Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life (76 page)
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Authors: Susan Hertog
37
Constance Morrow’s letter to Anne Morrow, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
38
Interview with AML and interview with Constance Morrow Morgan.
39
BMAU
, AML letter to ECM, 10/18/27, p. 74.
40
BMAU
, AML diary, 12/19/27, p. 79.
41
Ibid., pp. 78–79; Interview with AML and interview with Constance Morrow Morgan.
42
Dwight Morrow correspondence with Elisabeth Morrow, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
43
BMAU
, AML diary, 8/23/26, p. 38.
44
Ibid., 12/21/27, p. 80.
45
Ibid., p. 81.
46
Ibid.
47
BMAU
, AML letter to ECM, 3/5/27, p. 62.
48
BMAU
, AML diary, 12/21/27, p. 81.
49
Ibid.
2.50
Ibid.
COMING HOME
1
BMAU
, AML diary, “Christmas Eve Day,” pp. 87–88.
2
Ron Robin,
Enclaves of America: The Rhetoric of American Political Architecture Abroad, 1900–1965
, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1992, pp. 34–35, 67–69; and “New Embassy Building at Mexico City,”
The American Foreign Service Journal
, October 1925, pp. 336–337.
3
Excelsior
(newspaper), Mexico City, 12/15/27 through 12/28/27.
4
Many descriptive details in this chapter are derived from period newsreels and documentary films on file at the National Archives Motion Picture Sound and Video Library.
5
BMAU
, AML diary, 12/21/27, p. 84.
6
The dialogue that follows is from
BMAU
, AML diary, 12/21/27, p. 82.
7
Ibid., p. 83.
8
Ibid., “Mexico City,” p. 80.
9
Ibid., “Sunday, Christmas Day,” p. 91.
10
Interview with AML.
11
Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.
12
Ibid.; interview with Constance Chilton.
13
BMAU
, AML diary, 12/21/27, p. 86.
14
Ibid.
15
Ibid., “Sunday, Christmas Day,” pp. 90–91.
16
Details about Evangeline Lindbergh at the time of her visit to Mexico City are from the following sources: Alden Whitman’s interview with Eva Lindbergh Christie Spaeth; ELLL Notebook “For Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.,” Interviews with AML;
Excelsior
, Mexico City, 12/15/27 through 12/28/27; Elaine Showalter, op. cit.
17
BMAU
, AML diary, 12/21/27, p. 87.
18
Ibid., “Sunday, Christmas Day,” p. 96.
19
Details of Anne Morrow’s first flight with Charles Lindbergh are from
BMAU
, pp. 95–99.
3.20
Edgar Lee Masters,
Spoon River Anthology
, as quoted in Anne’s diary
Bring Me a Unicorn
.
THE EARLY YEARS
1
AML,
The Unicorn and Other Poems
, New York: Vintage Books, 1972, p. 79.
2
Morrow Family Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Library; Alfred E. Stearns,
From an Amherst Boyhood
, Norwood, MA: Plimpton Press, 1946; Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz,
Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women’s Colleges from their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930’s
, New York: A. A. Knopf, 1984; L. Clark Seelye,
The Early History of Smith College, 1871–1910
, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1923; Constance Morrow Morgan, op. cit. Harold Nicolson,
Dwight Morrow
, New York: Harcourt Brace, 1936.
3
Constance Morrow Morgan,
A Distant Moment
, pp. 141–143.
4
Ronald G. Mullins,
A Little About a Few Cutters, 1637–1980
, copyright 1980; William E. Foster,
Charles Ammi Cutter: A Memorial Sketch
, Public Library, Providence, Rhode Island, reprinted from the
Library Journal
, 1903.
5
Constance Morrow Morgan, op. cit., p. 19.
6
Barbara Miller Solomon,
In the Company of Educated Women
, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985, pp. 62–65.
7
Constance Morrow Morgan, op. cit., pp. 85, 139, 142.
8
Ibid., p. 143.
9
Harold Nicolson, op. cit.
10
Constance Morrow Morgan, op. cit., p. 170.
11
Ibid., p. 172.
12
Ibid., pp. 177–179.
13
The City of Englewood, A Profile
, Englewood Chamber of Commerce, Englewood, New Jersey; Jewish Community Center, number 7; the Community Chest; and interviews with Mrs. David Van Alstyne and Janet Johnson, friends of the Morrows in Englewood.
14
Harold Nicolson, op. cit., p. 81.
15
Morrow Family Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Library.
16
Interview with AML.
17
Information about the town of Quogue is from an interview with Quogue historian Pat Shuttleworth; Richard H. Post,
Notes on Quogue 1659–1959
, published
by the Quogue Tercentenary Committee, 1959; Scrapbook, “Old Long Island Towns, May 6, 1895,” Suffolk County Historical Society;
One Hundred Years Ago in Quogue
, pamphlet, Quogue Public Library.
18
Morrow Family Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Library.
19
The Wheel
, Chapin School.
20
Morrow Family Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Library.
21
Harold Nicolson, op. cit., p. 110.
22
Ron Chernow, op. cit.
23
Harold Nicolson, op. cit., pp. 128–131.
24
Karen J. Blair,
The Clubwoman as Feminist: True Womanhood Redefined, 1868–1914
, New York: Holmes and Meier, 1979.
25
Interview with Constance Morrow Morgan.
26
The following material is from essays, stories, and poems by AML published in
The Wheel
, Chapin School Archives.
27
Interview with AML.
28
Richard Harris and Lynn Seldon,
Hidden Bahamas
, Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press, 1997, pp. 41–43.
29
Interview with AML.
30
The Wheel
, Chapin School.
31
Harold Nicolson Diaries, Harold Nicolson Papers, Indiana University Archives.
32
Morrow Family Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Library.
33
The Wheel
, Chapin School.
34
Interview with Eleanor Rodale.
35
The Wheel
, Chapin School.
36
Julie Nixon Eisenhower,
Special People
, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977, p. 127.
37
Interview with Eleanor Rodale.
38
Barbara Miller Solomon, op. cit.
39
BMAU
, AML letter to ERM, late September, 1922, pp. 5–7.
40
Catalogue of Smith College: Fiftieth Year, 1924–25, (Smith College: Northampton, MA), 1924–1928; Annual Report of the President of Smith College: Presented to the Board of Trustees, October 16, 1925; October 16, 1926; October 21, 1927; October 19, 1928, 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928.
41
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, op. cit., and L. Clark Seelye, op. cit.
42
BMAU
, AML letter to DWM, 1/9/26, p. 25.
43
BMAU
, AML letter to ECM, 3/5/27, p. 61.
44
Ibid., 11/4/26, p. 54.
45
Interview with Marilyn Bender; Mina Kirstein Curtiss obituaries, diaries, and papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Archives.
4. A REBEL AT LAST46
Anne Morrow, “Caprice,”
Smith College Monthly
, October 1926.