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“in the interest of science.” JH to HA, Dec. 30, 1890.
“talking incessantly.” LHA, III, 303.
shoes and stockings. Recollections of Viola Roseboro, La Farge Family Papers, Sterling Library.
“all he has seen.” LHA, III, 297.
“of the flesh.” JL, New York Times, Dec. 30, 1894.
“fricasseed?” Colvin, II, 255. Fortnum and Mason. HJL, III, 337.
earning a living. JL, New York Times, Dec. 30, 1894.
“abuse him.” LHA, III, 442.
Rue de la Cathédrale. JL, Reminiscences, 301-02.
“decay.” LHA, III, 404-05.
“give him a chance.” Ibid., 406.
more prose than poetry. Ibid., 393.
hymns more polished. Ibid., 424.
“They are a fraud.” Ibid., 425.
“fifteen or twenty years.” Ibid., 460.
“whitey-brown.” Ibid., 417.
“drink—drink—drink.” Ibid., 406.
“frantic to escape.” Ibid., 445.
H. H. Richardson. Ibid., 418.
prized Henry James. Recollections of Viola Roseboro, La Farge Family Papers, Sterling Library.
considerable power. LHA, III, 420.
“mix rather well.” Ibid., 453.
as Clara Hay. Ibid., 409.
sat on the floor. Ibid., 420.
(Prince of the Deep). JL, Reminiscences, 320.
“his second son.” LHA, III, 452.
“more Teva than the Tevas.” JL, Reminiscences, 351.
“a thousand years back.” LHA, III, 478.
“a very brief affair.” Ibid., 479.
“the standard.” Ibid., 494.
“nice impulses.” Ibid., 466.
“strong and calm.” ESC to HA, March 9, 1891.
“dignity and simplicity.” JH to HA, March 25, 1891.
“her own soul.” CK to JH, May 1891.
“knock his head off.” ASG to HA, April 6, 1891.
“trial and suffering.” CFA, Jr., to HA, May 3, 1891.
“criticism from me.” LHA, III, 496.
“true God.” Ibid., 480-81.
meet her in Paris? ESC to HA, May 21, 1891.
for $2,500. LHA, III, 484.
“to see—you.” Ibid., 482.
“days are over.” JL, Reminiscences, 478.
“in October.” LHA, III, 515.
“tormenting.” Ibid., 549.
“say the reason.” ESC to HA, Sept. 26, 1891.
the French countryside. JL to HA, Nov. 10 and n, 1891.
“I was furious!” ESC to HA, November 1891.
“interrupted and unsatisfactory.” LHA, III, 560.
“the more I love.” Ibid., 556-58.
“back to you.” Ibid., 560-61.
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“used to talk.” ESC to HA, Dec. 6, 1891.
for $2,000. JL to My dear Friend, February 1892.
“ways of children.” CK to JH, January 1892.
“‘never dreamed of.’” CK to JH, November 1892.
“ecstatic madness.” Gauguin, 1, 9, 66, 132.
“Even their own attention.” JL to HA, Nov. 8, 1906.
Kansas City. Wilkins, 332-33.
“a year in drawing.” LJH, II, 203.
“my command.” Klein, 601-02.
“that’s something.” LJH, II, 187.
more than $100,000. There were two mortgages dated May 14, 1890, one for $43,000 covering three previous notes, and one for $76,000 against the bank stock. King v. Peabody et al.
“will not go.” JH to HA, Dec. 30, 1890.
“joyful hope.” Florence King Howland to CSH, July 6, 1890.
Hudson Street. Birth certificate No. 920, 1891 (Brooklyn), Municipal Archives, New York City.
“the world.” Wilkins, 337-38.
“act soon.” CK to JH, January 1892.
“gift of science.” CK, “The Education of the Future,” 20-33.
probably occurred in 1891. The Municipal Archives in New York City has birth certificates for three of the five children born to James and Ada Todd. The first is for their second child, Grace, born Jan. 24, 1891. The next—No. 998, 1892 (Brooklyn)—for a birth on Jan. 31, 1892, also claims to be for a second child, which suggests that one of their children died sometime between the 1891 and 1892 births.
“in the breach.” CK, “The Education of the Future,” 20-33.
earth’s crust. For an understanding of King’s hypothesis, I am indebted to the discussion in Wilkins, 326-32.
one more triumph. LJH, II, 213.
“curiosities of investigation.” CK to JH, January 1892.
“stand the racket.” LJH, II, 234.
“to my back.” CK to JH, Sept. 16, 1892.
“discovered us.” CK to HA, Aug. 31, 1892.
“only enemies.” EHA, 320.
