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33. Mor.6.966.
34. Annie Bulloch to MBR, Sep. 9, 1861 (Alsop). White House tailors were to have the same problem four decades later. Note: this letter is misquoted in Rob.33.
35. MBR qu. Put.24. “I fancy I can see little Tedie [sic] climbing out of his crib at an incredibly early hour of the morning,” TR Sr. replied (Dec. 17, “Journal”).
36. Mrs. Bulloch to Mrs. West, July 16, 1859; Put.25–6, 199.
37. On Jan. 8, 1862, qu. Rob.23; ib., 36; Put.26; TR at Bull Run, qu. N.Y. World, Nov. 16, 1902: “When the Union and Confederate forces were fighting over these fields I was a little bit of a chap, and nobody seemed to think that I would live.”
38. TR Sr.’s “Journal,” Dec. 15, 1861, and Jan. 12, 1862. Bamie’s spinal ailment was Pott’s disease (letter from Anna Roosevelt Cowles to Dr. Russell Hibbs of N.Y. Orthopaedic Hospital, 1928, qu. news clip, no date, in Alsop). She was to remain crippled for life.
39. Put.25.
40. Ste.349–50.
41. TR Sr.’s “Journal,” Apr. 1862; Rob. 26.
42. Mrs. Longworth Int., Nov. 1954.
43. TR.Auto.12; Mrs. Longworth int.; COW; TR.Auto.8.
44. Ibid.
45. Ib., 7; Put.46.
46. TR.Auto.7.
47. Ib., 11; But.279.
48. Mrs. Alsop int.; COW. TR Sr. left home in early October (“Journal”). Mrs. Bulloch had not sold Roswell willingly; her intention was to buy it back but she could never do so, owing to her dead husband’s crippling debts. During the war Roswell was looted, but not destroyed, by Sherman’s marchers, and its maintenance during Reconstruction was impeccable. President Theodore Roosevelt made a sentimental pilgrimage there in 1905. Two decades later the young Atlanta journalist Margaret Mitchell visited the plantation on assignment, and is said to have received certain inspirations there. “Bulloch Hall” is now on the register of National Historic Places, and is considered to be one of the most beautiful antebellum houses in the South. In Sep. 1978 it was opened to the public. See Seale, William, “Bulloch Hall in Roswell, Georgia,” in Antiques Magazine at Bulloch Hall.
49. TR.Auto.11; Rob.17.
50. Ib.; characterization of Aunt Annie based on her diaries and letters in TRC; Rob.17–18; Historic Roswell Inc. release, qu. Bulloch family stories (Dec. 1973); TR.Auto.12.
51. Mor.3.706–8.
52. TR.Auto. 5–6; Lor.37, 48; TR. Auto. 6.
53. TR.Auto.5.
54. Bamie in Women’s Roosevelt Association Bulletin, 1.3 (Apr. 1920); copy of 1858 edition of Livingstone’s book in N.Y. Public Library.
55. TR.Auto.18.
56. Ib., 16.
57. Ib., 18, 29.
58. Rob.34; Put.31; TR.Auto.7; Corinne, qu. un. clip, Feb. 16, 1920 (TRB).
59. Rob.36.
60. TR.Auto.14–15.
61. Rob.2.
62. Qu. Hag.Boy.28–29.
63. Qu. Put.30; Par.28; Hag.Boy.45; Gustavus Town Kirby to Corinne, Feb. 26, 1921, Alsop; TR, “My Life as a Naturalist,” in TR.Wks.V.385; WRMA Bulletin clip, n.d., in TRB.
64. TR.Auto.14–15; memo. n.d., in TRB mss.
65. Mor.1.3.
66. Reprinted in TR.DBY.
67. TR.DBY.4, 3; Hag.Boy.37; Put.57. James and Irvine Bulloch had been refused amnesty because of their personal role in financing, building, and operating the Confederate battleship Alabama, which caused an estimated $20 million damage to Union shipping. Although this sanction was later withdrawn, they continued to live in England by choice. Rob.37; Put.57 fn.
68. Put.52–4; Lash, Eleanor, 4. In a letter to TR Sr., June 6, 1873, she signs herself “one of your babies.”
69. Rob.42; TR.DBY.
70. TR.DBY, 13; Hag.Boy.18; COW; Rob.44; Put.60.
71. Hag.Boy.30.
72. Put.60–1; TR.DBY 15 ff. for the rest of this chapter. Other citations follow.
73. Put.62.
74. Qu. Put.63–4.
75. Ib., 63.
76. One wonders if TR Sr. ever mentioned this incident to Mrs. Sattery at her Night School for Little Italians. Teedie innocently describes at least two other incidents which indicate that his father’s charity was not unmixed with contempt. At Pompeii, he tossed pennies at beggars, until one of them “transgressed a rule made by Papa who whiped him till he cried then gave him a sou.” And at Sorrento, TR Sr. joined Mr. Stevens in washing the faces of two grimy street urchins with champagne. TR.DBY.156;