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7 Martha Nash Legg, interview, 32996

8 Duchane, interview

9 A Nash, interview

10 Duchane, interview

11 A Nash, interview

12 Duchane, interview

13 Ibid

14 William Ted Martin, interview, 9795

15 Gian-Carlo Rota, interview, 102994

16 Letter froinia Nash, 31259

17 Letter fro, 31259

18 A Nash, interview, 7197

19 Al Vasquez, interview, 61797

20 Duchane, interview

21 Ibid

22 Paul S Cohen, interview, 1596

23 Gertrude Moser, interview, 82595

24 Kay Whitehead, professor of mathematics, Tufts University interview, 121295

36: Day Breaks in Bowditch Hall

1 Paul S Cohen, interview, 1596

2 Adriano Garsia, interview, 123195

3 Cohen, interview

4 My description of how MIT's psychiatric sendee likely handled Nash's commitment is based on intervieith Benson Rowell Snyder, as hired by President Julius Stratton to reorganize the service, interview, 72497; Wade Rockwood, interview, 72697; Merton J Kahne, professor, MIT, interview, 51596; Harvey Burstein, forht in by Stratton to expand MIT's campus police, interview, 7397

5 The description of how Nash was taken to McLean against his will is based on a contemporaneous account by a former dean of Tufts Medical School, A Warren Stearns, who interviewed Nash shortly after his commitment (letter fron Stearns to Bernard Bradley, 41459), and a further elaboration by Nash (E-mail, 51598)

6 Snyder, interview

7 For a portrait of McLean as it was in the 1950s, I relied on an official history by S B Sutton, A Histon' of McLean Hospital A Histon' of McLean Hospital (Washi+ngton, DC: American Psychiatric Press, 1986); annual reports; firsthand accounts by Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, and Ray Charles, as well as Suzanna Kaysen's ton, DC: American Psychiatric Press, 1986); annual reports; firsthand accounts by Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, and Ray Charles, as well as Suzanna Kaysen's more recent report, Girl, Interrupted; Girl, Interrupted; and intervieith individuals associated with McLean in that era, including Paul Howard, former associate psychiatrist in chief and director of the clinical service, 21595; Kahne; Joseph Brenner, 72397; Arthur Cain, psychiatrist, 82097; Alfred Pope, senior neuropathologist, McLean Hospital, and professor of neuropathology, Harvard Medical School, 121395 and 21696 and intervieith individuals associated with McLean in that era, including Paul Howard, former associate psychiatrist in chief and director of the clinical service, 21595; Kahne; Joseph Brenner, 72397; Arthur Cain, psychiatrist, 82097; Alfred Pope, senior neuropathologist, McLean Hospital, and professor of neuropathology, Harvard Medical School, 121395 and 21696

8 Robert Garber, former president, American Psychiatric association, interview, 5696

9 Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, The Bell Jar, op cit; Ray Charles, op cit; Ray Charles, Brother Rav Brother Rav (New York: Da Capo, 1978, 1992) (New York: Da Capo, 1978, 1992)

10 Letter from A W Stearns to B Bradley, 51453

11 Zipporah Levinson, interview, 91195

12 Emma Duchane, interview, 62697

13 Robert Loas hospitalized at McLean at the end of April 1959 Loas confined to Bowditch, as he had been two years earlier when he wrote ”Day Breaks at Bowditch Hall,” one of the poems in To the Union Dead To the Union Dead Several of Nash's visitors, including Gian-Carlo Rota, Isadore Singer, and Arthur Mattuck, recall encounters with Lowell, and therefore it seems that Nash, too, was confined to Bowditch Since we have no firsthand reports from Nash, I have mented by the i his wife, writer Elizabeth Hardwrck, letter, 8897; poet Stanley Kunitz, interview, 8297; and Lowell's executor, Frank Bidart, interview, 72797 See also Ian Ha Gian-Carlo Rota, Isadore Singer, and Arthur Mattuck, recall encounters with Lowell, and therefore it seems that Nash, too, was confined to Bowditch Since we have no firsthand reports from Nash, I have mented by the i his wife, writer Elizabeth Hardwrck, letter, 8897; poet Stanley Kunitz, interview, 8297; and Lowell's executor, Frank Bidart, interview, 72797 See also Ian Haraphy (New York: Random House, 1982); Paul Mariani, (New York: Random House, 1982); Paul Mariani, The Lost Puritan, The Lost Puritan, op cit, and interview, 72897; Peter Davison, op cit, and interview, 72897; Peter Davison, The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston, 19551960, fro Smile: Poets in Boston, 19551960, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath (New York: Knopf, 1994), and interview, 81197 (New York: Knopf, 1994), and interview, 81197

14 ”I've been conditioning here for about a month,” letter from Robert Lowell to Edmund Wilson, 51959, from Bowditch House; ”In the hospital I spent ain my three books,” letter from Robert Lowell to Elizabeth Bishop, 72459

15 Elizabeth Hardwick, personal communication, 9897

16 Arthur Mattuck, e-mail, 8897

17 ”The house I was in was divided between ex-paranoid boys and senile old men,” letter from Robert Lowell to Peter Taylor, 31558

18 Letter from R Lowell to E Bishop, 31558

19 Ibid; also ”Waking in the Blue,” Robert Lowell, Life Studies and For the Union Dead Life Studies and For the Union Dead (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992) Quotes in this and the following paragraphs are taken fro” unless otherwise noted (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992) Quotes in this and the following paragraphs are taken fro in the Blue”; also Duchane, interview

21 Letter fro in the Blue” Bishop; also ”Waking in the Blue”

22 Seyhted Cannoneer View of a Nearsighted Cannoneer (New York: E P Dutton, 1968) (New York: E P Dutton, 1968)

23 Al Vasquez, interview, 61797

24 Z Levinson, interview

25 Vasquez, interview

26 Garsia, interview

27 Jurgen Moser, interview, 32396

28 Duchane, interview

29 George Mackey, interview, 121495

30 Herta Newman, interview, 3296

31 Felix Browder, interview, 1295