The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (87 page)

79
“Paint
large!”: Ibid., 103.

79
“Mr. West … told me”:
Morse,
Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals
, Vol. I, 102.

79
“These are necessary to a painter”:
Ibid.

79
“You mention being acquainted”:
Ibid., 118.

79
“quarrelsome companions”:
Ibid., 180.

80
“no nice dinners”:
Silverman,
Lightning Man
, 27.

80
“mere portrait painter”:
Ibid., 132.

80
I need not tell you:
Ibid.

80
“I long to bury myself”:
Ibid., 152.

81
“She is very beautiful”:
Ibid., 204.

81
“Is she acquainted with domestic affairs”:
Ibid., 207.

81
$2,000 to $3,000:
Morse,
Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals
, Vol. I, 209.

81
he developed a flexible (leather) piston:
Ibid., 211.

81
machine for carving marble:
Ibid., 245, 247.

81
Reverend Morse was asked to leave the pulpit:
Ibid., 223–24.

82
“fully employed”:
Ibid., 257.

82
“a nine days’ wonder”:
Ibid., 258.

82
“You will rejoice with me”:
Ibid., 259.

82
“My feelings were almost too powerful for me”:
Ibid., 262.

82
“not good”:
Ibid.

82
“noble” countenance:
Ibid., 261.

82
“accordance between the face and the character”:
Ibid., 262.

83
“There was a great crowd”:
Ibid.

83
“I have but little room”:
Ibid., 264.

83
“My affectionately beloved son”:
Ibid., 265.

83
“My whole soul seemed wrapped”:
Ibid., 269.

83
To my friends here:
Ibid., 270.

84
“a life of severe and perpetual toil”: New York Evening Post
, May 4, 1827.

84
Reverend Jedidiah Morse died:
Morse,
Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals
, Vol. I, 288.

84
In 1828 she, too, died:
Ibid., 293.

85
The sun is just disappearing:
Willis,
Pencillings by the Way
, 112.

85
“exotic production”:
Delaporte,
Disease and Civilization
, 17.

85
The first word of cholera in Paris: New York Evening Post
, May 1, 1832.

85
“in the presence of thirty-eight medical men”:
Ibid.

86
“Her eyes were started from their sockets”:
Willis,
Pencillings by the Way
, 126.

86
Stomach contained a quart of reddish fluid:
James Jackson, Jr., to James Jackson, Sr., March 20, 1832, Jackson Family Papers, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School.

86
“Vast numbers of people”: New York Evening Post
, May 7, 1832.

86
“a disease of the most frightful nature”:
James Jackson, Jr., to James Jackson, Sr., April 1, 1832, Jackson Family Papers, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School.

86
“It is almost like walking through an autopsy room”:
Ibid.

86
The official bulletin of the morning:
Journal of Ashbel Smith, April 3, 1832, Center for American History, University of Texas.

86
“But if, as I think it highly possible”:
James Jackson, Jr., to James Jackson, Sr., November 25, 1831, Jackson Family Papers, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School.

87
We are bound as men:
James Jackson, Jr., to James Jackson, Sr., April 1, 1832, Jackson Family Papers, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School.

87
The common understanding:
See, generally, Delaporte,
Disease and Civilization
, 199–200.

87
Wild rumors spread: NewYork Mirror
, May 19, 1832;
New York Evening Post
, May 18, 1832.

88
“We have had pestilence”:
Susan Cooper to her sister, April 1832, James Fenimore Cooper Papers, Beinecke Library, Yale University.

88
“in the doctor’s hands”:
Cooper,
Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper
, Vol. II, 242.

88
“bilious attack”:
Ibid.

88
“It is spreading rapidly all over France”:
Susan Cooper to her sister, April 1832, James Fenimore Cooper Papers, Beinecke Library, Yale University.

88
“Samuel was nervous even unto flight”:
Cooper,
Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper
, Vol. II, 245.

88
“The churches are all hung in black”:
Willis,
Pencillings by the Way
, 120.

88
A young French woman, Amandine-Aurore-Lucie Dupin:
Harlan,
George Sand
, 141.

89
There was a
cholera-waltz: Willis,
Pencillings by the Way
, 122.

89
I walk by the riverside:
James Jackson, Jr., to James Jackson, Sr., April 5, 1832, Jackson Family Papers, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School.

89
“bent on bringing some especial thing”: Memorial of James Fenimore Cooper
, 18.

90
“My anxiety to finish my picture”:
Morse,
Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals
, Vol. I, 422.

90
The thirty-eight pictures in his painting:
See, generally, David Tatham, “Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre: The Figures in the Foreground,”
American Art Journal
, Vol. XIII, No. 4 (Autumn 1981), 38–48.

92
“total want of all the usual courtesies”:
Trollope,
Domestic Manners of the Americans
, 20.

92
“I do not like their principles”:
Ibid., vii.

92
Nathaniel Willis had observed:
Willis,
Pencillings by the Way
, 110.

92
“He has a bold, original, independent mind”:
Morse,
Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals
, Vol. I, 426–28.

93
“without feeling every day”:
Willis,
Pencillings by the Way
, 164.

93
“Paris is a home to me”:
Ibid., 165.

93
Even Alexander von Humboldt:
Silverman,
Lightning Man
, 117.

93
“took pains to find me out”:
Ibid.

94
Probably 12,000 people:
Arnold,
Memoir of Jonathan Mason Warren
,
M.D.
, 54.

94
By summer’s end:
Ibid.

94
In New York the epidemic: New York Times
, April 15, 2008.

94
Fourth of July:
Morse,
Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals
, Vol. I, 423–25.

94
“like the buoys upon tide-water”:
Ibid., 425.

95
“a splendid and valuable” work:
Silverman,
Lightning Man
, 117.

95
In the completed painting:
See, generally, Tatham, “Samuel F. B. Morse’s Gallery of the Louvre: The Figures in the Foreground,”
American Art Journal
, Vol. XIII, No. 4 (Autumn 1981), 38–48.

97
By rendering Sue Cooper as he did:
Ibid., 41, 44–45.

97
“dissipating their time in gambling”:
Mabee,
American Leonardo
, 129.

97
“disfiguring the landscape”:
Ibid.

97
“numberless bowings”:
Ibid.

97
“If it were a mere civility”:
Ibid., 130.

97
Once, on a street in Rome:
Silverman,
Lightning Man
, 105.

98
“He is with me”:
Morse,
Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals
, Vol. I, 426.

98
more than 200 people a day were dying: New York Evening Post
, September 3, 1832.

98
His work at the Louvre at an end:
Morse,
Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals
, Vol. I, 432.

99
“the manner, the place, and the moment”:
Silverman,
Lightning Man
, 153–54.

99
“I confess I thought the notion”:
Morse,
Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals
, Vol. I, 419.

99
I recollect also:
Ibid., 418.

100
“My picture
, c’est fini”: Cooper,
Correspondence of James Fenimore Cooper
, Vol. I, 320.

100
It went on public view: New York Evening Post
, October 14, 1833.