“The Congress matter”: JH to WR, October 21, 1879, WR-LC.
“He had the rare”: Bishop, Notes and Anecdotes, 61.
“Interests which I cannot”: JH to William Evarts, October 28, 1879, JH-BU.
“I stand like a hydrophobical”: JH to WDH, November 5, 1879, JH-WDH 40.
“What a pity”: Plischke, U.S. Department of State, 210.
“Today was an important . . . in Lincoln’s time”: JH to CSH, November 25, 1879, JH-BU.
“You don’t sufficiently”: Pennanen, “The Foreign Policy of William Maxwell Evarts,” 96.
“more exacting”: JH to Amasa Stone, December 8, 1879, JH-BU.
“I can hold on”: JH to CSH, December 7, 1879, JH-BU.
“[H]e and I are such belles”: JH to CSH, March 2, 1880, JH-BU.
“I had a rather large”: Holt, Garrulities, 136.
“The iron crown”: Tehan, Henry Adams in Love, 28.
“With perfection of grace”: De Koven, A Musician and His Wife, 54.
“ ‘Mein Gott!’ ”: Tehan, Henry Adams in Love, 28.
“He is very nice”: Ibid., 30.
“was looking far more”: JH to Flora Stone, December 20, 1879, M-WRHS.
“boundless ambition”: JH to CSH, January 28, 1880, JH-BU.
“The table was absolutely”: JH to CSH, February 13, 1880, JH-BU.
“[E]very year my”: JH to CSH, January 19, 1880, JH-BU.
“I cannot believe”: Ibid.
“He was loyal”: Wellman, “John Hay: An American Gentleman,” 166, 168.
“Hay seemed to me”: T. C. Evans, “Personal Reminiscences of John Hay: By a Veteran Journalist,” New York Times, July 16, 1905.
“Everything he undertook”: “John Hay,” The Nation 81 (July 6, 1905), 4.
“He is a very agreeable”: JH to CSH, March 7, 1880, JH-BU.
“The policy of this country”: Pennanen, “The Foreign Policy of William Maxwell Evarts,” 343.
“I work not for”: Ibid.
“The presence of such”: Mark Twain to WDH, October 27, 1879, in Smith and Gibson, eds., Mark Twain–Howells Letters, 1:277.
“I am doing this”: JH to CSH, July 23, 1880, JH-BU.
“The Balance Sheet”: “The Balance Sheet of the Two Parties: A Speech Delivered by John Hay at Cleveland, Ohio, July 31, 1880,” pamphlet, 1880, WRHS.
“The Bombardment . . . made havoc . . . The Great Speech”: Newspaper clippings, n.d., JH-LC.
“We had an excellent”: JH to WR, August 5, 1880, WR-LC.
“ ‘Little Breeches’ Hay”: Cleveland Plain Dealer, August 2, 1880.
“There was a slight”: JH to WDH, October 24, 1880, JH-WDH 52.
“head over heels . . . to resist”: HA to Charles Milnes Gaskell, March 3, 1872, HAL 2:132.
“a perfect Voltaire”: Edel, Henry James, The Middle Years, 29.
“I should say”: JH to Charles Milnes Gaskell, April 27, 1872, HAL 2:135.
“Mrs. Hay is . . . chats for two”: Chalfant, Better in Darkness, 364.
“mental stimulus”: Parsons, Scattered Memories, 166.
“a serene and classic . . . a climate”: De Koven, A Musician and His Wife, 202–03.
“to learn how the machinery”: HA, Democracy, 12.
“moral lunatic”: Ibid., 174.
“a third-rate nonentity . . . come in time”: HA to Charles Milnes Gaskell, June 14, 1876, HAL 2:276.
pronouncing it “coarse”: Chalfant, Better in Darkness, 399.
“given up denying it”: MHA to Robert Hooper, December 21, 1880, in Thoron, ed., Letters of Mrs. Henry Adams, 247.
“chief” of “Clan Ratcliffe”: HA, Democracy, 75.
“At the thought”: Ibid.
“Beware of your”: JH to James Garfield, October 18, 1880, JH-LET 2:51–52.
“[A]s you will see”: JH to WR, October 29, 1880, WR-LC.
“at least to that of”: James Garfield to JH, December 10, 1880, JH-BU.
“To do a thing”: JH to James Garfield, December 25, 1880, Garfield Papers, LC.
“trifling” Ohioan: Ackerman, Dark Horse, 253.
“I find myself low”: JH to WR, March 17, 1881, WR-LC.
“light employment”: WR to JH, March 18, 1881, JH-BU.
“I write only”: JH to James Garfield, May 6, 1881, Garfield Papers, LC.
Chapter 9: Scorpions
“I wish to say”: WR to JH, March 27, 1881, in Cortissoz, Life of Whitelaw Reid, 2:60.
