The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (92 page)

177
By the time Healy returned:
Healy,
Reminiscences of a Portrait Painter
, 165–66.

The correspondence of a diplomat serving abroad is necessarily of two kinds, official and private. In the case of Richard Rush, his extensive correspondence, all in his own hand, is divided. The official communications with Washington are at the National Archives, his private or personal letters at the Library of Congress.

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179
How then can strangers: Rush,
Occasional Productions, Political, Diplomatic, and Miscellaneous
, 462.

179
“increased a hundred fold”:
Willson,
America’s Ambassadors to France (1777–1927)
, 218.

179
“daily fire”:
Ibid.

179
In a long career in public service: Dictionary of American Biography
, Vol. III, pt. 2, 231–33.

180
was still impressively handsome:
See Sparks, “Political Portraits with Pen and Pencil: Richard Rush,”
United States Magazine
, Vol. VII (1840).

180
On the afternoon of July 31:
Rush,
Occasional Productions, Political, Diplomatic, and Miscellaneous
, 303.

180
“sufficiently grand”:
Richard Rush to his sons, September 20, 1847, Richard Rush Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

180
I am representing a great nation:
Richard Rush to his son, October 6, 1847, Richard Rush Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

181
Last night we were at Mr. Walsh’s:
Rush,
Occasional Productions, Political, Diplomatic, and Miscellaneous
, 336–37.

181
“the appearance of things”:
Richard Rush to James Buchanan, September 24, 1847, National Archives, Washington, D.C.

182
“loose thoughts”:
Ibid.

182
“They are thrown out”:
Ibid.

182
“decamp”:
Cooper,
Letters and Journals of James Fenimore Cooper
, Vol. V, 313.

182
“serious troubles”:
Ibid., 240.

182
“profound and universal”: Galignani’s Messenger
, January 6, 1848.

182
“Notwithstanding all the reform banquets”:
Richard Rush to James Buchanan, January 22, 1848, National Archives, Washington, D.C.

182
“We are sleeping on a volcano”:
Mansel,
Paris Between Empires: Monarchy and Revolution, 1814–1852
, 397.

182
“formidable”:
Richard Rush to his sons, February 20, 1848, Richard Rush Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

183
We were too near to be pleasant:
Baker,
Richard Morris Hunt
, 41.

183
“I have seen enough blood”:
Howarth,
Citizen King: The Life of Louis-Philippe
, 319.

183
The poor King and his government:
Ibid., 334.

184
“general confusion
[
and
]
uncertainty”:
Richard Rush to James Buchanan, February 24, 1848, National Archives, Washington, D.C.

184
“moderation and magnanimity”:
Richard Rush to James Buchanan, March 4, 1848, National Archives, Washington, D.C.

184
“The responsibilities of my public station”:
Rush,
Occasional Productions, Political, Diplomatic, and Miscellaneous
, 366.

184
“But the French people were themselves”:
Ibid., 367.

185
“Was it for me to be backward when France”:
Ibid., 368.

185
As representative of the United States: Galignani’s Messenger
, March 1, 1848.

185
“full and unqualified approbation”:
Message from the President of the United States, April 3, 1848, Executive No. 32, U.S. Senate, 30th Cong., 1st sess.

185
“wonderfully, miraculously tranquil”:
Richard Rush to George Bancroft, March 24, 1848, National Archives, Washington, D.C.

186
“very civil and good tempered”:
Emerson,
The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
, ed. Sealts, Vol. X, 270–71.

186
“criminal excesses”: Galignani’s New Paris Guide
, 15th edition, 1827.

186
They did not and could not employ:
Richard Rush to James Buchanan, July 3, 1848, National Archives, Washington, D.C.

187
“On his way he passed my door”:
Ibid.

187
“So vast and horrible a desolation”: New York Daily Tribune
, July 13, 1848.

187
“
beautiful
revolution”:
Saul K. Padover,
Karl Marx: An Intimate Biography
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978), 252.

187
“battlefield”:
Rush,
Occasional Productions, Political, Diplomatic, and Miscellaneous
, 449.

187
“Scattered wisps of hay”:
Ibid., 450.

187
None can understand a country:
Ibid., 461–62.

188
Of the more than seven million votes cast:
Mansel,
Paris Between Empires: Monarchy and Revolution, 1814–1852
, 414.

188
“species”:
Fuller,
At Home and Abroad
, 250.

188
He comes abroad:
Ibid., 250–51.

189
“instinctively bustling”:
Ibid.

189
“thinking American”:
Ibid., 252.

189
[
He
]
recognized the immense advantage:
Ibid.

189
“passably pretty ladies with excessively”:
Fuller,
New York Tribune
, May 12, 1847.

189
The air, half military, half dandy:
Ibid.

190
I saw them and touched them:
Ibid.

190
“takes rank in society like a man”:
Fuller,
The Letters of Margaret Fuller
, Vol. IV, 256.

190
“brilliant shows”:
Ibid., 259.

190
“It is too plain that you should conquer”:
Ibid.

191
“If that is a painting”:
See biographical sketch of “William Morris Hunt” in
American National Biography
, ed. Garraty and Carnes (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1964), 397.

191
shared a bright, fifth-floor apartment:
The building where the Hunt brothers lived at 1 rue Jacob still stands.

191
“Mr. William Hunt is our most”:
Thomas Gold Appleton to his father, December 22, 1852, Massachusetts Historical Society.

191
“with a very slender purse”:
Blackwell,
Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women
, 2.

192
“either mad or bad”:
See biographical sketch of Elizabeth Blackwell in
Dictionary of National Biography
, Vol. I, 320.

192
“not constituted”:
Blackwell,
Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women
. See Introduction by Amy Sue Bix, 24.

192
“the aspect of a great moral”:
Ibid., 76.

192
She was twenty-eight:
Passport application, National Archives, Washington, D.C.

193
“
sage-femme
-in-chief”:
Blackwell,
Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women
, 161.

193
“So send a welcome greeting”:
Ibid., 165.

193
Imagine a large square of old:
Ibid.

193
“all pretty and pleasant”:
Ibid., 163.

193
“eaten in haste”:
Ibid., 167.

193
“a little deformed woman, elderly”:
Ibid., 161.

194
“en service”: Ibid., 168.

194
“If they answer promptly and well”:
Ibid.

194
Alternately satirical and furious:
Ibid., 169.

194
“seeing all that was remarkable”:
Ibid., 180.

194
“How kind everybody was!”:
Ibid., 188.

194
“Yet the medical experience was”:
Ibid., 186.

195
“I am a native of the state of Kentucky”:
Farrison,
William Wells Brown: Author and Reformer
, 140.

195
“we shall break … in pieces every yoke”:
Ibid., 150.

196
“freely”:
Ibid.

196
Curious to know more about him:
Ibid., 151.

196
“It is with great concern”:
Alexis de Tocqueville to Richard Rush, Paris, June 27, 1849, National Archives, Washington, D.C.

197
“Liberty
and
Union, now and forever”:
De Mare,
G. P. A. Healy, American Artist
, 169.

197
According to a pamphlet:
Voss, “Webster Replying to Hayne: George Healy and the Economics of History Painting,”
American Art
, Vol. XV, no. 3 (Fall 2001), 40.

197
“my big picture”:
Healy,
Reminiscences of a Portrait Painter
, 166.