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“Here was a group”: IMT, All in the Day’s Work, p. 254.
the “rare group . . . yet with tolerance”: RSB, American Chronicle, p. 226.
“a success”: LS, The Autobiography, p. 535.
“the future looked fair”: IMT, All in the Day’s Work, p. 254.
“The institution that had seemed”: RSB, American Chronicle, p. 213.
“Never forget . . . the daring moves”: IMT to Albert Boyden, April 26, 1902, in Lyon, Success Story, p. 199.
“You are infinitely precious . . . during the coming years”: McClure to IMT, Mar. 18, 1903, IMTC.
Wilkinson . . . conducted poetry classes: Lucy Dow Cushing, ed., The Wellesley Alumnae Quarterly (Concord, NH: Wellesley College Alumnae Assoc., 1917), Vol. 2, p. 190.
who suspected that their editor’s fascination: Lyon, Success Story, p. 207.
an evening of theatre: McClure to HHM, June 15, 1903, McClure MSS.
McClure brought them to Divonne: McClure to HHM, June 11, 1903; Mary Bisland to HHM, July 6, 1903, McClure MSS.
he and Florence Wilkinson stayed on the third: Lyon, Success Story, p. 256.
Their “rollicking adventure . . . under their horses’ feet”: Alice Hegan Rice, The Inky Way (New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1940), pp. 65–66.
During that “never-to-be forgotten” European tour: Ibid., p. 65; Cale Young Rice, Bridging the Years (New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1939), p. 63.
Ida could barely contain her tears: McClure to IMT [n.d., Saturday], 1905, IMTC; Brady, Ida Tarbell, p. 149.
“I have felt terribly sad”: McClure to IMT [n.d.], 1903, IMTC.
McClure’s recklessness could tarnish the magazine: Lyon, Success Story, pp. 258–59.
they feared he planned to meet with Florence: Ibid., pp. 257–58.
“I feel sure of myself”: McClure to HHM, Nov. 21, 1903, McClure MSS.
“I am so much keener”: McClure to HHM, Nov. 29, 1903, McClure MSS.
“I feel my vision broadened”: McClure to HHM, Nov. [n.d.] 1903, McClure MSS.
When McClure suddenly embarked: Lyon, Success Story, p. 259.
McClure directed the poetry editor: See Florence Wilkinson, “Three Poems,” McClure’s (June 1904), p. 166.
upbraided Sam “like a naughty child”: Lyon, Success Story, p. 260.
A chastened McClure swore: Florence Wilkinson to JSP, June [n.d.], 1904, in JSP to IMT [n.d.], 1904, IMTC.
something “very terrible . . . for nearly a week”: HHM to IMT, June 24, 1904, IMTC.
“I have so much to do”: McClure to IMT, June 22, 1904, IMTC.
“The Lord help us! . . . feel resentment”: IMT to JSP, June [n.d.], 1904, IMTC.
“I have received six . . . to snap off so suddenly”: Florence Wilkinson to JSP, June [n.d.], 1904, IMTC.
“wretched & restless . . . idea of giving her up”: Mary Bisland to IMT, July 7, 1904, in Lyon, Success Story, p. 262.
“very solemn promises”: HHM to JSP, July 30, 1904, IMTC.
“He said he was a hurt animal”: HHM to IMT, June 24, 1904, IMTC.
“The struggle for possession”: McClure to IMT, June 22, 1904, IMTC.
“full of dynamite . . . the magazine must be cleared”: McClure to JSP, Oct. 15, 1904, Phillips MSS.
“sensational . . . very accurate”: McClure to IMT, June 22, 1904, IMTC.
“working in his own little cubicle”: McClure to IMT, Oct. 6, 1904, IMTC.
“The man who is responsible”: McClure to Albert Boyden [n.d.], 1904, IMTC.
“Why in the name of ordinary”: McClure to Albert Boyden [n.d.], 1904, IMTC.
