Pulitzer_ A Life in Politics, Print, and Power - James McGrath Morris [313]
Harding took matters: Huffington to attorney general, 12/11/1909. NARA-MD. Seitz did not seem to believe the letter from the legation. “Harding was waylaid in Colombia in the belief that he carried certain documents of value—which he did not”: DCS-JP, 377–378.
CHAPTER 30: A SHORT REMAINING SPAN
After disagreeable stays: NT to DCS, 10/1/1909, JP-LC.
Albert had also: JWB, 256. Fanny Barnard Pulitzer died 6/24/1909, in New York, at age fifty-three: NYT, 6/26/1909, 7.
Over time, Albert’s behavior: The Call, 3/10/1909, 1. Albert’s passion for the city’s oysters also gave rise to a tale republished for weeks in American newspapers. A companion at luncheon recommended that Albert put horseradish on his oysters. Uncertain if his Viennese physician allowed him to eat this condiment, Albert telegraphed home. He promptly received permission. The high cost of the telegrams provided an irresistible feast of merriment for reporters, such as one who began his story with the lead, “For the privilege of eating horseradish, Albert Pulitzer paid $40.” (LAT, 3/10/1909, 13.)
While he was in San Francisco: Oakland Tribune, 10/17/1909, 4; NYT, 4/6/1909, 1; ChTr, 11/6/1909, 13.
By fall, his memoir: NYT, 10/5/1909, 4; ChTr, 10/05/1909, 5. Eulogy reprinted in APM.
Joseph learned of: Thwaites, Velvet and Vinegar, 65–66.
Several days later: Adam Politzer to JP, 10/16/1909, JP-CU. Joseph was mentioned in Albert’s will of 1881. It provided that he should receive Albert’s gold Waltham watch and chain, gold cufflinks, and turquoise shirt studs and asked that he watch over Albert’s son Walter. But the will in effect when Albert died made no mention of Joseph. (See JWB, 254–255.)
As winter set in: DCS-JP, 392–393.
Contributing to Pulitzer’s melancholy: JAS to JP, 12/28/1909, JP-CU; JP notes for RP, 1/26/1910, JP-LC.
Pulitzer’s loneliness was: JP to JPII, 5/27/1907, JP-CU.
Kate did her best: KP to JP, 9/24/1902, JP-CU.
His twenty-nine-year-old son: JPII to JP, 1/4/1910, MHS.
Once again, Pulitzer revised: JP to Edward Sheppard, 4/25/1910, JP-CU. Hughes apparently declined to be a trustee, but Pulitzer kept him in the will nonetheless: JP to KP, 5/5/1910, JP-CU. See also NT to DCS, 1/25/1910, JP-LC.
“I am of”: ChTr, 10/13/1909, 8.
On January 25: NYT, 1/27/1910, 3.
The law was intended: The Roosevelt Panama Libel Case, 98; NYT, 1/26/1910, 8; WaPo, 1/26/1910, 4; The History of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, 12.
The only party: NYT, 2/26/1910, 8.
In March, Joe: Pfaff, Joseph Pulitzer II, 107.
Even Wickham had: JP to Elinor Wickham, 8/31/1909, quoted in Pfaff, Joseph Pulitzer II, 104.
In person, Joseph: JPII to JP, 3/18/1910, JP-MHS, quoted in Pfaff, Joseph Pulitzer II, 107–108.
The children gone: NYT, 11/14/1911, 1.
Roosevelt’s prosecution of: NYT, 10/25/1910; WaPo, 10/25/1910, 11.
Pulitzer’s attorney once again: Harding, Untold Story, 87.
Ten weeks later: Harding, Untold Story, 77.
Pulitzer got word: NYW, 1/4/1911; Harding, Untold Story, 82.
As Phillips neared: NYT, 1/24/1911, 1; WaPo, 1/24/1911, 1; ChTr, 1/24/1911, 1.
Funeral services were held: JP to RP, 3/10/1911; telegram, 4/11/1911; NT to RP, 3/12/1911; KP to RP, 5/28/1911, JP-LC.
One of Pulitzer’s many doctors: Dr. Heinbrand to JP, June 1911, JP-CU; Wood, Pharmacology and Therapeutics for Students and Practitioners of Medicine, 103.
In the summer: JP to Emma Cunlifee-Owens, 3/4/1911, WP-CU.
Pulitzer and Cobb: Notes of conversation, 6/22/1911, in June 17–21 folder, WP-CU, Box 51. Pulitzer was an unabashed fan of Wilson’s. He telegraphed Wilson after Wilson’s election victory of 1910, urged Cobb to promote Wilson continually, and even proposed publishing a campaign pamphlet. (JP conversation with FC, undated 1910 Folder, JP-LC, Box 9; JP to FC, 11/21/1910, JP-LC.)
Concluding his meeting: NYT, 7/2/1911, X4, and 6/11/1911, X4.
Joseph spent time: AI, 213–214.
Joseph’s favorite indulgence: Transcript of conversation written by Firestone, 8/5/1911, WP-CU.
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