Pulitzer_ A Life in Politics, Print, and Power - James McGrath Morris [309]
Although his idea: Franklin Prentiss to JP, 11/26/1887, and “Christmas Prizes Offered by Mr. Pulitzer,” 11/3/1899, JP-CU; November memo, 1899, JP-LC, Box 2.
Pulitzer assigned Hosmer: JP to KP, 5/20/1904, JP-CU.
On the train: JP to GWH, 8/11/1902, JP-CU; DCS-JP, 435; AtCo, 2/3/1903, 5.
Ignoring Seitz’s opinion: JP to GWH, 8/11/1902, JP-CU.
On Sunday, February 22: Volo and Volo, Family Life in Nineteenth-Century America, 196.
Pulitzer let loose: JP telegram, 2/26/1903; WP-CU, DCS to JP, 2/27/1903; JP memorandum, 2/27/1903; JP memo to DCS, 2/28/1903; Council notes, 3/2/1903, WP-CU.
Pulitzer replied that: Gale was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921, for a play based on her novel Miss Lulu Bett. For more on her work at the World, see Morris, The Rose Man of Sing Sing, 155–156.
When Edith arrived: BoGl, 5/9/1903, 20; Edith Pulitzer to JP, 5/1903, JP-CU; NYT, 5/9/1903, 8.
Pulitzer took great joy: Draft of letter in July 3–6, 1903 Folder, JP-CU, as well as numerous other items in the files.
In fact, not long after: James Tuohy to JP, 7/17/1903, JP-CU. I have chosen not to use the man’s name, as there is no way to ascertain his side of the story. There exists one letter in which the man is said to deny the charges.
One reader in particular: JWC to JP, February 1903, WP-CU.
Writing to Joseph: KP to JP, 6/21/1903, JP-CU.
CHAPTER 27: CAPTURED FOR THE AGES
In early 1904: JWB, 183–185.
For Kate, the winter: KP to JP, 2/19/1904; KP to JP, 2/4/1904; JP to KP, 2/22/1904; KP to JP, 2/23/1904; KP to JP, 3/1/1904, JP-CU.
Remaining in New York: JPII to JP, 4/7/1904; JP to AB, 1/29/1904, JP-CU.
Harvard decided that: JPII to JP, 2/15/1904, JP-CU.
After her time: KP to JP, 5/4/1904, KP to JP, 5/13/1904, JP-CU. J. P. Morgan was also resting in Aix-les-Bains. “If you two get together there will be an interesting time,” said Pulitzer’s banker Dumont Clarke (DC to JP, 5/6/1904, JP-CU).
“In all my planning”: JP, “The College of Journalism,” North American Review (May 1904), 680.
However, in the year: DCS-JP, 457.
Butler consented but: Butler to George L. Rives, 8/15/1903, quoted in Boylan, Pulitzer’s School, 15.
Realizing that the story: NYT, 8/16/1903, 6; TR to Robert Underwood Johnson, 12/17/1908, Roosevelt, Letters, Vol. 6, 1428.
None of the public praise: DCS-JP, 460.
In Aix-les-Bains: JP to KP, 5/25/1904 (misdated as 1905), JP-CU.
Joseph didn’t rest: Transcripts of Pulitzer’s Pitman Shorthand Notebooks, 1903–1905, LS.
When Pulitzer’s mood: JP to JPII, 5/23/1904 (misdated as 1905), JP-CU.
None of Pulitzer’s secretaries: JP to KP, transcripts of Pulitzer’s Pitman Shorthand Notebooks, 1903–1905, LS.
His cruelty stung: KP to JP, 9/15/1904, JP-CU.
The elections of 1904: AB to SW, 1/1/1904, WP-CU.
Ralph dutifully reported: RP to JP, 1/4/1904, and JP to RP, 1/25/1904, JP-CU. Roosevelt’s interest in seeing Pulitzer is also noted in a letter from the president to Harvey on January 22, 1904. (Roosevelt, Letters, Vol. 3, 702.)
Roosevelt extended his invitation: TR to J. E. Smith in DCS memo to JP, 9/19/1899, WP-CU.
Pulitzer sent Williams: “Bryan Statement,” 2/25/1904, JP-CU.
As the Democrats settled: WSJ, 6/28/1904, 3; JP to DCS, 5/6/1904, WP-CU.
Pulitzer was elated: WAS, 356. See also Stoddard, As I Knew Them, 56–57; Morris, Theodore Rex, 341. Morris believed Parker was swayed by the New York Times’s opposition to the silver standard. See also Kazin, A Godly Hero, 166–120.
From Bar Harbor: JP to WHM, 8/1904, JP-LC.
Pulitzer had long sought: JP editorial memo, September 1904, WP-CU.
The ten questions: J. W. Slaght to BM, 10/20/1904, WP-CU; Klein, Life and Legend of E. H. Harriman, 364.
Roosevelt considered the attacks: TR to Henry Cabot Lodge, 10/31/1904, Roosevelt, Letters, Vol. 4, 1006–1007; JP, draft of editorial, JP-CU, Box 31.
As 1905 began: David Francis to JP, 2/22/1905; JP to FDW, 3/18/1905; JP to Francis, 3/1/1905; Francis to JP, 3/2/1905, JP-CU.
When Francis returned: JP to Francis, 3/3/1905; JP to FDW, 3/10/1905, JP-CU.