JULY 2, 1937—THE MORNING HOURS. Earhart’s radio broadcasts: Itasca radio logs; July 1–2, 1937, TIGHAR Collection; Thompson “Radio Transcripts”; Bellarts’s response: Leo G. Bellarts, transcript of interview, April 11, 1973, TIGHAR Collection. Call Letters: Gillespie. The Way It Works: Gillespie.
LITTLE AMELIA. Earhart’s threads: Earhart Fun. Baby Earhart: Amelia Earhart Baby Book, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass.; Morrissey Courage. Life in Atchison: Earhart 20 Hrs. and Fun; Putnam Soaring Wings, Morrissey Courage. School Days: Earhart Fun; Morrissey “Reminiscences”; Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. Amelia Earhart, Poet: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. Life in Kansas City: Morrissey Courage; Morrissey and Osborne. Bloomers!: Earhart Fun. What a Ride!: Lovell. Changes: Earhart Fun.
JULY 2, 1937—THE DAY WEARS ON. Commander Thompson’s decision: Thompson “Radio Transcripts” and “Cruise Report”; Gillespie; Bellarts interview. Morse Code: Your Introduction to Morse Code, Newington, Conn.: American Radio Relay League, July 1, 2001.
FAMILY SECRET. Early Days in Des Moines: Morrissey Courage; Lovell. Dad’s Sickness: Morrissey Courage and “Reminiscences”; Backus. Lean Years: Morrissey and Osborne; Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. Separation: Morrissey Courage; Earhart Fun; Lovell.
JULY 2, 1937—MABEL’S STORY. Mabel Larremore’s story: Gillespie. Radio 101: Gillespie.
FINDING HERSELF. Ogontz: Earhart Fun; “Activities of Women” scrapbook, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. First Urge to Fly: Lovell; Ware; Earhart Fun; Morrissey “Reminiscences.” A Brief History of Flight: R. G. Grant, Flight: 100 Years of Aviation, New York: DK Adult, 2002. Back in the States: Earhart Fun.
JULY 3, 1937—AN UNUSUAL OFFER. Hawaiian radio station’s offer: Gillespie.
FIRST FLIGHT. Amelia’s first meet: Earhart Fun and 20 Hrs.; Morrissey Courage; Putnam Soaring Wings. Danger!: Paul F. Collins, Tales of an Old Air-faring Man: A Half Century of Incidents, Accidents, and Providence, Stevens Point, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin Stevens Point Press, 1983. Fledgling Flyer: Southern; Earhart Fun and 20 Hrs; Lovell; Ware; Samuelson. Neta Snook: Southern. A Short Cut: Morrissey and Osborne. A Few Flying Lessons from Amelia: Earhart Fun. Grounded: Earhart Fun and 20 Hrs.; Putnam Soaring Wings; Backus. A Little Romance: Morrissey and Osborne.
JULY 3, 1937—VOICES IN THE NIGHT. Itasca radio logs, July 3, 1937; Thompson “Radio Transcripts”; Gillespie.
FAME. Charles Lindbergh and other Atlantic-crossing attempts: Edward Jablonski, Atlantic Fever, New York: Macmillan, 1972. Enter George Putnam: Putnam Wide Margins and Soaring Wings; Lovell; Ware. Opportunity Comes Calling: Earhart 20 Hrs. and Fun; Putnam Wide Margins; Hilton H. Railey, Touch’d with Madness, New York: Carrick & Evans, 1938. Preparations: Earhart 20 Hrs.; Putnam Wide Margins; Obituary of Wilmer Stultz, New York Times, July 2, 1929, p. 16; Amelia Earhart will dated May 20, 1928, Amelia Earhart Collection, Seaver Center for Western History Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California; Morrissey Courage. In Flight: Earhart 20 Hrs.; Putnam Soaring Wings; “Boston Girl Starts Atlantic Hop,” New York Times, June 4, 1928, pp. 1, 3–4; “Amelia Earhart Flies Atlantic,” New York Times, June 19, 1928, p. 1. Celebrity: Ware; Samuelson; Lovell; Putnam Wide Margins and Soaring Wings; Earhart Enterprises: Ware; Putnam Soaring Wings; Amelia’s Little Plane: Backus.
JULY 4, 1937—DANA’S STORY. Gillespie.
