford, 279.
158 “When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism”: quoted in Jordan, 279.
158 “grandiloquent swell”: quoted in Muzzey, 61.
158 Conkling’s appearance: from a reporters account, N.Y. Commercial Gazette, June 18, 1883, quoted in Reeves, 42-43.
158 Too good-looking to be pure: Chidsey, 116-17.
159 A mind approaching genius: see Depew, 77-79.
160 Conkling thought his hour had arrived: Chidsey, 203.
160 “bail for all those fellows”: quoted in Reeves, 93.
160 Convention excitement, activities: N.Y. Sun, N.Y. Times, N.Y. Tribune, N.Y. Herald, Cincinnati Daily Gazette.
160 “You would never recognize your father”: TR Sr. to B, June 13, 1876.
161 “Carl, you won’t oppose me”: Fuess, 220.
161 TR Sr.’s attack on Conkling: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, June 13, 1876. See also, Shores, 247-48.
162 Headlines: Cincinnati Daily Gazette, June 14, 1876.
162 Curtis on Conkling: quoted in Muzzey, 104.
162 “How is New York?”: quoted in Reeves, 96.
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165 An “ungreased squeak”: quoted in Putnam, 78.
166 “At times he could hardly get them out”: Thayer, Roosevelt, 20.
166 Likes his ears: Fraser, “Sculpting TR.”
166 Richard Welling’s first impression: Welling, “My Classmate Theodore Roosevelt.”
166 “Sporting Calendar” entries: Aug. 21, 1875 (TRC).
166 Time lost “through sickness”: TR to MBR, Mar. 4, 1876, Letters, I, 15.
166 Bamie picks his rooms: “Theodore would prefer you decide upon and take his rooms,” TR Sr. writes B, May 22, 1876.
167 “As I saw the last of the train”: TR Sr. to TR, Sept. 28, 1876.
167 Never knew “what idleness was”: Cutler, unpublished memoir dated Sept. 18, 1901 (TRC).
167 “rather smelly room”: TR to B, June 20, 1875, Letters, I, 13.
168 TR’s description of the shrew: quoted in Cutright, 36-37.
168 Theatrically superior: Parsons, 28.
168 “If I were writing to Theodore”: quoted in Robinson, 96.
168 King Olaf, Song of Roland, Nibelungenlied: TR, Autobiography, 19, 326, 23.
168 “somewhat supercilious”: McDougall, 129-30.
168 “such fun, the most original”: Parsons, 34.
169 “and don’t frizzle her hair”: TR to C, Feb. 5, 1877, Letters, I, 23.
169 Dancing class “very orderly”: quoted in Putnam, 121.
169 “Little Pet Pussie”: Mar. 27, 1877, quoted in Robinson, 98.
169 First letter to Mittie: TR to MBR, Sept. 29, 1876, Letters, I, 16.
170 “opponents played very foul”: TR to MBR, Nov. 19, 1876, ibid., 20.
170 The “gentleman sort”: TR to B, Oct. 15, 1876, ibid., 17.
170 “antecedents”: TR to C, Nov. 26, 1876.
170 Lamson there only to enjoy himself: TR to B, Nov. 12, 1876.
170 “Take care of your morals”: quoted by TR in a letter to MBR, Mar. 24, 1878, Letters, I, 33.
170 “Sundays I have all to myself’: TR to B, Oct. 15, 1876, Letters, I, 17.
170 “never spent an unhappy day”: TR to MBR, Oct. 29, 1876, ibid., 19.
170 “not... a fellow in college”: TR to TR Sr., Oct. 22, 1876, ibid., 18.
171 “in beautiful health”: TR to MBR, Nov. 19, 1876, ibid., 20.
171 “rug, which will curl”: TR to B, Nov. 26, 1876.
172 In touch with Dr. Wyman: TR to MBR, Jan. 18, 1877, Letters, I, 22.
172 “a little asthma in November”: TR to TR Sr. and MBR, Feb. 11, 1877, ibid., 26.
172 Asthmatic children removed from home lives: see Purcell, “The Effect on Asthma in Children of Experimental Separation from the Family.”
172 “We all like his friends”: Anna Gracie to E, Jan. 5, 1877 (FDRL).
172 “He went off most cheerfully”: TR Sr. to E, Jan. 6, 1877 (FDRL).
173 Sleighing party: TR to C, Feb. 5, 1877, Letters, I, 23.
173 Cost of a year at Harvard: King, 18; also, Grant, “Harvard College in the Seventies.”
173 “send on my gun”: TR to TR Sr. and MBR, Feb. 11,1877, Letters, 1,26.
