Black Sun, page 44
“God ... before”: HC to Stephen Crosby, War Letters (November 6, 1917).
“coveted ... skill”: Ibid. (September 8, 1917).
“I’d give ... it”: Ibid. (November 7, 1917).
“Wish ... one”: HC to Henrietta Crosby, War Letters (October 6, 1918).
“disdaining ... zones”: The full citation to Section 641 reads, “Dédaignant le danger, sans souci de la fatigue, a poursuivi sans arrêt, trois jours durant 23, 24, 25 août, 1918, l’évacuation des blessés à travers des zones, violemment bombardées. A été superbe d’entrain, de dévouement, de volonté tenace.” SIU
“Oh Boy ... God”: For the full text of General Gassouin’s citation to Harry Crosby, as well as the information regarding his cable of March 4, 1919, see War Letters, p. 307.
“Now ... answer”: HC to Henrietta Crosby, War Letters (December 15, 1918).
“When ... valuable”: HC to Katherine Crosby, War Letters (Thanksgiving Day, 1917).
“Uncle Jack ... affairs”: HC to Henrietta Crosby, War Letters (March 3, 1918).
“detectives ... family”: HC, Diary (see above note for p. 50).
CHAPTER 5
“Gee ... world”: HC to Henrietta Crosby, War Letters (July 20, 1918).
“After this ... motto”: HC to Stephen Crosby, War Letters (October 20, 1917).
“to hell ... Boston”: HC to CC, June 2, 1921. SIU
“the life deluxe”: HC to Henrietta Crosby, War Letters (August 14, 1917).
“I certainly ... it”: Ibid. (September 23, 1917).
“normal ... white”: Ibid. (November 10, 1917).
“If a man’s ... he”: Quoted by Cleveland Amory, The Proper Bostonians, p. 292.
“If he ... it”: George Richmond Fearing, interview, January 24, 1973, Santa Barbara, Cal.
“a book ... good”: HC to Henrietta Crosby, War Letters (March 20, 1918).
“pretty deep literature”: Ibid. (March 3, 1918).
“He was ... zany”: Alexander Steinert, interview, February 9, 1973, New York City.
“Harry ... being”: Helenka Adamowski Pantaleoni to GW, December 17, 1973.
“a witty-looking ... through”: Alexander Steinert, interview, February 9, 1973.
“soft ... poetry”: Helenka Adamowski Pantaleoni to GW, October 17, 1974.
“wearing ... Copley-Plaza”: Harvard Crimson, undated clipping pasted in scrapbook belonging to HC and CC. SIU
“I am ... time”: J. P. Marquand, The Late George Apley, quoted by Stephen Birmingham, The Late John Marquand, p. 30.
“Let’s say ... clubable”: Lawrence Terry to GW, November 25, 1972.
“dubious ... years”: Cleveland Amory, The Proper Bostonians, p. 300.
“Harry’s ... trouble”: Edward Weeks, My Green Age, p. 107.
TEN HILL ... “fall”: Harvard Crimson, undated 1919 clipping pasted in scrapbook belonging to HC and CC. SIU
“went on ... with”: Edward Weeks, My Green Age, p. 107.
“who always ... Wow”: Stuart Kaiser, unpublished war diary (December 24, 1917).
“you needn’t ... water-wagon”: HC to Henrietta Crosby, War Letters (August 29, 1918).
“I’m still ... resolution”: Ibid. (October 18, 1918).
“I came ... live”: George Richmond Fearing, interview, January 24, 1973, Santa Barbara, Cal.
“He was ... blazes”: Rev. G. Gardner Monks to GW, December 3, 1972.
“there were ... inches”: Helenka Adamowski Pantaleoni to GW, October 17, 1974.
“shell-shocked”: J. Brooks Fenno to GW, November 22, 1973.
“subtle ... extraordinary”: HC, Diary (see above note for p. 50).
“when his ... character”: George S. Weld to GW, December 6, 1973.
“war ... accentuated”: Rev. G. Gardner Monks, interview, December 18, 1972, Boston, Mass.
“incapable ... speech”: Henry S. Morgan to GW, January 24, 1973.
“His energy ... touching”: William Ellery Sedgwick, obituary notice in Class of 1922: Fourth Report. Harvard University Archives
“people ... alleys”: HC, unpublished notebook #2. BU
“charming ... family”: Lawrence Terry to GW, November 25, 1972.
CHAPTER 6
“Harry ... ruthless”: CC, The Passionate Years, p. 95. (Page references are to the soft-cover edition, published by Southern Illinois University Press in 1968.)
“to know ... experience”: Ibid., p. 94.
“Church ... Polly”: HC, from pages torn from Line-a-Day diary. SIU
“ride ... cotillions”: CC, Passionate Years, p. 14.
