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Mortifying: SFB to his parents, 25 May 1812, M2. With Finley’s growing/ Poets: SFB to Jennette Hart, 30 May 1813, M2. Color: SFB to his parents, 28 Feb 1812, M1. Preëminent: P, p. 46. Finley was not daunted/ Passion: P, p. 47. Finley took time/ Novels: Charles King to SFB and Charles Leslie, 3 Jan 1812, M1. Kindness: ELM, I, 46. Happy: SFB to Washington Allston, 10 Apr 1816, M3. Once settled/ Bloated: P, p. 45. Extensively: SFB to his parents, 20 May 1812, M2. Through Allston/ Pleased: SFB to his parents, 12 Jun 1813, M2. On Payne see Overmyer. Finley became an ardent/ Actress: P, p. 45. Confessed: ELM, I, 130. Finley’s new way/Agreeable: SFB to his parents, 28 Feb 1812, M1. Capricious: P, p. 47. But to Elizabeth/ Absorb’d: EM to SFB, 15 May 1812, Y. Acquisition: JM to SFB, 4 Mar 1814, M2. Pure: ELM, I, 118. Parents and child/ Dainties: P, p. 56. Respectable: ELM, I, 108. Finley stayed in touch/ Habitually: SFB to his parents, 28 Feb 1812, M1. Jennette Hart/ Friend: SFB to Jennette Hart, 24 Jun 1814, M2. Reserve: SFB to Samuel Jarvis, 9 Sep 1814, Y. Small: P, p. 86. Born in the shadow/ Suffer: P, p. 49 No admirer/ Cease: SFB to his parents, 1 Nov 1812, M2. Servility: B. Perkins, 292. Scorn: Watts, 223. Over the first/ Alarming: P, pp. 43–44. One month later/ Chinese: SFB to his parents, 1 Nov 1812, M2. Bravo!: SFB to E. D. Cushing, 24 Sep 1812, Y. Insolent: Edward L. Morse, “Letters of Samuel F. B. Morse—1812,” North American Review 196 (1912): 122. Jedediah and Elizabeth did/ Mad: EM and JM to SFB, 28 Jun 181[2?], M2. But for Finley/ Beating: SFB to his parents, 1 Nov 1812, M2. Raptures: Edward L. Morse, “Letters of Samuel F. B. Morse—1812,” North American Review 196 (1912): 120. Finley dismissed/ Spirit: SFB to his parents, 1 Nov 1812, M2. Finley’s parents/ Maintain: JM to SFB, 17 Nov 1813, M2. Now a student/ Twenty: SFB to his parents, 1, 12, and 14 Mar 1814, M 2. Finley worked on/Compliment: P, p. 47. The judges/ Merit: Dunlap, History, 311. On the exhibition see also Boase, 152. Finley’s parents had long/ Likeness: EM to SFB, 13 Jun 1814, M2. Proficiency: Ward Safford to SFB, 13 Jun 1814, M2. Modesty: ELM, I, 113. Finley decided that/ Mammon: ELM, I, 164. Fie!: SFB to his parents, 22 Dec 1814, M2. Finley drew a second/ Conquest: ELM, I, 153. Outraged, Finley/ Washington: ELM, I, 152–53. Hate: ELM, I, 163. Finley appealed/ Intellectual: ELM, I, 133. On history painting see Gerdts and Thistlethwaite, Grand Illusions. Grieve: Washington Allston to JM, 15 Mar 1814, M2. Jedediah’s reply/ Portraits: ELM, I, 159 Farrand: EM to SFB, 3 Aug 1814, M2. In addition, Jedediah was involved in a decades-long fracas with a writer named Hannah Adams. See Phillips, 152 ff. Finley did not help/ Despotism: P, pp. 62, 67. Finley explained/ Louvre: SFB to his parents, 11 Oct 1814, M2. Desponding: ELM, I, 134. But to Elizabeth/ Schemer: ELM, I, 154. Educations: JM to SFB, 25 Jan 1815, M2. Late in December/Approved: JM to SFB, ígJul 1815, M2. Finley’s pleasure/ Mutually: SFB to Samuel Jarvis, 8 Feb 1815, Y. Bereft: P, p. 81. Leslie implies that Allston became suicidal. Revealed: Allston, 625. Finley still fretted/ Storm: ELM, I, 172. Success: Edward L. Morse, “Letters of Samuel F. B. Morse—1812,” North American Review 196 (1912): 122. During the year/ Dread: Washington Allston to JM, 4 Aug 1815, Historical Society of Pennsylvania. See also Dunlap, History, 312–13. In depicting Marpessa’s/ Recollect: SFB to his parents, 23 Apr 1815, M2. Finley’s manifesto/Advice: ELM, I, 182; EM to SFB, 1 Jun 1815, M2. Jedediah returned/ Profession: ELM, I, 183. Although Finley considered/ Taste: SFB to his parents, 1 Mar 1814, M2. Endeavor: M32, fr. 40. The speed of/ Loss: SFB, journal for Jul–Aug 1811, M32. Finley sailed from/ Terror: SFB, journal for Aug–Sep 1815, M32. But on October/ Providence: SFB to his parents, 18 Oct 1815, M25.

THREE: A TERRIBLE HARUM-SCARUM FELLOW

Finley’s exhibition/ Accomplished: Staiti, Samuel F. B. Morse, 37. Uncommon: J. S. Dorsey to SFB, 27 May 1816, M3. With his most/ Hovel: SFB to LWM, 12 Jan 1820, M3. Drunkenness: SFB to