The Five of Hearts

by Patricia O'Toole

  “full of ghosts.” LHA, III, 8.

  “with the rest.” Ibid., 9.

  “flavor it has.” Ibid., 13.

  “to paint Japan red.” CK to JH, June 1886.

  “out of season!” LHA, III, 12.

  “disagreeable somehow.” Recollections of Viola Roseboro. La Farge Family Papers, Sterling Library.

  fastidious standards. JH to CSH, Jan. 18, 1880.

  but the Almighty. John La Farge, Jr., 30.

  “I am right.” JL to Margaret Perry, Jan. 1, Jan. 22, and March 13, 1860. La Farge Papers, New York Historical Society.

  the ladies’ privacy. New York Times, June 24, July 16, and Sept. 17, 1885.

  “be cut out.” Cortissoz, 222.

  “fairly fitting.” Ibid., 255.

  missionaries. LHA, III, 13.

  “wrote it.” CK to JH, June 1886.

  “‘could not suggest it.’” CK to JH, July 4, 1886.

  “in ten years.” JH to HA, July 18, 1886.

  “heart’s blood.” LHA, III, 34.

  in a web. JL, An Artist’s Letters from Japan, 1-8.

  “delicacy and care.” Ibid., 8-14.

  “repulsive.” LHA, HI, 17, 27.

  “open privies.” Ibid., 21.

  “to Calvinism.” Ibid., 24.

  “ewige Woman.” Ibid., 182.

  “you can imagine.” Ibid., 17.

  “kill time.” Ibid., 19.

  “catch up again.” Ibid., 20-21.

  mountainsides. Ibid., 21-22.

  “of the world.” Ibid., 27.

  in the forest. JL, op. cit., 82, 123, 159-60.

  passion for perfection. JL, “Hokusai,” in Great Masters, 219-49.

  American homes. JL, An Artist’s Letters, 74, 112, 127.

  paint in New York. Ibid., 101, 152.

  “90° and 200°.” LHA, III, 16.

  “steamer with it.” Ibid., 29-31.

  “would have had.” ESC to CSH, July 15, 1886. Henry Adams Papers.

  “rather upset.” LHA, III, 34.

  “scientific classification.” Ibid., 34.

  “were metallic.” Ibid., 40.

  “existence afresh.” LHA, II, 640.

  “oily nastiness.” LHA, III, 18.

  in the shade. JL, An Artist’s Letters, 45, 179.

  “waves of prayer.” Ibid., 231-32.

  of his youth. Adams et al., John La Farge, 49-54.

  wanted to remember. JL, An Artist’s Letters, 198-99.

  spend $2,000. LHA, III, 36.

  “our joint genius.” Ibid., 32, 38.

  “this single day.” JL, An Artist’s Letters, 266.

  live out the year. LHA, III, 42-48.

  pressure to sketch. JL, An Artist’s Letters, 199.

  “at home.” LHA, III, 44.

  13 Rebellious Ore

  “he is there.” LJH, II, 112-13.

  such as W. D. Howells, JH to WDH, Sept. 12, 1886.

  “disposition.” JH to HA, Aug. 29, 1886.

  twelve hundred acres. LHA, III, 71 note.

  writing history together. CK to HA, August 1886; CK to JH, August 1886.

  “The Impasse Series.” LHA, III, 61.

  anything else. LHA, III, 49.

  “content him?” Ibid., 40.

  would ever deliver. Wilkins, 305-07; Agassiz, 191-92.

  -181 Adams admired. CK to HA, Dec. 23, 1886.

  as collateral. Wilkins, 308.

  “roomy, well padded.” JH to HA, Feb. 17, 1885.

  “and character.” Shi, 166.

  turn up. CKM, 192.

  The Divine Comedy. Ibid., 193.

  “second century.” [King] “Style and the Monument,” 443-53.

  “too poetic and ideal.” CKM, 194-95.

  might become. King, Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, 316.

