18 “who so nearly drove me mad”: Ibid., 259. Although Gilman’s story dampened Mitchell’s popularity, it did not stop Woodrow Wilson, shortly after his 1912 election to the presidency, from undergoing an examination at Mitchell’s clinic. For over a decade Wilson had suffered small strokes and other events associated with an undiagnosed cerebral-vascular disorder, including one jarring moment in 1906 when, while president of Princeton, he temporarily lost vision in his left eye. Dr. Mitchell offered the prognosis that Wilson would not survive his first term. He recommended rest, exercise, and a healthy diet and advised the president to keep stress to a minimum. Link, “Dr. Grayson’s Predicament,” 488–89.
19 “I find that my material world”: S. Smith, Theodate Pope Riddle, ch. 5, p. 1.
20 “Pictures have been dead”: Ibid.
21 “My interest in architecture”: Ibid.
22 “tired of seeing”: Ibid.
23 “I truly believe”: Letter, Pope to Ada Brooks Pope, June 28, 1915, Riddle Papers.
24 “I can’t help hoping”: Mackworth, This Was My World, 242.
25 “We noticed this with much surprise”: Ibid., 241–42.
26 “one very smart navy blue serge”: Letter, Grace French to Mrs. Prichard, Nov. 12, 1915, Prichard Papers.
27 “very short”: Letter, Grace French to Mrs. Prichard, Nov. 20, 1915, Prichard Papers. Mike Poirier contends this woman was Irish.
28 “A party of us”: Letter, Olive North to Mrs. Prichard, Sept. 11, 1915, Prichard Papers.
29 “I never saw him again”: Ibid.
30 “There were so many on the ship”: letter, Gertrude Adams to Mrs. Prichard, undated, Prichard Papers.
31 In the evening: Ramsay, Lusitania, 50.