litics, 457
on old age, 461
(1869) on breaking leg, 481
Morse, S.E., Jr., from M. (1862) on monument to father, ~2~, 421
Morse, S.F.B.,
_early years, domestic life, and characteristics:_
birth, ~1~, 1
parents, 1
schooling, 3-8
religious and moral attitude, 5, 18, 120, 212, 213, 296-298, 401, 438,
~2~, 128, 160
parental solicitude as to character, ~1~, 6-8, 11, 113, 121, 149, 154,
158-163, 166, 182
attitude toward parents, 9, 129, 133, 135, 142, 152
travel to New Haven (1805), 9, 10
start at Yale, room, 10
expenses and debts at college, 10, 16, 17, 20
drops a class, 11
parental admonitions against college extravagances, 11, 12
tenacity, 11
desire for relaxation at college, 14
routine there, 15
on Montaigne's _Essays_, 16
desire to travel, 18
interest in electrical experiments at college, 18
portraits painted at college, 19, 20
question of career, desires to become artist, apprenticed to
bookseller, 21-24, 26
continued interest in art, 24-26, 30
art career decided upon, attitude and sacrifices of parents, 26, 29,
31, 32, 82, 85, 116, 155
college love affair, 28-30, 112
on smuggling cigars, 45, 46
on lotteries, 46, ~2~, 180, 181
and theatres, ~1~, 72, 77, 78, 374-376, 399
sincerity, 84
interest in public affairs, 93
frankness, enjoyment of controversy, 93
reading, 102
and coat of arms, 110, ~2~, 258
appearance (1814), ~1~, 123
writes a farce (1814), 129, 130
and brothers, 142, ~2~, 269, 388
industry, ~1~, 161, 162
and Lucy Russell, 180
buoyancy, 200, 235, 256, 284
love affair and engagement, 202-210
and fiancee, 212, 214
on Universalists, 213
marriage, 217
honeymoon, 217, 218
and father's church troubles, 223, 229
children by first wife, 225, 236, 244, 267
marriage of future mother-in-law, 228
domesticity, 230, 238, 285, 375, 394, ~2~, 106, 116, 245
family at New Haven (1820), ~1~, 234
perseverance, 240
on saying farewell, 254
and death of wife, on her character, 265-270, 288, ~2~, 115
sonnet on Lafayette, ~1~, 273
homes for children, 274, 298
leadership, altruism, 275, 305, ~2~, 443
thoughts on second marriage, ~1~, 285, 418, ~2~, 115
and decline and death of father, ~1~, 286, 287
on servants, 291, 302
and decline of mother, 292
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