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36. TR.1886.Di.; Sew.72–3; TR.Wks.I. 396–7.

37. Ib., 397–8.

38. Dr. Stickney in un. clip, HAG.Bln.

39. Mor.96.

40. Edith was scheduled to leave for Europe on April 24, 1886 (C to B, Mar. 29, 1886).

41. Put.570; Hag.RBL.388–9; TR.Auto. 119. A simple collation of these three sources establishes the election date as Tuesday, Apr. 12, 1886. Edict qu. Hag.RBL.392.

42. See Put.570–1 for LMSA meeting; also Mor.98, Bad Lands Cowboy, Apr. 15, 1886.

43. Clay, John, My Life on the Range (1924, reprinted NY Antiquarian Press, 1961) 351–2; Put.571–2; TR to B, Apr. 29.

44. HAG.Bln. passim. The last compliment was paid TR by Jack Reuter.

45. TR to B, Mar. 28, 1886.

46. HAG.Bln.; Hag.RBL.91.

47. Merrifield int. in HAG. Bln.

48. Ib.

49. Put.579–80; Mor.91 (TR to HCL, June 23, 1886 misdated 1885—see Putnam’s fn.).

50. TR to B, June 19, 1886 (TRB); Mor.103.

51. Ib., 105.

52. TR to B, Apr. 29, 1886; Put.578.

53. Hag.RBL.398. According to Sewall in HAG.Bln., TR occasionally suffered from writer’s block, and would read pages of manuscript to his men for their opinion.

54. Mor.95.

55. Mor.102 (text slightly amended to conform with original in Mass. Hist. Soc.).

56. Put.579; Mor.108.

57. It was superseded only by W. M. Meig’s biography in 1904. Benton is reprinted in TR.Wks.VII.1–233.

58. The Nation, Mar. 29, 1888. This prestigious journal gave Benton a major, 3-column review. Along with the negative comments quoted in text, it praised TR’s “lively and energetic development of the Western character” and “many acute and sensible verdicts on the great men of that time.” The New York Times (May 15) called Benton “stirring, argumentative, bold … singularly entertaining.” Both papers noted TR’s tendency to over-attack people and policies he disapproved of.

59. TR.Wks.VII.15.

60. Ib., 30; 232; 145.

61. Ib., 79–80.

62. Ib., 156–7. TR nevertheless agreed that “in any purely American community manhood suffrage works infinitely better than would any other system of government … in spite of the large number of ignorant foreign-born or colored voters.” (Ib.) His views on race and sex discrimination would be labelled “paternalistic” and “chauvinistic” today. Suffice to say they were advanced for his time, and became more so as he grew older.

63. TR.Wks.VII.27.

64. Ib., 172.

65. Ib., 169–70. See Put.574–9 for another review of Benton.

66. TR.1886.Di.

67. Hag.RBL.402; HAG.Bln.

68. Sew.16; Hag.RBL. 16.

69. Hag.405; Mor.107.

70. Dickinson Free Press, July 10, 1886 (TRB); Hag.RBL.406.

71. Press, same date; Hag.RBL.407.

72. HAG.Bln.

73. Press, same date. The critical listener was Lispenard Stewart (memo in TRB). But see Stickney and Packard in Hag.RBL.409–11, and Mandan Pioneer, July 9, 1886: “He made a very favorable impression upon all.”

74. Mandan Pioneer, same date; Mor.107.

75. Qu. Hag.RBL.583. See also Packard in Sat. Eve. Post, May 14, 1905.

76. Hag.RBL.411.

77. As recently as June 28 he had written Bamie: “I cannot tell exactly when I will be home; it will be between the middle of September and the middle of October; make your plans entirely without reference to me.” (TRB.) See also Put.581, 583.

78. Hag.RBL.412–3; Mor.107.

79. Ib. 109.

80. TR to B, Sep. 20, 1886.

81. Put.586.

82. TR to B, Aug. 20, 1886.

83. Ib., Sep. 20, 1886; Put.86; Sew.74.

84. Bismarck Tribune, Aug. 12, 1886.

85. Qu. Wag.87–8; see also Put.557 and fn.

86. The incident involved the imprisonment, by Mexicans, of an American journalist, and the subsequent killing, by Mexicans, of a U.S. Army officer. Put.586; Mor.158.

87. Put.585–6; Mor.108; TR.Wks.378; Mor. 109.

88. Mor.101;Hag.RBL.415–6; TR. Wks.I. 289–90.

89. Mor.109.

90. For an account of this trip, see TR.Wks.I.444–59 and Put.586–8. TR to B, Aug. 20, 1886.

91. See N.Y.T., Aug. 29, for the initial rumor; also a strong denial, evidently inspired by TR, in ib., Sep. 5. TR to B, Sep. 20, 1886. The original of this very important letter appears to have been suppressed.