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294 WAD repudiates his children: recalled by MLT, Ibid.

295 evidence of Maggie Maher: Trial mss.

13: THE TRIAL

See A&M, ‘The Law Suit and the Trial’, 409-13. This informed summary has the advantage of being available. Other sources are the trial mss and ‘MLT Speaks’.

299 ‘fool’; ‘Paddy’; ‘pack of lies’; ‘disgust’: ‘MLT Speaks’ (10 Oct 1931). Yale: box 101, f.242. Some material synthesised by Sewall, i, appendix II, section 4.

299 MDB locked the piano: Ibid.

300 to sue as a form of therapy: Janet Malcolm makes a brilliant comparison with Freud’s talking cure in The Journalist and the Murderer (New Yorker, 1990).

300 date of Amherst Slander Case: Summonses (dated 26 Feb 1898). Trial MSS.

300 Hills pleading sick: He did not record slander evidence but did record a deposition for the land trial. It’s unclear whether Miss Seelye testified at the land or the slander trial.

301 land trial records: Trial MSS: Hampshire Superior Court Civil Action No. 125, including depositions by Maggie Maher, Jane Seelye and Mr Hills; Houghton Ms Am 2521; newspaper cuttings in the Houghton’s box of family papers, bMS Am 1118.95 and newspaper cuttings (the Springfield Republican and the Hartford Courant) at Yale: 496C, series VII, box 101, f.241; copies of the Bill of Complaint and the Defendants’ Answer in Jones Library, Amherst. Official Transcript, Yale: box 101, f.239, including another copy of the Bill of Complaint, a summary of the land trial in the Superior Court: ‘Report of the Evidence’, and the Supreme Court summary.

301 LD’s courtroom outfit: ‘MLT Speaks’, op. cit.

301 LD’s hairstyle: LD to her cousin, John Graves of Boston. DFP. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95.

302 ‘ridiculous’: AB, 359; Sewall, i, appendix II, 262.

302 MLT’s courtroom hat: ‘MLT Speaks’, op. cit.

303 wrinkles; teeth: MLT’s reminiscences in AB.

303 Field remembered LD: Letter to MDB (26 Nov 1932). Correspondence concerning the publication of ED. Houghton: MS Am 1118.97-1118.98.

303 deceive the elect; ‘make anybody believe . . .’: MLT, Journals, VIII. Yale: microfilm, reel 9.

304 LD’s ‘forlorn look’: ‘MLT Speaks’, op. cit.

306 ‘lesson . . .’: Ned to Frothingham (Mar 1898). DFP. Houghton: bMS Am 1118.95.

306 asked her to edit her poems: Hartford Courant (2 Mar 1898), reporting the case.

309 Taft’s summing-up: Springfield Republican (4 Mar 1898). A&M, 422.

309 ‘pounded’: MLT’s word. Diary (3 Mar 1898). Yale: microfilm, reel 3.

309 3 April: MLT records the judgment in her diary on 15 Apr. Yale: microfilm, reel 3.

310 ‘Something was done . . .’: Ibid.

310 ‘kills me daily’: Diary (21 Apr 1898). Ibid.

310 Harvard Law School: ‘MLT Speaks’, op. cit. MLT often lied, but this rings true.

310 ‘own legs’: ‘MLT Speaks’ (10 Oct 1931). Yale: box 101, f.242.

311 Mrs Washington Cable: A friend of MLT.

311 Supreme Court case: It was case no. 172, argued in Sept 1898 and set out in the Massachusetts Supreme Court Reports, 183.

312 ‘I am . . . crushed’: Diary (29 Nov 1898).

312 sensitive as a leaf; a chain; ‘I shall die . . .’: Journals, VIII. Yale: microfilm, reel 9.

14: DEFEATS OF THE FIRST GENERATION

313 fourth volume: MLT repeats this intention in her recollections thirty-three years later. MLT’s note in 1931: ‘I was in the midst of preparing a fourth volume . . .’.

313 ‘disgrace . . .’: Ned to Theodore Frothingham (Mar 1898). Houghton: bMS Am 1996 (2).

313 escaped to Europe: summer 1897, with the trial due, then, for the autumn.

313 ‘witchesmare’: Ned to Frothingham (7 Mar 1898), op. cit.

314 ‘taking his usual drive . . .’: Letters to MDB (11 Jan 1885). Hay Library, St A. 36.

314 Potomac: Letters to MDB. Hay Library, St A. 36.

314 ‘smooth front’: Ned to MDB (26 Jan 1885). St Armand, New England Quarterly (1988), 373.

314 ‘without . . . a row’: Ned to Frothingham (17 Jan 1898).

314 ‘rains . . .’: Ned to Frothingham (15 Dec 1897).

314 Alix: St Armand calls her ‘Alix’. The Dickinsons of Amherst, 135.

314 so dear a girl: Ned to Frothingham (17 Jan 1898).

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