“cholera germ?” CK to HA, Aug. 31, 1892.
purview of a mere Civil Service commissioner. Morris, 434-37, 452-55.
“fifteenth century!” Wilkinson, 242.
spread out below. Smith, 491Page
; Wilkinson, 253-60; Roth, 174-78.
“vile displays.” LHA, II, 292.
than Paris. EHA, 339.
“appreciation of the old.” Samuels, Henry Adams, III, 113.
the Treasury. Spence, 234-35.
home at once. CFA to HA, July 7, 1893.
“and go on.” HA to ESC, Aug. 8, 1893.
debtors paid him. LJH, II, 261.
“of the Midway.” HA to ESC, Oct. 8, 1893.
four million. Spence, 235.
“blizzard.” HA to JH, Oct. 18, 1893.
“gone under.” HA to JH, Oct. 18, 1893.
the point academic. Wilkins, 338-39; Crosby, 359.
another child in July 1893. Birth certificate No. 8698, 1893 (Brooklyn), Municipal Archives, New York City.
could not sleep. R. P. Lincoln, King’s physician, New York Tribune, Nov. 4, 1893, 7.
got there. JL to HA, Nov. 7, 1893.
disorderly conduct. New York Tribune, Oct. 31, 1893, 4; New York Sun, Nov. 3, 1893, 1.
“health and vigor.” R. P. Lincoln, op. cit.
“care to ask.” HA to JH, Nov. 5, 1893.
“little while.” JL to HA, op. cit.
“intimate with him.” JL to HA, op. cit.
prescribed by his physicians. JH to HA, Jan. 1, 1894.
“sanity in his madness.” Edel, Henry James, IV, 238.
corrections and additions. LHA IV, pp. 156-57.
beautiful young women. Crosby, 370-71.
daily to Bloomingdale. James Gardiner to George Howland, Nov. 9, 1893; J. D. Hague to E. B. Bronson, Dec. 4, 1893, Hague Papers.
“gay enough.” CK to HA, Dec. 31, 1893.
“longing for.” CK to HA, Jan. 1, 1894.
“obstinate silence.” JH to HA, Jan. 1 and 24, 1894.
“alter relations.” HA to JH, Jan. 16, 1894.
suicidio. Edward T. James (ed.), Notable American Women, III, 670-72.
A Christmas Carol. CFW to Clare Benedict, Dec. 13, 1893, with additions made Dec. 25, Mather Papers.
“joy at release.” Ibid, her grave. HJL, III, 459-60.
“latent brain-disease.” Ibid., 462.
“suicidal mania.” Ibid., 463.
“was diseased.” Ibid., 464.
“was attached.” Ibid., 470.
Roman sunshine. JH to Samuel Mather, Jan. 31, 1894, Mather Papers.
“Perhaps he is.” HA to JH, Feb. 3, 1894.
“doubt Weir Mitchell?” CK to JH, Feb. 3, 1894.
“thin air.” HA to JH, Feb. 27, 1894.
“ought to be.” HA to JH, Feb. 27, 1894.
“baked in joy and sweat.” CK to HA, March 29, 1895.
“Democracy.” HA to JH, Feb. 27, 1894.
“among the stones.” HA to ESC, March 1 and 16, 1894.
everything he ate. HA to ESC, Feb. 16 and 23, March 8, 1894.
Negro-Cuban variation, CKM, 173.
“brigand or both.” CKM, 175.
blood and gore. Ibid., 178.
“doesn’t affect him.” HA to JH, April 11, 1894.
“‘be free!’” CK to JH, May 16, 1894.
“I harbor hopes.” CK to HA, May 11, 1894.
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the household. New York Daily Mirror, Nov. 21, 1933, 3.
silver mines. CK to JH, Aug. 30 and Sept. 29, 1894.
“with, or without, reason.” LJH, II, 336.
“send over the money.” Ferdinand de Rothschild to JH, Feb. 12, 1895.
one dependent. JH to HA, Sept. 3, 1895; George Howland to JH, Dec. 25, 1895.
“all at once.” JH to HA, Nov. 17, 1895.
“mine Cervantes.” CK to HA, Nov. 28, 1895; 1896.
Don Quixote. CK to JH, Nov. 14, 1895.
age of the earth. LJH, II, 355.
fabrications. O’Toole, 77-78.
four hundred thousand lives. Ibid., 58 note.
“heart of Cuba.” CK, “Shall Cuba Be Free?” 57.
“invincible knight.” CK, “Fire and Sword in Cuba,” 36-37.
“let the Cubans pass.” Ibid.
“a garden party.” CK, “Shall Cuba Be Free?” 64-65.
sovereign nation. O’Toole, 63.