  “stuffed with sawdust.” JL to HA, Jan. 17, 1887.

  “of a mind.” [King] “Style and the Monument,” 445, 448.

  “such as I am.” CK to JH, May 30, 1885.

  “both sides or none.” Bronson, 355-56.

  “come to grief.” CKM, 412-13.

  a second half. Ibid., 276.

  “about everything.” CK to JH, July 4, 1886.

  “in capital form.” CK to JH, Aug. 4, 1887.

  “huge diamonds.” CK to JH, Aug. 4 and 7, 1887.

  “in delicious vein.” LJH, II, 131.

  “than ever before.” CK to JH, Aug. 12, 1888.

  “violence befell him.” CK to JH, December 1888.

  “fewer mugwumps.” CK to JH, July 28, 1887.

  “moral law.” CK to JH, Sept. 8, 1891. the white race. Wilkins, 320.

  “as I ever shall.” CK to JH, July 28, 1887.

  “blood and warmth.” CK to JH, Aug. 4, 1887.

  “off anything.” Ibid.

  Yedras mine. LHA, III, 53 note, delays at Sombrerete. CK to JH, April 27, 1887.

  an alias. Crosby, 355.

  on her behalf. CK to Samuel Barlow, June 18, 1887.

  went unrecorded. Plaintiffs Trial Memorandum. King v. Peabody et al., File No. 26821-1931. Records

  of the New York State Supreme Court, New York County.

  le roi—the king. Ibid.

  Erie Railroad. Crosby, 352.

  “sculptor’s chisel.” CK to JH, July 28, 1887.

  rare contentment. JL to JH, Oct. 21, 1887.

  “not want her.” CK to JH, July 28, 1887.

  “my grovelling mind.” CK to HA, July 29, 1887.

  to Washington. LHA, III, 70;CK to JH, July 28, 1887, and Oct. 2, 1889.

  “with whites.” Tehan, 56.

  bills arrived. LJH, II, 131.

  “by snowfly.” CK to JH, July 28 and Aug. 7, 1887.

  “over again.” LJH, II, 147-48.

  “them there Kings.” Ibid., 134.

  first draft by spring. Ibid., 135.

  “sprouting up as yet.” CK to HA, Sept. 10, 1887.

  cancel the trip. HA to JH, Oct. 16, 1887.

  “not be made?” JH to HA, Sept. 2, 1888.

  four little Hays. LJH, II, 146.

  “to do justice unto.” JH to HA, March 27, 1885.

  “tell anybody anything.” LJH, 11, 299.

  Hot Springs, Arkansas. CK to JH, July [?] 1888.

  “must work hard.” CK to HA, Oct. 6, 1888.

  “story and came.” CK to JH, June 5, 1888.

  “modern fiction?” King, “Artium Magister,” 369-84.

  “they are dead.” CK to HA, Sept. 17, 1888.

  “may never emerge.” CK to JH, Aug. 12, 1888.

  “Venus. “CK to JH, Nov. 5, 1888.

  “ever was in.” CK to JH, Nov. 12, 1888.

  gray as his own. LHA, III, 173.

  14 Passions and Tensions

  treasured John Hay. LHA, III, 53.

  “will send us.” Ibid., 46.

  slate-blue eyes. Elizabeth Sherman Cameron, passport, March 22, 1898. Miles-Cameron Papers.

  “were ready.” Griscom, 17; Cater, lxxiv-lxxv; LHA, III, 62.

  “most charming women going.” Ibid., 228.

  “$500 a month.” Ibid., 219.

  “revised and corrected.” Gwynn, I, 54.

  “rascality.” Ibid., 102.

  “answered the other.” Ibid., 59, 68.

  by party machines. Gwynn, I, 59.

  hand-picked by senators. Josephson, 444-46.

  “a pompous ass.” Ibid., 57.

  “all at once.” Ibid., 80.

