by Susan Hertog
41 Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, op. cit., and L. Clark Seelye, op. cit.
42 BMAU, AML letter to DWM, 1/9/26, p. 25.
43 BMAU, AML letter to ECM, 3/5/27, p. 61.
44 Ibid., 11/4/26, p. 54.
45 Interview with Marilyn Bender; Mina Kirstein Curtiss obituaries, diaries, and papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Archives.
46 Anne Morrow, “Caprice,” Smith College Monthly, October 1926.
4. A REBEL AT LAST
1 BMAU, AML diary, February 1928, pp. 106–107.
2 Lydiard H. Horton, “On College Disappearances: The Analysis of a Case,” New England Journal of Medicine, December 5, 1929, vol. 201, no. 23, pp. 1155–1163.
3 BMAU, AML diary, February 1928, p. 106.
4 Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.
5 BMAU, AML diary, January 1928, p. 103.
6 NYT, 1/2/28, 27:5, “Extols Lindbergh as Good-Will Envoy.”
7 Ibid., 2/14/28, 2:2, “Lindbergh Flew 9060 Miles.”
8 CAL, Autobiography of Values, p. 90.
9 NYT, 1/25/28, 9:3, “Plan Lindbergh Holiday.”
10 Ibid., 2/9/28, “Senate Authorizes Lindbergh Medal.”
11 BMAU, AML diary, February 1928, p. 107.
12 Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
13 Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
14 BMAU, AML diary, Feb. 1928, pp. 108–109.
15 Ibid., pp. 109–110.
16 Ibid., 3/1/28, p. 114.
17 Ibid., 3/18/28, pp. 119–120.
18 Ibid., 3/1/28, p. 115.
19 Ibid., “April—still,” p. 142.
20 Elizabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.
21 NYT, 3/2/28, “Col. Lindbergh Sees Mother Honored.”
22 Ibid., 3/28/28, “Letters to the Times: Letting the Colonel Rest.”
23 Ibid., 3/18/28, “Army Finds Col. Lindbergh in Perfect Health; Flier Says This Answers ‘Breakdown’ Reports.”
24 Ibid., 3/25/28, “Lindbergh Weary of the Limelight but Won’t Retire.”
25 Ibid., 2/14/29, “Tell of Lindbergh Shyness.”
26 CAL, Autobiography of Values, p. 122.
27 BMAU, AML diary, “Boston,” pp. 155–156, 159.
28 Ibid., June 1928, pp. 163–164.
29 Interview with Reeve Lindbergh Tripp.
30 Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
31 BMAU, AML diary, 3/18/28, p. 118.
32 Ibid., 3/26/28 through 4/5/28, pp. 124–134.
33 Ibid., 4/8/28, p. 137.
34 Elisabeth Morrow letters to Connie Chilton, 1925–1934; interview with Anne McGavrin.
35 Constance Morrow Morgan, op. cit., pp. 111–113.
36 Interview with Anne McGavrin.
37 BMAU, AML diary, “Cuernavaca,” pp. 130–134.
38 Ibid., June 1928, p. 161.
39 Ibid., “3–11:30 in Laredo,” p. 136.
40 Ibid., “After a reading at Smith College,” p. 140.
41 Ibid., 5/3/28, pp. 145–147.
42 Information on Dwight Morrow’s career in Mexico is based on Ronald Steel, op. cit., pp. 236–244, and Ron Chernow, op. cit., pp. 287–301.
43 Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
44 Ronald Steel, op. cit., p. 242.
45 NYT, 3/31/28, “Will Rogers Suggests Morrow as Candidate.”
46 BMAU, June 1928, pp. 160–161.
47 Morrow Family Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Library.
48 Ibid.
49 BMAU, AML diary, “Boston,” pp. 157–158.
50 NYT, 2/18/28, 6:4, and 4/2/28, 26:3.
51 BMAU, AML diary, 7/13/28, p. 168.
52 CAL, Autobiography of Values, p. 123.
53 BMAU, AML diary, “Englewood, Wednesday Morning,” p. 175.
54 Ibid.
55 BMAU, AML diary, “Evening,” p. 179–180.
56 Ibid., p. 180.
57 BMAU, AML letter to CCM, 10/12/28, p. 181.
58 Ibid., p. 183.
59 Ibid., p. 182.
60 Ibid., p. 185.
61 Ibid., p. 186.
62 BMAU, AML diary, “Evening,” p. 180.
63 Interview with Margot Wilkie.
64 BMAU, AML letter to CCM, 10/12/28, p. 181.
65 Ibid., p. 203.
66 Ibid., p. 188.
67 Ibid., pp. 189–195.
68 Ibid., 11/28, pp. 213–215.
69 Ibid., p. 214.
70 Ibid.
71 Interview with AML.
72 BMAU, AML letters to CCM, 10/27/28, p. 207, and 11/28, p. 214.
73 BMAU, AML letters to ERM, 10/26/28, p. 206, and 11/28, p. 219.
74 BMAU, AML letter to ERM, 11/28, p. 219.
75 BMAU, AML letter to CCM, 11/28, p. 214.
5. PRESENTIMENT
1 AML, The Unicorn and Other Poems, p. 77.
2 Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Diaries, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
3 Ibid.
4 Ibid.
5 Their house in Cuernavaca was named Casa Manana.
6 NYT, 1/1/29, “D. W. Morrows Hosts.”
7 Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Connie Chilton, 1925–1934.
