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103 Arrangements were made Ibid., 1, 5 May 1914 (KRP); The New York Times, 6 May 1914.
104 Before leaving Cherrie diary, 1 May 1914 (AMNH); The New York Times, 19 May 1914.
105 Dear Arthur TR, Letters, 7.761.
106 two abscesses TR tended to belittle his ailments. KR speaks of “a veritable plague of deep abscesses,” and Rondon describes them as “numerous.” He was also suffering from malnutrition, and the lingering aftereffects of malaria.
107 We have put on the map TR, Letters, 7.761. See ibid., 7.759–60, for TR’s telegram from Manáos to Lauro Müller, tersely summarizing the trials and triumphs of the Expediçào Scíentifica Roosevelt-Rondon. KR did not accompany his father back to New York, but remained in Belém preparatory to departure for Madrid.
108 He was profoundly Rondon appears to have chartered, or commandeered, the Cidade de Manáos to get him to Belém ahead of TR. Cherrie diary, 2–3 May 1914 (AMNH).
109 “I hope and pray” Vivieros, Rondon, 422 (trans. author).
CHAPTER 17: A WRONG TURN OFF APPEL QUAY
1 Epigraph Robinson, Collected Poems, 231.
2 The first published Middletown (N.Y.) Times-Press, 20 May 1914; The New York Times, 20–21 May 1914. The Times printed side-by-side photographs to show how dramatically TR had aged since leaving the United States six months before.
3 He claimed that The New York Times and The Washington Post, 20 May 1914. George Cherrie reported TR’s fever attack.
4 The President had WW to TR, 23 May 1914 (WWP); TR to WW, 23 May 1914 (TRC).
5 At three o’clock The Washington Post, 27 May 1914.
6 Wilson had been Morris, Theodore Rex, 18.
7 Roosevelt had always “Woodrow Wilson is a perfect trump.” TR, Letters, 3.275.
8 “What is” D. H. Elletson, Roosevelt and Wilson: A Comparative Study (London, 1965), 61; Link, Papers of Woodrow Wilson, 12.262.
9 When Wilson became Link, Papers of Woodrow Wilson, 12.454; Heckscher, Woodrow Wilson, 76–77; “Dr. Woodrow Wilson Defines Material Issues,” The New York Times, 24 Nov. 1907.
10 Roosevelt’s reciprocal TR, Letters, 8.836; Sullivan, Our Times, 4.137. “No American ever knew where he was during the many months I have been on this coast,” Sir Christopher Cradock, the local British naval commander, wrote Cecil Spring Rice from Vera Cruz on 30 May 1914. “They stand fools to the world” (CSR).
11 “morality and not expediency” WW at Mobile, Ala., on 27 Oct. 1913, quoted in The New York Times, 28 Oct. 1913. See also Cooper, Woodrow Wilson, 140–41.
12 So he had lifted Cooper, Woodrow Wilson, 242.
13 Wilson had gone before The New York Times, 21 Apr. 1914.
14 Chronic wrongdoing Fourth Annual Message (Dec. 1904), TR, Works, 17.295, 299.
15 In a development Thomas A. Bailey, A Diplomatic History of the American People, 8th ed. (New York, 1969), 558–59.
16 Roosevelt had thrilled According to Rondon, the ailing TR had been avid to get home in case of war, exclaiming, “Oh, Mexico! Oh, Mexico!” Rondon-Naylor interview, The New York Times, 6 Jan. 1929.
17 For a while Henry J. Forman oral history, “So Brief a Time” (1959–1960), conducted by Doyce B. Nunis, Young Research Library, UCLA, 228. In 1914, Forman was a reporter for the New York Sun, covering the White House. See also Cooper, Woodrow Wilson, 243–45.
18 “I never went” Speech at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 11 May 1914, The New York Times, 12 May 1914.
19 Booth Tarkington’s Penrod Tarkington had once been a student of WW’s at Princeton. Penrod was a bestseller in 1914, and gave rise to many sequels and cinema adaptations. TR was seen absorbed in it, one foot tucked under him, on his train journey south, while hovering Progressives competed for his attention. (The New York Times, 27 May 1914.) There is also an amusing photograph in TRC of him reading the book with an intensity that threatens to scorch the pages.
20 the Colonel’s latest Life-Histories of African Game Animals (New York, 1914), is not included in any of the editions of TR’s collected works. Advertised as the first categorical survey of the large fauna of any continent outside the United States, it was praised for