228 “See that girl?” Mrs. Bacon quoted in Pringle notes (TRC).
229 Dueling pistols: Pringle interview with Mrs. Thomas Lee (a cousin of Alice’s), Pringle notes (TRC).
229 Cousin West sent for: C to Pringle, letter dated Sept. 22, 1930, Pringle notes (TRC).
230 “you mustn’t feel melancholy”: TR to MBR, Feb. 8,1880, Letters, I, 43.
230 “Alice . . . did not want to marry him”: Mrs. Bacon quoted in Pringle notes (TRC).
230 “it will be my aim . . . to endear myself”: ALR to MBR, Feb. 1880.
230 “wish I had you here”: TR to B, Mar. 1, 1880, Letters, I, 44.
231 “don’t think Mr. Lee”: TR to C, Mar. 8, 1880, ibid.
231 “invitations to all my friends”: TR to MBR, Mar. 11, 1880, ibid.
232 “brilliant prowess”: N.Y. Sun, Feb. 17, 1884.
232 Mittie’s activities: miscellaneous family correspondence; Anna Gracie’s diary for 1880 (TRC).
232 “He talked to her the whole time”: Kleeman, 101.
233 “If I had not come then”: Davis, 37.
233 “genuine intellectual power”: Parsons, 29.
233 “readiness to meet all situations”: Robinson, 18.
234 “As soon as we got here”: TR to C, Sept. 12, 1880, Letters, I, 46.
234 “Last Sunday night”: quoted in Putnam, 203.
235 “I am so glad”: E to B, Aug. 29 [1880] (FDRL).
235 Warning of heart trouble: Hagedorn, Boys’ Life, 63-64.
235 Asthma and colic: Putnam, 207.
235 “brown and well”: E to B, Aug. 29 [1880] (FDRL).
236 “Thee is well able”: ibid.
236 Wants no best man if not Elliott: TR to B, May 11, 1880.
236 Fanny Smith’s diary entry: Parsons, 43.
236 “Theodorelike tones”: ibid.
237 “cannot take my eyes off her”: quoted in Putnam, 209.
237 Law school urged by Uncle Rob: Hagedorn, Boys’ Life, 69.
237 “perfect dream of delight”: TR to MBR, Oct. 31, 1880, Letters, I, 47.
238 TR turning purple: C to Douglas Robinson, Feb. 10, 1881.
238 “going to Republican meetings”: ibid.
239 Law work “very interesting”: TR, Diary, Nov. 24, 1880 (LC).
239 Likes law school “very much”: ibid., Dec. 4, 1880.
239 Loves to take Alice sleighing: ibid., Dec. 22, 1880.
239 “She enjoyed it like a child”: TR Sr. to B, Feb. 18, 1871.
239 “the little inner group of people”: Wharton, Age of Innocence, 48.
240 Alice “greatly admired”: TR, Diary, Dec. 11, 1880 (LC).
241 Douglas Robinson on being married to a Roosevelt: quoted in Butt, I, 175.
241 Alice’s playing heard through the wall: Emlen Roosevelt to B, Feb. 21, 1881.
241 Mittie finds Alice “so companionable”: MBR to E, Dec. 25 [1880] (FDRL).
241 Wister vignette: Wister, 24.
241 “Oh, Energy, thy name is Bamie!”: TR to B, Apr. 1, 1877.
241 “Do you always have to run”: C to E, Dec. 6, 1880 (FDRL).
241 “Sometimes we succeed”: ibid.
242 “Such a lovely long talk”: C to Douglas Robinson, Mar. 17, 1881.
242 Alice’s feelings about Bamie: ALR to B, Sept. 8, 1881.
242 Talk in Mittie’s room: C to Douglas Robinson, Mar. 19, 1881.
243 Alice shares TR: C to Pringle (TRC); also Pringle, 49-50.
11. HOME IS THE HUNTER
Unless shown, the details of Elliott’s adventures in India and Ceylon, as well as quotations from his letters home, are from Hunting Big Game in the Eighties, a collection of his letters and journal entries from this period that was compiled and edited by his daughter, Eleanor. The observations of John S. Wise are from his Recollections of Thirteen Presidents.
