Destiny of the Republic - By Candice Millard Page 0,141
Case of President James Abram Garfield, 19.
42 “Your arrival and ‘Professor’ Tainter’s”: Mabel Bell to Alexander Graham Bell, July 16, 1881, Bell Family Papers.
43 “the experiment will be watched”: “Search for the Pistol Ball,” Washington Post, July 15, 1881.
44 “Ordinary telegrams I presume”: Bell to Mabel Bell, July 26, 1881, Bell Family Papers.
45 Since he had agreed to a brief interview: Bell, “Volta Lab Notes,” July 18, 1881.
46 “carried a bullet in his body”: Bell, Upon the Electrical Experiments, 18.
47 “sonorous spot”: Bell to D. W. Bliss, July 23, 1881, quoted in Bell, Upon the Electrical Experiments, 54.
48 “Will you do us the favor”: D. W. Bliss to Alexander Graham Bell, July 26, 1881, Bell Family Papers.
49 “tired, ill, dispirited”: Bell to Mabel Bell, July 26, 1881, Bell Family Papers.
50 If Bell added a condenser: What was then known as a condenser is today called a capacitor.
51 Breaking open the instrument: Bell to Mabel Bell, July 26, 1881, Bell Family Papers.
52 Not only did it improve the sound: Bell, Upon the Electrical Experiments, 20.
53 Bell could now detect a bullet: Bell, Upon the Electrical Experiments, 16–20; Bruce, Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude, 345.
54 “trial of the apparatus”: Bell to Mabel Bell, July 26, 1881, Bell Family Papers.
55 “Mr. Garfield himself is reported”: Mabel Bell to her mother, July 17, 1881, Bell Family Papers.
56 “so calm and grand”: Bell to Mabel Bell, July 26, 1881, Bell Family Papers.
57 “the look of a man”: Ibid.
58 Frantically, Bell tried everything: Bell, Upon the Electrical Experiments, 55.
59 The sound, however, was distracting: Bell to Mabel Bell, July 26, 1881, Bell Family Papers.
60 Taking in the long wires: Mackenzie, Alexander Graham Bell, 237.
61 “His head was so buried”: Bell to Mabel Bell, July 26, 1881, Bell Family Papers.
62 After carefully pulling: Ibid.
63 As everyone in the room: Ibid.
64 “sharp and sudden reinforcement”: Bruce, Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude, 346.
65 Finally, with the president quickly tiring: Bell, Upon the Electrical Experiments, 55.
66 “I feel woefully disappointed”: Bruce, Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude, 346.
67 Returning to his laboratory: Bell, Upon the Electrical Experiments, 55.
68 “Private and confidential”: Bell to Mabel Bell, July 26, 1881, Bell Family Papers.
Chapter 19: On a Mountaintop, Alone
1 On July 23: “Conkling and His Friends,” New York Times, July 24, 1881.
2 Conkling, who had always worked: Chidsey, The Gentleman from New York, 3.
3 “renew their pledges”: “Roscoe Conkling Beaten,” New York Times, July 23, 1881.
4 “must not reap the reward”: Chidsey, The Gentleman from New York, 355.
5 “moody and fretful”: “Conkling and His Friends,” New York Times, July 24, 1881.
6 “done with politics”: Conkling, The Life and Letters of Roscoe Conkling, 306; Chidsey, The Gentleman from New York, 115.
7 “I presume that if Mr. Arthur”: Chidsey, The Gentleman from New York, 354.
8 “Disguise it as they may seek to do”: “The Senatorial Contest,” New York Times, July 6, 1881.
9 Some took a tactical approach: “Arguing About Possibilities,” New York Times, July 6, 1881. Arthur had been born in Vermont.
10 “shoulder their muskets”: Chicago Tribune, July 3, 1881, quoted in Ackerman, Dark Horse, 394.
11 “There is no doubt that he is suffering keenly”: “Vice President Arthur,” New York Times, July 5, 1881.
12 “seemed to be overcome”: Reeves, Gentleman Boss, 242.
13 “unable to conceal his emotion”: “Gen. Arthur in Washington,” New York Times, July 4, 1881.
14 Finally, a journalist from New York: New York Times, July 5, 1881.
15 “his head bowed down”: Ibid.
16 “received no visit”: “Conkling and His Friends,” New York Times, July 24, 1881.
17 “The hours of Garfield’s life are numbered”: Julia Sand to Chester Arthur, August 27, 1881, Chester Arthur Papers.
18 “dead and buried”: Reeves, Gentleman Boss, 296.
19 “Your kindest opponents say”: Julia Sand to Chester Arthur, August 27, 1881, Chester Arthur Papers.
20 Over the years, he would keep: Reeves, Gentleman Boss, 478.
21 “It is not the proof of highest goodness”: Julia Sand to Chester Arthur, August 27, 1881, Chester Arthur Papers.
22 “As the President gets better”: Reeves, Gentleman Boss, 242.
23 “thoroughly aired and cleaned”: Clark, The Murder of James A. Garfield, 9; Reyburn, Clinical History of the Case of President James Abram Garfield, 44.
24 Soon after taking charge of the case: Rockwell, “From Mentor to Elberon.”
25 Now, Bliss took over: “President Garfield’s Case,” American Observer, 494.
26 “devoting all my professional skills”: D. W. Bliss, on White House stationery, August 13, 1881.
27 “farther into the cavity”: Reyburn, Clinical History of the Case of President James Abram Garfield, 46.