Notes
Chapter I. From Maine's “Aristocracy of the Sea”
1. The Book Buyer, III, 271 (Aug., 1886).
2. John Conness to Gen. Charles Hamlin, n.p., Feb. 21, 1896, in Charles Eugene Hamlin, The Life of Hannibal Hamlin (Cambridge, 1899), 485.
3. James A. Reed, “The Later Life and Religious Sentiments of Abraham Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, VI, 339–340 (July, 1873).
4. William H. Herndon, “Lincoln's Religion,” Illinois State Register (Springfield), Dec. 13, 1873, supplement.
5. Brooks to Isaac P. Langworthy, Washington, May 10, 1865, pub. as The Character and Religion of President Lincoln (Champlain, N.Y., 1919), 9.
6. N.Y. Herald, Mar. 13, 1865.
7. Anson G. Henry to his wife, Washington, D.C., Mar. 13, 1865, Henry Papers, Ill. State Hist. Lib.
8. N.Y. Tribune, June 26, 1865.
9. “M. L. R.” in Chicago Post and Mail, July 13, 1875. Broadwell had been involved in settling the estate of Abraham Lincoln.
10. Original photograph in collection of the author.
11. Brooks, Abraham Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery (N.Y., 1899), v–vi.
12. Robert J. Cole, ed., Lincoln by Friend and Foe (N.Y., 1922), 8–9.
13. “Castine” [Noah Brooks], Washington, Apr. 16, 1865, in Sacramento (Cal.) Daily Union, May 17, 1865.
14. The Writer, VIII, 175 (Dec., 1895).
15. Reports, Constitution, By-Laws and List of Members of The Century Association for the Year 1903 (N.Y., 1904), 34.
16. Autograph document signed by Brooks, n.d., The New-York Hist. Soc.
17. Edith Upham Boyers to author, Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 14, Sept. 14, 1951. Mrs. Boyers is Brooks's great-niece and knew him quite well from his California visits. During the last year of his life at Pasadena when sickness hindered his writing, she often served as his secretary.
18. Rufus Rockwell Wilson, ed., Intimate Memories of Lincoln (Elmira, N.Y., 1954), 197.
19. George Moulton Adams, “Noah Brooks,” The New-England Historical and Genealogical Register, LVIII, c (1904).
20. C. H. C. Wright to author, Paris, Me., July 11, 1951. Prof. Wright is a great-nephew of Brooks and knew him.
21. John S. Upham Sr. to author, Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 4, 1951. Col. Upham, another great-nephew of Brooks, knew him both in California and in Maine. He visited his great-uncle before classes started at West Point.
22. Edith Upham Boyers to author, Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 4, 1951.
23. Picture of Brooks and his friends in the Authors Club, Harper's Magazine, LXXIII, (Nov., 1886).
24. Adams, “Noah Brooks,” The New-Eng. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., LVIII, c (1904).
25. C. H. C Wright to author, Paris, Me., July 11, 1951; Edith Upham Boyers to author, Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 14, 1951.
26. Caroline Ticknor, Glimpses of Authors (Boston, 1922), 57–58.
27. Brooks to E. C. Stedman, Newark, N.J., Mar. 3, 1893, Stedman Papers, Columbia Univ. Lib.
28. Laura Stedman, “Confessions of an Album,” The Bookman, XXXVII, 267–268 (May, 1913). These pages were taken from Stedman's Mental Photograph Album and edited by his granddaughter.
29. Brooks became acquainted with this work, John Stevens Cabot Abbott's The History of Napoleon Bonaparte, during a hike in the Sierra Buttes near Downieville, Cal., in 1860. While resting in a deserted cabin he found this book and was fascinated with it. “John Riverside” [Noah Brooks], Downieville, Calif., Sept., 1860, in San Francisco Evening Mirror, Sept. 10, 1860.
30. His wife, Carolina Augusta Fellows Brooks, who had died in Marysville, Cal., May 21, 1862.
31. Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889), an English poet whose most famous work, Proverbial Philosophy, was issued in 1838. Brooks probably met Tupper at the Lotos Club when he was honored there on Oct. 30, 1876. John Elderkin, A Brief History of the Lotos Club (N.Y., 1895), 41.
32. Brooks probably wrote “Dum vivimus, vivamus” which means “While we live, let us live.”
33. The full name of the ship was the Blessing of the Bay, and she was launched from Winthrop's farm at Medford. See John A. Goodwin, The Pilgrim Republic (Boston, 1888), 586.
34. William Brooke had been a member of Rev. John Lothrop's congregation at Edgerton, England, and when Lothrop left his parish in 1634, William followed the next year. See ibid., 439–440.
35. John Camden Hotten, ed., The Original Lists of Persons of Quality…Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations 1600–1700 (N.Y. 1931), 93.
36. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth (Boston, 1855–1861), I, 118. Gilbert, like William, quickly became a leading citizen in the Plymouth Colony. The records indicate that he married Elizabeth Winslow, who was the daughter of Edward Winslow, governor of Plymouth for three terms. Samuel Deane, History of Scituate, Massachusetts (Boston, 1831), 224.
37. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, VIII, 196.
38. Ibid., II, 71.
39. Ibid., II, 102.
40. Ibid., II, 139.
41. Ibid., VIII, 180.
42. Ibid., VIII, 199.
43. Ibid., IV, 148.
44. He took the Oath of Fidelity again in 1673 and became an “allowed and approved inhabitant” which entitled him to a certain share of the “common land.” Deane, History of Scituate, Massachusetts, 223–224, 155.
45. The New-Eng. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., LVIII, xcix.
46. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, IV, 139. When witnessing a transaction, he made his mark instead of signing his name.
47. Vital Records of Scituate Massachusetts to the Year 1850, I, 50.
48. Ibid., II, 43.
49. The New-Eng. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., LVIII, xcix.
50. Deane, History of Scituate, Massachusetts, 28.
51. George Augustus Wheeler, History of Castine, Penobscot, and Brooksville, Maine (Bangor, 1875), 207.
52. Ibid., 179.
53. F. K. Upham, Genealogy and Family History of the Uphams (Newark, N.J., 1887), 23; Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Mass., Mar. 3, 1850, Noah Brooks Papers owned by Francis Whiting Hatch, Boston (hereafter cited as Hatch Coll.).
54. George Moulton Adams, Castine Sixty Years Ago (Boston, 1900), 10 n.
55. Upham, Genealogy and Family History of the Uphams, 23.
56. Barker Brooks to John Holmes, Camden, N.J., Jan. 20, 1814, Holmes Papers, N.Y. Pub. Lib.
57. “Castine,” Castine, Me., Sept. 6, 1864, in Sacramento Daily Union, Oct. 5, 1863.
58. Castine town records, “Record Book,” I, 36. His tombstone at Castine is in error, listing his birth as Oct. 25. He himself always gave Oct. 24 as his birthday, confirming the town records. Brooks's Kansas Diary (1857), Hatch Coll.
59. Castine town records, “Record Book,” I, 36.
60. C. H. C. Wright to author, Paris, Me., July 11, 1951.
61. Municipal Register of the City of Boston for 1851 (Boston, 1851), 127.
62. The New-Eng. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., XXV, 104 (Jan., 1871).
63. Brooks to George Witherle, Newark, N.J., Mar. 9, 1891, Hatch Coll.
64. Brooks, “The Books of an Old Boy,” Liber Scriptorum (N.Y., 1893), 67.
65. Castine town records, “Record Book,” I, 112.
66. Upham, Genealogy and Family History of the Uphams, 23–24.
67. Castine town records, “Record Book,” I, 112.
68. Upham, Genealogy and Family History of the Uphams, 23.
69. Uncle Noah Brooks to Phebe Brooks, Boston, Mar. 23, 1838, Noah Brooks Papers owned by Charles Conrad Wright, Cambridge, Mass. (hereafter cited as Wright Coll.).
70. Castine town records, “Record Book,” I, 129.
71. Anon., “The Author of ‘The Boy Emigrants,’” St. Nicholas, III, 524 (June 1876).
72. Brooks, “A Lesson in Patriotism,” St. Nicholas, XIV, 340–341 (Mar., 1887).
73. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (N.Y., 1897), VII, 57. Since Brooks was one of the staff members of this publication, this sketch should be considered as autobiographical.
74. Brooks, “The Books of an Old Boy,” Liber Scriptorum, 70.
75. Wheeler, History of Castine, Penobscot, and Brooksville, Maine, 143–146.
76. The Critic, XXI, 124–125 (Sept. 3, 1892).
77. Brooks, “The Books of an Old Boy,” Liber Scriptorum, 66–72: Brooks to ed. of Dixon (Ill.) Telegraph, Marysville, Cal., Nov., 1859, in Telegraph of Dec. 22, 1859.
78. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Sept. 13, 1848; Jan. 19, [1850], Hatch Coll.
79. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, July 14, [1850], Hatch Coll.
Chapter II. Paint and Printer's Ink
1. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, VII, 57. See note 73 in Chapt. I.
2. The first letter extant written after he left Castine was to George Witherle, dated Chelsea, Feb. 11, 1848, Hatch Coll.
3. He was born in Castine, Me., on Mar. 11, 1811.
4. Upham, Genealogy and Family History of the Uphams, 18.
5. The Boston Almanac, 1850, p. 106.
6. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Sept. 16, 1848, Hatch Coll. He gives his location as across the street from the Sandford house, which was on the corner of Shurtleff and Central Avenue.
7. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Dec., 20, [1850], Hatch Coll.
8. Brooks to George Witherle, Lynn, Mass., Dec. 17, 1848; Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Aug. 13, 1850, Hatch Coll.
9. Boston Directory, 1852, p. 272; 1853, p. 296; 1854, p. 323; The Carpet-Bag, Oct. 16, 1852. Charles Tilden Wilder was born at Attleboro, Mass., on Sept. 1, 1831, but his parents moved to Chelsea soon after he was born. When his father entered the Union Army in 1863, Charles T. and his brother Herbert A. carried on the business. Their large paper mills were at Olcott, Vt., and Ashland, N.H., where they produced large quantities of paper, mostly for newspaper printing. Charles T. spent most of his time at Olcott supervising the manufacture of the paper. In 1857 Charles T. married Mary E. Ware. The Dartmouth, XIX, 10 (1897). Charles B. Wilder, whom Brooks termed “a well-to-do citizen of Boston,” was commissioned a Captain in the Quartermaster Corps by Stanton on Feb. 19, 1863, and served as superintendent of the freed Negroes at Fortress Monroe until 1865 when he was assigned to the War Dept. He was mustered out of service on March 30, 1866. During the Civil War, Brooks saw him frequently in Washington. “Castine,” Washington, Mar. 2, 1865, in Sacramento Union, Apr. 10, 1865.
10. Statement of C. H. C. Wright, Apr. 5, 1952.
11. Monson Academy, located at Monson, Mass., is a prep school and was founded in 1804. Wilder's activities there cannot be traced because a fire, in Feb. of 1953, destroyed all the school's records.
12. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Jan. 19, 1850; John G. Brooks to Noah Brooks, Chelsea, May 24, 1854, Hatch Coll.
13. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Sept., 13, 16, 1848, Hatch Coll.
14. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Mar. 3, 1850, Hatch Coll.
15. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Jan. 27, [1850], Hatch Coll.
16. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Sept. 13, 1848, Hatch Coll.
17. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Mar. 3, 1850, Hatch Coll.
18. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Sept. 13, 1848, Hatch Coll.
19. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Aug. 13, 1850; Jan. 12, 1851; Boston, May 10, 1852; Chelsea, Sept. 12, 1852, Hatch Coll.
20. Brooks to George Witherle, Boston, Nov. 23, 1848; Chelsea, Mar. 3, 1850, Hatch Coll.
21. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Sept. 12, 1852, Hatch Coll.
22. Brooks's Journal of the White Mountain Trip, Hatch Coll.
23. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Aug. 31, 1851, Hatch Coll.
24. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, VII, 75.
25. Edmund Clarence Stedman and Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, eds., A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (N.H., 1890), XI, 482; Adams, “Noah Brooks,” The New-Eng. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., LVIII, xcix.
26. Brooks, “A Lesson in Patriotism,” St. Nicholas, XIV, 340 (Mar., 1887).
27. Brooks to George Whiterle, Chelsea, Sept. 12, 1852, Hatch Coll.
28. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Aug. 31, 1851, Hatch Coll.
29. Brooks to George Witherle, Boston, June 25, [1852], Hatch Coll.
30. Brooks to George Witherle, Boston, [1853], Hatch Coll. Since few of these weekly publications remain, it is impossible to identify much of Brooks's work. However, some of his early letters written to a boyhood chum are signed “Pierre.” This would seem to indicate that he may have used this as a pen name for his first newspaper writings. “Pierre” [Noah Brooks] to George Witherle, Chelsea, Nov. 25, 1848, Hatch Coll.
31. Brooks, “Horace Greeley,” The Youths’ Companion, LXXV, 400 (Aug. 15, 1901).
32. B. P. Shillaber, “Experiences during Many Years,” The New Eng. Mag., IX, 94, 153–154 (Sept.–Oct., 1893).
33. John Townsend Trowbridge, My Own Story: With Recollections of Noted Persons (Boston, 1903), 179.
34. Caroline Ticknor, Glimpses of Authors (Boston, 1922), 192.
35. Trowbridge, My Own Story, 180; George W. Bungay, Off-Hand Talkings; or, Crayon Sketches of the Noticeable Men of Our Age (N.Y., 1854), 376.
36. Trowbridge, My Own Story, 182; The Carpet-Bag, July 3, 1852.
37. The Carpet-Bag, May 1, 1852; Franklin J. Meine, ed., Tall Tales of the Southwest (N.Y., 1946), xxxi, 445.
38. Cyril Clemens examined this file of newspapers and reported his findings in The New Eng. Quar., XIV, 527 (Sept., 1941); Edgar M. Branch, The Literary Apprenticeship of Mark Twain (Urbana, Ill., 1950), 6.
39. Marysville (Cal.) Appeal, Dec. 19, 1860; Brooks, “American Humorous Literature,” MS. in the Wright Coll.
40. Brooks to George Witherle, Boston, Mar. 21, [1853], Hatch Coll.
41. These articles were not continued long. They are found in The Carpet-Bag, Apr. 19, 26, May 24, 31, June 21, 28, 1851, and Apr. 10, 1852.
42. Ibid., May 24, 1851.
43. Brooks quotes things from these authors in The Carpet-Bag, Apr. 19, May 24, 31, June 21, 28, 1851, Dec. 11, 1852; Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Jan. 27, [1850], Hatch Coll.
44. The Carpet-Bag, Apr. 19, 1851.
45. Ibid., Apr. 26, 1851.
46. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Jan. 12, [1851], Hatch Coll.
47. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Sept. 12, 1852, Hatch Coll.
48. The Carpet-Bag, May 24, 1851.
49. Ibid., May 31, 1851.
50. Ibid., June 21, 1851.
51. Ibid., June 28, 1851.
52. Ibid., Apr. 10, 1852.
53. Ibid., Nov. 27, 1852.
54. Ibid., Dec. 11, 1852.
55. Ibid., Dec. 18, 1852.
56. Ibid., Mar. 12, 1853.
57. Trowbridge, My Own Story, 181.
58. Brooks, “American Humorous Literature,” MS. in Wright Coll.
59. This is a new discovery. Don C. Seitz's book, Artemus Ward: A Biography and Bibliography (N.Y., 1919), identifies “The Surrender of Cornwallis,” published in The Carpet-Bag on April 17, 1852, as Charles F. Browne's first contribution. See Seitz, pp. 12–16, 319.
60. Seitz, Artemus Ward, 23.
61. William Winter, Other Days (N.Y., 1908), 198.
62. Shillaber, “Experiences during Many Years,” The New Eng. Mag., Ix, 155 (Oct., 1893).
63. The Carpet-Bag, Sept. 20, 1851.
64. Ibid., Apr. 17, 1852.
65. Ibid., Apr. 3, 1852.
66. Ibid., Aug. 14, 1852.
67. Trowbridge, My Own Story, 185; Shillaber, “Experiences during Many Years,” The New Eng. Mag., IX, 157 (Oct., 1893).
68. The Carpet-Bag, Mar. 26, 1853.
69. Brooks to George Witherle, Boston, Mar. 21, [1853], Hatch Coll.
70. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Mar. 29, 1853, Hatch Coll.
71. Shillaber, “Experiences during Many Years,” The New Eng. Mag., IX, 157 (Oct., 1893).
72. Ibid., 156.
73. The Carpet-Bag, Apr. 24, 1852.
74. Ibid., Dec. 4, 1852.
75. Brooks to George Witherle, Lynn, Mass., Dec. 17, 1848, Hatch Coll.
76. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Mar., 3, 1850, Hatch Coll.
77. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Apr. 11, 1852, Hatch Coll; The Carpet-Bag, Mar. 27, 1852.
78. The Carpet-Bag, Mar. 27, 1852.
79. Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography (N.Y., 1900), V, 605; The Carpet-Bag, Mar. 29, 1851; Shillaber, “Experiences during Many Years,” The New Eng. Mag., VIII, 722 (Aug., 1893); “Cymon,” Hits and Dashes; or, a Medley of Sketches and Scraps, Touching People and Things (Boston, 1852).
80. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Apr. 11, 1852, Hatch Coll.
81. The Carpet-Bag, Nov. 27, 1852.
82. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Sept. 12, 1852, Hatch Coll.
83. The Boston Almanac, 1853, p. 108.
84. Brooks to George Witherle, Boston, Mar. 21, [1853], Hatch Coll.
85. Ibid., Brooks to George Witherle, Boston, Mar. 29, 1853, Hatch Coll.
86. Brooks to George Witherle, Boston, [1853]; Chelsea, June 26, 1853, Hatch Coll.
87. Brooks to George Witherle, Boston, [1853], Hatch Coll.
88. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Mar. 29, 1853, Hatch Coll.
89. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, June 29, 1853, Hatch Coll.
90. The Boston Almanac, 1853, p. 118.
91. Brooks to George Witherle, Boston, [1853], Hatch Coll.
92. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, June 26, July 10, 1853, Hatch Coll.
93. Winter, Other Days, 26; The Boston Almanac, 1853, p. 143; Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Nov. 25, 1848, Hatch Coll.
94. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, July 10, 1853, Hatch Coll.
95. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Nov. 13, 1853, Hatch Coll. Brooks did not identify the paper in which these articles were published.
96. Printed ticket in Hatch Coll.
97. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Nov. 13, 1853, Hatch Coll.
98. The Carpet-Bag, Jan 22, 1853. This was a short sketch predicting what Socrates would do if he were in New York.
99. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Jan. 29, [1850], Hatch Coll.
