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WHS, Sumner Autobiography, Box 1 Folder 7, p. 63.
barrel-chested
:
Charles Trumbull,
Anthony Comstock, Fighter; Some Impressions of a Lifetime Adventure in Conflict with the Powers of Evil
(New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1913), pp. 19, 21.
brought down New York’s pornography industry
:
Bates,
Weeder in the Garden
, pp. 158–9.
hijacked a wagon
:
Trumbull,
Comstock,
p. 77; “A Large Seizure of Obscene Publications,”
New York Tribune
, April 5, 1872, p. 8.
destroyed them with acid
:
Trumbull,
Comstock,
p. 66.
forty-five people
:
“Naughty Literature,”
Atlanta Constitution
, Nov. 30, 1872, p. 4.
financial backers founded
:
Bates,
Weeder in the Garden
, p. 99.
“weeder in the garden”
:
Comstock to Rainsford qtd. ibid., p. 3.
barely professionalized
and
mayoral despot:
James Richardson,
Urban Police in the United States
(Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1974), pp. 42–47. See also Eric Monkkonen, “History of Urban Police,”
Crime Punishment
15 (1992), pp. 547–80.
deputy sheriff
:
WHS, Box 1 Folder 7, p. 71.
565 years
:
NYSSV Annual Report
(1913), p. 13.
2,948,168
:
NYSSV Annual Report
(1912), p.16.
“obscene rubber articles”
:
NYSSV Annual Report
(1897).
Sixteen dead bodies
:
Broun and Leech,
Anthony Comstock
, p. 212.
Packages addressed
:
Trumbull,
Comstock,
pp. 137–141; Bates,
Weeder in the Garden,
p. 108.
Charles Conroy
:
“An Attempt to Kill A. J. Comstock,”
New York Tribune
, Nov. 2, 1874, p. 12; Bates,
Weeder in the Garden,
p. 105; Anthony Comstock,
Frauds Exposed; or How the People Are Deceived and Robbed, and Youth Corrupted
(New York: J.H. Brown, 1880), pp. 258–9. Trumbull,
Comstock,
pp. 147–8.
“a pernicious tendency”
:
William Blackstone,
Commentaries on the Laws of England
qtd. in Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz,
Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002), p. 40.
looks or filthy words
:
C.B., “The Confessional Unmasked,” microfilm (The Protestant Electoral Union, 1867), pp. 51, 60–61.
“introduces his”
:
Ibid., p. 64.
“It is asked”
:
Ibid., p. 60.
a revelation
:
Regina v. Hicklin
(1868) L.R. 3 Q.B.D. 360.
Cockburn
and
“notoriously bad”:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
, http://www.oxforddnb.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/view/article/5765?docPos=1. See also “Chief Justice Cockburn Dead,”
NYT
, Nov. 22, 1880.
defense attorney avoided
:
Regina v. Hicklin
(1868) L.R. 3 Q.B.D. 360.
“maintain the Protestantism”
and
William Murphy
and
“every Popish priest”:
Walter Arnstein, “The Murphy Riots,”
Victorian Studies
19 (Sept. 1975), pp. 53, 56; Roger Swift, “Anti-Catholicism and Irish Disturbances: Public Order in Mid-Victorian Wolverhampton,”
Midland History
9 (1984), pp. 87–108;
Pall Mall Gazette
, Feb. 20, 1867 (n.p.); “The Riots at Birmingham,”
London Review
, June 22, 1867, p. 692; and
Regina v. Hicklin
(1868) L.R. 3 Q.B.D. 360.
“There is,”
Comstock wrote
and
“
the boon
”:
Comstock,
Traps for the Young
, pp. 132–3.
“
our tender infancies
”
: Locke, “Some Thoughts Concerning Education,” qtd. ibid., p. 8.
dying of pneumonia
:
“Comstock, Foe of Vice, Dies after Relapse,”
New York Tribune
, Sept. 22, 1915, p. 1; “Anthony Comstock,”
Boston Journal
, Sept. 23, 1915, p. 8; Bates,
Weeder in the Garden,
p. 200.
September 22
:
WHS, Box 1 Folder 7, p. 70.
Clarence Darrow
:
WHS, Box 1 Folder 6, MS-18, P-2.
15. ELIJAH IS COMING
“I am working like a galley-slave”
:
JJ to Carlo Linati, Sept. 6, 1920,
LI
, p. 146.
gas stove
and
shawl:
JJ to EP, Dec. 12, 1920,
LIII
, pp. 32–33.
fits of pain
:
Ibid., p. 34.
