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77. Contemporary parents might be interested to know what gifts a small boy of good family received a hundred years ago. “I had a beautiful hunt [picture] with all kinds of things in it … 2 lamps and an inkstand on the ancient pompeien style and a silver sabre, slippers, a gold helmet and cannon besides the ivory chammois. I have beautiful writing paper, a candle stick on the Antiuke stile. A mosaic 1,500 years old and 3 books, 2 watch cases, 9 big photographs and an ornament and a pair of studs.” TR.DBY. 141–2.
78. Rob.47. The Pope was Pius IX.
79. Put.68.
80. COW.
2: THE MIND, BUT NOT THE BODY
1. TR.DBY.235–6.
2. Rob.8–9.
3. TR Sr. to B, Sep. 6, 1870 (TRC).
4. Rockwell, A.D., Rambling Recollections (NY, 1920) 261.
5. Rob.50.
6. John Wood in N.Y. World, Jan. 24, 1904; COW; Put.72–3.
7. COW; N.Y. World, Sep. 4, 1895 (states that Mrs. Gerry, matriarch of the Goelet house, kept cattle there until 1880); also see the Strong, George Templeton, Diary (N.Y., 1952) Sep. 26, 1863: “Everybody that passes [Goelet’s] courtyard stops to look … at his superb peacocks, golden pheasants, silver pheasants, California quail, and so on.” Rob.50.
8. Contrast his diary entries of Aug. 1, 1870, with, e.g., Aug. 2, 1871 (TR.DBY.237, 241–2).
9. TR.DBY.247, 254.
10. J. van Vechten Olcott, childhood companion, qu. FRE.
11. Mor.6; Rob.55.
12. TR.Auto. 19–20.
13. Ib., 19. See also TR.Wks.5.385.
14. For TR’s auditory sensitivity as a teenager, see, e.g., his Field Notes on Natural History, 1874–75 (TRC). The entire 60-page document is alive with “harsh twitters, wheezy notes, trills and quavers, shrill twitters, chirps, pipings, loud rattling notes, wierd, sad calls, hisses, tap-taps, gushing, ringing songs, rich bubling tones, lisping chirps, guttural qua, qua’s, hissing whistles” etc., etc.
15. TR.Auto.29–30.
16. Hag.Boy.39–40; Put.76; TR.Auto.30. For another boy’s recollections of this summer, see Igl.44–8.
17. Put.79–80; Rob.55; TR.Auto.21; TR.DBY. 341, 302.
18. TR.Auto.20; Put.78.
19. TR.DBY.264. From now on, self-evident quotes from this source will not be cited individually.
20. COW; Rob.56.
21. Elliott to TR Sr., Sep. 19, 1873 (FDR).
22. TR.DBY. passim; Put.87.
23. Rob.56; COW; Put.88 ff.
24. Put.92.
25. Qu. Rob.56–7.
26. COW; Rob.57.
27. TR.DBY.304.
28. Mor.6.
29. Put.90.
30. Ib., 84, 93.
31. Rob.63; TR.DBY.311–2; Put.93.
32. TR.DBY.313.
33. Ib., 322.
34. Put.102–104; Rob.69.
35. Encyclopaedia Britannica; Put.102.
36. Put.103, 108 fn; Rob.70, 80; TR.Auto.22.
37. Mor.10–11.
38. TR.Auto.21; Mor.8.
39. See TR.Auto.23.
40. Rob.72, 84.
41. Mor.9.
42. TR.Auto.22.
43. Put.105.
44. Children of the widow of Mittie’s half-brother Stuart Elliott (Put.102 fn.)
45. One anonymous item in this book is worth quoting: There was an old fellow named Teedie,/Whose clothes at the best looked so seedy/ That his friends in dismay/ Called out “Oh! I say”/ At this dirty old fellow named Teedie. (Orig. in TRC).
46. Qu. Put.107.
47. Qu. Put.108.
48. Mor.10-11.
49. Put.108.
50. Vierick, Louise, Success Magazine, October 1905.
51. Rob.88.
52. TR Sr. to Mittie, July 11, 1873 (TRC). Cutler was a brilliant young Harvard graduate who had left the wool business in order to prepare the children of wealthy families for college. Other Cutler pupils included J. P. Morgan, Harry Payne Whitney, and John D. Rockefeller (Igl.59–60).
53. TR Sr. to Mittie, Oct. 5, 1873. Cornelius van Schaak Roosevelt, who died in 1871, left his four sons, including TR Sr., $10 million in equal shares. (Las. 4.) TR Sr.’s glass business continued to prosper until he sold it in January 1876 (PRI. n.). See Rob.5 for TR Sr.’s founding of the Orthopaedic Hospital.
54. COW; photographs in TRB; fragmentary letter from TR Sr. to Mittie, c. August 1873; another dated Sep. 21.
55. COW; memorandum by Arthur H. Cutler in TRC.
56. TR. Sr. to MBR, Oct. 2, 1874 (TRC).
57. Put.117; Rob.89. Harper’s Weekly, Sep. 1907, describes Tranquillity as “a fine old house under great trees close to the village.” Now demolished.
58. COW; Par. passim; Put.119;