8 Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Diaries, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
9 AML letter to James Newton, Feb. 1942, in James Newton, Uncommon Friends, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1987, pp. 256–257.
10 All around Anne convention prevailed. The “new woman” of the 1920s was not like her mother’s generation, restless with rebellion and social defiance. In the wake of suffrage was a sudden realization that the reins of power had not changed. Women did not vote in large numbers nor did they form the political blocs anticipated by those who had fought for suffrage. While women enrolled in universities and joined the workplace in unprecedented numbers after the war, the demographics of marriage had changed. By the end of the 1920s, the marriage rate among educated women had doubled, and the task of balancing marriage and career became an identifiable social problem. (See Nancy Woloch, Women and the American Experience, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996, pp. 241–279.) In 1925, when Anne was a freshman at Smith, the college opened the Institute for the Coordination of Women’s Interests, resolving to ameliorate the “intolerable choice between career and home,” but the institute folded. The experts concluded that women had no choice, given the prevailing social prejudice. (See Dolores Hayden, The Grand Domestic Revolution: A History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighborhoods, and Cities, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, pp. 266–277, and C. Todd Stephenson, “Integrating the Carol Kennicotts,” in Journal of Women’s History, 1992, vol. 4, no. 1 [Spring], pp. 89–113.) Even though Anne’s contemporaries at Smith were preparing for a life of professional and financial independence, most would sacrifice their careers for the security of home and family within three years after graduation. (Alumnae Association of Smith College, Alumnae Biographical Register, 1935, Smith College Archives, pp. 338–357.)
11 BMAU, AML letter to CCM, 10/26/28, p. 199.
12 Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Connie Chilton, 1925–1934.
13 Ibid.
14 NYT, 1/31/29, “Hoover’s Cabinet Viewed as Formed.”
15 Endicott Peabody letter to Dwight Morrow, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
16 NYT, 1/30/29, “Dwight W. Morrow at Stockbridge.”
17 Ibid.
18 AML letter to Jim Newton, February 1942, in James Newton, op. cit., pp. 256–257.
19 BMAU, AML letter to Corliss Lamont, undated, pp. 227–228.
20 NYT, 2/13/29, “Col. Lindbergh Betrothed to Miss Anne S. Morrow; Lands in Cuba after Delay.”
21 Ibid.
22 NYT, 2/14/29, “Tell of Lindbergh Shyness.”
23 Ibid., “Comments on Engagement.”
24 NYT 2/13/29, “Col. Lindbergh Betrothed to Miss Anne S. Morrow; Lands in Cuba After Delay.”
25
Ibid., 2/17/29, “Miss Morrow Gained Honors in College.”
26 Ibid.
27 Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Connie Chilton, 1925–1934.
28 NYT, 2/25/29, “Flies from Eagle Pass,” and 2/26/29, “Have Yet to Decide on Plans.”
6. THE MERMAID’S BARGAIN
1 AML, The Unicorn and Other Poems, p. 11.
2 HGHL, AML letter to CAL, 2/14/29, p. 17.
3 HGHL, introduction, p. 6.
4 HGHL, AML letter to CAL, 4/18/29, p. 36.
5 Interview with AML.
6 Interview with AML.
7 Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Diaries, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
8 Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.
9 HGHL, AML letter to CCM, 3/8/29, pp. 18–20.
10 Ibid., p. 20.
11 NYT, 2/28/29, “Lindbergh Hurt, Fiancee Safe in Crash as He Lands Broken Plane in Mexico City; Shoulder Dislocated, Makes Light of It.”
12 Ibid.
13 Both Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his father, Charles August Lindbergh, were named after Charles XIV, King of Sweden. Ola Månnson renamed himself August, meaning “of majestic dignity or grandeur,” and Louise designated it as their baby’s middle name.
14 NYT, 3/1/29, “Lindbergh Takes up Fiancée Three Times Despite His Injuries.”
15 Ibid., letter to the editor from Will Rogers, 2/28/29.
16 Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Diaries, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
17 Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.
18 Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Diaries, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
19 HGHL, AML letter to CCM, 3/14/29, p. 23.
20 HGHL, AML letter to CAL, 3/15/29–3/17/29, pp. 25–28.
21 “Consolation” from the musical comedy the Golden Dawn, lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein; music by Emmerich Kalman and Herbert Stothart,© 1927.
22 Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.
23 HGHL, AML letter to CAL, 3/29/29, p. 33.
24 Ibid., 3/27/29, p. 32.
25 Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.
