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75. “Buffalo,” 206; Lan. 119.

76. “Buffalo,” 206. Putnam (p. 338 fn.) points out the problem of reconciling Hagedorn’s account with TR’s, and both with the few dates that can be confirmed. These are Sep. 8 (TR’s letter announcing his arrival to MBR); Sep. 16, confirmed as a Sunday by Joe Ferris in interview; and Sep. 27, confirmed by contract date in St. Paul. Putnam’s attempt to straighten out the chronology errs in giving TR five days of rain after arriving at Lang’s. It could only have been four. Both he and Hagedorn have TR returning to the kill the day after, i.e., Sep. 21, to behead the carcass; but TR clearly says that the beheading took place on the same day as the kill. All sources agree that the kill took place in the mid-morning, and Lincoln Lang recalls TR and Ferris returning with their “paens of victory” in the evening; so they probably did their work on the carcass in between. This would mean that TR left for Little Missouri on Sep. 21, not 22, and allow him at least five nights there, making Hagedorn’s “week” seem a little more plausible.

77. Lan. 119.

9: THE HONORABLE GENTLEMAN

Important sources not in Bibliography: 1. New York Assembly, Hearings of the Roosevelt Investigation, January–April 1884 (Albany, 1884). Copy in Butler Library, Columbia University. 2. Theodore Roosevelt, In Memory of My Darling Wife (privately printed, 1884). Only known copy in TRC.

1. HUN.28; Hunt, supplementary statement, 11; New York Times, Dec. 27, 1883.

2. Put.368 ff.

3. The figures were 72 to 56 in the Assembly and 19 to 13 in the Senate.

4. This para based largely on Put.365–366. See also Sto.121–2. Senator Miller’s nickname referred to his professional involvement in the wood and paper industry of his home county, Herkimer.

5. New York Sun, Dec. 28, 1883.

6. Mor.62.

7. Ib. 63.

8. Put.369.

9. Put.370; Hunt, supplementary statement, 11; HUN.27–8.

10. New York Herald, Jan. 1, 1884; N.Y.T., same date; Sun, Dec. 27, 1883.

11. See Put. 371–3, or his source, TR.Scr., for a detailed account of the Speakership contest. Sun, Dec. 28, 1883; Put.371; HUN.28; Put.373.

12. HUN.28.

13. Put.373; Sun, Jan. 1, 1884.

14. Put.373.

15. World, Jan. 1, 1884. (Note: not the Sun—Pringle’s mistake, which Putnam copied.)

16. TR.Auto.87; World, Jan. 2, 1884; MBR to E, Jan. 3, 1884 (FDR); HUN.29.

17. Hunt, supplementary statement, 12; Put.374 and fn.; HUN.29.

18. TR.Wks.XIII.60;TR.Auto.43. These sessions came to an end when TR discovered that Ryan was by profession a burglar, and had been incarcerated in the Albany jail.

19. Mor. 64.

20. PRI.n. “Those who knew her then recall that she was somewhat lonely, and that TR’s time was too much taken up with politics.”

21. Put.377 fn. The house at 55 West Forty-fifth Street was taken over by Elliott Roosevelt and his new bride, Anna Hall.

22. Put.385; Mrs. Longworth int., November 1954. TRB; Mrs. Sheffield Cowles int. Dec. 28, 1954; TRB: Corinne Roosevelt Robinson to Henry F. Pringle, PRI.n.

23. Ib.

24. Ib.; also letters of condolence to Bamie in TRC.

25. Mor.64. One Assemblyman declared he had “never seen anyone look so pretty” as Alice when she begged her husband not to tell the “shaved lion story” (see Mor.48).

26. Ib., 64–5.

27. This phrase, borrowed from Longfellow’s Saga of King Olaf (IV), was frequently used by TR in connection with Alice Lee.

28. Put.366, 376.

29. HUN.26.

30. See Put. 374–6 for an indication of the close relations between the liquor industry and the political machines.

31. HUN.29; Put.374; TR.Wks.XIV. 31.

32. TR.Auto.84; Put.381.

33. Auto.84.

34. Mor.65.

35. World, Feb. 6, 1884; Sun and Her., same date.

36. Mor.60. Putnam errs in stating (p. 380) that “unhappily, no verbatim record of it exists.” The Herald (Feb. 6) prints TR’s speech in full, and the World and Sun have detailed paraphrases.

37. E.g., Sun, Mar. 9, 1883.

38. Her., Feb. 6, 1884.

39. Qu. Put.380.

40. Her., Feb. 6, 1884.

41. Ib.; see also World, same date.

42. Qu. Put.381.

43.