“Well, which did”: New York Tribune, May 4, 1871.
“Have the people”: Ibid.
tried to have expunged: JH to J. Stanley Brown, November 30, 1881, JH-BU.
“Give me a line”: JH to James Garfield, May 6, 1881, Garfield Papers, LC.
“You are handling”: James Garfield to JH, May 8, 1881, JH-BU.
“a patriot of the . . . pap and patronage”: New York Tribune, May 14, 1881.
“We found little”: Young, Men and Memories, 460–61.
“There is certainly”: New York Tribune, May 17, 1881.
“Roscoe is finished”: JH to WR, May 26, 1881, WR-LC.
“You’ve made a splendid”: WR to JH, June 21, 1881, JH-BU.
“Never speak to me”: Ackerman, Dark Horse, 338.
“I did it”: New York Times, July 3, 1881; also Ackerman, Dark Horse, 379.
“A second President . . . its real character”: New York Tribune, July 3, 1881.
“It is almost impossible”: JH to WR, July 10, 1881, WR-LC.
“the people’s President”: New York Tribune, July 4, 1881.
“It can do no good”: New York Tribune, July 7, 1881.
“It is perfectly amazing”: JH to WR, August 13, 1881, WR-LC.
“Please send me”: JH telegram to RTL, July 4, 1881, Garfield Papers, LC.
“I wish I felt better”: RTL to JH, July 18, 1881, JH-BU.
“I go West tonight”: JH to J. Stanley Brown, September 17, 1881, JH-BU.
“[S]o brave and good”: JH to WR, September 4, 1881, WR-LC.
his “interim-ity”: JH to WR, September 14, 1881, WRT-L&L 1:454.
Hay invested in: Wilkins, Clarence King, 300.
“the official correspondence”: JH to HA, November 5, 1881, HA-MHS.
“[T]he men worshipped”: HAE 1005–06.
“He knew more”: Ibid., 1004.
“It was hard to remember”: JH, “Clarence King,” in Hague, ed., Clarence King Memoirs, 125–26.
“I never knew such”: MHA to Robert Hooper, March 30, 1884, AP.
“contemptible cur”: Kaplan, Mr. Clemens and Mr. Twain, 167.
“dynamitic” biography: Ibid., 241.
“I took into account”: JH to WR, September 4, 1881, WR-LC.
“As to Twain”: WR to JH, September 25, 1881, WR-LC.
The review: New York Tribune, October 25, 1881.
“no heart”: Foley, Criticism in American Periodicals of the Works of Henry James, 27.
“It is a remarkable book”: JH to WR, December 16, 1881, WR-LC.
“entirely from . . . moral aspects of our civilization”: New York Tribune, December 25, 1881.
“at some warm sand . . . in my life”: JH to WDH, March 26, 1882, JH-WDH 58.
“pounded and sampled”: JH to HA, April 28, 1882, HA-MHS.
serve as “ballast”: JH to WDH, March 26, 1882, JH-WDH 58.
“a powerful book”: R. W. Gilder to JH, June 30, 1882, JH-BU.
“First, if people”: JH to HA, June 7, 1882, HA-MHS.
“The children have stood”: CSH to Mrs. Amasa Stone, July 24, 1882, WAD-LC.
“purple glory”: JH to Samuel Mather, August 31, 1882, M-WRHS.
“I assisted last night”: JH to Samuel Mather, September 8, 1882, M-WRHS.
“by the thousands”: JH to HA, August 16, 1882, M-WRHS.
“repudiate for me”: HA to JH, September 3, 1882, HAL 2:467–68.
“unsight and unseen”: WDH to JH, September 5, 1882, JH-WDH 61.
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�The breads & muffins”: CSH to Flora Stone Mather, October 18, 1882, M-WRHS.
“Do you think you know”: JH to HA, October 22, 1882, HA-MHS.
“They wrote it together”: CFW to CSH, January 8, 1883, JH-BU.
“I never saw a great man”: JH to HJ, December 9, 1882, HJ-JH 90.
“dizziness, deep”: JH to S. Weir Mitchell, January 10, 1883, JH-BU.
“Neurasthenia Céphalique”: Ibid.
“quite reasonable . . . the course of his years”: JH to Mrs. Amasa Stone, September 2, 1882, WAD-LC.
“suited the hands”: B-W 5–6.
“His shoes might”: JH, The Bread-Winners, MS, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
“Farnham millions”: B-W 42.
“rescue the city”: Ibid., 55.
“a young and thriving . . . velvet lawns”: Ibid., 7–8.
“marked, like himself”: Ibid., 6.
“hearty, blowsy”: Ibid., 22.
“unhealthy sentiment”: Ibid., 24.
“tell your love”: Ibid., 113.
“in several capitals”: Ibid., 121.
“[I]t was a pity”: Ibid., 12.
