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All the Great Prizes

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by John Taliaferro


  “the Ann Rutledge . . . with an iron pen”: William Herndon to Jesse Weik, January 2, 1887, William Herndon Papers, LC.

  “how damn partisan”: R. W. Gilder to JGN, April 9, 1887, JGN-LC.

  “actors . . . tone & generosity”: R. W. Gilder to JGN, January 19, 1887, JGN-LC.

  “provided we were to do”: JH to JGN, April 9, 1887, JH-BU.

  “I have been passing”: JH to JGN, August 4, 1887, JH-BU.

  “thoroughly fit for power”: JH to WR, March 16, 1888, WR-LC.

  “I little thought”: ESC to HA, August 16, 1886, HA-MHS.

  “Mr. Dobbitt”: HA to Martha Cameron, February 3, 1888, HAL 3:100.

  “I am homesick”: HA to ESC, September 7, 1887, HAL 3:76.

  “I love you very”: HA to Martha Cameron, September 9, 1888, HAL 3:137.

  “Mrs. Cameron”: JH to HA, June 26, 1889, HA-MHS.

  “[W]e bowed”: HA to ESC, April 28, 1888, HAL 3:109.

  “Your invitation is seductive”: JH to ESC, November 19, 1886, AP.

  “I think he must have joined”: JH to HA, July 12, 1894, HA-MHS.

  “Yesterday morning”: JH to HA, May 19, 1888, HA-MHS.

  “To kiss a woman”: CK to HA, September 27, 1887, HA-MHS.

  “If he had a choice”: HA, “King,” in Hague, ed., Clarence King Memoirs, 172.

  “old-gold” natives: Wilkins, Clarence King, 169.

  “studies of the lower”: Frank Mason to JH, September 1, 1883, in Wilkins, Clarence King, 320.

  “Man in the process”: CK to JH, July 28, 1887, JH-BU.

  “blithe blue eyes”: WDH, “Clarence King,” in Hague, ed., Clarence King Memoirs, 136.

  “Miscegenation is”: Sandweiss, Passing Strange, 153.

  “I thank God”: Ibid., 203.

  “[N]ow in middle age”: CK to HA, September 25, 1889, HA-MHS.

  “a rough fell land”: CK to HA, n.d. (August 1886), HA-MHS.

  “Buffalo Bill speed”: JH to HA, July 14, 1888, HA-MHS.

  “under par”: JH to Samuel Mather, August 4, 1888, M-WRHS.

  “air, or water”: JH to HA, July 30, 1888, HA-MHS.

  “after the wheat . . . to a smaller scale”: R. W. Gilder to JGN and JH, July 12, 1888, NIC-LC.

  “Leave out anything”: JH to R. W. Gilder, July 21, 1888, JH-BU.

  “I am perfectly”: JH to JGN, July 22, 1888, JH-BU.

  instead, he met with Harrison: Memorandum attached to JH to WR, October 14, 1889, WR-LC.

  “My real trouble”: Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, 397–98.

  “a certain ready-to-fight . . . for possible agreement”: Chanler, Roman Spring, 193.

  “He considers himself”: S. G. Blythe, “The New England Oligarchy,” Saturday Evening Post, May 7, 1901, in Garraty, Henry Cabot Lodge, 126.

  “Our little set”: HA to Lucy Baxter, April 13, 1890, HAL 3:233.

  “We shall not have a friend . . . sticking out”: JH to JGN, October 31, 1889, JH-BU.

  “The labor of a generation . . . elbow-room”: New York Tribune, February 9, 1891.

  “There is no doubt . . . indistinguishable value”: R. W. Gilder to “My dear Authors of the ‘Life of Lincoln,’ ” January 2, 1890, JH-BU.

  “a work the equal”: HA to John T. Morse, Jr., July 5, 1890, HAL 3:248–49.

  “They were actors”: Charles Eliot to HA, June 14, 1892, HA-MHS.

  “I have . . . the last sheets”: RTL to JH, January 7, 1890, JH-BU.

  “You can never”: JH to RTL, April 21, 1890, JH-LET 2:189.

  “the last kick”: JH to “Rives,” May 13, 1890, JH-BU.