  “in handshaking.” LHA, III, 107.

  wearing orange. Gwynn, I, 72-73.

  short supply. Furer, 32-33.

  “terms you like.” LHA, III, 56.

  “anything for him?” Ibid., 72-75, 77.

  “to be like you.” Ibid., 78.

  “before beginning a journey.” Ibid., 76.

  his breakfast table. Ibid., 79.

  “climb over it.” Ibid., 82-83.

  “most interested.” JL to HA, Nov. 20, 1887.

  prostrate with grief. LHA, III, 93
-94.

  “personal sanctity.” Strouse, 258-59.

  vocal cords. LHA, III, 106.

  “horror and danger.” CK to JH, Feb. 13 and March [?] 1888.

  “just lovely.” LHA, III, 101.

  wished to buy. Ibid., 103-05.

  powerless to control. Ibid., 108.

  “New Zealand.” Ibid., 105.

  jim-jams vanished. Ibid., 114.

  panel in his library. Cater, lxxvi.

  son Del. LHA, III, 113.

  mothers were busy. Ibid., 224.

  “mischief of some kind.” Ibid., 137-38.

  “I am homesick.” Ibid., 135.

  “sad, sad, sad.” Ibid., 114, 121.

  “to go with her.” Ibid., 121.

  “letters to you.” Ibid., 124.

  exercise the horses. Ibid., 137.

  “Gibbon never conceived.” Ibid., 143.

  “in the distance.” Ibid., 142.

  the destruction. Ibid., 100 note.

  “I alone seem to fail!” CK to HA, Sept. 25, 1889[?].

  “an August beverage.” CK to JH, Aug. 12, 1888.

  “for the suggestion.” Tehan, 104.

  “I should hate him.” ESC to HA, March 9, 1891.

  “his dear fogs.” LHA, III, 152.

  cast a ballot. Ibid., 127-28; Robert Cunliffe to JH, Nov. 11, 1888.

  surpluses. Josephson, 415-33.

  “politics and politicians.” Gwynn, I, 88-89, 91.

  Sunday school teacher. Josephson, 436-37.

  went away a Democrat. Morris, 390.

  “must vote for him.” LJH, II, 150.

  “pure waste.” LHA, III, 160.

  in his study. Ibid., 168.

  “rather clumsy.” Ibid., 163; Cater, 1v.

  his House colleagues. Schriftgiesser, 58, 98.

  biggest one for himself. Morris, 397-98.

  “the poor wretch.” LHA, III, 175.

  move into 1603 H Street. Ibid.

  “condescension.” Ibid., 189.

  “maunderings.” Ibid., 218.

  “hid the truth.” HA, History of the United States of America during the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson, 127.

  “magnificent scheme.” Ibid., 23-24.

  “century of experience.” HA, History of the United States of America during the Administrations of James Madison, 1345.

  “lasting obligation.” Francis Parkman to HA, Nov. 25, 1889.

  “pleasure.” LJH, II, 204-05.

  “ashen and disembodied.” CK to JH, Oct. 2, 1889.

  “indeed it was.” LHA, III, 382.

  “scenes and adventures.” LHA, III, 225.

  any doubt on the point. Ibid., 191.

  in the excursion. Ibid., 202.

  “hosts are tired.” Ibid., 233, 242, 251.

  “16th and H.” LJH, II, 194.

  indexing his history. Ibid., 256.

  the summer night. HA says little of these evenings, but JH mentions them in two letters to HA (July 12, 1890, and LJH, II, 195).

  They are also noted in Gwynn, I, 67.

  a brief visit. LHA, III, 255-56.

  “luridly solitary.” Ibid., 257.

  entire British legation. Gwynn, I, 106.

  house at Beverly Farms. LHA, III, 240.

  “worse than the regret.” LHA, III, 259.

  “Most beautiful flinging itself away.” Ibid., 263-64.

  15 An American Gentleman

  as a boy’s. JH’s appearance is described in an undated London Star item sent by him to HA in the summer of 1889. Adams Papers, Reel 600.

