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44. Put.376.
45. Mor.1471.
46. Put.376.
47. TR.Scr.; Her., Jan. 20, 1884.
48. Hearings, 57–8.
49. Ib.
50. World, Feb. 3, 1884.
51. Evening Post, Feb. 11; World, Feb. 12, 1884.
52. Put.385; Pri.50; PRI.n.
53. World, Feb. 14, 1884.
54. N.Y.T., Feb. 13 and 12, 1884.
55. Ib., Feb. 13, 1884. See also Her., Feb. 14, 15; World, Feb. 14; Sun, Feb. 15; Trib., Feb. 14 passim.
56. Put.384; see Roseberry, Cecil R., Capitol Story (New York State, 1964) 52 ff., 82 ff.
57. Put.380; World, Feb. 15, 1884.
58. Ib.; HUN.52; TR.Wks.XIII.48.
59. HUN.51–2.
60. Hunt, supplementary statement, 33; HUN.50.
61. TR.Auto.91.
62. Ib., 90–1.
63. TR.Wks.XIII.66–7.
64. This story is contained in TR’s essay, “Phases of State Legislation,” reprinted in TR.Wks.XIII.70–72.
65. See Hunt, supplementary statement, 23.
66. Mor.65.
67. Hunt, supplementary statement, 23; Put.382.
68. HUN.68.
69. PRI.n. Put. (p. 386) has Elliott saying this directly to Theodore; but he contradicts his only source, Pringle, who says the statement was made to Corinne Roosevelt Robinson. Having examined Pringle’s own sources—an interview memo and autograph letter in TRC, the author must regretfully conclude that Putnam, usually so meticulous, has here yielded to a romantic temptation.
70. Jacques Offenbach, who traveled this route a few years earlier, had reason to complain of the bell’s funereal toll. See Roland van Zandt, Chronicles of the Hudson, Rutgers U., 1971.
71. N.Y.T., Feb. 14, 1884.
72. Anna Bulloch Gracie to Archibald Bulloch Sr., May 14, 1884 (TRP).
73. Corinne in PRI.n.
74. N.Y.T., Feb. 15; Put.386.
75. World, Trib., N.Y.T., Feb. 15, 1884.
76. Her., Feb. 15, 1884.
77. TR, In Memory; Put.388–9, qu. ib.
78. See Sun, Her., Feb. 17, 1884; HAG.Bln., Put.387–8 for accounts of the funeral. TR Sr.’s funeral service had been held in this same church six years before.
79. Put.387.
80. HAG.Bln.
81. Ib.
82. Cutler to Sewall, HAG.Bln.; C to E, Mar. 4, 1884 (FDR).
83. Mor.6.966; qu. Put.391.
84. Pri.53; Put.390–1.
85. TR’s memory is not at fault here. His engagement had been privately announced on Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day; but the public announcement was not made until Monday, Feb. 16.
86. TR.Pri.Di. Feb. 16, 1884.
87. Roosevelt, Nicholas, TR as I Knew Him (Dodd, Mead, 1967) 24–5. Two recorded mentions of his bereavement to Bill Merrifield and Bill Sewall are noted below (Ch. 11).
88. The scrapbook, with all its mutilations, can be seen in TRC.
89. Corinne to Henry F. Pringle, PRI.n.
90. Ib.
91. Edith Kermit Roosevelt, qu. Mrs. Longworth int., Nov. 9, 1954; TRB memo.
10: THE DELEGATE-AT-LARGE
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.
1. TR.Pri.Di. Feb. 16, 1884; COW.
2. Mor.66.
3. COW.
4. Ib. It appears that Bamie was given a month’s extension of this deadline, since the Roosevelts were still in occupancy at least through the third week in May. See MBR to E, Dec. 10, 1880 (FDR), for a typical account of one of Mittie’s parties.
5. COW; Hag.RF.9. This was the actual cost of the house. But TR had also contracted for outbuildings, at an extra cost of $5,160. His land property there represented an investment of $22,500 (after selling of $7,500 worth to Bamie), bringing the total expenditure to $44,635. Memorandum by Gary Roth, curator, Sagamore Hill National Historic Site.
6. TR to Sewall, March 9, 1884 (TRP).
7. COW; Mor.66.
8. Put.393–397 meticulously details all TR’s activities from Feb. 25 through Mar. 14.
9. Hearings, 416–7, 474, 484, 502, 553, 540–1; C to E, Mar. 4, 1884 (FDR).
10. Hearings, 602; HUN.46.
11. HUN.46–7; supplementary statement, 27–28; Evening Telegram, Mar. 14; N.Y. Herald, Mar. 15; Put.397. TR’s report caused an instant furor in the House and in the press. “Sensational Report … How the City is Robbed,” headlined the Evening Telegram. The World called it “Roosevelt’s Blunderbuss,” and the Commercial