Colonel Roosevelt - Edmund Morris [468]
17 “You did not” Ibid.
18 “She had a” Ibid. [sic]. During the afternoon of 6 Jan., the sculptor James Earle Fraser took a plaster cast of TR’s face. The macabre result may be seen in Lorant, Life and Times of TR, 627. According to Hamlin Garland, some books TR had been reading were still resting on the counterpane. Roosevelt House Memorial Bulletin, 2.2 (Fall 1923).
19 A perpetual drone The New York Times, 7 Jan. 1919; Sylvia Morris, Edith Kermit Roosevelt, 434; undated news clip in “Theodore Roosevelt” scrapbook, Pratt Collection (TRB). The air vigil was ordered by General William L. Kenly, director of military aeronautics.
20 The aerial watch The New York Times, 9 Jan. 1919.
21 The snow tapered off Except where otherwise indicated, the following account of TR’s funeral is based on ERD to Richard Derby, 8 Jan. 1919 (ERDP), and EBR to “mother,” 8 Jan. 1919 (TRJP), supplemented by reports in The New York Times, New York Evening Post, New York World, Oakland Tribune, Waterloo (Iowa) Evening Courier (AP), Greenville (Pa.) Evening Record (UP), 8 and 9 Jan. 1919, and clippings and photographs in the “Theodore Roosevelt” scrapbook, Pratt Collection (TRB).
22 “He looked” ERD to Richard Derby, 8 Jan. 1919 (ERDP).
23 Roosevelt’s disdain for pompe See 67.
24 He noticed a distraught EBR to “mother,” 8 Jan. 1919 (TRJP).
25 When through fiery trials Copied by John J. Leary (JJL).
26 “Theodore,” he said Abbott, Impressions of TR, 313; New York World, 9 Jan. 1919.
27 A single pull John J. Leary funeral notes (JJL).
28 As the engraved words TR’s coffin was lowered into the ground by a compressed-air device at 1:47 P.M. New York World, 9 Jan. 1919.
29 Lieutenant Otto Raphael “Roosevelt Night,” Middlesex Club proceedings, Boston, 27 Oct. 1921, 4–5 (TRB). For TR’s relationship with Raphael, see TR, An Autobiography, chap. 6.
30 One of the last Albert Cheney interview, 1920, TRB. Youngs Cemetery still functions. TR’s grave is maintained by the town of Oyster Bay.
31 “The man was” Carl Bode, ed., The New Mencken Letters (New York, 1997), 96.
32 Among the superlatives Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, 380; The New York Times, 7 Jan. 1919; White, Autobiography, 552.
33 Woodrow Wilson’s sentiments The New York Times, 8 Jan. 1919.
34 Something like a superman New York Evening Post, 6 Jan. 1919.
35 He was hailed “Theodore Roosevelt” scrapbook, Pratt Collection (TRB); The New York Times, 8 Jan. 1919; Aimaro Sato, former Japanese ambassador to the United States and delegate to the Russo-Japanese peace conference at Portsmouth, N.H., in 1905, quoted in The New York Times, 10 Jan. 1919; Jules Jusserand address at Waldorf-Astoria, New York, 27 Oct. 1919, in Journal of American History, 13.3 (Fall 1919). Edith Wharton, recalling her meetings with TR in 1933, used the same simile as Jusserand: “Each of these encounters glows in me like a tiny morsel of radium.” Wharton, A Backward Glance, 317.
36 His survey of New York Tribune and The New York Times, 10 Feb. 1919. The quotation is from part 2 of Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress.
37 “Mr. Roosevelt’s great” The Nation, 109.2836 (8 Nov. 1919).
38 Mr. Roosevelt has attained Ibid.
39 “Teddy” the lovable When Walter Lippmann was the senior statesman of American political journalism, he looked back on the many presidents he had known, and wrote that TR was the only one who could be described as “lovable.” Ronald Steel, Walter Lippmann and the American Century (Boston, 1980, New Brunswick, N.J. 1999), 64.
40 the book of all his books Joseph Bucklin Bishop, ed., Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children (New York, 1919). Largely as a result of this book, TR’s royalties increased from $3,150 in 1919 to $31,930. A modern reissue, illustrated and edited by Joan Paterson Kerr, is A Bully Father (New York, 1995).
41 Roosevelt’s mammoth 1911 letter Bishop, TR, 2.184–259; TR, Letters, 7.348–99. Even Stuart Sherman allowed, in a review of Bishop’s biography, that the Trevelyan letter was “a masterpiece … probably one of the longest epistles in the world.” The Nation,