Gertrud Boas died in October of 1924: Boas, 228; Mead, An Anthropologist at Work, 347.
Gertrud died at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx: Boas, 228.
For a description of the trip that Boas made to Baffin Island: Cole, 65–82.
For an explanation of why Boas refused to let Margaret go to Tuamotu: Howard, 70, Mead in Blackberry Winter, 129–30.
Boas told Margaret about the young men who had died or been killed doing fieldwork outside the United States: Ibid., 128.
Boas advised Margaret to take on a study of something that she’d lived through: Howard, 67.
In regard to the nature-nurture debate, Boas had published an article urging the National Research Council (NRC) to fund a study of an American Indian community: Freeman, 45.
For a discussion of how Boas viewed the phase of life called adolescence: Ibid., 68.
For a discussion of the nature-nurture debate: Ibid, 26.
“in the great mass of a healthy population”: Boas quoted in Ibid.
“should behave like a liberal, democratic, modern man”: Mead in Blackberry Winter, 129.
Before Boas suggested studying teenagers, Margaret had never given any thought to adolescence: Howard, 67.
Boas thought American Samoa might be safe: Ibid., 70.
“My new address, is rather a nice horse-hair-and-black-walnut kind of address”: Bogan, 21.
“My entire exchequer is being ruined by visits to the dentist”: Ibid.
For Edward’s thoughts regarding the music of Sibelius: Howard, 66.
Luther felt the others had been condescending: Ibid.
“the tensions, indefinite as to cause perhaps a feeling of not communicating”: Cressman, 129.
Luther told his father that Margaret wanted to do her fieldwork in the South Seas: Ibid., 114.
Luther told his father that Boas had suggested American Samoa because it was safe: Howard, 69–70.
Luther’s father came up with the idea of contacting his old friend Edward Stitt, the surgeon general of the U.S. Navy: Cressman, 114.
Luther encouraged his father to contact Stitt to help Margaret: Ibid.
CHAPTER 15: THE OLD KING MUST DIE
“I am very eager not to take a false step”: Edward quoted in Darnell, 196.
“It is high time I got on to a university job”: Ibid., 192.
Edward was searching for a teaching position so he could escape Ottawa: Ibid., 193.
Securing a job at U.C. Berkeley was not possible: Ibid., 192.
Roland Dixon at Harvard couldn’t promise a position in linguistics: Ibid., 193.
After Boas retired, the departments of Anthropology and Sociology at Columbia might be combined: Ibid.
Edward had to be careful about seeming too eager for Boas to retire: Ibid., 200.
“I have just received word from Nelson in which he states”: ES to RB, Jan. 28, 1925, LC, S-15.
Ruth mailed the obituary from The New York Times: Obituary of Heinrich Boas, New York Times, Jan. 25, 1925.
“So you see teaching as the solution to your problems?”: Boas quoted in Ibid., 192.
“I should give so much to be in contact with people”: Edward quoted in Ibid., 194–95.
“I can appreciate your feeling that you lack congenial people: Boas quoted in Ibid., 194.
Boas offered Edward a position teaching two summer school classes at Columbia: Ibid., 195.
“I wrote Margaret yesterday and decided to tell her gently but frankly”: ES to RB, Feb. 24, 1925, LC, T-3.
For Edward’s reaction to Margaret: ES to RB, April 15, 1925, LC, T-3.
Margaret gave Edward a copy of The Growth of the Mind by Kurt Koffka: Mead in Blackberry Winter, 125.
“What forces shape personality, what forces determine behavior”: Mead, An Anthropologist at Work, 201.
Margaret said that it was she who initiated the relationship with Edward: MM to RB, Sept 3, 1928, in Caffrey and Francis, 142.
Margaret and Edward were both interested in finding cultural patterns: Banner, 227; Mead, An Anthropologist at Work, 204.
Margaret thought Edward would respond to Koffka: Mead in Blackberry Winter, 125.
“I’ve been reading Koffka’s ‘Growth of the Mind’ (Margaret’s copy)”: ES to RB, April 15, 1925, LC, T-3.
“If somebody with an icy grin doesn’t come around to temper my low fever”: ES to RB, April 15, 1925, LC, T-3.
“How is Margaret? It’s too bad she has such a frightful time”: ES to RB, April 15, 1925, LC, T-3.
“Until I actually get a black and white offer”: Edward quoted in Darnell, 198.
CHAPTER 16: A SECOND HONEYMOON
“All competing affairs had been laid aside”: Cressman, 130.
Aunt Fannie thought Margaret and Luther needed some special time together: Howard, 72.