“very poor, trashy . . . unworthy”: HHM to JSP, June 9, 1904, IMTC.
Phillips patiently answered: JSP to HHM, Aug. 5, 1904, McClure MSS.
she was not the only “other” woman . . . Her “dearest” friend: Florence Wilkinson to HHM, Sept. 25, 1903, McClure MSS.
revealed her own romantic relationship: IMT to JSP, Sept. 7, 1904, McClure MSS.
“Yesterday”: McClure to JSP, July 26, 1904, IMTC.
“wrung with the anguish . . . strange wanderings”: HHM to McClure, Aug. 26, 1904, McClure MSS.
her devoted efforts had “saved” him . . . “punishment” for all he had done: McClure to IMT [n.d.], 1904, IMTC.
“The Shame of S. S. McClure . . . the wall of lies”: IMT, “Notes of L’Affaire,” July [n.d.], 1906, IMTC.
the staff drew up a plan: Lyon, Success Story, p. 277.
“the whole future . . . powerful ruling body”: McClure to IMT, Mar. 29, 1905, IMTC.
“getting along splendidly . . . than ever before”: McClure to HHM, July 5, 1905, McClure MSS.
“I thought when I came back . . . heavy heavy load”: McClure to IMT [n.d., Saturday], 1905, IMTC.
“My mind constantly dwells”: McClure to IMT, Mar. 29, 1905, IMTC.
developing an elaborate plan: Lyon, Success Story, p. 280.
“the greatest periodical”: McClure to IMT, Nov. 27, 1905, IMTC.
“a stronger and more productive man”: IMT, All in the Day’s Work, p. 225.
“a tremendous secret” . . . McClure’s Universal Journal: McClure to IMT, Nov. 27, 1905, IMTC.
Sam McClure’s extravagant ambitions . . . affordable housing: IMT, All in the Day’s Work, p. 256; Lyon, Success Story, p. 283; Albert Boyden to JSP, Feb. 6, 1906, IMTC.
Tarbell considered McClure’s grandiosity: IMT, All in the Day’s Work, p. 257.
“build a bigger”: Ibid., p. 255.
McClure’s scheme . . . echoed the very trusts: Ibid., p. 256.
“the plan which was eventually”: Ibid.
“all the different branches”: IMT to McClure, Oct. 18, 1904, IMTC.
“who had so much of the creative touch”: RSB, Notebook, Dec. 1936, RSB Papers.
An “uncompromising” critic: RSB, American Chronicle, p. 94.
“felicities of expression”: RSB to F. E. Dayton, Dec. 5, 1936, RSB Papers.
“would not know where to go”: WAW to JSP, Mar. 17, 1906, in Lyon, Success Story, p. 285.
John had so admired Sam’s energy, his “push and business ability”: Lyon, Success Story, p. 37.
they spent many hours together . . . in each other’s homes: JSP to IMT, November [n.d.], 1905, IMTC.
“He is certainly the rarest”: IMT to Albert Boyden, July 20, 1905, IMTC.
“It has been a glorious trip”: IMT to Albert Boyden, Feb. 11, 1905, IMTC.
a series of letters forwarded: Robert Mather to McClure, Feb. 2, 1906, IMTC.
“as usual is an angel” . . . a “diabolical” stage: IMT to Albert Boyden, Feb. 11, 1905, IMTC.
“thoroughly unfitted me” . . . his “ridiculous” concerns: McClure to JSP, Feb. 17, 1906, IMTC.
“All S.S. wants is sympathy”: Daniel McKinley to JSP, Feb. 2, 1906, IMTC.
“I wish we did have the brains”: Albert Boyden to JSP, Feb. 6, 1906, IMTC.
“It was a momentous decision”: Lyon, Success Story, p. 286.
whether “anybody else is going . . . that we are right”: IMT Diary, Mar. 22, 1906, IMTC.
if McClure would “democratize”: Lyon, Success Story, pp. 286–87; IMT Diary, Mar. 22, 1906, IMTC.