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245 “Is Bamie showing any signs”: E to TR, Mar. 23, 1881.
245 “have tried to make Corinne understand”: MBR to E, Aug. 7, 1881 (FDRL).
245 “Teddy brought out from London”: MBR to E, Dec. 4,1881 (FDRL).
245 Edith Carow’s party: ibid.
245 “Has not our dear Thee”: quoted in Lash, 37.
246 Letter from Evarts: original (FDRL).
247 “Three hours after the blood had been running”: E to TR, Mar. 6,1881.
248 “brave, old Heart of Oak Brother”: E to TR, Apr. 24,1881.
248 “It is the life”: ibid.
248 Alice worried: B to E, Dec. 7, 1880 (FDRL).
248 “Poor dear Teddy”: MBR to E, Dec. 7, 1880 (FDRL).
248 “This is your last hunt”: TR to E, Dec. 6, 1880 (FDRL).
248 Servants pleased to be remembered: MBR to E, Aug. 7, 1881 (FDRL).
248 Upset by wretchedness: quoted in Lash, 38.
248 Speculates on Age of Chivalry: TR to B, Aug. 21, 1881, Letters, I, 50.
248 “We will all live there happily”: E to TR, Mar. 23, 1881.
248 “It delights me beyond bounds”: ibid.
249 “How proud of you”: E to TR, Aug. 8, 1881.
249 “Do take care of yourself”: E to TR, Apr. 24, 1881.
249 Not “‘our way’”: quoted in Lash, 39.
249 Letter from Aunt Ella Bulloch: Jan. 8, 1882 (FDRL).
250 Anna Gracie worries over Elliott: Anna Gracie diary, Mar. 30, Apr. 5, 1882 (TRC).
250 “dear mother . . . persuaded”: quoted in Davis, 54.
250 “My little heart”: E to C, Nov. 29, 1881 (FDRL).
251 “Why if you don’t take him”: E to C, June [n.d.] 1881 (FDRL).
251 “such a loving, tender brother”: C to Douglas Robinson, Mar. 19, 1881.
251 “If you were my brother”: C to Douglas Robinson, Mar. 31, 1881.
251 “The respectable . . . young men”: N.Y. Tribune, Oct. 13, 1882.
251 “comfort child”: MBR to E, undated note (FDRL).
252 Mittie’s “slight unevenness”: E to Douglas Robinson, May 9,1881 (FDRL).
252 Remarks about Mittie by Mrs. Alsop and W. Sheffield Cowles, Jr.: interview transcript, Oral History Collection, Columbia University.
253 “I was very proud”: Kleeman, 129-30.
253 “I am very jealous”: MBR to E, Dec. 4, 1881 (FDRL).
253 “My darling son”: MBR to E, undated (FDRL).
254 “they mistook me for you”: TR to E, Nov. 21, 1880 (FDRL).
254 Hunt’s impression: Harvard Club Transcript (TRC).
254 “If he noticed me at all”: Parsons, 29.
254 “drank like a fish”: from notes made by Mrs. Philip J. Roosevelt after a conversation with Edith Carow Roosevelt, Jan. 1941, courtesy of P. James Roosevelt.
255 “can’t get it into words”: TR to B, Aug. 21, 1881, Letters, I, 50.
255 Indebtedness to Uncle Jimmie Bulloch: see Introduction, Naval War (Works, VI).
255 “that foolish grit”: quoted in Lash, 37.
255 Elliott’s unpublished short story: typescript (FDRL).
256 Anna Hall admired by Browning: Lash, 50.
256 “I am honestly delighted”: TR to C, July 1, 1883, Letters, I, 61.
256 “to marry and settle down”: TR to MBR, July 8, 1883, Letters, I, 62.
