Coming of Age
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Luther realized he had learned more about social responsibility from his parents than from the church: Ibid., 90.
Luther wondered, “could these tragedies have been averted?”: Ibid., 88.
Luther’s courses at Columbia raised questions about the role of the Church in regard to poverty: Ibid., 90.
“I have you to thank”: LC to MM, Dec. 9, 1922, LC, A-2.
“Don’t preach any more of that New Republic”: Cressman, 90.
For Luther’s feelings about the Pagan Bookstore: LC to MM, Jan. 3, 1922, LC, A-2.
“This woman Magdeleine Marx”: Ibid.
“We’ll make it go all right”: LC to MM, Dec. 9, 1922, LC, A-2.
“Martha has a gas plate we can have”: Ibid.
“I love every vibrant part”: LC to MM, Oct. 19, 1922, LC, A-2.
For Luther’s philosophy regarding marriage: Cressman, 88.
CHAPTER 9: A COTTAGE ON CAPE COD
“I’m going to be famous some day”: Margaret quoted in Howard, 61.
“I haven’t yet discovered”: Marie quoted in Lapsley, 79.
“If only I could manicure your hands for your wedding day”: Ibid.
Some called Marie her slave, but to Margaret, Marie was a godsend: Howard, 73.
Marie learned to tolerate Luther: Lapsley, 78.
Marie didn’t like to be reminded that Margaret had other close friends: Lapsley, 79.
“How jolly that everyone is to turn up”: LA to MM, July 14, 1923, LC, C-1.
“Your At-Home Cards”: ME to MM, Aug. 22, 1923, LC, C-1.
“It looks, I don’t know, a trifle immoral”: ME to MM, Aug. 22, 1923, LC, B-4.
“A fantastic or garish note in the type effect”: Post, 48.
For the story of why Emily Mead thought women should keep their own last names: Mead, in Blackberry Winter, 117.
“And the Cressmans weren’t a bit shocked”: MM to MRM, Dec. 7, 1923, LC, A-17.
“part of my college education”: ME to MM, Aug. 22, 1923, LC, C-1.
“I’m going to be famous some day”: Margaret quoted in Howard, 61.
“I’m going to get a job giving change in the subway”: Ibid.
“Your industry makes me feel like a good-for-nothing”: LR to MM, June 26, 1923, LC, C-1.
“If you’d been brought up”: Howard, 42.
“That cost me ten thousand dollars”: Ibid., 60.
“I have a proposition for you”: Ibid.
“But I want to get married”: Ibid., 60.
“he who pays the piper calls the tune”: Sherwood quoted in Mead, in Blackberry Winter, 39.
She valued in Luther those abilities that Sherwood Mead lacked: Ibid., 83–84.
“He’ll be riding up to marry you any time you want”: Martha Ramsey Mead quoted in Howard, 60.
“Your family’s not coming to the wedding in those clothes”: Ibid., 61–62.
Father Pomeroy performed the nuptial Mass: Cressman, 91.
The Reverend Hollah performed the marriage ceremony: Mead, Blackberry Winter, 116.
“Damn those Meads, to them we Cressmans are outlanders”: Luther quoted in Howard, 62.
“Hell’s bells”: Howard interview, Special Collections, Columbia University.
Margaret sent for a whisk broom: Mead in Blackberry Winter, 116.
Dr. Ostrolenk accidentally spilled coffee down the front of Margaret’s dress: Ibid.
“Your inference is correct”: Howard, 62.
On Ellis’s theory regarding same-sex relationships between women: Lapsley, 319.
Ellis said sex was like a musical instrument that the participants learned to play: Mead, Blackberry Winter, 117.
Margaret wondered if Ellis was right about how to attain sexual satisfaction: Ibid.
“My flesh aches for the touch of love”: LC to MM, Dec. 15, 1922, LC, A-2.
“My body is calling for yours”: LC to MM, July 8, 1923, LC, A-2.
Over dinner Margaret told Luther about the paper she was working on: Howard, 62.
“Tonight I’m going to take the other bedroom”: Margaret quoted in ibid., 62.
That night they did not consummate their union: Ibid., 62.
“We took Aunt Nellie, Cousin Elizabeth and Betty”: MM to EM, Sept. 14, 1923, LC, Q-2.
Margaret described the monotony of the local architecture: Ibid.
On Margaret’s “fear and hostility to the commitment of marriage”: Howard, 62.
“willful at times, stubborn, sometimes quixotic”: Cressman, 131.
“You’d better watch out”: Luther quoted in Howard, 62.