173 TR in Hayes parade: Hagedorn, Boys’ Life, 51-52.
174 “He talked very pleasantly”: TR Sr. to TR, Oct. 27, 1876.
174 Hayes shot at: Russell, 99.
175 Evarts proposes TR Sr. for Customhouse: Barrows, 327.
175 Evarts’ past work with TR Sr.: ibid., 469.
176 Above crass temptations: Nation, Nov. 1, 1877.
176 Collectorship and the Customhouse: see Reeves, 62-63, 67-68.
177 Melville a customs inspector at $4 a day: Howard, 284.
177 Phelps, Dodge case: see Reeves, 82-83; also Lowitt, 276-81.
178 “We look back . . . we were fools”: quoted in Reeves, 82.
178 Delmonico’s banquet: N.Y. Times, May 15,1877.
179 TR Sr. escorts Hayes on museum tour: ibid., May 16, 1877.
179 TR Sr. rides with Hayes entourage: ibid., May 17, 1877.
180 Conkling at Rochester convention: Jordan, 278-79.
180 “all excited here about politics”: quoted in Martin, Choate, 329.
180 TR Sr.’s interest in Cleopatra’s Needle: interview with W. Sheffield Cowles, Jr.
180 TR Sr. leads group for Harvard visit: TR to C, June 3, 1877, Letters, I, 28.
180 Butterfly reduced to a grub: TR Sr. to B, Aug. 15, 1877.
180 Saratoga charities meeting: N.Y. Times, Sept. 8, 1877.
181 “I am clear”: Williams, Hayes, Diary.
181 “even up there they lift their skirts”: N.Y. Herald, Nov. 9, 1877.
181 “TERRIBLE CHARGES”: N.Y. Herald, Oct. 31, 1877.
181 Denounces management of city’s asylums: N.Y. Times, Oct. 31, 1877.
182 “he seemed to me another man”: Theodore Roosevelt (Sr.). Memorial Meeting, 34.
182 “in the prime of vigorous manhood”: N.Y. Tribune, Oct. 30, 1877.
182 “Tell Father I am watching”: TR to B, Oct. 14, 1877, Letters, I, 29.
183 Republicans caucus in secrecy: N.Y. Times, Nov. 11, 1877.
183 Compromise reported: ibid., Dec. 5, 1877.
183 Nominees called “good men”: ibid., Dec. 7, 1877.
183 Afraid Conkling has “won the day”: TR to TR Sr., Dec. 8,1877, Letters, 1,30.
183 Conkling’s speech of Dec. 12: N.Y. Times, N.Y. Tribune, N.Y. Evening Post, Dec. 13,1877.
184 Calls TR Sr. his “bitter personal enemy”: N.Y. Tribune, Dec. 13, 1877.
184 “the end is not yet”: Williams, Hayes, Diary.
185 “uneasy about Father”: TR to B, Dec. 16, 1877, Letters, I, 31.
186 “brilliant daylight assemblages”: N.Y. Times, Dec. 23, 1877.
186 “couldn’t have your appendix out then”: Wister, 17.
186 Entries from Anna Gracies diary: (TRC).
187 Schuyler note: Dec. 22, 1877 (TRC).
187 New “Private Diary”: Dec. 25, 1877 (LC).
187 Sleigh upsets: TR to B, Jan. 19,1878.
187 “sat with him some seven hours”: quoted in Putnam, 147.
187 “I was with your dear father”: Anna Gracie to TR, Feb. 8 [1878].
188 Crowd gathered: Robinson, 105.
188 “young strength . . . poured out”: ibid., 104.
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188 Elliott’s account of his father’s death: (TRC).
190 Newspaper tributes: scrapbook (TRC).
191 “What a glorious example!”: condolence note (TRC).
191 “something . . . inspiring”: Robinson, 105.
191 “hard to have parted”: MBR to TR, Mar. 8, 1878.
191 “work out our own salvation”: B reminiscences.
192 “best . . . sufferings should end”: TR to Henry Minot, Feb. 20, 1878, Letters, I, 31.
192 Private anguish: Private Diary (LC).
192 Marks 69th Psalm: TR’s personal Bible (WSCC).
193 “easier for me”: TR to B, Mar. 17, 1878, Letters, I, 32.
193 “My own sweet sister”: TR to B, Mar. 3, 1878.
193 “working away pretty hard”: May 7, 1878, Private Diary (LC).
193 “as if he were present”: TR to MBR, Feb. 28, 1878, Letters, I, 32.
193 Private feelings of remorse and inadequacy: all drawn from June entries, Private Diary (LC).
194 Swinburne on Cooper’s Bluff: Robinson, 100-101.
194 Not so sad as expected: TR to C, Mar. 3, 1878, Letters, I, 32.
195 “Theodore craved”: Robinson, 102.