257 “You must be very pure”: Anna Gracie to E, July 1, 1883 (FDRL).
257 “old Indian trouble”: quoted in Lash, 46.
257 “I know I am blue”: ibid.
257 $10,000 in Wyoming ranch: Putnam, 334.
257 $20,000 in G. P. Putnam’s Sons: Pringle, 54.
258 “one of the most brilliant social events”: quoted in Lash, 47.
12. POLITICS
The remembrances and observations of George Spinney and Isaac Hunt quoted in this chapter are from an interview conducted by Hermann Hagedorn at the Harvard Club, New York City, in 1923, and are referred to below as Harvard Club Transcripts (TRC). For background on Jay Gould and his conquests, Matthew Josephson’s The Robber Barons has been especially useful.
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260 “capable of conduct and utterances”: DAB.
260 “intended to be one of the governing class”: TR, Autobiography, 59.
260 “full of purpose to live”: James, Bostonians, 137.
260 “could join only the Republican Party”: TR, Autobiography, 58.
260 “one thing I like particularly”: C to Douglas Robinson, Mar. 14, 1881.
260 “saloon keepers, horsecar conductors”: TR, Autobiography, 59.
261 “I feel that I owe”: TR to Joseph Choate, Nov. 10, 1881, Letters, I, 55.
261 Depew at Delmonico’s: Depew, 158-60.
261 Uncle Rob and Michael Murphy: Pringle, 69-70.
261 “We hailed him as the dawn”: Bigelow, 276.
261 “All my friends”: TR, Diary, Oct. 22, 1881 (LC).
261 Emlen Roosevelt to Hagedorn (TRC); also quoted in Pringle, 57.
261 “It is very plain”: Emlen Roosevelt to B, July 13, 1876.
261 “did not relish the personnel”: Emlen Roosevelt to Hagedorn (TRC); also Pringle, 57.
261 Jake Hess, Joe Murray, the decor at Morton Hall: see TR, Autobiography, 59-60.
262 “Not to insist on the spoils”: TR quoted in Shannon, 15.
262 “They rather liked the idea”: ibid.
262 TR’s views of other assemblymen: from TR’s Legislative Diary, Appendix I, Letters, II.
263 Views on Curtis, Kruse, Kelly, Hunt, O’Neil: TR, Autobiography, 67-69.
264 “What on earth”: Nevins, Cleveland, 139.
264 “came in as if he had been ejected by a catapult”: Harvard Club Transcripts (TRC).
264 N.Y. Sun on TR: Jan. 25, 1882.
265 N.Y. World on TR: Apr. 15, 1883
265 “he got right in with people”: Sewall, 6.
265 “He threw each paper”: Hudson, 144-45.
267 “As a matter of fact”: TR, Autobiography, 82-83.
267 Gompers: DAB; Putnam, 301.
268 “I have always remembered”: TR, Autobiography, 83.
268 “aggressiveness”: quoted in Harbaugh, 40.
269 Gould spreads his stocks on the desk: Myers, Great American Fortunes, 491.
269 Gould unacceptable socially: Josephson, 205.
269 James Alfred Roosevelt and Gould: Cobb, 55.
269 Gould and the Manhattan Elevated: Josephson, 209-12; Putnam, 261-72.
270 Hunt puts TR on to Westbrook: Harvard Club Transcripts (TRC).
270 TR sees Loewenthal: ibid.
270 “willing to go to the very verge”: TR, Autobiography, 79.
271 N.Y. World view: Oct. 18, 1881.
271 Advice from family friend: TR, Autobiography, 80.
272 “I am, aware”: N.Y. Times, Apr. 7, 1882; also, Works, XIV, 7-11.
272 Clerk’s tally: Putnam, 266.
273 Bribes: Harvard Club Transcripts (TRC).
273 “He may have been”: TR, Autobiography, 79.
273 Gould and Cyrus Field: Josephson, 211.
274 “The Governor would sit large”: Hudson, 146-47.
