Anne Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life (82 page)
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Authors: Susan Hertog
37
Interview with Betty Gow.
38
NYT
, 6/11/32, op. cit.
39
HGHL
, AML letter to ELLL, 6/13/32, pp. 274–275.
40
But there was reason to believe that Anne figured greatly in Violet’s fantasies. She longed to have violet eyes and airy adventures with a romantic prince. Violet copied into a notebook a poem that spoke of her wishes. NJSPM, Violet Sharpe File.
41
NYT
, 6/13/32, “Police Balk at Exonerating Girl;” and 6/16/32, “Miss Sharpe Is Buried; Inquiry Is Pressed.”
42
HGHL
, AML diary, 6/11/32, pp. 272–273.
43
The grandson of a Jewish immigrant who had earned his fortune in silver-mining, Guggenheim had been trained as a pilot during the war and had an interest in the commercial possibilities of aviation. He had met Dwight Morrow in 1925, when Morrow chaired Calvin Coolidge’s Aviation Board.
44
HGHL
, AML diary, 6/11/32, p. 273.
45
Harry Guggenheim, as quoted in AML diary, 6/11/32, p. 273.
46
Ibid., p. 274.
47
Ibid., 6/9/32, pp. 269–270.
48
Ibid., 6/17/32, p. 279.
49
Charles L. Morgan (1894–1958), also drama critic for the
London Times
.
50
HGHL
, AML diary, 6/21/32, p. 280.
51
Charles Morgan,
The Fountain
, New York: A. A. Knopf, 1932, p. 333.
52
Charles Morgan, as found in
HGHL
, AML diary, 6/21/32, p. 280.
53
Anne would later find that the wheel metaphor was derived from a system of mystical Chinese thought set forth by Lao Tzu in the sixth century B.C. The circle is the symbol of life, and its center is the void through which one communicates with God.
54
HGHL
, AML diary, 6/22/32, p. 280.
55
Hugh A. Fisher and Matthew F. McGuire, “Kidnapping and the So-Called Lindbergh Law,”
New York University Law Quarterly Review
, vol. 12, June 1935, pp. 646–662; and Horace L. Bomar, Jr., “The Lindbergh Law,”
Law and Contemporary Problems
, vol. 1, October 1934, pp. 435–444.
56
HGHL
, AML diary, 6/26/32, p. 282.
57
Ibid., 6/27/32, p. 283.
58
Ibid., 7/6/32, pp. 286–289.
59
Ibid., 7/9/32, p. 289.
60
Ibid., 7/17/32, pp. 292–293.
61
Ibid., 7/24/32, p. 294.
62
Ibid., 8/16/32, pp. 299–302.
63
Interview with Betty Gow.
14. DEATH IS THE ANSWER64
HGHL
, AML diary, 8/16/32, p. 302.
1
Rainer Maria Rilke,
Rilke: Poems
, Everyman’s Library, Pocket Poets, New York: Knopf, 1996, p. 49.
2
HGHL
, AML diary, 9/4/32, p. 312.
3
Ibid., 8/21/32, pp. 305–306.
4
Ibid., 8/31/32, p. 310.
5
Ibid., 9/2/32, p. 310.
6
Interviews with Margot Loines Morrow Wilkie, 8/24/94 and 10/31/94; Reeve Lindbergh,
Under a Wing
, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.
7
Interview with Margot Loines Morrow Wilkie, 8/24/94.
8
Ibid.
9
HGHL
, AML diary, 9/17/32, p. 316.
10
Ibid., 9/5/32, p. 312.
11
Ibid., 10/15/32, p. 320.
12
Ibid., 8/16/32, p. 303.
13
HGHL
, AML diary, 9/4/32, p. 312.
14
Ibid., pp. 311–312.
15
NYT
, 8/17/32, “Second Son Is Born to the Lindberghs at the Morrow Home in Englewood.”
16
HGHL, AML diary, 9/8/32, p. 313.
