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As welcome as: Aitken, Syntony, 232–35.
“But greater wonders followed”: London Times, October 4, 1900.
“After you left”: Marconi, My Father, 93.
“I am thinking”: Ibid., 93.
“extreme demands on my time”: Fleming to Flood Page, November 23, 1900. UCL, Fleming Collection, 122/47.
“I am desired to say”: Flood Page to Fleming, December 1, 1900. UCL, Fleming Collection, 122/47.
“As regards any special recognition”: Fleming to Flood Page, December 3, 1900. UCL, Fleming Collection, 122/47.
In December Nevil Maskelyne: Bartram, I, 50.
And there was Lodge: Lodge’s discussions with Muirhead are cited in a letter from George Fitzgerald to Lodge, June 14, 1899. UCL, Lodge Collection, 89/35 iv.
He accepted the position: Jolly, Lodge, 132.
THE END OF THE WORLD
“The most noticeable thing”: Hicks, Not Guilty, 68.
In 1898: Massie, Dreadnought, 180; Clarke, Voices, 133.
“At first there will be”: Ibid., 134.
“I wonder if”: Weintraub, Edward, 387.
PART III: SECRETS
MISS LE NEVE
Drouet produced: Cullen, Crippen, 48.
“For dolls or other girlish toys”: Le Neve, Ethel Le Neve, 6.
“Very soon afterwards”: Ibid., 8.
“For some reason”: Ibid., 8.
“I quickly discovered”: Ibid., 8.
On one occasion: Ibid., 8.
“With her departure”: Ibid., 9.
“Her coming was”: Ibid., 9.
An even stormier visit: Ibid., 9.
Crippen brought with him: Cullen, Crippen, 61. Cullen contends Crippen also brought with him Drouet’s mailing lists.
“This places within”: Goodman, Crippen File, 12.
In time Aural Remedies: Ibid., 13.
Crippen said, “although”: Trial, 37.
“Give me your hand”: Further Statement of Maud Burroughs, September 16, 1910. NA-DPP 1/13.
“we had a whole day together”: Ellis, Black Flame, 318.
“the only person in the world”: Le Neve, Ethel Le Neve, 10.
“by sheer accident”: Ibid., 12.
“THE THUNDER FACTORY”
“They thought”: Marconi, My Father, 100.
“There was nothing”: Thoreau, Cape Cod, 59.
“Plenty of water”: “Report for G. Marconi on his recent visit to America.” Cape Cod National Seashore.
One bit of historical resonance: Kittredge, Cape Cod, 94.
Cook assured Marconi: Marconi, My Father, 100.
“The barren aspect”: Thoreau, Cape Cod, 45–46.
Clouds often filled: For weather details throughout this chapter see Monthly Weather Review, 49, 53, 77, 80, 85, 99, 123, 144, 182, 206, 224, 246, 272, 277, 291, 295, 318–22, 348, 380, 385, 403, 428, 433, 450, 470, 490, 493–94, 516, 536, 543, 569, 572, 596, 606, 610.
“It was clear to me”: Vyvyan, Marconi and Wireless, 28.
“period of exceptionally severe storms”: Monthly Weather Review, 99.
“In view of the isolation”: Bradfield to Executive Committee, March 30, 1906. Cape Cod National Seashore.
“a vast morgue”: Thoreau, Cape Cod, 182.
“There is naked Nature”: Ibid., 182.
A photograph: “Marconi Site.” Wellfleet Historical Society.
“To lose him to anyone”: Marconi, My Father, 80.
“I wish I had got this letter”: Ibid., 82.
He formed: Aitken, Syntony, 143; Hong, Wireless, 46.
And Marconi endured: Aitken, Syntony, 246–47, fn 67 on 293.
On May 21, 1901: Daily Graphic, May 28, 1901, in UCL, Fleming Collection, 122/66; Faulkner, Watchers, 11; Hancock, Wireless, 29–30.
Only years later: Faulkner, Watchers, 11.
“If you opened the door”: Cape Codder, June 18, 1970, in Cape Cod National Seashore, File 4.7-2.
“In August”: Vyvyan, Marconi and Wireless, 28.
“We used to call it”: Crowley to Fleming, January 11, 1938. UCL, Fleming Collection, 122/3.
“We had an electric phenomenon”: Kemp Diary, August 9, 1901.
“The weather is still boisterous”: Ibid., August 14, 1901.
“Caution. Very Dangerous.”: See photograph, Kemp Diary, opposite p. 154.
“the thunder factory”: Weightman, Signor Marconi, 170.
The most important clause: Aitken, Syntony, 235–36; Bartram, I, 51.
CLAUSTROPHOBIA
On September 21: Trial, 9.
Trees lined the crescent: The following description of Hilldrop Crescent and its surrounding neighborhood is derived primarily from the online archives of the Bolles and Booth collections,