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121
“sober revolution”:
Ibid.

121
“impulsive, ardent”:
Bowditch,
Life and Correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch
, Vol. I, 84–85.

121
Olivia Yardley:
Ibid.

121
“La Grisette”:
Arnold,
Memoir of Jonathan Mason Warren, M.D.
, 112.

122
“with his
grisette
”:
Frazee,
The Medical Student in Europe
, 116.

122
In the 1840s young Philip Claiborne Gooch:
Warner,
Against the Spirit of System
, 119. See also Gooch’s journal at the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia.

122
I uncork the bottle:
Ibid., 125.

123
“At 6
A.M
.
I go to the hospital”:
Jones, “American Doctors and the Parisian Medical World, 1830–1840,” 76.

123
“the love of truth”:
Holmes, “Some of My Early Teachers,” in
Medical Essays
,
1842–1882
, 436.

124
“You are working, sir”:
Morse,
Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes
, Vol. I, 107.

124
“almost a novelty”:
Ibid., 183.

124
“The mind of this gentleman”:
Bowditch,
Life and Correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch
, Vol. I, 37.

124
“serene and grave aspect”:
Morse,
Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes
, Vol. I, 91.

125
“In very truth”:
James Jackson to his father, January 16, 1833, Jackson Family Papers, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School.

126
“We are a business”:
Jackson,
Memoir of James Jackson, Jr.
,
M.D.
, 80.

126
“In two hours”:
James Jackson to his father, July 13, 1833, Jackson Family Papers, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School.

126
“Thrice happy”:
Bowditch,
Life and Correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch
, Vol. I, 64.

126
because the young man:
Morse,
Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes
, Vol. I, 108–9.

127
“I am more and more attached”:
Ibid., 89.

127
My aim has been to qualify:
Oliver Wendell Holmes to his parents, April 30, 1834, Holmes Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

127
“I tell you that it is not throwing away money”:
Morse,
Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes
, Vol. I, 123.

127
“one poor fellow”:
Warren,
The Parisian Education of an American Surgeon
, 195.

128
“Many of the dead”:
Ibid., 196.

128
“No one could excite”:
Morse,
Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes
, Vol. I, 122.

128
“I have seldom seen”:
Arnold,
Memoir of Jonathan Mason Warren, M.D.
, 178.

128
Our autumnal fever:
Jackson,
Memoir of James Jackson
,
Jr., M.D.
, 58.

128
“What shall I say of his ambition?”:
Ibid., 65.

129
“They buried the old patriot”:
Willis,
Pencillings by the Way
, 459.

130
“great crowd”:
Warren,
The Parisian Education of an American Surgeon
, 243.

130
George Shattuck:
See Warner,
Against the Spirit of System
, 76–77.

130
“every kind of hurt”:
Pierce,
Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner
, Vol. I, 249.

130
“Blessed be science”:
Oliver Wendell Holmes to his parents, December 28, 1834, Holmes Papers, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

131
“He had quite a large audience”:
Pierce,
Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner
, Vol. I, 241.

131
They were standing in the midst:
Ibid., 241.

131
“They appear to be nothing more”:
Ibid., 113.

132
“a thousand things undone”:
Ibid., 294.

132
“medical mecca”:
Warren,
The Parisian Education of an American Surgeon
, 2.

132
nearly seven hundred Americans:
Ibid., 2.

132
“Apart from all other considerations”:
Arnold,
Memoir of Jonathan Mason Warren, M.D.
, 216.

132
“modern scientific medicine”:
Warner,
Against the Spirit of System
, 363.

133
John Collins Warren, at age seventy:
Warren,
The Parisian Education of an American Surgeon
, 64.

133
A month later, on November 12, 1846:
Ibid.

134
“He was never tired”:
Morse,
Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes
, Vol. I, 1, 77.

134
“He had that quality”:
Holmes, “Some of My Early Teachers,” in
Medical Essays
,
1842–1882
, 532–33.

135
“that I gave myself”:
Ibid., 433.

135
“the best of all”:
Holmes, “Scholastic and Bedside Teaching,” in
Medical Essays, 1842–1882
, 305.

135
“He never allowed his interests”:
Bowditch,
Life and Correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch
, Vol. I, 262.

136
While medicine is your chief aim:
Ibid., 262–63.

136
“I suspect that my ear-drums”:
Arnold,
Memoir of Jonathan Mason Warren
,
M.D.
, 254.

136
“Found my old garçon, John”:
Bowditch,
Life and Correspondence of Henry Ingersoll Bowditch
, Vol. I, 318.

136
“as beautiful in his old age”:
Ibid., 144.

5. American Sensations
 

The advantage of the English language newspaper
Galignani’s Messenger
as a window on American life in Paris can hardly be overstated. Founded in 1814, it became a daily paper that covered virtually all aspects of political, business, cultural, social, and international news and with a degree of objectivity rare for a Paris paper. For following events surrounding
les sensations américaines
, it has been of immense help.

S. Frederick Starr’s
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
is a superb biography of the brilliant pianist, and best by far on George Catlin and his show are Catlin’s own writings in
The Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians
.

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139
We were met on the steps: Catlin,
The Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians
, Vol. II, 211.

139
“the most beautiful”:
Gernsheim and Gernsheim,
L. J. M. Daguerre: The History of the Diorama and the Daguerreotype
, 89.

139
the paddle steamer
Sirius: See
New York Herald
articles, May 2–June 21, 1838.

140
“Little Healy”:
Healy,
Reminiscences of a Portrait Painter
, 25.

140
Arriving in Paris at age twenty-one:
Ibid., 34–35.

141
“Perhaps many a young and audacious”:
Ibid., 108.

141
“went to work with a will”:
Ibid., 36.

141
He coolly turned over my sheet:
Ibid., 78.

141
“There was in Couture’s”:
Ibid., 80.

142
“a saddened and almost despairing”:
Ibid., 37.

142
“Gros est un homme”: Ibid., 38.

142
“He had outlived his popularity”:
Ibid., 39.

142
My life at this time was a life:
Ibid.

142
His physical appearance:
De Mare,
G. P. A. Healy, American Artist
, 28.

142
He was seldom still:
Healy,
Reminiscences of a Portrait Painter
, 109, 40.

143
General Lewis Cass, asked Healy:
Ibid., 116, 52.

143
In June of 1838:
Ibid., 204, 167.

143
Audubon was in London:
Ibid., 205.

143
“enough to fix my destinies”:
Ibid., 43.

143
In the spring of 1839:
Ibid., 45.

143
“not a penny”:
Ibid., 47.

143
General Cass, who was on excellent terms:
Ibid., 116.

144
Before beginning the portrait:
Ibid., 117–18.

144
Healy found Louis-Philippe easy to talk to:
Ibid., 118.

144
The concierge kept the place clean:
Ibid., 48.

144
They began entertaining:
Ibid., 44–45.

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