As to Tomlinson, she decided in August, 1908, “that he was not broad enough to write her history, but that she would sometime get the right one to write it for her. ” 122 Only a few days previously, she had exacted from Dickey a solemn promise that after her decease he would make a record of his experiences with her, but in that case she seems not to have had a full-scale biography in mind.