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:
Ibid., p. 67.
On September 16, 1920
:
“Wall Street Night Turned into Day,”
NYT
, Sept. 17, 1920, p. 9; “Trail of Bomb Plotters End with Explosion,”
New York Tribune
, Sept. 24, 1920, p. 18; “Officials Convinced Time Bomb Caused Explosion in Wall Street,”
Washington Post
, Sept. 18, 1920, p. 1; and “Havoc Wrought in Morgan Offices,”
NYT
, Sept. 17, 1920, p. 1.
in his Nassau Street office
:
JQ to Walt Kuhn, Sept. 16, 1920, NYPL.
greenish yellow smoke
:
MNY
, p. 475.
toppling like tall grass
:
JQ to Huneker, Sept. 18, 1920, NYPL.
“a horrible price to pay”
:
JQ to Jacob Epstein, Oct. 11, 1920, NYPL.
“seven or eight hundred thousand”
:
JQ to EP, Oct. 21, 1920, NYPL.
“nothing but walking”
:
JQ to EP, June 10, 1918, NYPL.
Ben Huebsch published
:
see Kelly,
Our Joyce
, p. 80.
“Militarism is not”
:
Max Eastman, “Editorial” and [Unsigned], “John S. Sumner, the New Censor, Takes Office,”
Masses
, 8 (March 1916), p. 16.
Sumner arrested
:
C. M. Rogers, “Confiscate Issue of the Masses,”
NYT
, Sept. 1, 1916, p. 20.
“Copulation, or coitus”
:
Auguste Forel,
The Sexual Question: A Scientific, Psychological, Hygienic and Sociological Study
(New York: Rebman Company, 1908), p. 56.
a thirty-nine-year-old lawyer
:
“Comstock Rule in Vice Society Near Overthrow,”
New York Tribune
, June 13,1915, p. 1, and “Comstock’s Work to Go On,”
NYT,
Oct. 4, 1915, p. 18.
had hardly been necessary
:
See 1897
NYSSV
Annual Report
, p. 20.
“They’re all goddamn Jews!”
:
Tom Dardis,
Firebrand: The Life of Horace Liveright
(New York: Random House, 1995), p. 164.
“Just as we have”
:
NYSSV Annual Report
(1919)
qtd. in Paul S. Boyer,
Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age
(Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002), p. 67.
raided radical bookshops
and
now an anarchist text:
WHS, Monthly Reports Jan., Feb. and Aug. 1920.
arrested 184
:
See John Sumner, “Criticizing the Critic,”
Bookman
53, no. 5 (July 1921), p. 385.
more than any in the vice society’s history
:
Based on
NYSSV
Annual Reports
.
“real American stock”
:
John Sumner, “Are American Morals Disintegrating?”
Current Opinion
70, no. 5 (May 1921), pp. 610–11.
German and Irish
:
See
NYSSV Annual Report
, 1911, p. 18.
“radical feminists”
:
Sumner, “Are American Morals Disintegrating?” pp. 608–9.
“And she saw”
:
LR
7, no. 2 (July-Aug. 1920), p. 43. Here and elsewhere during the
Little Review
trial, I quote from the version of the “Nausicaa” episode as it was published in the July-August 1920 issue of the
LR
. Passages differ from the 1922 Shakespeare and Company edition and subsequent editions.
“And then a rocket”
:
Ibid., pp. 43–44.
“a man of honour”
:
Ibid., p. 42.
“Swell of her calf”
:
Ibid., p. 48.
cut through their shared wall
:
Gilmer,
Horace Liveright
, p. 3, qtd. Jay Satterfield,
The World’s Best Books
(Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002), p. 14.
indicted for wartime conspiracy
:
Sayer, “Art and Politics,” p. 57.
homosexual rights
:
Dear Tiny Heart
, p. 3.
Note
: Sumner’s moment of realization is my speculation.
Irish Trotsky
:
I am indebted to Yale’s Modernism Lab for this comparison. See http://modernism.research.yale.edu/
through the night
and
“The Star-Spangled Banner”:
“100,000 Observe Constitution Day at Scene of Explosion,”
New York Tribune
, Sept. 18, 1920, p. 3. The date of John Sumner’s purchase is deduced from MCA’s January 12 deposition in Quinn’s motion to transfer, SIU, Box 3 Folder 4; JQ to MCA, Feb. 5, 1921, SIU, Box 1 Folder 6, and WHS, Sumner Autobiography, Box 1 Folder 8, MS-26, p. 1.
while working on a case
:
MNY
, pp. 459–60; JQ to Foster, Nov. 17, 1920, NYPL.
“editrix”
:
JQ to Shane Leslie, June 21, 1922, NYPL.
“to urine and feces”
and t
o promote themselves:
JQ to EP, Oct. 16, 1920, SIU, Box 1 Folder 5.
“What did I tell you?”
:
TYW
, p. 215.
