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19. Shandigaff, better known as “shandy,” is one-half beer and one-half ginger beer. Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association Collection, Widener Library, Harvard University, quoted in Lash, Eleanor and Franklin 11.
20. Elliott’s account of a tiger shoot in Hyderabad and an elephant hunt in Sri Lanka was edited by Eleanor and published by Scribner’s in 1933 under the title Hunting Big Game in the Eighties.
21. New York Herald, The New York Times, December 2, 1883. David McCullough and Geoffrey Ward assert that TR was Elliott’s best man. Contemporary coverage in the Herald and Times suggests otherwise. Compare David McCullough, Mornings on Horseback 250 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981); Ward, Before the Trumpet 264.
22. In Loving Memory of Anna Hall Roosevelt, FDRL, quoted in Ward, Before the Trumpet 265.
23. John Sargeant Wise, Recollections of Thirteen Presidents 241–243 (New York: Doubleday, 1906).
24. The quotation is from ER, Autobiography 5. Hall’s full name was Gracie Hall Roosevelt. James King Gracie was Elliott’s uncle, having married his mother’s sister, Anna Bulloch.
25. TR’s comment is in a letter to Bamie, August 22, 1891.
26. News of the suit was featured in all New York dailies on August 17, 1891. “Wrecked by Liquor and Folly,” said the Herald. “His Brother Theodore Applies for a Writ of Lunacy,” reported the Sun.
27. Elliott’s letter was reprinted in the New York edition of the Herald, August 21, 1891.
28. TR to Bamie, January 21, 1892 (TR’s emphasis).
29. Undated letter from TR to Bamie, cited in Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt 447 (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979).
30. Cook, 1 Eleanor Roosevelt 65n.
31. Mrs. Sherman blamed Anna for Elliott’s demise. Blanche Wiesen Cook states the case to the contrary with uncompromising directness. “Throughout the entire period,” she writes, “Anna struggled desperately against medical advice, TR’s bullying, and what must have been her own doubts to persuade his family that Elliott was curable. She stood virtually alone in her effort to find an alternative and loving approach to Elliott’s treatment. Only when Elliott became uncontrollable and vindictive, did she agree to leave him in [Paris], and consent to TR’s suit to establish a trust that would protect her children’s financial interest. But she continued to hope for Elliott’s recovery, and to worry about his peace of mind.” Ibid. 66–67.
32. Eleanor Roosevelt, This Is My Story 12–13 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937). ER omitted this passage when she republished This Is My Story in her Autobiography in 1961.
33. The New York Times, December 8, 1892.
34. Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt 848–849; Ward, Before the Trumpet 278.
35. TR to Bamie, July 29, 1894; August 18, 1894.
36. Cook, 1 Eleanor Roosevelt 80. For the tension between Eleanor and Anna, see pages 70–72. See also Ward, Before the Trumpet 288.
37. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, quoted in Michael Teague, Mrs. L: Conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth 151 (New York: Doubleday, 1981).
38. ER, Autobiography 11–12.
39. Cook, 1 Eleanor Roosevelt 95.
40. Teague, Mrs. L 154.
41. Ibid. “I had a lot of admiration for her,” Alice recalled. “But I did get bored with her type of piety.… She always wanted to discuss things like whether contentment was better than happiness and whether they conflicted with one another. Things like that I didn’t give a damn about.”
42. Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie, eds., 1 The Diary of Beatrice Webb 277 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982); also see vol. 2, pp. 340–341.
Before moving to England, Mlle. Souvestre had founded Les Ruches, a girls school at Fontainebleau, in partnership with another woman. This was the school Bamie attended. After Bamie left, the two women quarreled and the school disbanded. A charged account of the breakup is in Olivia, a roman à clef of Les Ruches and Allenwood written by Dorothy Strachey Bussy in 1933 and published under a pseudonym in 1948. Dorothy Strachey