  “I have had specially printed”: JH to HJ, June 5, 1890, HJ-JH, 105.

  “In wandering through”: JH, “Love’s Dawn,” JH-CPW 240.

  “I am rather too old”: JH to R. W. Gilder, June 3, 1890, JH-LET 2:191.

  “fascination possessed”: Zimmerman, First Great Triumph, 183.

  “Forget any praises”: Chanler, Roman Spring, 192–93.

  “the color of the sky”: Ibid., 192.

  “I had such an unqualified”: John Singer Sargent to William Endicott, October 28, 1922, in Garraty, Henry Cabot Lodge, 31.

  “I was drinking tea”: JH to HJ, June 5, 1890, HJ-JH 105.

  “[D]o you remember”: ESC to HA, April 22, 1891, HA-MHS.

  “See the white obelisk”: JH, “Two on the Terrace,” JH-CPW 264–66.

  “Great Kung-fu-tse!”: HA to ESC, August 12, 1891, HAL 3:521.

  “John and Nannie”: ESC to HA, September 2, 1890, HA-MHS.

  “Nanny and Cabot”: ESC to HA, October 29, 1890, HA-MHS.

  “a few other quiet”: ESC to HA, January 27, 1891, HA-MHS.

  “I have asked Mrs. Lodge”: JH to ESC, n.d., AP.

  “destroyed all hers”: ESC to WRT, May 14, 1919, WRT-HU.

  “[Hay’s] love for”: ESC to HA, April 22, 1891, HA-MHS.

  “He then gave himself”: B-W 176.

  “I do not believe”: JH to CSH, May 2, 1891, WAD-LC.

  “I shall see John”: ESC to HA, May 12, 1891, HA-MHS.

  “I am already looking . . . who cares for me”: JH to CSH, May 18 and 22, 1879, WAD-LC.

  “the Cameron clan”: JH to CSH, May 15, 1891, WAD-LC.

  “John Hay and I”: ESC to HA, May 26, 1891, HA-MHS.

  “Actually I wish”: HA to ESC, June 3, 1891, HAL 3:482.

  “I feel sure now”: ESC to HA, May 26, 1891, HA-MHS.

  and promptly collapsed: JH to CSH, May 30, 1891, WAD-LC; Smalley, Anglo-American Memories, 360–61.

  “He told me yesterday”: ESC to HA, June 7, 1891, HA-MHS.

  “When I think”: ESC to HA, June 9, 1891, HA-MHS.

  “I sought her genial presence”: JH to HA, June 4, 1891, HA-MHS.

  “the Cameron party . . . her usual little court”: JH to CSH, June 9, 13, and 11, 1891, WAD-LC.

  “When I think of the seventeen”: JH to CSH, May 31 (June 1), 1891, WAD-LC.

  “London is floating”: JH to ESC, July 2, 1891, AP.

  Chapter 12: Tame Cats

  “pine shanty”: JH to ESC, August 28, 1891, AP.

  “retire from the world”: Ibid.

  “John Hay writes”: ESC to HA, September 26, 1891, HA-MHS.

  “miserably weak”: JH to JGN, September 16, 1891, JH-BU.

  “a young lady look”: JH to WR, July 23, 1891, WR-LC.

  “He was so tender-hearted”: Alice Hay Wadsworth to WRT, n.d., JH-BU.

  “the jolliest kind of pal”: Helen Hay Whitney to WRT, n.d., JH-BU.

  “The greatest treat”: Ibid.

  “ ‘If you see a thing’ ”: Alice Hay Wadsworth to WRT, n.d., JH-BU.

  “fat and dull”: JH to HA, January 10, 1891, HA-MHS.

  “a carload of fishing tackle”: JH to HA, July 17, 1890, HA-MHS.

  “I have no knowledge”: JH to Samuel Mather, July 15, 1893, M-WRHS.

  “To think that you are”: ESC to HA, August 10, 1891, HA-MHS.

  “I am grateful”: HA to ESC, July 31, 1891, HAL 3:510.

  “The more you please”: Ibid.

  “at what hour”: HA to ESC, October 11, 1891, HAL 3:555.

  “Mrs. Cameron is no good”: HA to Rebecca Dodge Rae, December 5, 1891, HAL 3:582.

