The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (86 page)

61
“has created a sensation”:
Ibid., 172.

61
“He is painting”:
Ibid., 239.

61
“just as good a fellow”:
Ibid.

61
“friends are rare”:
Cooper,
The Prairie
(Penguin), 29.

61
Cooper and Morse had met first:
Morse,
Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals
, Vol. I, 263.

62
“Crowds get round the picture”:
Cooper,
Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper
, Vol. II, 239.

62
“deliciously spring-like”:
Willis,
Pencillings by the Way
, 107.

62
“wholly bent”:
Silverman,
Lightning Man
, 109.

62
“wicked Morse”:
Ibid.

62
“without a true love”:
Ibid.

63
“amazingly improved”:
Cooper,
Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper
, Vol. II, 163.

63
Morse had no sooner unpacked:
Ibid., 167, 172.

63
Bread and Cheese:
Silverman,
Lightning Man
, 89.

63
“I saw nothing but Jefferson”:
Cooper,
Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper
, Vol. I, 96.

63
One stunning example of the genre:
Tatham, “Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre: The Figures in the Foreground,”
American Art Journal
, Vol. XIII, No. 4 (Autumn 1981), 41.

64
On a small piece of paper, Jefferson had drawn:
The piece of paper with Jefferson’s floor plan and Trumbull’s sketch is one of the treasures of the Trumbull Collection at the Yale Art Gallery.

65
Cooper loved what he saw emerging:
Cooper,
Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper
, Vol. II, 239.

66
I get up at eight:
Ibid.

66
“Lay it on here, Samuel”:
Ibid.

67
“the independent, self-possessed”:
Willis,
Pencillings by the Way
, 43–44.

67
Morse with his kind:
Ibid., 110.

67
“chameleon face”:
Morse,
Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals
, Vol. I, 415.

68
Morse’s passport:
Papers of Samuel F. B. Morse, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

68
“little pleasure concealed”:
Cooper,
Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper
, Vol. I, 126.

68
Cooper’s nephew William:
Ibid., Vol. II, 144.

68
Cooper’s wife, Susan:
Ibid., 168.

69
“They
[
the French
]
”:
Ibid., 175.

69
“Of course, I believe them”:
Ibid., 109.

69
“When he goes into crowded rooms”:
Susan Cooper to her sisters, November 29, 1830, James Fenimore Cooper Papers, Beinecke Library, Yale University.

69
“What are you to do”:
James Jackson, Sr., to James Jackson, Jr., November 25, 1831, Jackson Family Papers, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School.

69
“a good deal of exaggeration”:
Cooper,
Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper
, Vol. II, 139.

69
Cooper had been reading aloud:
Cooper,
Correspondence of James Fenimore Cooper
, Vol. I, 38.

70
he was expelled at age sixteen:
Cooper,
Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper
, Vol. I, 5.

70
Finding he liked the sailor’s life:
Franklin,
James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years
, 109, 111.

70
“By persuasion of Mrs. Cooper”:
Cooper,
Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper
, Vol. I, 44, 43.

71
The house he had built burned:
Ibid., 84.

71
Cooper had written
The Last of the Mohicans: Franklin,
The New World of James Fenimore Cooper
, 240.

71
“I think
Pioneers, Mohicans”: Cooper,
Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper
, Vol. I, 168.

72
He was hailed as the American Walter Scott:
Ibid., Vol. II, 84.

72
“the mere butterflies”:
Ibid., Vol. I, 15.

72
“The fear of losing their butterfly distinctions”:
Ibid., 16.

72
“It is a weary path, indeed”:
Cooper,
The Prairie
(Penguin), 23.

72
“a point of honor”:
Cooper,
Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper
, Vol. II, 61.

72
“gaining ground daily”:
Ibid., Vol. I, 165.

73
“more than anyone”:
Ashbel Smith to W. Hall, February 25, 1832, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.

73
“a very
distingué
part of the town”:
Susan Cooper to her sister Caroline, April 26, n.d. (probably 1833), James Fenimore Cooper Papers, Beinecke Library, Yale University.

73
The salon is near thirty feet:
Cooper,
Gleanings in Europe: France
, Vol. I, 83. The building in which the Coopers lived at 59 rue Saint-Dominique is still there.

73
“adjoining Mr. Cooper’s library”:
Susan Cooper to her sister Caroline, April 26, n.d. (probably 1833), James Fenimore Cooper Papers, Beinecke Library, Yale University.

73
“prattle like natives”:
Cooper,
Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper
, Vol. I, 223.

73
“We [are] … very retired”:
Susan Cooper to her sister Martha, January 26–27, 1831, James Fenimore Cooper Papers, Beinecke Library, Yale University.

74
“Instead of seeking society”:
Cooper,
Gleanings in Europe: France
, Vol. I, xx.

74
“The people seem to think”:
Cooper,
Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper
, Vol. I, 209.

74
Willis would describe:
Ibid., Vol. II, 122.

74
“Some of the best hours”:
Willard,
Journal and Letters, from France and Great Britain
, 90.

74
“our worthy friend, Mr. Morse”:
Susan Cooper to her sister Caroline, January 26, 1832(?), James Fenimore Cooper Papers, Beinecke Library, Yale University.

74
“an excellent man”:
Silverman,
Lightning Man
, 113.

75
“daily … almost hourly”:
Morse,
Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals
, Vol. II, 314.

75
“gentlemen in all republican simplicity”:
Franklin,
James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years
, 382.

75
“understood the look of a gentleman”:
Dowling,
Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris
, 119.

75
“genius in land speculation”:
Cunningham, ed.,
James Fenimore Cooper: A ReAppraisal
, 374.

75
“my noble-looking”:
Cooper,
Correspondence of James Fenimore Cooper
, Vol. I, 340.

76
“Geography” Morse:
Morse,
Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals
, Vol. I, 15; Silverman,
Lightning Man
, 10.

76
“very steady and good scholars”:
Morse,
Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals
, Vol. I, 21.

76
“I was made for a painter”:
Ibid.

76
“unsteady”:
Ibid., 11.

76
“Attend to one thing at a time”: Ibid., 4.

76
“steady and undissipated”:
Ibid., 5.

76
“one object”:
Silverman,
Lightning Man
, 12.

76
“Your mama and I”:
Morse,
Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals
, Vol. I, 22.

77
“no use of Segars”:
Silverman,
Lightning Man
, 11.

77
“The main business of life”:
Morse,
Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals
, Vol. I, 8.

77
study under Washington Allston:
Ibid., 21, 32.

77
His parents had designed:
Ibid., 31–32.

78
desire to “shine”:
Ibid., 177.

78
“mortifying”:
Ibid., 74–75.

78
“and that really to improve”:
Ibid., 75.

78
“Oh, he is an angel”:
Silverman,
Lightning Man
, 22.

79
Morse was amazed to learn:
Morse,
Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals
, Vol. I, 45.

79
“appeared very zealous”:
Prime,
The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse
, 36.