  Balzac. LHA, III, 223.

  “Isles of the Sea.” LJH, II, 197.

  “nor will I.” Ibid., 202.

  oversee the construction. JH to HA, July 30, 1890.

  clear, sweet voice. Thayer, II, 64.

  “rather agreeable.” LJH, II, 197.

  as bracelets. ESC to CSH, Aug. 13, 1893[?].

  who would listen. JH to Leonard Hay, Sept. 21, 1889.

  “Yabbit Pox.” LJH, II, 153.

  a dunce. JH to HA, Sept. 21, 1889, and Jan. 10, 1891; JH to Leonard Hay, June 25, 1889.

  at the line. LJH, II, 196.

  “of Cordelias.” JH to HA, Sept. 23, 1891.

  “pinfeather boys.” JH to HA, Jan. 10, 1891.

  “the last house.” ESC to HA, Oct. 8, 1890.

  but never did. W. J. Miller, 420; April 1945 interview with Mrs. Ward Thoron, H. D. Cater Collection, naval affairs. Schriftgiesser, 27-30, 47, III.

  “Pinky.” W. J. Miller, 420.

  “extremely well.” ESC to HA, Oct. 2, 1890.

  new boarding school. ESC to HA, Dec. 2, 1890.

  the following week. ESC to HA, Oct. 29, 1890.

  “run Congress.” LHA, III, 210.

  “during the night.” LJH, II, 206.

  “I understand that.” ESC to HA, Jan. 10, 1891.

  “I cannot endure it forever.” ESC to HA, Jan. 27, 1891.

  “trying to be happy.” JH to ESC, n.d. Henry Adams Papers. The box of letters from JH to ESC contains many notes concerning arrangements for luncheons, evenings at the theater, and other outings with Mrs. Lodge.

  “fatiguing for me.” ESC to HA, Jan. 27, 1891.

  “strong indeed here.” Gwynn, I, 113-14.

  “other countries.” Schriftgiesser, 115-16.

  “desirable condition.” Ibid., 104-09; Groves, 23-24.

  “pretty amusing.” ESC to HA, Dec. 14, 1890.

  tense and drained. ESC to HA, Jan. 27, 1891.

  “really superb.” ESC to HA, Dec. 2, 1890.

  as the Roosevelts. In an undated invitation to JH, TR said he and his wife would like Mrs. Hay to come “but we don’t know if we ought to ask her, for we understand that she does not go out on Sunday evening …”

  potatoes and bread. ESC to HA, Sept. 8, 1892.

  “Hotel Brunswick.” JH to Leonard Hay, Sept. 30, 1887.

  somewhere else. JH to HA, July 12, 1890.

  castle in Scotland. JH to JGN, Aug. 4, 1887.

  “for Mrs. Hay.” LJH, II, 132. baffling medical symptoms. Ibid., 152; JH to HA, July 30, 1888.

  “it was n.g.” LJH, II, 166.

  “other nationality.” London Star. Adams Papers, Reel 600.

  “nihilist.” CSR to ESC, June 11, 1889. Adams Papers, Reel 600.

  “passing show.” LJH, II, 171.

  “and the trunk.” Ibid., 173.

  “worked in.” HJL, III, 135.

  “dine with her.” HJ to JH, Ibid., 153.

  almost nothing about James. CFW to JH, Feb. 23, 1887.

  “its beauty.” HJ, Literary Criticism: Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writers, 640-41.

  “new schemes of work.” JH to Sir John Clark, Aug. 7, 1887.

  “money-making.” LJH, II, 148.

  “river of life.” CK, “The Biographers of Lincoln,” 861-69.

  “no adequate expression.” WDH, Harper’s, February 1891, 478-83.

  “musty and dry.” LJH, II, 185.

  “out of my thoughts.” Ibid., 215.

  “literary execution.” Ford, II, 8.

