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“A night or two after this”: Further Statement of William Long, 55. Witness, NA-DPP 1/13.
“I have at last”: Le Neve to Jackson, “Sunday” (probably June 12, 1910). Leters from Le Neve to Mrs. Jackson, NA-DPP 1/13.
“Have been ever so busy”: Le Neve to Jackson, June 29, 1910. Ibid.
“Still,” she told Mrs. Jackson: Ibid.
“He used to come with me”: Le Neve, Ethel Le Neve, 26.
“So time slipped along”: Ibid., 26.
“Whilst we were talking to him”: Clara Martinetti Statement, 25. Supplemental Information, NA-CRIM 1/117.
On May 6, 1910: Of Edward’s funeral, André Maurois wrote, “The contrast of all the black with the gay spring sunshine lent a strange beauty to the streets of the capital.” Maurois, Edwardian Era, 354.
A DUTY TO BE WICKED
The first signals: Vyvyan, Marconi and Wireless, 36.
In the midst of it all: Weightman, Signor Marconi’s, 145.
“It is beyond the powers”: Details on Nevil Maskelyne and the Egyptian Hall come from the following sources: Bolles Collection. Thomas Allen, The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and Parts Adjacent (Vol. 4). Cowie and Strange, 1827, 303; Bartram, I and II, throughout; Macqueen-Pope, Goodbye Piccadilly, 78–81; Oppenheim, Other World, 25–27.
In an article: Maskelyne Incident, 2–5.
“The plain question is”: Ibid., 5.
Cuthbert Hall, Marconi’s: Ibid., 7.
“Clearly, Mr. Hall is between”: Ibid., 12; Bartram, I, 54.
At Glace Bay silence prevailed: Vyvyan, Marconi and Wireless, 37–40.
“WHAT’S WRONG”: Sydney Daily Post, Dec. 9, 1902. Beaton Institute, MG 12/214. G3.: Scrapbook.
“All put cotton wool”: Marconi, My Father, p. 140
Times London: Vyvyan, Marconi and Wireless, 38.
A sudden gale: MacLeod, Marconi, 78.
Marconi had instructed: Ibid., 79.
Parkin crafted an account: Weightman, Signor Marconi’s, 147–48.
“Although these three messages”: Vyvyan, Marconi and Wireless, 39.
The telegram as received: Ibid., 40.
Roosevelt’s message: Ibid., 40–41.
Marconi’s critics sensed blood: Bartram, I, 54.
“I was not concerned”: Westminster Gazette, March 13, 1903. Maskelyne Incident, 17.
“It was clear”: Vyvyan, Marconi and Wireless, 41.
In the Morning Advertiser: Cited in Westminster Gazette, March 13, 1903. Maskelyne Incident, 17.
One reader wrote: Morning Advertiser, March 16, 1903. Maskelyne Incident, 21.
“Well, we have got beyond that”: Westminster Gazette, March 13, 1903. Maskelyne Incident, 17.
Even as it flared: Fleming, J.A. “A Report on Experiments,” 1–7. UCL, Fleming Collection.
Though somewhat wicked: Hong, Wireless, 108.
a silver thaw can occur: Vyvyan, Marconi and Wireless, 41; see also, Baker, History, 82, and MacLeod, Marconi, 86;
BLUE SERGE
For two of Belle’s friends: John Nash Statement, 2–3, in letter, Seyd to Director of Public Prosecutions, April 29, 1911. NA-DPP 1/13; John Nash Statement, 26–27. Witness, NA-DPP 1/13.
Crippen told him: The dialogue between Crippen and Nash is taken verbatim from John Nash Statement, 2–3, in letter, Seyd to Director of Public Prosecutions, April 29, 1911, NA-DPP 1/13.
Two days later: For details about Froest and Scotland Yard see Browne, Rise, 243–44; Jeffers, Bloody Business, 93; and Williams, Hidden World, 37.
“Mr. and Mrs. Nash are not satisfied”: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 8.
His name was Walter Dew: Dew, I Caught Crippen, throughout; Jeffers, Bloody Business, 116–17.
“I saw a sight”: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 145.
“When we got back”: The dialogue between Dew, Nash, and Froest is verbatim, from Dew, I Caught Crippen, 8–9.
Under ordinary circumstances: Dew, I Caught Crippen, 11.
“What was really in the minds”: Ibid., 9.
“I think it would be just as well”: Ibid., 9.
RATS
Fleming arranged: Details of the lecture and the intervention of Nevil Maskelyne come mainly from the Maskelyne Incident Papers, a collection of clippings and correspondence held in the archives of the Institute of Electrical Engineers, London. See in particular pp. 32–52. For overviews and additional details, see also Bartram, I, 55, and Hong, Wireless, 108–14.
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