“cheerful” for the first time in weeks: IMT Diary, Mar. 23, 1906, IMTC.
“beyond the ability of one man . . . sensing public opinion”: McClure to JSP, April 5, 1906, McClure MSS.
“utterly impossible”: McClure to JSP, April 5, 1906, McClure MSS.
“I cannot leave the magazine”: McClure to IMT, April 7, 1906, IMTC.
“the entire office was embroiled . . . someone else came along”: Curtis P. Brady, “The High Cost of Impatience,” unpublished typescript, p. 266, McClure MSS.
“playing and getting well . . . even by the owner”: LS to Joseph Steffens, June 3, 1906, in LS et al., eds., Letters of Lincoln Steffens, Vol. 1, p 173.
“become so utterly unbalanced”: RSB to Jessie Baker, Mar. 9, 1906, in Bannister, Ray Stannard Baker, p. 110.
“dynamite, nitroglycerine & black powder”: Robert William Stinson, “S. S. McClure and His Magazine: A Study in the Editing of ‘McClure’s,’ 1893–1913,” PhD diss., Indiana University, 1971, p. 249.
“are not only my friends”: RSB to J. Stannard Baker, May 3, 1906, RSB Papers.
“I was left with no certainty . . . all but catastrophic”: RSB, American Chronicle, p. 213.
“In Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress”: TR, “The Man with the Muck-Rake,” Putnam’s Monthly (October 1906), p. 42.
The coincidence . . . to form their own magazine: New York Tribune, May 11, 1906; Life, May 24, 1906.
“affected his views of . . . of contemporary life”: “Magazines’ Heads at War,” unidentified newspaper clipping [n.d.], 1906, RSB Papers.
planned “to muzzle his writers”: Lyon, Success Story, p. 294.
William Randolph Hearst, who had . . . agitated for a constitutional amendment: Judson A. Grenier and George E. Mowry, introduction, in David Graham Phillips, J. A. Grenier, and G. E. Mowry, The Treason of the Senate (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1964), p. 20.
He offered David Graham Phillips: Ibid., p. 21.
“Treason is a strong word”: David Graham Phillips, “The Treason of the Senate: I,” The Cosmopolitan (March 1906), p. 488.
Each portrait revealed “a triangulation”: Grenier and Mowry, introduction, in Phillips, Grenier, and Mowry, The Treason of the Senate, p. 29.
The circulation of The Cosmopolitan doubled: Ibid.
“Little wonder”: Ibid., p. 30.
“For those who like the sight”: Hutchinson [KS] News, Feb. 22, 1906.
“Here is the archetypal Face . . . mentally and morally”: Phillips, “The Treason of the Senate: I,” The Cosmopolitan (March 1906), pp. 489, 588.
“boodler . . . sniveling sycophant”: Hutchinson [KS] News, Feb. 22, 1906.
Although he never accused . . . contributions of the special interests: Phillips, “The Treason of the Senate: I,” The Cosmopolitan (March 1906), p. 488.
“heartiest sympathy . . . noxious as the thief”: TR to Alfred Henry Lewis, Feb. 17, 1906, in LTR, Vol. 5, pp. 156–57.
“sowing the seeds of anarchy”: The Critic (June 1906), p. 512.
“playing with matches”: Quoted in Grenier and Mowry, introduction, in Phillips, Grenier, and Mowry, The Treason of the Senate, p. 38.
“Slander and misrepresentation”: Public Opinion, April 7, 1906.
“epidemic of Congress-baiting”: Current Literature (March 1906), p. 231.
“muckrakers . . . with sensational articles”: Daily Telegraph (Atlantic, IA), April 9, 1906.
“ignoring at the same time”: NYT, April 6, 1906.
He had initially planned: Grenier and Mowry, introduction, in Phillips, Grenier, and Mowry, The Treason of the Senate, p. 34.
