Garfield, 551.
20 “beasts at feeding time”: Peskin, Garfield, 551.
21 “These people would take”: Stanley-Brown, “Memorandum Concerning Joseph Stanley-Brown’s Relations with General Garfield,” 9.
22 “Secretary Blaine is especially sought after”: “A Crowd of Office Seekers,” Washington Post, March 9, 1881.
23 “When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism”: Quoted in Peskin, Garfield, 452–53.
24 The Secret Service had been established: Melanson, The Secret Service, 22.
25 “strong dispatch of sympathy”: Garfield, Diary, March 19, 1881, 4:561.
26 “allusion to our own loss”: Garfield, Diary, March 19, 1881, 4:561.
27 “We cannot protect our Presidents”: “A Lesson,” New York Times, July 4, 1881.
28 “Assassination can no more”: Sherman, Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet, 789.
29 Brown had met Garfield: Stanley-Brown, “Memorandum Concerning Joseph Stanley-Brown’s Relations with General Garfield.”
30 “Good morning, what can I do for you?”: Ibid., 2.
31 “Aspirations for the reflected glory”: Stanley-Brown, Stanley-Brown Family History, 1.
32 Brown’s grandfather Nathaniel Stanley: “Scope and Content Note,” Joseph Stanley-Brown Papers, 1. When Joseph, an avid genealogist, learned that his grandfather had changed his name from Stanley to Brown, he added Stanley to the end of his own name. Years later, Lucretia Garfield suggested that he hyphenate the two names, and he was thereafter known as Joseph Stanley-Brown. Feis, Mollie Garfield in the White House, 114–15; “Scope and Content Note,” Joseph Stanley-Brown Papers, Library of Congress.
33 In America, Nathaniel’s son: Unnamed newspaper, Hiram College archives.
34 When he was twelve: Stanley-Brown, “Memorandum Concerning Joseph Stanley-Brown’s Relations with General Garfield,” 1.
35 “The gracious, affectionate home life”: Ibid., 4.
36 “Where have you been”: Ibid.; Stanley-Brown, “My Friend Garfield,” 50.
37 “He is very bright and able”: Garfield, Diary, January 9, 1881, 4:522.
38 “Well, my boy”: Stanley-Brown, “Memorandum Concerning Joseph Stanley-Brown’s Relations with General Garfield,” 7–8.
39 Immediately following Garfield’s nomination: “Gen. Garfield’s Letters,” New York Times, June 29, 1880.
40 “There was no organized staff”: Stanley-Brown, “My Friend Garfield,” 50.
41 “How the President and his Private Secretary”: “An Hour Spent in the President’s Private Office,” unnamed newspaper, June 3, 1881.
42 The day after Garfield’s inauguration: United States v. Guiteau, 630–31.
43 “We have cleaned them out”: Ibid., 115–16.
44 “I have practiced law”: Ibid., 210.
45 “Being about to marry”: Beard, “The Case of Guiteau—A Psychological Study,” 30–31.
46 While still in New York, Guiteau: United States v. Guiteau, 585.
47 “All those leading politicians”: Ibid., 584.
48 “I have seen him at least ten times”: Ibid., 896.
49 “on free-and-easy terms”: Ibid., 896, 584–85.
50 Within days of his arrival in Washington: Ibid., 208.
51 “No day in 12 years”: Garfield, Diary, March 8, 1881, 4:555.
52 “I think I prefer Paris”: United States v. Guiteau, 209.
53 “The inclosed [sic] speech”: Ibid., 209.
54 “so that the President would remember”: Hayes and Hayes, A Complete History, 424.
55 “Of course, [Garfield] recognized me”: United States v. Guiteau, 586–87.
56 “His visits were repeated”: Ibid., 208.
57 “very large attendance”: Garfield, Diary, March 12, 1881, 4:557.
58 “the great roaring world”: Lucretia Garfield, Diary, March 12, 1881, in Garfield, Diary, 4:628.
59 Suddenly, Lucretia heard someone say: Ackerman, Dark Horse, 280; Rosenberg, The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau, p. 29.
60 Guiteau had a strikingly quiet walk: Rosenberg, The Trial of the Assassin Guiteau, 38; “Guiteau in Jail,” New York Times, July 3, 1881.
61 “one of the men that made”: Ackerman, Dark Horse, 280.
62 “aching in every joint”: Lucretia Garfield, Diary, March 12, 1881, in Garfield, Diary, 4:628.
63 “chatty and companionable”: Whitcomb and Whitcomb, Real Life at the White House, 175.
Chapter 9: Casus Belli
1 “She is not well”: Garfield, Diary, May 3, 1881, 4:586.
2 “Crete”: Ibid., May 4, 1881, 4:587.
3 “My anxiety for her”: Ibid., May 8, 1881, 4:588.
4 Lucretia was the center: Shaw, Lucretia, 1–8.
5 “big, shy lad with a shock of unruly hair”: Typed paragraph, apparently written by Mary “Mollie” Garfield Brown, from the Western Reserve Historical Society archives.
6 “over and over upon the ground”: Peskin, Garfield, 349.
7 “never elated”: Quoted in Shaw, Lucretia, 2.
8 “generous and gushing affection”: Quoted in ibid., 31.
9 “The world”: Shaw, Crete and James, xii.
10 “Please pardon the liberty”: Ibid., 2.
11 “It is my desire”: Ibid., xii.
12 “I do not think I was born”: Quoted in Shaw, Lucretia, 2.
13 “For the past year”: Garfield, Diary, September 10, 1855, 4:271–72.
14 “Never before did I see”: Ibid., September 11, 1855, 4:272.
15 “I am not certain I feel”: Ibid., June 24, 1854, 4:251.
16 “There are hours when my heart”: Shaw, Crete and James, xii.
17 If their courtship was difficult: Ibid., ix, xiv.
18 “Before when you were away”: Ibid., 165–66.
19 “It seemed a little hard”: Ibid., 104.
20 “I believe after all”: Ibid., 210.
21 “gushing affection”: Ibid., 240.
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