275 “like wild geese without a gander”: Hunt, Harvard Club Transcripts (TRC).
276 “a pulpit concealed on his person”: unidentified clipping, Scrapbook (TRC).
276 “I have to say with shame”: N.Y. World, Mar. 3, 1883; also quoted in Putnam, 285.
277 “Never indulge yourself”: quoted in Wister, 21.
278 Reactions of N.Y. Evening Post and World: Scrapbook (TRC).
278 “The difference between our party and yours”: quoted in Putnam, 287-88; also, full speech in Works, XIV, 16-21.
279 N.Y. Observer. Mar. 10, 1883.
279 “Now, Theodore”: quoted in Pringle, 70.
279 Erastus Brooks incident: recalled by Assemblyman F. S. Decker (TRC).
279 Court ruling on the Cigar Bill: TR, Autobiography, 84-85; also Harbaugh, 40-42.
280 Admirers skeptical of O’Brien support: N.Y. Times, Dec. 27, 1883.
281 Reporter notes “friends of the Administration” in Delavan lobby: N.Y. Evening Post, Jan. 2, 1884.
281 “I am a Republican”: TR to Jonas S. Van Duzer, Nov. 20, 1883, Letters, 1,63.
281 “That young fellow”: N.Y. Times, Dec. 29, 1883.
281 “most ambitious man”: Emlen Roosevelt to Hagedorn (TRC).
282 Larger employer than Carnegie: Reeves, 46.
282 Seth Low on city government: Low in Bryce, I, 650-66.
283 TR on Hubert O. Thompson: TR, Legislative Diary, Appendix I, Letters, II.
284 “we stood shoulder to shoulder”: TR, Autobiography, 67.
284 “blamelessness and the fighting edge”: ibid., 88.
284 Mark Sullivan observation: Sullivan, II, fn. 221.
284 Unwillingness to “face the rather intimate association”: TR to Henry Cabot Lodge, Jan. 28, 1909, Letters, VI, 1490.
284 “The wicked flee”: Proverbs 28:1.
284 Eliot on a man in a fight: Brown, Harvard Yard, 25.
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285 “I have a bad headache”: TR to C, July 1, 1883, Letters, I, 61.
285 “I felt much better for it”: TR to ALR, Jan. 22, 1884, Letters, I, 64.
286 James Alfred worried: TR to E, Nov. 28, 1880 (FDRL).
286 Income and sources: TR, Diary, 1883 (LC).
286 $20,000 to Putnam: Pringle, 54.
286 “before a bright fire”: TR, Diary, Jan. 3, 1883 (LC).
286 Anna Gracies instructions: Parsons, 44-45.
287 Friends to see Alice: ibid.
287 “All of the men”: TR to ALR, Jan. 28, 1884, Letters, I, 64.
287 End to social life: The social doings of Elliott and his wife, meantime, were a pet topic in the papers. When Mrs. Astor’s ball was front-page news that January, Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt’s importance in The New York Times account was second only to that of Mrs. Astor. “Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt wore white tulle and green velvet and silver. It was made with a long train and a low neck, fastened with a diamond. Pearls and diamonds were the ornaments,” reported the Times, Jan. 22, 1884.
287 “I tried faithfully”: Riis, 36-37.
287 Disillusioned by the law: TR, Autobiography, 57.
288 “I hardly know what to do”: TR to B, Sept. 15, 1882, Letters, I, 57.
289 Remarks to Country Life: Hagedorn, Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill, 7.
289 Final cost $17,000: ibid., 9.
291 Hunt’s recollections: Harvard Club Transcripts (TRC).
291 Corinne’s account of return to 57th Street: C to Pringle, Sept. 1930, Pringle notes (TRC).
292 Mittie’s death at three o’clock: TR, memorial to MBR (TRC).
292 Double funeral service: N.Y. Times, Sun, and Tribune, Feb. 17, 1884.
292 Chester A. Arthur and Bright’s disease: Reeves, 317-18.
293 Talk of criminal negligence: Mrs. Robert Bacon, Pringle interview, Pringle notes (TRC). Since Mrs. Bacon’s husband was then employed at Lee, Higginson, it is possible that the Lee family too had similar thoughts concerning Alice’s death.