“with hearty good-will”: The kiss was described thus when B-W was serialized in Century; in the book version he merely “stooped and kissed her”—Ibid., 133.
“famous bridge-builder . . . bonny face . . . pure and noble”: Ibid., 40, 42.
“contented industry”: Ibid., 86.
“oleaginous” Andrew: Ibid., 74.
“the laziest”: Ibid., 82.
“what they called socialism”: Ibid., 215.
“wealth and erristocracy . . . robbers’ cave . . . vampire”: Ibid., 88, 219, 78.
“downfall of the money”: Ibid., 84.
“reddened by night”: Ibid., 7.
In his only published commentary: [JH], “A Letter from the Author,” 795.
“[S]hould I be taken away”: Amasa Stone to JH, January 4, 1883, JH-BU.
“I came abroad hoping”: JH to Amasa Stone, January 11, 1883, WAD-LC.
“If I am able”: JH to Amasa Stone, February 9, 1883, WAD-LC.
“I seem to have lost”: Amasa Stone to JH, March 7, 1883, JH-BU.
“many of the Diplomatic”: JH to Amasa Stone, April 26, 1883, WAD-LC.
“[E]verything combined”: Amasa Stone to JH, February 8, 1883, JH-BU.
“You have had a hard”: JH to Amasa Stone, May 2, 1883, JH-BU.
Chapter 10: Everlasting Angels
“I have a long and toilsome”: JH to HA, May 27, 1883, HA-MHS.
equivalent to more than twenty: See, e.g., measuringworth.com/uscompare.
“I thought of you”: Henry James to JH, May 24, 1883, HJ-JH 93.
“the most keenly appreciative”: Art Interchange, n.d., clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“bang and crimp . . . do not go together”: Ibid.
“Everybody is reading it”: Critic and Good Literature, n.d., clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“The Sensational Novel”: Unidentified clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“corresponds almost exactly”: Advertisement, Washington Post, September 20, 1883, in Vandersee, “The Great Literary Mystery of the Gilded Age,” 249.
literary Sherlock Holmes: Washington Post, n.d., clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“I wish I had”: Unidentified clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“I long ago forgave”: JH to HA, August 3, 1883, HA-MHS.
“I am glad you did not”: HA to JH, September 24, 1883, HAL 2:513.
“I want to roll”: HA to JH, February 2, 1884, HAL 2:533–34.
“The Bread-Winners . . . has”: Saturday Review 57 (February 2, 1884), 155.
“touches of Fielding”: Ibid.
“a novel of action”: Critic and Good Literature 1, new series (January 5, 1884), 7.
“largeness, a force”: Unidentified clipping, n.d., JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“How this disagreeable”: Literary World 15 (January 26, 1884), 27.
“no sympathies”: Springfield Republic, n.d., clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“A man of his breeding”: Boston Evening Transcript, n.d., clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“the anonymous author shows”: Cleveland Leader, n.d., clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
“conceived from”: [JH], “A Letter from the Author,” 794.
“I hardly know . . . written a novel”: Ibid., 794–96.
“the ascription of its authorship”: Cincinnati News Journal, January 6, 1884, clipping, JH scrapbook, JH-LC.
new subscribers: Roswell Smith to JH, November 5, 1883, JH-BU.
“He glanced in the mirror”: [Keenan], The Money-Makers, 49.
“elegant and refined”: Ibid., 14.
“to shine in the exclusive”: Ibid., 13.
“solidifying his relations”: Ibid., 58–59.
“to keep his hand in”: Ibid., 47.
“If he loved”: Ibid.
“He still persisted”: Ibid., 48.
“slatternly hamlet”: Ibid., 132.
“nothing but business”: Ibid., 69.
“sharp practices”: Ibid., 11.
“round his millions”: Ibid., 112.
“a never-exhausted source”: Ibid., 136.
“not pretty . . . awkward”: Ibid., 50.
“He was in no sense”: Ibid., 168.
“the ideal of her girlish”: Ibid., 169.
“ ‘That’s just what’ ”: Ibid., 83.
“ ‘Gad! what beauty’ ”: Ibid., 174.
“ ‘Millions may cover’ ”: Ibid., 177.
“A robust man”: Ibid., 272, 280–81.
“as an answer”: Advertisement for The Money-Makers, clipping, n.d., WAD-LC.
“savage libel . . . and her daughters”: JH to William Appleton, February 3, 1885, WAD-LC.
“a malicious attack”: William Appleton to JH, January [incorrectly dated; clearly meant as February] 5, 1885, WAD-LC.
“much better in all its parts”: Vanity Fair (Cleveland), “A Weekly Journal of Society, Art, Literature, Music and the Drama,” January 31, 1885, clipping, WAD-LC.
