181 “I longed for the day”: Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 222.
181 “the prospects of returning”: Fawcett to Keltie, Feb. 4, 1920, RGS.
182 “Loneliness is not”: Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 238.
182 “I must return”: Brian Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 235.
183 “It's up to you”: Brian Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 16.
183 “[Lawrence] may be”: Fawcett to Harold Large, March 26, 1919, Fawcett Family Papers.
184 “of faith, courage”: Fawcett to Esther Windust, March 5, 1923, PHFP.
184 “I want to go”: Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 16.
184 “unsatisfied and unsettled”: Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 5, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.
184 “both strong as”: Fawcett to Large, Feb. 5, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.
184 “I can only say”: Fawcett to John Scott Keltie, April 4, 1924, RGS.
185 “All water has”: Nina Fawcett to Large, Nov. 26, 1922, Fawcett Family Papers.
185 “The situation is”: Fawcett to Large, Oct. 16, 1923, Fawcett Family Papers.
185 “My man actually”: Nina Fawcett to Large, July 18, 1919, Fawcett Family Papers.
185 “I wish you”: Fawcett to Keltie, Dec. 29, 1923, RGS.
185 “P.H.F. was in”: Nina Fawcett to Large, Aug. 14, 1922, Fawcett Family Papers.
185 “My father's impatience”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 275.
186 “Archeological and ethnological”: Fawcett to Large, Oct. 16, 1923, Fawcett Family Papers.
186 “the money wasted”: Fawcett to Keltie, Nov. 29, 1921, RGS.
186 “men of science”: Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 208.
186 “all the skepticism”: Fawcett to Keltie, Nov. 1, 1924, RGS.
186 “going to see”: Fawcett to Keltie, Dec. 18, 1922, RGS.
186 “The valley and city”: Mrs. Letheran to Fawcett, Oct. 9, 1919, Fawcett Family Papers.
186 “the treasures of”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Planetary Control,” p. 347.
186 “a trifle unbalanced”: George Miller Dyott to Arthur R. Hinks, June 24, 1927, RGS.
186 “scientific maniac”: Stanley Allen, New Haven Register, n.d., RGS.
186 “mental storms”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Obsession.”
186 “The Mining Syndicate”: Fawcett to Large, Oct. 19, 1923, Fawcett Family Papers.
186 “It seemed as”: Jack Fawcett to Windust, Dec. 2, 1924, PHFP.
187 “A short time”: Jack Fawcett to Windust, Oct. 28, 1924, PHFP.
187 “The capacity for love”: Fay Brodie-Junes to Nina Fawcett, n.d., Fawcett Family Papers.
187 “the Gods will”: Fawcett to Large, Oct. 19, 1923, Fawcett Family Papers.
188 “a supply of bombs”: New York Times, Oct. 4, 1924.
188 “the whole method”: New York Times, Aug. 12, 1924.
188 “highly respectable man”: Fawcett to Hinks, Dec. 23, 1924, RGS.
188 “to get into touch”: Jack Fawcett to Windust, Oct. 28, 1924, PHFP.
189 “the finest exploration”: Fawcett to Keltie, Feb. 4, 1925, RGS.
189 “We have known”: Atlanta Constitution, Jan. 12, 1925.
190 “I judge from Lynch's”: Fawcett to Keltie, Nov. 4, 1924, RGS.
190 “a modern Columbus”: Fawcett to Keltie, Oct. 10, 1924, RGS.
190 “The R.G.S. bred me”: Fawcett to Keltie, Nov. 2, 1924, RGS.
190 “If they don't”: Nina Fawcett to Large, March 31, 1927, Fawcett Family Papers.
190 “Not a sum”: Fawcett to Keltie, March 17, 1925, RGS.
190 “In some ways”: Fawcett to Keltie, Feb. 4, 1925, RGS.
190 “a fine young fellow”: Reeves, Recollections of a Geographer, p. 98.
190 “I shall rejoice”: Fawcett to Keltie, Nov. 10, 1924, RGS.
191 “In two years' time”: Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 46.
191 “[He] succumbed”: Fawcett to Hinks, Dec. 23, 1924, RGS.
191 “must have suffered”: Fawcett to Keltie, March 17, 1925, RGS.
191 “the plan can”: Isaiah Bowman to Rockefeller, Jan. 3, 1925, AGS.
192 “He did precipitate”: Fawcett to Keltie, March 17, 1925, RGS.
192 “I am a great believer”: Fawcett to Keltie, Dec. 25, 1924, RGS.
192 “the honour of immortality”: Fawcett to Bowman, Dec. 15, 1924, AGS.
194 In 2004: New York Times, Dec. 29, 2006.
196 Although he made: Nina Fawcett to Arthur R. Hinks, Nov. 17, 1927, RGS.
196 “would preserve a higher”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Proposal for a S. American Expedition,” April 4, 1924, RGS.
197 “At least forty million”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 278.
197 “No Olympic games”: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 1925.
197 “Aren't the reports”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 280.
197 Brazilian authorities: Fawcett to John Scott Keltie, Feb. 4, 1925, RGS.
198 “They do not want”: Ibid.
198 “We have met”: Fawcett to Keltie, March 7, 1925, RGS.
198 the daughter of: Williams, introduction to AmaZonia, p. 22.
198 “I became acquainted”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 279.
198 “[The colonel] and Jack”: Ibid.
198 “[Raleigh] is much”: Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 16, 1925, RGS.
198 “I suppose after”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 279.
198 “I don't intend”: Ibid.
199 “A whole lot”: Ibid., p. 281.
199 “A snake-bite which bleeds”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 3, 1925. According to snake experts today, it is actually not possible to determine if a snake is poisonous simply based on whether the wound bleeds.
199 “I saw some quite”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 279.
199 “The lavatory”: Ibid., p. 281.
200 “I am now”: Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 5, 1925, Rimell Family Papers. 200 “Raleigh is a funny”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 283.
200 “a desperate villain”: Ibid., p. 281.
200 “On Wednesday night”: Ibid., p. 282.
201 “almost big enough”: Raleigh Rimell to Dulcie Rimell, March 11, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.
201 “Cuyaba will seem”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 281.