Lindbergh

by A. Scott Berg

E: AOV, p. 118.

  DWM AND ECM: Walter Lippmann, “DWM: A Tribute,” New York Herald-Tribune, Oct. 7, 1931; Nicolson, Morrow, pp. 3–20, 22–41, 51–2, 69–78, 80, 103, 110, 113 124, 129–31, 164, 206, 211, 259; DWM to President Benjamin Harrison, Jan 3, 1891 [ACL]; Charles Burnett to DWM, Apr. 16, 1914 [ACL]; Margot Wilkie to ASB (I), Apr. 26, 1993; ECM, notebook, n.d. [Smith College]; DWM to ECM, June 12, 1895, July 10, 1899; ECM to “Mother,” July 26, 1901; BMAU, p. xiii; n.a. The History of Englewood [MHS: Box 114]; ERMM, “The Little Brown House” and “Move to Palisade Avenue (U), n.d. [Smith College]; Chernow, House of Morgan, p. 150; ECM (D), Jan. 30, Feb. 25, Mar. 31, and Apr. 8, 1914; CMM to ASB (I), Mar. 3, 1993.

  DWM’s brother Jay Johnson Morrow distinguished himself in the Engineer Corps of the United States Army, rising to the rank of General and serving as Governor of the Canal Zone. [N.B. DWM actually joined the law firm of Reed, Simpson, Thacher & Barnum, which became Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett in 1904.]

  AML, BACKGROUND AND MEETING CAL: Corliss Lamont to ASB (I), June 4, 1993; RML to ASB (I), May 8, 1993; Susanna Beck Hatt to ASB (I), May 6, 1993; Dorothea Bolton to AML, Dec. 15, 1974; BMAU, pp. v (E), xvi, xx, 5–6, 15, 19–21; AML to ERMM, June 7, 1922 and late-Sept. 1922; ERMM to AML, July 4, 1923; AML, “Ships,” The Wheel (Chapin School), Dec., 1923 (also: “Distance Lends Enchantment,” Mar., 1924 and “Disillusions of Childhood,” n.d.); Mary Walker Delafield to AML, Mar. 22, 1966; ERMM (D), Apr. 22, 1924 [MHS]; CMM to ASB (I), Mar. 3, 1993; AML to ECM, Sept. 28, 1924, Apr. 22 and May 23, 1925, Jan. 31, July 23, 1927; AML to John Krout, Jan. 22, 1965; “Obituaries,” Smith Alumnae Quarterly, Winter, 1986, pp. 68–9; Elizabeth Bacon Rodewald to AML, Feb. 9, 1972, Aug. 28, 1974, Feb. 9, 1977; Margot Wilkie to ASB (I), Apr. 26, 1993; AML, Dearly Beloved (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1962), p. 79; Corliss Lamont to AML, Feb. 8, 1928; ECM (D), July 19, 1927; Nicolson, Morrow, p. 292; Stanley Ross, “DWM,” p. 288.

  CAL IN MEXICO; AML FALLS IN LOVE: BMAU, pp. 80–89, 91–2, 94–7, 99–100, 104, 106–8; 118, 135, 139, 147; AML (D), Dec. 20, 21, 28, 1927, Feb., Apr. 5, May 3, 1928; ECM (D), Dec. 14–20, 27, 1927, Jan. 26, 1928; AML to ECM, Jan. 15, Feb., Mar. 18, “after [Easter] vacation,” May 3, 1928; AML to ERMM, Apr. 23, 1928; Fanny Heaslip Lea, “Galahad Himself,” Saturday Evening Post, Mar. 31, 1928.

