All the Great Prizes

by John Taliaferro

  “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.