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The prince hated: Massie, Dreadnought, 15.
By the late 1890s: Rose, Edwardian Temperament, 165.
The number of variety theaters: Read, Urban Democracy, 42; Priestley, Edwardians, 172. Baedeker, London, on p. 64, puts the number of music halls in London alone at 500.
She kept a cast: Massie, Dreadnought, 13.
PART II: BETRAYAL
THE SECRET BOX
“Maxwellians”: For a detailed examination of Hertz’s work and the respect, if not adulation, afforded him by Oliver Lodge and his camp, see O’Hara and Pricha, Hertz. See also Hong, Wireless, 44.
Soon afterward: The postal details in this paragraph come from Baedeker, London, 80, 122, 181.
“It has gone twelve now”: Mullis’s account is quoted at length in Baker, Preece, 266–67.
Preece and Marconi were kindred: Hong, Wireless, 37–38.
Preece recognized: Aitken, Syntony, 210–14, 288.
Later Preece would state: Aitken, Syntony, 288.
In a letter to his father: Marconi to Giuseppe Marconi, April 1, 1896. “Letters,” 96–97.
“He promised me”: Ibid., 97.
“La calma della mia”: Marconi, My Father, 46.
“an Italian had come up”: Hong, Wireless, 38.
“On the last day”: Ibid., 38.
“There is nothing new”: Lodge to Preece, October 16, 1896. IEE, SC Mss. 22/213.
“I think it desirable”: Marconi to Preece, December 5, 1896. IEE, NA 13/2/02.
The Strand Magazine: Weightman, Signor Marconi’s, 9; Isted, I, 53.
the ambassador “even apologized”: Marconi to Giuseppe Marconi, January 9, 1897. “Letters,” 100.
“the public has been educated”: Hong, Wireless, 39.
ANARCHISTS AND SEMEN
“I may say”: Trial, 36.
Just east lay Bloomsbury: For more detail about the neighborhood and the Bloomsbury and Fitzroy Street groups, see Stansky, December, and David, Fitzrovians, respectively.
“The door opened”: Stansky, December 1910, 10.
For years the basement: David, Fitzrovians, 95.
Nearby at No. 30: David, Fitzrovians, 95; Deghy and Waterhouse, Café Royal, 54.
Harrison recalled: Cullen, Crippen, 42.
A photograph from about this time: Goodman, Crippen File, 16.
“a few feeble lines”: Cullen, Crippen, 42.
A program from this period: Goodman, Crippen File, 25.
“the Brooklyn Matzos Ball”: Cullen, Crippen, 44.
“smoking concerts”: Trial, 36.
“She was always finding fault”: Ibid., 88.
“that this man visited her”: Ibid., 36.
THE GERMAN SPY
He long had resented: André Maurois wrote of Wilhelm: “He was sensitive and ardent, and for artists might have turned out to be a desirable friend. But at the head of an Empire he was terrifying. His speeches, even his telegrams, were tirades of melodrama; his mother wished she could put a padlock on his mouth whenever he spoke in public.” (Maurois, Edwardian Era, 83)
Kapp described him: Kapp to Preece, March 19, 1897. IEE, SC Mss. 022. Folder 100-276.
“As far as the Government”: Marconi to Giuseppe Marconi, January 20, 1897. “Letters,” 101–2.
Two Americans: Ibid., 102.
In April, however: Marconi to Preece, April 10, 1897. IEE, NA 13/2/08. Also, see Aitken, Syntony, 218, 222–23.
On April 9, 1897: Graham to Preece, April 9, 1897. IEE, NA 13/2/07.
“I am in difficulty”: Marconi to Preece, April 10, 1897. IEE, NA 13/2/08.
Afterward he wrote: Marconi to Giuseppe Marconi, August 8, 1897. “Letters,” 102.
“Marconi at the end of 1897”: Preece’s Recollections, July 26, 1937, 5. IEE, NA 13/2/24.
On Friday, May 7: Kemp Diary, May 7, 1897.
“So be it”: Kemp Diary, May 13, 1897.
“I can’t love him”: Slaby to Preece, June 23, 1898. IEE, SC Mss. 22/180.
“It is cold here”: Kemp Diary, May 18, 1897.
“I had not been able”: Hancock, Wireless, 4.
“I came as a stranger”: Slaby to Preece, May 15, 1897. IEE, SC Mss. 22/180.
In Berlin, Slaby immediately: See Slaby to Preece, June 27, 1897. IEE, SC Mss. 22/179.
He had to withdraw: Hong, Wireless, 13.
“The papers seem”: Lodge to Preece, May 29, 1897. IEE, SC Mss. 22/210.
“It appears that”: Weightman, Signor Marconi’s, 31–32.
“It would be important”: Fitzgerald to Lodge, June 21, 1897. UCL, Lodge Collection, MS Add 89/35 iii.
“I have distinctly told him”: Preece to Secretary, G.P.O., July 15,