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“who had not seen human life”:
Ibid., 166.

217
“With all New England’s earnestness”:
Ibid., 392.

218
“One in whom”:
Ibid.

218
“The splendor of Paris”:
Hawthorne,
The French and Italian Notebooks
, ed. Woodson, 13.

218
The emperor deserved great credit:
Ibid., 15.

219
“Perhaps never before”: New York Times
, October 29, 1855.

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When Queen Victoria:
Ibid., September 14, 1855.

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American visitors, however, were delighted: New York Tribune
, August 23, 1855.

220
Of the 796 French artists: The Crayon
, September 12, 1855.

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Among them were William Morris Hunt:
Ibid., November 5, 1855.

220
William B. Ogden:
Healy,
Reminiscences of a Portrait Painter
, 57.

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I had often thought of returning:
Ibid., 57–88.

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He was small:
Walker,
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
, 24.

221
Much of his boyhood:
Weintraub,
Whistler: A Biography
, 4–10.

221
At sixteen, like his father:
Ibid., 16.

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The only course:
Ibid., 17, 19.

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“Had silicon been a gas”:
Ibid., 24.

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Nor would his “peculiar” hat:
Pennell and Pennell,
Life of James McNeill Whistler
, Vol. I, 5.

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He did, however, take up with:
Weintraub,
Whistler: A Biography
, 52.

222
“the universal harmonizer”:
Walker,
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
, 95.

222
“I don’t think he stayed long”:
Pennell and Pennell,
Life of James McNeill Whistler
, Vol. I, 51.

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“His genius, however”:
Ibid., 52.

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“Everything he enjoyed”:
Ibid., 69.

222
He left owing Monsieur Lalouette:
Weintraub,
Whistler: A Biography
, 58.

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“For heaven’s sake”:
Thomas Appleton to his father, October 31, 1846, Massachusetts Historical Society.

223
“I think slavery a sin”:
Donald,
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
, 112.

223
The first news of the savage physical attack: Galignani’s Messenger
, June 9, 1856.

223
The assault had taken place:
Donald,
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
, 292–97.

223
“The Crime against Kansas”:
Ibid., 283.

223
Like Webster’s reply to Hayne:
Ibid.

224
“harlot slavery”:
Ibid., 285.

224
An incensed congressman:
Ibid., 289–90.

224
He chose the cane:
Ibid., 291.

224
“wrest”:
Ibid.

224
It was early afternoon:
Ibid., 291–97.

224
“Mr. Sumner”:
Ibid., 294.

224
Sumner’s desk:
Ibid., 294–95. The fact that the desk would have been screwed to the floor was verified by the Senate Curator’s Office in Washington, D.C.

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“thirty first-rate”:
Ibid., 295.

225
“I wore my cane out”:
Ibid.

225
“an oppressive sense of weight”:
White, “Was Charles Sumner Shamming, 1856–1869?”
New England Quarterly
, Vol. 33, No. 3 (September 1960), 307.

225
Sumner departed New York:
Pierce,
Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner
, Vol. III, 520.

226
To look at Mr. Sumner now: New York Tribune
, April 11 and 13, 1857.

226
“The sea air, or seasickness”:
Pierce,
Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner
, Vol. III, 530.

226
“Civilization seemed to abound”:
Ibid., 530.

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“sallied forth”:
Ibid.

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“The improvements are prodigious”:
Ibid.

227
From his “beautiful apartment”:
Ibid.

227
“He did not disguise”:
Ibid., 531.

227
“With a people so changeable”:
Ibid., 538.

227
“He speaks of the emperor”:
Ibid., 535.

228
“they call it
la grippe
”:
Ibid., 525.

228
“very gay and beautiful”:
Ibid., 526.

228
“I tremble for Kansas”:
Ibid.

228
Young Henry James:
Donald,
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
, 347.

228
At one evening affair:
Pierce,
Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner
, Vol. III, 539.

228
At two other gatherings:
Ibid., 538–39.

228
He visited the Imperial Library:
Ibid., 539.

228
He made a return visit:
Ibid., 540.

228
“I dine out very often”:
Thomas Appleton to his father, December 22, 1852, Massachusetts Historical Society.

229
One evening it was an American naval officer:
Pierce,
Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner
, Vol. III, 540.

229
“although apparently functionally sound”:
Donald,
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
, 275.

229
“vileness and vulgarity”:
Ibid., 276.

230
When several doctors advised:
Ibid., 561.

230
Charles Edward Brown-Séquard:
Ibid., 336–37.

230
“a bold experimenter”:
Pierce,
Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner
, Vol. III, 563.

230
The cure the doctor recommended:
Ibid., 338.

230
“The doctor is clear”:
Ibid., 565.

231
“baseless theory”:
Donald,
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
, 340.

231
From what is known:
See ibid., 336–42.

231
“cruel treatment”:
Pierce,
Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner
, Vol. III, 565.

231
When in August: Galignani’s Messenger
, August 22, 1858.

231
“At this moment my system”:
Prime,
The Life of Samuel F. B. Morse
, 600.

232
“the utmost enthusiasm”: New York Times
, September 9, 1858.

232
Of the eighty gentlemen: Galignani’s Messenger
, August 22, 1858.

232
“Every figure of rhetoric”:
Silverman,
Lightning Man
, 376.

232
“benefactor of mankind”: Report on the Dinner Given by Americans in Paris
,
August 17th at the “Trois Frères” to Professor S. F. B. Morse in Honor of His Invention of the Telegraph and on the Occasion of Its Completion Under the Atlantic Ocean
, 40.

232
He was to be awarded:
Silverman,
Lightning Man
, 376.

233
I seize the moment:
Sumner,
Works of Charles Sumner
, Vol. IV, 410.

233
“no great cause for despondency”: Galignani’s Messenger
, September 11, 1858.

233
He was determined:
Pierce,
Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner
, Vol. III, 570.

233
“If anybody cares to know”:
Ibid., 591.

233
In the last few days:
Ibid., 592.

234
“dear old Sumner”:
Donald,
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
, 288.

234
He walks on those great long legs:
Ibid.

234
“sat to the artist”:
Eliot,
Abraham Lincoln: An Illustrated Biography
, 99.

234
“She complains of my ugliness”:
Healy,
Reminiscences of a Portrait Painter
, 69.

234
“to hide my horrible”:
Ibid., 70.

235
“a Northern man”:
Ibid., 68.

235
“heart and soul”:
Donald,
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
, 323.

235
In Paris the April weather: Galignani’s Messenger
, April 5, April 20, April 23, 1861.

235
Wagner’s
Tannhäuser:
Galignani’s Messenger
, March 15 and 27, 1861.