VAGABONDING, RECORD BREAKING AND ROMANCE. Cross-Country Flight: Earhart Fun and “Friendly Flight Across the Country”; Putnam Soaring Wings. Race!: Smith; Nichols; Judy Lomax, Women of the Air, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1987. Not Very Nice: Smith; Lovell. What Next?: Lovell; Backus; Morrissey and Osborne. Was It Love?: Magazine clipping, Special Collections Library, Purdue University, Scrapbook #8, believed to be from The Illustrated Love Magazine, January 1932, pp. 25–27; Putnam Wide Margins; Earhart “Flying the Atlantic.” Alone in the Night Sky: Earhart Fun; Putnam Soaring Wings; “Miss Earhart Tells the Prince All About It,” [London] Daily Express, May 29, 1932, pp. 4–12; “Amelia Denies Flying Atlantic Takes Courage,” Daily Tribune, June 4, 1932, p. 2; “Mrs. Putnam’s Four Leaves of Laurel,” Literary Digest, June 4, 1932, pp. 5–15. What Did Amelia Eat?: Speech clipping, Purdue Special Collections, Scrapbook #8 for 1935, undated. Awards!: Lovell. Special Friends: Ware; Irene Juno, “In the Air with Our Flying First Lady,” Good Housekeeping, vol. 96, June 1933, pp. 26–27, 162; Marion Perkins, “Who Is Amelia Earhart?” Survey Graphic, July 1, 1928, p. 393. More Challenges: George Palmer Putnam, “The Forgotten Husband,” Pictorial Review, December 1932, pp. 16–34; “Lesser Halves of Famous Wives,” New York World-Telegram, February 8, 1932, pp. 12–14; Earhart Last Flight and “My Flight from Hawaii”; “Mexico–New York Record Set by Miss Earhart,” Oakland Tribune, May 9, 1935, p. 4. A Radio First: Earhart “My Flight from Hawaii”; George Palmer Putnam, “A Flyer’s Husband,” The Forum, June 1935, pp. 330–32. Paid Stunt or Heroic Adventure?: Magazine clipping, Purdue Special Collections, Scrapbook #12, Newsweek, January 19, 1935; Leslie Ford, “A Flier in Sugar,” The Nation, vol. 140, no. 3630, January 30, 1935, p. 21; “A Useless Adventure,” The Aeroplane, January 16, 1935, p. 6.
JULY 5, 1937—BETTY’S STORY. Betty Klenck’s notebook, TIGHAR Collection; Bradenburg “Harmony and Power”; Gillespie.
PLANS. Ruth W. Freehaufer, R. B. Stewart and Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1983; Earhart Last Flight; Putnam Soaring Wings; Ware; Samuelson; Helen Welshimer, “Amelia Turns Career Pilot,” EveryWeek magazine, May 17, 1936, unpaged. Science or a Racket?: Lovell. A New Adventure: Earhart Last Flight; Gillespie; Amelia Earhart to President Roosevelt, January 8, 1937, Purdue Special Collections; Putnam Soaring Wings. Flying the Friendly Skies: Henry Ladd Smith, Airways: The History of Commercial Aviation in the United States, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. Other Arrangements: Ware. Pranks!: Lovell. False Start: “Story of ‘Dream’ Come True Told by Miss Earhart, Starting Flight,” New York Herald-Tribune, March 18, 1937, p. 1; Gillespie; “Eyewitness Report of George Miller and Others to the Official Board of Inquiry,” March 23, 1937, U.S. Navy Archives, Exhibits C–F; Fred Goerner, The Search for Amelia Earhart, New York: Doubleday, 1966. Second Attempt: Gillespie; Ware; Earhart Last Flight.
JULY 5–6, 1937—THE SEARCH CONTINUES. Thompson “Cruise Report”; Bellarts interview; Carey; Gillespie.
LAST FLIGHT. Earhart Last Flight; Putnam Soaring Wings; in-flight note from Fred Noonan to Amelia Earhart, Purdue Special Collections; Ann Holtgren Pellegreno, World Flight: The Earhart Trail, Ames, Ia.: Iowa State University Press, 1971; Gillespie; assorted cables from Amelia Earhart to New York Herald-Tribune offices, June 1–June 31, 1937, Purdue Special Collections. The Other Passenger in the Plane: Lovell.
JULY 7–18, 1937—ALL SEARCH FOR EARHART TERMINATED. Carey; “An Answering Wave”; Cooper; Gillespie.
LATER. Eleanor Roosevelt, “My Day,” New York Telegraph, July 7, 1937, p. 16; Lovell; Ware; George Putnam to Amy Otis Earhart, May 9, 1939, Ref: 83-M69, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College. George Putnam to Amy Otis Earhart, December 3, 1939, Ref: 83-M69, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College; Putnam Wide Margins and Soaring Wings. No Funeral: Lovell. Flat-out Broke: Lovell.