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29. Baltimore Report, 7 and passim. TR was still rejoicing in the primary’s Dickensian aspects a year later—see W. Post, May 26, 1892.
30. Charles Joseph Bonaparte, president of the Maryland Civil Service Reform League, assisted TR in these interviews, and also took a part in the drafting of the final report. See Eric F. Goldman’s unfinished “Charles J. Bonaparte, Patrician Reformer: His Earlier Career,” Johns Hopkins U. Studies in Historical and Political Science, Series LXI, No. 2 (1943).
31. Baltimore Report, 2, 4.
32. Boston Post, Apr. 1, 1891; W. Post, qu. Sun, Apr. 14; Civil Service Chronicle, May 1891.
33. Goldman, Bonaparte, 25. See TR. Scr. for nationwide reaction.
34. W. Post, Apr. 3, 1891.
35. Metaphor taken from C. S. Chronicle, May 1891.
36. During the session of Apr. 6, TR sent out for some sandwiches, and was puzzled when the office boy delivered them without a bill. “But I want to pay for them,” said the Commissioner, holding out a dollar. “You can keep the change.” The boy backed off in terror. “No, sir, I am not receiving any money on Government property.” W. Post, Apr. 7, 1891.
37. Baltimore Report, 3.
38. Ib., 4–5.
39. Ib., 126, 3, 139; C. S. Chronicle, Apr. 1891; Baltimore Report, 16.
40. Not to be confused with TR’s earlier report on the Baltimore Post Office (Aug. 1, 1889) reprinted in Mor. 177 ff.
41. See n. 69 below for sample reactions when it did appear. Har.78 implies, incorrectly, that it was President Harrison who pigeon-holed the report—no doubt because TR himself (Mor.242) was at pains to give that impression. Actually the document, dated May 1, was not even sent to Harrison until early in August (C. S. Chronicle, May 1892). BH approved its release in mid-August. N.Y. Tribune, Aug. 17, 1891.
42. TR to B, May 5, 1891.
43. Ib., passim, and Apr. 26, 1891.
44. Mor. 243.
45. TR to B, n.d., 1891.
46. Ib., May 10.
47. Undated, mutilated letter from TR to B, probably early May 1891; another, probably late June.
48. TR to B, June 7, 1891; Las.36–7.
49. TR to B, June 14, 1891.
50. TR to E, June 24, 1891.
51. The letter has not survived, but its contents can be inferred from references in subsequent letters from TR to B and E.
52. TR to B, n.d., probably late June 1891.
53. See TR to B, June 17, 1891; also July 12.
54. Ib., June 20, 1891; June 17; later letters, passim.
55. Ib., June 17, 1891.
56. He was currently spending at the rate of $1,500 a month, or $18,000 a year, against an estimated $15,000 in income. Las.34 and 21.
57. TR to E, June 14, 1891. The uncle was James K. Gracie, husband of Aunt Annie.
58. TR to B, June 20 and July 2, 1891.
59. Ib., July 12 and 2, 1891. Hall Roosevelt drank himself to death in 1941 at the age of fifty.
60. Ib., July 2, 1891.
61. Goldman, Bonaparte, 25; Mor.255. HCL was now in his third term at Congress, and was one of the most influential members of the House. Sto.183 and Gar. passim.
62. TR to HCL, July 1, 1891 (edited version in Mor.256).
63. TR to B, July 8, 1891.
64. Ib.
65. TR to B, July 8, 21, 12, 1891. Apparently TR also went to look at the baby, with Douglas Robinson, on July 13.
66. Ib., July 12, 1891. How B managed to get E shut up is unclear. He seems to have consented at first (ib.), but afterwards claimed he had been “kidnapped.” (Las.37.)
67. TRB mss.
Postscript: In a letter prompted by the first edition of this biography, Katy Mann’s granddaughter reported that Katy never married. She took no pains to conceal the parentage of her son, who was named Elliott Roosevelt Mann. Money left in trust for the child by Elliott Senior apparently never reached the family, which has remained bitter for generations. Eleanor Mann Biles to author, July 6, 1981.
68. C.S. Chronicle, May 1892; W. Post, Sep. 2, 1891 (Wanamaker was on vacation).
69. See, e.g., N.Y. Tribune and Times, Aug. 17, 1891. Sample editorial quote, from N.Y. Evening Post, same date: “All that he says is true, and furnishes the most