“I grew ... existed.”: Ibid.
“What I ... pass”: Ibid., p. 63.
“a part ... horses”: Ibid., p. 37.
“If ever ... changed”: Adelaide Chatfield-Taylor Sohier, telephone interview, December 20, 1972, Manchester, Mass.
“I said ... yes”: CC, Passionate Years, p. 65.
“My nest egg ... Dick”: Ibid., p. 76.
“unsensationally”: Ibid., p. 79.
“My love ... sunrise”: Ibid., p. 112.
“I don’t ... to”: HC to CC, August 6, 1920. SIU
“said ... chippies”: George Richmond Fearing, interview, January 24, 1973, Santa Barbara, Cal.
“Paris ... of”: HC to Henrietta Crosby, War Letters (September 23, 1972).
“We are ... discontent”: Letters of Elizabeth Cabot (privately printed), 1905.
“many ... vice”: Mrs. John Farrar, The Young Lady’s Friend.
“for the family’s sake”: HC to CC, June 2, 1921. SIU
“I’m in ... you”: Ibid., October 13, 1920.
“I promise ... life”: Ibid., Christmas, 1921.
“if worse ... Heaven”: Ibid., June 2, 1921.
“I still ... beautiful”: Ibid., undated (1921).
“an evangelistic aura”: CC, Passionate Years, p. 68.
“Thank You ... Amen”: HC to CC, January, 1921. SIU
“As I ... God”: Ibid., June 2, 1921.
“melancholy ... life”: Quoted by Cleveland Amory, The Proper Bostonians, p. 249.
“I’m very ... me”: HC to CC, August 1, 1922. SIU
“I was ... reached”: Ibid., March, 1922.
“I’m so ... mine”: Ibid., August 7, 1922.
“You’ll probably ... nights”: Ibid., June 2, 1921.
“Today ... it”: SOTS (February 7, 1922).
“and dear ... have”: HC to CC, undated (probably late May, 1921). SIU
“She married ... down”: George Richmond Fearing, interview, January 24, 1973, Santa Barbara, Cal.
“Pray God ... up”: CC, Passionate Years, p. 111.
“the entire ... worked”: Ibid., pp. 90, 91.
“As an unhappy ... her”: Emily Post, Etiquette, p. 509.
“unheard of ... Episcopalians”: George Richmond Fearing to GW, November 29, 1972.
“The fellows ... middle aged”: John Dos Passos, The Fourteenth Chronicle, p. 91.
“Bostonians ... Bostonians”: SOTS (October 19, 1923).
“To hell ... busy-bodies”: HC to CC, June 2, 1921. SIU
“my old man ... already”: Ibid., May, 1921.
“You couldn’t ... disappointed”: Elizabeth Beal Hinds, interview, December 19, 1972.
“I haven’t ... did”: Richard Rogers Peabody to CC, January, 1922. SIU
“overwhelmingly ... words”: Quoted by Sidney Hyman, The Lives of William Benton.
“I am ... bank”: HC to CC, September 16, 1921. SIU
“where there ... waitresses”: Ibid., Christmas, 1921.
“Can’t you ... Heaven”: Ibid., September 16, 1921.
“Don’t worry ... it”: Ibid., December, 1921.
“loathed ... kid”: Edward Weeks, My Green Age, p. 131.
“Boozed ... exhausted”: SOTS (January 4, 1922).
“You’re my religion ... protection”: HC to CC, August 6, 1920. SIU
“You never ... alone”: Ibid., September, 1921.
“I think ... N.Y.”: Ibid., Christmas, 1921.
“except when ... alone”: Ibid., June 2, 1921.
“You mustn’t ... circumstances”: Ibid., undated (early summer, 1921).
“How are ... unloosened”: Ibid., July, 1921.
“You are ... cheap”: Ibid., October, 1921.
“Remember ... want”: Ibid., June 2, 1921.
“The financial ... enough”: Ibid., September, 1921.
“I hate ... régime”: Ibid., August 7, 1922.
“We’ll never ... Boston”: Ibid., June 2, 1921.
“March 8th ... Bank”: SOTS (March 8–14, 1922).
“I saw ... vicissitudes”: HC to CC, March 22, 1922. SIU
“one of ... future”: SOTS (March 21, 22, 1922).
“It looks ... complication”: Undated clipping from Town Topics (April or May, 1922), pasted in scrapbook belonging to HC and CC. SIU
CHAPTER 7
“when you ... ”: HC to CC, March, 1922. SIU
“tossed ... London”: SOTS (May 1, 1922).
“dropped ... nest”: CC, Passionate Years, p. 108. (Caresse writes that she and Harry flew immediately to Venice. Harry’s personnel file, his diary, and their letters contradict her: they went by train to Venice a month later.)