“the masters” at McClure’s . . . “imitators” had followed in their wake: Edwin E. Slosson, “The Literature of Exposure,” in Filler, The Muckrakers, p. 258.
“hot stuff . . . before the investigation is begun”: Washington Post, April 11, 1906.
“to produce a very unhealthy . . . socialistic propaganda”: TR to WHT, Mar. 15, 1906, in LTR, Vol. 5, p. 183.
“glad, sweet song . . . than a convict’s camp”: Mott, A History of American Magazines, 1885–1905, Vol. 4, p. 209. (Dunne’s passage has been translated from dialect.)
“immensely” enjoyed . . . “feeling over-pessimistic about it”: TR to Finley Peter Dunne, Dec. 15, 1905, TRP.
“The public cannot stand”: Slosson, “The Literature of Exposure,” in Filler, The Muckrakers, p. 258.
“It is getting so nowadays . . . holds a public office”: Oshkosh [WI] Daily Northwestern, April 17, 1906.
“Well . . . poor old Chauncey Depew”: LS, The Autobiography, p. 258.
Steffens remained unconvinced . . . mobilize public opinion: Ibid.
“repeat as true . . . businessmen or politicians”: TR to LS, June 24, 1905, in LTR, Vol. 4, p. 1254.
“Poor Payne is sick”: TR to HCL, Oct. 2, 1904, in ibid., p. 965.
“To any officer or employee”: TR to “Any officer . . .,” Jan. 9, 1906, LS Papers.
To Steffens, the signal question: Syracuse [NY] Herald, Jan. 14, 1906.
“I’d rather make our government”: LS, Boston Daily Globe, Feb. 11, 1906.
“In stating your disapproval”: TR to LS, Feb. 6, 1906, in LTR, Vol. 5, pp. 147–48.
rather than “summoning . . . being dragged”: Lyon, Success Story, p. 250.
All these frustrations . . . the “new journalism”: Washington Post, April 11, 1906.
Remarks at the informal club . . . “spread like wildfire”: RSB, American Chronicle, p. 201.
speculation that he was referencing: Daily Telegraph (Atlantic, IA), April 9, 1906; Daily Times-Tribune (Waterloo, IA), April 14, 1906.
“such an attack”: RSB, American Chronicle, p. 202.
“I have been much disturbed”: RSB to TR, April 7, 1906, in ibid., pp. 202–3.
“One reason I want . . . as much as of mud slinging”: TR to RSB, April 9, 1906, in ibid., p. 203.
“at the risk of repetition . . . potent forces for evil”: TR, “Speech at the Laying of the Corner-Stone of the Office Building of the House of Representatives, April 14, 1906,” in TR, Presidential Addresses and State Papers, April 14, 1906 to January 14, 1907 (New York: Review of Reviews Co., 1910), Vol. 5, pp. 713–15.
“upon a question which is shaking . . . portly figure of the President”: Nevada State Journal, April 22, 1906.
“familiar balance of approval . . . classed all of us together”: RSB, American Chronicle, pp. 203–4.
McClure’s . . . was “singled out”: Semonche, Ray Stannard Baker, p. 151.
“I’m giving my whole life to . . . ready for McSure’s by night”: Mrs. Woodrow, “A Rake’s Progress,” Life, May 5, 1906, pp. 639–40.
“These satirical jabs cut”: Semonche, Ray Stannard Baker, pp. 151–52.
“cast into outer darkness . . . nor follow his leadership”: RSB, American Chronicle, p. 204.
“It was a great day”: New York Sun, cited in Literary Digest, April 21, 1906.
“rebaters and bribers . . . wave of magazine reform”: Samuel Merwin, “The Magazine Crusade,” Success Magazine (June 1906), p. 394.
“the loftiest and purest”: Nevada State Journal, April 22, 1906.
“long, laborious work . . . astonishingly great”: Merwin, “The Magazine Crusade,” Success Magazine (June 1906), pp. 452, 449.
