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SBP, Box 168 Folder 6 and Box 169 Folder 3.
women controlled nothing
:
SB to Cyprian Beach, March 11, 1919,
LSB
, p. 56, March 11, 1919.
“The Red Cross has made”
:
SB to Eleanor Beach, April 18, 1919,
LSB
, pp. 58–59.
nine generations
:
SC
, p. 3.
changed her name
:
SBLG
, pp. 21–22.
farm in Touraine
:
SBLG
, p. 31.
khaki uniform
:
Ibid, p. 206.
villagers threw rocks
:
Ibid., p. 419.
deepened her perspective
:
SB to Eleanor Beach, Aug. 27, 1919,
LSB
, p. 76.
The low mountains
:
SB to Cyprian Beach, March 11, 1919,
LSB
, p. 55.
Black Sea wind
:
SB to Slyvester Beach, Jan. 29, 1919,
LSB
, p. 46.
crevices
and
low-roofed houses:
Yovitchitch,
Pages from Here and There
, pp. 71–74.
muddy Sava River
:
SB to Eleanor Beach, Aug. 27, 1919,
LSB
, p. 50.
literary community
:
SBP, Box 166 Folders 2 and 5.
“I’m sure you would approve”
:
SB qtd. in
SBLG
, p. 38.
“would be such hard”
:
Eleanor Beach qtd. in
SBLG
, p. 32.
“Opening bookshop”
:
SC
, p. 17.
In March 1917
:
SC
, p. 13; SBP, Box 168 Folder 1, and Box 166 Folder 2; and
SBLG
, pp. 33–34.
three thousand dollars
:
SBLG
, pp. 38, 40.
flea market
:
SBP, Box 168 Folder 4.
purchased drawings
:
SBLG
, p. 40.
Beige sackcloth
and
Serbian rugs:
SBLG
, p. 42.
first lending library
:
Cody qtd. in
LSB
, p. 312.
foreign books too expensive
:
Cody, Ibid., p. 313.
about fifty cents
:
Cody, Ibid., p. 310.
“running up and down”
:
SBP, Box 166 Folder 1, and
SBLG
, p. 48.
Monday morning
:
SBLG
, p. 40.
French literati
:
Ibid., p. 44.
Ezra Pound
:
SBP, Box 167 Folder 9 and Box 168 Folder 1.
nearly two-thirds
:
see http://www.measuringworth.com/datasets/exchangeglobal/result.php.
fifteen thousand Americans
and
four hundred thousand:
Brooke Blower,
Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture Between the World Wars
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), p. 22.
American permanent residents
:
Ibid., p. 6.
One-way streets
and
“cocktails”:
Sisley Huddleston,
Paris Salons, Cafés, Studios
(Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1928), p. 20.
American churches and grocery stores
:
Ibid., pp. 6–7.
one hundred dollars
:
SBLG
, p. 103.
Montparnasse
:
Nicholas Hewitt, “Shifting Cultural Centres in Twentieth-Century Paris,” in
Parisian Fields
, ed. Michael Sheringham (London: Reaktion Books, 1996), pp. 38–40.
artist colony
:
William Wiser,
The
Crazy Years: Paris in the Twenties
(New York: Atheneum, 1983), pp. 95–99.
more drinking establishments
:
W. Scott Haine, “Café Friend: Friendship and Fraternity in Parisian Working-Class Cafés, 1850–1914,”
Journal of Contemporary History
27, no. 4 (October 1992), p. 607.
assembly laws
:
Ibid., pp. 620–22.
pigeonhole box
:
SC
, p. 102.
a hot Sunday afternoon
and
“The Irish writer”:
Ibid., pp. 34–35.
beneath the “cantankerous”
:
Letters of Ezra Pound
, p. 153 qtd. in Ell, p. 479.
nine-part structure
:
JJ to Budgen, March 20, 1920,
SL
, p. 251.
thousand hours
:
JJ to Budgen, May 18, 1920,
LII
, p. 464.