“a second and true honeymoon”: Cressman, 130.
“One of these clear northwest wind days we drove up through the White Mountains”: RB to MM, July 11, 1925, LC. S-4.
For Ruth’s attitude about Stanley: Mead, An Anthropologist at Work, 5.
“he always needs much waiting on when he’s packing up for the summer”: RB to MM, June 25, 1925, LC, S-4.
Margaret felt it was well worth the 370-mile detour to fill in this missing piece of Ruth’s life: Ibid.
Ruth warned that West Alton was isolated: Ibid.
Telegrams were not delivered “unless they contain the words death or died.” Ibid.
“You can put away your Blue Book when you strike the New Hampshire line”: Ibid.
“I’d have been more lonely than you’d have guessed if you’d decided against coming”: Ibid.
“Stanley has been immersed in Canadian Pacific literature”: RB to MM, July 3, 1925, LC, S-4.
“He’d never have started if I’d been here to stay on with all summer”: Ibid.
Stanley devised a plan so Ruth and Margaret could travel together by train across the country: Ibid.
“I’m to meet him in Cincinnati and travel with him across country”: Ibid.
For Ruth’s explanation about how she and Goddard had planned to travel together: Ibid.
“It’s his contribution that in due time I write Goddard”: Ibid.
Ruth took Margaret and Luther on her favorite walk: RB to MM, June 17, 1925, LC, S-4.
“How is Elizabeth? My mind has been so full of her lately”: RB to MM, July 7, 1925, LC, S-4.
“They’ve consulted a specialist near Pittsfield”: MM to RB, July 5, 1925, LC, S-3.
“I wonder when you’ll have any conclusive word”: RB to MM, July 7, 1925, LC, S-4.
“Stanley is inspired. His scheme is unequaled”: MM to RB, July 16, 1925, LC, S-3.
“Stanley is a born crook politician”: MM to RB, July 7, 1925, LC, S-3.
“It’s an excellent scheme to get Goddard’s plans”: Ibid.
“He wants to be sure I need him”: Ibid.
“I find myself trying to break all the threads that bind me to this life”: Ibid.
“I don’t know why, but you always seem to sympathize with my obscure vagaries”: MM to RB, Oct. 14, 1925, LC, S-3.
Lately Margaret’s feeling of self-sufficiency had gone to pieces: MM to RB, July 11, 1925, LC, S-3.
Edward was a “a convenient personification” of all Ruth’s interests apart from him: RB to MM, Nov. 5, 1925, LC, S-4.
“he always believes that whenever we’re separated awhile”: Ibid.
For a discussion of the sexual relationship between Margaret and Ruth: Lapsley, 93–96.
“It seems absurd to keep secrets from him anyway”: MM to RB, July 9, 1925, LC, S-3.
“I worry so about you. Do the arms still shriek?”: RB to MM, July 11, 1925, LC, S-4.
“It’s my curse, I suppose, but to me it seems perfectly natural”: MM to RB, July 15, 1925, LC, S-3.
“I’m beginning to think that I’m incapable”: Special Collections, Columbia University.
“Luther is a perfect husban
d”: RB to MM, Nov. 5, 1925, LC, S-4.
“He, like Stanley, provides comfortable companionship”: Ibid.
Ruth wanted Margaret to realize that being married to Luther was critical to her happiness: RB to MM, Aug. 11, 1925, LC, S-4,
Ambition was Margaret’s strongest impulse, the motivating force in her life: Cressman, 131.
Ruth knew it was necessary for Margaret to pursue her career: Lapsley, 93.
“you’re fortunate to have a husband like Luther”: RB to MM, Nov. 5, 1925, LC, S-4; RB to MM, Aug. 11, 1925, LC, S-4.
“Be true to your instincts, dear, and drink sharply from them”: RB to MM, Aug. 6, 1925, LC, R-7.
On the visit to the pond: Howard interview with Luther, Special Collections, Columbia University.
“Elizabeth’s a little better and the Doctor says there are no ‘positive sounds’ in her chest”: MM to RB, July 7, 1925, LC, S-3.
“… all this should be hearty prelude to a proper expression of our gratitude for your hospitality”: MM to RB, July 1, 1925, LC, S-3.
“Enclosed you will find the result of several hours intensive examination of all known time tables”: MM to RB, July 5, 1925, LC, S-3.
“Will you check your preference and send it back so I can put it through, please”: Ibid.
“Does it mean we go all the way together?”: RB to MM, July 7, 1925, LC, S-4.