“at a salary ... time”: Details of Harry’s record at Morgan, Harjes come from his personnel file, #599, provided by the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company.
“And how ... Waste Land”: SOTS (May 24, 1922).
“Boston ... hyena-matron”: CC, Passionate Years, pp. 108, 109.
“Why did ... withdrawn”: SOTS (July 22, 1922).
“Another closed ... unafraid”: Ibid. (August 12, 1922).
“most unbalanced ... square”: Ibid. (July 31, 1922).
“I am ... dignified”: HC to CC, August 7, 1922. SIU
“Pour ... race”: SOTS (August 9, 1922).
“elaborate ... advanced”: Ibid. (August 15, 1922).
“Masked Marvel ... squares”: Ibid. (August 22, 1922).
“1/To behave ... happens”: SIU
“Wilder ... say”: SOTS (August 18, 1922).
“can’t ... longer”: Ibid. (August 30, 1922).
BUNNY ... HARRY: HC to CC, August 30, 1922. SIU
“a crowd ... away”: SOTS (September 5, 1922).
“hair ... eaten”: Ibid. (September 6, 1922).
“Felt ... collapse”: Ibid. (September 9, 1972).
“Nevermore ... Gethsemane”: CC, Passionate Years, p. 110.
“Am I”: SOTS (September 21, 1922).
“the fox’s ... trapped”: Ibid. (January 27, 1922).
“don’t pamper ... me”: HC to CC, June 2, 1921. SIU
“our infants”: Ibid., August 7, 1922.
“We’ll take ... down”: Ibid., September 20, 1921.
If you ... drunkard”: Undated, unidentified clipping. SIU
“Dearest ... long”: Richard Rogers Peabody to CC, March 19, 1927. SIU
“I was ... madness”: Polly Peabody Drysdale, interview, May 25, 1973, London.
“strive ... life”: HC, unpublished notebook #2. BU
“a real burying place”: SOTS (December 18, 1923).
“It is ... late”: HC, unpublished notebook #4. BU
“disheartening ... bed”: SOTS (January 4, 1924).
“in a squalid ... Princess’s”: Ibid. (November 27, 1923).
“In view ... persons”: Clipping pasted in scrapbook belonging to HC and CC. SIU
“How natural ... bells”: SOTS (November 4, 1923).
“When I ... them”: HC, unpublished notebook #2. BU
“You only ... confessions”: Ibid.
“in 1922 ... mine”: CC, unpublished memoir. SIU
“there is ... harem”: HC, unpublished notebook. SIU
“As for ... double L”: SOTS (April 1, 1923).
“fantaisiste distingué”: Morgan, Harjes personnel file (see above note for p. 97).
“occupy ... do”: SOTS (March 27, 1923).
“fed up ... arguments”: Ibid. (January 24, 1923).
“After the age ... Jesus Christ”: HC, unpublished notebook #4. BU
“to defecate ... morning”: Ibid., #2.
“a dismal ... cynicism”: SOTS (May 22, 1923).
“Uncle Jack ... me”: HC to Stephen Crosby, November 3, 1923. SIU
“Nude ... away”: HC to Henrietta Crosby, November 15, 1923. SIU
“Oh that ... book”: SOTS (August 3, 1924).
“veree bad”: HC to CC, October, 1921. SIU
“perhaps ... read”: SOTS (December 7, 1923).
“I’m thrilled ... himself”: HC to Henrietta Crosby, November 15, 1923. SIU
“poor ... him”: Elizabeth Beal Hinds, interview, December 19, 1972, Manchester, Mass.
“was satirical ... poems”: Esther Grew Parker, telephone interview, December 19, 1972, Sherborn, Mass.
“Says ... me”: SOTS (August 27, 1924).
CHAPTER 8
“Once ... nostalgia”: Encyclopaedia Britannica (15th edition), volume 13, p. 1006.
“After all ... really”: Gertrude Stein, Paris France, p. 2.
“America ... material”: Malcolm Cowley, Exile’s Return, p. 107.
“I dipped ... land”: Ibid., p. 83.
“In all ... Boston”: Archibald MacLeish, interview, April 21, 1973, Conway, Mass.
“an insane ... there”: Malcolm Cowley, Exile’s Return, p. 133.
“Paris ... was”: Gertrude Stein, Paris France, p. 11.
“built ... ‘professor”’: V. S. Pritchett, Midnight Oil, p. 12.
“They do ... there”: Malcolm Cowley; Exile’s Return, p. 74.
“We can ... ourselves”: HC to CC, March, 1922. SIU
“O I wish ... know”: Ibid., July 4, 1924.
“Paris ... Sun”: SOTS (January 24, 1925).
