A Secret Life_ The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland - Charles Lachman [184]
385. The hotel was the social hub of the new town: Ron Jamro and Gerald L. Lanterman, The Founding of Naples (Naples, Florida, The Collier County Museum, 1985), 41.
386. “Ah, Eve, Eve, surely you cannot realize what you are to me,” Rose Cleveland (RC) to Evangeline Marrs Simpson Whipple (EMSW), postmarked 23 April 1890, Whipple/Scandrett Family Papers, Minnesota Historical Society (MHS), P789, Box 2, File 1890. Author’s note: An account of the relationship between Rose and Evangeline can also found in Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America by Lillian Faderman (New York: Penguin, 1992), 32–33.
386. “Oh, darling, come to me this night, my Clevy, my Viking,” RC to EMSW, 22 April 1890, ibid.
386. “Oh, Eve, Eve, this love is life itself—or death,” RC to EMSW, 5 May 1890, ibid.
387. “I shall go to bed, my Eve,” RC to EMSW, 6 May 1890, ibid.
387. “Ah, my Cleopatra,” Rose wrote that day. RC to EMSW, 9 May 1890, ibid.
387. “Yes, darling, I will be with you, surely,” ibid.
389. “I wish for your happiness and good,” Rose wrote. Postmarked 25 April, apparently in the year 1893. P789, Box 3, ibid.
389. “The bishop is in vigorous health. New York Times, 24 October 1896.
391. Seeking a consultation on a “very important matter.” William Williams Keen, The Surgical Operations on President Cleveland in 1893 (Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs and Co., 1917), 30–31.
393. “If you hit a rock, hit it good and hard,” Nevins, 530.
395. Lamont snapped that it was a “preposterous” question: H. W. Brands, The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), 83. Author’s note: Brands’s book offers an excellent account of the Panic of 1893.
395. Dr. Bryant found something disturbing. Keen, 36–44.
396. “My God, Olney, they nearly killed me!” Nevins, 532.
397. Erdmann later said he “did more lying,” Nevins, quoting Erdmann, 533.
398. “Mr. Cleveland had suffered so much at the hands,” Philadelphia Times, 31 August 1893.
399. Sensible and responsible women “do not want to vote,” Ladies Home Journal, October 1905, 7–8.
399. Baby Ruth as she came to be called. Author’s note: The Baby Ruth candy bar made its first appearance some seventeen years after the child’s death. Although the Curtiss Candy Company maintained it was named in honor of Ruth Cleveland, some have speculated that it was a ruse to avoid paying royalties to the baseball great Babe Ruth.
402. “Where she knew she could find him,” Dunlap, 129; Jean S. Davis, A Rambling Memoir of Mrs. Grover Cleveland and Some Related History, unpublished manuscript, Louis Jefferson Long Library, Wells College, 23.
402. “Unpleasant shock when I read the headlines reporting the engagement,” Davis, 24.
403. “The Cleveland pew was third in front of ours,” ibid.
403. He was fond of crocheting. Dunlap, 133.
404. “That of a man who needed to go to Florida for his health,” New York Times, 11 February 1913; also noted by Davis, 26.
405. “I went over his book before it was published,” Frances Cleveland Preston to William Gorham Rice, 13 August 1918, Rice Papers, Folder 8, Manuscripts and Special Collections, New York State Library.
405. She recruited the historian for the presidency of Wells. Jane M. Dieckmann, Wells College: A History (Aurora, New York Wells College Press, 1995), 101.
405. “When his friend, Charles W. Goodyear, reported that a particularly violent,” McElroy, 91–92.
406. “Who threw open his papers and gave invaluable advice,” Nevins, v.
407. “A weaker or more callous man in his place,” Nevins’s account of the Halpin scandal can be found in his Cleveland biography, 162–169.
407. A “true picture—of the man and his meaning,” Frances Cleveland Preston to Rice, 23 December 1932, Rice Papers, Folder 9.
407. “It probably wasn’t Cleveland’s child,” New York Times, September 8, 2008.
408. Author’s Note: If Nevins’s meticulous scholarship closed the door on divergent accounts of the Cleveland-Halpin story, it