“An artist might paint”
and
“You’ll be broadening”:
JQ to EP, Oct. 16, 1920, SIU, Box 1 Folder 5.
arguing with Sumner
:
TYW
, p. 218.
“We glory in it”
:
Sumner deposition, Oct. 21 1920, qtd. in Quinn’s Motion to Transfer, SIU, Box 3 Folder 4; WHS, Monthly Reports, Box 2 Folder 7, Oct. 1920.
“This trial will”
and
lunch:
JQ to EP Oct. 16, 1920, SIU, Box 1 Folder 5.
“I don’t give a damn”
:
WHS, Box 1 Folder 8, MS 26, p. 2.
Ogden Brower
:
WHS, Monthly Reports, Oct. 1920, Box 2 Folder 7.
“and she was trembling”
:
LR
7, no. 2 (July-Aug. 1920), p. 43.
“If such indecencies”
:
Sumner, “The Truth about ‘Literary Lynching,’ ”
Dial
71 (July 1921), p. 67.
“defiant”
and
“sheer self-exploiters”
and
“If Joyce wants”:
JQ to EP, Oct. 16, 1920, SIU, Box 1 Folder 5.
“ ‘Nausikaa’ has been pinched”
:
EP to JJ, ca. Oct. 30, 1920,
EP/JJ
, p. 185.
“Perhaps everything”
:
EP to JQ, Feb. 21, 1920,
EP/JQ
, p. 185.
“overwrought nerves”
and
“He is not”:
EP to JQ, Oct. 31, 1920,
EP/JQ
, pp. 198–9.
Jefferson Market Courthouse
:
JQ to EP, Oct. 21, 1920; JQ to Shane Leslie, June 21, 1922, NYPL. “Negroes” is Quinn’s word.
“so obscene, lewd, lascivious”
:
Sumner deposition qtd. in JQ’s Motion to Transfer, SIU, Box 3 Folder 4.
“who writes, prints”
:
145 N.Y. Supp. 492 § 1141.
“It is unnecessary”
:
Grimm
v. United States
, 156 U.S. 604 (1895).
Quinn rushed
:
JQ to EP, Oct. 21, 1920, NYPL, and JQ to Foster, Oct. 22, 1920, postscript to August [sic for “October”] 20, 1920, NYPL.
“over-ripe”
:
JQ to EP March 6, 1918, NYPL.
“I think the test”
:
Regina v. Hicklin
(1868) L.R. 3 Q.B.D. 360.
purview of the law shifted
:
Felice Flanery Lewis,
Literature, Obscenity and the Law
(Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1976), p. 7.
“You could not”
:
JQ to Shane Leslie, June 21, 1922, NYPL.
“If a young man is in love”
and
Swift and Rabelais:
JQ to EP, Oct. 21, 1920, SIU, Box 1 Folder 5.
“She leaned back far”
:
LR
7, no. 2 (July-Aug. 1920), pp. 42–43. My ellipsis. Comma supplied after “heart.”
he had a dirty mind
:
JQ to Shane Leslie, June 21, 1922, NYPL.
“There have been”
:
JQ to JJ, Aug. 15, 1920, NYPL.
14. THE GHOST OF COMSTOCK
Sumner patrolled
:
See, e.g., WHS, Monthly Reports, Box 2 Folder 7, Aug. 1920, p. 3 and Jan. 1921, p. 3, passim.
unlocked and searched mailboxes
:
WHS, Box 1 Folder 7, pp. 64–65.
raids and stakeouts
:
E.g., Ibid., Sept. 20, p 3.
obtained warrants
:
E.g., Ibid., June 1921, p. 2.
complaining witness
:
Sumner, “Truth about ‘Literary Lynching,’” p. 64.
supervised the burnings
:
See Boyer,
Purity in Print
, p. 98 photo insert, Figure 7.
threaten fourteen-year-olds
:
E.g., WHS, Box 2 Folder 7: Nov. 1920, p. 1; Dec. 1920, p. 3; March 1921, p. 2; April 1921, p. 3.
six male cross-dressers
:
WHS, Box 2 Folder 7, Oct. 1919, p. 6.
bathroom drawings
:
Ibid., March 1921, p. 1.
garden statuary
:
Ibid., May 1920, p. 2.
unfaithful spouses
:
E.g., ibid., Nov. 1920, p. 4, and July 1920, p. 2.
eloping teenagers
:
E.g., ibid., Dec. 1919, p. 2, and Dec. 1920, p. 2.
sailors on shore
:
Ibid., May 1920, p. 5.
plays, musicals
:
WHS, Box 2 Folder 7–8, passim.
conduit of information
:
WHS, Box 2 Folder 7: Aug. 1920, p. 3, and Sept. 1920, p. 2.
he lobbied senators
:
See, e.g., WHS, Box 2 Folder 7, Feb. 1921, p. 4.
“Years ago”
:
“Comstock’s Rule in Vice Society Near Overthrow,”
New York Tribune
, June 13, 1915, p. 1.
breaking up fights
and
accountant:

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