195 “For ye shall go out with joy”: Isaiah 55:12.
195 “we both of us had . . . tempers”: TR to B, Sept. 20, 1886 (TRB); also quoted in Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 58.
195 “Look out for Theodore”: Sewall, “Bill Sewall Remembers TR,” clipping (TRC).
195 TR Sr. strained himself: B reminiscences; Robinson, 104.
196 “talismans against evil”: Robinson, 106.
196 “‘A rare and radiant maiden’”: TR was especially fond of Poe, so this undoubtedly refers to “The Raven” (“For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—”).
PART THREE
9. HARVARD
Among the greatest of all pleasures in the research for this book has been the chance to work with material in the Harvard University Archives—photographs, scrapbooks, class records, class biographies, memorabilia of all kinds dating from the years when TR was an undergraduate. Of published works the most valuable has been the two-volume biography Charles W. Eliot, by Henry James.
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201 “You belonged to Harvard”: Thayer, 15.
201 “crescent institution”: ibid., 16.
202 Science “the firm foundation”: quoted in N.Y. Times, Dec. 23, 1877.
202 Petty rules: see Morison, Three Centuries, 357-58.
202 Rule book reduced: Hawkins, 110.
202 “a deal of drudgery”: James, Eliot, II, 44.
202 “Do you think it is a wise parent”: ibid., 45.
202 Eliot and Hale motto: ibid., I, 317.
202 Looking neither left nor right: Harry Rand, Hagedorn interview (TRC).
202 Eliot was disliked: James, Eliot, I, 311.
202 “flagstaff in motion”: Wister, 20.
203 “that scoundrel King David”: Eliot, “Eliot of Harvard.”
203 Mental condition has physical origin: James, Eliot, II, 38.
203 Disapproves of baseball: ibid., 69.
203 Memorial Hall: The great building still stands, though in somewhat neglected condition. See also Whitehill, 12-14.
203 “The effect of the place”: James, The Bostonians, 208-09.
204 “Its occupant... is its master”: Martin, “Undergraduate Life.”
204 “to look at the new bookcase”: TR to B, Nov. 9, 1877, Letters, I, 30.
204 One in five thousand went to college: Putnam, 134.
205 Harvard said to offer diversity of student views and backgrounds: Thayer, Roosevelt, 15.
205 Records for the Class of 1880: Harvard Archives.
205 Three Roman Catholics: Class of 1880, Secretary’s Report, Number 1, Commencement 1880, Harvard Archives.
205 Humor anti-Irish, anti-Semitic, and mocking Negro aspirations: see Lampoon, Mar. 7, Oct. 24, and Dec. 19, 1879.
205 Scott on Harvard “temper”: Hagedorn interview (TRC).
206 Asthmatics excused from chapel: William Hooper, Hagedorn interview (TRC).
207 Younger faculty recruited by Eliot: James, Eliot, I, 254-55.
207 Students and professors a different species: Santayana, “The Academic Environment at Harvard.”
207 “Don’t take it upon yourself”: Crimson, Oct. 6, 1876.
207 “We ask but time to drift”: quoted in Pringle, 32.
207 “My system was simple”: Garraty, Lodge, 51-52.
208 “A boy could go completely to pieces”: Harold Fowler, Hagedorn interview (TRC).
208 “Students got drunk”: John Woodbury, Hagedorn interview (TRC).
208 Eliot on “intemperance”: Hagedorn interview (TRC).
208 “unwholesome experiment”: Martin, “Undergraduate Life.”
209 Rand’s recollections: Hagedorn interview (TRC).
209 “pleasant doors”: Wister, 19-20.
209 Crimson on “digs”: Sept. 28, 1876.
210 Class of 1880 known as Bacon’s class: John Woodbury, Hagedorn interview (TRC).
210 Thayer’s recollections: Hagedorn interview (TRC).
210 “Funnily enough”: TR to MBR, Oct. 8, 1878, Letters, I, 34.
210 “delighted” to be in the Porcellian: TR to B, Nov. 10, 1878, Letters, I, 35.
211 “send my silk hat”: TR to MBR, Jan. 11, 1880, Letters, I, 42.
211 Jackson on splendor at 57th Street: Hagedorn interview (TRC).
211 Few could afford a horse: Grant, “Harvard College in the Seventies.”
211 TR’s financial position and expenses for 1877,1878, 1879, and 1880 are all to be found in his private diaries (LC).
211 Eliot’s salary: Eliot, “Eliot of Harvard.”
212 “keep the fraction constant”: TR, Autobiography, 26.
213 “ready to join anything”: Richard Saltonstall, Hagedorn interview (TRC).
