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35 “cool, dry, and ample”: Seale, The President’s House, 524.
36 “wonderfully patient sufferer”: Paulson, “Death of a President and His Assassin,” 79.
37 “never approached him”: Bliss, “The Story of President Garfield’s Illness,” 301.
38 “Thank you, gentlemen”: Rockwell, “From Mentor to Elberon,” Century Magazine, 437.
39 “witty, and quick at repartee”: Ibid.
40 “The vein of his conversation”: “A Great Nation in Grief,” New York Times, July 3, 1881.
41 “I do not believe that”: “At the Patient’s Bedside,” New York Times, July 5, 1881.
42 Although Garfield rarely mentioned: Rockwell, “From Mentor to Elberon,” Century Magazine.
43 “What motive do you think”: “A Great Nation in Grief,” New York Times, July 3, 1881.
Chapter 17: One Nation
1 “You were not made free merely”: “Colored Men Visit Garfield,” New York Times, October 21, 1880.
2 “the high privilege and sacred duty”: Garfield, Inaugural Address, March 4, 1881.
3 “give the South, as rapidly as possible”: De Santis, “President Garfield and the ‘Solid South,’ ” 449.
4 “felt, as they had not felt before”: “Southern Sympathy,” New York Times, July 20, 1881.
5 “united, as if by magic”: Bundy, The Nation’s Hero, in Memoriam, 242–43.
6 “the whole Nation kin”: “Jefferson Davis on Guiteau’s Crime,” New York Times, July 16, 1881.
7 “I felt lighthearted and merry”: United States v. Guiteau, 601.
8 “His vanity is literally nauseating”: Hayes and Hayes, A Complete History, 405–6.
9 “He spoke with deliberation”: Ibid.
10 “He objected strenuously”: Ibid., 406.
11 “I want you to be sure”: Ibid., 499.
12 “I don’t want to appear strained”: Quoted in Ackerman, Dark Horse, 406.
13 Before returning to his cell: Clark, The Murder of James A. Garfield, 65.
14 He believed that he would be released: Rosenberg, The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau, p. 46.
15 “by the hundreds”: Clark, The Murder of James A. Garfield, 91.
16 “a conviction would shock the public”: United States v. Guiteau, 2246.
17 So carefree was Guiteau: Rosenberg, The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau, 45.
18 “I am looking for a wife”: Hayes and Hayes, A Complete History, 451.
19 “For twenty years, I have had an idea”: Hayes and Hayes, A Complete History, 452.
20 He was in contact with everyone: Mackenzie, Alexander Graham Bell, 235.
21 “Alec says he telegraphed”: Mabel Bell to her mother, July 20, 1881, Bell Family Papers.
22 At this point in his experiments: Bell, Upon the Electrical Experiments, 15.
23 He had adjusted the coils’ size: Ibid., 8–11.
24 Most important, he had decided to borrow: Ibid., 5.
25 Bell and Tainter had already begun testing: Mackenzie, Alexander Graham Bell, 236.
26 Seven years earlier, while working: Bruce, Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude, 121.
27 “more nearly approximate”: Bell to Mabel Bell, July 17, 1881, Bell Family Papers; Mackenzie, Alexander Graham Bell, 236.
28 On July 20, as promised: Bell, “Volta Lab Notes,” July 19, 1881.
29 Bliss, who had brought for the inventor: Clark, The Murder of James A. Garfield, 86. The bullets are in the collection of the National Museum of American History.
30 “Ball can certainly be located”: Bell, “Volta Lab Notes,” July 9, 1881.
31 “If people would only make their bullets”: Bell, Upon the Electrical Experiments, 46.
32 In its earliest form, the induction balance: Ibid., 7, 11.
33 Always a serious young man: Grosvenor and Wesson, Alexander Graham Bell, 62.
34 The Volta Laboratory, moreover, was far: Gray, Reluctant Genius, 217.
35 So unhealthy was the laboratory: Mabel Bell to Eliza Bell, June 23, 1881, Bell Family Papers.
36 “headache has taken root”: Bruce, Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude, 201.
37 “Alec says he would rather die”: Mabel Bell to Eliza Bell, June 23, 1881, Bell Family Papers.
38 “epistolary silence”: Bell to Mabel Bell, July 26, 1881, Bell Family Papers.
39 “Alec says he is well and bearing”: Mabel Bell to her mother, July 20, 1881, Bell Family Papers.
40 “I want to know how you are personally”: Mabel Bell to Alexander Graham Bell, July 16, 1881, Bell