  “an apocalyptic Never”: HA to ESC, November 5, 1891, HAL 3:556.

  “Paris experiment”: Ibid.

  “Thank you a thousand”: ESC to HA, n.d. [November 1891], HA-MHS.

  “[N]o matter how”: HA to ESC, November 5, 1891, HAL 3:557.

  “I would give you”: Ibid.

  “[Y]ou are Beauty”: HA to ESC, November 10, 1891, HAL 3:510.

  “I could find nothing . . . ennui at intervals”: HA to JH, November 14, 1891, HAL 3:568.

  “We all talk”: ESC to HA, December 6, 1891, HA-MHS.

  “the women looked extremely”: JH to HA, December 17, 1891, HA-MHS.

  “I think it was . . . dagoes and dudes”: JH to HA, January 6, 1892, HA-MHS.

  “Good night,
my tantalizing . . . to my dying day”: JH to ESC, n.d., AP. The letter also mentions JH’s intention to attend Julius Caesar, performed by the Meininger Players, which, according to an advertisement in the Washington Post, January 17, 1892, was to open at the New National Theater the following evening.

  “I shall remember”: JH to Donald Cameron, March 1, 1892, AP.

  “It is rather funny that”: ESC to HA, June 6, 1892, HA-MHS.

  “This letter ought not”: JH to ESC, June 5, 1892, AP.

  “The first law”: HA to ESC, June 11, 1892, HAL 4:20.

  “I was sorely tempted”: JH to HA, August 18, 1892, HA-MHS.

  “We like the place”: JH to ESC, August 24, 1892, AP.

  “Mrs. Hay is looking”: ESC to HA, December 2, 1890, HA-MHS.

  “I just intimated”: ESC to HA, January 27, 1891, HA-MHS.

  “Our little trip”: ESC to HA, September 8, 1892, HA-MHS.

  “Don was grumpily”: JH to HA, September 13, 1892, HA-MHS.

  “on reasonable terms”: JH to ESC, September 13, 1892, AP.

  “It is the general judgment”: JH to WR, June 16, 1892, WR-LC.

  named the new family member: WR to JH, September 2, 1892, WR-LC.

  “cowardly makeshift . . . Republicans of the East”: Morgan, From Hayes to McKinley, 415, 419.

  “[Y]ou will be so”: JH to HA, June 21, 1892, HA-MHS.

  “Woe is me”: JH to HA, November 9, 1892, HA-MHS.

  “I will not waste”: JH to WR, November 10, 1892, WR-LC.

  “But you know”: Leonard Hay to JH, February 9, 1893, JH-BU.

  “[Y]ou must not blame”: Leonard Hay to JH, February 22, 1893, JH-BU.

  While passing through Buffalo: Mott, Myron T. Herrick, 48.

  Walker had helped McKinley: Morgan, “Governor McKinley’s Misfortune,” 103–20.

  “I have no words”: MCK to JH, February 26, 1893, JH-BU.

  “something that the Greeks”: HA to Franklin MacVeagh, May 26, 1893, HAL 4:103.

  “[I]n architectural”: JH to R. W. Gilder, November 20, 1893, JH-LC.

  “Everyone is in”: HA to ESC, August 8, 1893, HAL 4:117.

  “calm as the Lake”: HA to ESC, July 30, 1893, HAL 4:116.

  “I am bored”: JH to HA, January 1, 1894, HA-MHS.

  “Every struggle”: JH to HA, December 30, 1890, HA-MHS.

  “A touch of Avarice”: JH to WDH, January 30, 1890, JH-WDH 97.

  “One good Turner”: Wilkins, Clarence King, 331.

  “He owes nobody”: JH to HA, January 6, 1892, HA-MHS.

  “[W]henever I think”: CK to HA, September 25, 1889, HA-MHS.

  Ada, had given birth: Sandweiss, Passing Strange, 183.

  On Sunday, October 29 . . . wife of his whereabouts: Ibid., 185–91.

  “It would seem incredible”: JH to HA, January 1, 1894, HA-MHS.

  to “jolly” King . . . “bijou of a house”: JH to HA, January 21, 1894, HA-MHS.