100. Brooks's Kansas Diary, Aug. 22, 1857, Hatch Coll.
101. Brooks's Journal of the White Mountain Trip, Hatch Coll.
102. Brooks to George Witherle, Boston, Feb. 15, 1854, Hatch Coll.
103. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Nov. 13, 1853, Hatch Coll.
104. The Boston Almanac, 1855, p. 108.
105. Brooks to the eds. of The Critic, Newark, N.J., Aug. 20, 1892, pub. in The Critic, XXI, 124 (Sept. 3, 1892).
Chapter III. Five Years in the Midwest
1. Photograph of original bill of sale in Nachusa Hotel in Dixon; Dixon (Ill.) Telegraph, Apr. 28, 1859.
2. Dixon Telegraph, Dec. 22, 1855.
3. Ibid., May 7, 28, 1851.
4. History of Lee County (Chicago, 1881), 237. This statement is confirmed by a check of the land and tax records in the Lee Co. Courthouse.
5. Mrs. J. B. Brooks was born in Bainbridge, N.Y., on Mar. 9, 1826, and went to Dixon in 1841. She died on Apr. 27, 1878. Dixon Telegraph, May 2, 1878.
6. Ibid., Mar. 23, 1854.
7. Ibid., Sept. 21, 1854, June 20, 1855.
8. G. L. Howell, to P. M. Alexander, Dixon, Apr. 22, 1855, Beatrice Lanphier Coll., Dixon, Ill.
9. Dixon Telegraph, Jan. 31, 1857.
10. Ibid., Dec. 22, 1855.
11. He purchased it on Mar. 18, 1861, from Mrs. Ophelia Brooks; the description of the property is lots 3, 4, 5, and 6 in Block 32 of the original town of North Dixon. Deed Record Book X, 309, Lee Co. Courthouse, Dixon. The Dixon Telegraph was in error in its reports of Jan. 17, 24, 1857. Charles Godfrey also bought the Brooks and Daley Mill for $20,000, half of which went to the young widow. Her husband had been as good a business man as Noah was a poor one. In addition to the $18,000 which Ophelia Brooks received from the sale of the property, she was paid $5,000 by the Manhattan Life Insurance Co. of New York who had insured her husband's life. Dixon Telegraph, Mar. 8, 1856, Feb. 14, 1857.
12. George A. Wheeler, History of Castine: The Battle Line of Four Nations (Bangor, 1875), 88; Dixon Telegraph, May 14, 1851, Jan. 21, Feb. 16, May 25, 1854.
13. Dixon Telegraph, Apr. 30, 1853, Feb. 15, 1883; The New-Eng. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., XXXVII, 336 (1883). His wife, Marianne, died on Dec. 30, 1870. Dixon Telegraph, Jan. 12,1871.
14. Dixon Telegraph, Apr. 4, 1857.
15. Brooks to George Witherle, Boston, Feb. 15, Apr. 28, 1854, Hatch Coll.
16. Brooks to George Witherle, Dixon, May 19, 1854, Hatch Coll; Dixon Telegraph, May 17, 1856.
17. Dixon Telegraph, June 8, 14, 22, 1854.
18. Ibid., Nov. 2, 1854.
19. Brooks to F. G. Adams, Los Angeles, Mar. 2, 1899, Kansas State Hist. Soc.
20. Brooks to George Witherle, Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 1863, Hatch Coll.
21. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, July 14, [1850], Hatch Coll.
22. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, July 10, 1853, Hatch Coll; Dixon Telegraph, Mar. 15, 1856.
23. John G. Brooks to Noah Brooks, Chelsea, May 24, 1854, Hatch Coll. This is the only letter of John G. Brooks which has been found.
24. G. L. Howell to P. M. Alexander, Dixon, Apr. 22, 1855, Lanphier Coll.; Dixon Telegraph, July 25, 1855.
25. Dixon Telegraph, May 16, 1855.
26. Ibid., Sept. 21, 1854.
27. Ibid., May 30, 1855, Supplement.
28. Ibid., May 10, 1855.
29. Ibid., Aug. 1, 1855.
30. Printed invoice form of N. and J. G. Brooks, Ill. State Hist. Lib.; Dixon Telegraph, July 18, 1855.
31. Dixon Telegraph, June 6, Aug. 1, 1855.
32. Ibid., Nov. 7, 1855, May 17, 1856.
33. Collector's Book 1854–1855, Lee Co. Courthouse, Dixon.
34. Collector's Book 1856–1858, Lee Co. Courthouse, Dixon.
35. Dixon Transcript, Apr. 2, 1856.
36. Brooks to George Witherle, Dixon, Feb. 14, 1856, Hatch Coll.
37. P. M. Alexander to John Wilson Howell, Dixon, Aug. 11, 1856; John Wilson Howell to P. M. Alexander, Pompey, N.Y., Aug. 20, 1856, Lanphier Coll.
38. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Mar. 3, 1850, Hatch Coll.
39. Brooks to George Witherle, Dixon, Feb. 14, 1856, Hatch Coll.
40. Brooks to George Witherle, Boston, May 16, 1856, Hatch Coll. Brooks dictated this letter to Charles T. Wilder.
41. Brooks to George Witherle, Dixon, April 16, 1856; Boston, May 27, 1856, Hatch Coll; Dixon Telegraph, May 31, 1856; original marriage record is in the office of the city clerk, Salem, Mass.
42. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, July 14, Nov. 19, [1850], June 26, 1853, Hatch Coll.
43. Brooks to George Witherle, Dec. 21, 1852, Hatch Coll.
44. Vital Records of Salem Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849, I, 292, V, 239; C. H. C Wright to author, Paris, Me., July 11, 1951; T. Frank Waters, “Candlewood an Ancient Neighborhood in Ipswich with Genealogies of John Brown, Williams Fellows and Robert Kinsman,” Publications of the Ipswich Hist. Soc., XVI, 71–88.
45. Brooks to George Witherle, Dixon, Apr. 16, 1856, Hatch Coll.
46. P. M. Alexander to John Wilson Howell, Dixon, Aug. 10, 1856, Lanphier Coll.
47. Brooks's diary, Hatch Coll.
48. Dixon Telegraph, Dec. 6, 1856.
49. Ibid., Dec. 13, 1856.
50. Ibid., Aug. 27, 1857.
51. Ibid., Nov. 4, 1858; a small amount of the stock was sold to John Wilson Howell on Jan. 30, 1857, receipt in Lanphier Coll.
52. John Wilson Howell to P. M. Alexander, Pompey, N.Y., Aug. 20, 1856, Lanphier Coll.
53. E. N. Howell to Frank E. Stevens, Dixon, Oct. 20, 1925, Lanphier Coll.
54. Brooks to George Witherle, Dixon, May 19, 1854, Hatch Coll.
55. Dixon Telegraph, Sept. 28, Oct. 12, 1854; History of Dixon and Lee County (Dixon, 1880), 13; John Wilson Howell to P. M. Alexander, Pompey, N.Y., Aug. 20, 1856, Lanphier Coll.; Frank E. Stevens, History of Lee County Illinois (Chicago, 1914), I, 348.
56. Dixon Telegraph, Jan. 13, 1855, Jan. 12, 1856.
57. Brooks's diary, Hatch Coll.
58. Brooks to George Witherle, Dixon, Jan. 21, 1858, Hatch Coll.
59. Ibid.
60. Dixon Telegraph, Nov. 15, 1856.
61. Ibid., Oct. 26, 1854.
62. Ibid., Oct. 17, 1855.
63. Ibid., Mar. 17, 1855.
64. Ibid., Apr. 28, 1859; Seraphina Gardner Smith, ed., Recollections of the Pioneers of Lee County (Dixon, 1893), 282–293; Frank E. Stevens, “The Dixon Abraham Lincoln-Jefferson Davis Tradition,” Lincoln Group Papers, 1 ser., ed. by Douglas C. McMurtrie (Chicago, 1936), 127. One of Brooks's oil paintings of John Dixon's log cabin is reproduced in Frank E. Stevens, The Black Hawk War (Chicago, 1903), facing p. 129. Another of his original paintings of Dixon's cabin, slightly different, is in the Dixon Public Library, a gift of Frank E. Stevens.
65. Dixon Telegraph, Sept. 7, 1854.
66. Ibid., Nov. 23, 1854.
67. Ibid., Dec. 23, 1854.
68. Ibid., Dec. 14, 1854.
69. Ibid., Sept. 26,1855.
70. Reprinted in ibid., Nov. 21, 1855.
71. Ibid., Nov. 14, 1855.
72. Ibid., Jan. 5, 1856.
73. Ibid., Dec. 13, 1856.
74. Ibid., Feb. 14, 1857.
75. Certificate of Purchase No. 2656, Ill. State Lib. (Archives Division). The description of this land is Range 7 E 4, Township 21 N, SW fractional ¼ of Section 7 and was recorded on Dec. 20, 1854. This is also found in Executive Record, p. 375.
76. Deed Book P, 343, Whiteside Co. Courthouse, Morrison, Ill. This land, formerly in Lee Co., is now in Whiteside Co.
77. Certificate of Purchase No. 4687, Ill. State Lib. (Archives Division). The description of this land is Range 8 E 4, Township 23 N, SE ¼ of SW ¼ of Section 34 and was recorded on Feb. 8, 1855. This is also found in Executive Record, p. 394.
78. Deed Book V, 456, Ogle Co. Courthouse, Oregon, Ill. This transaction was recorded on Dec. 16, 1857.
79. Franklin W. Scott. Newspapers and Periodicals of Illinois 1814–1879 (Springfield, 1910), 162.
80. Dixon Telegraph, July 14, 1859.
81. Grace E. Johnson, “Mrs. E. B. Baker and Others,” Recollections of the Pioneers of Lee County, ed., Seraphina Gardner Smith, 319.
82. San Francisco (Cal.) Chronicle, Aug. 18, 1903.
83. Smith D. Atkins, “Some Illinois Editors I Have Known,” Transactions Ill. State Hist. Soc., 1910, 40.
84. Dixon Telegraph, Nov. 23, 1854; Shaw made it clear in the issue of Oct. 12, 1854, that nothing would appear in the editorial column which was not written by himself.
85. Ibid., July 25, 1855; this signature of “B” was identified as being Noah Brooks's in the issue of Jan. 26, 1860.
86. Ibid., Aug. 1, 1855.
87. Brooks to P. M. Alexander, Marysville, Cal., June 5, 1860, Ill. State Hist. Lib.
88. Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 561–562 (Feb., 1878).
89. Dixon Telegraph, July 19, 1856.
90. Ibid., Sept. 20, 1856.
91. Brooks to Frank R. Dixon, Castine, Me., Feb. 21, 1896, Judge George C. Dixon Coll., Dixon, Ill.
92. Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 562 (Feb., 1878). Lincoln was in the Dixon area at least six times; Dixon, July 17; Sterling, July 18; Galena, July 23; Polo, Aug. 15; Oregon, Aug. 16; and Polo again, Aug. 17. Paul M. Angle, Lincoln 1854–1861 (Springfield, 1933), 133–138.
93. Dixon Telegraph, July 12, 1856. It was probably Dr. William B. Egan of Chicago.
94. Lincoln to J. W. Grimes, Springfield, Ill., July 12, 1856, R. P. Basler, M. D. Pratt, and L. A. Dunlap, eds., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (New Brunswick, N. J., 1953), II, 348.
95. Chicago Democratic Press, July 15, 1856.
96. Ibid., July 17, 1856.
97. July 26, 1856.
98. Reprinted in Northwestern Gazette (Galena, Ill.), July 29, 1856. This account is not mentioned in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, VIII, 450. For another good account see Sterling (Ill.) Republican, July 19, 1856.
99. Brooks, “Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 884 (Apr. 1878).
100. [Brooks], “Some Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln,” Marysville (Cal.) Appeal, Nov. 4, 1860. It was Beardsley who preceded Lincoln; Wentworth spoke after Lincoln.
101. Sterling (Ill.) Republican, July 26, 1856.
102. Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 561–562 (Feb., 1878).
103. [Brooks], “Some Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln,” Marysville Appeal, Nov., 4, 1860. Since there were three editors on this paper, Brooks used “we” instead of “I.”
104. Brooks, Abraham Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery v.
105. Chicago Press & Tribune, Aug. 30, 1858.
106. Dixon Telegraph, June 7, 1856.
107. Ibid., Sept. 13, 1856.
108. Brooks to George Witherle, near Fort Riley, Kansas Territory, July 9, 1857, Hatch Coll.
109. This cup is now owned by Prof. C. H. C. Wright, Cambridge, Mass.
110. Brooks's Kansas Diary (1857), Hatch Coll. It cost him $54.15 to make the trip from Dixon to Kansas. Unless noted, the information for his stay in Kansas Territory is from this diary.
111. Anon., “Noah Brooks,” The Book Buyer, III, 271 (Aug., 1886). Brooks undoubtedly supplied the information for this sketch.
112. Brooks to F. G. Adams, Los Angeles, Mar. 2, 1899, Kansas State Hist. Soc.
113. Brooks to George Witherle, near Ft. Riley, Kansas Territory, July 9, 1857, Hatch Coll.
114. Joseph B. Quinby held SE ¼ Section 17, Township 10, Range 4; Benjamin Frank Quinby held SW ¼ Section 17, Township 10, Range 4. Deed Book G, 92, 93, Clay Co. Courthouse, Clay Center, Kansas. These brothers continued to farm their land and did not return to Illinois when the Brookses did. A check of the Illinois State Census for 1860 does not list them. Ill. State Lib. (Archives Division).
115. Brooks to F. G. Adams, Los Angeles, Mar. 2, 1899, Kansas State Hist. Soc.
116. Brooks to George Witherle, Dixon, Dec. 8, 1857, Hatch Coll.
117. Brooks to Frank R. Dixon, Castine, Me., Feb. 21, 1896, Judge George C. Dixon Coll.
118. Brooks to F. G. Adams, Los Angeles, Mar. 2, 1899, Kansas State Hist. Soc.
119. Brooks to George Witherle, Dixon, Dec. 8, 1857, Hatch Coll.
120. F. G. Adams to Noah Brooks, Topeka, Kansas, Jan. 24, 1899, Kansas State Hist. Soc.; Transactions Kansas State Hist. Soc., VI, 24 (1897–1900). It was in reply to this letter that Brooks told some of his experiences in Kansas.
121. Transactions Kansas State Hist. Soc., VII, 567 (1901–1902).
122. Brooks to George Witherle, Dixon, Jan. 21, 1858, Hatch Coll.
123. Lottie Little Todd to his sister, Salem, Mass., Dec. 21, 1858, author's coll.; Emmie Little's Diary (entry of June 28, 1858), Lanphier Coll.
124. Brooks to Geo. L. Howell, Dixon, July 12, 1858, Ill. State Hist. Lib.
Chapter IV. “The Plains Across”
1. Dixon Telegraph, Feb. 24, 1859.
2. Brooks's diary, Hatch Coll.
3. For a treatment of the gold rush and its effect upon Illinois, see Wayne C. Temple, “The Pikes Peak Gold Rush,” Jour. Ill. State Hist. Soc., XLIV, 147–159 (Summer, 1951).
4. Dixon Telegraph, Feb. 3, 1859.
5. Ibid., Feb. 10, 1859.
6. Ibid., Mar. 3, 1859. Shaw returned to Dixon, however, in June. See ibid., June 23, 1859.
7. John Wilson Howell to P. M. Alexander, Pompey, N.Y., June 19, 1859, Lanphier Coll.
8. John Wilson Howell to P. M. Alexander, Pompey, N.Y., Aug. 7, 1859, Lanphier Coll.
9. Upham, The Descendants of John Upham of Massachusetts (Albany, 1892), 377.
10. Unless otherwise stated in the footnotes, the source for Brooks's trip to California is his diaries (May 10–Oct. 5, 1859) in the Hatch Coll.
11. Brooks to F. G. Adams, Los Angeles, Mar. 2, 1899, Kansas State. Hist. Soc.
12. This trip from Dixon to Council Bluffs cost Brooks $16.40, which included a few incidental purchases.
13. Brooks, “The Coming and Going of Pete,” St. Nicholas, XXXI, 538 (May, 1904). This statement is borne out by his diary entry of June 5 and the sketches which he made of their camps. See note 14.
14. Brooks made these sketches on May 20 and 21, 1859, and sent them to George L. Howell (of Dixon) on May 22. They are reproduced in Temple, “The Pikes Peak Gold Rush,” Jour. Ill. State Hist. Soc., XLIV, 149. The original drawings are in the Ill. State Hist. Lib.
15. Brooks to ed. of Dixon Telegraph, Marysville, Cal., Nov., 1859, in Dixon Telegraph, Dec. 22, 1859.
16. Brooks's diary entry of Aug. 20, 1859.
17. Brooks to P. M. Alexander, Fort Bridger, Utah Territory, July 25, 1859, copy in Lanphier Coll., original was destroyed by fire.
18. Brooks to ed. of Dixon Telegraph, Rocky Mountains, South Pass, July 19, 1859, in Dixon Telegraph, Aug. 18, 1859.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Brooks to P. M. Alexander, Fort Bridger, Utah Territory, July 25, 1859, copy in Lanphier Coll.
22. Brooks to ed. of Dixon Telegraph, South Pass, July 19, 1859, in Dixon Telegraph, Aug. 18, 1859.
23. Brooks to P. M. Alexander, “Fort Bridger, Utah Territory,” July 25, 1859, copy in Lanphier Coll. His financial condition is illustrated by the fact that he enclosed a letter to his wife; he probably sent it “collect” to Alexander. The letter did not reach Dixon until August 31. George Howell to P. M. Alexander, Dixon, Sept. 1, 1859, Lanphier Coll.
24. Brooks to P. M. Alexander, Fort Bridger, Utah Territory, July 25, 1859, copy in Lanphier Coll.
25. Brooks, “In Echo Cañon,” Lotos Leaves (Boston, 1875), 206.
26. Dixon Telegraph, Aug. 15, 1855.
27. Brooks to P. M. Alexander, Fort Bridger, Utah Territory, July 25, 1859, copy in Lanphier Coll. Brooks never forgot this stove. He mentioned it in his story, The Boy Emigrants, written in 1876.