Beach saw
:
SC
, p. 34, and SBP, Box 166 Folder 5.
cold cuts
:
SBP, Box 166 Folder 5.
ill-fitting suit
:
SBP, Box 168 Folder 7.
Joyce turned his glass
:
SC
, p. 35, and
SBLG
, p. 63.
“Is this the great”
:
SC
, pp. 35–36, and SBP, Box 168 Folder 7.
“
Oolissays
”
:
Nigel Nicolson,
Diaries and Letters, 1930
–
1939
(London: Faber Finds, 2004), p. 165.
a small notebook
and
“Is it coming in?”:
SC
, pp. 36–37. My italics.
Joyce walked into
:
Ibid., p. 38; SBP, Box 166 Folder 5; SBP Box 168 Folder 1; and
SBLG
, p. 65.
horses, machinery
:
Ell, p. 25.
hid in the cupboard
:
MBK
, p. 18.
cowering in his hallway
:
SC
, p. 43.
radio
:
JJ to Weaver, May 12, 1927,
LI
, p. 252 (qtd. in Maddox,
Nora: A Biography
, p. 229).
fifth-floor servants’ flat
:
Maddox,
Nora: A Biography,
p. 172.
borrowing a desk
:
SBLG
, p. 68.
strain of writing
:
SC
, p. 39.
Joyce sketched a picture
:
See drawing at University of Buffalo Archive, Series XIX Folder 20.
Nora groused
:
McAlmon,
Being Geniuses Together,
p. 182.
pencil and paper
and
“Look at him”
and
She wished:
SC
, p. 42.
13. HELL IN NEW YORK
cost of living doubled
:
Robert Murray,
Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919
–
1920
(Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980), p. 7.
thirty-six hundred strikes
:
Ibid., p. 9.
green boxes
:
“36 Were Marked as Victims by Bomb Conspirers,”
NYT,
May 1, 1919, p.1.
prominent men
:
“22 Bombs Mailed in Plot to Slay Prominent Men,”
Boston Daily Globe,
May 1, 1919, p. 1.
ten bombs went off
:
“See Reign of Terror as Aim of Plotters,”
NYT,
June 4, 1919, p. 3.
man carrying a large suitcase
and
“We have been”:
“Palmer and Family Safe,”
NYT
, June 3, 1919, p. 1.
bomber’s head
:
“Activity in Washington,”
NYT,
June 4, 1919, p. 1.
four times larger
and
“On a certain day”:
“Palmer Warns of Big Bomb Plot; Martens is Linked With Reds,”
New York Tribune,
June 19, 1919, p. 1.
“more than twenty thousand”
:
“See Reign of Terror,”
NYT
, p. 3.
ransacked offices
:
National Popular Government League (R. G. Brown [et al.]),
To the American People: Report upon the Illegal Practices of the United States Department of Justice
(Washington, D.C.: National Popular Government League, 1920), pp. 16–21.
deported on a ship
:
“‘Ark’ with 300 Reds Sails Early Today for Unnamed Port,”
NYT
, Dec. 21, 1919, p. 1.
biggest Red Raid
and
authority of the Espionage Act:
“3,000 Arrested in Nation-Wide Round-Up of ‘Reds,’”
New York Tribune,
Jan. 3, 1920, p. 1, and “Round-Up of ‘Reds’ Thwarts Big Revolutionary Plot,”
New York Tribune
, Jan. 4, 1920, p. 1.
manufactured confessions
:
National Popular Government League,
To the American People,
pp. 32–36.
a former YWCA
:
“See Reign of Terror,”
NYT
, p. 3.
banned the January 1920 issue
:
Jane Heap to JJ, ca. Feb. 1920, Cornell, Series IV Box 8.
“the flatulent old”
and
“There’s a bloody”:
LR
6, no. 9 (Jan. 1920), p. 55.
nearly half a million
:
Ibid., p. 79.
Ezra Pound would have a file
:
Claire Culleton,
Joyce and the G-Men: J. Edgar Hoover’s Manipulation of Modernism
(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
eve of the Red Raids
:
Curt Gentry,
J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets
(New York: Norton, 1991), p. 73.
government librarian

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