Pulitzer_ A Life in Politics, Print, and Power - James McGrath Morris [310]
“Mr. Pulitzer is alone”: ChTr, 2/3/1905, 6.
On April 10: KP to JP, 4/11/1905; JP to RP, 5/25/1905, JP-CU.
Newspaper management was: GWH took down the conversation. See November 1904, JP-CU, Box 31.
Kate had mailed: JT to JP, 3/12/1902; JP to GWH, 4/15/1903, JP-CU.
Finally the painter consented: KP to JP, 4/11/1905.
By mid-May: KP to JP, 5/8/1905; notes on undated sheet, 5/15/1905, JP-CU.
Her portrait complete: MAM to JP, 5/21/1905, JP-CU.
Kate wanted to leave: JP to Edith Pulitzer, 5/12/1905; see also JP dictation, May 9–14 Folder, Box 34; JP to KP, 5/14/1905; JP dictation to KP, 5/25/1905, JP-CU.
Almost in a pique: JP to EP, 6/1/1905, and EP to JP, 6/2/1905, JP-CU.
Unaware of her husband’s: KP to JP, 6/16/1905, JP-CU.
Pulitzer took his turn: James Tuohy to JP, 4/4/1905; JT to JP, 4/26/1905, JP-CU.
Accompanying Pulitzer to London: JP to Bettina Wirth, undated June Folder, 1904, JP-CU, Box 30; JP to Dr. Van Noorden, 10/1906, JP to AB, 6/18/19093, JP-CU.
When Thwaites first: Thwaites, Velvet and Vinegar, 51–53; Mortimer to JP, 1/19/1902, JP-CU.
On this trip: KP to JP, 5/8/1905, JP-CU; Thwaites, Velvet and Vinegar, 51–53.
CHAPTER 28: FOREVER UNSATISFIED
The story had surfaced: Beard, After the Ball, 171–178.
The World aggressively: DCS-JP, 275.
The staff usually: JP to FC, DCS-JP, 280.
How to please: Memo to JP, probably written by Samuel Williams, 10/1907, WP-CU.
Within a month: JP to DCS, 8/28/1905, JP-LC.
Merrill was wounded: WHM to JP, 9/14/1905, WP-CU.
Worried that he might: AB to WHM, 11/14/1905; WM to AB, 11/20/1904, WP-CU. Four years later, Pulitzer instructed Seitz to buy letters that Pulitzer had written to Townsend in the 1870s. (See JP to DCS, 4/2/1909, JP-LC.) It is unlikely that any of these letters contained anything particularly scandalous. Rather, Pulitzer probably felt that his frank comments about political figures would be embarrassing if quoted.
Ralph finally screwed up his courage: RP to JP, 7/28/1904, and Nolan and Loeb to JP, 1/9/1905, JP-CU.
Money was of little concern: RP to JP, 6/6/1905, JP-CU; KP to Sally, 9/20/1905, JP-MHS.
On October 14: WaPo, NYT, BoGl, 10/8/1905; KP to JP, 7/2/1905; and KP to JP, 7/12/1905, JP-CU.
For a brief moment: RP to JP, 10/14/1905, quoted in WAS, 374.
The father expressed: JP to RP, 10/5/1905, JP-CU.
Joseph decided that: Walker, City Editor, 6. See also Morris, The Rose Man of Sing Sing.
In April, Joseph called: Chapin, Charles Chapin’s Story, 216.
His father’s continued harshness: JPII to JP, 12/12/1906. The Reminiscences of Joseph Pulitzer Jr., October 7, 1954, transcript, p. 15, the Oral History Collection of Columbia University. For the full story of JPII’s rise, see Pfaff, Joseph Pulitzer II.
After Joe was banished: Telegraph notes, 5/15/1906; KP to JP, 11/24/1906, JP-CU.
Kate, her companion: KP to JP, 5/16/1906, JP-CU.
In London, Kate: KP to JP, 5/7/1906, and 5/20/1906, JP-CU.
After Paris, the group: Edith Pulitzer to JP, 5/24/1906, JP-CU.
Kate returned to: KP to JP, 8/28/1906, JP-CU.
After consecutive failed bids: KP to JP, 10/28/1906, JP-CU; Nasaw, The Chief, 156–158.
Of all of Hearst’s enemies: WAS, 383; JP editorial memo, 9/1904, WP-CU.
Hearst, however, knew: ChTr, 10/28/1906, 1.
In the end: WaPo, 11/18/1906, 11.
Three decades after: The Reminiscences of Joseph Pulitzer Jr., October 7, 1954, transcript, p. 39, the Oral History Collection of Columbia University.
Kate was proud: KP to JP, 11/18/1906 and 11/11/1906, JP-CU.
Reaching age seventy-five: GWH to JP, 12/25/1906, JP-CU.
She stayed in New York: KP to JP, 12/24/1906; JP to AB, 12/23/1906, JP-CU.
Shortly after New Year’s Day: KP to JP, 1/12/1907, JP-CU.
“You would be”: KP to JP, 2/5/1907, JP-CU.
To her pleasure: Stephen MacKenna to JP, 3/6/1907, JP-CU; WRR, 562.
“As to the sittings”: Butler, Rodin, 408.
Pulitzer’s French: NYW, 10/31/1911.
The sittings with Rodin: Doods, Journal and Letters of Stephen MacKenna, 32.
On April 10: WaPo, 4/12/1907, 4; ChTr, 4/11/1907, 7; NYT, 4/11/1907, 5.
There still was no truce: JP to JPII, 5/27/1907, JP-CU.
Joseph’s somber