  CAL AND AVIATION INDUSTRY: CAL, “Air Transport,” Feb. 1, 1930; CAL, “Articles No. 1, 3, and 4,” NYT, 1928; AOV, pp. 96–105, 107– 8, 112; Gore Vidal, United States (New York: Random House: 1993), pp. 1061–2, 1067; “History of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc.” (remarks of Hon. Simeon D. Fess), Congressional Record, Apr. 20, 1934; CAL (N), Jan. 26, 1958; C. M. Keys to Stockholders of TAT, Inc., Feb. 20, 1928; CAL, “Report,” to D. M. Sheaffer, c. 1930; CAL, “TAT Report,” Winter, 1928–9; Paul Henderson, “Report” to CAL, Feb. 1, 1928; C. M. Keys to CAL, May 23, 1928; Cheever Cowdin to CAL, June 19, 1929 [MHS]; CAL to Cheever Cowdin, June 19, 1929 [MHS]; correspondence between CAL and Acme Milling and Refining Co., Sept., 1930–Apr., 1931, W. D. Coolidge (of General Electric) and CAL, Jan. 30, 1929; Ford Motor Company, Oct. 15, 1932; Goodyear, 1928–1931, and A. Wittnauer Co., to CAL, June 5, 1930 [MHS]; DAVIS, Aug. 13, 1969; CAL to D. A. Colussy, Feb. 11, 1971; CAL to Prof. Newton, June 6, 1970; CAL, “Lindy Earns Vacation,” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Feb. 12, 1928; Juan Trippe to CAL, May 15, 1928, Jan. 7, 1929; CAL to Juan Trippe, Nov. 12, 1929; CAL, “Form 1040,” Individual Income Tax Return, 1928 and 1929; HB to CAL, July 9, 1928 (two letters); CAL to ELLL, ca. July 10, 1928; “Mrs. L and Miss Morrow Join Faculty,” Near East Colleges News Letter, Oct., 1928, p. 1.

  CAL-AML COURTSHIP: AOV, pp. 117, 119, 121–4; RML to ASB (I), May 8, 1993; Susanna Beck Hatt to ASB (I), May 6, 1993; ERMM to AML, Mar. 10 and Nov. 6, 1928; AML (D), March 1 and 26, May 3, June 22, July 13, 1928; BMAU, pp. 116, 127, 153, 157, 160, 168, 172, 175–7, 180–205, 208–11, 219–20, 227–8; ECM (D), Aug. 9, Nov. 13, 18, 22, 1928; “Mother Declares Lindy Marriage Rumors ‘Silly,’” n.s., n.d.; AML to CMM, Oct. 4, 12, 19, 22, 26, and 29, Nov. 5 and 19, 1928: ERMM (D), Nov. 11, 1928; AML to ECM, June 28, 1929; AML to Stephen D. Bodayla, Oct. 21, 1980; CMM to ASB (I), Mar. 3, 1993; AML to ERMM, late-Nov., 1928; CAL to ELLL, Nov. 12, 1928, Feb. 20, 1929; ELLL to CAL, Dec. 20, 1928; ELLL to AML, Dec. 6, 1928; AML to ELLL, Jan. 4, 1929; CAL to AML, Apr. 16, 1929; HGHL, p. 1; AML to Corliss Lamont, n.d.; AML to Mrs. Norton, ca. Feb. 11, 1929.

  Besides the Jordan Prize, AML won the Elizabeth Montagu Prize for a paper on Mme. D’Houdetot; her poem “Height” was published in the March, 1928 issue of Scribner’s Magazine.

  ENGAGEMENT: Ruth Dean, “Mrs. DWM’s Garden,” Charm, Aug. 1930; ECM (D), Jan. 27, Feb. 12, 13, 16, 27, and 28, 1929; “L to Wed Anne S. Morrow …” (Philadelphia?) Inquirer, Feb. 13, 1929; ERMM to “D. C.,” Mar. 12, 1929; ECM to Alice Morrow, Feb. 24, 1929; DAVIS, Aug. 13, 1969; AML to ASL, Mar. 5, 1972; HGHL, pp. 1–2, 4, 16–8; ERMM to ECM, Feb. 2, 1929; CMM to ERMM, Feb. 13, 1929; AML, “Misc Note,” (D), June 5, 1929; AML to CMM, Mar. 8, 1929; ECM to Katherine Norton[?], Mar. 21, 1929; AOV, pp. 125–7; CAL, timeline, 1929.

