Tenement Toilers,” Success 5 (April 1902): 213–14, 232; “A Doer of the Word,”
Ainslee’s 9 ( June 1902): 453; and “Christmas in the Tenements,” Harper’s Weekly
46 (December 6, 1902): 52–53. “Curious Shifts of the Poor” became “A Touch
of Human Brotherhood,” Success 5 (March 1902): 140–41.
11. FF, 197.
12. TD to Richard Duªy, November 13, 1901; Duªy to TD, December 6,
1901; TD to Duªy, Dec. 10, 1901 (Penn); and L, 1: 66–69.
13. TD to Richard Duªy, December 23, 1901; Duªy to TD, January 30, 1902;
TD to Duªy, February 2, 1902 (Penn); and William White, “Dreiser on Hardy,
Henley, and Whitman,” English Language Notes 6 (November 1968): 122–24.
14. Richard Duªy to TD, December 6, 1901, March 5, March 28, and July
31, 1902 (Penn).
15. AD, 70, 77; and TD to Richard Duªy, December 5, 1902, [December]
12, [1902] (Penn); and TD to Duªy, January 6, 1903 (Virginia).
16. AD, 55–113. See also AL for additional background on this period.
17. L, 2: 424; and “‘Down Hill’: A Chapter in Dreiser’s Story about Him-
self,” ed. Thomas P. Riggio, DS 19 (Fall 1988): 12.
18. Holograph manuscript of “Down Hill and Up,” part I (Penn); and DML,
2: 688.
19. “Life Stories of Successful Men—No. 11, Chauncey Mitchell Depew,” Suc-
cess 1 (November 1898): 3–4; reprinted in TDU, 52–59. Twenty-seven years later,
while writing the final chapter of An American Tragedy, Dreiser interviewed Depew,
who at ninety-one was “still at his o‹ce every day of the week” (“Chauncey M.
Depew,” Cosmopolitan 79 [ July 1925]: 86–87, 183–85).
20. “‘Down Hill,’” 14–15; and Marguerite Tjader [Harris], Theodore Dreiser:
A New Dimension (Norwalk, Conn.: Silvermine Publishers, 1965), 72–73, where
a later mystical experience is discussed.
21. AL, 44.
22. Robert Van Gelder, “An Interview with Theodore Dreiser,” New York
Times Book Review, March 16, 1941.
23. AL, 52–54.
24. CGC, 171–81.
25. Austin Brennan to Paul Dresser, April 25, 1903 (Penn).
26. AL, 77.
27. “Culhane, the Solid Man,” in TM, 142. Dreiser took his title from Ned
Harrigan’s song, “Muldoon, the Solid Man.” The sketch included several inac-
curacies, which Muldoon and his admirers resented.
28. Edward Van Every, Muldoon, The Solid Man of Sport (New York: Fred-
erick A. Stokes Company, 1929), 4–7; and Dictionary of American Biography, 11,
n o t e s t o p a g e s 1 6 8 – 1 7 5
4 2 9
Supplement One: 569. Van Every gives Muldoon’s year of birth as 1845, but the
DAB, which casts doubts on his Civil War participation, gives 1852.
29. AL, 90.
30. AL, 99–100; and Van Every, Muldoon, 3.
31. W. A. Swanberg, Dreiser (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1965), 107; and AL,
107.
32. AL, 111.
33. AL, 115.
34. “‘Up Hill’: A Chapter in Dreiser’s Story about Himself,” ed. Thomas P.
Riggio, DS 20 (Spring 1989): 10–12.
35. AL, 120, 149.
36. “The Cruise of the ‘Idlewild,’” Bohemia 17 (October 1909): 441–47, also
in Free; Paul Dresser to TD, June 22, 1903 (Penn); and “The Mighty Burke,”
McClure’s 37 (May 1911): 40–50, reprinted as “The Mighty Rourke” in TM,
289.
37. “The Irish Section Foreman Who Taught Me How to Live,” Hearst’s In-
ternational 46 (August 1924): 20–21, 118–21. See Richard W. Dowell, “Will the
Real Mike Burke Stand Up, Please!” DN 14 (Spring 1983), 1–9; and F. O.
Matthiessen, Theodore Dreiser (New York: William Sloane Associates, 1951),
101–2. Dreiser expresses his frustration over the struggle to write Book I of An
American Tragedy in a letter to Sallie Kussell, August 16, 1924 (Virginia).
38. AL, 176; “The Toil of the Laborer,” New York Call, July 13, 1913; and “The
Irish Section Foreman,” 120.
39. Paul Dresser to TD, December 12, 1903; Dresser to TD, October 18, 1903
(Penn); and Richard Lingeman, Theodore Dreiser (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons,
1986), 1: 381.
40. Chains: Lesser Novels and Stories (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927),
98–132; and CGC, 104–7, 240, 269. See also Joseph Gri‹n, The Small Canvas:
An Introduction to Dreiser’s Short Stories (Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson
University Press, 1985), 94–96. Before “St. Columba and the River” appeared in
Chains, it appeared as “Glory Be! McGlathery,” in the Pictorial Review 26 ( Jan-
uary 1925): 5–7, 51–52, 54, 71. For the possibility that the original newspaper ver-
sion may have been based on Dreiser’s experience as a laborer in the excavation
of the tunnel under the North River, see Lester Cohen, “Theodore Dreiser: A
Personal Memoir,” Discovery 4 (September 1954): 99–126.