28. Brooks to ed. of Dixon Telegraph, Marysville, Cal., Nov., 1859, in Dixon Telegraph, Dec. 22, 1859.
29. Brooks to ed. Dixon Telegraph, Marysville, Cal., Dec. 18, 1859, in Dixon Telegraph, Jan. 26, 1860.
30. Ibid.
31. J. A. Graves, My Seventy in California, 1857–1927 (Los Angeles, 1927), 7.
32. Caroline M. Olney, “Mountains and Valleys of Yuba County,” Overland Monthly, XL, 567–588 (Dec., 1902).
33. George H. Hare to his parents, Sacramento, Cal., Oct. 5, 1859, in Dixon Telegraph, Nov. 17, 1859.
34. C. H. C. Wright to author, Paris, Me., July 11, 1951.
35. Brooks to ed. Dixon Telegraph, Marysville, Cal., Dec. 18, 1859, in Dixon Telegraph, Jan. 26, 1860.
36. Brooks to ed. Dixon Telegraph, Marysville, Cal., Nov., 1859, in Dixon Telegraph, Dec. 22, 1859.
37. Anon., “The Author of ‘The Boy Emigrants,’” St. Nicholas, III, 524 (June, 1876).
38. Brooks to ed. Dixon Telegraph, Marysville, Cal. Dec. 18, 1859, in Dixon Telegraph, Jan. 26, 1860.
39. Brooks to P. M. Alexander, Marysville, Cal., Feb. 22, 1860, Ill. State Hist. Lib.
40. Brooks to P. M. Alexander, Marysville, Cal., Apr. 3, 1860, Ill. State Hist. Lib.
41. Marysville Appeal, Nov. 4, 1860.
42. Brooks to P. M. Alexander, Marysville, Cal., June 5, 1860, Ill. State Hist. Lib.
43. Brooks to P. M. Alexander, Marysville, Cal., Apr. 3, 1860, Ill. State Hist. Lib.
44. Marysville Appeal, Nov. 4, 1860. When Noah Brooks left Marysville in 1862, Ayer became an editor and the business manager of the Appeal—the position which Brooks had held. Henry G. Langley, ed., The Pacific Coast Business Directory for 1867, 165. In 1865 he was also appointed register of the General Land Office of Marysville, a job which paid $500 per year plus one cent per commission. “Castine,” Washington, May 17, 1865, in Sacramento Union, June 14, 1865; United States Official Register, 1865, p. 126.
45. Marysville Appeal, Mar. 1, 1860.
46. Personal business card, Hatch Coll.
47. Marysville Appeal, Oct. 16, 1860.
48. Brooks to George Witherle, Marysville, Cal., Jan. 18, 1860, Hatch Coll.
49. North San Juan (Cal.) Hydraulic Press, Sept. 3, 1859.
50. Marysville Appeal, Nov. 4, 1860.
51. Brooks to P. M. Alexander, Marysville, Cal., June 5, 1860, Ill. State Hist. Lib.
52. San Francisco Evening Mirror, Sept. 14, 1860.
53. Marysville Appeal, Oct. 20, 1860.
54. San Francisco Evening Mirror, Sept. 11, 1860.
55. Ibid., Sept. 6, 1860.
56. Ibid., Sept. 10 1860. John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1805–1877), History of Napoleon.
57. San Francisco Evening Mirror, Sept. 14, 1860.
58. Ibid., Sept. 19, 1860.
59. Marysville Appeal, Sept. 15, 1860.
60. San Francisco Evening Mirror, Sept. 14, 1860.
61. Ibid., Sept. 7, 1860.
62. Ibid., Sept. 27, 1860.
63. Marysville Appeal, Nov. 4, 1860.
64. Brown's Marysville Directory, 1861, 22.
65. Ibid., 31; Marysville Appeal, Oct. 26, 1860.
66. Marysville Appeal, Oct. 24, 1860.
67. C. C. Goodwin, As I Remember Them (Salt Lake City, 1913), 111.
68. Marysville Appeal, Oct. 6, 10, 1860.
69. Ibid., Nov. 4, 1860.
70. Ibid., Nov. 8, 1860.
71. Ibid., Apr. 27, 1861; Carl I. Wheat, ed., “‘California's Bantam Cock’—The Journals of Charles E. DeLong, 1854–1863,” Cal. Hist. Soc. Quar., X, 280 (Sept., 1931), entry of Apr. 26, 1851.
72. Marysville Appeal, July 6, 1861.
73. Ibid., May 29, 1861.
74. The account of this climb is taken from “An Ascent of Mount Shasta in 1861: (From the Journal of Richard G. Stanwood),” Cal. Hist. Soc. Quar., VI, 69–76 (Mar., 1927).
75. Ernest R. May, “Benjamin Parke Avery,” Cal. Hist. Soc. Quar., XXX, 125–149 (June, 1951).
76. Marysville Appeal, Oct. 27, 1861.
77. Ibid., Dec. 5, 1861; San Francisco Evening Mirror, Dec. 10, 1861.
78. Marysville Appeal, Mar. 4, 1862.
79. Ibid., May 22, 1862; C. H. C. Wright to author, Paris, Me., July 11, 1951.
80. Anon., “Noah Brooks,” The Book Buyer, III, 271 (Aug., 1886); Frederick Evans, “Noah Brooks,” The Lamp, XXVII, 129 (Sept., 1903).
81. California Express (Marysville), May 23, 1862.
82. Newark (N.J.) Evening News, Aug. 18, 1903.
83. Information courtesy of Prof. C. H. C. Wright, Paris, Me.
84. Information courtesy of Mr. Noah Brooks Hooper, Castine, Me.
85. San Francisco Evening Bulletin, Mar. 26, 1861. There is also a “Mrs. Brooks” listed as having arrived at San Francisco on May 13, 1860. However, at this early date, Brooks was not financially able to support his wife, and for this reason the later date had been chosen as the most likely one.
86. Marysville Appeal, June 22, 1862.
87. Ibid., Sept. 28, 1862.
88. Anon., “The Author of ‘The Boy Emigrants,’” St. Nicholas, III, 525 (June, 1876).
89. N.Y. Herald, Nov. 2, 4, 1862.
90. Ibid., Nov. 25, 1862; N.Y. Tribune, Nov. 25, 1862.
Chapter V. “Washington in Lincoln's Time”
1. Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 562–563 (Feb., 1878).
2. “Castine,” Washington, Dec. 4, 1862, in Sacramento (Cal.) Union, Dec. 30, 1862.
3. Brooks to George Witherle, Washington, Dec. 23, 1863, Hatch Coll.
4. Los Angeles Times, Dec. 14, 1896.
5. Ella Sterling Cummins, The Story of the Files: A Review of Californian Writers and Literature (San Francisco, 1893), 77.
6. Ibid., 79; Brooks to Isaac P. Langworthy, Washington, May 10, 1865, pub. as The Character and Religion of President Lincoln (Champlain, N.Y., 1919), 9.
7. C. C. Goodwin, As I Remember Them (Salt Lake City, 1913), 80–81.
8. Brooks to E. E. Hale, San Francisco, Nov. 29, 1865, copy enclosed in letter to Edward McPherson, Feb. 20, 1866, McPherson Papers, Lib. of Congress; Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time (N.Y., 1895), 1.
9. Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 562–563 (Feb., 1878); Washington in Lincoln's Time, 2.
10. Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 563 (Feb., 1878); “Castine,” Washington, July 30, 1863, in Sacramento Union, Aug. 24, 1863; Washington, Apr. 16, 1865, in Sacramento Union, May 17, 1865; Washington in Lincoln's Time, 2; Abraham Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery, vi.
11. Mary Lincoln to Brooks, Chicago, Dec. 16, 1865, Hatch Coll.
12. Mary Lincoln to Brooks, Chicago, May 11, 1866, Hatch Coll.
13. Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 675, 563 (Feb.–Mar., 1878).
14. John Hay, “Life in the White House in the Time of Lincoln,” The Century Magazine, XLI, 35 (Nov., 1890).
15. Brooks, “Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXXI, 222 (July, 1865).
16. Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 677 (Mar., 1878).
17. Ibid., XV, 676.
18. Brooks, “Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXXI, 222–22, 230 (July, 1865); “Lincoln's Imagination,” Scribner's Monthly, XVIII, 584 (Aug., 1879); “Castine,” Washington, Nov. 7, 1863, in Sacramento Union, Dec. 4, 1863.
19. Brooks, “American Humorous Literature,” MS. in the Wright Coll.
20. Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 564 (Feb., 1878).
21. Ibid., XV, 679 (Mar., 1878); Washington in Lincoln's Time, 277.
22. Brooks, “Lincoln's Imagination,” Scribner's Monthly, XVIII, 585 (Aug., 1879).
23. Brooks, “Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXXI, 224 (July, 1865).
24. Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 674 (Mar., 1878).
25. Brooks, Statesmen (N.Y., 1893), 170.
26. Brooks, “A Boy in the White House,” St. Nicholas, X, 61 (Nov., 1882).
27. Mary Lincoln to Brooks, Chicago, May 11, 1866, Hatch Coll.
28. Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 70–71.
29. Dated Washington, Nov. 16, 1864, in N.Y. Herald, Nov. 17, 1864; Washington National Intelligencer, Nov. 15, 1864.
30. Dated Washington, Mar. 25, 1863, in N.Y. Herald, Mar. 26, 1863.
31. Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 70, 72, 71.
32. Mary Lincoln to Brooks, Chicago, May 11, 1866, Hatch Coll.
33. Under the advertisements labeled “Astrology” the following notice appears in the N.Y. Herald of Apr. 18, 1863: “Colchester, the celebrated medium, having returned from Europe, can be consulted on any affairs of life, past, present or future, at his rooms, No. 1 Waverly place, corner of Broadway. Letters answered by mail.”
34. Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 64–66. On Dec. 31, 1862, Mrs. Lincoln went to Georgetown with Isaac Newton to consult a Mrs. Cranston Laury (also spelled Laurie) who “made wonderful revelations to her about her little son Willy.” T. C. Pease and J. G. Randall, eds., The Diary of Orville Hickman Browning (Springfield, 1925), I, 608 (entry of Jan. 1, 1863).
35. “Castine,” Washington, Dec. 2, 1862, in Sacramento Union, Dec. 27, 1862.
36. Memoirs of Henry Villard: Journalist and Financier 1835–1900 (Boston, 1904), I, 154.
37. “Castine,” Washington, Dec. 2, 1862, in Sacramento Union, Dec. 27, 1862; Washington, Dec. 19, 1862, in Sacramento Union, Jan. 19, 1863.
38. “Castine,” Washington, Dec. 26, 1862, in Sacramento Union, Jan. 19, 1863.
39. Howard K. Beale, ed., The Diary of Edward Bates 1859–1866 (Washington, 1933), 310.
40. Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 568–569 (Feb., 1878); “Lincoln, Chase, and Grant,” The Century Magazine, XLIX, 610 (Feb., 1895).
41. N.Y. Herald, Mar. 20, 1863; N.Y. Tribune, Mar. 19, 1863.
42. “Castine,” Washington, Mar. 21, 1863, in Sacramento Union, Apr. 17, 1863.
43. Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 569 (Feb., 1878).
44. Tyler Dennett, ed., Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay (N.Y., 1939), 80 (entry for Aug. 13, 1863).
45. Dated Washington, May 25, 1863, in N.Y. Herald, May 26, 1863. The date of this particular visit to three of the “principal hospitals” in Washington was May 24.
46. N.Y. Herald, Mar. 20, 1863.
47. Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 7.
48. “Castine,” Washington, Apr. 12, 1863, in Sacramento Union, May 8, 1863.
49. Brooks, “A Boy in the White House,” St. Nicholas, X, 62 (Nov., 1882).
50. Adam Gurowski, Diary from November 18, 1862, to October 18, 1863 (N.Y., 1864), II, 192.
51. On April 28, 1864, Lincoln nominated Crawford to be collector of internal revenue for the district of Oregon. He was confirmed on May 7. Jour. of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate, 37th Cong., 3rd sess., XIII, 508, 525. Prior to this he was Asst. Quartermaster of the Army. For the account of his emigrant train activities, see “Journal of the Expedition Organized for the Protection of Emigrants to Oregon, &c, under the command of Medorem [sic] Crawford,” Senate Doc. No. 17, 37th Cong., 3rd sess.
52. Anson G. Henry to his wife, Washington, Apr. 12, 1863, Henry Papers, Ill. State Hist. Lib.
53. “Castine,” Washington, Apr. 12, 1863, in Sacramento Union, May 8, 1863; Beale, ed., The Diary of Edward Bates 1859–1866, 287.
54. Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 46, 16.
55. Brooks, Abraham Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery, 426.
56. “Castine,” Washington, Apr. 12, 1863, in Sacramento Union, May 8, 1863.
57. Washington (D.C.) National Intelligencer, Apr. 9, 1863.
58. Beale, ed., The Diary of Edward Bates 1859–1866, 288. His son, Coalter Bates, was a member of this regiment, but he was not present at this time.
59. “Castine,” Washington, Apr. 12, 1863, in Sacramento Union, May 8, 1863; Anson G. Henry to his wife, Washington, Apr. 12, 1863, Henry Papers, Ill. State Hist. Lib; Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 50–51; Brooks, “Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXI, 227 (July, 1865); Washington National Intelligencer, Apr. 14, 1863. For a study of Lincoln as a rail-splitter, see Wayne C. Temple, “Lincoln's Fence Rails,” Jour. Ill. State Hist. Soc., XLVII, 20–34 (Spring, 1953).
60. Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 673 (Mar., 1878).
61. Ibid., 674.
62. Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 56.
63. “Castine,” Washington, Apr. 20, 1863, in Sacramento Union, May 18, 1863.
64. “Castine,” Washington, May 2, 1863, in Sacramento Union, May 27, 1863.
65. Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 674 (Mar., 1878); Washington in Lincoln's Time, 57–58; “Castine,” Washington, May 8, 1863, in Sacramento Union, June 5, 1863; John T. Morse, Jr., ed., Diary of Gideon Welles (Boston, 1911) I, 294.
66. Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 567 (Feb., 1878); Lincoln to Hooker, Washington, Jan. 26, 1863, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, VI, 78–79.
67. Anson G. Henry to his wife, Washington, Apr. 12, 1863, Henry Papers, Ill. State Hist. Lib.
68. Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 59–60, 52–53; “Castine,” Washington, Mar. 22, 1865, in Sacramento Union, Apr. 19, 1865.
69. Draft Records, Group No. 110, National Archives.
70. “Castine,” Beaufort, S. C., June 17, 1863, and Hilton Head, S. C., June 18, 1863, in Sacramento Union, July 16, 1863.
71. William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, and Noah Brooks, Scribner's Popular History of the United States (N.Y., 1897), V, 153–154. Although carrying the names of Bryant and Gay, Brooks wrote this entire volume of the revised edition.
72. “Castine,” St. Augustine, Fla., June 20, 1863, in Sacramento Union, July 21, 1863.
73. “Castine,” Hilton Head, S.C., June 25, 1863, in Sacramento Union, July 23, 1863.
74. N.Y. Herald, June 23, 1863; Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 84. The spy's name was William Richardson, about fifty years of age. He was hanged on July 6 for having secret maps and military information on his person while posing as a sutler. Dated Frederick, Md., July 6, 1863, in N.Y. Times, July 7, 1863.
75. “Castine,” Near Boonsboro, Md., July 12, 1863, in Sacramento Union, Aug. 10, 1863.
76. “Castine,” Boonsboro, Md., July 14, 1863, in Sacramento Union, Aug. 10, 1863.
77. “Castine,” Washington, July 28, 1863, in Sacramento Union, Aug. 19, 1863.
78. Brooks to George Witherle, North Conway, N.H., Aug. 16, 1863, Hatch Coll.
79. Brooks to George Witherle, Bangor, Me., Aug. 20, 1863, Hatch Coll.
80. “Castine,” Castine, Me., Sept. 6, 1863, in Sacramento Union, Oct. 5, 1863.
81. Brooks to George Witherle, Washington, Sept. 20, 1863, Hatch Coll.
82. Brooks to George Witherle, Washington, Nov. 14, 1863, Hatch Coll.
83. “Castine,” Washington, Nov. 14, 1863, in Sacramento Union, Dec. 12, 1863.
84. This envelope is clearly visible in Meserve Nos. 57 and 58. Frederick Hill Meserve and Carl Sandburg, The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln (N.Y., 1944). Four different portraits were taken at this time.
85. Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, 565 (Feb., 1878); Washington in Lincoln's Time, 285–287; Brooks to R. W. Gilder, Newark, N.J., Feb. 3, 1894, Century Coll., N.Y. Pub. Lib.
86. Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 565 (Feb., 1878).
87. Brooks, “Lincoln Reminiscences,” The Magazine of History, IX, 107–108 (Feb., 1909). This article was published after his death. He wrote that Robert Todd Lincoln owned one of the five prints and Dr. Anson C. Henry had one but it was lost in a ship disaster. He did not know where the other two were.
88. “Castine,” Washington, Nov. 17, 1863, in Sacramento Union, Dec. 16, 1863.
89. Ward Hill Lamon Papers, LN 2439, Henry E. Huntington Lib.
90. Brooks to Edward McPherson, Washington, Apr. 24, 1865, McPherson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
91. Dated Gettysburg, Pa., Nov. 19, 1863, in N.Y. Herald, Nov. 20, 1863; Dennett, ed., Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay, 121–122.
92. Brooks to R. G. Gilder, Newark, N.J., Feb. 3, 1894, Century Coll., N.Y. Pub. Lib.
93. Brooks to George Witherle, Washington, Sept. 20, 1863, Hatch Coll.; A. A. Sargent to Cornelius Cole, Nevada City, Cal., Oct. 18, 1863, Cole Papers, U.C.L.A Lib.
94. Brooks to George Witherle, Washington, Nov. 14, 1863, Hatch Coll.
95. N.Y. Herald, Dec. 8, 9, 1863.
96. Brooks to George Witherle, Washington, Dec. 23, 1863, Hatch Coll.
97. Detroit (Michigan) Free Press, Dec. 22, 1863.
98. Various letters of Brooks to Edward McPherson, McPherson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
99. House of Rep. Misc. Docs., No. 7, p. 2, 38th Cong., 2 sess.; House of Rep. Misc. Docs., No. 19, p. 2, 39th Cong., 1 sess.
100. Envelopes for Brooks's letters to George Witherle, dated Dec. 23, 1863, and June 15, 1864, Hatch Coll.
101. Brooks to George Witherle, Washington, Dec. 23, 1863, Hatch Coll.
102. “Castine,” Washington, Dec. 21, 186[3], in Sacramento Union, Jan. 27, 1864.
Chapter VI. Companion to Lincoln
1. Dennett, ed., Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay, 128.
2. “Castine,” Washington, Jan. 1, 1864, in Sacramento Union, Feb. 4, 1864. The year before Mrs. John A. Kasson had written that Mrs. Lincoln would receive “calls on New Year's in black velvet, trimmed with thread lace.” “An Iowa Woman in Washington, D.C., 1861–1865,” Iowa Jour. Hist., LII, 73 (Jan., 1954).
