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it might be noted that when Walter Pach visited wartime France in 1914 to buy modern art for New York galleries, he went armed with a “To Whom It May Concern” letter from TR. “As a result,” Bennard B. Perlman writes, “Pach was successful in acquiring and transporting back to the United States art by Picasso, Derain, Redon, Rouault, Dufy, and Matisse.” American Artists, Authors, and Collectors: The Walter Pach Letters, 1906–1958, Bernard B. Perlman, ed. (New York, 2003), 7.

90 A cartoon by Kemble Baltimore Evening Sun, 5 Mar. 1913. The image, preserved by Walt Kuhn in WCF, shows a gift note attached to the portrait of TR, reading: “Dear Woodrow, I leave this to your tender care. I have no use for it. Yours, William.”

91 the “Square Deal” New York World editorial, ca. Mar. 1913 (WCF).

92 drew a caricature Preserved in WCF.

93 It turned out Baltimore Evening Sun, 3, 5 Mar. 1913; Atlanta Constitution, 6 Mar. 1913. WHT’s chair, if left behind at all, was presumably too large for WW.

94 “Don’t you suppose” Thompson, Presidents I’ve Known, 274.

95 The great government The New York Times, 5 Mar. 1913.

96 an armed attack The Washington Post, 5 Mar. 1913. Wilson had been more or less forced to appoint Bryan, who had swung the Baltimore convention for him the year before, and who still commanded the loyalty of the Democratic Party’s populist majority. Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson, 269.

97 found themselves barred The New York Times, 6 Mar. 1913.

98 On Friday, 4 April The following account of ERD’s wedding is based on newspaper reports, chiefly The New York Times, 6 Apr. 1913, and Wister, Roosevelt, 319–20.

99 “I feel very strongly” TR, Letters, 7.718.

100 This had been EKR to Emily Carow, 10 Feb. 1913 (TRC). A conspicuous Harvard no-show at the wedding, to ARL’s considerable anger, was Nick Longworth. He remained depressed over the loss of his Congressional seat through most of 1913. Sylvia Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 394–95.

101 He seemed near Syracuse Herald, 6 Apr. 1913.

102 such a concourse Wister, Roosevelt, 319. For an extended survey of TR’s “familiars,” see ibid., 45ff.

103 “I am working” TR to ERD, 1 Apr. 1913 (ERDP).

104 heroism at San Juan An Autobiography, 512–24.

105 write more “picturesquely” Abbott’s adverb is barely legible in a note penciled on a page of chap. 3 of TR’s manuscript in MLM. It may be “pictorially,” but phrases in the note that can be read (“I wish Mr. T. R. could and would [illegible]”) convey his editorial unhappiness. EKR, too, expressed misgivings about the quality of the ms., which she blamed on the pressure of having to publish serially. “I hope he will get the opportunity to polish it up.” EKR to ERD, ca. June 1913 (ERDP).

106 Roosevelt revised some TR manuscript of An Autobiography (MLM).

107 asking Gifford Pinchot See TR, Letters, 7.716–17. TR actually pasted Pinchot’s draft into his text, with minimal alterations. An Autobiography ms., chap. 11 (MLM).

CHAPTER 14: A VANISHED ELDER WORLD

1 Epigraph Robinson, Collected Poems, 99. TR chose a stanza from this poem (“The Wilderness”) as an epigraph to his book of travel essays, A Book-Lover’s Holidays in the Open (New York, 1916).

2 The county courthouse See Roosevelt v. Newett for the full cast of characters participating in TR’s libel suit. The following account of the proceedings is based on this source, and newspaper reports, mainly those of The New York Times, 28 May–1 June 1913. Roosevelt v. Newett, privately published by TR’s cousin Emlen Roosevelt, is marred by the exclusion of depositions for the defense. For a summary of these, see Charles A. Palmer, “Teddy Roosevelt’s Libel Trial,” Litigation, 19.3 (Spring 1993).

3 A jury of Sheboygan Press, 27 May 1913.

4 Newett was due Ibid.; Atlanta Constitution, 1 June 1913.

5 “All that Roosevelt” Roosevelt v. Newett, 12.

6 Newett was a stalwart Melvin Holli and C. David Tompkins, “Roosevelt v. Newett: The Politics of Libel,” Michigan History, 47.4 (Dec. 1963); Roosevelt v. Newett, 12. TR’s other attorneys were W. S. Hill of Marquette and William Van Benschoten of New York.