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275 ‘picturesque’ life; ‘gentle . . .’: MLT’s review column in Home Magazine (Nov 1890).

275 ‘startling . . . poetic bombs’: ‘Evolution of a Style’ (c. 1894). Yale.

276 ‘no comprehension . . .’: WAD to TWH, quoted in Dickerman, ‘Portrait of Two Sisters’, op. cit.

276 ‘inciting voice’, etc: To Charles Clark (mid June 1883). L827.

276 ‘Joan of Arc’: LD to Niles (27 July 1891). AC. Cited by Jane Ward in her 2007 exhibition at the Homestead.

IV: THE WAR BETWEEN THE HOUSES

12: LAVINIA’S STAND

279 not a cent: Miss Vryling Wilder Buffam to MTB (16 Nov 1938). AB, 368.

280 DPT bathed LD: MLT, Diary (21 Dec 1894). Yale: microfilm, reel 3.

280 ‘had the best’ of both men’s lives: A&M, 372.

281 relief: Ned to Frothingham (Mar 1898) says that ‘recent changes in the family’ had rendered his life ‘endurable’ before the case arose. DFP. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95.

281 ‘My best friend . . .’: ‘A Line A Day Diary’ (16 and 17 Aug 1895). Yale: 496B, series VII, box 108, f.55.

281 ‘degrading . . .’: Maggie Maher recalled this exchange. Trial mss.

281 ‘My Austin . . .’; ‘I feel . . .’; ‘I want . . .’: Diary. Yale: microfilm.

282 ‘on a volcano . . .’; ‘real . . . self ’: Journals (May 1896), 136. Yale: microfilm, reel 9.

282 ‘of pain’; ‘Youth is my role’: Journals, VII (Sept 1896).

282 ‘signet royal . . .’: Journals, VIII (1897).

282 Omaha plan: WAD to J. Clark (8 Aug 1893). Yale: 496C, box 97, f.157. Sewall, i, 184, notes that the letter is a draft and may not have been sent.

283 ‘A deaf God’: A&M, 375.

283 ‘And if my life . . .’; ‘My advancements . . .’: A&M, 361.

284 money meant a lot: When advancement of the needy is debated in E. M. Forster’s Howard’s End (1910), it’s suggested that the most effective gift to an able but poor aspirant is not, in the first instance, education; it’s a certain number of pounds.

284 ‘no treason’ and ‘Ever be . . .’: (Aug 1885). See ch. 9, above.

284 WAD’s bequest to MLT: Yale: box 97, f.153.

285 nearly $34,000: LD Papers, Hay Library. Inventory of the estate (Apr 1896) added up to $33,890.

285 ‘slippery . . .’ etc: Diary (6 Oct 1895). Yale. Cited by Walsh, 185.

286 measurements of meadow: Original deed in MLT’s hand. Trial mss. The 290-foot measurement is the length of the adjoining Dell. This means that she was extending the width of her plot to 54 feet, and not the mere 13 feet she alleged in her later recollections.

287 Bumpus longed to make love: A&M, 412.

287 MLT’s exchange with Spaulding: ‘Mabel Todd Speaks’ TS (10 Oct 1931). Yale: box 101, f.242.

288 scene in the dining room: Reconstructed from statements before and during the ensuing court case.

288 Maggie told LD: Mr Palmer, WAD’s executor, saw the deed in a business magazine and confronted Maggie about it in the Amherst post office.

290 ‘paper’: Mr Spaulding corroborated this in court on 3 Mar 1898.

291 ‘mere trifles . . .’: A&M, 408.

291 ‘witchesmare’: Ned to friend Theodore Frothingham in the aftermath of the court case (7 Mar 1898): ‘16 years witchesmare’, which therefore goes back to 1882. As in ‘nightmare’. Like his aunt, Ned invents a word. An alternative reading of the ms word could be ‘witchesmere’. Houghton: bMS Am 1996 (2). In demonising MLT at the time of the court case, Ned pays her back for slurs on his mother.

291 Ned to LD: DFP. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95.

292* a thousand dollars her due: ‘Mabel Todd Speaks’, op. cit.

292* royalty statements on first edition of ED’s letters: LD Papers, Hay Library.

293 ‘wallop’: MLT, Diary (27 May 1897). Yale: microfilm, reel 3. Quoted in A&M, 414.

293 Mr Hills’s claim: Deposition taken by LD’s counsel, Mr Field (1897). Trial mss.

293 ‘leeches’: Springfield Republican (4 Mar 1898), reporting the case.

293 Miss Seelye’s report of Maggie’s words: Deposition taken by Mr Field (1897). Mss.

294 ‘All right’: MLT reports in her Diary (20 Dec 1897). Yale: microfilm, reel 3.

294 ‘too good a case . . .’: ‘MLT Speaks’,