Blood & Ivy

by Paul Collins

  266Commencement Day festivities at Dartmouth: New Hampshire Sentinel, 1 August 1850.

  266committee report in the Massachusetts legislature: Morison, Three Centuries of Harvard, 288. Namely a committee led by George S. Boutwell, who became the state’s governor soon thereafter. Notably, Boutwell—later a senator and then secretary of the Treasury under Grant—was self-taught and did not attend college at all.

  267“parents went on, generation after generation”: Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 65.

  267described . . . as Brahmins: Holmes, Elsie Venner, 13.

  267Edward King: Rantoul, Report of the Harvard Class of 1853, 167.

  267William Dorsheimer: Ibid., 78.

  267Justin Winsor: Ibid., 283.

  267Francis McGuire: Ibid., 178.

  267Dorsheimer, in his later years, ran the New York Star: Ibid., 80.

  267Albert Gallatin Browne Jr.: Ibid., 46.

  267Adams Sherman Hill: Ibid., 133.

  267Charles William Eliot: Ibid., 95.

  268“was Webster’s volcano”: Cohen, Some Early Tools of American Science, 19.

  268Lizzie Borden: Tacoma Daily News, 14 June 1893.

  268Leopold and Loeb: BH, 20 June 1924. Readers of my book The Murder of the Century may take note that Dr. Webster’s case was also duly mentioned during the feverish coverage of the murder of William Guldensuppe—for example, in the Philadelphia Inquirer of 1 July 1897.

  268“a sententious style”: Holmes, The Benefactors of the Medical School, 27.

  268“Dr. Parkman was a man of strict and stern”: Ibid., 35.

  268“Dr. Parkman was so harsh and cruel”: Benjamin Peirce letter to A. D. Bache, 7 April 1850; quoted in Hogan, Of the Human Heart, 143.

  269“Longfellow told me a terrific story”: Letter to Wilkie Collins, 12 January 1868, in Dickens, Letters of Charles Dickens, 12:9.

  269“They were horribly grim”: Letter to Lord Lytton, 13 January 1868, in Dickens, Letters of Charles Dickens, 12.

  269“Professor Webster’s laboratory still remains”: BJ, 21 April 1911.

  269“but all discovery of the murderer was to be baffled”: Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens, 3: 426.

  270at the end of a full day of working on his story: Ibid., 3: 428.

  270“I hope his book is finished”: Ibid., 3: 427.

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