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13. N.Y.T., and Eve. Post, Aug. 16, 1898.

14. Che.7. With this first citation the author wishes to express his debt to the definitive—and only—study of Governor Theodore Roosevelt. Without Chessman’s indispensable work (itself a condensation of a lengthy dissertation, preserved in TRC) the following three chapters of the present biography could not have been written in their present form. For some afterthoughts by Chessman on the structure and conclusions of his book, see the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, Vol. I.1, Winter-Spring 1975.

15. Che.18–19; ib., 20; HUN.55.

16. Che.18.

17. Ib., 11–12, 16.

18. Ib., 16–17.

19. See TR.Auto.279; also Che.7–24 for an extended treatment of Platt’s meeting with Quigg. Her., Aug. 17, 1898; Quigg to TR, Mar. 19, 1913, qu. Mor.1475.

20. Che.26.

21. Howe, M. A. de Wolfe, John Jay Chapman and His Letters (Houghton Mifflin, 1937) 1–8; Cha.248–9; Che.26.

22. See Edel, Leon, ed., American Essays of Henry James (NY, 1956) 240–1.

23. Howe, Chapman, 469.

24. Cha.248; Chapman to Mrs. Chapman, Sep. 14, 1898, qu. Mor.1475.

25. Che.32; Howe, Chapman, 142–3; Che.27; Mor.1474–5.

26. Chapman qu. Che.29.

27. Quigg came either in response to TR’s telegram of Aug. 17, 1898, or as a result of his own previous suggestion, which the telegram confirmed. Whatever the case, TR “particularly wanted” to talk over matters with Platt’s lieutenant.

28. TR.Auto.280–1.

29. Ib.; Che.29–30.

30. Her., Aug. 17, 1898; Hag.RF.58; Che.26. TR had received an advance discharge from quarantine on Aug. 17.

31. Her., Aug. 17, 18.

32. N.Y.T., Aug. 20, 1898.

33. See juxtaposition of Rooseveltian and Republican news in, e.g., N.Y.T., Aug. 21, 1898. Che.34; Her., Aug. 21.

34. Ib.; Hag.RF.58–9.

35. EKR’s emotions are inferred from a letter to Emily Carow, c. Aug. 25, 1898, excerpted in TRB mss. Her., Aug. 21; Hagedorn memo, TRB.

36. See Her., Aug. 22, 1898; World, Aug. 24.

37. See Mor.852.

38. Robert Bridges in Eve. Post, Jan. 1919 (n.d.), TRB.

39. Mor.1475. Che.27 fn. points out that both Mor. and Howe, Chapman, are wrong in describing this as the first TR/Chapman meeting. See New York Tribune, Aug. 19, 1898, for confirmation. How.465; Che.33.

40. Howe, Chapman, 142.

41. See, e.g., World, Aug. 28, 1898; Her., Aug. 22, 23, 24; World, Aug. 24.

42. There is a photostat of this envelope in TRB.

43. World, Sun, Aug. 27, 1898; Her., Oct. 6.

44. Ib., Aug. 25, 1898.

45. HUN.55.

46. Che.35; Eve. Post, Sep. 1, 1898.

47. Howe, Chapman, 143; Mor.1476; Chapman qu. ib.

48. Un. clip (Her.?), Sep. 5, 1898, TRB.

49. Her., Sep. 10, 1898; Eve. Post, same date; Che.38.

50. See Mor.874 fn; N.Y.T., Sep. 26, 1898; Mor.875.

51. Jones, Virgil Carrington, Roosevelt’s Rough Riders (Doubleday, 1971) 276. The following account is based on Her., Sep. 14, Marshall, Story, 247–51, and random clip files in TRB.

52. Marshall, Story, 247–251.

53. Ib., Her., Sep. 14, 1898.

54. Ib.

55. TR’s entire speech is reprinted in RR. 157–8 fn.

56. Her., Sep. 14, 1898; TRB clips.

57. Private Bill Bell, un. clip, c. Nov. 1, 1898, TRB.

58. World, June 26, 1898.

59. Characterizations from RR. passim.

60. Her., Sep. 14, 1898; Rii.200.

61. N.Y.T., Sep. 18, 1898; Che.42.

62. See, e.g., Her., N.Y.T., Sep. 16, 1898. Eve. Post, Sep. 17.

63. See, e.g., Her., Sep. 14, 1898. N.Y.T., Sep. 16.

64. Eve. Post, Sep. 18, 1898; Her., same date. Quigg was also present. During this conversation with the press, TR evoked for the first time an image he would one day make famous: “I feel like a bull moose.” Williams, Talcott, in Century Memorial to TR, 73.

65. N.Y.T., Sep. 20, 1898; Mor.876.

66. Howe, Chapman, 469.

67. Mor.877.

68. Che.45.

69. For a different interpretation, see Mor.1476–1478.

70. Howe, Chapman, 143; Chapman, qu. ib., 139–141.

71. Cha.248, Chapman qu. Howe, Chapman, 143. Further sidelights into the early relationship of TR and Chapman are available in the Chapman Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard (letters to Mrs. Chapman, Aug. 1898 ff.). TR, significantly,