3. “Castine,” Washington, Jan. 27, 1864, in Sacramento Union, Feb. 27, 1864.
4. Brooks, “Glimpses of Lincoln in War Time,” The Century Magazine, XLIX, 463–464 (Jan., 1895).
5. Brooks, “Personal Recollections of Lincoln in War Time,” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXXI, 227 (July, 1895).
6. “Castine,” Washington, Mar. 18, 1864, in Sacramento Union, Apr. 20, 1864.
7. Washington (D.C.) National Republican, Jan. 16, 1864.
8. “Castine,” Washington, Jan. 18, 1864, in Sacramento Union, Feb. 22, 1864; James Harvey Young, “Anna Elizabeth Dickinson and the Civil War: For and Against Lincoln,” Miss. Valley Hist. Rev., XXXI, 59–80 (June, 1944).
9. “Castine,” Washington, May 10, 1864, in Sacramento Union, June 6, 1864.
10. “Castine,” Washington, Mar. 9, 1864, in Sacramento Union, Apr. 9, 1864.
11. Brooks, “Two War-Time Conventions,” The Century Magazine, XLIX, 723 (Mar., 1895).
12. Dennett, ed., Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay, 186.
13. “Castine,” Baltimore, Md., June 7, 1864, in Sacramento Union, July 1, 1864.
14. “Castine,” Washington, June 10, 1864, in Sacramento Union, July 4, 1864.
15. Brooks, “Two War-Time Conventions,” The Century Magazine, XLIX, 723, 726 (Mar., 1895).
16. “Castine,” Washington, June 14, 1864, in Sacramento Union, July 12, 1864; N.Y. Tribune, June 18, 1864.
17. “Castine,” Washington, June 14, 1864, Sacramento Union, July 9, 1864.
18. Dennett, ed., Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay, 195. Hay's dates are wrong for this trip.
19. Morse, ed., Diary of Gideon Welles, II, 55; Washington (D.C.) National Intelligencer, June 23, 1864.
20. “Castine,” Washington, June 22, 1864, in Sacramento Union, July 18, 1864.
21. The War of the Rebellion: Official Records, ser. I, vol. XL, July 18, 1864.
22. Accounts dated Point of Rocks, Va., June 22, 23, 1863, in N.Y. Herald, June 25, 1864. The playmate was probably Perry Kelly—a “boy of about Tad's age, whose father was a tinner on Pennsylvania Avenue between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Streets.” William H. Crook, “Lincoln as I Knew Him,” Harper's Magazine, CXIV, 114 (Dec. 1906).
23. Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 284.
24. Washington (D.C.) National Intelligencer, June 25, 1864.
25. Dennett, ed., Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay, 195.
26. Beale, ed., The Diary of Edward Bates 1859–1866, 378.
27. Dennett, ed., Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay, 196.
28. Beale, ed., The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859–1866, 378.
29. Dennett, ed., Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay, 196.
30. Report dated Washington, July 2, 1864, in N.Y. Herald, July 3, 1864.
31. “Castine,” Washington, July 12, 1864, in Sacramento Union, Aug. 10, 1864; Washington, July 14, 1864, in Sacramento Union, Aug. 8, 1864; Washington in Lincoln's Time, 175; Brooks to George Witherle, Washington, July 12, 1864, Hatch Coll.
32. Dennett, ed., Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay, 208–210.
33. “Castine,” Washington, Aug. 1, 1864, in Sacramento Union, Aug. 29, 1864.
34. Signed memorandum, Washington, Aug. 23, 1864, in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, VII, 514.
35. Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 679 (Mar., 1878).
36. “Castine,” Washington, Oct. 19, 1864, in Sacramento Union, Nov. 25, 1864.
37. “Castine,” Chicago, Aug. 29, 1864, in Sacramento Union, Oct. 11, 1864.
38. Brooks to John G. Nicolay, Chicago, Aug. 29, 1864, in Robert Todd Lincoln Collection of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln, Nos. 35638–39, Lib. of Congress (hereafter cited as R. T. L. Coll.).
39. Brooks to John G. Nicolay, Dixon, Ill., Sept. 2, 1864, R. T. L. Coll., Nos. 35828–30.
40. Brooks, “Lincoln Reminiscences,” The Magazine of History, IX, 107–108 (Feb., 1909).
41. “Castine,” Decatur, Ill., Sept. 15, 1864, in Sacramento Union, Oct. 24, 1864.
42. “Castine,” Burlington, Ia., Sept. 30, 1864, in Sacramento Union, Nov. 1, 864.
43. “Castine,” Chicago, Oct. 12, 1864, in Sacramento Union, Nov. 6, 1864.
44. “Castine,” Washington, Oct. 19, 1864, in Sacremento Union, Nov. 25, 1864.
45. Report dated Washington, Oct. 28, 1864, in N.Y. Herald, Oct. 29, 1864.
46. “Castine,” Washington, Nov. 2, 1864, in Sacramento Union, Dec. 2, 1864. This speech is not printed in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Maryland's constitution was put into effect on Nov. 1. Washington Morning Chronicle, Nov. 1, 2, 1864.
47. Report dated Washington, Feb. 20, 1864, in N.Y. Herald, Feb. 21, 1864.
48. Dennett, ed., Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay, 232–233.
49. “Castine,” Washington, Nov. 11, 1864, in Sacramento Union, Dec. 10, 1864.
50. “Castine,” Washington, May 17, 1865, in Sacramento Union, June 14, 1865.
51. Dennett, ed., Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay, 233.
52. Brooks, “Lincoln's Reelection,” The Century Magazine, XLIX, 865 (Apr., 1895).
53. “Castine,” Washington, Nov. 11, 1864, in Sacramento Union, Dec. 10, 1864; Morse, ed., Diary of Gideon Welles, II, 178.
54. Brooks, Abraham Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery, 404–405.
55. Brooks, “Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXXI, 228–229 (July, 1865).
56. Undated letter together with two tables of election statistics all in Brooks's hand, in R.T.L. Coll., Nos. 38882–85.
57. “Castine,” Washington, Nov. 11, 1864, in Sacramento Union, Dec. 10, 1864.
58. Dennett, ed., Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay, 239.
59. Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 147; “Castine,” City Point, Va., Nov. 16, 1864, in Sacramento Union, Dec. 23, 1864; Brooks's diary, Hatch Coll.
60. “Castine,” Bermuda Hundred, Va., No.v 18, 1864, in Sacramento Union, Dec. 23, 1864.
61. Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 678–679 (Mar., 1878).
62. Beale, ed., The Diary of Edward Bates 1859–1866, 428.
63. Morse, ed., Diary of Gideon Welles, II, 192.
64. Report dated Washington, Dec. 6, 1864, in N.Y. Herald, Dec. 10, 1864.
65. Original document is in the Maine Hist. Soc; a facsimile is published in Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 568 (Feb., 1878) and the history of its composition is found on p. 566. Brooks included this item in his newsletter dated Washington, Dec. 5, 1864, and it duly appeared in the Sacramento Union, on Jan. 7, 1865. The Washington (D.C.) Daily Morning Chronicle published it on Wed., Dec. 7, 1864. It is published in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, VIII, 155, but the date assigned to it is Dec. 6. It was definitely written before this time, probably on Dec. 4 or 5. John G. Nicolay and John Hay in their Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln (N.Y., 1905), X, 279–280 give the date as Dec. 3, but this was a Saturday and in the same week as Dec. 1. Lincoln wrote “On thursday of last week.” Lincoln's own statement rules out Dec. 3.
66. Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 566 (Feb., 1878).
67. “Castine,” Washington, Dec. 7, 1864, in Sacramento Union, Jan. 11, 1865.
68. Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 565–566 (Feb., 1878). The paragraph about Sherman is quoted from The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, VIII, 148.
69. “Castine,” Washington, Dec. 7, 1864, in Sacramento Union, Jan. 11, 1865.
70. Brooks to George Witherle, Washington, Dec. 10, 1864, Hatch Coll.
71. “Castine,” Washington, Dec. 9, 1864, in Sacramento Union, Jan. 11, 1865.
Chapter VII. “The Close of Lincoln's Career”
1. On July 12, 1864, when Brooks wrote to George Witherle, he was still living in Georgetown. Later, in the front of a little journal, he wrote: “Noah Brooks. No 460 N.Y. Ave Washington, D.C.” and the first entry is Nov. 15, 1864. Hatch Coll.
2. Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 25; Boyd's Washington and Georgetown Directory, 1858, p. 122; rejoinder of Brooks in The Century Magazine, XLIX, 793 (Mar., 1895).
3. Charles Eames to Charles Sumner, Washington, Sept. 28, 1851, Sumner Papers, Box 17, No. 27, Harvard Lib.; Edward L. Pierce, ed., Memoirs and Letters of Charles Sumner (London, 1893), III, 259.
4. Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 25.
5. James Henry Hackett, Notes and Comments upon Certain Plays and Actors of Shakespeare, with Criticisms and Correspondence (N.Y., 1863).
6. Lincoln to James H. Hackett, Washington, Aug. 17, 1863, in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, VI, 392–393.
7. Lincoln to James H. Hackett, Washington, Nov. 2, 1863, in ibid., VI, 558–559.
8. Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 287–288; “Castine,” Washington, Jan. 10, 1865, in Sacramento Union, Feb. 22, 1865.
9. “Castine,” Washington, Jan. 21, 1865, in Sacramento Union, Feb. 20, 1865.
10. Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 304–305.
11. See Wayne C. Temple, “Lincoln the Lecturer” in the Lincoln Herald, CII, No. 3, 94–110 (Fall, 1999) and ibid., [CII], No. 4, 146–163 (Winter, 1999).
12. Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 305–306.
13. “Castine,” Washington, Feb. 22, 1865, in Sacramento Union, Mar. 22, 1865.
14. Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 33–34.
15. Brooks, Men of Achievement: Statesmen (N.Y., 1893), 226–227; Marquis Adolpe de Chambrun, Impressions of Lincoln and the Civil War (N.Y., 1952), 19.
16. Beale, ed., The Diary of Edward Bates 1859–1866, 455.
17. “Castine,” Washington, Mar. 12, 1865, in Sacramento Union, Apr. 10, 1865; Morse, ed., Diary of Gideon Welles, II, 251.
18. Brooks, “Lincoln's Reelection,” The Century Magazine, XLIX, 871 (Apr., 1895).
19. Morse, ed., Diary of Gideon Welles, II, 252.
20. N.Y. Herald, Mar. 5, 6, 1865.
21. “Castine,” Washington, Mar. 2, 1865, in Sacramento Union, Apr. 10, 1865; Morse, ed., Diary of Gideon Welles, II, 252.
22. Washington, National Intelligencer, Mar. 3, 1865.
23. “Castine,” Washington, Mar. 12, 1865, in Sacramento Union, Apr. 10, 1865.
24. Washington National Intelligencer, Mar. 7, 1865; N.Y. Times, Mar. 7, 8, 1865.
25. Morse, ed., Diary of Gideon Welles, II, 253–254.
26. N.Y. Tribune, Mar. 13, 1865; N.Y. Herald, Mar. 13, 1865; Washington National Intelligencer, Mar. 14, 1865.
27. N.Y. Tribune, Mar. 27, 1865.
28. Helen Nicolay, Lincoln's Secretary: A Biography of John G. Nicolay, (N.Y., 1949), 223.
29. Charles H. Philbrick to O. M. Hatch, Washington, Dec. 30, 1864, Ill. State Hist. Lib.
30. Dennett, ed., Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay, 40, 41, 52, 105, 247.
31. A. K. McClure, “Lincoln and Hamlin,” Philadelphia Times, July 9, 1891.
32. Brooks to George Witherle, Washington, Dec. 10, 1865, Hatch Coll.
33. “Castine,” San Francisco, July 31, 1865, in Sacramento Union, Aug. 2, 1865.
34. Brooks to Rev. Isaac P. Langworthy, Washington, May 10, 1865, pub. as The Character and Religion of President Lincoln, 9–10; Official Register, 1863, p. 14.
35. “Castine,” San Francisco, July 31, 1865, in Sacramento Union, Aug. 2, 1865.
36. A. G. Henry to his wife, San Francisco, Jan. 2, 1865, Henry Papers, Ill. State Hist. Lib.
37. N.Y. Times, Jan. 28, 1865.
38. A. G. Henry to his wife, Washington, Feb. 8, 1865, Henry Papers, Ill. State Hist. Lib.
39. A. G. Henry to his wife, Washington, Mar. 13, 1865, Henry Papers, Ill. State Hist. Lib.
40. Dennett, ed., Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay, 247–248.
41. A. G. Henry to his wife, Washington, Mar. 13, 1865, Henry Papers, Ill. State Hist. Lib.
42. “Castine,” Washington, Mar. 22, 1865, in Sacramento Union, Apr. 19, 1865. Nicolay formally resigned his position as private secretary to Pres. Johnson on Apr. 20, 1865. Andrew Johnson Papers, Lib. of Congress. Nicolay, his bride, and Hay sailed on the City of London for Liverpool on June 24, 1865. N.Y. Tribune, June 26, 1865.
43. Morse, ed., Diary of Gideon Welles, II, 257.
44. “Castine,” Washington, Mar. 22, 1865, in Sacramento Union, Apr. 19, 1865.
45. Report dated Washington, Mar. 23, 1865, in N.Y. Herald, Mar. 24, 1865.
46. Brooks to Edward McPherson, Washington, Apr. 5, 1865, McPherson Papers, Lib. of Congress; “Castine,” Washington, Apr. 1, 1865, in Sacramento Union, May 8, 1865.
47. George R. Agassiz, ed., Meade's Headquarters 1863–1865: Letters of Colonel Theodore Lyman from the Wilderness to Appomattox (Boston, 1922), 324–325.
48. John L. Cunningham, Three Years with the Adirondack Regiment (Norwood, Mass., 1920), 166.
49. Mary Lincoln to Francis B. Carpenter, Chicago, Nov. 15, [1865], in Carl Sandburg and Paul M. Angle, Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow (N.Y., 1932), 242.
50. “Castine,” Fortress Monroe, Mar. 27, 1865, in Sacramento Union, May 1, 1865.
51. “Castine,” Washington, Apr. 1, 1865, in Sacramento Union, May 8, 1865.
52. Brooks to Edward McPherson, Washington, Apr. 5, 1865, in McPherson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
53. Defree's printing is in the R. T. L. Coll., Nos. 34277–80; Morse, ed., Diary of Gideon Welles, II, 99, 271–272. The passage which Lincoln objected to was this: “And thereupon I venture to remind you that our bleeding, bankrupt, almost dying country also longs for peace—shudders at the prospect of fresh conscriptions, of further wholesale devastations, and of new rivers of human blood.” Greeley to Lincoln, N.Y., July 7, 1864, R. T. L Coll., Nos. 34316–18.
54. Brooks to Edward McPherson, Washington, Apr. 5, 1865, McPherson Papers, Lib. of Congress. From this letter it is known that McPherson made his request to Brooks on April 1.
55. Washington National Intelligencer, Apr. 10, 1865.
56. Morse, ed., Diary of Gideon Welles, II, 278.
57. Brooks to Edward McPherson, Washington, Apr. 12, 1865, McPherson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
58. This was the flag which Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth had pulled down at Alexandria, Virginia, only to be shot by the enraged proprietor of the hotel. The flag was presented to Mrs. Lincoln who kept it in a bureau drawer. Tad time and again sneaked it out for such display. Julia Taft Bayne, Tad Lincoln's Father (Boston, 1931), 39–40.
59. “Castine,” Washington, Apr. 12, 1865, in Sacramento Union, May 8, 1865.
60. Brooks to E. E. Hale, San Francisco, Nov. 29, 1865, copy enclosed with letter to Edward McPherson, San Francisco, Feb. 20, 1866, McPherson Papers, Lib. of Congress. Brooks quoted Lincoln's words from his journal, which has not been found.
61. Brooks, “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 567 (Feb., 1878).
62. Brooks, “A Boy in the White House,” St. Nicholas, X, 63 (Nov., 1882).
63. Brooks, Abraham Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery, 452.
64. Brooks, “Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 885 (Apr., 1878); The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, VIII, 404.
65. “Castine,” Washington, Apr. 12, 1865, in Sacramento Union, May 8, 1865.
66. Chambrun, Impressions of Lincoln and the Civil War, 92.
67. Brooks, Abraham Lincoln and the Downfall of American Slavery, 453–454; “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 567 (Feb., 1878).
68. Chambrun, Impressions of Lincoln and the Civil War, 93.
69. David Homer Bates, Lincoln in the Telegraph Office (N.Y., 1907), 367.
70. Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 257.
71. Report from Washington, Apr. 16, 1865, in Illinois State Journal (Springfield), Apr. 17, 1865.
72. “Castine,” Washington, Apr. 16, 1865, in Sacramento Union, May 17, 1865.
73. “Castine,” Washington, Apr. 14, 1865, in Sacramento Union, May 16, 1865.
74. David Donald, ed., Inside Lincoln's Cabinet: The Civil War Diaries of Salmon P. Chase (N.Y., 1954), 267.
75. Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 258–260.
76. “Castine,” Washington, Apr. 16, 1865, in Sacramento Union, May 17, 1865.
77. “Castine,” Washington, Apr. 20, 1865, in Sacramento Union, May 19, 1865.
78. Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 266.
79. “Castine,” Washington, Apr. 20, 1865, in Sacramento Union, May 19, 1865.
Chapter VIII. Naval Officer and Newspaper Editor
1. Brooks to Rev. Isaac P. Langworthy, Washington, May 10, 1865, pub. as The Character and Religion of President Lincoln, 7.
2. Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 38.
3. Brooks, The Character and Religion of President Lincoln, 9.
4. Brooks to Edward McPherson, Washington, May 19, 1865, McPherson Papers, Lib. of Congress. Brooks's article was published as “Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln,” Harper's New Monthly Magazine, XXXI, 222–230 (July, 1865).
5. “Castine,” San Francisco, July 31, 1865, in Sacramento Union, Aug. 2, 1865.
6. Brooks, The Character and Religion of President Lincoln, 9.
7. N.Y. Herald, Oct. 23, 1864.
8. “Castine,” Washington, Feb. 22, 1865, in Sacramento Union, Mar. 22, 1865.
9. Brooks to Edward McPherson, Washington, Apr. 24, 1865, McPherson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
10. John Conness and William Higby to Andrew Johnson, Washington, May 4, 1865, Treas. Dept. Records, National Archives.
11. Andrew Johnson to Hugh McCulloch, Washington, May 6, 1865, Treas. Dept. Records, National Archives.
12. Brooks to Edward McPherson, Washington, May 5, 1865, McPherson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
13. “Castine,” Washington, May 8, 1865, in Sacramento Union, June 2, 1865.
