The rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris [432]
70. W. Post, Sep. 1, 1891; Mor.259.
71. Sun, Aug. 17, 1891; see also N.Y.T., World, Trib., same date.
72. TR to Douglas Robinson, Aug. 6, 1891; TR to B, Aug. 22.
73. At the time of writing, December 1977, Ethel Roosevelt Derby has just died at Oyster Bay.
74. TR to B, Sep. 1, 1891.
75. Mor.261. Cut.58 says that the excessive butchery of this trip was to prove an embarrassment to TR in later years. It was, nevertheless, the only recorded instance of the mature TR breaking his own controlled-hunting rules. “The horror about poor Elliott” may have had something to do with it. As can be seen in a passage deleted from his letter to HCL of Oct. 10, 1891 (LOD.), the worry was still very much with him when he returned to Washington.
76. N.Y. T., Nov. 29, 1891; W. Post, Sep. 2, 1891.
77. N.Y. T., Nov. 29, 1891.
78. W. Post, Sep. 2, 1891.
79. Foulke, William D., Fighting the Spoilsmen (Putnam, 1919) 25–6.
80. TR to B, Oct. 28, 1891; Goldman, Bonaparte, 26; Mor.265–6 (the reports turned out to be false); ib., 258; Williams, “TR, CSC,” 85.
81. EKR to TR, passim (Derby mss.); Hay to Adams, Jan. 6, 1892, ADA.
82. Las.38; TR to B, passim; N.Y. Herald, Aug. 22, 1891.
83. TR to B, Sep. 1, 1891.
84. TR to B, Nov. 27 and Dec. 13, 1891.
85. Ib., Dec. 22, Jan. 3, 1892.
86. E (age 15) to TR Sr., Mar. 6, 1875, qu. Las.7.
87. E’s sporting notes (1873), TRC.
88. TR to B, Jan. 21, 1892.
89. Las.38–39; TR to B, Feb. 13, 1892.
90. Author’s surmise, based on TR’s letter announcing departure plans, Jan. 21, 1892.
91. Fragment in Anna Hall Roosevelt papers, FDR.
92. The exact dates of TR’s trip to Paris have long been uncertain, due to an extraordinary combination of misdatings in the surviving correspondence. For example, his letter to B announcing the trip is dated “January 3, 1891” in the TRB typed transcripts, and his next letter to her from Paris, quoted above, is dated “June 21st 1891.” To make matters more complicated, his letter to Spring-Rice, beginning “When I was in Paris,” is dated in Mor.270 as “Jan. 25, 1892.” The correct dates should be, consecutively, Jan. 3, Jan. 21, and Feb. 25, 1892. Recently discovered letters of EKR to her mother, Gertrude Tyler Carow, confirm that TR left New York on Jan. 9, and arrived back home on Feb. 7, 1892. TRC.
93. See Mor.270.
94. House Report 2, 1–3. See also TR to Bonaparte, Jan. 4, 1892: “My devoted friend, Mr. Wanamaker, has not dared to have published the report of his inspectors.”
95. Before giving vent to this imprecation, he checked to see there were no reporters in the room.
96. George Haven Putnam in Century Association, TR Memorial Addresses, (NY, 1919) 40–3; also in Putnam, Memories of a Publisher (NY, 1915) 141–2. Putnam does not give the date, but since the incident obviously occurred in the period preceding the House Investigation, March 8 seems most likely. TR paid a visit to NY on that date, arriving in the evening, as Putnam remembers. He remained in NY on Mar. 9 and 10, but was otherwise engaged on those nights. (TR to B, passim.)
97. Las.39; TR to B, Feb. 13, 1892.
98. See “A Peccary-Hunt on the Nueces,” TR.Wks. 275–84. One of TR’s best pieces, full of visual and auditory details. Note how few lines are devoted to the actual chase, the rest being taken up with zoological observations and some beautiful nature-writing.
99. House Report 2, 1; Putnam in Memorial Addresses, 43.
100. House Report 2, 12.
101. Ib., 2.
102. Ib., 5, 7, 9
103. Ib., 25; W. Post, May 3, 1892.
104. House Report 2, 25–6.
105. See ib., 25–36, 27, 36
106. W. Post, May 3, 1892.
107. House Report 2, 60; N.Y.T., May 26, 1892; Mor.281–2; Sun, May 13.
108. See Mor.281–2 for complete text. TR sent a copy of this letter to BH, “with the utmost confidence that you will recognize the propriety of my action.”
109. House Report 2, 59; W. Post, May 26, 1892.
110. House Report 2, 60, 63.
111. N.Y.T., May 26, 1892. See TR.Scr. for more reactions, and Bis.II.48–9; House