“The day will come . . . emblem of reform”: Nevada State Journal, April 22, 1906.
“a badge of honor”: When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House, p. 30.
“quietly planning to start”: NYT, May 11, 1906.
After weeks of turmoil . . . worth $187,000: JSP and IMT to McClure, April 12, 1906, McClure MSS.
“I am certain that”: McClure to Robert Mather, April 14, 1906, McClure MSS.
“I wish you all”: McClure to RSB, May 10, 1906, RSB Papers.
“There was nothing mean”: LS, The Autobiography, p. 536.
“its chief features of life and popularity”: Riverside [CA] Enterprise, June 23, 1906.
Necessity compelled him . . . “colossal scheme”: Alice Hegan Rice to IMT, June 14, 1906, IMTC.
“I have really to look”: McClure to HHM, July 2, 1906, McClure MSS.
“working harder”: McClure to HHM, June 27, 1906, McClure MSS.
“three or four quarts of milk”: Lyon, Success Story, p. 298.
“masses of manuscripts” . . . an autobiography by Mark Twain: McClure to HHM, June 30, 1906, McClure MSS.
Of the original team, only . . . remained: Brady, “The High Cost of Impatience,” p. 226, McClure MSS.
To replace Ida Tarbell . . . editor of the Atlantic Monthly: Lyon, Success Story, pp. 296–98.
“The very name”: Ellery Sedgwick, The Happy Profession (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1946), p. 144.
“burning force . . . into molten excitement”: Ibid., p. 139.
“be able to repeat the process”: Lyon, Success Story, p. 296.
“To go on now”: Ibid., p. 294.
“to halt and to think soberly . . . of responsibility”: Washington Post, April 11, 1906.
She edited . . . investigative pieces diminished: Robert Cantwell, “Journalism: The Magazines,” in Harold Stearns, America Now: An Inquiry into Civilization in the United States by Thirty-Six Americans (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1938), pp. 348–49.
“of distraction” . . . of “inquiry”: Ibid., p. 352.
“an exhilarating sense of excitement”: Lyon, Success Story, p. 296.
“As a curb on genius”: Will Irwin, The Making of a Reporter (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1942), p. 137.
“the staff worked under . . . came forth Chaos”: Sedgwick, The Happy Profession, p. 142.
In fifteen months, both . . . were fired: Lyon, Success Story, p. 304.
Damon Runyan . . . and Moira O’Neill: Ibid., p. 296; Mott, A History of American Magazines, Vol. 4, p. 602.
The company eventually foundered: McClure to JSP, Oct. 17, 1906, McClure MSS.
Forced to economize: Lyon, Success Story, pp. 311–12.
Nor could he afford: Centralia [WA] Daily Chronicle, Dec. 1, 1908.
“of good reputation . . . comparatively short time”: “Solicitation Letter,” July [n.d.], 1906, RSB Papers.
“All of us had plunged”: RSB, American Chronicle, p. 228.
stood “to lose everything”: RSB to J. Stannard Baker, June 30, 1906, RSB Papers.
“so dizzily stimulating . . . for the common cause”: RSB, American Chronicle, p. 228.
“I feel as if I were at the crisis”: LS to Joseph Steffens, June 30, 1906, in LS et al., eds., Letters of Lincoln Steffens, Vol. 1, p. 174.
“the most dauntless”: RSB, American Chronicle, p. 228.
“seen something in which”: Tarbell, All in the Day’s Work, p. 259.
“spark of genius . . . the kindest treatment”: WAW to Charles Churchill, Aug. 9, 1906, White Papers.
“You may draw on me”: WAW to McClure, Aug. 27, 1906, McClure MSS.
“Everything amused him! . . . loved so much to talk”: RSB, American Chronicle, p. 225.
“He had a wide knowledge”: Tarbell, All in the Day’s Work, pp. 260–61.
“made it his business . . . wonderful tales we heard!”: Ibid., pp. 261–62.
