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76. Hag.RF.11; Put.555.
77. Both descriptions based on contemporary photographs as well as the general portrait of the young Edith in Morr.EKR.
78. Merrifield to Hagedorn, June 1919, TRB memo; Hag.RF.11; Put.557.
79. Hag.RF.426.
80. Sylvia Jukes Morris; see also below, Ch. 13.
81. “A buffalo is nobler game than an anise-seed bag, the Anglomaniacs to the contrary notwithstanding.” TR to Lodge, Mor.77.
82. See TR in Century, Jan. 1886, qu. World, Oct. 17, 1886; Mor.90.
83. Lod.1.34–5.
84. TR.Wks.II.294–6; N.Y.T., Oct. 27, 1885.
85. TR.Wks.II.296.
86. Ib.; TR.Auto.32; Lod.I.34.
87. Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, Crowded Hours (Scribner’s, 1933) 4.
88. Edith’s presence at the Ball is confirmed by a letter to her from B, Oct. 23, 1886. Derby mss.
89. Lod.I.35.
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1. TR.1886.Di. passim; Put.558.
2. Par. 65.
3. Put. 557–8 discusses the reaction of TR’s sisters to his growing intimacy with Edith.
4. See, e.g., his long letter to B summing up the Chicago Convention of 1884 (Mor.70–72). On such occasions he signs himself formally THEODORE ROOSEVELT instead of his more usual “Thee” or “T.R.”
5. The period 1884–1886 is a noticeable lacuna in all Roosevelt collections, including those of his two sisters. What letters survive are usually truncated.
6. Mor.94.
7. Put.558; Mor.94.
8. See Gar. 56–8 on HCL’s relationship with John T. Morse Jr., editor-in-chief of this highly successful publishing venture.
9. See Put. 560 for a quote illustrating the bleak mood of Sewall and Dow. Elsewhere he surmises that TR’s engagement was open-ended, and that the lovers parted with “considerable uncertainty.” There is no evidence of this. Putnam also errs in saying that TR’s sisters “knew the situation.” As will be seen, they were kept as much in the dark as anybody that spring.
10. Put.559.
11. TRB.
12. TR.Auto.98.
13. Sew.59; TR.Wks.I.381–2.
14. Ib.
15. Ib., 383; Sew.60.
16. Ib., 67.
17. Put. 564.
18. Ib., 569 fn.; TR.Wks.I.383.
19. Ib., 384; Hag.RBL.368.
20. Mor.95; TR.Wks.I.385.
21. TR.1886.Di. Mar. 29; Mor.95. The Arnold volume was probably Discourses in America (1885).
22. As indeed it did in May 1888. Reprinted in TR.Wks.I.381–98, it forms the basis of the following narrative.
23. TR. 1886.Di.; Hag.RBL.373.
24. TR.Wks.I.386–7.
25. Photographs by TR in TRB; TR.Wks.I.387. Unlike most reporters, TR did not need a notebook. Three or four jotted words in his diary, such as “Hung up by ice,” were enough for him to write up a whole day with apparently total recall. His account of the boat chase runs to 7,000 words, based on a few dozen words of diary. See extracts from latter in Hag.RBL.371–9.
26. TR.Wks.I.386.
27. TR.1886.Di.; TR.Wks.I.388.
28. Ib., 388–9; Sew.62–3.
29. TR.Wks.I.389–90. Sewall, writing 33 years later (Sew.64–68), is at pains to give the impression that he, not TR, masterminded the capture of the thieves. Put.565–6 contrasts the two accounts.
30. TR.Wks.I.391.
31. There had recently been a big Indian hunt in the lower Little Missouri Valley, and the country was virtually stripped of wildlife. TR.Wks.I.394.
32. TR.1886.Di. Apr. 1–8; TR.Wks.I. 391–3. “If I’d had any show at all, you’d have sure had to fight, Mr. Roosevelt,” said Finnegan after his capture, flushing dark with anger. Ib., 395.
33. Ib., 393–5.
34. Ib., 396.
35. Mor.96. TR’s opinions of War and Peace, which he read (during the round-up!) later that spring, may be quoted here. Predictably he liked the battle scenes, but was irked by Tolstoy’s criticisms of the iniquities of war, while failing “to criticize the various other immoralities he portrays … he certainly in so far acts as the apologist for the latter, and the general tone of the book does not seem to me to be in the least conducive to morality.” (Interestingly, Tolstoy came to feel the same, albeit by more majestic reasoning.) TR fell in love, as all readers do, with Natasha: “her fickleness as portrayed is truly marvellous;