Pulitzer_ A Life in Politics, Print, and Power - James McGrath Morris [299]
Smith was a Kentuckian: ThJo, 5/10/1884, 5.
Although Smith cut: Smith to JP, 1886, WP-CU, Box 8.
With Cockerill overseeing: Turner to JP, 2/25/1887, WP-CU.
While Pulitzer waited to: George Olney to JP, 1/27/1887, WP-CU.
In the meantime: Clippings from Public Ledger and Daily Transcript, 2/7 and 2/8/1887, WP-CU, Box 9. Also ThJo, 3/26/1887, 10; 4/7/1887, 8; and 9/10/1887, 10.
For years Hearst: Nasaw, The Chief, 54–55, 70–72.
In late March: NYT, 3/22/1887, 8; ChTr, 3/23/1887, 3.
Lawyers who knew: BoGl, 4/1/1887, 8.
Pulitzer was soon: BoGl, 4/1/1887, 8; Childs to JP, 4/13/1887, JP-CU; Lucille and Ralph, letters to JP and KP, 6/9/1887, JP-CU; Childs to JP, 4/13/1887, JP-CU.
After a stopover: WaPo, 5/2/1887 and 5/23/1887, 4; WAS, 156.
The Pulitzers took: BoGl, 6/29/1887, 8; ThJo, 1/9/1886, 5.
An enterprising American: Philadelphia Times correspondent in Paris, reprinted in several papers, including Capital (MD), 6/28/87, 1.
Joseph and Kate: T. C. Crawford did the investigating for Pulitzer. See Crawford to JP, 8/12/1887, WP-CU.
Nothing came of: Junius Morgan to JP, 6/4/1887, JP-NYSL.
Gladstone, dressed in: Morning Post, 7/11/1887, 2, 5; Daily Telegraph, 7/11/1887, 2; PD, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Number, 12/11/1903, 4.
While the ceremony: Ford, Forty-Odd Years in the Literary Shop, 148.
Unaware of the: Evening Standard, 7/11/1887, 5; Mary Gladstone, diary entry for July 9, 1887, 46, 262, Vol. 44, December 10, 1885, to Feburary 15, 1893, BLMC.
By August the Pulitzers: Smith to JP, 8/6 and 8/25, 9/7 and 9/10/1887, WP-CU; JP to Smith, 9/1/1887, WHS-IHS.
Abandoning business and: The Pulitzers rented Windhurst, owned by General John Rathbone. Childs to JP, 8/12/1887, JP-CU; Gleaner, 2/16/1887; Frank K. Paddock to JP, 12/24/1887, JP-CU.
The Pulitzers returned: BoGl, 10/01/1887, 3; ThJo, 9/11/1886, 1.
It was, indeed: Strouse, Morgan, 225–226.
While negotiating for: Platt and Bowers to trustees of Mary Grace Hoyt, 12/22/1887, JP-CU.
He invested in: ThJo, 4/16/1887, 13; Blackeslee to JP, 12/2 and 12/3/1886, JP-CU; Paul S. Potter to JP, 4/10/1887, JP-CU; bill of sale for Paris paintings in JP-CU, Box 7; JP to Goupil’s Picture Gallery, 1/14/1887, JP-CU; Fearing to JP, 1/16/1884, JP-CU; H. A. Spalding to JP (in Paris) 5/14/1887, JP-CU; John Hoey to JP, 10/25/1886, JP-CU. Payroll records show that the Pulitzers employed a chef, a kitchen staff, and cleaning women in addition to nannies; see JP-CU, Box 8. While waiting to move to Fifty-Fifth Street, the Pulitzers and their growing retinue of servants remained at 9 East Thirty-Sixth Street, having happily left behind the Fifth Avenue house with its allegedly bad plumbing, to the fury of the landlord. The landlord claimed that prospective renters had fled because the cleaning women the Pulitzers employed were spreading rumors that the plumbing was unhealthy.
Pulitzer developed a: JP to Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph, 10/18/1886, WP-CU; WaPo, 4/17/1887, 6; ThJo, 11/14/1885, 1.
Money bought the Pulitzers: NYT, 12/30/1885, 5.
The ball was held: NYT, 12/30/1885, 5.
The Pulitzers’ rising status: WaPo, 12/19/1886, 1.
In particular, Joseph: Homberger, Mrs. Astor’s New York, 176.
“J.P. always cherished”: McDougall, This Is the Life! 165.
Pulitzer did not simply: Newton Finney, one of the club’s original founders, reluctantly sold two of his shares to Pulitzer when the project neared a critical deadline and had not obtained a sufficient number of subscribers. Kate’s charm helped ease the owner’s hesitancy about including Pulitzer. (McCash and McCash, The Jekyll Island Club, 10–11.)
Despite distaste for: Homberger, Mrs. Astor’s New York, 143, 175.
Up until now: Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, 1087–1088.
“To decide a bet”: Julius Esch to editor of World, 12/11/1885, WP-CU.
“In all the multiplicity”: ThJo, 7/12/1884, 1.
“Any man can”: ThJo, 7/19/1884, 2 and 6; 10/11/1884, 6.
Pulitzer banned: LAT, 4/28/1891, 12. Jews, according to the newspaper, possessed untold wealth and influence. “The two Pulitzers—though they are estranged—command more circulation than all the other