  “old-maidish” and “intense”: Edel, Henry James, The Conquest of London, 415.

  “tender sentiment . . . feel a real love”: Edel, Henry James, The Middle Years, 88, 205.

  “deadly enemy”: Moore, Constance Fenimore Woolson, 36.

  “She is worthy”: JH to Samuel Mather, January 31, 1894, M-WRHS.

  “We buried poor Constance”: JH to HA, February 5, 1894, HA-MHS.

  “Miss Woolson was so”: Henry James to JH, January 28, 1894, HJ-JH 110.

  “first great day”: CSH to Mrs. Amasa Stone, April 27, 1894, WAD-LC.

  “My womankind . . . like an ape of Borneo”: JH to WR, May 4, 1894, WR-LC.

  “the goal of every”: JH to Samuel Mather, June 16, 1894, M-WRHS.

  “I never could have”: JH to JGN, June 3, 1894, JH-BU.

  “They are a dear and simple”: JH to HA, June 9, 1894, HA-MHS.

  “absolutely trackless . . . fighting cocks”: JH to Flora Stone Mather, September 8, 1894, M-WRHS.

  “Hay has become”: HA to ESC, September 1, 1894, HAL 4:206–07.

  “We had a pleasant . . . tall as Mont Blanc”: JH to CSH, August 10, 12, and 19, 1894, WAD-LC.

  “Del was a favorite”: HA to Louisa Hooper, September 29, 1894, HAL 4:217.

  “It is a savage irony”: JH to ESC, n.d. [October 1893], AP.

  “Love and Music”: JH-CPW xii, 243.

  “I had a pretty collection”: ESC to WRT, May 14, 1919, WRT-HU.

  “Obedience”: JH, JH-CPW 244.

  “Never was a body”: JH to ESC, n.d. [c. 1892?], AP.

  Chapter 13: The English Mission

  “I am living in the Place-”: JH to WR, July 21, 1895, WR-LC.

  “How a man can keep”: JH to HA, September 20, 1895, HA-MHS.

  in “relays”: JH to WR, August 4, 1895, WR-LC.

  “rolled and tumbled”: JH to WR, October 26, 1894, WR-LC.

  “I am sure”: JH to WR, August 4, 1895, WR-LC.

  “The summer wanes”: JH to William Phillips, September 6, 1895, JH-BU.

  seeking to cure his chronic bronchitis: Duncan, Whitelaw Reid, 164.

  “a fair prospect of”: WR to JH, November 15, 1895, JH-BU.

  “Arizona has to me”: JH to HA, October 25, 1895, HA-MHS.

  “I think you are as good”: Mark Hanna to JH, December 21, 1895, JH-BU.

  “play McKinley”: Leech, In the Days of McKinley, 75.

  “somewhat obsequious toward him”: White, Autobiography, 294.

  “His attitude was always”: Kohlsaat, From McKinley to Harding, 96.

  “Hanna was impulsive”: White, Masks in a Pageant, 157.

  “Hanna gave McKinley”: Ibid., 160.

  “until I knew more”: Mark Hanna to JH, October 7, 1895, JH-LC.

  “advertised McKinley”: Beer, Hanna, 165.

  “The enemy have begun”: Mark Hanna to JH, January 7, 1896, JH-BU.

  “I never knew him intimately”: Croly, Marcus Alonzo Hanna, 228.

  “[Bryan] has succeeded”: JH to HA, September 8, 1896, HA-MHS.

  banks were assessed . . . gave $250,000: Croly, Marcus Alonzo Hanna, 220.

  “If Gov. McKinley”: Mark Hanna to JH, March 4, 1896, JH-BU.

  “You can be of great service”: Mark Hanna to JH, March 24, 1896, JH-BU.

  “devotes occasional hours”: HA to ESC, May 26, 1896, HAL 4:384.

  “It is difficult”: Daily Chronicle (London) interview reprinted in the New York Tribune, June 15, 1896.

  “almost a Republican . . . prospect of it”: JH to CSH, June 27 and 30, 1896, WAD-LC.

  “I inclose a thousand”: JH to MCK, August 3, 1896, MCK-LC.

