Rosalie Edge, Hawk of Mercy: The Activist Who Saved Nature from the Conservationists

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Notes abbreviations aou American Ornithological Union ccns Cape Cod National Seashore, Edgartown, Massachusetts cdw Charles Dickerman Williams cne Charles Noel Edge ecc Emergency Conservation Committee hbb Harriet Bowen Barrow ib Irving Brant ibc Irving Brant Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress iw “Good Companions in Conservation: Annals of an Implacable Widow,” by Rosalie Edge jdd J. N. “Ding” Darling jhma-hmsa Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Papers, Julian Hill Memorial ArchiveHawk Mountain Sanctuary Archives, Acopian Center for Conservation Learning, Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania jwb John Wylie Barrow mb Maurice Broun mblac Maurice Broun Library, Acopian Center for Ornithology, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania mdb Margaret Dubois Barrow men Margaret Edge Nightingale mrb Mabel Rosalie Barrow naas National Association of Audubon Societies nas-nypl National Audubon Society Collection, New York Public Library pe Peter Edge pepld Peter Edge private letters and documents 256 ] notes to introduction re Rosalie Edge repdpl Rosalie Edge Papers, cons29, Conservation Collection, Denver Public Library, Denver, Colorado ssc Sophia Smith Collection of Woman’s History Manuscripts, William Allan Neilson Library, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts wvn Willard Van Name introduction 1. Official program of the National Audubon Society, “A Texas Notebook Annual Convention,” Corpus Christi, November 10–14, 1962, nas-nypl. For Edge’s unexpected appearance, see Graham, Audubon Ark, 201. 2. Roger Tory Peterson, Sixtieth Anniversary Address at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary , and interview with author, October 1994. 3. Interviews with Richard Pough (October 1990) and Roland C. Clement (July 1990, May 2007, November 2007) confirmed that they spoke with re at the nas convention . 4. For Edge’s resemblance to Queen Mary and a pointer, see Robert Lewis Taylor, “Oh, Hawk of Mercy!” New Yorker, April 17, 1948, 31. The size of the ecc was five according to Bainbridge, “Origins,” 184. The testimony given by re at the House of Representatives Public Lands Committee Hearing on Mount Olympus National Park, April 27, 1936, 78, stated there were twelve members. 5. New Yorker, April 17, 1948, 31. See re’s unpublished memoir “Good Companions in Conservation: Annals of an Implacable Widow” for her preference for a broad approach to conservation. 6. iw 1, 84. 7. Marjorie Shuler, Christian Science Monitor, October 2, 1938; Brooklyn Daily Eagle, April 17, 1938; Altoona (Pa.) Tribune; Time Magazine, October 11, 1937; Jaques, Birds across the Sky, 188. 8. New Yorker, April 17, 1948, 46. 9. re, ecc pamphlets against Bureau of Biological Survey poisoning programs date to 1930, opposing strychnine and thallium. 10. re testimony at Senate Hearing of Committee on Indian Affairs, 77th Cong., 1st sess., A Bill Providing for Federal Assistance in Eradicating the Cattle Tick in the Seminole Indian Reservation in Florida, S. 1476, November 5, 1941, February 25, 1942, 118. 11. Shuler, Christian Science Monitor. 12. Graham, Audubon Ark, 201. 13. re’s appearance is drawn from the last known photo taken of her by friend Margaret Raymond in the summer of 1962 and from the Carsten Lien photo, 1959. 14. Roland C. Clement, the conference organizer, provided number attending. notes to chapter one [ 257 chapter one: Noblest Girl 1. re lived at 1200 Fifth Avenue in 1933, before moving to 1215 Fifth Avenue, where she lived until 1962. 2. iw, 223. 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid., 63. 5. Ibid., 9. 6. Original handwritten letter from H. R. Barrow to mrb, April 13, 1909, pepld. 7. re, “Coquette,” 1939, 3, pepld. 8. re, “Letter to My Daughter,” February 2, 1941, pepld. 9. re, “Coquette,” 13–14. 10. Ibid. 11. re, “Coquette,” 3. 12. “Noble Girl” or “Noblest Girl” in original handwritten letters from jwb to mrb, September 30, 1883; from jwb to mrb, November 16, 1884; from jwb to hbb, December 19, 1884. Reference to siblings as “subordinates” in letter from jwb to mrb, June 5, 1883, pepld. 13. Original handwritten letters from jwb to mrb, May 26, 1882; from jwb to mrb, November 16, 1884, pepld. 14. Letter from jwb to mrb, June 5, 1883, pepld. 15. Original handwritten letter from jwb to mrb, June 1883, pepld. 16. Woodward genealogy from published but unidentifiable genealogy text with chapter written by Mary Nicoll Putnam and William Amos Woodward, late 1800s, 131–62, pepld. 17. Washburn, “From Puritan, Huguenot, and Patroon,” 413. 18. Typed copy of original letter signed “Harriet B. Barrow,” addressed “Dear Children ,” May 25, 1899, pepld. 19. re, “Date with Cousin Charles”; also in “Shadow of the Photograph,” 2, pepld. 20. Copies of jwb’s original notes and charts titled...