“… then I’ll telegraph him after we’re started”: RB to MM, July 11, 1925, LC, S-4.
“You see how I’m taking care of myself?”: MM to RB, July 16, 1925, LC, S-3.
Margaret felt free to leave for Samoa without worry or guilt: Ibid.
CHAPTER 17: ARIEL
“Of the heedless sun you are an Ariel”: Edward quoted in Mead, An Anthropologist at Work, 88.
“We call this Rabbit Run”: Mead in Blackberry Winter, 74.
“I’m not buoyantly pleased about it, yet not depressed”: ES to RB, June 22, 1925, LC, l-90.
“For years I’d been placing my hopes in Columbia and Boas”: Ibid.
“I suspect Boas merely goes through a few innocent motions”: Ibid.
“I decided there was no use waiting any longer”: Ibid.
“You and Ruth would have been my chief reason for preferring New York”: Ibid.
“Once this farm had over a hundred acres planted in wheat and rye and oats”: Mead, Blackberry Winter, 74–75.
As a child, Margaret and her mother sometimes served their farmhands their midday meal: Ibid.
Sherwood Mead was known to be disinterested in the running of the farm: Ibid., 30–31.
For a description of the pigeon lofts: Ibid.,74–75.
“This haymow floor was just the right height for giving plays”: Ibid.
“Sometimes you’re like a child. An absurd little girl”: ES to RB, Sept. 1, 1925, LC, S-15.
For a discussion of how Luther and Margaret viewed the institution of marriage: Cressman, 87–88.
Margaret’s mother discovered Margaret and Edward making love in the barn when she went there to call them for dinner: Lapsley, 119.
Edward was aware of the many obstacles that stood in the way of his relationship with Margaret: ES to RB, Aug. 5, 1925, LC, S-15.
“Find a reason to come into the city for a day”: ES to RB, Aug. 11, 1925, LC, S-15.
At first Margaret told Edward that it was impossible for her to meet him in the city: Ibid.
“I love you beyond words”: Ibid.
“Perhaps I’ll hear today about the weekend”: RB to MM, July 15, 1925, LC, S-4.
“Sapir’s visit was most delightful”:” MM to RB, July 7, 1925, LC, S-3.
Ruth was anxious to talk to Edward to find out what had really happened on the farm: Lapsley, 123.
Edward did not sense that Margaret was concerned with the practicality of their affair: ES to RB, Aug. 5, 1925, LC, S-15.
“Of the heedless sun you are an Ariel”: Edward quoted in Mead, An Anthropologist at Work, 88.
Margaret told Edward that she had decided to meet him in the city: ES to RB, Aug. 11, 1925, LC, S-15.
Margaret said that she had the perfect excuse for going into the city: Ibid.; Lapsley, 119.
Margaret told Edward to book a room at a hotel for them: ES to RB, Aug. 11, 1925, LC, S-15; Lapsley, 119.
Edward was unable to think about anything except his assignation with Margaret: ES to RB, July 18, 1925, LC, T-3.
Margaret had reawakened Edward’s “capacity to love which he thought had died for all time”: ES to RB, Jan. 26, 1926, LC, S-15.
“It’s easy to blame everything on sex differences”: MM to RB, July 7, 1925, LC, S-3.
“Well, there is a situation I’d like to speak to you about, if I may”: ES to RB, July 17, 1925, LC, l-90.
Edward questioned why Margaret was going to Samoa, Ibid.
“It’s the latent neurotic situation”: Ibid.
“Don’t you think you should do something to stop this whole infernal business”: Ibid.
“I communicated my uneasiness to Boas today”: Ibid.
“Sapir had a long talk with me about Margaret Mead”: FB to RB, July 18, 1925, An Anthropologist at Work, 288.
“I shall kidnap you some day and subject you to full TB regimen”: RB to MM, July 11, 1925, LC, S-4.
“All these things that have alarmed Sapir I have known for a long time”: RB to FB, July 16, 1925, An Anthropologist at Work, 290.
“She has written me about the offer of the museum for next year”: Ibid.
“I credit her with a great deal of common sense”: Ibid.
“I’m sorry you’re going with Goddard”: ES to RB, Aug. 23, 1924, LC, T-3.
“Of course Elizabeth is wonderful. A regular Saint of the Primitives”: Ibid.
“I am reserving Tuesday, the 28th, for you”: Ibid.
CHAPTER 18: HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA
“Margaret, we must have a little child together someday: ES to RB, Aug. 11, 1925, LC, S-15.
“I feel it in my bones that you should refuse that offer”: Ibid.
