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34. Put.169; Mor.28.
35. Ib., 26.
36. Extract from TR’s notebook qu. Cut.16-17 (see also Ch. 2, Note 14); TR.Auto.24.
37. “By far the best of the recent lists,” wrote the great biologist C. Hart Merriam in Nuttall Ornithological Society Bulletin. “It bears prima facie evidence of … exact and thoroughly reliable information.” See Paul Russell Cutright, “Twin Literary Rarities of TR,” Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal 12 (1985) 2.
38. Cut.3, 7, 8
39. TR.Auto.25-6.
40. TR.Pri.Di. May 20, 1878; Mor. 25–6; qu. Put.139.
41. Rob.103.
42. Put.135.
43. Mor.29.
44. Arthur was of course the future President of the United States. This account of the Collectorship crisis is based on Put.146–7 fn., supplemented by Mor.29, and family letters and diaries in TRC.
45. Mor.31.
46. Anna Bulloch Gracie, Diary 1877, TRC.
47. TR.Pri.Di. Jan. 2, Dec. 11, 1878.
48. Ib., Jan. 2, 1878; Put.148.
49. Telegram of TR to A. S. Roosevelt, Feb. 9, 1878 (TRB); N.Y. World, Feb. 11, 1878; C to EKR, qu. Put.148; Elliott Roosevelt memorandum in TRC.
50. Igl.39; Anna Bulloch Gracie, Diary Feb. 9, 1878. For tributes to TR Sr., see N.Y. Telegraph, Feb. 11; Nation, Feb. 14; Tribune, Feb. 18; Harper’s Weekly, Mar. 2, 1878.
51. TR.Pri.Di. Feb. 12, 1878; qu. Put.149; TR.Pri.Di. Mar. 6, Apr. 25, Apr. 30, May 1.
52. Ib., June 9, 1878.
53. Ib., June 19, 1878.
54. Rob.104; TR.Pri.Di. July 11, 14, 1878.
55. Qu. Put.151.
56. Rob.106.
57. TR.Pri.Di. Feb. 23, 1878 (No student, according to Grant, “Seventies,” spent more than $2,000 a year in the 70s; most got by on $1,000 or $1,300); TR.Pri.Di. Feb. 28, May 15, 1878; TR to MBR, Mar. 24.
58. TR.Pri.Di. May 23, June 17, 1878.
59. Rob.106.
60. Qu. Put.145; TR.Pri.Di. June 28, 1878.
61. Rob.102; TR.Pri.Di. Aug. 10, 1878.
62. Ib., Aug. 9, 22, 1878.
63. Ib., Aug. 24, 1878. TR justified his cruelty, not very convincingly, by saying that the dog’s owner had been warned.
64. Ib., Aug. 26, 1878.
65. Ib., Sep. 1, 1878.
66. Hag.Boy.59; “Bill Sewall Remembers TR” (interview with Alfred Gordon Munro, TRB—un. clip, c. 1901). Sewall told this story rather more confusingly in Sew.2–3 (1919). Putnam accepts the later version, while admitting it to be inconsistent. The earlier tallies with all available supporting evidence, and may be accepted as more reliable.
67. Sew.63.
68. Hag.Boy.60.
69. Qu. Hag.Boy.62.
70. See Morr.140.
71. Put.155; TR.Pri.Di. Sep. 27, June 17, 18, 1878.
72. Mor.25; Put.175–6 fn.
73. Put.175; TR.Pri.Di. Oct. 4, 1878; Mor.25.
74. TR.Pri.Di. Oct. 5, 1878; Mor.35.
75. Put. 167.
76. Ib., 166–7.
77. PRI. n.
78. TR.Pri.Di. Oct. 19, 20, 1878.
79. Ib., Nov. 2, 1878; TR.Har.Scr. The menu of ten courses that evening included oysters, turbot, “Mongrel Goose / Young Pig,” croustade of venison, canvasback duck / larded quails, Charlotte Russe, Roquefort and olives, sherbet. (Ib.)
80. TR.Pri.Di. Nov. 2, 1878 sic. Some of his classmates corroborate this. “Very little upset him … he had the sense to realize his limitations.” (James Giddes in PRI. n.) Drinking at Harvard generally was so heavy in the late seventies that two or three students out of every class were expected to die of alcoholism a year or so after graduation. (Ib.)
81. TR.Pri.Di. passim; ib. Oct. 2, 1878. A classmate remembered him angrily reprimanding the singer of a risqué song at the Hasty Pudding Club. Edward Wagenknecht remarks: “It is impossible that there can ever have been a more clean-living man than Theodore Roosevelt.” (Hagedorn memo, TRB; Wag.87.)
82. Ib., Nov. 28, 1878.
83. Ib., Jan. 25, 1880.
4: THE SWELL IN THE DOG-CART
1. TR to John Roosevelt, Feb. 25, 1880 (privately owned).
2. COW; Par; Mrs. Bacon’s statements in TRC; newspaper tributes to Alice, Feb. 1884; letters to B (1884) in TRC.
3. TR.Pri.Di. Nov. 7, 1880.
4. Pri.41–3; Mrs. Bacon’s statements; Put. 167–8; photographs in TRC; a sample of Alice’s hair preserved by TR in Sagamore Hill vaults; TR to John