293 “He does not know what he does”: quoted in Sewall, 11.
293 “bravely in the darkness”: quoted in Putnam, 389.
294 Hunts account of all-night work: Hagedorn files (TRC).
294 “I have taken up my work”: TR to Carl Schurz, Feb. 21, 1884, Letters, I, 66.
294 Schurz and the death of his wife: Fuess, 219.
294 “as sweet and gentle as ever”: C to E, Mar. 4, 1884 (FDRL).
294 Sale of 6 West 57th Street: B reminiscences.
295 “That year seems a perfect nightmare”: ibid.
295 Condolence letters; J. Bulloch cable: (TRC).
295 Alice entrusted to Bamie: B reminiscences.
295 “so few that one really cared for”: C to E, Mar. 4, 1884 (FDRL).
296 Memorial to Alice: (TRC).
14. CHICAGO
Newspapers of the late nineteenth century, in a day when it was still not possible technically to
publish photographs, reported events in a vivid, pictorial style seldom found in present-day journalism; and since newspapers then were also intensely competitive and openly partisan politically, the coverage of a national convention to be found in the files of almost any great paper of the era is especially alive and colorful, filled with detail. The papers referred to for this account of the Republican National Convention of 1884 include The N.Y. Times, N.Y. Sun, N.Y. Tribune, N.Y. Herald, N.Y. Evening Post, N.Y. World, Chicago Tribune, Boston Transcript, and the Washington Post. Excerpts from various speeches have all been taken from Proceedings of the Eighth Republican National Convention Held at Chicago, Illinois, June 3, 4, 5, and 6,1884.
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297 “Fast and thick the delegates”: N.Y. Times, June 1, 1884.
297 California delegates in the Palmer House barbershop: a composite of several newspaper accounts, but especially Chicago Tribune, May 31,1884.
298 “All were filled”: N.Y. Sun, June 1, 1884.
298 TR to Bamie: June 8, 1884, Letters, I, 71-72.
299 “Tattooed Man”: cartoon by Bernard Gillam, Puck, Apr. 16, 1884.
299 TR to Lodge: May 26, 1884, Letters, I, 70.
300 “He isn’t ‘Chet’ Arthur any more”: quoted in Reeves, 260.
300 Failure of Grant and Ward: Rhodes, 205.
300 Arthur transforms the White House: Reeves, 268-71.
300 Beecher endorsement: ibid., 368.
300 Orders return of $100,000: ibid., 374.
301 Harper’s Weekly on Edmunds: Feb. 2, Mar. 1, 1884.
301 State convention at Utica: for a thorough account see Putnam, 413-24.
301 Washington trip with Lodge: Lodge journal, Mar. 20,1885, Massachusetts Historical Society.
302 “We are breaking up house”: TR to Henry Cabot Lodge, May 5, 1884, Letters, I, 69.
302 To Chicago in a private car: N.Y. World, June 6, 1884.
302 Evening Post appraisal of TR: May 31, 1884.
302 Nast cartoon of TR and Cleveland: Harper’s Weekly, Apr. 19, 1884.
302 “mouth full of regular white teeth”: N.Y. Tribune, June 6, 1884.
302 Statement to the Chicago Tribune: Chicago Tribune, June 1, 1884.
302 “as if the fate of the nation”: N.Y. Herald, June 1, 1884.
303 Lodge doubts Blaine can be stopped: Lodge journal, Mar. 20, 1885, Massachusetts Historical Society.
303 “Bits of good news”: N.Y. Tribune, June 1, 1884.
303 McKinley a sign: ibid., June 3, 1884.
303 “Not for forty nominations”: Stone, Fifty Years, 150.
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