tempting to view them through the prism of love scorned, for Holman would have known well what other women in Marconi’s life also would learn, that one salient trait of his romantic character was jealousy. “I am perfectly happy, but for one little thought,” Holman wrote, “and that would vanish forever if Signor Marconi would find another love and be as happy in his choice as I feel I am in mine.” Halifax Herald, May 8, 1902. Beaon Institute, MG 12/214.E.: Envelop/Index Cards.
By the end of the day: Indianapolis News, January 22, 1902. Indiana State Library.
As the liner approached: Indianapolis News, February 10, 1902. Indiana State Library; Bussey, Marconi’s Atlantic Leap, 69.
details of the new Canadian arrangement: “How Marconi Came to Canada,” 9–10. William Smith Papers. Notes and Transcripts. Marconi Papers. Memoranda, Printed Matter. Archives Canada, MG 30 D18 III.
“Sir William Preece is”: Financial Times, February 21, 1902.
The Westminster Gazette suggested: Westminster Gazette, February 26, 1902.
The Electrical Times condemned: Electrical Times, February 27, 1902.
Two days later: Details of the Philadelphia episode come from Bussey, Marconi’s Atlantic Leap, 72; Marconi, My Father, 124–25; Weightman, Signor Marconi’s, 124–26. Weightman quotes extensively from McClure’s account, published in McClure’s Magazine.
“daylight effect”: Marconi, My Father, 126; Vyvyan, Marconi and Wireless, 32.
“Damn the sun!”: Marconi, My Father, 130.
That summer the Daily Mail: Read, Urban Democracy, 475.
So things stood when: Baker, History, 95–96; Weightman, Signor Marconi’s, 136–37.
“malignant Marconiphobia”: Weightman, Signor Marconi’s, 137.
“Marconi’s whining”: Thompson to Lodge, April 2, 1902. UCL, Lodge Collection, 89/104 ii.
At Glace Bay Richard Vyvyan: Vyvyan, Marconi and Wireless, 50; Marconi, My Father, 146.
En route, during a stop: Hong, Wireless, 83; Marconi, My Father, 131–32.
Marconi blamed Fleming: Hong, Wireless, 83.
“It should be explained to [Fleming]”: Quoted at length in Hong, Wireless, 83–84.
None of this, however: Bartram, I, 53; Hong, Wireless, 117.
“Knowing that experiments were in progress”: Maskelyne Incident, 2–3.
THE LADIES INVESTIGATE
“a model husband”: John Burroughs Statement, 4. Brief for the Prosecution, NA- DPP 1/13.
“kind and attentive”: Clara Martinetti Statement, 22. Coroner’s Depositions, NA- CRIM 1/117.
“kind-hearted humane man”: Adeline Harrison Statement, 27. Ibid.
Even before word arrived: Michael Bernstein Statement, 90. Witness, NA DPP 1/13.
On March 30: Louise Smythson Statement, 32–33. Witness, NA-DPP 1/13.
It took him a month: Otto Crippen to Melinda May, May 9, 1910. Copy in Melinda May Statement, 37. Witness, NA-DPP 1/13.
“The smell,” Jackson said: Further Statement of Emily Jackson, 45. Witness, NA- DPP 1/13; Emily Jackson Statement, 47, 49. Coroner’s Depositions, NA-CRIM 1/117.
“A night or two after this”: Further Statement of William Long, 55. Witness, NA- DPP 1/13.
“I have at last”: Le Neve to Jackson, “Sunday” (probably June 12, 1910). Leters from Le Neve to Mrs. Jackson, NA-DPP 1/13.
“Have been ever so busy”: Le Neve to Jackson, June 29, 1910. Ibid.
“Still,” she told Mrs. Jackson: Ibid.
“He used to come with me”: Le Neve, Ethel Le Neve, 26.
“So time slipped along”: Ibid., 26.
“Whilst we were talking to him”: Clara Martinetti Statement, 25. Supplemental Information, NA-CRIM 1/117.
On May 6, 1910: Of Edward’s funeral, Andre Maurois wrote, “The contrast of all the black with the gay spring sunshine lent a strange beauty to the streets of the capital.” Maurois, Edwardian Era, 354.
A DUTY TO BE WICKED
The first signals: Vyvyan, Marconi and Wireless, 36.
In the midst of it all: Weightman, Signor Marconi’s, 145.
“It is beyond the powers”: Details on Nevil Maskelyne and the Egyptian Hall come from the following sources: Bolles Collection. Thomas Allen, The History and Antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and Parts Adjacent (Vol. 4). Cowie and Strange, 1827, 303; Bartram, I and II, throughout; Macqueen-Pope, Goodbye Piccadilly, 78–81; Oppenheim, Other World, 25–27.
In an article: Maskelyne Incident, 2–5.
“The plain question is”: Ibid., 5.
Cuthbert Hall, Marconi’s: Ibid., 7.
“Clearly, Mr. Hall is between”: Ibid., 12; Bartram, I, 54.
At Glace Bay silence prevailed: Vyvyan, Marconi and Wireless, 37–40.
“WHAT’S WRONG”: Sydney Daily Post, Dec. 9, 1902. Beaton Institute, MG 12/214. G3.: Scrapbook.
“All put cotton wool”: Marconi, My Father, p. 140
Times London: Vyvyan, Marconi and Wireless, 38.
A sudden gale: MacLeod, Marconi, 78.
Marconi had instructed: Ibid., 79.
Parkin crafted an account: Weightman, Signor Marconi’s, 147–48.
“Although these three messages”: Vyvyan, Marconi and Wireless, 39.
The telegram as received: Ibid., 40.
Roosevelt’s message: Ibid., 40–41.
Marconi’s critics sensed blood: Bartram, I, 54.
“I was not concerned”: Westminster Gazette, March 13,