  CAL-AML WEDDING: AML (D), May 27, 1929 (written on D pp. July 11–18, 1929); CAL, holograph will, May 27, 1929; Madame Blanche to CAL, June 16, 1939; ECM (D), May 28, 1929, and May 7, 1939; ELLL (N), May, 1929; AOV, p. 127; AML to ECM, May 27, 1929; “L and Miss Morrow Wed …,” (St. Louis) Globe Democrat, May 28, 1929.

  9 “WE”

  E: AOV, p. 128.

  HONEYMOON: AML to ECM, June, 18, 1929; HGHL, pp. 40–6; CAL to Edw. T. Richardson, Jr., Sept. 8, 1969, CAL to Senator Spong, Sept. 4, 1972; AML to DWM, Jr., June 23, 1929; AOV, p. 128; ECM (D), June 20, 1929; AML to Sue Beck, June 26, 1929.

  “Mouette” (the name of the Ls’ honeymoon boat) is French for “sea gull.”

  NEWLYWEDS AND AVIATION: Simeon D. Fess, “History of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc.,” Congressional Record, Apr. 20, 1934; CAL, “Report” to Col. Paul Henderson, May 26, 1929; n.a., “Transcontinental & Western Air,” Aero Digest, Feb., 1934, n.p.; ECM (D), June 20, 1929; AML to ECM, June 18 and 28, July 6 and 13, Sept. 5, 1929, Jan. 18, Apr. 4, 1930; HGHL, pp. 9, 45, 47–62, 72–3, 97–9, 120–1, 157–8; AML to CMM, June 27, July 4, 8, and 9, Aug. 6, 1929; AML to ERMM, July 2, 1929; CAL, “Statement,” ca. 1929 [Y:124/508]; AOV, p. 106, 107–9, 203–5, Gene Coughlin, “When L Saved the Day for Me,” Reader’s Digest, Feb., 1958, pp. 81–4; Kevin Starr, Material Dreams (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. 115–7; CAL, “Travelling By Air in 1929” (Daniel Guggenheim Fund), 1929; Pan American Airways System (M), 1931; Vidal, United States, pp. 1067–9; Capt. Benjamin B. Lipsner (as told to Leonard Finley Hilts), The Airmail: Jennies to Jets (New York: Wilcox & Follett, 1951), pp. 220, 224–37; AML to ELLL, Jan. 24, Apr. 9, and n.d., 1930; Bob Meakin, “Spirit of Lebec,” Westways, Mar., 1974, pp. 19–23, 75; William L. Van Dusen, “Charlie L—Glider Pilot,” Western Flying, May, 1930, pp. 50–3, 143; Marlen Pew, “Shop Talk at Thirty,” Editor & Publisher: The Fourth Estate, July 26, 1930, draft of article with CAL revisions, n.d. [MHS: B59/F5]; Paul Garber to ASB (I), June 6, 1990; A. V. Kidder, “Col. And Mrs. L Aid Archaeologists,” News Service Bulletin (Carnegie Institution of Washington), Part I, Dec. 1, 1929, pp. 109–13, and Part II, pp. 115–21; CAL to Harry Davison, Nov. 26, 1967; FRDT; Trippe, “CAL and World Travel,” pp. 6–9; Dr. Walter M. Simpson to CAL, May 16, 1935; CAL to Miss Cunningham, July 13, 1970; AML to Sue Beck, Oct. 5, 1929.

  ROCKETS AND RHG: AOV, pp. 15, 335–43, 381; CAL to Frederick Duvant III, Jan. 30, 1970; CAL (N) for Lehman’s This High Man, June 27, 1956; Lehman, High Man, pp. 54, 159, 176–83, 208–21; Henry Du Pont to CAL, Oct. 23, 1929; Charles Stine to CAL, Nov. 6, 1929; “Finds New Explosive For Rocket Planes,” NYT, Nov. 6, 1929; CAL to Milton Lehman, May 11, 1963; John Merriam, (M) re Goddard Rocket Project, Dec. 10, 1929; John Merriam to CAL, Jan. 25, 1930; CAL to HG, May 19, 1930; HG to CAL, May 28, 1930; “Goddard Backs Rocket Sky-Study,” NYT, July 10, 1930; HGHL, pp. 6, 64–6, 68–9; RHG to HG, Feb. 18, July 15, and Oct. 29, 1935; HG to R
HG, Mar. 4, 1935; RHG to CAL, June 10 and Oct. 29, 1935; HG to CAL, Aug. 8, 1935.

