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66. Hag.RBL.165; Sewall in HAG.Bln.
67. TR.Wks.I.93.
68. Hag.RBL.165–6.
69. Put.391.
70. Only known copy of In Memory is in TRC.
71. Sewall in HAG.Bln. (he misdates the year as 1885); see also Sew.47, and Sewall in Forum, May 1919. Mrs. Roberts, a Badlands neighbor, remembers TR as “sad and quiet” during these days. (McCall’s, Oct. 1919.)
72. TR to B, Sep. 20, 1884.
73. TR.Pri.Di. The list is abridged; fragments of text in quotes. (N.B. These dates are adjusted, since TR’s diary was an old one, left over from 1883.)
74. His recorded total for 1884 was 227 kills.
75. TR.Wks.I.221. TR’s own magnificent account of elk-hunting in the Big Horns is in ib., 212–27. See Put.474–89 for details of the whole expedition. This para. also based on TR.Pri.Di. passim.
76. See TR.Wks.I.483 for TR’s ecstatic reaction to this elk-music.
77. Merrifield in HAG.Bln.
78. Mor.82.
79. The word “cunning” may best be translated as “cute.”
80. For one of TR’s finest pieces of atmospheric writing, complete with eerie sound-effects, see his description of this ride in TR.Wks.I.96 or Put.488.
81. TR.Auto.106; Put.490.
82. Ib.; also 460; Hag.RBL.207–8; Sew.21. Text follows Putnam’s assumption that confrontation occurred before TR’s departure East on Oct. 7, 1884.
83. Hag.RBL.208 (based on Sewall int. in HAG.Bln.).
84. Sun, Oct. 12, 1884.
85. See Put.492–3. TR also castigated the Governor for hiring a substitute in the Civil War, conveniently forgetting that Theodore Senior had done the same. (Ib., 498.)
86. “Tell the truth” was Cleveland’s message to his friends. The facts of the scandal are these. On Sep. 14, 1874, Maria Halpin, a pretty 36-year-old Buffalo widow, charged Cleveland with the paternity of a son, whom she named Oscar Folsom Cleveland. Although Cleveland could not be sure he was the father (Mrs. Halpin had simultaneous liaisons with several other men), he took full responsibility, noting that he was the only bachelor involved. He refused, however, to marry Mrs. Halpin. The widow promptly took to drink, became unstable, and had to be relieved of Oscar, who was brought up by foster-parents at Cleveland’s expense. An enquiry by a respected Buffalo clergyman in 1884 found that “After the primary offense … his [Cleveland’s] conduct was singularly honorable.” See Nev. 162 ff. for full details.
87. Put.493–504 gives a detailed account of TR’s campaign for Blaine.
88. Put.500 points out that only three of his seven speeches were for the national ticket as such. John Allen Gable, reviewing this manuscript, writes: “I have no quarrel with what you say about the Blaine campaign. But it is really time to make the point about professionalism. As of the Gilded Age, professionals came to dominate politics—pushing aside … men who ‘stood,’ rather than ‘ran’ for office—the ‘Mugwump types’ as Richard Hofstadter calls them. TR in 1884 made the choice of being a real professional by being a partisan … You will note that in his 1884 speeches he talks mainly about one party vs. the other.” See also note SI, above.
89. Bigelow, Poultney, Seventy Summers (London, 1925) 279.
90. Mor.83; see p. 268, and Put. 446–7.
91. TR to B, c. Oct. 30, 1884 (TRB mss).
92. Sto.129; Put. 501–2; Al Smith in PRI.n.
93. Sto.131–4. See also Nev.145.
94. Mor.87.
95. Ib., 88.
96. Lod.I.27.
97. TR.Wks.I.169; Put.508; TR.Wks. I.64. Following account is taken from ib., ff.
98. Ib., 67.
99. See Put.497–8.
100. TR to B, Nov. 23, 1884; TR.Pri.Di. Nov. 18.
101. TR left the Elkhorn site on Nov. 21, and stayed away for the rest of 1884. Anecdote from TR.Auto.98. Notwithstanding the “beavering,” he eventually became a skilled woodchopper, and kept the practice up all his life.
102. “I remember the morning we began to put up the walls, the temperature was sixty-five degrees below