Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris [443]
13 The presidential train The Washington Post, 28 Nov. 1904; Robinson, My Brother, 220–22; TR, Letters, vol. 3, 1049–51. Mrs. Robinson, writing some sixteen years later, misremembers some of the details of this postmidnight session, and also, puzzlingly, recalls TR dictating another mammoth “review” of Finley Peter Dunne’s views on the Irish Question. This letter was actually written previously, on 23 Nov. 1904. See TR, Letters, vol. 3, 1040–42. However, she may be accurate in stating that TR continued his dictation in her presence, until a porter arrived with coffee at 7:00 A.M. “Shortly after that I was assisted to my berth in a more or less asphyxiated condition, from which I never roused again until the train reached the station in Washington.”
14 Nearly nineteen million Horgan, “Aeronautics at the World’s Fair”; David R. Francis, The Universal Exposition of 1904 (St. Louis, 1913), xviii–xix.
15 As if in earnest Horgan, “Aeronautics at the World’s Fair.”
16 MARGUERITE CASSINI HAD Cassini, Never a Dull Moment, 215.
17 The Ambassador’s choler John Hay diary, 2 Jan. 1905 (JH); Griscom, Diplomatically Speaking, 252. Because New Year’s Day was a Sunday in 1905, official receptions were postponed by twenty-four hours.
18 While Europe John Hay diary, 3 Jan. 1905 (JH).
19 Rheumatic, perpetually Ibid., 15 and 25 Jan. 1905; Adams, Letters, vol. 5, 629.
20 More and more Jusserand, What Me Befell, 276.
21 All that remained Hay was suffering from a prostate condition and heart disease (angina pectoris).
22 The Russian Baltic The fleet, commanded by Admiral Zinovi Rozhdestvenski, had sailed from Rigal Harbor in Oct. 1904.
23 “dealing with” Clymer, John Hay, 152.
24 Politely disapproving John Hay diary, 4 Jan. 1905 (JH).
25 the other his EKR to Kermit Roosevelt, 30 Jan. 1905 (KR).
26 “With him wielding” Education of Henry Adams, 417.
27 Roosevelt’s Energetik Education of Henry Adams, 441. Energetik: in German natural science, the fundamental energy of matter. In a sarcastic editorial headlined FIRMNESS — IN ROTATION, the New York Evening Post, 1 Feb. 1905, inquired: “Why is he never simultaneously firm on all his pet measures, but generally decided only on one at a time, in a somewhat periodic rotation?”
28 “the darkening prairie” Education of Henry Adams, 396.
29 “always and everywhere” Ibid., 455.
30 “Truth was the” Ibid., 456.
31 another henry Henry James to William James, 14 Jan. 1903 (HJ). James had not been in Washington since the days of President Arthur. See Leon Edel, Henry James: The Master, 1901–1916 (London, 1972), 274–76.
32 “The President is” Henry James to William James, 14 Jan. 1905, and to Mary Cadwalader Jones, 13 Jan. 1905 (HJ). For another account of this evening, see Lawrence, Memories of a Happy Life, 177.
33 “Theodore Rex” Henry James to Mary Cadwalader Jones, 13 Jan. 1905 (HJ). For the earlier, mutually contemptuous relations of TR and James, see Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, 467–68.
34 THE IMAGINATION MUST Bacon’s aphorism 104, from his Magna Instauratio (1620), is given here as paraphrased by Adams (Letters, vol. 5, 606). The original reads, “The understanding must not therefore be supplied with wings, but rather hung with weights to keep it from leaping and flying.”
35 Here was Arthur Education of Henry Adams, 437; Adams, Letters, vol. 5, 561; Arthur Balfour, “Reflections Suggested by the New Theory of Matter,” The Times (London), 18 Aug. 1904.
36 “I foresee something” Adams, Letters, vol. 5, 552.
37 Nearer home Samuels, Henry Adams, 321.
38 BOTH KANEKO John Hay diary, 30 Jan. and 15 Feb. 1905 (JH). Kaneko, a cosmopolitan Tokyo aristocrat, had opened a discreet war public-relations bureau in New York, whence he lobbied more energetically than effectively to keep American opinion pro-Japanese through the summer of 1905. James Kanda and William A. Gifford, “The Kaneko Correspondence,” Monumenta Nipponica 37.1 (1982); Eugene P. Trani, The Treaty of Portsmouth: An Adventure in American Diplomacy (Lexington, Ky., 1969), 19. For the early relationship of TR and Kaneko, see Julian