  SETTLING DOWN: AML to ERMM, Aug. 17, 1929, Apr. 3 and 8, 1930; FRDT; AML to CMM, Aug. 4 and 6, 1929; Vidal, United States, p. 1069; Sue Beck Hatt to ASB (I), May 6, 1993; HGHL, pp. 7–8, 102–7, 126–9, 131–2, 134–6; AML to ECM, Oct. 13 and 30, 1929, Mar. 4, Apr. 10, 1930; AML to ELLL, n.d. [1929]; Nicolson, Morrow, pp. 350–3, 377–89; AML, “Dedication of Chilton House” (U speech), Oct. 17, 1972; CAL to Mrs. Carl Squier, Nov. 7, 1969; FRDT; R. S. Allen, “The Lockheed Sirius,” MHS Journal, Winter, 1965, pp. 266–70; R. S. Allen, Revolution in the Sky (Brattleboro, VT: The Stephen Greene Press, 1964), pp. 36–9; CAL to Paul Johnston, Feb. 27, 1966.

  BIRTH OF CAL, JR.: AML to CMM, May 12 and Nov. 10, 1930; HGHL, pp. 132, 134–6, 138–40, 142, 144–5, 151–4, 160; AML to ELLL, June 10 and 23–4, Sept. 29, and Nov., 1930, prob. Mar., Mar. 5 and 31, May 10, 1931; CAL (N) on Pew, “Shop Talk” draft; ECM (D), June 22, 1930; ECM to ELLL, June 23, 1930; CAL, “To the Wire Services,” June 22, 1930; Mollie Wells, “Stars Propitious For the Lindys’ Boy,” Daily Mirror, June 24, 1930, p. 3; FDR to CAL, June 29, 1929; “A L Memorial,” St. Louis Post Dispatch, c. Jan. 14, 1930; A. A. Graham, “The Next President of the U. S.,” n.s., c. Oct. 30, 1930; Ralph Sordillo to CAL, Aug. 1, 1931; Rev. Paul Hamborszky to CAL, Oct. 7, 1930; J. V. McAree, “Col. L Disliked By Quite a Few People,” n.s., Oct. 7, 1930; H. W. Ross to HB, Sept. 29, 1930; Russell Owen to CAL, Sept. 18, 1930; “Not Touched By Baby,” “War and Lindy,” “Looks and Lindy,” clippings, n.s., n.d.; AML to ERMM, July 30–Aug. 3, 1930; Laura Lou Brookman, “How Ls Live in Rented Home,” n.s., ca. Dec. 10, 1930; J. R. Donovan, “Lone Eagle Plans His Nest in the Sky,” (Philadelphia) Evening Bulletin, Apr. 7, 1931; AML to Lucia Norton Valentine, Dec. 1930; Betty Gow to ASB (I), Sept. 25, 1993; Post Office Inspector D. P. Looney to CAL, Nov. 25, 1930, P. O. Inspector W. K. Halliday to CAL, Sept 29, 1930; AML (U-N) re Betty Gow, Mar., 1932.

