The rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris [401]
54. Put.183; Mor.40.
55. Put.161.
56. The following account is based on ib., 161–3.
57. TR to B. n.d. (Sep. 4?) TRB.
58. TR.Pri.Di.
59. TR to B, Sep. 14, 1879 (TRB).
60. Put. 163.
61. See the impressive analysis of TR’s physical feats in Maine in Put. 163. The author shows that in a total of 61 days with Sewall, TR marched, paddled, and rode over 1,000 miles through near-virgin wilderness (540 miles on foot), averaging more than 50 miles a day.
62. Mor.41; TR.Pri.Di. May 16, 1879; Put.174, 184 fn.; McCausland, Hugh, The English Carriage (London, 1948) passim; TR to B (telegram), n.d. but probably early Sep. 1879. (TRB)
63. Mor.41.
64. Pri.43.
65. Welling, Richard, “My Classmate TR,” American Legion Monthly, Jan. 1929.
66. TR.Pri.Di. Sep. 26, 1879; Put. 184–6; TR.Pri.Di. Oct. 10, 23, 1879.
67. Put. 184–5.
68. Mor.41–2.
69. Ib.
70. TR.Pri.Di. Oct. 27, 1879.
71. TR to B, n.d. (Nov. 11, 1879?) TRB.
72. TR to John Roosevelt, Feb. 25, 1880.
73. Mor.41.
74. Qu. Put.178 fn. TR’s choice of this subject, at this time of great personal stress, is symbolic. It had been the machine in politics that destroyed his father, whose troubles with it had begun almost exactly two years before; it was the machine in politics that, almost exactly two years later, would launch his own legislative career. (Cf. 238–9).
75. TR.Pri.Di. Nov. 22, 1879.
76. TR to B, n.d. (Nov. 11, 1879?) TRB; TR.Pri.Di. Nov. 22, 1879; Put. 187; Thomas Lee, Alice’s cousin, to Henry F. Pringle, PRI.n.; TR.Pri.Di. Dec. 2, 1879.
77. Pri.42; see his source, Mrs. Robert Bacon, in PRI.n.
78. Wis.13; Pri.36. The book, which will be discussed later in the text, was prompted by certain inaccuracies in William James’s (British) history of the war, which TR found in the Porcellian Library.
79. In 1910, TR recalled reciting “that glorious chorus from Atalanta in Calydon” and the despairing lines from Dolores beginning “Time turns the old days to derision.” “What young man has not, when suffering the pangs of despised love, given vent to his feelings in those words?” George Buchanan, My Mission to Russia (Boston, 1923), vol. 1, 88–89.
80. Put.171; Pri.43–4; Corinne Roosevelt Robinson in PRI.n.
81. Put.187; TR.Pri.Di. Dec. 24, 1879; ib., Nov. 16.
82. Put.187.
83. TR.Pri.Di. Jan. 1, 1880.
84. Ib., Jan. 25, 1880. “I have not mentioned a word of it to my diary,” TR adds with satisfaction, apropos of his recent torment. “No outsider has suspected it.”
85. Ib.; also Feb. 23, 1880.
86. Ib., Jan. 31, 1880; Pri.43; TR.Pri.Di. Feb. 2, 1880.
87. Alice Lee to MBR, Feb. 3, 1880 (typed copy in TRB).
88. TR to B, Mar. 1, 1880 (TRB). The choice of date shows TR’s love for parallels and anniversaries in the family. On Oct. 27 he would turn twenty-two, the same age his father had been when he was married; Alice would be nineteen, the same as Mittie had been.
89. Mor.43.
90. TR.Pri.Di. Mar. 11, 1880.
91. Qu. Put.189; qu. ib., 190; ib., 189.
92. TR to John Roosevelt, Feb. 25, 1880.
93. Mor.44. They had been reassured by Mittie’s offer to accommodate the young couple at 6 West Fifty-seventh Street, at least through the winter of 1880–81.
94. Thomas Lee to Henry F. Pringle, PRI.n. See also Pri.44.
95. Mor.44.
96. TR.Pri.Di. Apr. 1, 1880; Cut.27; Pri.43; TR.Pri.Di. Mar. 25, 1880; Put.185; ib., fn.; Mor.43.
97. Pri.43–4.
98. Mor.42; Grant, “Seventies.”
99. Qu. Wis. 14–15.
100. Wis.15.
101. Ib.
102. Ib.
103. Mor.45 ff., with TR.Pri.Di. passim, form the basis of this paragraph.
104. See also Roosevelt, Nicholas, TR: The Man as I Knew Him (Dodd, Mead, 1967) 99 on TR’s highly individual tennis style. TR.Pri.Di. July 29, 1880.
105. Ib., Mar. 25, 1880.
106. Thayer, TR, 20–1.
107. Welling, “Harvard,” offers the most detailed (and negative) analysis of TR’s thesis.
108. Qu. ib.
109. Laughlin, “Harvard,” 394.
110. See Wag.87–90. TR’s thesis qu. Welling, “Harvard.”
111. Put.184; Harvard Register,