“Our enjoyment of these long lazy”: Mead, Blackberry Winter, 116.
For Luther’s description of the end of the honeymoon: Cressman, 93; Howard interview, Special Collections, Columbia University.
CHAPTER 10: A WOMAN OF SPARE EFFECTS
“My main difficulty with this poetry”: ES to RB, Feb. 29, 1924, LC, l-90.
“My wife wrote you, I believe, of how I broke my leg”: ES to RB, Aug. 7, 1923, LC, l-90.
The next thing Edward knew he was in a cast: Ibid.
“I expect to be rid of the plaster cast”: Ibid.
“Possibly the only kind of work that will ever interest the public”: Ibid.
“All summer I’ve worked on the mythology”: Ruth quoted in Mead, An Anthropologist at Work, 399.
“It isn’t any laws people need”: Stanley quoted in Benedict journal, February 25, 1923, Archives and Special collections Library, Vassar College Libraries.
“He has a fixed idea”: ibid.
Stanley was driving her away: In Mead, An Anthropologist at Work, 83.
“For I am smitten to my knees with longing”: Ruth quoted in Modell, 133.
“The great outdoors camp ground was filled with close-lipped people”: Ruth quoted in Mead, An Anthropologist at Work, 149–50.
Ruth thought about the rigidity of her own religious upbringing: Mead, An Anthropologist at Work, 150.
Ruth contemplated a future without Stanley: Ibid., 120.
For Ruth’s concerns about going into the field: Ibid., 150.
Ruth gave Margaret a $300 “no strings attached” fellowship: Howard, 59.
“Perhaps there is no accepted form”: MM to RB, April 1923, LC, S-3.
Many in the department didn’t like Margaret’s assertiveness: Howard, 50, Howard interviews, Special Collections, Columbia University.
For Esther Goldfrank’s description of Margaret: Howard interviews, Special Collections, Columbia University.
“She’s afraid you’re disappointed in her”: Luther quoted in Mead, Blackberry Winter, 131 and Lapsley, 71.
For a description of Margaret’s appearance when she walked: Mead in Blackberry Winter, 132.
On the friendship between Margaret and Ruth: Howard, 55–57.
“I say it’s the zest of youth I believe in”: Ibid., 57.
Ruth was made uncomfortable by the adulation: Banner, 220.
“I can’t bear to think of your arms”: RB to MM, Oct. 12, 1925, LC, S-4.
On what it meant to Ruth to have Edward as an ally: Modell, 125.
Ruth and Edward maintained an emotional distance between them: Mead, An Anthropologist at Work, 158.
The poets Ruth most admired were John Donne and Walt Whitman: Modell, 138–39.
“My main difficulty with this poetry”: ES to RB, Feb. 14, 1925, LC, l-90.
Edward enjoyed obsessing over the subtle nuances of words arranged in verse: Darnell, 174.
“The best way to write a poem is to give up looking for a subject”: Darnell 162.
On Edward’s ideas regarding the writing of poetry: Ibid., 161–62.
“My verse comes back with the regularity of clockwork”: ES to RB, March 24, 1924, LC, l-90.
Ruth had no intention of sharing her poetry: Mead, An Anthropologist at Work, 87.
CHAPTER 11: THE RIDEAU CANAL
“You are right in one thing. Death for myself does not seem such an evil”: ES to R
B, May 28, 1924, LC, T-3.
On Michael’s piano lessons and practicing with the metronome: Darnell, 47, 154.
On the tension between Michael and Edward regarding piano practice: Ibid., 154.
On why Edward wanted to escape Ottawa: Ibid., 160, 164–68, 189–95.
On Florence’s chronic illness and her unhappiness: Ibid., 133.
“I should have to mortgage my soul for 10 years”: Edward quoted in Darnell, 134.
For the story of how Florence attempted suicide: Barbeau, 622 F3, p. 58.
“I seem to be in very poor trim psychologically”: ES to RB, Dec 8, 1923, LC, 1–90.
Edward announced that he had been put in charge of the Anthropology Program for the British Association for the Advancement of Science: ES to RB, Feb. 22, 1924, LC, l-90.
“I’m to be the local secretary for Anthropology”: Ibid.
“We Canadians should not like to have the meeting fizzle”: Ibid.
“Maybe I shall get some Indian agent to stage a war dance”: Ibid.
“Anyway, you might think of a paper for the grand occasion”: Ibid.
“I see you’re running a typewriter”: ES to RB, March 24, 1924, LC, l-90.
“Use a typewriter for a scientific manuscript”: Ibid.
