Henry Grady's New South: Atlanta, a Brave and Beautiful City

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Notes 1 Introduction 1 Henry W. Grady to Mrs. Henry W. Grady [December 1889], written from the Hotel Vendome, Boston, in Henry W. Grady Papers, Box 1, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., hereinafter cited as Grady Papers. In 1880 Grady bought shares in the Constitution for $80 a share, and additional shares from N. P. T. Finch, associate editor of the newspaper. By 1889 Grady's 236% shares were worth $500 fach, or $1 18,330. Dennis J. Pfennig, "Evan and Clark Howell of the Atlanta Constitution : The Partnership (1889-1897)" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Georgia, 1975),9, n. 25· 2 The text of this address can be read in Joel Chandler Harris, Life ofHenry W. Grady, Including His Writings and Speeches (New York, 1890), 158-79. 3 Henry W. Grady to Walter A. Taylor, Atlanta Constitution, December 31, 1889. 4 Dr. E. Guernsey to Dr. F. H. Orme, Constitution, December 29,1889. 5 Grady to Mrs. Grady [December 1889], written from the Hotel Vendome, Boston, in Grady Papers, Box 1. 6 The text of the address can be read in Joel Chandler Harris, Life ofHenry W. Grady, 180-98. 7 Most of the details of the dinner of the evening of December 12 and of the events of December 13 are taken from the Constitution, December 13, 14, 1889, and from Raymond B. Nixon, Henry W. Grady: Spokesman ofthe New South (New York, 1943),316-27. Some ofthe details of thejourney to Boston , the stay there, and thejourney home to Georgia are from a memoir by Evan P. Howell, editor in chief, Constitution, October 21, 1891. 8 The Bay State Club address, inJoel Chandler Harris, Life ofHenry W. Grady, 199-207. 206 I Notes to Pages 5-16 9 Henry W. Grady to Walter A. Taylor, December 31, 1889; Dr. E. Guernsey to Dr. F. H. Orme, both in Constitution, December 29, 1889. 10 Details of the arrival and of Dr. Orme's statement are from the Constitution, December 18, 1889. II Details ofGrady's final days, death, and funeral, ibid., December 23, 24, 26, 1889. 12 "Subscribers to raise the Grady mortgage," copy of an undated memorandum on stationery of the Constitution Weekly Department, W. A. Hemphill Papers, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. 13 Joel Chandler Harris, Life ofHenry W. Grady, 42. 14 Ibid., 41; Grady Scrapbook No. I, pp. 1,38, in Grady Papers. IS Joel Chandler Harris, Life of Henry W. Grady, 26-27; Nixon, Henry W. Grady: Spokesman ofthe New South, 2S. 16 Grady to Joel Chandler Harris, July [?], 1873. Letter found in 1985 in the attic of Harris's home in Atlanta and preserved there. 17 [H. C. Hudgins and Co.], Life and Labors of Henry W. Grady: His Speeches, Writings, Etc. (Atlanta, Ga., 1890),42. The colleague quoted is I. W. Avery. 18 Grady to Clark Howell, September 20,1884, in Joel Chandler Harris, Life ofHenry W. Grady, 40-42. 19 Grady to Augusta King Grady,January 31,1884, in Nixon, Henry W. Grady: Spokesman ofthe New South, 19. 20 Joel Chandler Harris, Life ofHenry W. Grady, 21. 21 Mrs.. William H. (Rebecca Latimer) Felton, My Memoirs of Georgia Politics (Atlanta, 1911), 186. 22 Nixon, Henry W. Grady: Spokesman ofthe New South, 22, 240-41. 23 Henry W. Grady, 'The Atheistic Tide Sweeping over The Continent," reprinted in Joel Chandler Harris, Life ofHenry W. Grady, 230-37. 24 Joel Chandler Harris, Life ofHenry W. Grady, 34-37; Constitution, January 13, 1884. 2S Constitution, October 21,22,1891; May 2S, 26,1892. 26 Ibid., February 13, 1890. 27 Ibid., Aprils, 1890. 28 Philip Alexander Bruce, The Rise ofthe New South (Philadelphia, 1905), vvi , passim. 29 Holland Thompson, The New South: A Chronicle ofSocial and Industrial Evolution (New Haven, Toronto, London, Oxford, 1919), I, 10-11, 130-42, 192-93, 226. This work is a volume in the Chronicles of America series. 30 Broadus Mitchell, The Rise ofCotton Mills in the South (Baltimore, 1921), passim . 31 See Benjamin B. Kendrick and Alex M. Arnett, The South Looks at Its Past (Chapel Hill, N.C., 1935), and Walter Prescott Webb, Divided We Stand: The Crisis ofa Frontierless Democracy (New York, Toronto, 1937). These scholars questioned whether the South was as united on major issues as the New Notes to Pages /6'-19 1207 South proponents claimed. Webb sought to undermine the idea that the Movement was a...