April 1920
and
three months:
Groden,
Ulysses in Progress
, p. 167.
ninth draft
:
JJ to JQ, Jan. 7, 1921,
LI
, p. 156.
late into the night
:
JJ to Larbaud, Feb. 23, 1921,
LIII
, p. 39.
syphilis
:
See JJ to Budgen, Michaelmas [Sept. 29], 1920,
LI
, p. 147.
“Dirty married man!”
:
Ulysses
, p. 361 (15: 385).
“I have a little private”
:
Ibid., p. 461 (15: 3763–4).
“My more than”
:
Ibid
.
, p. 397 (15: 1600).
“Bronze by gold”
:
Ibid
.
, p. 460 (15: 3735).
“lazy idle”
:
Ibid
.
, p. 458 (15: 3671).
“vulture talons”
:
Ibid
.
, p. 357 (15: 259–60).
“No yapping”
:
Ibid
.
, p. 414 (15: 2189).
“Scotts tettoja”
and
“I have not received”:
JJ to JQ, Nov. 24, 1920,
LIII
, p. 30 (quoting JJ’s Nov. 23, 1920, telegram). The telegram and translation are re-created as separate events.
Quinn cabled back and insisted
:
JQ to JJ telegram, Nov. 24, 1920, NYPL.
more counts
:
JQ to EP, Oct. 21, 1920, NYPL.
“Macilenza”
:
JJ to JQ, Dec. 13, 1920, telegram qtd. in JQ to JJ, Dec. 19, 1920, NYPL.
“Private and reliable”
:
JQ to JJ, Dec. 19, 1920, NYPL.
come up with a plan
:
JQ to EP, Oct. 16 and Oct. 21, 1920, SIU, Box 1 Folder 5.
overworked grand jury
:
JQ to MCA, Feb. 5, 1921, SIU, Box 1 Folder 6.
private edition
:
JQ to JJ, Aug. 15, 1920, NYPL.
“a showdown”
:
Ibid., Dec. 19, 1920.
Joyce would never agree
and
“practical certainty”:
Ibid., Aug. 15, 1920.
escaped prosecution
:
JQ to Huebsch, Dec. 15, 1920, NYPL, and JQ to JJ, Dec. 19, 1920, NYPL.
different legal standards
:
JQ to Huebsch, Dec. 15, 1920, NYPL.
a
good
thing
:
JQ to EP, Oct. 16, 1920, SIU, Box 1 Folder 5.
fifteen hundred copies
:
JQ to MCA, Feb. 5, 1921, SIU, Box 1 Folder 6.
“serious financial loss”
:
JQ’s Motion to Transfer, SIU, Box 3 Folder 4.
demanded sexual favors
:
Yale Anderson, Box 2 Folder 22.
“We cannot apologize”
:
Jane Heap to JJ, Jan. 9, 1920, Cornell, Series IV Box 8.
interrupted a performance
:
“Books and Authors,”
NYT
, Dec. 26, 1920, p. 51; JQ to EP, Dec. 12, 1920, NYPL.
from $2.50 to $4.00
:
LR
7, no. 3 (Sept.-Dec. 1920), p. 2.
“Make following counter proposal”
:
JJ to JQ, Jan. 8, 1921, telegram qtd. JQ to MCA, Feb. 5, 1921, SIU, Box 1 Folder 6. The order of the telegraph lines is speculation.
more than ten dollars
:
JJ to JQ, Jan. 7, 1921,
LI
, p. 155.
nobody made agreements
:
JQ to MCA, Feb. 5, 1921, SIU, Box 1 Folder 6.
“In financial difficulties”
:
Watson(?) translation of JJ to JQ telegram, Jan. 13, 1921, NYPL.
“Cabling money requested”
:
JQ to JJ telegram, Jan. 24, 1921, NYPL.
wholesale prices
:
See http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/smiley.1920s.final.
National Bank of Commerce
:
MNY
, p. 496; JQ to JJ, April 13, 1921, NYPL.
thirty thousand dollars
:
MNY
, p. 496.
“Clients, banks”
:
JQ to John Butler Yeats, May 2, 1921, NYPL.
“a financial reign”
:
JQ to Walter Pach, May 5, 1921, qtd.
MNY
, p. 478.
partners quit
:
MNY
, p. 458; Curtin breaks down, JQ to JJ, April 13, 1921.
iritis
:
JQ to Walt Kuhn, Sept. 16, 1920, NYPL.
Quinn worked
and
lost fees:
JQ to JJ, April 13, 1921, NYPL.
“The trouble with me”
:
JQ to John Butler Yeats, May 2, 1921, NYPL.
fifty pounds
:
Ell, p. 401.
magazine grossed

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