1. Diaries, Book 60, July 13, 1963; Malcolm Cowley, The Literary Situation (New York: Viking Press, 1954), 162; Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, eds., Twentieth-Century Authors (New York: H. H. Wilson, 1942), 1310.

2. Diaries, Book 60, July 13, 1963; Interview with Edgar Snow, Armed Forces Radio, Tokyo, January 29, 1946, ESC.

3. Details on Kansas City history and politics are based on the following sources: Missouri: A Guide to the "Show Me" State , compiled by writers of the Works Projects Administration of Missouri (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1944); Henry C. Haskell, Jr., and Richard B. Fowler, City of the Future: A Narrative History of Kansas City, 1850-1950 (Kansas City: Frank Glenn Publishing, 1950); William Reddig, Tom's Town (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1947); Lyle W. Dorsett, The Pendergast Machine (New York: Oxford University Press, 1968); William E. Parrish, Charles T. Jones, Jr., Lawrence O. Christensen, Missouri: The Heart of the Nation (St. Louis: Forum Press, 1980).

4. David McCullough, Truman (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1992), 193-252.

5. Diaries, Book 52, January 23, 1947; Edgar Snow, "Missouri Days," unpublished ms. chapter, RHP.

6. Parrish, et al., Missouri , 283-292; Frederick Lewis Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen Twenties (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1931), 45-75.

7. Snow later wrote, "The harsh talk about British imperialism I heard in childhood from Irish relatives, strong sympathizers with the Sinn Feiners, must have helped prepare me to believe that morality always lay on the side of rebellion, and divinity as well, where Britain was the overlord" ( JTTB , 25).

8. Diaries, Book 60, July 13, 1963; ES to Mildred, November 22, 1932, MP in ESC.

9. Diaries, Book 60, July 13, 1963; "Missouri Days."

10. Yenching News , Peking, October 23, 1934. In December of 1934 the two institutions formalized their relationship in a Yenching-Missouri Foundation to promote education in the profession of journalism ( Yenching News , December 20, 1934). For details on the Missouri-China connection, see John Maxwell Hamilton, "The Missouri News Monopoly and American Altruism in China: Thomas F. F. Millard, J. B. Powell, and Edgar Snow," Pacific Historical Review 55 (February 1986): 28-29; and Robert Stevens, "J. B. Powell and the Missouri-China Connection," Missouri Historical Review 82 (April 1988): 274-275.

11. "Missouri Days."

12. Interview with Dr. Charles White, September 13, 1978, ESC.

13. ES to "Dear Tony," July 11, 1968, ESP in ESC; JTTB , 30; Lois Wheeler Snow, A Death with Dignity: When the Chinese Came (New York: Random House, 1974), 36; ES to Charles White, December 27, 1954, ESP in ESC.

14. HFS to David Barbosa, December 1, 1988, HFS files; Westport Herald (1923), 127, Henry Mitchell Papers in ESC.

15. "Missouri Days"; ES to mother, October 31, 1927, MP in ESC.

16. Diaries, Book 52, January 23, 1947.