14. Brooks, The Character and Religion of President Lincoln, 11.
15. “Castine,” Washington, May 12, 1865, in Sacramento Union, June 8, 1865.
16. Brooks to Edward McPherson, Washington, May 19, 1865, McPherson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
17. Brooks to George Witherle, San Francisco, Sept. 20, 1866, Hatch Coll.
18. Official Register, 1865, pp. 119, 117.
19. Report from Washington, June 10, 1865, in N.Y. Herald, June 11, 1865.
20. J. W. S., N.Y., June 14, 1865, in San Francisco Evening Bulletin, July 12, 1865.
21. “Castine,” Washington, May 22, 1865, in Sacramento Union, June 19, 1865.
22. Brooks to Edward McPherson, Washington, May 5, 1865, McPherson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
23. Brooks to Edward McPherson, Washington, May 19, 1865, McPherson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
24. Annual Register of the U. S. Naval Academy, 1865–66 (Washington, 1866), 3.
25. “Castine,” Newport, R. I., June 8, 1865, in Sacramento Union, July 8, 1865. The Naval Academy was scheduled for return to Annapolis in Sept. 1865. N.Y. Times, June 6, 1865. The apprentices chosen for advancement to midshipmen were A. B. Fowler, W. F. Wood, Henry Monahan, Wm. P. Day, and Chas. Storms. N.Y. Times, July 10, 1865.
26. “Castine,” Gettysburg, Pa., June 14, 1865, in Sacramento Union, July 14, 1865.
27. A. G. Henry to his wife, Washington, Apr. 19, 1865, copy in Lib. of Congress.
28. “Castine,” Washington, June 28, 1865, in Sacramento Union, July 27, 1865.
29. San Francisco Alta California, July 26, 1865; N.Y. Times, Aug. 26, 1865.
30. Official Register, 1865, p. 14.
31. Brooks to Mrs. A. G. Henry, San Francisco, Aug. 13, 1865, Henry Papers, Ill. State Hist. Lib.
32. Mary Lincoln to A. G. Henry, Chicago, July 17, 1865, in Sandburg and Angle, Mary Lincoln: Wife and Widow, 234. Original letter owned by Justin G. Turner, Hollywood, Cal.
33. N.Y. Times, July 2, 1865; N.Y. Herald, June 30, 1865.
34. K. C. B., “Letters from the Sea,” July 20, 1865, in Sacramento Union, July 27, 1865; Brooks to Mrs. A. G. Henry, San Francisco, Aug. 13, 1865, Henry Papers, Ill. State Hist. Lib.
35. K. C. B., “Letter from the Sea,” July 20, 1865, in Sacramento Union, July 27, 1865; N.Y. Times, July 25, 26, 1865.
36. San Francisco Alta California, July 26, 1865. The Occidental was owned by Charles and Lewis Leland (who also operated the Metropolitan Hotel in New York) and had been in operation since about Jan. 1, 1863. N.Y. Times, Nov. 11, 1862; N.Y. Herald, Nov. 11, 1862.
37. San Francisco Alta California, July 26, 1865.
38. San Francisco Bulletin, July 26, 1865.
39. Brooks to Edward McPherson, San Francisco, Feb. 20, 1866, McPherson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
40. N.Y. Herald, Nov. 9, 1965.
41. San Francisco Directory (San Francisco, 1866), 95.
42. Register of Officers of the Customs, Treas. Dept. Records, National Archives.
43. Nathan Sargent to Brooks, Washington, July 27, 1865, Hatch Coll.
44. N.Y. Herald, Aug. 26, 1865; Brooks to Mrs. A. G. Henry, San Francisco, Aug. 13, 1865, Henry Papers, Ill. State Hist. Lib.
45. Capt. Thomas Buckley's report, Camp Lincoln, July 31, 1865, pub. in N.Y. Herald, Aug. 26, 1865. Capt. Buckley commanded the Sixth Infantry and was upon the scene of the disaster soon after the steamer sank. In vain he explored the beach for additional survivors. There were 112 passengers listed on the ship's records.
46. San Francisco Directory, 1866, p. 95.
47. Brooks to George Witherle, San Francisco, Sept. 20, 1866, Hatch Coll.
48. “Castine,” Washington, Apr. 20, 1865, in Sacramento Union, May 19, 1865.
49. Mary Lincoln to Brooks, Chicago, Dec. 16, 1865, Hatch Coll. See also Francis Whiting Hatch, “Mary Lincoln Writes to Noah Brooks,” Jour. Ill. State. Hist. Soc., XLVIII, 45–51 (Spring, 1955).
50. N.Y. Times, June 10, 1865.
51. This was House Bill No. 35 and was immediately passed. Congressional Globe, 39th Cong., 1 Sess., pp. 59, 71, 172.
52. Brooks to Edward McPherson, San Francisco, Feb. 20, 1866, McPherson Papers, Lib. of Congress. John Hay wrote that the Jay Cooke fund “was never given to Mrs. L., but on the scandals of her last days at the White House becoming known was quietly restored to the donors, most of whom were Quakers.” Dennett, ed., Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay, 274.
53. Lincoln had wished to name Lyon consul to Havana in 1863, but he was not appointed. On February 2, 1864, the President appointed him governor of Idaho Territory and he was confirmed on Feb. 26. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, VI, 195; VII, 1866.
54. Mary Lincoln to Brooks, Chicago, May 11, 1866, and stock certificates in Hatch Coll.; Mary Lincoln to A. G. Henry, Chicago, July 17, 1865, Justin G. Turner Coll., Hollywood, Cal.
55. Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 123.
56. San Francisco Alta California, Nov. 2, 1867. In his account of this stock, Brooks confused the number of shares in each company.
57. Jour. of Executive Proceedings of the Senate, 38th Cong., 2 Sess., vol. XIV, pt. 1, pp. 498, 506.
58. Ibid., vol. XIV, pt. 2, pp. 558, 561.
59. Treas. Dept. Records, National Archives.
60. Brooks to Nathan Sargent, San Francisco, Apr. 5, 186, Treas. Dept. Records, National Archives.
61. Brooks to Nathan Sargent, San Francisco, June 1, 1866, Treas. Dept. Records, National Archives.
62. Brooks to Edward McPherson, San Francisco, Feb. 20, 1866, McPherson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
63. Treas. Dept. Records, National Archives.
64. Dated Washington, Aug. 21, 1866, in N.Y. Herald, Aug. 22, 1866.
65. Brooks to George Witherle, San Francisco, Sept. 20, 1866, Hatch Coll.
66. San Francisco Call, Aug. 25, 1866.
67. Marysville Appeal, Aug. 25, 1866.
68. Brooks to Edward McPherson, San Francisco, Feb. 20, 1866, McPherson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
69. J. W. S., N.Y., Aug. 23, 1866, in San Francisco Evening Bulletin, Sept. 17, 1866; Cornelius Cole to his wife, Washington, Aug. 6, 1866, Cole Papers, U.C.L.A. Lib.
70. Memoirs of Cornelius Cole (N.Y., 1903), 248–249.
71. “Castine,” Washington, Apr. 28, 1865, in Sacramento Union, May 25, 1865.
72. Brooks to Edward McPherson, San Francisco, Jan. 9, 186[6], McPherson Papers, Lib. of Congress; J. W. Simonton to Cornelius Cole, N.Y., Dec. 24, 1866, Cole Papers, U.C.L.A. Lib.
73. Report from Los Angeles, Aug. 17, 1903, in N.Y. Herald, Aug. 18, 1903.
74. “Castine,” Washington, Mar. 12, 1865, in Sacramento Union, Apr. 10, 1865.
75. “Castine,” Washington, Apr. 24, 1865, in Sacramento Union, May 20, 1865.
76. Report from Washington, Feb. 1, 1867, in N.Y. Herald, Feb. 2, 1867.
77. Jour. of Executive Proceedings of the Senate, 39th Cong., 2 Sess., vol. XV, pt. 1, pp. 182, 281.
78. Ibid., vol. XV, pt. 1, pp. 282, 332.
79. Report from San Francisco, Mar. 9, 1867, in N.Y. Tribune, Mar. 11, 1867.
80. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft (San Francisco, 1890), XXXVIII, 598.
81. Brooks to George Witherle, San Francisco, Sept. 20, 1866; N.Y., Mar. 13, [1867], Hatch Coll.
82. Sacramento Daily Bee, Oct. 23, 1866; Marysville Appeal, Oct. 2, 1866.
83. “Cosmopolitan,” San Francisco, Oct. 26, 1866, in Marysville Appeal, Oct. 28, 1866.
84. Henry G. Langley, ed., The Pacific Coast Business Directory for 1867 (San Francisco, 1867), 420; San Francisco Directory, 1867, p. 105; Brooks to George Witherle, San Francisco, Sept. 20, 1866, Hatch Coll.
85. Marysville Appeal, Sept. 7, 1866.
86. Brooks, The Transition (San Francisco, 1866), 14 pp.
87. Anna Lee Marston, ed., Records of a California Family: Journals and Letters of Lewis C. Gunn and Elizabeth Le Brenton Gunn (San Diego, 1928), 265.
88. Henry George, Jr., The Life of Henry George (N.Y., 1930_, 173–176. This book was first published in 1900 and Brooks supplied information for it.
89. Marysville Appeal, Nov. 8, 1866.
90. San Francisco Times, Nov. 15, 1866.
91. San Francisco Bulletin, Nov. 24, 1866. On this date, McClatchy was called “late editor of the Times.”
92. Brooks, “Henry George in California,” The Century Magazine, LVII, 549–552 (Feb., 1899).
93. N.Y. Tribune, Nov. 6, 1866.
94. Victor Rosewater, History of Cooperative News-Gathering in the United States (N.Y., 1930), 118–120, 147.
95. Brooks to George Witherle, N.Y., Mar. 13, [1867], Hatch Coll.
96. Rosewater, History of Cooperative News-Gathering in the United States, 147.
97. Brooks to George Witherle, N.Y., Mar. 13, [1867], Hatch Coll.
98. Brooks to Edward McPherson, N.Y., Apr. 1, 1867, McPherson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
99. Brooks to George Witherle, Boston, Apr. 6, 1867, Hatch Coll.
100. N.Y. Tribune, Apr. 12, 1867.
101. Brooks's statement in George, The Life of Henry George, 175–176.
102. Brooks, “Henry George in California,” The Century Magazine, LVII, 550 (Feb., 1899).
103. Ibid., LVII, 551–552 (Feb., 1899).
104. Brooks to George Witherle, N.Y., May 15, 1872, Hatch Coll.; Anon., “The Author of ‘The Boy Emigrants,’” St. Nicholas, III, 525 (June, 1876).
105. Langley, ed., The Pacific Coast Business Directory for 1867, 420; San Francisco Directory for 1868, 111.
106. N.Y. Herald, Oct. 23, 1882.
107. John S. Hittell, A History of the City of San Francisco (San Francisco, 1878), 441–442.
108. San Francisco Alta California, June 19, 1869.
109. San Francisco Call, Apr. 10, 1897; Brooks to ed. of Overland Monthly, June 27, 1902, in Overland Monthly, XL, 225 (Sept., 1902).
110. Brooks, “Bret Harte in California,” The Century Magazine, LVIII, 447 (July, 1899).
111. Brooks, “Mark Twain in California,” The Century Magazine, LVII, 98 (Nov., 1899).
112. Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography (N.Y., 1912), I, 304–341.
113. Paine, ed., Mark Twain's Autobiography (N.Y., 1924), I, 243.
114. Samuel L. Clemens to Will Bowen, N.Y., June 7, 1867, in Theodore Hornberger, ed., Mark Twain's Letters to Will Bowen (Austin, 1941,) 15–16.
115. Brooks, “Mark Twain in California,” The Century Magazine, LVII, 98 (Nov., 1898).
116. Brooks to ed. of Overland Monthly, June 2, 1902, in Overland Monthly, XL, 225 (Sept., 1902).
117. Paine, ed., Mark Twain's Autobiography, I, 245.
118. Brooks, “Mark Twain in California,” The Century Magazine, LVII, 98 (Nov., 1898).
119. Paine, ed., Mark Twain's Autobiography, I, 244; Samuel L. Clemens to his mother, N.Y., Mar. 10, [1868], in Dixon Wecter, ed., Mark Twain to Mrs. Fairbanks (San Marino, 1949), 23.
120. Brooks, “Mark Twain in California,” The Century Magazine, LVII, 99 (Nov., 1898).
121. Samuel L. Clemens to his mother, San Francisco, May 5, [1868], in Wecter, ed., Mark Twain to Mrs. Fairbanks, 26.
122. Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad (Hartford, 1869); Paine, ed., Mark Twain's Autobiography, I, 245.
123. William Dean Howells, My Mark Twain: Reminiscences and Criticisms (N.Y., 1910), 36.
124. Brooks, “American Humorous Literature,” MS. in Wright Coll.
125. Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography, IV, 1614–1615.
126. John P. Young, Journalism in California (San Francisco, 1915), 73.
127. Langley, ed., San Francisco Directory for 1869, 118.
128. Anon., “The Author of ‘The Boy Emigrants,’” St. Nicholas, III, 525 (June, 1876); Upham Genealogy and Family History of the Uphams, 49, 51.
129. Brooks to George Witherle, San Francisco, Sept. 20, 1866, Hatch Coll.
130. “Record Book of Directors, Jan. 12, 1865 to June 10, 1875,” 199, Y.M.C.A records of San Francisco; Mrs. B. R. Orth to the author, San Francisco, Oct. 19, 1950.
131. Certificate of Brooks's membership dated May 4, 1871, and issued to Brooks prior to his departure from California. Hatch Coll.
132. San Francisco Call, Apr. 10, 1897; Robert H. Fletcher, ed., The Annals of the Bohemian Club from Its Beginning, 1872–87 (San Francisco, 1898), 2 vols.
133. Brooks, “Bret Harte,” Scribner's Monthly, VI, 158 (June, 1873).
134. Brooks, “Harte's Early Days,” N.Y. Times Magazine, May 24, 1902, p. 350.
135. Henry J. W. Dam, “A Morning with Bret Harte,” McClure's Magazine, IV, 47 (Dec., 1894); Brooks, “Harte's Early Days,” N.Y. Times Magazine, May 24, 1902, p. 350.
136. Brooks to eds. of The Critic, Newark, N.J., Aug. 20, 1892, in The Critic, XXI, 124 (Sept. 3, 1892).
137. “Castine,” near Boonsboro, Md., July 12, 1863, in Sacramento Union, Aug. 10, 1863.
138. Anton Roman, “The Genesis of the Overland Monthly,” Overland Monthly, XL, 220–221 (Sept., 1902), “The Beginnings of the Overland,” ibid., XXXII, 73–74 (July, 1898); W. C. Bartlett, “Overland Reminiscences,” ibid., XXXII 41 (July, 1898); Charles Warren Stoddard, Exits and Entrances: A Book of Essays and Sketches (Boston, 1903), 245–246; Brooks, “Bret Harte: A Biographical and Critical Sketch,” Overland Monthly, XL, 202 (Sept., 1902).
139. Bret Harte to Charles Warren Stoddard, San Francisco, Mar. 22, 186[8], in Geoffrey Bret Harte, ed., The Letters of Bret Harte (Boston, 1926), 4–5.
140. Brooks, “Bret Harte in California,” The Century Magazine, LVIII, 449 (July, 1899).
141. Brooks, “Mark Twain in California,” The Century Magazine, LVII, 99 (Nov., 1898).
142. Brooks, “Bret Harte in California,” The Century Magazine, LVIII, 449 (July, 1899).
143. Brooks, “Bret Harte: A Study and an Appreciation,” The Book Buyer, XXIV, 360 (June, 1902).
144. George R. Stewart, Jr., Bret Harte: Argonaut and Exile (Boston, 1931), 156–157.
145. Brooks, “Harte's Early Days,” N.Y. Times Magazine, May 24, 1902, p. 350.
146. Brooks, “Bret Harte: A Biographical and Critical Sketch,” Overland Monthly, XL, 206 (Sept., 1902); “Etc.” in Overland Monthly, IX, 284 (Sept., 1872).
147. Brooks, “Bret Harte in California,” The Century Magazine, LVIII, 447 (July, 1899).
148. Brooks, “Bret Harte: A Biographical and Critical Sketch,” Overland Monthly, XL, 202 (Sept., 1902).
149. Bartlett, “Reminiscences of a Co-Worker,” Overland Monthly, XL, 231 (Sept., 1902).
150. Bret Harte to Fields, Osgood and Co., San Francisco, Apr. 23, 1869, in Harte, ed., The Letters of Bret Harte, 6.
151. Brooks, “Bret Harte in California,” The Century Magazine, LVIII, 449 (July, 1899).
152. Ibid.; Brooks, “Bret Harte: A Biographical and Critical Sketch,” Overland Monthly, XL, 202 (Sept., 1902).
153. Dam, “A Morning with Bret Harte,” McClure's Magazine, IV, 45 (Dec., 1894).
154. Brooks, “Harte's Early Days,” N.Y. Times Magazine, May 24, 1902, p. 350; Brooks, “Bret Harte,” The Book Buyer, VII, 50 (Mar., 1890).
155. Brooks, “American Humorous Literature,” MS. in Wright Coll.
156. “Overland Monthly: Account of Moneys Paid Contributors,” MS. book in Univ. of Cal. Lib., Berkeley, Cal.
157. Brooks, “Early Days of ‘The Overland,’” Overland Monthly, XXXII, 5 (July, 1898).
158. Bartlett, “Overland Reminiscences,” Overland Monthly, XXXII, 42 (July, 1898).
159. Brooks, “Early Days of ‘The Overland,’” Overland Monthly, XXXII, 7 (July, 1898).
160. When Brooks disguised the actual name of a person in his stories, he often substituted the name of one of his close friends. L. Barnard Ayer accompanied him to California and probably lent his name to the actual diamond maker.
161. Overland Monthly, I, 46–55 (July, 1868).
162. This is another instance in which Brooks chooses the name of a friend for one of his characters. He had a good friend in Boston by the name of Charles T. Wilder.
163. Overland Monthly, I, 254–263 (Sept., 1868).
164. Ibid., I, 570–579 (Dec., 1868).
165. (N.Y., 1884), IV, 162–186.
166. Anon., “Noah Brooks,” The Book Buyer, III, 272 (Aug., 1886).
167. The inspiration for Charlie Storrs was probably Brooks's brother-in-law, S. K. Upham, who did go to California in 1849 from Boston.