26 Ibid.
27 HGHL, AML letter to ECM, early May 1929, pp. 39–40.
28 HGHL, AML letter to CAL, 4/18/29, p. 35.
29 Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.
30 Ibid.
31 Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Diaries, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
32 Ibid.
33 Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.
34 Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Diaries, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
35 Ibid.
36 Morrow Family Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Library.
37 HGHL, AML letter to ECM, 5/27/29, p. 41.
38 Ibid.
39 Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Diaries, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
40 HGHL, AML letter to ECM, 5/27/29, p. 40.
7. HONEYMOON POLITICS
1 NYT, 5/28/29, “Colonel Lindbergh Weds Anne Morrow in Her Home; May Fly on Honeymoon.”
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.
5 Saturday Evening Post, 8/3/29, “Lindbergh and the Press,” by Julian S. Mason.
6 New Republic, 6/22/29, “The High Cost of Fame.”
7 HGHL, AML letter to ECM, 5/31/29, p. 42.
8 Ibid., pp. 43–44.
9 Interview with Kaetchen Smith Coley, 5/25/85.
10 Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.
11 Ibid.
12 Bernard Spodek, ed., Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children, New York: Macmillan, 1993, pp. 1–6, 91–97.
13 HGHL, AML letter to ECM, 6/7/29, pp. 44–45.
14 Ibid., 6/18/29, p. 46.
15 Ibid., 6/28/29, pp. 50–51.
16 Interview with AML, 8/30/88.
17 HGHL, AML letter to ERM, 7/2/29, p. 52.
18 Ibid., p. 53.
19 HGHL, AML letter to CCM, 7/8/29, pp. 56–57.
20 Ibid., 7/4/29, p. 55.
21 Ibid., 7/9/29, p. 59.
22 HGHL, AML letter to ECM, 7/13/29, p. 62.
23 HGHL, AML letter to CCM, 8/6/29, pp. 67–68.
24 HGHL, AML letter to ERM, 8/13/29, p. 69.
25 Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Diaries, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
26 NYT, 8/20/29, “Lindbergh Instructs Bride in Rudiments of Flying;” NYT 8/25/29, “Mrs. Lindbergh Flies 3 3-4 Hours.”
27 NYT, 8/24/29, “Mrs. Lindbergh Makes Her First Solo Flight; Colonel Smiles Broadly as Pupil Takes Off.”
28 Elizabeth Cutter Morrow diary, Dwight Morrow papers, Amherst College Archives.
29 Interview with AML.
30 NYT, 9/3/29, “Lindberghs Fly Back East.”
31 HGHL, AML letter to ECM, 8/26/29 (“Thursday”), p. 73.
8. THE ODYSSEY
1 Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934. In fact, Anne and Charles arrived in North Haven in a dual-controlled Kemo aero-marine monoplane. It was not surprising, considering their eagerness to return home, that the Lindberghs set a new speed record on their flight from St. Louis: 905 miles in five hours and twenty-one minutes.
2 Roger G. Reed, Summering on the Thoroughfare: The Architecture of North Haven, 1885–1945, Portland, Maine: Maine Citizens for Historic Preservation, 1993; Norwood P. Beveridge, The North Island, Early Times to Yesterday, North Haven, Maine: North Haven Historical Society, 1976.
3 Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Diaries, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
4 Ibid., 9/12/29.
5 Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.
6 NYT, 9/17/29, “Lindberghs Fly Tomorrow on 7,000-mile Trip; Stops Scheduled to Minute on 20-day Tour.”
7 Elisabeth Stettinius Trippe.
8 NYT, 9/18/29, “Lindberghs to Take Four on Flight South.”
9 Marilyn Bender and Selig Altschul, The Chosen Instrument: Juan Trippe, the Rise and Fall of an American Entrepreneur, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982, pp. 135–146.
10 NYT, 9/23/29, “Lindbergh Log Sent by Radio Operator.”
11 HGHL, AML letter to ECM, 9/20/29, p. 79.
12 Ibid., pp. 80–81.
13 HGHL, AML letter to ERM, 9/23/29, p. 88.
14 HGHL, AML letter to ERM, 9/23/29, p. 90.
15 HGHL, AML letter to CCM, 9/26/29, p. 93.
16 Saturday Evening Post, 2/1/30, “Exploring the Maya with Lindbergh,” by William I. Van Dusen.
17 Dr. Austen Fox Riggs, trained in surgery, later joined his father-in-law, Dr. Charles McBurney, in studying the work of Dr. George Gehring who believed that “organic illness is interwoven with emotional upheaval.” In 1913, Riggs began a formal practice of psychotherapy in Stockbridge, known as “not a sanitarium for the treatment of the psychoses (there were many of those), but a center for the treatment of the neuroses.” The Austen Riggs Foundation was formally established in 1919. From Lawrence S. Kubie, M.D., The Riggs Story, New York: P. B. Hoeber, 1960.
18 Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Diaries, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
19 Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.