213 Academic achievement: for a complete account of TR’s grades at Harvard, see Letters, I, 25-26.
213 “sort of spluttered”: George H. Palmer, Hagedorn interview (TRC).
214 “See here, Roosevelt”: Wilhelm, 35.
214 Saltonstall remembered no caged animals, nothing unusual: Hagedorn interview (TRC).
214 TR chiefly “a joke”: Thayer, Hagedorn interview (TRC).
214 “‘whether he is the real thing’”: Thayer, Roosevelt, 21.
214 Foresees future professor of history: John Woodbury, Hagedorn interview (TRC).
214 Martha Cowdin (Bacon) recollections: Hagedorn interview (TRC).
215 Rose Lee on TR dancing: ibid.
215 “Old Dick . . . on par with the Roosevelts”: Diary, Oct. 1, 1879 (LC).
215 Welling’s account of the skating expedition: “My Classmate.”
216 Rage at drunken classmates imitation: William Hooper, Hagedorn interview (TRC).
216 Wister’s version of the boxing match: Wister, 4-5.
216 N.Y. Times account: Mar. 23, 1879.
217 Spalding’s denunciation of the story: letter to the editor in Time, Dec. 14, 1931 (TRC).
217 “As athletes we are about equal”: Diary, July 30, 1879 (LC).
217 “always thought that he could do things better”: quoted in Putnam, 100.
217 “Only one gentleman stands ahead of me”: TR to B, Oct. 13, 1879, Letters, I, 41-42.
218 Words under the ink blot: A laboratory examination of the diary page was made at the authors request by the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, working with the Library’s Preservation Office.
218 “He is a disgrace”: Diary, Oct. 23, 1878.
218 “I told the clergyman”: TR to MBR, Jan. 11, 1880, Letters, I, 43.
218 “The first two or three days”: TR to MBR, Mar. 16, 1879, ibid., 37.
219 Prefers political economy to natural history: TR to MBR, Oct. 8, 1878, ibid., 33-34.
219 Blames Harvard for killing interest in natural history: TR, Autobiography, 26-2
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220 Shaler: Shaler’s inspirational powers are attested to again and again. “Students whose unimaginative lives had never carried them beyond home and prep school and Harvard Square sat in Shaler’s presence and saw the face of the earth becoming an endless wonderland,” writes Rollo Walter Brown in Harvard Yard, 106. See also William Roscoe Thayer’s memorial essay on Shaler in the Harvard Graduates’ Magazine.
220 TR’s dislike for A. S. Hill: John Woodbury, Hagedorn interview (TRC).
220 Saltonstall recollection: Hagedorn interview (TRC).
220 Eliot recollection: ibid.; also Pringle interview notes (TRC).
221 Claims to have held lightweight crown: biographical sketch prepared for an Albany newspaper editor, May 1, 1884, Letters, I, 67.
221 Claims to have been in top ten percent: TR, Autobiography, 25.
221 Note to the Kaiser: Morison, Three Centuries, 427.
221 Hagedorn observations: Hagedorn interviews (TRC).
221 “the golden years”: TR, Diary, Dec. 21 1878 (LC).
221 “can’t conceive . . . possibly enjoying himself: TR, Diary, May 8, 1879 (LC).
221 “ever enjoy myself so much again”: TR, Diary, June 28, 1879 (LC).
222 Letter of Oct. 20, 1879: Letters, I, 42.
222 “I have had just as much money”: Diary, May 5, 1880 (LC).
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224 Lee and Saltonstall homesteads: Though greatly altered in appearance, the two houses still stand and amid surroundings that are very little different.
225 Leverett Saltonstall and George Cabot Lee: biographical sketches in (Harvard) Class of 1848 and Class of 1850, as well as miscellaneous clippings, Harvard Archives.
225 “safe as Lee’s vaults”: Amory, 66.
226 Atmosphere “so homelike”: TR, Diary, Oct. 18, 1878 (LC).
226 “Call me by my first name”: ibid., Nov. 28, 1878.
227 “Remember me”: TR to C, Nov. 10, 1878, Letters, I, 36.
227 “especially pretty Alice”: TR, Diary, Jan. 26, 1879 (LC).
227 “All the family . . . just lovely”: TR to B, Apr. 20, 1879, Letters, I, 38.
227 “I want you particularly”: TR to C, May 20, 1879, Letters, I, 40.
227 Summer activities at Oyster Bay: TR, Diary, entries for July 1879 (LC).
228 Class Day evening with Alice: ibid., June 20, 1879.
228 “made everything subordinate”: TR to Henry Minot, Feb. 13, 1880, Letters, I, 43.
228 “one all-absorbing object”: July 5, 1880, quoted in Putnam, 194.
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