  “I disclaimed any authority”: Ibid.

  “I might just as well put up”: Mott, Myron T. Herrick, 64.

  “Good money . . . good as gold”: Leech, In the Days of McKinley, 90, 91.

  “He has asked me to come”: JH to HA, October 4, 1896, HA-MHS.

  “What a strange”: JH to WR, August 31, 1896, WR-LC.

  “half-baked glib”: Ibid.

  “begging for the Presidency”: JH to WR, September 23, 1896, WR-LC.

  “[Bryan] makes only”: JH to HA, September 8, 1896, HA-MHS.

  “the real man back”: White, Autobiography, 332.

  “I spent yesterday”: JH to HA, October 20, 1896, HA-MHS.

  “And to think”: Ibid.

  “We are at sea”: TR to JH, November 16, 1896, JH-BU.

  “What you say”: WR to JH, November 17, 1896, WR-LC.

  “I do not see”: JH to WR, November 18, 1896, WR-LC.

  “I told Hanna”: JH to WR, December 10, 1896, WR-LC.

  “How would it answer”: JH to MCK, telegram, December 26, 1896, MCK-LC; filed erroneously with MCK’s 1897 correspondence, although the telegram is clearly marked “Dc 26.”

  “I send you a ring”: JH to MCK, December 28, 1896, MCK-LC.

  and he began wearing: MCK to JH, January 1, 1897, JH-BU.

  “I shall not question”: JH to MCK, n.d. [January 1897], JH-BU.

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nbsp; “I do not think it”: Ibid.

  “She said it made”: WR to JH, January 11, 1897, WR-LC.

  “I have so constantly”: JH to WR, January 22, 1897, WR-LC.

  “I think I shall let”: JH to WR, January 22, 1897, WR-LC.

  “Garfield’s fatal mistake”: WR to JH, January 28, 1897, JH-BU.

  “You will come back”: JH to WR, February 2, 1897, JH-BU.

  “Repeat in strongest”: Telegram, WR to JH, February 8, 1897, JH-BU.

  “I think you have acted”: WR to JH, February 8, 1897, JH-BU.

  “[I]t would be suicide”: JH to MCK, February 16, 1897, MCK-LC.

  “The President’s letter”: WR to JH, March 27, 1897, WR-LC.

  “You are the ideal man”: George Smalley to JH, February 17, 1897, JH-BU.

  “Thucydides . . . was in fine”: JH to William Phillips, April 20, 1897, JH-BU.

  “This is tremendous”: Henry James to JH, February 22, 1897, HJ-JH 115.

  “very plain on the outside”: CSH to Mrs. Amasa Stone, April 22, 1897, WAD-LC.

  “many fine pictures”: CSH, “Our Life in London,” MS, n.d., WAD-LC.

  “The scale of expenditure”: “Mr. Hay’s Horses,” New York Journal, n.d., clipping, M-WRHS.

  “The ambassador would”: Francis Knollys to Henry White, May 8, 1897, JH-BU.

  “I had always been”: JH to MCK, May 9, 1897, MCK-LC.

  “[S]he struck me”: CSH, “Our Life in London.”

  “I have determined”: JH to MCK, May 9, 1897, MCK-LC.

  “I should have no excuse . . . less noble”: JH, “Sir Walter Scott,” JH-ADD, 54, 57.

  “Whitelaw would have gone”: JH to ESC, May 29, 1897, AP.

  “The dark days”: Chalfant, Improvement of the World, 94.

  “There is a long history”: Tehan, Henry Adams in Love, 144.

  “poorly . . . about the future”: JH to WR, May 14, 1897, WR-LC.

  “It almost consoles”: JH to ESC, May 29, 1897, AP.

  “I have succeeded in effacing”: JH to MCK, July 16, 1897, MCK-LC.

  “they always look alike . . . with Royalties”: CSH to Mrs. Amasa Stone, n.d. [late June] and July 2, 1897, WAD-LC.

  “I have seen my friend Whitelaw”: JH to HA, July 25, 1897, HA-MHS.

  “You dear sweet”: JH to ESC, August 5 [1897], AP.

  “I have a few minutes”: JH to CSH, August 5, 1897, WAD-LC.

 

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