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30 Much as Roosevelt Gable, The Bull Moose Years 149–55. For TR’s years as a self-described “literary feller,” see Morris, The Rise of TR, chap. 15.
31 George Perkins, seeking Garland, Companions on the Trail, 505–6.
32 an excellent life Ulysses S. Grant: His Life and Character (1898). Garland (1860–1940) was to achieve fame in 1917 with his autobiographical Son of the Middle Border. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for a sequel, Daughter of the Middle Border, in 1921. His three volumes of literary reminiscences, Roadside Meetings (1930), Companions on the Trail (1931), and My Friendly Contemporaries (1932), are richly anecdotal.
33 “I’ll begin it immediately” Garland, Companions on the Trail, 507.
34 Abbott’s idea Abbott, Impressions of TR, 176–78.
35 On October 27, 1858 TR, An Autobiography, 256.
36 Ever since the election “Minutes of the National Committee of the Progressive Party, 1912–1916,” bound ts., 5–20 (TRC); Mowry, TR, 289. In an editorial dated 8 Jan. 1913, Munsey proposed a merger between the Progressive and Republican parties. For a detailed account of the intraparty battle against Perkins, see Mowry, TR, chap. 11.
37 Showing as much Chicago Tribune, 9 Dec. 1912; Mowry, TR, 285.
38 convinced by his support TR, Letters, 7.665.
39 “The doctrine of” Gable, The Bull Moose Years, 154. A case in point soon materialized in Idaho, where the state supreme court, on 2 Jan. 1913, jailed and fined the editor and publisher of the Boise Capital News on contempt charges for criticizing its decision to deny local candidates the right to run as Progressives on the national ballot. The result was outrage in all sections of the American press, and wide circulation of TR’s triumphant reaction: “There could be no better proof that we need in many states at least the power to recall judges from the bench when they act badly.” TR, Letters, 7.687.
40 “I have had” TR to KR, 27 Dec. 1912 and 21 Jan. 1913. The manuscript of TR’s autobiography, bound in two vols., is in MLM. Except for chap. 1, which seems to be a copy of Lawrence Abbott’s redaction of his first “interview” session with TR, and a few late pages on conservation written by Gifford Pinchot at the author’s request, all the other chapters are original typescripts dictated and heavily edited by TR. Some pages are so dense with handwritten “inserts” that the four margins are filled to capacity. It is clear that he regarded the book as an important document.
41 a lock of honey-colored hair This memento of Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt is preserved at Sagamore Hill National Historic Site.
42 The company of TR, Letters, 7.688.
43 He was intrigued TR to KR, 11 Nov. 1912, ts. (TRC); TR, Letters, 8.829; Endicott Peabody in Boston Transcript, 22 July 1918. TR was particularly impressed with QR’s story, “From a Train Window,” Grotonian, Oct. 1914.
44 Kermit claimed KR to ERD, 12, 26 Nov. 1913 (ERDP); EKR to Anna Roosevelt Cowles, 15 Oct. 1913 (ARC); KR to ERD, 12 May 1913 (ERDP).
45 “As president of” TR, Letters, 7.660.
46 More excitingly Ibid.
47 At Symphony Hall Lowell (Mass.) Sun, The New York Times, 28 Dec. 1912.
48 And the great Parkman Morris, The Rise of TR, 120, 393, 412.
49 None of the members Pringle, TR, 572.
50 He proceeded to say TR’s lecture, “History as Literature,” has been widely reprinted. The version cited here, taken from the American Historical Review, Apr. 1913, appears in TR, Works, 14.3–28. It is the source of the following quotations.
51 Literature may TR, Works, 14.7.
52 “the preacher militant” Wister, Roosevelt, 232.
53 He must ever remember TR, Works, 14.23.
54 “He is so” Turner, Dear Lady, 139.
55 “T.R. came and went” Akiko Murakata, “Theodore Roosevelt and William Sturgis Bigelow: The Story of a Friendship,