168. Overland Monthly, II, 57–63 (Jan., 1869).
169. Ibid., II, 186–193 (Feb., 1869).
170. Ibid., VI, cover (Feb., 1871).
171. Roman, “The Genesis of the Overland Monthly,” ibid., XL, 222 (Sept., 1902).
172. Harte, ed., The Letters of Bret Harte, 7.
173. Ella Sterling Cummins, The Story of the Files: A Review of Californian Writers and Literature (San Francisco, 1893), 145.
174. Overland Monthly, III, 30–37 (July, 1869).
175. “Old Lamps for New?” Overland Monthly, III, 559–566 (Dec., 1869).
176. “The Career of an American Princess,” Overland Monthly, V, 41–469 (Nov., 1870).
177. San Francisco Alta California, Dec. 29, 1870.
178. Brooks, “Harte's Early Days,” N.Y. Times Magazine, May 24, 1902, p. 350.
179. Ibid.; Brooks, “Bret Harte in California,” The Century Magazine, LVIII, 451 (July, 1899); San Francisco Alta California, Feb. 2, 1871.
180. Overland Monthly, VI, 287 (Mar., 1871).
181. San Francisco Alta California, May 10, 1871.
182. Charles S. Greene, “Memories of an Editor,” Overland Monthly, Xl, 264–265 (Sept., 1902).
Chapter IX. Night Editor in New York
1. Frederick Evans, “Noah Brooks,” The Lamp, XXVII, 130 (Sept., 1903).
2. San Francisco Alta California, May 10, 1871; Dixon (Ill.) Telegraph & Herald, May 18, 1871.
3. N.Y. Semi-Weekly Tribune, May 19, 1871.
4. Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 60.
5. Fremont Rider, ed., Rider's New York City and Vicinity (N.Y., 1916), 8, 22.
6. The New York Tribune: A Sketch of Its History (N.Y., 1883), 7.
7. James Parton, The Life of Horace Greeley (Boston, 1872), 368–369; Charles T. Congdon, Reminiscences of a Journalist (Boston, 1880), 270.
8. William H. Rideing, Many Celebrities and a Few Others (Garden City, 1912), 43.
9. Joseph Bucklin Bishop, Notes and Anecdotes of Many Years (N.Y., 1925), 8.
10. Brooks to Thomas N. Rooker, N.Y., n.d., Misc. Papers, N.Y. Pub. Lib. A stone is a flat table where type is composed and a turtle is a curved plate which holds the type in a cylinder press.
11. Rideing, Many Celebrities and a Few Others, 44.
12. Parton, The Life of Horace Greeley, 361, 373, 376.
13. Brooks, “Horace Greeley,” The Youth's Companion, LXXV, 400 (Aug. 15, 1901).
14. Brooks to George Witherle, N.Y., May 15, 1872, Hatch Coll.
15. Evans, “Noah Brooks,” The Lamp, XXVII, 131 (Sept., 1903).
16. Brooks to George Witherle, N.Y., May 15, 1872, Hatch Coll.; Brooks's salary checks, Misc. Papers, N.Y. Pub. Lib.
17. Rideing, Many Celebrities and a Few Others, 48–49.
18. Brooks, “Harte's Early Days,” N.Y. Times Magazine, May 24, 1902, 350.
19. Henry Holt, Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor (Boston, 1923), 135.
20. William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay (Boston, 1915), I, 334.
21. Harper's Weekly, XV, 877 (Sept. 16, 1871).
22. Brander Matthews, These Many Years: Recollections of a New Yorker (N.Y., 1917).
23. Brooks, “Horace Greeley,” The Youth's Companion, LXXV, 399 (Aug. 15, 1901).
24. William Winter, Other Days (N.Y., 1908), 170.
25. Octavius Brooks Frothingham, Recollections and Impressions: 1822–1890 (N.Y., 1891), 227.
26. Holt, Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor, 135.
27. Rideing, Many Celebrities and a Few Others, 40.
28. Dennett, ed., Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay, 114, 138, 220.
29. Royal Cortissoz, “‘W.R.’: A Co-Worker's Impressions of William Reid as an Editor and Friend,” N.Y. Herald-Tribune, Apr. 13, 1941.
30. Dennett, ed., Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay, 328.
31. Paine, ed., Mark Twain's Autobiography, I, 233.
32. Rideing, Many Celebrities and a Few Others, 43.
33. Bishop, Notes and Anecdotes of Many Years, 171.
34. Ibid., 53.
35. In December of 1875 Johnson retired from the managing editorship of The Christian Union. N.Y. Tribune, Nov. 15, 1875.
36. N.Y. Tribune, July 5, 1880; Frothingham, George Ripley (Boston, 1882), 203–205.
37. The Writer, II, 127 (May, 1888).
38. Bishop, Notes and Anecdotes of Many Years, 68–71; The Critic, III, 480 (Nov. 24, 1883).
39. The Book Buyer, XIII, 389–390 (Aug., 1896); Winter, Other Days, 169.
40. Laura Stedman and George M. Gould, Life and Letters of Edmund Clarence Stedman (N.Y., 1910), I, 479.
41. Lilian Whiting, Louise Chandler Moulton: Poet and Friend (Boston, 1910), 58, 107; The Bookman, XXVIII, 601–607 (Feb., 1909). Her Tribune articles were signed “L. C. M.”
42. N.Y. Tribune, Apr. 28, 1871, Sept. 18, 1875, May 31, 1896.
43. Bertha Brooks Runkle Bash to author, Palo Alto, Cal., Aug. 22, 1953. Early in 1865, Greeley began his crusade by calling attention to the 173 “slaughter-houses, situated mainly in densely populated parts of the town.” N.Y. Tribune, Jan. 9, 1865.
44. Bertha Brooks Runkle Bash to author, Palo Alto, Cal., Sept. 17, 1953; N.Y. Tribune, Nov. 29, 1875.
45. Brooks to Anna E. Dickinson, N.Y., July 14, 1872, Dec. 7, 1873, Dickinson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
46. Bertha Brooks Runkle Bash to author, Palo Alto, Cal., Aug. 22, 1953.
47. Ibid., Sept. 1, 1853. About 1901 they moved to 328 W. 57th St.
48. The Writer, XIII, 111 (July, 1900); The Book Buyer, XX, 427 (July, 1900).
49. N.Y. Tribune, May 27, 1901. She married Louis H. Bash on Oct. 26, 1904, and also wrote The Truth about Tolna (1906), The Scarlet Rider (1913), Straight Down the Crooked Lane (1915), and The Island (1921).
50. The official list of the Tribune editors is found in A Memorial of Horace Greeley (N.Y., 1873), 160.
51. N.Y. Tribune, Apr. 9, 1897, June 7, 1898; The Literary World, XXVIII, 124 (Apr. 17, 1897).
52. N.Y. Tribune, Feb. 5, 1872.
53. Mrs. L. G. G. Runkle to Anna E. Dickinson, N.Y., Mar. 18, 1872, Dickinson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
54. Brooks to Anna E. Dickinson, N.Y., July 14, 1872, Dickinson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
55. Brooks to Anna E. Dickinson, N.Y., July 28, 1872, Dickinson Papers, Lib. of Congress. Long Branch was a favorite resort spot for New Yorkers, located on the New Jersey coast 32 miles from New York City. The New Jersey Southern R.R. had two ships, the Jesse Hoyt and the Twilight, which carried tourists from New York to their line. The entire trip took 1 hour and 35 minutes. N.Y. Tribune, May 27, 1875.
56. Anna E. Dickinson to Susan Dickinson, N.Y., Nov. 8, 1872; Brooks to Anna E. Dickinson, N.Y., Nov. 18, 1872; Dickinson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
57. Brooks to Anna E. Dickinson, N.Y., Apr. 7, 1873, Dickinson Papers, Lib. of Congress; Chicago Inter-Ocean, Dec. 27, 1873.
58. Brooks to Anna E. Dickinson, N.Y., Aug. 14, Sept. 17, 1872, Dickinson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
59. A Memorial of Horace Greeley, 23.
60. The New York Tribune: A Sketch of Its History, 15.
61. Brooks to Anna E. Dickinson, N.Y., Jan. 15, 1873, Dickinson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
62. Scribner's Monthly, VI, 506–507 (Aug., 1873).
63. N.Y. Tribune, July 27, 1874.
64. Brooks to Anna E. Dickinson, N.Y., July 31, Dec. 7, 1873, Dickinson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
65. Brooks to Anna E. Dickinson, N.Y., Jan. 17, 1874, Dickinson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
66. Stedman and Gould, Life and Letters of Edmund Clarence Stedman, I, 478.
67. N.Y. Times, July 30, 1893; Anon., “The Author of ‘The Boy Emigrants,’” St. Nicholas, III, 525 (June, 1876).
68. Brooks to Anna E. Dickinson, N.Y., July 12 [1874], Dickinson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
69. Brooks to George Witherle, N.Y., Aug. 31, 1879, Hatch Coll.; Brooks to William Winter, N.Y. Aug. 18, 1879, Winter Papers, N.Y. Pub. Lib.
70. Foord resigned to take charge of the Brooklyn Union-Argus, a paper whose stock he inherited. The Literary World, XIV, 98 (Mar. 24, 1883).
71. Meyer Berger, The Story of the New York Times 1851–1951 (N.Y., 1951), 5, 11.
72. N.Y. Tribune, Feb. 3, 1872.
73. The Critic, III, 374 (Sept. 22, 1883).
74. Brooks to William A. Seaver, N.Y., May 15, 1878, Ill. State Hist. Lib.
75. Brooks to Anna E. Dickinson, N.Y., Nov. 18, 1872, Dickinson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
76. Brooks to George Witherle, N.Y., Mar. 10, Oct. 28, 1882, Hatch Coll.; Brooks, “The Biography of Richard,” St. Nicholas, XI, 916 (Oct., 1884).
77. Misc. Papers, N.Y. Pub. Lib.
78. Brooks to Louise Chandler Moulton, N.Y. (July 9, 1874), Moulton Papers, Lib. of Congress. Brooks invited Mrs. Moulton, but it is not known if she accepted.
79. Brooks to Anna E. Dickinson, N.Y., July 12, [1874], Dickinson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
80. N.Y. Herald, July 25, 26, 1874.
81. Brooks to George Witherle, N.Y., May 3, 1883, Hatch Coll.
82. Brooks to Anna E. Dickinson, N.Y., Nov. 9, 1874, Dickinson Papers, Lib. of Congress. For a sketch of Miss Cushman's life, see N.Y. Semi-Weekly Tribune, Feb. 22, 1876.
83. Brooks to Anna. E. Dickinson, N.Y., Nov. 9, 1874, Dickinson Papers, Lib. of Congress; N.Y. Tribune, Nov. 16, 1874.
84. N.Y. Herald, June 16, 1880.
85. Handbill in Misc. Papers, N.Y. Pub. Lib.; N.Y. Tribune, Oct. 30, Nov. 30, 1878.
86. N.Y. Semi-Weekly Tribune, Oct. 1, 1875.
87. Winkelreid Wolfgang Brown [Isaac H. Bromley], “The Horse-Car Poetry: Its True History,” Scribner's Monthly, XI, 910–912 (Apr., 1876).
88. N.Y. Semi-Weekly Tribune, Sept. 28, 1875. It did not appear in the Daily Tribune.
89. The sheet music is reproduced in Scribner's Monthly, XI, 912 (Apr., 1876).
90. N.Y. Tribune, Jan. 10, 1876.
91. Mark Twain, “A Literary Nightmare,” Atlantic Monthly, XXXVII, 167–169 (Feb., 1876).
92. Henry Holt recalled how popular the poem was, but passed it off as the work of either John Hay or Mark Twain. Holt, Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor, 129.
93. “Anecdotes of Noah Brooks, Related by Newark Friends,” Newark (N.J.) Sunday News, Aug. 23, 1903.
94. N.Y. Semi-Weekly Tribune, Nov. 19, 1875.
95. N.Y. Tribune, Dec. 9, 1875.
96. Oswald Garrison Villard, Fighting Years: Memoirs of a Liberal Editor (N.Y., 1939), 107; Richard N. Current, The Typewriter and the Men Who Made It (Urbana, Ill., 1954), 71–73, 115.
97. Brooks to George Witherle, N.Y., Apr. 29, 1879, Hatch Coll.
98. Ibid.; Brooks to William Winter, N.Y., Aug. 18, 1879, Winter Papers, N.Y. Pub. Lib.
99. The Critic, XIV, 286–287 (June 8, 1889); XIV, 300 (June 15, 1889).
100. The Book Buyer, X, 644 (Jan., 1894); The Writer, XI, 93 (June, 1898).
101. N.Y. Tribune, July 8, 1880.
102. Brooks to William Winter, Bar Harbor, Me., Aug. 21, 1880; Brooks to William Winter, N.Y., Sept. 1, 1889, Winter Papers, N.Y. Pub. Lib.
103. The Critic, XXXVIII, 74, 75–76 (Jan., 1901).
104. Jeanette Gilder continued to write for the Boston Transcript under the pen name of “Brunswick.” The Writer, IV, 286 (Dec., 1890).
105. Rosamond Gilder, ed., Letters of Richard Watson Gilder, (Boston, 1916), 106.
106. George W. Cable to his wife, N.Y., Oct. 8, 1882, in Lucy L. C. Bikle, George W. Cable: His Life and Letters (N.Y., 1928), 83.
107. George Parsons Lathrop, “The Literary Movement in New York,” Harper's Magazine, LXXIII, 832 (Nov., 1886).
108. The Literary World, XXIV, 62 (Feb. 25, 1893).
109. The Critic, IV, 113 (Mar. 22, 1884); IV, 169 (Apr. 12, 1884).
110. Memoirs of Henry Villard: Journalist and Financier 1835–1900 (Boston, 1904), I, 339. He wrote for the N.Y. Herald, Cincinnati Commercial and Chicago Tribune.
111. N.Y. Herald, May 20, 1871.
112. Brooks to George Witherle, N.Y., May 3, 1883, Hatch Coll.
113. Brooks to Henry Villard, N.Y.., July 19, 1883, N.Y. Hist. Soc.
114. N.Y. Tribune, Aug. 28, 1883.
115. Ibid., Aug. 30, 1883.
116. Ibid., Sept. 2, 1883; Chicago Tribune, Sept. 1, 1883.
117. Chicago Tribune, Sept. 4, 1883; N.Y. Tribune, Sept. 4, 1883.
118. Illinois State Journal (Springfield), Sept. 3, 1883.
119. Chicago Tribune, Sept. 4, 1883.
120. N.Y. Tribune, Sept. 9, 1883.
121. Ibid., Sept. 6, 1883.
122. Ibid., Sept. 7, 1883.
123. Edward P. Mitchell, Memoirs of an Editor: Fifty Years of American Journalism (N.Y., 1924), 393.
124. N.Y. Tribune, Sept. 9, 1883.
125. Illinois State Journal, Sept. 12, 1883.
126. N.Y. Tribune, Sept. 18, 1883.
127. Ibid., Sept. 28, 1883.
128. Bikle, George W. Cable: His Life and Letters, 121–122.
129. The Critic, IV, 163 (Apr. 5, 1884).
130. Hartford (Conn.) Daily Courant, Apr. 4, 1884.
131. Brooks to Mark Twain, N.Y., Mar. 31, [1884], Mark Twain Papers, Univ. of Cal. Lib., Berkley, Cal.
132. The Critic, IV, 32 (Jan. 19, 1884); Gilder, ed., Letters of Richard Watson Gilder, 112.
133. N.Y. Tribune, Apr. 29, 1885.
134. Ibid., Apr. 30, 1885.
135. The Book Buyer, II, 128 (June, 1885).
136. N.Y. Tribune, Apr. 14, 1891.
137. Brooks to Edmund Clarence Stedman, Newark, N.J., Apr. 14, 1891, Stedman Papers, Columbia Univ. Lib.
138. Brooks to Anna E. Dickinson, N.Y., Mar. 11, 1873, Dickinson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
139. Brooks to Anna E. Dickinson, N.Y., Mar. 20, [1872], Dickinson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
140. Scribner's Monthly, III, 526–537 (Mar., 1872).
141. Anon., “Noah Brooks,” The Book Buyer, III, 271–272 (Aug., 1886).
142. Brooks to Anna E. Dickinson, N.Y., Mar. 20, [1872], Dickinson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
143. “Awakened Japan,” Scribner's Monthly, III, 669–672 (Apr., 1872).
144. “A Fan Study,” ibid., VI, 616–621 (Sept., 1873).
145. “Some Pictures from Japan,” ibid., XI, 177–193 (Dec., 1875).
146. Nautilus Island lies just outside the harbor of Castine. Castine from Photographs by A. H. Folsom and Others (Castine, 1893).
147. Scribner's Monthly, IV, 65–75 (May, 1872).
148. Ibid., XVII, 76–86 (Nov., 1878).
149. Brooks to George Witherle, N.Y., Apr. 29, 1879, Hatch Coll.
150. The Century Magazine, XXIV, 587–597 (Aug., 1882).
151. “Bret Harte,” Scribner's Monthly, VI, 158–161 (June, 1873).
152. Brooks to Anna E. Dickinson, N.Y., May 16, [1873], Dickinson Papers, Lib. of Congress.
153. “Personal Reminiscences of Lincoln,” Scribner's Monthly, XV, 561–569, 673–681 (Feb., Mar., 1878); Lincoln's Imagination,” ibid., XVIII, 584–587 (Aug., 1879).
154. “An Old Town with a History,” The Century Magazine, XXIV, 697–708 (Sept., 1882).
155. “The Baron de St. Castin,” Magazine of American History, IX, 365–374 (May, 1883).
156. Brooks to George Witherle, N.Y., May 3, 1883, Hatch Coll.
157. N.Y. Tribune, Sept. 21, 1875.
158. The Dial, VII, 197 (Dec., 1886).
159. N.Y. Semi-Weekly Tribune, Apr. 13, 1875. The five magazines which St. Nicholas purchased were The Little Corporal, The Schoolday Magazine, The Riverside Magazine, Our Young Folks, and The Children's Hour.
160. The Book Buyer, III, 342 (Oct., 1886); The Literary World, XXI, 443 (Nov. 22, 1890).
161. Thomas W. Lamont, My Boyhood in a Parsonage (N.Y., 1946), 67.
162. St. Nicholas, I, 10–12 (Nov., 1873).
163. “Wrecked at Home,” ibid., I, 264–268, 349–353 (Mar.–Apr., 1874).
164. “A Century Ago,” ibid., IV, 802–805 (Oct., 1877).
165. Ibid., I, 63–64 (Dec., 1873).
166. Ibid., III, 427–429 (May, 1876).
167. “The Author of ‘The Boy Emigrants,’” ibid., III, 524 (June, 1876).
