“Dear one … All I can write is that I love you”: Ibid.
Ruth sensed an undercurrent in Margaret’s letters that didn’t “smell right”: RB to MM, June 30, 1926, LC, S-5.
Luther made Margaret feel safe: Howard interview with Luther Cressman, Special Collections, Columbia University.
“Letters from your sailing and landings came today”: MM to RB, July 7, 1926, LC, S-3.
CHAPTER 27: A HOPELESS MUDDLE
“It’s my punishment that I can never”: MM to RB, July 15, 1926, LC, S-3.
“I am in trouble everywhere”: RF to MM, Oct. 7 and Oct. 9, 1926, LC, R-4.
“The war was over”: MM to RB, July 7, 1926, LC, S-3.
“Margaret I am lonely for you, more than everything I am alone…”: RF to MM, Oct. 9, 1926, LC, R-4.
“These last days have passed in a whirl of teapots, saucers, tutors and strange meetings”: RF to MM, Oct. 12, 1926, LC, R-4.
Margaret went to the Galeries Lafayette to buy a wedding dress that she could send to Fa’amotu: Lapsley, 153.
While in Carcossonne, Margaret chose Luther over Reo: MM to RB, July 7, 1926, LC, S-3.
For a discussion of what happened when Margaret told Luther that Reo was going to visit her in Paris: Cressman, 178.
“It seems just the final straw that I should have hurt you”: MM to RB, July 15, 1926, LC, S-3.
“I’d had his letters which were filled with an unclouded joy over my return”: Ibid.
“All the various accusations which Edward made were still fermenting”: Ibid.
“Then I’d planned to work and found I couldn’t”: Ibid.
“Isn’t it unbearable that all of this is about nothing?”: Ruth quoted in Howard, 100.
“If you got my letters from Australia”: MM to RB, July 15, 1926, LC, S-3.
“I understood the mood”: RB to MM, July 7, 1926, LC, S-5.
“He is a very clean-cut, essentially simple person”: MM to RB, July 15, 1926, LC, S-3.
“Now that I know I imagine I should have understood from the London letters”: RB to MM, Aug. 2, 1926, LC, S-5.
“Everything was just the surface misery of an essential happiness”: Ibid.
“It’s my punishment that I can never”: MM to RB, July 15, 1926, LC, S-3.
“I’ve such a sense of having no right to this happiness that I fight it off with both hands”: MM to RB, July 15, 1926, LC, S-3.
“That was a vile adieu yesterday”: RB to MM, Aug. 26, 1926, LC, S-5.
“Yes, I love you my dear”: RB to MM, Sept. 3, 1926, LC, S-5.
“Take it on faith”: RB to MM, Sept. 1, 1926, LC, S-5.
In the Hôtel d’Angleterre a description of what Luther did when a “tall good-looking young lad” stepped up beside him: Cressman, 178–79.
When Luther returned to the hotel he bounded up the stairs: Ibid., 179.
Luther decided not to mention that he’d seen Margaret embracing Reo: Ibid.
Luther suggested that Margaret invite Reo to the dinner party they were giving for their friends who were visiting Paris: Ibid.
Luther planned to return to New York earlier than expected: Ibid., 181.
Luther reserved a second-class cabin for himself on the SS George Washington: Ibid.
Margaret confided that if she were to meet Reo in London, she would need a contraceptive device: Ibid., 180.
For Luther’s theory about giving Margaret the freedom to choose: Cressman, 180.
For Luther’s feelings about leaving Margaret behind in Paris: Ibid.
Margaret told Luther she was still torn about what to do and asked him for advice: Howard, 99.
For a discussion of Margaret’s profound confusion about her life when Luther bid her farewell at the train station: Ibid., Howard, 99.
EPILOGUE
Margaret found ways to widen the audience for her report on adolescence in Samoa: Howard, 105.
“She isn’t planning to be the best anthropologist”: Howard, 111.
During the summer of 1928, Margaret traveled to Hermosillo, Mexico, where she filed for divorce from Luther Cressman: Ibid.
After her divorce, Margaret joined Reo: Ibid., 106.
“As the dawn begins to fall among the soft brown roofs”: Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa, 12.
A. C. Haddon considered Margaret’s report about life in Samoa to be worthy of a “lady novelist”: Howard, 124.
Mead’s last partner was the anthropologist Rhoda Métraux: Caffrey and Frances, xxix, 171–72.
Margaret Mead died of pancreatic cancer in 1978: Howard, 424–25.
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INDEX
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Abbott, Helen Page
Adams, Léonie
at Barnard College
letter from
adventure literature
affairs. See love affairs
American Anthropologist (journal)
American Museum of Natural History
assistant curator at
Benedict, R. F., at
ethnology at
expeditions
Plains Indian Hall
American Samoa. See also sexual conduct, of girls in American Samoa
Atauloma
ceremonial dance
culture in
en route to
food
group “bulletins” from
letters in
Luma
NRC financing in
Ofu, Manu’a
Olosega, Manu’a
Pago Pago, Tutuila
physical chastity in
politics and
preparations
Protestant missionaries on
Ta’u, Manu’a
U.S. Navy in
Vaitogi
virginity in
Andrews, Roy Chapman
anthropology. See also American Samoa
at Barnard College
Benedict, R. F., and
Boas, F., and
celebrities in
at Columbia University
goals
Sapir, E., and
Zuñi community
anti-Semitism
Boas, F., with
Sapir, E., with
Aquinas, Thomas
“Ariel” (Sapir, E.)
arms, painful
Ash Can Cats
Atauloma, American Samoa
Atauloma Boarding School for Girls of the London Missionary Society
At-Home Card, for women
Bank of American Samoa
Barbeau, Marius
with anti-Semitic remarks
Barbellion, W. N. P.
bark cloth (tapa) dresses
Barnard College
anthropology at
debate team
friendships at
Bateson, Gregory (third husband)
Bateson, Mary Catherine (daughter)
Battle of the Somme
Benedict, Ruth Fulton
at American Museum of Natural History
anthropology and
Boas, F., with letter to
Boas, F., with letters from
childhood
Goddard and
influence of
journal entries
letters from
letters to
love affair with
married life
New Mexico and
poetry and
relationship with
Sapir, E., and
Sapir, E., with letters to
sex with
sexual attraction and
on women
Benedict, Stanley
jealousy and
married life
Berlin Opera
Bishop Museum
black face
Blackfoot tribe
Blake, William
Bloomfield, Leonard
Bloomfield, Marie
at Barnard College
suicide of
Boas, Ernst
Boas, Franz
anthropology and
with anti-Semitism
Benedict, R. F., with letter from
Benedict, R. F., with letters to
Bunzel with letter to
ethnography and
influence of
letter from
letter to
as professor
Sapir, E., and
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