by Jean Strouse
14 “most angelic”: I Tatti—BG to BB, [August] 7, 1912.
15 “secure, careful”: HBS, Lamont Papers—TWL to W.H. Oliver, Aug. 22, 1912. “I am”: PML, MSI—LMS to FTM, Oct. 30 [1912].
16 “Morgenthau tells”: Columbia, Vanderlip Papers—Vanderlip to Stillman, Sept. 20, 1912.
17 “rather dreading”: MGCo. (GWS)—Ledyard to ECG, Oct. 16, 1912. “tightwad”: NY Times, Oct. 4, 1912.
18 “very blue”: I Tatti—BG to BB, Oct. 30, 1912.
19 fn., “offered”: PML, Jack Box 108 f. 378(2)—Memorandum, May 1914.
20 “as sound”: HBS, Lamont Papers, “Money Trust Investigation (Pujo Committee)”—F.L. Stetson to S. Untermyer, Oct. 18, 1912.
21 “Going Washington”: PML—Jack to ECG, Dec. 17, 1912.
22 JPM’s Pujo testimony: Money Trust Investigation transcript, pp. 18–79.
23 “in no way”: PML—Jack to Harjes, Dec. 23, 1912.
24 “about seventy”: PML—BG to Mrs. Amos Pinchot, Dec. 23, 1912. “throwing his”: I Tatti—BG to BB, April 12, 1913.
25 “honest”: PML—George Harvey, “A Public Soul,” speech delivered to American Bankers Association, May 8, 1913.
26 “without” & “as the”: Tomkins, Merchants, p. 174.
27 “He said that” & “with some”: MMA Archives, M822—E. Robinson Memoranda, Nov. 29 & Dec. 23, 1912.
28 “suavest” & ff.: PML—BB in Duveen Brothers Monograph on Saint Lawrence Enthroned.
29 “JP wanted”: I Tatti—BG to BB, Dec. 31, 1912. fn., “To me-ow”: PML—BG to BB, Feb. 26, 1932.
30 “a man named Lehman” & “He seemed”: I Tatti—BG to BB, Dec. 31, 1912, & Jan. 5, 1913.
31 “very much”: PML—Jack to Bishop Doane, Feb. 19, 1913.
32 “exceedingly personal” & ff.: Satterlee, JPM, pp. 566–68.
33 “distorted”: PML—George A. Dixon to Jack, March 3, 1913.
34 “Charcoal in” & “tremendous strain”: PML—LMS to Jack, & Jack to LMS, Feb. 13, 1913.
35 “economic laws” & ff.: J.P. Morgan & Co. to Pujo, in Carosso, pp. 638–39.
36 “Perfectly splendid” & “Greatly delighted”: PML—JPM to HPD, Feb. 13, & HPD to JPM, Feb. 14, 1913.
37 “better than” to “Fickle appetite”: PML—LMS to Jack, Feb. 14–17, 1913 (including Tribe cable, Feb. 15).
38 “How I wish” & “Charcoal”: PML—LMSD & LMS to Jack, Feb. 19, 1913.
39 “honest though” & “acutely”: PML—Jack to JPM, March 5, & Dixon to Jack, March 4, 1913.
40 “remarkable” & “less absolutely”: PML—Dixon to Jack, March 4, & LMS to Jack, March 6, 1913.
41 “I have assured” & “stand many”: PML—HLS to Jack, March 19, & Jack to Dixon, March 17, 1913.
42 “from early”: in NY Times, March 2, 1913.
43 “culminated” & “I wish”: PML—Dixon & HLS to Jack, March 14, & Dixon to Jack, March 23, 1913.
44 “We have all” & “the beast”: PML—Jack to HLS, March 18, & to JPM, Jan. 11, 1913.
45 “Has Dr. Phelps”: PML—HLS to Jack, March 19, 1913.
46 “watched” & “For ten”: PML—M. Allen Starr to Jack, March 23, 1913.
47 “the Commodore”: PML—Dixon to Jack, March 25, 1913.
48 “Dr. Dixon has”: [possession of author] Florence Blair to H. Rivington Pyne, March 31, 1913.
49 “dispepsia”: Carosso, p. 642.
50 “He was a great” & “because”: NY Times, April 1–2, 1913.
51 “No other”: Figaro, April 5, 1913. fn., “one who” & ff.: MGCo. (GWS)—H. Harjes to ECG, April 4, 1913.
52 “The king”: Columbia, Vanderlip Papers—Vanderlip to Stillman, April 4, 1913. “My heart”: I Tatti—BG to BB, April 2, 1913.
53 “which fund” & ff.: PML—Last Will and Testament of John Pierpont Morgan, January 4, 1913.
54 “not a”: HBS, Lamont Papers—TWL to HPD, April 24, 1913.
55 “MORGAN GIVES”: Austin Statesman, April 20, 1913. “it is perhaps”: NY Post, April 22, 1913.
56 “a sick”: St. Just—ECG to Florence Henderson, April 3, 1913.
57 “It will never”: NY Evening Post, Dec. 21, 1913.
AFTERWORD
1 “If some”: I Tatti—BG to BB, April 29, 1913.
2 “the finest”: NY Times, Jan. 27, 1914.
3 sales: PML—Jack Box 220. “I am very”: PML—Jack to ER, Jan. 5, 1916.
4 “first call” & “I would like”: PML—JDR Jr. to Jack, April 20, 1915, & HCF to Jack, April 20, 1915.
5 sale Dover House: MGCo. (GWS), JPM 3E, p. 144.
ALSO BY JEAN STROUSE
Alice James: A Biography
(winner of the Bancroft Prize)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jean Strouse won the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy for her biography, Alice James. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, Vogue, and Newsweek, and she has held fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and from the National Endowments for the Humanities and the Arts. She lives in New York City.