Pulitzer_ A Life in Politics, Print, and Power - James McGrath Morris [300]
The rivalry between: ThJo, 6/20/1885, 4; NYT, 4/13/1942, 15.
“We have withdrawn”: NYS, 10/18–11/8, 1887.
Dana’s words hit: McDougall, “Old Days on the World,” 23.
Pulitzer had reached: Childs to JP, undated but most likely fall of 1887, JP-CU, Box 7.
In 1887, optometrists: Wells, A Treatise on the Disease of the Eye, 536. Which eye had failed was deduced from Dr. Hermann Pagenstecher’s later comments.
Pulitzer’s doctors were: JP to FC, 1/26/1909, JP-LC.
“I am absolutely”: JP to Varina Davis, 11/30/1887, JP-CU.
Congressman Walter Phelps: Walter Phelps to JP, 4/19/1888, JP-CU.
CHAPTER 20: SAMSON AGONISTES
On a moonlit: LAT, 2/28/1888, 3 and 3/1/1888, 6.
Pulitzer’s doctors in New York: Manton Marable to KP, 1/14/1888, JP-CU, quoted in WRR, 217.
The journey drained: Details regarding the Pullman car may be found in April 1888 personal ledger, JP-CU, Box 7.
The Pulitzers had come: Cashin, First Lady of the Confederacy, 247–250; Jefferson Davis, Private Letters, 553.
For the next several weeks: Landmark, 3/1/1888, 4.
During the blizzard: Walter Phelps to JP, 4/19/1888, JP-CU; Conkling to JP, 3/16/88, JP-CU; WAS, 173;
Pulitzer nixed the idea: ThJo, 5/12/1888, 3; Smith to JP, 5/18/1888, WP-CU.
The family reached: NYW, 5/10/1888, 1.
Home again, Pulitzer: WaPo, 6/17/1888, 1; NYT, 6/10/1888, 16, and 7/8/1888, 16.
Once across the: Among the doctors Pulitzer saw were Sir Andrew Clarke; Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot, one of the founders of neurology; and Dr. Charles-Edward Brown-Séquard. (See DCS-JP, 171; and WAS, 175.)
Still smarting from: Manuscript fragments, JP-LC, Box 11.
Resigned to his exile: ChTr, 9/16/1888, 12; Mansfield Times, 1/18/1889, 2.
Infirm but not: Number of employees was derived using the World directory left in the cornerstone of the building that went up that year. It may be found in WP-CU, Box 10; JWB, 133; Turner to JP, 6/7/1888, WP-CU.
Aside from creating: When a letter was read to its recipient, a report would be sent back to Pulitzer on the person’s reaction. For example, in one such case, Seitz wrote to Pulitzer, “He received it in an agreeable and appreciative way.” One wonders how else the recipient was to react. DCS to JP, 11/20/1900, WP-CU. Also see JP to DCS, 8/17/1900, JP-LC.
For years, Pulitzer: Chambers, News Hunting on Three Continents, 307.
By similar means: JP to Chambers, 2/10/1889, reprinted in Chambers, News Hunting, 333.
While Pulitzer was in California: NYT, 11/14/1886, 3; DCS-JP, 169. Pulitzer recounted his early connection to French’s Hotel several times in stories published in the World.
The architect George Brown: Post to Barlow, 4/11/1888, WP-CU.
From Paris, Pulitzer: September/December 1888, Folder, WP-CU, Box 10.
Over the winter: JP to Turner, 4/19/1889, WP-CU.
Money, of course: JP to Turner, 3/19/1889, WP-CU.
Pulitzer still considered: JP to Turner, 3/19/1889, WP-CU.
After Post’s visit: JP to John Jennings, 3/11/1889, JJJ.
Pulitzer took time: NYT, 4/27/1889, 4.
An editor from: WaPo, 5/13/1889, 4.
On May 15: Turner to Post, 5/15/1889, WP-CU.
Pulitzer did his resolute best: JP to KP, 6/11/1889, JP-CU.
“Well,” he added: Ponsonby also wrote to Kate. He reported, “I am sure you will be glad to hear that he scarcely ever alludes to his health”: Ponsonby to KP, 6/21/1889, JP-CU.
In a decade: AtCo, 4/21/1889, 18; NYT, 7/3/1889, 4; WaPo, 6/4/1890, 4.
Pulitzer also increased: NYT, 9/20/1889; Wilson, ed., The Memorial History of the City of New York, Vol. 5, 594–595. By 1940, 551 boys, mostly immigrant children, had gone on to become engineers, lawyers, doctors, journalists, and authors. See Time, 1/1/1940.
In the fall: NYT, 10/27/1889, 13; WaPo, 9/14/1889, 5. Pulitzer also donated $50,000 to try to attract the 1892 World Fair to New York City.
Nothing about the project: JP to Davis, 11/23/1889, JP-LC.
On October 10: BoGl, 10/11/1889, 2; WaPo, 10/11/1889, 4; ChTr, 10/20/1889, 26. Taylor used to tell Pulitzer that “he would have no appetite for breakfast if he did not see blood running down the column rules on the editorial paper of the morning