“I am old fashioned on a few things”: Ibid.
“abnormally innocent when it came to the opposite sex”: Bunny quoted in Banner, 186.
“Florence is quite right when she says of me that with all of my Bolshevistic fanfare”: ES to RB, March 1, 1924, LC, l-90.
Edward was gratified that Ruth responded to his poems: ES to RB, March 24, 1924, LC, l-90.
“Send your verse. I feel it in my bones”: ES to RB, Feb. 27, 1924, LC, T-3.
“I am delighted to hear that you are coming to Toronto”: ES to RB, March 1924, LC, T-3.
“Maugham’s book frightens me”: ES to RB, March 27, 1924, LC, S-15.
“psychologically accurate but lightweight”: ES to RB, April 16, 1924, LC, S-15.
“I wish I had a poem to send you”: ES to RB, March 24, 1924, LC, S-15.
“but not the excision the New York doctor spoke of”: Ibid.
Surgery was imminent: ES to RB, March 31, 1924, LC, S-15.
“Florence has pretty regularly recurring fever”: ES to RB, April 2, 1924, LC, S-15.
“And I have peace. The moon at harvest is”: Ruth’s poem quoted in Mead, An Anthropologist at Work, 160–61.
Ruth’s proposed topics for the conference sounded interesting: ES to RB, April 8, 1924, LC, T-3.
“I find myself at last somewhat in the mood”: Ibid.
“The next … is to remove a few ribs and collapse the lung artificially”: ES to RB, April 2, 1924, LC, S-15.
“So you see poor Florence has a great ordeal before her”: Ibid.
Florence had been given morphine to lesson the pain: Ibid.
“Florence had an operation yesterday”: Ibid.
Florence wanted to get her hair bobbed: ES to RB, May 19, 1924, LC, S-15.
“There is a mannerism of yours. An apologetic, conditional style of utterance”: ES to RB, April 2, 1924, LC, S-15.
“There. You must send more”: Ibid.
For the story of Edward using a Sarcee headdress to barter for Michael’s camp fees: Darnell, 137.
“Mrs. Sapir is still very weak and has a good deal of fever”: ES to RB, April 16, 1924, LC, S-15.
“Oh please”: ES to RB, May 19, 1924, LC, S-15.
“The operation was in vain”: ES to RB, April 24, 1924, LC, S-15.
“There’s nothing deader than the past of physical personality”: ES to RB, May 28, 1924, LC, l-90.
“Death for myself does not seem such an evil”: Ibid.
“And the most terrible part of it all for me is the steady”: ES to RB, May 19, 1924, LC, S-15.
CHAPTER 12: THEY DANCE FOR RAIN
“And now the clouds have listened to the insistent measure of the song”: Ruth quoted in Mead, An Anthropologist at Work, 222.
“I can take down folktales and interviews in shorthand”: Bunny quoted in ibid., 260.
“They make pottery there. Go with her to the pueblo”: Boas quoted in ibid., 260.
Gallup was the last civilized stop before Zuñi: Bunzel, 4–5.
Ruth and Bunny rode in an old mail wagon to Zuñi: Ibid.
For a description of the landscape they traveled through: Ibid.
For a description of what happened when they reached Zuñi: Parezo, 260.
Margaret Lewis was no longer living in the town: Ibid., 262.
“Well two days—or is it two years”: Ibid.
Bunny spent several hours a day with Catalina, Ibid., 261–62.
Ruth settled on Nick Tumaka as her primary informant: Lapsley, 107.
Nick recited the sacred stories in a singsong voice: Mead, An Anthropologist at Work, 29.
For a description of how Ruth worked: Ibid., 202–3.
Bunny called Nick “an old rascal who wants to see which way the cat jumps”: Ibid., 292.
Ruth had a great fondness for Zuñi: Ibid., 291.
“Serpents lengthening themselves over the rock”: Quoted in Modell, 172.
For a description of the Kachina ceremonies: Bunzel, 57.
“Most of my days and nights have been spent in numbness”: ES to RB, May 19, 1924, LC, S-15.
“would pay out cash”: ES to RB, June 22, 1924, LC, T-3.
For a description of the dance: Mead, An Anthropologist at Work, 222–24.
For a description of what happened when the rain started to fall: Ibid., 222.
“The song only rises a little louder”: Quoted in Mead, An Anthropologist at Work, 222.
“Through the dry glitter of the desert sea”: Edward’s poem, quoted in Mead, An Anthropologist at Work, 88.