“I eat, sleep, and perform”: JH to S. Weir Mitchell, January 10, 1883, JH-BU.
“I came away from Cleveland”: JH to WDH, September 9, 1883, JH-WDH 21.
“square brick box”: MHA to Robert Hooper, December 16, 1883, AP.
“Neo-Agnostic”: JH to HA, April 27, 1885, HA-MHS.
“God bless you”: JH to CSH, April 22, 1884, WAD-LC.
“James tells me”: JH to CSH, May 1, 1884, WAD-LC.
“beautiful, stylish”: JH to CSH, May 4, 1884, WAD-LC.
“rural sheriff . . . more civilized”: JH to R. W. Gilder, July 11, 1884, Gilder Papers, New York Public Library.
“He was 83”: JH to HA, October 2, 1884, HA-MHS.
“The Doctor scared”: JH to HA, December 20, 1884, HA-MHS.
“I need not tell you”: JH to RTL, January 27, 1885 (misdated 1884), JH-LET 2:87.
“It is beyond doubt”: RTL to JH, April 27, 1885, JH-BU.
“The engagement was not”: N&H:AL 1:186–87.
“[t]his taint of”: N&H:AL 1:187–88.
“It is as useless”: N&H:AL 1:201.
“[T]he market is ready”: JH to JGN, March 2, 1885, JH-BU.
“comprehension and treatment”: R. W. Gilder to JH, July 29, 1885, JH-BU.
When Gilder offered $50,000: Thomas, Portrait for Posterity, 103; Mearns, Lincoln Papers, 79.
“I want you to say”: JH to JGN, July 27, 1885, JH-BU.
“I think I have left”: JH to JGN, August 10, 1885, JH-BU.
“We must not show”: Ibid.
“seize a hill”: JH to HA, September 13, 1885, HA-MHS.
“our chuckle-headed sovereign . . . [H]e chaws more”: MHA to Robert Hooper, January 21, 1883, and December 4, 1881, in Thoron, ed., Letters of Mrs. Henry Adams, 419, 306.
“wandering soul”: [HA], Esther, 263–64.
“bad figure . . . r
ough water coming”: Ibid., 199.
“impalpable tyranny”: Ibid., 218.
“Once in harness”: Ibid., 280.
“She is certainly not handsome”: HA to Charles Milnes Gaskell, March 26, 1872, HAL 2:133.
“Is it not enough”: [HA], Esther, 329.
“a woman’s natural tendency”: [HA], Democracy, 90
“How did I ever”: O’Toole, Five of Hearts, 148.
“The business of educating”: [HA], Esther, 317.
“Lot’s wife”: Friedrich, Clover, 309.
“As it is now thirteen”: HA to MHA, March 14, 1885, HAL 2:579.
“Henry is more patient”: Chalfant, Better in Darkness, 503.
“My wife . . . has been”: HA to Robert Cunliffe, November 29, 1885, HAL 2:639.
“If I had one single”: Chalfant, Better in Darkness, 503.
“I can neither talk”: JH to HA, December 9, 1885, HAL-MHS.
“Nothing you can do”: HA to JH, December 8, 1885, HAL 2:640.
“Don is behaving”: HA to JH, January 7, 1883, HAL 2:487–88.
“I . . . cannot saddle”: HA to JH, April 8, 1883, HAL 2:497.
“The dogs wept”: HA to ESC, May 18, 1883, HAL 2:501.
“All I can now ask”: HA to ESC, December 10, 1885, HAL 2:641.
“Will you keep it”: HA to ESC, December 25, 1885, HAL 2:645.
“even if it does necessitate”: H. H. Richardson to JH, December 20, 1885, JH-BU.
“It looks like under the sea”: ESC to CSH, July 15, 1886, HA-MHS.
“I have forgotten”: JH to Helen Hay Wadsworth, January 5, 1902, JH-LC.
“Now I am sundered . . . [A]n additional”: JGN to JH, November 25, 1885, JH-BU.
“I do not know”: JH to RTL, January 6, 1886, JH-LET 2:101.
Chapter 11: Two on the Terrace
“happy village . . . a mere political camp”: HAE 951, 954.
“all one’s acquaintances”: HAE 951.
“Washington is the place”: O’Toole, Five of Hearts, 94.
“fell daft”: JH to HA, August 29, 1886, HA-MHS.
“[W]e will give you an acre”: JH to WDH, September 12, 1886, JH-WDH 90.
“As to Lincoln”: King, “The Biographers of Lincoln,” 862.
“There is every sign”: The Nation 1114 (November 4, 1886), 375.
“Lincoln lives again”: John Bigelow to JH, January 19, 1887, JH-BU.
“easy, dignified”: WDH to JH, March 1, 1887, JH-LC.
“astonished at . . . fall still born”: William Herndon to Jesse Weik, December 5, 1886, William Herndon Papers, LC.
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