  “not written history.” Ibid., 8-9 note.

  “ornament or fancy.” LJH, II, 103; JH to JGN, April 15, 1887.

  “I sincerely believe.” LJH, II, 189.

  -227 “without any fuss.” JH to HA, Oct. 24, 1891.

  William Seward. LHA, II, 249.

  “for all day.” JH to Leonard Hay, May 11, 1889.

  the Jesuits. LJH, II, 154.

  “his campaigns.” JH to JGN, July 25, 1891[?].

  ministry in Paris. LHA, III, 168 note.

  “sorry for him.” ESC to HA, April 9, 1891.

  “he of Nannie!” ESC to HA, May 7, 1891.

  English magazines. ESC to HA, May 21, 1891; O’Connor, 245-46; Stewart, 289-99.

  “take you in.” ESC to HA, May 21, 1891.

  choice of words. Ibid.

  “together again.” Dennett, 155. not to go to China. LJH, II, 228.

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p; “much longer.” Ibid., 231-32.

  16 Tame Cat

  sandalwood. JL, Reminiscences of the South Seas, 14.

  “final dissolution.” LHA, III, 282.

  kimonos. JL, op. cit., 61.

  humans in distress. LHA, III, 270.

  guava. JL, op. cit., 20.

  mango. LHA, III, 270.

  acacia. JL, op. cit., 6, 15.

  “to fix them.” LHA, III, 414.

  trousers and slippers. Ibid., 276.

  embroidery. Ibid., 270.

  “yearn towards them.” Ibid., 282.

  “I shall not struggle.” Ibid., 285.

  “your going away.” ESC to HA, Oct. 29, 1890.

  “your limitation.” ESC to HA, Sept. 2, 1890.

  his history. LHA, III, 409.

  to his neck. Ibid., 289.

  leave it undrunk. Ibid., 290; JL, op. cit., 114, 171.

  evil spirits. Stevenson, 180.

  well-lighted huts. LHA, III, 291-92.

  “the devil.” Ibid., 294.

  “childish.” JL, op. cit., 200.

  “decency.” LHA, III, 343-44.

  “stupid.” JL, op. cit., 84, 189.

  bananas. LHA, III, 305-06.

  edge of the village. JL, op. cit., 110.

  teaball. JL, op. cit., 91.

  sketch pad. JL, op. cit., 74, 274.

  floating away. JL, op. cit., 181, 191-92.

  for royalty. LHA, III, 303.

  “same style from me.” Ibid., 358.

  as large as his own. LHA, III, 317.

  with the men. Ibid., 345-46.

  “a baby.” Ibid., 293.

  “he returns.” JL, op. cit., 243.

  “secret.” LHA, III, 331.

  “mist and soufflé.” Ibid., 394.

  “very brief passions.” Ibid., 346.

  to rebel against. JL, op. cit., 94.

  “Après nous les artistes.” JL to Russell Sturgis, July 30, 1900.

  “you have received.” JH to HA, Dec. 30, 1890.

  “become art.” CK to JH, December 1890.

  “so very dry a light.” CK to JH, 1891.

  “discerned her.” CK to JH, 1891.

  barks of the birds. Stevenson, 181.

  pilgrims would come. LHA, III, 331-33; JL, Reminiscences, 207-12.

  “I can stand ten.” LHA, III, 340, 358. “to trivialities….” ESC to HA, Jan. 27, 1891.

  where she sat. ESC to HA, March 9, 1891.

  darkroom on H Street. ESC to HA, April 9, 1891.

  “truth it has.” LHA, III, 298.

  “as their chemicals.” Ibid., 304.

  “Please say yes.” Ibid., 382.

  “greatest chief of Samoa.” Ibid., 342.

  “for ourselves.” JL, Reminiscences, 143, 153, 227-28, 293.

  cigarette in hand. Dryfhout, 173-74.

  “shirt and drawers.” LHA, III, 296.