“justice will be poetic.” Ibid., 64.
Spaniards in battle. W. H. Phillips to JH, Sept. 20, 1896.
the fray. CKM, 181.
“the only real issue.” LHA, IV, 362.
“their greed.” Ibid., 368-69.
Adams’s theme. Samuels, Henry Adams, III, 163-64; O’Toole, 64.
“concessions granted.” ESC to HA, June 15, 1896. The Miles-Cameron Papers contain several letters to ESC from Gonzalo de Quesada, one of the Cubans’ chief propagandists in Washington. The letters thank her profusely for her suggestions (undoubtedly the suggestions of Henry Adams), and one letter (undated) contains a thinly disguised request to see Senator Cameron: “Would you be so kind as to let me know when it will be convenient for you to see me and give poor Cuba some of your valuable advice.”
not … intervene in Cuba. Samuels, op. cit., 171-73.
“cross of gold.” Josephson, The Politicos, 678.
“the other rats.” Smith, 489.
“rests upon them.” Josephson, op. cit., 676.
“has ever had.” Samuels, op. cit., 171.
would elect William McKinley. LHA, IV, 369.
“at the mouth.” Boiler, 174.
by his staff. Josephson, op. cit., 695-96.
$1,000 a month for the campaign. Hay’s contributions are discussed in Mark Hanna to JH, Oct. 12, 1895; Jan. n, March 2, and March 5, 1896; and JH to WM, Aug. 3, 1896.
agree to help. LJH, III, 77-79.
“is tremendous.” JH to Whitelaw Reid, Nov. 10, 1896.
perhaps London. LHA, IV, 439.
“decides these things.” JH to Whitelaw Reid, Feb. 14, 1897.
precluded an appointment. JH, Feb. 19, 1897. There are two letters, Hay’s and a copy of McKinley’s amended version in Hay’s hand.
“useful purpose.” JH to WM, n.d.
stag dinner. Leech, 116.
the first president. Ibid., 109.
“and lost.” LHA, IV, 464.
“effectually drowned.” Ibid.
over his head. JH to HCL, May 6, 1987.
“things to you?” LJH, III, 84.
“no use for me.” LHA, IV, 471.
Turner. Morris, 465-67.
around the globe. Ibid. 424.
“aggression.” Leech, 118.
“reticent.” W. H. Phillips to HA, May 4, 1897.
“honor and renown.” Morris, 569-71.
“wigging.” Leech, 158.
job well done. Morris, 571.
to grant. JH to CSH, September 1897.
“out of it!” JH to HA, May 28, 1897.
Bournemouth. Edel, Henry James, IV, 456-57.
top hat … brougham. Receipts. John Hay Library.
satin gowns. English newspaper clipping, n.d. Scrapbook no. 40, John Hay Papers, Library of Congress.
“should talk to.” Nevins, Henry White, 127.
“rap on wood and stop.” JH to HA, July 17, 1897.
wedded to gold. Nevins, op. cit., 123, 127; Leech, 143-44.
“talk so much.” JH to CK, Dec. 13, 1897.
“must go.” LJH, III, 103.
“it is so.” HA to JH, Nov. 21, 1897.
stay home and work. HJ to JH, Nov. 26, 1897.
no assignment. CK to JH, December 1897.
“begging him.” LJH, III, 106.
Saint-Gaudens. LHA, IV, 498.
“my dinner?” Ibid., 505.
“to my mind.” Ibid., 530.
“creases out.” Ibid., 538-39.
“Spaniards did it.” JH to HA, May 9, 1898.
the same opinion. Morris, 600.
“look ahead.” LHA, IV, 556-57.
“bent on peace.” O’Toole, 146.
“chocolate eclair.” Morris, 610.
“‘finish up the work.’” JH to WM, March 26 and 29, 1898.
“some great thing.” O’Toole, 195.
“chance of his life.” JH to HA, May 9, 1898.
decrepitude of Spain. LHA, IV, 576; Morgan, 66.
“husband and father.” Recollections of Viola Roseboro, La Farge Family Papers, Sterling Library.
change course. Morris, 602-03.
“American character.” JH to TR, July 17, 1898.
“coaling station.” LHA, IV, 594.
“escapes lynching.” LJH, III, 126.
“out of theirs.” JH to HCL, July 27, 1898.
as compensation. JH to William R. Day, June 4, 1898.
“responsible for them.” JH to WM, Aug. 2, 1898.
“has ever been.” JH to William R. Day, July 19, 1898.
for generations. EHA, 363.
“without counting me.” LHA, IV, 581, 604.
