Read Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life Online
Authors: Susan Hertog
Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life (78 page)
25
Ibid., 2/17/29, “Miss Morrow Gained Honors in College.”
26
Ibid.
27
Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Connie Chilton, 1925–1934.
6. THE MERMAID’S BARGAIN28
NYT
, 2/25/29, “Flies from Eagle Pass,” and 2/26/29, “Have Yet to Decide on Plans.”
1
AML,
The Unicorn and Other Poems
, p. 11.
2
HGHL
, AML letter to CAL, 2/14/29, p. 17.
3
HGHL
, introduction, p. 6.
4
HGHL
, AML letter to CAL, 4/18/29, p. 36.
5
Interview with AML.
6
Interview with AML.
7
Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Diaries, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
8
Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.
9
HGHL
, AML letter to CCM, 3/8/29, pp. 18–20.
10
Ibid., p. 20.
11
NYT
, 2/28/29, “Lindbergh Hurt, Fiancee Safe in Crash as He Lands Broken Plane in Mexico City; Shoulder Dislocated, Makes Light of It.”
12
Ibid.
13
Both Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his father, Charles August Lindbergh, were named after Charles XIV, King of Sweden. Ola Månnson renamed himself August, meaning “of majestic dignity or grandeur,” and Louise designated it as their baby’s middle name.
14
NYT
, 3/1/29, “Lindbergh Takes up Fiancée Three Times Despite His Injuries.”
15
Ibid., letter to the editor from Will Rogers, 2/28/29.
16
Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Diaries, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
17
Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.
18
Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Diaries, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
19
HGHL
, AML letter to CCM, 3/14/29, p. 23.
20
HGHL
, AML letter to CAL, 3/15/29–3/17/29, pp. 25–28.
21
“Consolation” from the musical comedy the
Golden Dawn
, lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein; music by Emmerich Kalman and Herbert Stothart,© 1927.
22
Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.
23
HGHL
, AML letter to CAL, 3/29/29, p. 33.
24
Ibid., 3/27/29, p. 32.
25
Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.
26
Ibid.
27
HGHL
, AML letter to ECM, early May 1929, pp. 39–40.
28
HGHL
, AML letter to CAL, 4/18/29, p. 35.
29
Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.
30
Ibid.
31
Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Diaries, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
32
Ibid.
33
Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.
34
Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Diaries, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
35
Ibid.
36
Morrow Family Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Library.
37
HGHL
, AML letter to ECM, 5/27/29, p. 41.
38
Ibid.
39
Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Diaries, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
7. HONEYMOON POLITICS40
HGHL
, AML letter to ECM, 5/27/29, p. 40.
1
NYT
, 5/28/29, “Colonel Lindbergh Weds Anne Morrow in Her Home; May Fly on Honeymoon.”
2
Ibid.
3
Ibid.
4
Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.
5
Saturday Evening Post
, 8/3/29, “Lindbergh and the Press,” by Julian S. Mason.
6
New Republic, 6/22/29, “The High Cost of Fame.”
7
HGHL
, AML letter to ECM, 5/31/29, p. 42.
8
Ibid., pp. 43–44.
9
Interview with Kaetchen Smith Coley, 5/25/85.
10
Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.
11
Ibid.
12
Bernard Spodek, ed.,
Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children
, New York: Macmillan, 1993, pp. 1–6, 91–97.
13
HGHL
, AML letter to ECM, 6/7/29, pp. 44–45.
14
Ibid., 6/18/29, p. 46.
15
Ibid., 6/28/29, pp. 50–51.
16
Interview with AML, 8/30/88.
17
HGHL
, AML letter to ERM, 7/2/29, p. 52.
18
Ibid., p. 53.
19
HGHL
, AML letter to CCM, 7/8/29, pp. 56–57.
20
Ibid., 7/4/29, p. 55.
21
Ibid., 7/9/29, p. 59.
22
HGHL
, AML letter to ECM, 7/13/29, p. 62.
23
HGHL
, AML letter to CCM, 8/6/29, pp. 67–68.
24
HGHL
, AML letter to ERM, 8/13/29, p. 69.
25
Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Diaries, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
26
NYT
, 8/20/29, “Lindbergh Instructs Bride in Rudiments of Flying;”
NYT
8/25/29, “Mrs. Lindbergh Flies 3 3-4 Hours.”
27
NYT
, 8/24/29, “Mrs. Lindbergh Makes Her First Solo Flight; Colonel Smiles Broadly as Pupil Takes Off.”
28
Elizabeth Cutter Morrow diary, Dwight Morrow papers, Amherst College Archives.
29
Interview with AML.
30
NYT
, 9/3/29, “Lindberghs Fly Back East.”
8.31
HGHL
, AML letter to ECM, 8/26/29 (“Thursday”), p. 73.
THE ODYSSEY
1
Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934. In fact, Anne and Charles arrived in North Haven in a dual-controlled Kemo aero-marine monoplane. It was not surprising, considering their eagerness to return home, that the Lindberghs set a new speed record on their flight from St. Louis: 905 miles in five hours and twenty-one minutes.
2
Roger G. Reed,
Summering on the Thoroughfare: The Architecture of North Haven
,
1885–1945
, Portland, Maine: Maine Citizens for Historic Preservation, 1993; Norwood P. Beveridge,
The North Island, Early Times to Yesterday
, North Haven, Maine: North Haven Historical Society, 1976.
3
Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Diaries, Dwight Morrow Papers, Amherst College Archives.
4
Ibid., 9/12/29.
5
Elisabeth Reeve Morrow letters to Constance Chilton, 1925–1934.
6
NYT, 9/17/29, “Lindberghs Fly Tomorrow on 7,000-mile Trip; Stops Scheduled to Minute on 20-day Tour.”
7
Elisabeth Stettinius Trippe.
8
NYT
, 9/18/29, “Lindberghs to Take Four on Flight South.”
9
Marilyn Bender and Selig Altschul,
The Chosen Instrument: Juan Trippe, the Rise and Fall of an American Entrepreneur
, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1982, pp. 135–146.