“You would be opposed to anything Goddard had to say”: Ibid.; MM to RB, July 16, 1925, LC, S-3.
“I think you left your razor strap at my parents’ house”: MM to RB, Dec. 13, 1925, LC, R-6.
“My mother told me ‘Dr. Sapir’ left something here”: Ibid.
“Margaret, we must have a little child together someday”: ES to RB, Aug. 11, 1925, LC, S-15.
“In or out of wedlock. I just feel the mystical necessity”: Ibid.
According to Edward, Margaret said that that she wanted to have a child with him: Ibid.
Margaret called Edward, “My beloved”: Ibid.
“Are you happy? Is the nervous tension lessened?”: Ibid.
Margaret told Edward that her nervous tension had lessened: Ibid.
“Why do we have to do anything about Luther?”: ES to RB, Aug. 5, 1925, LC, S-15.
“She lives intensely in the outer world and it will all mean a great deal to her”: ES to RB, May 2, 1925, LC, l-90.
“Margaret’s younger sister Elizabeth is wonderful”: ES to RB, Aug. 23, 1924, LC, T-3.
“Whatever did you mean, Margaret seemed ‘so much bigger’ there?”: Ibid.
“what exactly is Margaret’s attitude toward Luther?”: ES to RB, Aug. 5, 1925, LC, S-15.
“Margaret and I are lovers. No doubt she will tell you”: Lapsley, 122; ES to RB, Aug. 11, 1925, LC, S-15.
“She gave herself completely. She was completely happy”: ES to RB, Aug. 11, 1925, LC, S-15.
“I even called her ‘little wife,’ once or twice”: Ibid.
“I don’t understand, though. Just what is her relationship with Luther?”: ES to RB, Sept. 1, 1925, LC, S-15.
“I do not believe in the love of Luther and Margaret”: Ibid.
“I’m afraid my bewilderment, fear for her, and aching desire for her presence”: ES to RB, Aug. 8, 1925, LC, S-15.
“Tell me what to do, Ruth”: ES to RB, Aug. 11, 1925, LC, S-15.
; Ruth called the day she found out that Margaret and Edward were lovers “the worst day of my life”: Lapsley, 122.
Margaret knew that Ruth had strong romantic feelings about Edward: Ibid., 122–23.
Ruth had an overwhelmingly strong sexual desire for Margaret: Ibid.
Ruth yearned for a physical relationship with Margaret: Ibid., 123.
Edward wanted to take Margaret away from Luther. He even wanted to persuade Margaret to leave New York City: ES to RB, Aug. 18, 1925, LC, S-15.
Ruth had to make Margaret realize that that Edward’s plans for her were wrong: RB to MM, Nov. 5, 1925, LC, S-4.
“Believe me I shall be well-informed about the exact moment”: RB to MM, July 25, 1925, LC, S-4.
Margaret had arranged with a friend in Cincinnati to send Goddard a telegram in Ruth’s name: Ibid.
“Have cancelled Santa Fe reservations”: Ibid.
Edward was so possessive that he would put restrictions on Margaret: RB to MM, Nov. 5, 1925, LC, S-4.
If Margaret was with Edward, that would put an end to the relationship Ruth had with Margaret: RB to MM, Aug. 1, 1925, LC, S-4.
Luther and the Meads took Margaret to the train station: Cressman, 131.
“You’re hitching your wagon to a star”: Ibid.
“You will meet her in Marseilles next spring, Luther?”: Ibid.
“You made my visit so pleasant with all the somberness that overhung”: LC to EM, July 26, 1225, LC, R-6.
Edward Sapir, with his ardent lovemaking and frantic attempts to stop her was not going to succeed: RB to MM, Aug. 11, 1925, LC, S-4; RB to MM, Sept. 25, 1925, LC, R-7.
Edward couldn’t remember the name he used to check into the hotel: Howard, 67.
The hotel clerk looked up Edward’s room number: Ibid.
“don’t think of it as a cultural symbol; those symbols are meaningless to me”: ES to RB, Aug. 8, 1925, LC, S-15.
“It’s meant to say that I’m giving you all the love that had once been Florence’s”: Ibid.
“Another interesting problem is that of crushes among girls”: FB to MM, July 14, 1925, in Freeman, Fateful Hoaxing, 219–20.
CHAPTER 19: A NEED FOR SECRECY
“Ruth … was the most impressed by the effort of the river to hide”: MM to MRM, Aug. 3, 1925, LC, A-17.
Margaret and Ruth took the train trip together: Ibid.
Margaret knew that Ruth was upset and expected a scene: Lapsley, 122–24.
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