“Versailles.” LHA, IV, 604.
watermelon. Tehan, 150-51.
unmentionable in the Adams family. JH to CSH, March 27, 1898.
“than nature intended.” Edel, op. cit., 234-35.
“clumsiness of rage.” Ibid., 231.
“early adolescence.” Beisner, 43.
“danger to avoid.” HJ, Literary Criticism: Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writers, 663-65.
“chaplain.” LJH, III, 133.
SEPTEMBER. Thayer, II, 173.
of his health. JH to WM, Aug. 15, 1898.
president’s request. EHA, 365.
one he did not. JH to Samuel Mather, Sept. 24, 1898.
“without reference to me.” JH to WM, Aug. 15, 1898.
“so great an honor.” JH to WM, Aug. 15, 1898.
“satisfy anybody.” LHA, IV, 610-11.
“—or with me.” Ibid., IV, 616.
“your coat-tails.” HJ to JH, April 30, 1900.
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“without you.” JH to CSH, Sept. 30, 1898.
“so absolutely alone.” JH to CSH, Oct. 8, 12, 15, 1898.
“in charge of.” LJH, III, 150.
“while I am President!” Leech, 345; Ziff, 221.
“humorous.” Neider, 293.
chaos of the Philippines. AC, “Distant Possessions—The Parting of the Ways,” 239-48.
inalienable right. Beisner, 165.
“near future.” Globe Democrat, n.d. Carnegie was pleased enough with the report to preserve it in his papers (vol. 56).
“thinks best.” AC to JH, Nov. 24, 1898.
“at Homestead.” Thayer, II, 199.
to dinner. JH to AC, Dec. 31, 1898; AC Papers (vol. 59).
“staunch Republican.” AC to JH, Dec. 27, 1898.
“your brains.” AC to Carl Schurz, Dec. 17, 1898.
“aunties.” JH, Diary, June 27, 1904.
“establish them in the Philippines.” Morgan, 112.
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bsp; “even lyric.” LHA, IV, 657-58.
“to think.” Ibid., 678-79.
“his nature.” Ibid., 621.
“buffer-state?” Ibid., 630, 635.
pressed for it. Ibid., 626.
“silver platter.” Samuels, Henry Adams, III, 193.
“for freedom.” LHA, IV, 695.
“of the rest.” Ibid., 666-67.
(likely to buy.) Beisner, 102.
“spoliation.” Thayer, II, 241.
“definitive.” Leech, 515-17. since 1881. McCullough, 131.
satisfying news to Hay. Thayer, II, 214-15.
“secret alliances.” LJH, III, 16970.
“under Abraham Lincoln.” Leech, 512.
“one-third of the Senate.” LJH, III, 136-37.
order in the Canal Zone. McCullough, 256-58.
“necks to get.” LHA, V, 84.
Eleven o’clock precisely. Leech, 504-05.
“first to flop.” Nevins, 150-52.
“their own power.” Thayer, II, 260.
“by the Constitution?” JH to [TR], Feb. 12, 1900.
Puerto Rico and Hawaii. McCullough, 256.
“larger than ours.” Thayer, II, 339-40.
Irish constituents. Nevins, 150-52.
presidential nomination. JH to CSH, Oct. 15, 1898; Ford, II, 275.
“cowardice.” LJH, III, 176.
philippics against Hay. LHA, V, 94-95.
“Won’t it be fun?” Ibid., 92.
“will feel it.” HA to ESC, March 5, 1900.
“the Cabinet.” Thayer, II, 226-27.
“storm may rage.” Ibid., 227-28
“failure of his Canal Treaty.” LHA, V, 113.
sympathized with the uprising. Dennett, 297; Leech, 517-18.
“your shoulders.” LHA, V, 128.
“no alliances.” JH to Edwin Conger, June 10, 1900.
cry for help. Edwin Conger to JH, July 20, 1900.
Hay’s ingenuity. Thayer, II, 237; Leech, 521-22.
“chum of the Kaiser.” JH to HA, Nov. 21, 1900.
“querulous old age.” LJH, III, 186-87.
“sorry for it afterwards.” JH to HA, Aug. 22, 1900.
not seen Nannie for months. In JH to ESC, March 17, 1901, Hay says he has seen Mrs. Lodge only once, by accident, in the last year.
“was a boy.” LJH, III, 184-85.
“dust and ashes.” Ibid., 190-91.
a cabinet wife. LHA, V, 110.
“little Hell upon earth.” JH to HA, Aug. 5, 1899.
“rope of sand …” LJH, III, 205.
“fat and stupid prosperity.” Ibid., 171.
“amour-propre.” JH to HA, June 15, 1900.
“or something!” Leech, 537.
candidate of the convention. Morris, 726.