168. Ibid., IV, 292 (Feb., 1877).
169. Ibid., IV, 150 (Dec., 1876).
170. Jan. 12, 1877.
171. Scribner's Monthly, XIII, 424 (Jan., 1877).
172. The Book Buyer, VIII, 435 (Nov., 1891).
173. Royalty reports in the Wright Coll.
174. Brooks to George Witherle, N.Y., Aug. 31, 1879, Hatch Coll.
175. “How the Flag Was Saved,” St. Nicholas, XXIII, 294–295 (Feb., 1896); “A Lesson in Patriotism,” ibid., XIV, 340–341 (Mar., 1887).
176. N.Y. Herald, Oct. 18, 1880.
177. The Literary World, XI, 441 (Dec. 4, 1880).
178. St. Nicholas, II, 162–168 (Jan., 1875).
179. “George the Third,” ibid., IV, 623–626 (July, 1877).
180. “A Noble Life,” ibid., IX, 59–61 (Nov., 1881).
181. “A Famous Sea-Fight,” ibid., IX, 714–716 (July, 1882).
182. “A Boy in the White House,” ibid., X, 57–65 (Nov., 1882).
183. Overland Monthly, IX, 105–114 (Aug., 1872).
184. Dispatch from San Francisco, Sept. 29, in N.Y. Tribune, Sept. 30, 1883.
185. Overland Monthly, I (2nd Ser.) 441–450 (May, 1883).
186. Anon., “Noah Brooks,” The Book Buyer, III, 272 (Aug., 1886).
187. The Californian, IV, 365–374 (Nov., 1881).
Chapter X. A Club Man in New York
1. Francis Gerry Fairfield, The Clubs of New York (N.Y., 1873), 7.
2. “Necase,” N.Y., Oct. 15, 1887, in San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 27, 1887.
3. The Century Association for the Year 1903 (N.Y., 1904), 34–35.
4. John Elderkin, A Brief History of the Lotos Club (N.Y., 1895), 10; C. B. Todd, “New York Clubs,” Lippincott's Magazine, XXXII, 95 (July, 1883).
5. John Brougham and John Elderkin, eds., Lotos Leaves: Original Stories, Essays, and Poems (Boston, 1875), 321 n.
6. The Literary World, VIII, 213 (May, 1878).
7. N.Y. Tribune, Mar. 28, 1880.
8. Todd, “New York Clubs,” Lippincott's Magazine, XXXII, 95 (July, 1883).
9. John Elderkin, Chester S. Lord, and Horatio N. Fraser, eds., Speeches at the Lotos Club (N.Y., 1901), xix, 34.
10. Elderkin, A Brief History of the Lotos Club, 12; Fairfield, The Clubs of New York, 200.
11. Chandos Fulton, “Legends of the Lotos,” N.Y. Dramatic Mirror, Dec. 23, 1893.
12. Fairfield, The Clubs of New York, 234.
13. Clara Erskine Clement and Laurence Hutton, Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works (Boston, 1884), I, 296.
14. Brooks to Roswell Smith, N.Y., Mar. 19, n.y., Illinois State Historical Library.
15. N.Y. Herald, Apr. 25, 1880.
16. Ibid., Dec. 19, 1876; N.Y. Times, Apr. 2, 1879, Mar. 24, 1895; N.Y. Tribune, Dec. 16, 1884.
17. Royal Cortissoz, The Life of Whitelaw Reid, (N.Y., 1921), I, 235–236.
18. Lotos Leaves: Original Stories, Essays, and Poems, 205–220.
19. The Literary World, V, 94 (Nov., 1874).
20. N.Y. Tribune, Mar. 20, 1876.
21. N.Y. Herald, Apr. 19, 1876; N.Y. Semi-Weekly Tribune, Apr. 21, 1876.
22. Printed invitation dated Nov. 22, 1876, Misc. Papers, N.Y. Pub. Lib.
23. N.Y. Herald, Mar. 19, 1877.
24. Elderkin, A Brief History of the Lotos Club, 42, 53; N.Y. Tribune, Jan. 13, 1879; The Works of E. P. Roe: He Fell in Love with His Wife (N.Y., n.d.), 453.
25. Brooks to Mark Twain, N.Y., May 12, 1879, Mark Twain Papers, Univ. of Cal. Lib., Berkeley.
26. This street number was later changed to 149 Fifth Avenue.
27. N.Y. Tribune, May 21, 1877.
28. Todd, “New York Clubs,” Lippincott's Magazine, XXXII, 96–97 (July, 1883). Knox died at his Lotos Club quarters on Jan. 6, 1896. The Dial, XX, 53 (Jan. 16, 1896).
29. Brooks to George Witherle, N.Y. Apr. 29, 1879, Hatch Coll.
30. Brooks, “The Biography of Richard,” St. Nicholas, XI, 912–916 (Oct., 1884).
31. George Parsons Lathrop, “The Literary Movement in New York,” Harper's Magazine, LXXIII, 830 (Nov., 1886).
32. N.Y. Tribune, Nov. 10, 1879.
33. Ibid., Dec. 2, 1878.
34. N.Y. Herald, Apr. 15, 1883.
35. Ibid., Nov. 21, 1880.
36. Dixon Wecter, ed., The Love Letters of Mark Twain (N.Y., 1949), 244, 268.
37. Winter, The Poems of William Winter (N.Y., 1909), 123–124. Winter also wrote a poem for the Lotos Club entitled “Comrades.” N.Y. Tribune, Nov. 10, 1875.
38. N.Y. Tribune, Mar. 28, 1880.
39. Ibid., June 8, 1880.
40. In Brooks's personal photograph album there is a picture of Brougham inscribed “To Noah Brooks from his friend John Brougham,” Hatch Coll.
41. N.Y. Semi-Weekly Tribune, Nov. 9, 1877.
42. The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson (N.Y., 1889), 338–340.
43. Nathaniel H. Belden, known on the stage as N. B. Clarke, was one of the many actors buried there. His funeral was on Apr. 16, 1872. N.Y. Tribune, Apr. 17, 1872.
44. The other pallbearers were Judge John R. Brady, S. L. N. Barlow, Edwin Booth, F. C. Bangs, William Winter, Dr. Charles Phelps, and John W. Carroll. N.Y. Tribune, Apr. 17, 1872.
45. Brooks to William Winter, N.Y., July 19, 1880, Winter Papers, N.Y. Pub. Lib.
46. Brooks to William Winter, Bar Harbor, Me., Aug. 21, 1880, Winter Papers, N.Y. Pub. Lib.
47. Brooks to William Winter, N.Y., Sept. 1, 1880, Winter Papers, N.Y. Pub. Lib.
48. Winter, ed., Life, Stories, and Poems of John Brougham (Boston, 1881), 147–154.
49. The Critic, I (2nd ser.), 6 (Jan. 16, 1881).
50. N.Y. Herald, Mar. 23, 1890.
51. N.Y. Tribune, July 2, 1892; Theodore F. Wolfe, Literary Haunts & Homes: American Authors (Philadelphia, 1899), 84.
52. Handbook of the Lotos Club.
53. Todd, “New York Clubs,” Lippincott's Magazine, XXXII, 91 (July, 1883).
54. The Century Association Reports for 1899 (N.Y., 1900), 123.
55. “The Century Club,” written by a N.Y. correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and reprinted in Illinois State Register (Springfield), July 4, 1884.
56. Todd, “New York Clubs,” Lippincott's Magazine, XXXII, 94 (July, 1883).
57. Raphael Pumpelly, My Reminiscences (N.Y., 1918), II, 582.
58. Max O'Rell, A Frenchman in America: Recollections of Men and Things (N.Y., 1891), 256.
59. George Augustus Sala, America Revisited (London, 1882), I, 41. A “whisky skin” is a slang term for a drink containing whiskey.
60. James Herbert Morse Diary, entry of Apr. 27, 1884. MS. owned by William Gibbons Morse, N.Y.
61. Holt, Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor, 129.
62. Brooks to E. C. Stedman, N.Y., [1896], Columbia Univ. Lib.
63. The Century Association Reports for 1891 (N.Y., 1892), 13; for 1898 (N.Y., 1899), 12; for 1903 (N.Y., 1904), 10.
64. Richard Henry Stoddard willed 1,000 volumes to the club. Fielding H. Garrison, ed., John Shaw Billings: A Memoir (N.Y., 1915), 309.
65. The Century Association Reports for 1903 (N.Y., 1904), 34.
66. James Grant Wilson, The Life and Letters of Fitz-Greene Halleck (N.Y., 1869), 400.
67. N.Y. Tribune, Feb. 24, 1864.
68. Ibid., Mar. 1, 1893.
69. Charles de Kay, “Reminiscences of the Authors Club,” MS. owned by Mrs. Phyllis de Kay Wheelock, N.Y.; N.Y. Tribune, Mar. 1, 1893; George Cary Eggleston, Recollections of a Varied Life (N.Y., 1910), 272–273; Bikle, George W. Cable: His Life and Letters, 86; Gilder, ed., Letters of Richard Watson Gilder, 119–120; The Authors Club (N.Y., 1891), 3–7; Brander Matthews, These Many Years: Recollections of a New Yorker (N.Y., 1917), 220.
70. Eggleston, Recollections of a Varied Life, 272–273; Matthews, These Many Years, 220–221; Stedman and Gould, eds., Life and Letters of Edmund Clarence Stedman, II, 464–465.
71. Rossiter Johnson, “The Authors Club,” The Critic, XXX, 315 (May 8, 1897).
72. The Literary World, XX, 112 (Mar. 30, 1889).
73. Ibid., XX, 129 (Apr. 13, 1889).
74. The Authors Club, 1891, pp. 5, 24; 1892, p. 5; “Minutes of the Executive Council,” I (1888–1895), MS. records of Authors Club, N.Y.
75. The Literary World, XIII, 426–427 (Dec. 2, 1882); The Critic, II, 328–329 (Dec. 2, 1882); The Book Buyer, IX, 110 (Apr., 1892).
76. L. Frank Tooker, The Joys and Tribulations of an Editor (N.Y., 1923), 152.
77. The Literary World, XX, 112 (Mar. 30, 1889).
78. Eggleston, Recollections of a Varied Life, 177.
79. The Literary World, XVII, 65 (Feb. 20, 1886).
80. Todd, “New York Clubs,” Lippincott's Magazine, XXXII, 100 (July, 1883).
81. The Literary World, XXIII, 147 (Apr. 23, 1892); Matthews, These Many Years, 224–225.
82. Matthews, These Many Years, 221; The Critic, IV, 168 (Apr. 12, 1884).
83. Stedman and Gould, eds., Life and Letters of Edmund Clarence Stedman, II, 464; The Literary World, XIX, 347 (Oct. 13, 1888).
84. Eggleston, Recollections of a Varied Life, 279.
85. The Critic, IV, 113 (Mar. 8, 1884); James Herbert Morse Diary, Mar. 2, 1884; N.Y. Tribune, Feb. 29, 1884.
86. James Herbert Morse Diary, Apr. 25, 1884.
87. Ibid., May 31, 1884; The Critic, IV, 275 (June 7, 1884).
88. Lathrop, “The Literary Movement in New York,” Harper's Magazine, LXXIII, 830–831 (Nov., 1886); James Herbert Morse Diary, Mar. 21, 1886; The Literary World, XVI, 448 (Nov. 28, 1885).
89. The Literary World, XVIII, 104 (Apr. 2, 1887); XX, 112–113 (Mar. 30, 1889).
90. Photo of this group, in Harper's Magazine, LXXIII, 812 (Nov., 1886).
91. James Herbert Morse Diary, Sept. 30, 1886.
92. Frederic Harrison, Autobiographic Memoirs (London, 1911), II, 207–209.
93. The Literary World, XXV, 254 (Aug. 11, 1894).
94. Johnson, “The Authors Club,” The Critic, XXX, 315–317 (May 8, 1897).
95. The Dial, XVIII, 221 (Apr. 1, 1895).
96. N.Y. Tribune, Apr. 23, 1886; The Literary World, XVII, 152 (May 1, 1886); James Herbert Morse Diary, Apr. 23, 1886. Roe was an inveterate gardener who lived at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, N.Y. He wrote Play and Profit in My Garden (N.Y., 1886).
97. De Kay, “Reminiscences of the Authors Club,” MS. owned by Mrs. Phyllis de Kay Wheelock, N.Y.
98. The Critic, XVI, 28 (Jan. 18, 1890).
99. Ibid., XVI, 189 (Apr. 12, 1890); The Literary World, XXI, 131 (Apr. 12, 1890).
100. The Literary World, XXIII, 478 (Dec. 17, 1892); The Critic, XXX, 315–317 (May 8, 1897).
101. The Literary World, XXIII, 146 (Apr. 23, 1892).
102. Eggleston, Recollections of a Varied Life, 285.
103. The Literary World, XXIII 132 (Apr. 9, 1892).
104. Ibid., XXIII, 478 (Dec. 17, 1892).
105. The Critic, XXIV, 8 (Jan. 6, 1894).
106. Eggleston, Recollections of a Varied Life, 285–286.
107. Brooks, “The Books of an Old Boy,” Liber Scriptorum (N.Y., 1893), 66–72.
108. N.Y. Tribune, Mar. 1, 1893; The Literary World, XXIV, 72–73 (Mar. 11, 1893); James Herbert Morse Diary, Feb. 28, 1893.
109. James Herbert Morse Diary, Feb. 18, Apr. 13, 1894.
110. The Dial, XVII, 301 (Nov. 16, 1894); The Literary World, XXV, 428 (Dec. 1, 1894); N.Y. Herald, Jan. 27, 1895.
111. The Literary World, XXVI, 447 (Dec. 28, 1895).
112. The Dial, XVI, 120 (Feb. 16, 1894).
113. The Writer, III, 238 (Oct., 1889).
114. The Book Buyer, XIII, 221 (May, 1896).
115. Current Literature, XVIII, 475 (Dec., 1895).
116. Holt, Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor, 113.
117. The Bookman, III, 112 (Apr., 1896).
118. N.Y. Herald, Mar. 26, 1897.
119. The Lamp, XXVI, 408 (June, 1903). Stoddard was a noted poet and after serving as literary editor on such papers as the N.Y. World and N.Y. Evening Express, he accepted a similar position on the N.Y. Evening Mail in 1880. Good Literature (N.Y.), Nov. 27, 1880.
120. N.Y. Tribune, Mar. 4, 1898.
121. James Herbert Morse Diary, Feb. 27, 1898.
122. Ibid., Dec. 24, 1919.
123. Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society (Portland, 1891), II (2nd ser.), 167–168.
124. Records of the New Eng. Soc. in the N.Y. Pub. Lib.
125. Although Brooks went west in 1859, Twain did not go until 1861. Brooks, however, always confused this point and thought that both he and Twain had journeyed westward in the same year. Brooks, “Mark Twain in California,” The Century Magazine, LVII, 97 (Nov., 1898). Perhaps this blunder of Brooks's was the cause of Twain's saying that Brooks was “a good historian where facts were not essential.” Paine, ed., Mark Twain Autobiography, I, 245.
126. Brooks to Mark Twain, N.Y., Apr. 27, 1882, Mark Twain Papers, Univ. of Cal. Lib., Berkeley. This letter is typewritten.
127. N.Y. Tribune, Dec. 23, 1882.
Chapter XI. The Fruitful Years
1. N.Y. Herald, Apr. 28, 1884.
2. The Critic, IV, 215 (May 3, 1884).
3. Ibid., IV, 288 (June 21, 1884).
4. Brooks to George Witherle, N.Y., May 26, 1884, Hatch Coll.
5. “Necase,” N.Y., Oct. 15, 1887, in San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 27, 1887.
6. The Literary World, XV, 447 (Dec. 13, 1884).
7. Brooks to William Winter, Newark, N.J., Jan. 11, 1893, Winter Papers, N.Y. Pub. Lib.
8. The Book Buyer, III, 513 (Dec., 1886).
9. Brooks to George Witherle, N.Y., May 26, 1884, Hatch Coll.
10. “Necase,” N.Y., Oct. 15, 1887, in San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 27, 1887; Lathrop, “The Literary Movement in New York,” Harper's Magazine, LXXIII, 824.
11. N.Y. Social Register for Aug., 1893 (N.Y., 1893), 33.
12. Brooks to George Witherle, Newark, N.J., Mar. 9, 1891, Hatch Coll.
13. Brooks to Edmund Clarence Stedman, Newark, N.J., Mar. 8, 10, 22, 1894, Columbia Univ. Lib.
14. Newark Evening News, Aug. 18, 1903.
15. Club Men of New York 1895–97 (N.Y., 1896), 14, 107. Brooks dropped his membership in the Essex Club and the Essex County Country Club about 1900.
16. Newark Sunday News, Aug. 23, 1903.
17. Bertha Brooks Runkle Bash to author, Palo Alto, Cal., Aug. 22, 1953.
18. Newark Sunday News, Aug. 23, 1903.
19. Brooks to Edmund Clarence Stedman, Newark, N.J., Nov. 14, 1891, Columbia Univ. Lib.
20. Newark Evening News, Aug. 18, 1903.
21. Doane was born at Boston in 1830, the son of a Protestant Episcopal bishop, but in 1855 he became a Roman Catholic. In 1880 he was given the title of Right Reverend Monsignor and was the Vicar General of the Newark Diocese. At times Doane visited with Brooks in Castine. N.Y. Herald, Mar. 29, 1880; Newark Daily Advertiser, Aug. 18, 1903.
22. The Writer, V, 191 (Sept., 1891); Fabyan House, known at the time of this writing as Fabyan-Bretton Woods, is a famous resort in the Presidential Range of mountains.
23. Brooks to George Witherle, Newark, N.J., Mar. 9, 1891, Hatch Coll.
24. Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Hist. Soc. (Portland, 1891), II (2nd ser.), 124.
25. Mitchell, Memoirs of an Editor, 434–437.
26. The Literary World, XVII, 370 (Oct. 30, 1886).
27. “Necase,” N.Y., Oct. 15, 1887, in San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 2, 1887.
28. St. Nicholas, XI, 912–916 (Oct., 1884).
29. Ibid., XIV, 340–341 (Mar., 1887).
30. Ibid., XV, 525–529 (May, 1888).
31. Ibid., XVI, 246–256 (Feb., 1889); The Literary World, XIX, 391–392 (Nov. 10, 1888).
32. St. Nicholas, XVI, 883–886 (Oct., 1889).
33. This story ran in St. Nicholas from Nov. 1890 until June 1891.
34. The Book Buyer, VIII, 291 (Aug., 1891).
35. The Dial, XII, 287 (Dec., 1891).
36. The Book Buyer, VIII, 435 (Nov., 1891).
37. Overland Monthly, VIII (2nd ser.), 337–347 (Oct., 1886).
38. The Critic, V, 98–99 (Aug. 30, 1884); XXI, 124–125 (Sept. 3, 1892).
39. “The Newspaper of the Future,” The Forum, IX, 569–578 (July, 1890).