“I doubt ... expression”: HC, unpublished notebook #2. BU
“the idea ... failure”: SOTS (August 27, 1924).
“You have ... halved”: John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, p. 50.
“I was ... Boston”: Archibald MacLeish, interview, April 21, 1973, Conway, Mass.
“And the chains ... unbroken”: SOTS (January 16, 1925).
“‘I couldn’t ... late”’: HC, unpublished notebook #3. BU
“He was ... day”: CC, Passionate Years, p. 116.
“Walter ... book”: Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance, p. 108.
“glutton ... temper”: Percy Lubbock, Portrait of Edith Wharton, p. 43.
“He was ... cad”: Quoted by Grace Kellogg, The Two Lives of Edith Wharton, p. 278.
“Unlike some ... book”: Louis Auchincloss, Edith Wharton: A Woman in Her Time, p. 158.
“beautiful ... hand”: Henry James, quoted by Grace Kellogg, The Two Lives of Edith Wharton, p. 279.
“He certainly ... heart”: HC to Stephen Crosby, November 3, 1923. SIU
“I’m so ... fat $$’s”: Walter Berry to HC, November 25, 1923. SIU
“Uncle Jack ... agree”: HC to Henrietta Crosby, October 19, 1927. SIU
“I think ... good”: Elizabeth Beal Hinds, interview, December 19, 1972, Manchester, Mass.
“It doesn’t ... WVRB”: HC, unpublished notebook #4. BU
“ ‘The Englishman ... Sun”’: SOTS (April 17, 1926).
“in the dining ... ‘d’acclimations”’: Ibid. (June 17, 1926).
“like a delta ... sarcophagus”: CC, Passionate Years, p. 135.
“going ... locomotives”: SOTS (January 2, 1925).
“the books ... books”: Ibid. (December 10, 1924).
“Good ... up”: Ibid. (April 19, 1925).
“make ... typography”: Ibid. (May 10, 1927).
“Why not ... not”: CC, Passionate Years, p. 144.
“I have ... creditable”: HC to Henrietta Crosby, December 12, 1924. SIU
“from this ... bareheaded”: SOTS (April 17, 1926).
“At my death ... come”: Codicil to Walter Berry’s will. SIU
“When I ... hurt”: HC to Henrietta Crosby, August, 1927. SIU
“Poor ... example”: Ibid., October 14, 1927.
“in his lugubrious dress suit”: SOTS (October 14, 1927).
“voice ... dead”: Ibid. (October 17, 1927).
“never ... funeral”: HC, unpublished notebook #5. BU
“The master ... inside”: SOTS (October 17, 1927).
“Under ... winds”: Handwritten on card bearing Crosby cross. SIU
“What ... care”: Olivia Coolidge, Edith Wharton: 1862–1937, p. 204.
“she is ... leave”: HC to Henrietta Crosby, October 14, 1927. SIU
“if you ... possible”: Ibid., October 18, 1927.
“I wonder ... them”: Ibid., October 24, 1927.
“Women ... say”: Ibid., October 25, 1927.
“seeing ... me”: Edith Wharton to Alice Garrett, quoted by Louis Auchincloss, Edith Wharton: A Woman in Her Time, p. 161.
“inexperienced and unmanageable”: Edith Wharton to Gaillard Lapsley, quoted by R. W. B. Lewis, letter to GW, August 22, 1974.
“and not ... sort”: HC to Henrietta Crosby, November 18, 1927. SIU
“Walter’s ... cad”: Edith Wharton to John Hugh Smith, November 23, 1927, quoted by R. W. B. Lewis, letter to GW, August 22, 1974.
“an exceedingly cold letter”: HC to Henrietta Crosby, December 6, 1927. SIU
“Books ... Dead”: SOTS (May 4, 1928).
“grab act”: CC, Passionate Years, p. 221.
“I loved ... down”: CC to George Leinwall, June 25, 1969. SIU
CHAPTER 9
“There were ... brain”: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, pp. 304, 305.
“‘The mutilation ... unlawful”’: Oscar Wilde, quoted by HC, unpublished notebooks #3, #4. BU
“Would I ... courage”: SOTS (October 16, 1926).
“to corrupt ... temptation”: Ibid. (July 5, 1925).
“‘The only’ ... applause”: Ibid. (July 19, 1925).
“The sun ... Wilde”: Ibid. (July 21, 1925).
“You and I ... all”: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, p. 385.
“One’s innocence ... morals”: SOTS (October 11, 1923).
“sturdy ... one”: Ibid. (August 25, 1923).
“the one ... parties”: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, p. 143.
“If you ... it”: Ibid., p. 223.
“I should ... Caresse”: HC to Henrietta Crosby, September 28, 1928. SIU