41. Lydia Cushman Schurman, “Theodore Dreiser and His Street and Smith
Circle,” Dime Novel Round-Up 65, no. 6 (1995): 183–95; FF, 205–6; Robert H.
Elias, Theodore Dreiser (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1970; orig. pub. 1948),
133–34; and TD to Charles Fort, June 22, July 15, and August 11, 1905 (Penn).
42. “The Rivers of the Nameless Dead,” Tom Watson’s Magazine 1 (March
1905): 112–13; and “The Track Walker,” Tom Watson’s Magazine 1 ( June 1905):
502–3; both reprinted in CGC, 284–87 and 104–7.
n o t e s t o p a g e s 1 7 5 – 1 8 1
4 3 0
43. “The Silent Worker,” Tom Watson’s Magazine 2 (September 1905): 364,
later reprinted as part of “Three Sketches of the Poor,” New York Call, Novem-
ber 23, 1913, as “The Man Who Bakes Your Bread,” New York Call, April 13, 1919,
and as “The Men in the Snow” in CGC, 228–30 ; and “The Loneliness of the
City,” Tom Watson’s Magazine 2 (October 1905): 474–75, reprinted in TDS,
157–58.
44. Paul Dresser to Austin Brennan, May 19, 1904 (Penn); Vera Dreiser, My
Uncle Theodore (New York: Nash Publishing, 1976), 126; New York Times, Jan-
uary 31, 1906; and D holograph, chap. XXVII (Indiana).
45. Paul Dresser to Mary Francis (Mame) Brennan, December 10, 1905
(Penn); and TM, 105–6.
46. Vera Dreiser, My Uncle Theodore, 69, 125–128; Vera Dreiser to W. A. Swan-
berg, May 4, 1964 (Penn); Richard W. Dowell, “Dreiser vs. Terre Haute, or Paul
Dresser’s Body Lies A-Molderin’ in the Grave,” DS 20 (Fall 1989): 10; and Clay-
ton W. Henderson, On the Banks of the Wabash: The Life and Music of Paul Dresser
(Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2003), xxviii. Henderson ques-
tions whether the White Rats helped pay for the funeral (314), but also quotes
from a letter by Ed Dreiser’s wife, Mai, that “the White Rats society sent Mary
[Mame] Brennan $250,” which she spent in reburying Paul with his parents in
Chicago (321).
47. Carl Dreiser to TD, May 28, 1901, November 10 and 28, 1907, October
16 and December 28, 1908 (Penn). Dreiser stated that Carl committed suicide at
age sixteen ( D, 599), but Vera Dreiser, Ed’s daughter, more correctly remembered
for biographer Richard Lingeman ( Theodore Dreiser, 1: 212, 439) that Carl com-
mitted suicide, “barely out of his teens.”
48. Lingeman, Theodore Dreiser, 1: 404; FF, 210; and L, 1: 75–79.
49. Quoted in Swanberg, Dreiser, 114.
50. “The Beauty of the Tree,” Broadway Magazine 16 ( June 1906): 130; “The
Poet’s Creed,” Broadway Magazine 16 (August 1906): 353; and “Fruitage,” Broad-
way Magazine 17 (February 1907): 566.
51. Elias, Dreiser, 136; L, 1: 84; TM, 214; and James L. W. West III, “Dreiser and the B. W. Dodge Sister Carrie, ” Studies in Bibliography 35 (1982): 323–31.
52. See TDCR, 27–54, for the full texts of the 1907 edition reviews; Otis Not-
man’s interview with Dreiser in the New York Times Saturday Review of Books,
June 15, 1907, is reprinted in TDS, 163–64. For the alteration of the Ade passage
in the 1907 edition, see Jack Salzman, “Dreiser and Ade: A Note on the Text of
Sister Carrie, ” American Literature 40 ( January 1969): 544–48.
53. Elias, Dreiser, 137–38; TD to Professor L. S. Randolph, September 16, 1909
(Virginia); and FF, 219. Dreiser puts the figure for his highest salary at Butter-
ick at $7,500; see the autobiographical account given to Grant Richards in 1911
(Virginia). In “The Irish Section Foreman” (121), however, Dreiser set his Butt-
erick salary at $10,000.
n o t e s t o p a g e s 1 8 2 – 1 8 7
4 3 1
54. Swanberg, Dreiser, 121; and William C. Lengel, “The ‘Genius’ Himself,”
Esquire 10 (September 1938): 55.
55. Delineator, September 1907, 284; and L, 1: 94–95.
56. Anonymous review reprinted in TDCR, 41–42.
57. DML, 1: 16–18; and Leonard Keen Hirshberg, B.A., M.D., What You
Ought to Know About Your Baby, (New York: Butterick Publications, 1910), 21.
Hirshberg told biographer Robert H. Elias on August 8, 1945, that Mencken “re-
ally wrote the articles by-lined by me in Dreiser’s Delineator” (Cornell). In a copy
of the collected articles, What You Ought to Know About Your Baby, Mencken
inscribed to a friend: “I did this for the Delineator, then edited by Theodore
Dreiser. Hirshberg drew up rough drafts and I wrote the articles” (Texas).
58. DML, 1: 10; and H. L. Mencken, My Life As Author and Editor, ed.