For a description of the men returning from their harvest: Bunzel, 7.
CHAPTER 13: HER HEAD WAS SPINNING
“At present my soul won’t stop”: MM to RB, Aug. 30, 1924, LC, S-3.
Grandma taught Margaret how to peel the skin off tomatoes: Mead in Blackberry Winter, 15.
“I don’t like to think of you”: MM to RB, Aug. 30, 1924, LC, S-3.
“At present my soul won’t stop”: Ibid.
“a list in her pocketbook of stories”: MM to RB, Sept. 16, 1924, LC, T-3.
It was Margaret’s first experience as a professional, on her own, in a foreign city: Mead in Blackberry Winter, 37.
“stories about people the other had never met”: Mead, An Anthropologist at Work, 84.
Margaret met Erna Gunther, who had made an avant-garde “contract marriage” with Leslie Spier: Mead in Blackberry Winter, 124.
Margaret wanted to have a “people” of her own: Ibid.
Margaret spotted Goldie—the infamous Alexander Goldenweiser: Banner, 199.
“contain words that are unreadable by the old schoolmarms”: This exchange is quoted in Barbeau, 622 F 4, pp. 88–89.
Jung’s theories and their application to anthropology were under discussion at the conference: Banner, 228–29.
Diamond Jenness told a story about living with the Copper Inuit for a year: Jenness, 190–91.
For a description of how Margaret felt about not having chosen a field: Mead in Blackberry Winter, 124.
Margaret did not want to do her fieldwork in the American Southwest: Lapsley, 101.
“Here we are, dutifully waiting for another paper”: ES to RB, Aug. 26, 1924, LC, T-3.
Edward was under the impression that Ruth considered him a “dainty man” because he wrote poetry: Banner, 201.
“Lately my muse seems”: ES to RB, Aug. 26, 1924, LC, T-3.
Explanation of the Jungian theory of the anima and animus: Jung, 186–88;
Explanation of now the animus worked within a woman’s unconscious: Jung, 198–207.
Margaret was waiting for something to propel her to greatness in the outer world: Mead in Blackberry Winter, 109–11; Jung, 198–207.
; Margaret’s feelings about reading her paper to her more senior colleagues, including Edward Sapir: Lapsley, 101–2; Banner, 227.
For a discussion of the impact that meeting Edward Sapir had on Margaret: Mead in Blackberry Winter, 109–11.
For a discussion of same-sex relationships at all girls’ colleges: Banner, 95, 166–67.
For a discussion of Margaret’s relationship with Lee Newton: Banner, 168–69.
Margaret and Lee created a fantasy life together based on their shared love of Shakespearean gender-bending comedies: Banner, 169.
Lee assumed a character named “Peter,” while Margaret called herself “Euphemia”: Banner, 169.
“The warmest glow just raced through me”: Newton quoted in Banner, 169–70.
Margaret had doubts about whether she could be aroused by a man: Mead, Blackberry Winter, 117.
Margaret thought Edward was “the most brilliant person”: Howard, 65; Lapsley, 101.
“The meeting at Toronto was”: ES to RB, Aug. 23, 1924, LC, T-3.
“She is an astonishingly acute thinker”: Ibid.
“This morning’s mail brought your letter along”: MM to RB, Sept. 8, 1924, LC, T-3.
CHAPTER 14: GUARDIAN ANGEL
“Dear George: I shall instruct all Navy personnel under my command”: Rear Admiral Stitt to Dr. George Cressman, quoted in Cressman, 114.
Luther often had to guess who was using the bedroom: Howard interview, Special Collections, Columbia University.
Margaret and Luther often loaned their apartment out for trysts: Howard, 63.
Margaret believed in supporting her friends in their attempts to find love: Ibid.
Luther tried to be considerate of the lovers in the bedroom: Howard interview, Special Collections, Columbia University.
Margaret was interested in doing her fieldwork in the South Seas: Howard, 65.
“I was now escaped out of the shadow of the Roman Empire”: Stevenson, 9.
“probably the part of the world which most urgently needs ethnological investigation”: Haddon quoted in Howard, 65.
“the primitive cultures that would soon become changed beyond recovery”: Mead in Blackberry Winter, 127.
Louise Rosenblatt had nicknamed Luther “Margaret’s guardian angel”: Mead in Blackberry Winter, 122; LR to MM, 1923, LC, C-1.
“another one of these affairs, that start out like firecrackers on the Fourth of July”: Luther quoted in Howard, 66.
From Margaret’s perspective, Boas seemed very old: Mead in Blackberry Winter, 127.