  BIOLOGY AND DR. CARREL: AOV, pp. 129–35; CAL to Father Joseph Durkin, May 20, 1966; CAL, (U-AW), [Y:218/626]; Dr. Paluel Flagg to CAL, Dec. 1, 1930, June 22, 1935; Dr. Paluel Flagg, “L’s Introduction to Medicine” (U memoir), June 22, 1930; James Thomas Flexner, An American Saga (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1984), p. 351; W. Sterling Edwards and Peter Edwards, AC: Visionary Surgeon (Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1974), pp. 8, 15; Simon Flexner, “AC: 1873–1944,” n.s., n.d.; AC, Man, the Unknown (New York: Halcyon House, 1935), pp. 60, 214, 296, 321; Albert H. Ebeling, “Carrel’s Immortal Tissue,” American Druggist, Jan., 1942, n.p.; Dr. Richard Bing, (U) memoir, “Carrel, L, Rockefeller Institute, and NYC,” n.d., pp. 32–49; CAL, “Preface” to AC, The Voyage to Lourdes (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950), pp. v–viii; CAL to Dr. William Glenn, Apr. 9, 1965; CAL to Dr. Houston, Jan. 3, 1960; “Col. L Gets Degree at Princeton,” NYT, June 17, 1931; Dr. Richard Bing to ASB (I), Feb. 17, 1994; AML to Jack Moseley, Oct. 20, 1980; CAL, quoted in “Paying Tribute to Dr. Carrel,” American Medical News, Aug. 20, 1973, pp. 16–7; CAL, “AC Centenary,” draft, June 28, 1973; CAL, “AC,” draft, Dec. 29, 1973; CAL, “Speech” at Huntington Memorial Hospital, Dec. 2, 1970.

  TRIP NORTH TO ORIENT: CAL, (U-AW) [Y:218/626]; CAL, “Autobiographical” (U-AW), 1947; NTO, pp. 11–2, 15, 23–5, 27–9, 37–40, 65–8, 162–200, 210–221, 226–34; CAL to William Leary, Jr., July 21, 1968; Nelson A. Rockefeller to CAL, July 17, 1931; Leonard Baldwin (of Lomen Reindeer Corp.) to CAL, July 23, 1931; Vilhjalmur Stefansson to CAL, June 19, 1931; CAL to Vilhjalmur Stefansson, July 13, 1931; HGHL, pp. 8, 160–2, 188–94; Betty Gow to ASB (I), Sept. 25, 1993; AML to ELLL, May 10, 1931; AML to ECM, July 17 and 22, Aug. 6, 8, 10, 17–8, 29, Sept. 17, 26, 28, and 30, early Oct., 1931; ECM (U) account of CAL, Jr., c. Spring, 1932; ELLL to CAL, July 8, 1931; CAL to John Grierson, Mar. 17, 1964; “Ls in Tokyo Cheered by 100,000,” NYT, Aug. 27, 1931; CAL (U-M) re his revolver, June 27, 1933; AOV, pp. 250–5; CAL, “Report” to China’s National Flood Relief Commission, Sept. 26, 1931; J. Heng Liu, “An Experience with L,” n.s., n.d.; AML to ERMM, Oct., 1931.

  DEATH OF DWM AND RETURN TO U.S.: ERMM to AML (T), Oct. 6, 1931; Ekins of United Press to CAL (T), Oct. 6, 1931; DWM, “You Dare Not Fail,” speech, printed in The Survey, Nov. 15, 1931, pp. 193–4; Nicolson, Morrow, pp. 399–400; “Morrow is Buried,” NYT, Oct. 6, 1931; Walter Lippmann, “Dwight Morrow,” New York Herald Tribune, Oct. 7, 1931; ECM (D), Oct. 5–8, 1931; ECM to AML, Oct. 15, 1931; B. T. Chiu to CAL and AML, Oct. 30, 1934; Gilbert Grovenor to B. T. Chiu, Jan. 25, 1934; Amb. Cameron Forbes to CAL, Feb. 13, 1932; “Ls in China,” NYT, Sept. 29, 1931.

  HOUSE IN HOPEWELL: AML to ELLL, Nov. 12, 1931; HGHL, pp. 202–5; AML to CMM, Nov. 16, 1931; ECM (U-N) re CAL, Jr., Spring, 1932; AML (U-N) re Betty Gow, Mar., 1932; AML (U), “The Tulips,” Winter, 1940; Betty Gow to ASB (I), Sept. 25, 1993; “L To Celebrate 30th Birthday,” n.s., Jan. 28, 1932; “CAL on 30th Birthday,” n.s., ca. Feb. 4, 1932; James C. Young, “L Adding to His Trophies,” NYT Magazine, Nov. 1, 1931; CAL, “A Method for Washing Corpuscles in Suspension,” Science, Apr. 15, 1932, pp. 415–6; CAL to Dr. Michael Weiner, July 16, 1965; CAL and AML, income tax returns, 1930, 1931; Dr. David Read to ASB (I), May 2, 1993; AML to ELLL, Dec., 1931.

