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25. Put.228; Churchill, Allen, The Splendor Seekers (Grosset & Dunlap, 1974) 63; New York Times, Dec. 9, 1880; TR to E, Dec. 6, 1880 (FDR).
26. O’Connor, Richard, The Golden Summers (Putnam, 1974) 50–1; MBR to E, Dec. 10, 1880, and Jan. 2, 12, 1881. TR was greatly amused when Mrs. Astor, hearing of the death of the Tsar later in the season, remarked, “Mr. Roosevelt, they are attacking us all over the world.” (Mor.130) TR.Pri.Di. Jan. 6, 1881; O’Connor, Summers, 55–6.
27. TR.Pri.Di. Dec. 1880-Feb. 1881; ib., Dec. 11, 1880.
28. Unidentified contributor to Harper’s Weekly, Oct. 19, 1901.
29. Brown, Valentine’s, passim.
30. Churchill, Seekers, 68; TR.Pri.Di. Jan. 6, 1881.
31. Wis.24.
32. Leary int., FRE.; TR.Auto.57; Abbot, Lawrence F., Impressions of TR (Doubleday, 1919) 36–37.
33. Ib., Pri.59. Morton Hall stood on the south side of 59th St. between Fifth and Madison avenues. The 21st District comprised the area between Seventh and Lexington from 40th to 59th Street south, and between 8th and Lexington from 59th Street north to 86th.
34. TR.Auto.56–7; Pri.46, 59; Leary Int., FRE.; Hag.Boy.66.
35. See TR.Auto.57 for an explanation of the clublike, elective nature of the Republican Association. “As a friend of mine picturesquely phrased it, I ‘had to break into the organization with a jimmy.’ ”
36. Emlen Roosevelt int., FRE. But the Roosevelts, as old Knickerbockers, had been influential in politics until Civil War times. Disdain for grubby politics was a comparatively recent phenomenon, owing much to the Boss Tweed and Grant Administration scandals of the 1870s.
37. Ib.; TR.Auto.57; Thayer, TR, 27.
38. TR.Auto.57.
39. Put.248.
40. Rob.106.
41. Cowles Microfilm, TRB.
42. TR.Auto.57.
43. Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart at Farewell History Lecture, Harvard (1926) un. clip, TRB.
44. Savell, Isabelle K., Daughter of Vermont: A Biography of Emily Eaton Hepburn (NY, 1952) 106.
45. Put.241; TR.Auto.57; Edward C. Riggs in PRI.n.
46. Put.241; Riggs in PRI. n.
47. TR.Auto.58; TR to Eleanora Kissel Inicutt, June 28, 1901 (TRB); TR.Pri.Di. passim; TR.Auto.58.
48. TR.Pri.Di. Mar. 14, 1881.
49. Ib., Apr. 8; Put.241; Hag.Boy.67.
50. TR.Auto.61.
51. Ib.; TR.Pri.Di. May 11, 1881 (baggage list in year-end expenses section); ib., May 12.
52. Ib., May 18, 1881.
53. Mor.47; TR.Pri.Di. May 21, 22, 1881.
54. TR.Pri.Di. passim; Put.229; TR to B, May 24, 1881 (TRB).
55. TR.Pri.Di. May 25, 1881; Mor.48–9; TR.Pri.Di. June 1; Mor.48.
56. Ib.; TR.Pri.Di. June 11–27, 1881; Mor.49; TR to B, July 3, 1881 (TRB).
57. TR.Pri.Di. July 5, 6, 1881.
58. Put.244–5; Sto.112 ff.
59. Put.245; Sto.112 ff. The assassin, Charles Guiteau, had shrieked after firing, “I am a Stalwart of the Stalwarts!” For a post-mortem and meticulously detailed day-by-day account of Garfield’s last days, see Doyle, Burton T., Lives of James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur (Washington, 1881).
60. TR.Pri.Di. July 8, 1881.
61. Put.232; TR.Pri.Di. July 15–29, 1881.
62. Mor.49; Put.232. Alice begged one of TR’s Harvard classmates, who happened to be staying in Zermatt, to dissuade him from climbing the Matterhorn. But TR was adamant. “I shall climb the mountain.” Gilman, Bradley, Roosevelt the Happy Warrior (Little, Brown, 1921) 62.
63. Mor.49–50.
64. Mor.50; Put.221.
65. TR’s sartorial acquisitions in London included some Savile Row dress suits and (to Mittie’s horror) “two or three satin waist coats—purple, pale yellow, and blue and one rich black silk one.” She eventually grew to like the last, but “the others if others wore them would be very handsome.” (MBR to E, Dec. 4, 1881, FDR.)
66. Mor.52; Pri.47; Igl.121–2.
67. Qu. Put.236.
68. For an exhaustive analysis of TR’s law studies at Columbia, see Robert B. Charles, “Legal Education in the Late Nineteenth Century, Through the Eyes of Theodore Roosevelt,” The American Journal of Legal History 37 (July 1993) 3. This article, based on Charles’s discovery of more than 1,100 pages of TR’s law notes, is a major corrective to the long-held