17
Ibid., 9/13/32, pp. 313–315.
18
Ibid., 9/25/32, p. 318.
19
HGHL
, AML letter to ELLL, early October, p. 319.
20
NYT
, 11/4/32, “Held for Threat to Mrs. Morrow.”
21
Highfields, now Highfields/Albert Elias RGC, East Amwell Township, NJ. See
NYT
, 6/24/33, “Lindbergh Estate to Be Child Refuge;” 6/25/33, “Lindbergh Project Approved in Jersey;” and 6/26/33 “High Fields.” After 1950, Highfields became a rehabilitation center for teenagers with criminal records.
22
HGHL
, AML letter to ELLL, 12/15/32, p. 321.
23
Charles Lindbergh, introduction to Alexis Carrel’s
The Voyage to Lourdes
, trans. from the French by Virgilia Peterson, New York: Harper and Brothers, 1950; and Charles Lindbergh,
Autobiography of Values
, pp. 16–17.
24
Interview with Richard Bing.
25
Interview with AML, 1/24/86.
26
HGHL
, AML diary, 12/28/32, pp. 322–325.
27
Thirty years later, the wedding and her thoughts would be the subject of her book,
Dearly Beloved
.
28
LROD
, AML diary, 1/16/33, p. 6.
29
Ibid., 1/6/32, p. 4.
15.30
AML,
North to the Orient
.
PURGATORY
1
LROD
, AML diary, 1/13/33, p. 6.
2
Ibid., 1/21/33, p. 8.
3
Victoria Glendinning,
Vita
, New York: Knopf, 1983, pp. 254–256.
4
Ibid.; Nigel Nicolson, ed.,
Harold Nicolson, Diaries and Letters, 1930–1939
, New York: Atheneum, 1966, pp. 131–133; and
LROD
, pp. 8–12.
5
LROD
, AML diary, 2/27/33, pp. 17–18.
6
Ibid., 3/17/33, p. 23.
7
Postmaster General Walter F. Brown decided to aid the transport industry by lobbying Congress to pass the McNary-Watres bill, encouraging the development of larger aircraft for mail, passenger, and freight.
[Legacy of Leadership
, published privately by Trans World Airlines Flight Operations, 1972, p. 45.]
8
LROD
, AML diary, 4/26/33, p. 27.
9
Ibid., early May, pp. 32–33.
10
Ibid., 5/6/33, p. 35.
11
Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
Listen! The Wind
, New York: Harcourt Brace, 1938, forward by Charles A. Lindbergh, pp. v–ix.
12
LROD
, AML letter to ELLL, p. 43.
13
LROD
, AML diary, 7/8/33, p. 46.
14
Anne would later reflect on this moment in her book,
North to the Orient
. See also
LROD
, AML diary, 7/11/33, p. 48.
15
LROD
, AML letter to ECM, 7/11/33, p. 48.
16
LROD, AML diary, 7/24/33, p. 63.
17
Ibid., 7/31/33, p. 69.
18
Ibid., 8/19/33, p. 92.
19
Ibid., 9/4/33, p. 107.
20
Ibid., 9/16/33, p. 112.
21
Ibid., 10/5/33, p. 124.
22
Ibid., 10/14/33, p. 127.
23
LROD
, AML letter to ERM, undated, p. 136.
24
LROD
, AML diary, 11/7/33, p. 141.
25
LROD
, AML letter to ECM, 11/16/33, p. 150.
26
LROD
, AML diary, 11/30/33, p. 163.
27
Humbert Wolf, as found in
LROD
, AML diary, 12/5/33, p. 169.
28
LROD
, AML diary, 12/5/33, p. 170.
29
Ibid., 12/9/33, p. 174–175.
30
Ibid., 12/16/32, p. 181.
31
Ibid., 12/19/33, p. 182.
32
The plane had been named
Tingmissartoq
, meaning “big bird,” by the Eskimos of Greenland.
33
LROD
, AML letter to ERMM, 12/31/33, p. 183.