  10 SOURLAND

  E: AOV, p. 139.

  AT HOME WITH “THE BABY”: “Heroes—’Cunning Little Rascal,’” Time, Nov. 30, 1931, p. 11; Will Rogers, “Will Rogers Recalls…,” NYT, Mar. 3, 1932, p. 8; AML to Sue Beck Vaillant, ca. Jan. 13, 1932; AML to ELLL, Feb. 7 and 10, 1932; “Mrs. L Aids China Flood Appeal,” NYT, Feb. 22, 1932, p. 18; Frank Doubleday to AML, Oct. 9, 1930; HGHL, pp. 222–4; CAL (D), Nov. 11, 1931 and Feb. 24, 1932.

  NIGHT OF KIDNAPPING: AML, “Statement” to Lt. J. J. Sweeney and Det. Hugh Strong, Newark Police Dept., Mar. 13, 1932; Betty Gow, “Statement” to J. J. Lamb, May 12, 1932; Elsie Mary Whateley, “Statement” to J. J. Sweeney and Hugh Strong, Mar. 10, 1932; Olly Whateley, “Statement” to P. J. Brady, L. J. Bornmann, and J. J. Sweeney, Mar. 3, 1932; CAL, “Statement” to J. J. Sweeney, Mar. 11, 1932; “Kidnapping and Murder of CAL, Jr.,” FBI Summary Report, New York File 62–3057, p. 49; Hugh Larimer, “Unknown Subjects,” FBI Report, Mar. 4, 1933; Lt. Dunn quoted by Det. L. J. Bornmann to C. D. Plebani in Jim Fisher, The Lindbergh Case (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987), pp. 7–8; “Police Information,” teletype, Mar. 1, 1932 (New Jersey State Police Museum); Corp. Jos. A. Wolfe, “Major Initial Report,” Mar. 1, 1932; AML to ELLL, Mar. 2 and 3, 1932; HGHL, pp. 224, 226–7; “Kidnapping Holds First Place on Radio,” NYT, Mar. 4, 1932, p. 8; Oren Root to ASB (I), Apr. 10, 1994; ransom note #1 as well as those that followed are housed at the New Jersey State Police Museum, West Trenton, New Jersey; the Schwarzkopf detractors are quoted in Ludovic Kennedy, The Airman and the Carpenter (New York: Viking, 1985), p. 86; “Father Searches Grounds for Child,” NYT, Mar. 2, 1932, pp.1, 3.

  DAYS FOLLOWING KIDNAPPING: “L Baby Kidnapped,” NYT, Mar. 2, 1932, pp. 1, 3; Sidney B. Whipple, The Lindbergh Crime (New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1935), pp. 14–18, 28–9; “Home Now Police Centre,” NYT, Mar. 4, 1932, pp. 1, 8; AML to ELLL, Mar. 3 and Apr. 8, 1932; HGHL, pp. 226–7, 237; Fisher, L Case, pp. 17, 20–8; “Federal Aid in Hunt Order By Hoover,” p. 8,”Roosevelt Orders State Police Hunt,” p. 8, “L Hopeful, Is Ready to Ransom Son,” pp. 1, 9, “100,000 in The Manhunt,” pp. 1, 8, “Kidnapping Arouses Sympathy of Nation,” pp. 1, 10, “Diet Needed by L Baby,” p. 1, “‘Baby Is Safe,’ Says Card from Newark,” p. 10, “Kidnapping Wave Sweeps Nation,” p. 9, NYT, Mar. 3, 1932; F. Trubee Davison to CAL (T), Mar. 2, 1932; “Kidnapping of Baby Speeds Federal Law,” NYT, Mar. 2, 1932, pp. 1, 3; press release re Boy Scouts of America, c. Mar. 7, 1932 [MHS]; “AF of L in 7 States Asked to Aid in Hunt,” NYT, Mar. 6, 1932; D. M. Sheaffer to CAL (T), Mar. 2, 1932; “Westchester Women Aid L Search,” p. 8, “World Waits Hopefully,” pp. 1, 8, “Television Used in Search,” p. 9, NYT, Mar. 4, 1932; Betty and Will Rogers to CAL and AML (T), Mar. 2, 1932; Herbert Hoover to CAL and AML, Mar. 2, 1932; Benjamin Lupic
a to ASB (I), Apr. 7, 1994; FBI “Summary Report,” p. 255; T. P. Crockett to CAL (T), Mar. 11, 1932; Carl Egge to CAL (T), Apr. 15, 1932; Janie Dietz to CAL (T), Mar. 3, 1932; Anon. to Hopewell Chief of Police, Mar. 5, 1932; “Kidnapping Notes Swamp Police,” Mar. 5, 1932, NYT, p. 6; Irene Mayer Selznick to ASB (I), Apr. 4, 1987; Chernow, House of Morgan, p. 301.

