Pulitzer

by James McGrath Morris

  The only party: NYT, 2/26/1910, 8.

  In March, Joe: Pfaff, Joseph Pulitzer II, 107.

  Even Wickham had: JP to Elinor Wickham, 8/31/1909, quoted in Pfaff, Joseph Pulitzer II, 104.

  In person, Joseph: JPII to JP, 3/18/1910, JP-MHS, quoted in Pfaff, Joseph Pulitzer II, 107–108.

  The children gone: NYT, 11/14/1911, 1.

  Roosevelt’s prosecution of: NYT, 10/25/1910; WaPo, 10/25/1910, 11.

  Pulitzer’s attorney once again: Harding, Untold Story, 87.

  Ten weeks later: Harding, Untold Story, 77.

  Pulitzer got word: NYW, 1/4/1911; Harding, Untold Story, 82.

  As Phillips neared: NYT, 1/24/1911, 1; WaPo, 1/24/1911, 1; ChTr, 1/24/1911, 1.

  Funeral services were held: JP to RP, 3/10/1911; telegram, 4/11/1911; NT to RP, 3/12/1911; KP to RP, 5/28/1911, JP-LC.

  One of Pulitzer’s many doctors: Dr. Heinbrand to JP, June 1911, JP-CU; Wood, Pharmacology and Therapeutics for Students and Practitioners of Medicine, 103.

  In the summer: JP to Emma Cunlifee-Owens, 3/4/1911, WP-CU.

  Pulitzer and Cobb: Notes of conversation, 6/22/1911, in June 17–21 folder, WP-CU, Box 51. Pulitzer was an unabashed fan of Wilson’s. He telegraphed Wilson after Wilson’s election victory of 1910, urged Cobb to promote Wilson continually, and even proposed publishing a campaign pamphlet. (JP conversation with FC, undated 1910 Folder, JP-LC, Box 9; JP to FC, 11/21/1910, JP-LC.)

  Concluding his meeting: NYT, 7/2/1911, X4, and 6/11/1911, X4.

  Joseph spent time: AI, 213–214.

  Joseph’s favorite indulgence: Transcript of conversation written by Firestone, 8/5/1911, WP-CU.

  Wallace C. Sabine: Wallace C. Sabine to McKim et al., 5/13/1902, JP-CU.

  The house’s proximity: JP memo for RP, 10/5/1911, WP-CU; JP to JPII, 10/9/1911, JP-CU.

  If his employees: Gaynor, quoted in RHL to JP, 10/8/1911, WP-CU.

  Roosevelt never let up: JP notes, 10/5/1911, JP-CU.

  Of the three men: WRH to JP, 10/9/1911, WP-CU.

  CHAPTER 31: SOFTLY, VERY SOFTLY

  On the second day: AI, 234–236.

  The following day: Syracuse Herald, 10/20/1911, 11.

  Pulitzer’s German reader: Christopher Hare, The Life of Louis XI: The Rebel Dauphin and the Statesmen King (New York: Scribners, 1907). The book’s last words, which Pulitzer did not hear, were, “The France of Louis XII is the justification of Louis XI” taken from Stanley Leathes, Cambridge Modern History, Vol. 1, The Reformation (London, MacMillan, 1904).

  The following day: Colorado Springs Gazette, 10/30/1911, 1.

  When they reached: JP to GWH, January 7, 1911, quoted in DCS-JP, x; New York American, 10/30/1911.

  Pulitzer’s death was: Death certificate, South Carolina Room, Charleston County Main Library.

  So many former: Elizabeth Jordan, “The Passing of the Chief,” New Yorker, 12/18/1947.

  Kate outlived her husband: Pfaff, Joseph Pulitzer II, 144.

  In the early morning: Barrett, The End of the World, 154, 237; JWB, 438.

  Bibliography

  Manuscript collections are listed at the beginning of the endnotes section on backmatter. Magazines, journals, and newspapers appear only in the actual notes. All other published and unpublished works cited in the endnotes are listed in full here.

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