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40. Phelps, Handbook, 24; Roseberry, Capitol, 46 ff. The ceiling is now boarded up.
41. Put.252; Mor.1470.
42. Albany Press-Knickerbocker, qu. PRI.n. See TR.Wks.XIV.3 for text of this speech.
43. Ib.
44. New York Herald, Feb. 11, 1883.
45. HUN.5.
46. Gilman, Warrior, 10.
47. Mor.1470.
48. TR.Pri.Di. Jan. 24, 1882.
49. Facsimile in Lor.193. For another reaction, see The Criterion, Jan. 28, 1882: “Mr. Roosevelt made in that brief speech a record for honesty, judgment, and conception of statesmanship that ranks him at once among the leading legislators of his time.”
50. Put.257. It may be of interest to note here that six days after TR’s maiden speech, his old friend Sara Delano, now married to James Roosevelt of Hyde Park, gave birth to a son, Franklin Delano.
51. TR.Pri.Di. Feb. 14, 1882; Mor. 1471–2.
52. Put.258.
53. TR.Auto.72.
54. HUN.16–26.
55. Put.254–5; Pri.66; John Walsh in PRI.n.
56. Mor.1472.
57. Ib.
58. TR.Auto.72.
59. Ib., 71.
60. Ib., 75.
61. Ib., 75–6.
62. TR.Auto.77.
63. HUN.6–7; Put.261.
64. HUN.8; Put.261.
65. Henry Lowenthal, N.Y.T. City Editor, int. FRE; TR.Wks.XIV.7–11; Put.261–70.
66. Hunt, supplementary statement, 1.
67. John Walsh in PRI.n.
68. New York World, Mar. 30, 1882.
69. Put.263.
70. TR.Auto.79.
71. Spinney, qu. Put.264.
72. Full text of TR’s speech is in TR.Wks.XIV.7 ff.
73. Spinney in Hunt, supplementary statement, 4.
74. Put.265; TR.Wks.XIV.11.
75. HUN.2–4.
76. Spinney, qu. Put.265; Sun, Apr. 6, 1882; Trib, N.Y.T., same date.
77. Sun, Apr. 6, 1882.
78. Hunt, supplementary statement, 34. (Here, in typed transcript, “balls” is changed to “chickens.”)
79. Sun, n.d., in TR.Scr.; N.Y.T., n.d., in ib.; World, Apr. 7, 1882.
80. N.Y.T., Apr. 6, 7, 1882.
81. Spinney, qu. Put.266.
82. Ib.
83. An associate in the Assembly later estimated that TR “could have made a million dollars if he had wanted to.” HUN.75.
84. Pri.73; Put.269.
85. Bigelow, Poultney, Seventy Summers (London, 1925) 269.
86. N.Y.T., Apr. 13, 1882.
87. HUN.49. In an interview with Ethel Armes, Sept. 19, 1924, Hunt recalled TR yelling with delight one day, “I have been sued for slander! I am getting on amazingly politically.” TRB.
88. Hudson, William C., Recollections of an Old Political Reporter (N.Y., 1911) 144–9.
89. Hunt, supplementary statement, 22.
90. Mrs. Joseph Alsop Sr. (Corinne’s daughter) int. in TRB mss.
91. Anna Bulloch Gracie’s diary, 1882, makes mysterious references to an “illness” of Elliott’s (probably a recurrence of his teenage epilepsy attacks), which she first heard about on Mar. 30. “Went to church Holy Communion prayed to God to cure him.”
92. Joseph Murray in FRE.; Morning Journal, Apr. 29, 1884.
93. Trib., Mar. 22, 1882.
94. Ib., June 3, 1882.
95. Qu. Har.22.
96. Trib., Apr. 28, 1882; Put.300.
97. TR.Auto.69; Put.300.
98. See Hurwitz, Howard L., TR and Labor in New York State (NY, 1943) for a negative assessment of TR’s labor record in the Assembly, Put.299–305 for a positive. The cigar-bill episode is usually viewed as a turning-point in Roosevelt biographies, largely because TR himself placed so much emphasis on it in his own Autobiography (81–3). However the rest of his youthful labor record, not to mention countless contemptuous references to the labor movement in his private letters, indicates that he “matured” in this respect very slowly. It should not be forgotten that TR was an ardent Progressive when he dictated his memoirs in 1913.
99. Clips, TR.Scr.; Hunt, supplementary statement, 2 ff.; HUN.14–20.
100. Clips, TR.Scr.; Trib., June 1, 1882.
101. World, June 1.
102. Qu. Put.271.
103. World, June 1.
104. Put.272.
105. N.Y.T., June 3, 1882. See comments of individual legislators returning to New York in Trib., June 3.
106. Trib., June 3, 1882; TR.Scr.
107. Mor.56.
108. TR.Scr.
109. Spinney in HUN.41.
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