  THEORIES AND INVESTIGATION: “CHJF” to AML, May 4, 1932; ECM (D), Mar. 8, 1932; Anon. to AML (from England), Oct. 13, 1933; Maurice Sendak comment expressed in Joyce Milton, Loss of Eden: A Biography of C and AML (New York: HarperCollins, 1993), p. 300; Dr. J. W. Hall to CAL, Mar. 14, 1932 [MHS]; Whipple, L Crime, pp. 27–8, 47 (Capone quoted on p. 55); Whited quoted in Kennedy, Airman, pp. 215–6; “No Trace of L Kidnappers,” pp. 1, 9, Mar. 4, 1932, “Flier’s Mother Composed,” p. 7, “Col and Mrs. L’s Offer,” p. 1, “Friend of L Nurse is Seized,” pp. 1, 7, Mar. 5, 1932, NYT; AML to ELLL, Mar. 3, 5, 1932; HGHL, pp. 227–9; Fisher, L Case, p. 14; Betty Gow to ASB (I), Sept. 25, 1993; ransom note #2; “Ls in Message to Abductors,” pp. 1, 23, “Text of Announcement,” p. 1, Mar. 6, 1932, NYT; “L Ignored Police in New Move,” p. 12, Mar. 7, 1932, NYT; ECM to ELLL, Mar. 4, 1932; D. P. Weimer (of Weimer & Bennett) to HB, Mar. 7, 1932; Barrett Wendell, Jr. to Jerome D. Green, Mar. 2, 1932 [MHS].

  In Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie wrote of the fictitious “Armstrong Kidnapping Case,” in which a Colonel Armstrong’s only child was abducted during his wife’s second pregnancy. Shortly after Armstrong paid an enormous ransom, the child’s dead body was discovered; and in the surrounding hysteria, a nursemaid who could not bear the police interrogation committed suicide.

  MEANS, CURTIS, AND “JAFSIE”: George Waller, Kidnap (New York: Dial Press, 1961), pp. 35–48, 50; Condon letter appeared in Bronx Home News, Mar. 8, 1932, cited in Fisher, L Case, pp. 40, 42, 45, 47–9, 56–61; FBI “Summary Report,” pp. 80–1, 157–76, 178–9, 305; Kennedy, Airman, pp. 98–103; Larimer, FBI report, Mar. 4, 1933; ECM(D), Mar. 10, 11, 12, 16, 1932; AML to ELLL, Mar. 10 and 12, Apr. 29, 1932; HGHL, pp. 232–3, 243; W. Merrick (M), FBI Files #62–3057, Mar. 18, 1932; J. E. Seykora, FBI report re Condon, Mar. 8, 1934; John F. Condon, grand jury testimony, May 20, 1932; Edward F. Bergman, Woodlawn Remembers (New York: North Country Books, 1988), pp. 3–11; J. F. Condon, “Meeting the Kidnapper, Mar. and Apr., 1932 at Woodlawn Cemetery,” n.d. [NJ State Police Museum]; J. F. Condon “Statement” to District Attorney, May 14, 1932; “11 Days of Failure in L Case” and “Spitale Acquitted on Liquor Charge,” Mar. 13, 1932, NYT, p. 3; “L Case Commercialized,” NYT, Mar. 7, 1932, p. 11.