40. The Book Buyer, VI, 437–458 (Dec., 1889).
41. Ibid., VII, 49–51 (Mar., 1890).
42. Ibid., VII, 511–539 (Dec., 1890).
43. Ibid., IX, 545–573 (Dec., 1892).
44. Ibid., X, 497–531 (Dec., 1893).
45. The Literary World, XVII, 217 (June 26, 1886).
46. Brooks to W. H. Knight, Newark, N.J., Nov. 2, 1886, U.C.L.A. Lib.
47. The Book Buyer, V, 235 (July, 1888); The Literary World, XIX, 199 (June 23, 1888); Magazine of American History, XX, 86 (July, 1888).
48. William E. Barton, Abraham Lincoln and His Books (Chicago, 1920), 74.
49. The Book Buyer, V, 60 (Mar., 1888); The Writer, II, 100 (Apr., 1888).
50. Newark Evening News, Aug. 18, 1903.
51. N.Y. Times, July 30, 1893.
52. The Lamp, XXVII, 131 (Sept., 1903).
53. The Critic, XXIII, 79 (July 29, 1893).
54. The Literary World, XXIV, 255 (Aug. 12, 1893).
55. Brooks to William Winter, Newark, N.J., Oct. 3, 1893, Winter Papers, N.Y. Pub. Lib.
56. The Book Buyer, X, 405 (Nov., 1893).
57. Ibid., XI, 589–623 (Dec., 1894); XIII, 787–828 (Dec., 1896); XVII, 443–481 (Dec., 1898).
58. Ibid., XXIV, 358–362 (June, 1902). It was entitled “Bret Harte: A Study and an Appreciation.”
59. Harper's Weekly, XXXVII, 1147 (Dec. 2, 1893); XXXVIII, 198 (Mar. 3, 1894).
60. Brooks to R.W. Gilder, Newark, N.J., Feb. 3, 1894, Century Coll., N.Y. Pub. Lib.
61. Abraham Lincoln: A History ran serially from Nov. 1886 until Feb. 1890 and then was published in ten volumes.
62. Frank H. Scott to Brooks, N.Y., Feb. 17, 1894, Hatch Coll.
63. Brooks to R.W. Gilder, Newark, N.J., Feb. 28, 1894, Century Coll., N.Y. Pub. Lib.
64. Frank H. Scott to Brooks, N.Y., Mar. 6, 1894, Hatch Coll.
65. Frank H. Scott to Brooks, N.Y., Mar. 8, 1894, Hatch Coll.
66. The Critic, XXIII, 301 (May 5, 1894); The Writer, VII, 78 (May, 1894).
67. Brooks to George Witherle, San Francisco, Sept. 20, 1866; N.Y., May 15, 1872; Newark, N.J., Mar. 9, 1891, Hatch Coll.
68. Annual Report of the Town Officers of Castine, Maine (Ellsworth, 1895), 9; Wheeler, Castine Past and Present (Boston, 1896), 85; Newark Sunday News, Aug. 23, 1903; unidentified newspaper clipping in author's collection entitled “Noah Brooks in His Castine Home.”
69. Noah Brooks Hooper to author, Castine, Me., Oct. 13, 1950, Nov. 26, 1952.
70. Mrs. Thomas A. Hall to author, San Francisco, Apr. 11, 1953.
71. Mary D. Devereux to author, Castine, Me., Sept. 19, 1953; Noah Brooks Harper to author, Castine, Me., Nov. 26, 1952.
72. Brooks to George Witherle, N.Y., Oct. 25, 1880; Newark, N.J., Mar. 9, 1891, Hatch Coll.
73. Annual Report of the Town Officers of Castine, Maine, 1896, 30–32. The Castine Library was established in 1855.
74. Ibid., 1900, 2.
75. These stories are “Pansy Pegg,” “The Apparition of Jo Murch,” “The Phantom Sailor,” “The Waif of Nautilus Island,” “The Hereditary Barn,” “A Century Ago,” and “The Honor of a Family.”
76. The Literary World, XXV, 174 (June 2, 1894); The Dial, XVI, 372 (June 16, 1894).
77. The Literary World, XXV, 231 (July 28, 1894).
78. Ibid., XXVI, 9 (Jan. 12, 1895).
79. Brooks, Washington in Lincoln's Time, 1.
80. “Washington in Lincoln's Time,” The Century Magazine, XLIX, 140–149 (Nov., 1894); “Glimpses of Lincoln in War Time,” ibid., XLIX, 457–467 (Jan., 1895); “Lincoln, Chase, and Grant,” ibid., XLIX, 607–619 (Feb., 1895); “Two War-Time Conventions,” ibid., XLIX, 723–736 (Mar., 1895); “Lincoln's Reelection,” ibid., XLIX, 865–872 (Apr., 1895); “The Close of Lincoln's Career,” ibid., L, 18–27 (May, 1895).
81. Contract of May 14, 1895, in files of Appleton-Century-Crofts, N.Y.
82. The Book Buyer, XII, 678 (Dec., 1895).
83. American Historical Review, I, 377 (Jan., 1896).
84. The Literary Digest, X, 447 (Feb. 9, 1895); X, 717–718 (Apr. 13, 1895).
85. Brooks, “Prohibition Does Not Prohibit,” N.Y. Times, Jan. 14, 1898.
86. The Writer, VII, 163 (Nov., 1894).
87. N.Y. Social Register for Nov., 1894, 43.
88. Theodore F. Wolfe, Literary Haunts & Homes: American Authors (Philadelphia, 1899), 92–94. Davis lived here from about 1892 until 1899. Charles Belmont Davis, ed., Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis (N.Y., 1917), 59.
89. Club Men of New York 1901–2, 136.
90. Newark Daily Advertiser, Aug. 18, 1903; William Webster Ellsworth, A Golden Age of Authors: A Publisher Recollection (Boston, 1919), 58–59.
91. N.Y. Tribune, Dec. 8, 1894; N.Y. Herald, Dec. 8, 1894; The Literary World, XXV, 456 (Dec. 15, 1894).
92. “The Beginnings of American Parties,” Scribner's Magazine, XVII, 48–64 (Jan., 1895); “The Passing of the Whigs,” ibid., XVII, 199–213 (Feb., 1895); and “When Slavery Went Out of Politics,” ibid., XVII, 338–352 (Mar., 1895).
93. It is a small book, containing 205 pages.
94. The Bookman, I, 200 (Apr., 1895).
95. Brooks to George Witherle, Chelsea, Mass., May 13, [1851], Hatch Coll.
96. Edmund Clarence Stedman went to Europe in 1882. The Critic, II, 129 (May 6, 1882). In 1894 William Winter, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells toured Europe. The Writer, VII, 94, 95 (June, 1894); VII, 111 (July, 1894).
97. N.Y. Herald, Jan. 29, 1895; The Critic, XXVI, 114 (Feb. 9, 1895). Brooks's companion cannot be identified from the passenger list.
98. Brooks, “Madeira and the Azores,” N.Y. Times, Feb. 24, 1895.
99. Brooks, “Gibraltar and Algiers,” ibid., Mar. 10, 1895.
100. Brooks, “Superb Genoa and Nice,” ibid., Mar. 24, 1895.
101. Brooks, “Island of the Knights,” ibid., Mar. 17, 1895.
102. Brooks, “Land of the Pharaohs,” ibid., Apr. 7, 1895.
103. Brooks, “The Sphinx's Stony Gaze,” ibid., Apr. 14, 1895.
104. Brooks, “Pilgrims to Jerusalem,” ibid., Apr. 21, 1895.
105. Brooks, “Gem of Athens's Crown,” ibid., Apr. 28, 1895.
106. Brooks, “Christians in Turkey,” ibid., May 5, 1895.
107. Brooks, “Night in Mid-Ramazan,” ibid., May 12, 1895.
108. The Fürst Bismarck sailed from Naples on Mar. 23 and reached New York on Apr. 5. N.Y. Herald, Apr. 6, 1895.
109. Brooks, “Naples, Rome, and Milan,” ibid., June 2, 1895.
110. The Writer, VIII, 27 (Feb., 1895).
111. Edmund Clarence Stedman had also written a guide to Europe after his trip. The Critic, III, 222 (May 12, 1883).
112. Brooks, The Mediterranean Trip: A Short Guide to the Principal Points on the Shores of the Western Mediterranean and the Levant (N.Y., 1895).
113. The Literary World, XXVI, 472 (Dec. 28, 1895); The Book Buyer, XII, 831 (Jan., 1896).
114. Brooks, “The Rector's Hat,” Scribner's Magazine, XVIII, 202–212 (Aug., 1895).
115. It was issued at New York about May of 1895.
116. The Book Buyer, XII, 240–241 (May, 1895). See also The Literary World, 167 (June 1, 1895) and The Cyclopedic Review of Current History, V, 489 (Apr. 1-June 20, 1895).
117. Newark Sunday News, Aug. 23, 1903.
118. Records of the Grafton County Probate Court, Woodsville, N.H. Most of Wilder's fortune was left to Dartmouth College. The Dartmouth, XIX, 10 (1897).
119. The other two books are Short Studies in Party Politics and How the Republic Is Governed.
120. E. L. Burlingame to Brooks, N.Y., July 9, 1895, Wright Coll.
121. Chapt. XVII, p. 435.
122. E. L. Burlingame to Brooks, N.Y., Nov. 19, 1895, Wright Coll.
123. Brooks to Frank R. Dixon, Castine, Me., Feb. 21, 1896, George C. Dixon Coll.; N.Y. Social Register for July, 1896, 34.
124. Brooks, “How the Flag Was Saved,” St. Nicholas, XXIII, 294–295 (Feb., 1896).
125. St. Nicholas, XXIII, 640–647; 739–744; 858–861; 954–959; 998–1003; XXIV, 65–67; 137–139; 242–245; 341–343; 425–429; 509–513 (June, 1896-Apr., 1897).
126. Ser Marco Polo, The Venetian (London, 1871).
127. The Bookman, VIII, 394 (Dec., 1898); The Literary World, XXIX, 375–376 (Nov. 12, 1898).
128. Brooks, “The Coming and Going of Pete,” St. Nicholas, XXXI, 583–586 (May, 1904).
129. Annual Report of the Town Officers of Castine, Maine, 1896, 33–35.
130. The Critic, XXIX, 369 (Dec. 5, 1896).
131. Los Angeles Times, Dec. 14, 1896.
132. Edith Upham Boyers to author, Los Angeles, Aug. 4, 1951.
133. Brooks, “In Southern California,” N.Y. Times, Jan. 31, 1897.
134. San Francisco Call, Apr. 10, 11, 1897.
135. Sarah Brooks Gay was the daughter of Benjamin D. Gay and Phebe Perkins Brooks; she was born on Apr. 16, 1851 and died on Apr. 25, 1911.
136. Noah Brooks Hooper to author, Castine, Me., Oct. 13, 1950.
137. G. H. Putnam to Brooks, N.Y., Dec. 4, 1897, Wright Coll.
138. Brooks, “American Interest in American History,” N.Y. Times Saturday Review of Books and Art, Dec. 11, 1897; “Prohibition Does Not Prohibit,” N.Y. Times, Jan. 14, 1898; “California's Golden Jubilee,” ibid., Jan. 24, 1898; “The Final Estimate of Lincoln,” ibid., Feb. 13, 1898.
139. G.P. Putnam's Sons to Brooks, N.Y., Feb. 12, 1898, Wright Coll.
140. Brooks, Henry Knox: A Soldier of the Revolution (N.Y., 1900), v. In 1910 the Knox Papers were deposited in the Mass. Hist. Soc.
141. Stedman and Gould, Life and Letters of Edmund Clarence Stedman, II, 471; Brooks to Edmund Clarence Stedman, N.Y., Mar. 12, 1898, Columbia Univ. Lib.; Laura Stedman, “Confession of an Album,” The Bookman, XXXVII, 268 (May, 1913).
142. Overland Monthly, XXXII, 3–11 (July, 1898).
143. Brooks to R. W. Gilder, Castine, Me., Aug. 15, 1898, Century Coll., N.Y. Pub. Lib. Brooks meant that he would write articles on Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and Henry George.
144. Brooks to R. W. Gilder, Castine, Me., Aug. 26, 1898, Century Coll., N.Y. Pub. Lib.
145. Brooks to R. W. Gilder, Castine, Me., Aug. 22, 1898, Century Coll., N.Y. Pub. Lib.
146. Brooks, “Mark Twain in California,” The Century Magazine, LVII, 97–99 (Nov., 1898).
147. The Literary World, XXIX, 438 (Dec. 10, 1898).
148. Royalty reports from Charles Scribner's Sons, Hatch Coll.
149. Brooks to Maine Hist. Soc., Castine, Me., Oct. 4, 1898, Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Hist. Soc. (Portland, 1899), X (2nd ser.), 110–111.
150. Brooks to Henry George Jr., National Home for Disabled Soldiers, Cal., Jan. 3, 1899, Henry George Papers, N.Y. Pub. Lib.
151. Brooks, “Henry George in California,” The Century Magazine, LVII, 549–552 (Feb., 1899).
152. Brooks, “Bret Harte in California,” ibid., LVIII, 447–451 (July, 1899).
153. G. H. Putman to Brooks, N.Y., Mar. 15, 1899, Wright Coll.
154. Brooks to R. W. Gilder, N.Y., Apr. 7, [1899], Century Coll. N.Y. Pub. Lib.
155. Brooks to R. U. Johnson, N.Y., [1899], Century Coll., N.Y. Pub. Lib.
156. G. H. Putnam to Brooks, N.Y., July 19, 1899, Wright Coll.
157. G. H. Putnam to Brooks, N.Y., July 20, 1899, Wright Coll.
158. Brooks, Henry Knox, vi.
159. Brooks himself explained this matter in a letter to the Maine Hist. Soc. on Oct. 4, 1898. Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Hist. Soc., X (2nd ser.), 110–111.
160. The Literary World, XXXI, 151 (Aug. 1, 1900); American Historical Review, VI, 367–368 (Jan., 1901).
161. Elbridge S. Brooks to Brooks, Boston, Jan. 2, 1899, Wright Coll.
162. Dana Estes & Co. to Brooks, Boston, Sept. 25, 1899, Wright Coll.
163. This set was published by James T. White & Co. of N.Y. Brooks served from the first issue in 1891 until his death.
164. Charles Eugene Hamlin, The Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin (Cambridge, 1899).
165. Adams, Castine Sixty Years Ago (Boston, 1900), 3.
166. The New-Eng. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., LV, xxxv.
167. Brooks to R. W. Gilder, Castine, Me., Nov. 29, 1900 Century Coll., N.Y. Pub. Lib.
168. Various letters and envelopes in the Wright Coll.
169. History of the Expedition under the Command of Lewis and Clark (N.Y., 1893).
170. The Book Buyer, XXIII, 433–434 (Dec., 1901).
171. Jan. 2, 1902. Brooks received clipping service from The Authors’ Clipping Bureau of Boston and the National Press Intelligence Co. of N.Y. Wright Coll.
172. The Book Buyer, XXI, 535–537 (Jan., 1901).
173. Brooks, “Horace Greeley,” The Youth's Companion, LXXV, 399–400 (Aug. 15, 1901).
174. Brooks, “Mrs. Thankful's Charge,” The Century Magazine, LXII, 563–580 (Aug., 1901).
175. The Book Buyer, XXIII, 437 (Dec., 1901).
176. Lem sold well in both England and the U.S. Royalty reports in Wright Coll.
177. Brooks to R. W. Gilder, Castine, Me., Nov. 19, 1901, Century Coll., N.Y. Pub. Lib.
178. Brooks to R. U. Johnson, Castine, Me., Nov. 30, 1901, Century Coll., N.Y. Pub. Lib.
179. The Century Magazine, LXIII, 803–820 (Apr., 1902).
180. Knickerbocker Pub. Co. to Brooks, N.Y., Feb. 21, 1902, Wright Coll.
181. Knickerbocker Pub. Co. to Brooks, N.Y., Apr. 25, 1902, Wright Coll.
182. “Harte's Early Days,” N.Y. Times Magazine, May 24, 1902, p. 350; “Bret Harte: A Study and an Appreciation,” The Book Buyer, XXIV, 358–362 (June, 1902), a condensation of which appeared as “An Appreciation by an Old Friend” in Booklovers Magazine, II, 30–31 (July, 1903); “Bret Harte: A Biographical and Critical Sketch,” Overland Monthly, XL, 201–207 (Sept., 1902).
183. Francis W. Halsey to Brooks, N.Y., July 25, 1902, Hatch Coll.
184. Francis W. Halsey to Brooks, N.Y., Aug. 12, 1902, Wright Coll.
185. Edith Upham Boyers to author, Los Angeles, Aug. 4, 1941.
186. “Lincoln Reminiscences,” N.Y. Times Saturday Review of Books and Art, Oct. 18, 1902, p. 715. The article is dated Castine, Oct. 10, 1902.
187. Charles Scribner to Brooks, N.Y., Dec. 17, 1902, Wright Coll.
188. Statement of George Hobart Doane, Newark Daily Advertiser, Aug. 18, 1903.
189. Newark Evening News, Aug. 18, 1903.
190. Obituary notices state that he had been in California about eight months before he died.
191. Newark Sunday News, Aug. 23, 1903.
192. “How We Bought the Great West,” Scribner's Magazine, XXXIV, 561–569 (Nov., 1903); “The Coming and Going of Pete,” St. Nicholas, XXXI, 583–586 (May, 1904).
193. Newark Evening News, Aug. 18, 1903.
194. Pasadena Daily News, Aug. 17, 1903; Edith Upham Boyers to author, Los Angeles, Aug. 4, 1951.
195. Death certificates in the Dept. of Health, Pasadena; records of Ives & Warren Co., 100 N. Hill Ave., Pasadena.
196. Pasadena Evening Star, Aug. 17, 1903.
197. Edith Upham Boyers to author, Los Angeles, Aug. 14, 1951.
198. The Writer, XVI, 27 (Feb., 1903).
199. Bangor Daily News, Aug. 27, 1903.
200. C. H. C. Wright to author, Paris, Me., July 27, 1951.
201. Adams, An Address at the Funeral of Noah Brooks, Castine, Maine, August 26, 1903 (Boston, n.d.)
202. Howard Clinton Dickinson, of Essex Fells, N.J., composed a poem to the memory of Brooks and published it in the Newark Sunday News, Aug. 23, 1903. It was reprinted in The Lamp, XXVIII, 117–118 (Mar., 1904).