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Trial: LWM to SFB, 12 Mar 1821, XM. Short: SFB to LWM, 25 Mar 1821, M25. Still without a home/ Bed: LWM to SFB, 18 Sep 1821, XM. During his tour/ Popular: SFB to LWM, 9 Dec 1821, N. Finley began the work/ Pleased: SFB to LWM, 14 Nov 1821, N. Splendid: SFB to LWM, g Dec 1821, N. Yet the painting/ Herculean: SFB to LWM, 20 Dec 1821, N. Grace: SFB to LWM, g Dec 1821, N. Certain: SFB to LWM, 2 Dec 1821, N. Lucrece had expected/ Decide: SFB to LWM, 2 Jan 1822, M25. Absence: LWM to SFB, gJan 1822, XM. He saw encouraging/ Talents: (Quarterly Christian Spectator 4 (1822): 383. After displaying/ Beautiful: Allston, Correspondence, 206. The Boston exhibition/ Success: SFB to LWM, 21 Feb 1823, M4; 14 Feb 1823, XM. Allston urged Finley/ Classes: Washington Allston to SFB, 15 Apr 1823, M4. At the end/ Predict: SFB to LWM, 10 May 1823, Y. Under Pratt’s/ Multiplied: Henry Pratt to SFB, [5?] and 19 Jun 1823, M24. Lucrece worried/ Submit: LWM to SFB, 30 Nov 1823, XM. Merit: United States Review and Literary Gazette II, no. 4 (Jul 1827): 251. Meant: SFB to “Mr. Poinsett” (draft), [ca. Dec 1823], M5. Morse shipped the House of Representatives to Charles Leslie in England, where it was sold. It turned up twenty years later in New York, however, rolled up, dirty, and cracked. It was salvaged by Morse’s student Daniel Huntington, from whose estate it was purchased in 1911 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

FOUR: AN AFFECTION OF THE HEART

The failure/ Tune: P, p. 129 Business: SFB to LWM, 8 Dec 1823, M4. Wait: SFB to LWM, 6 Jan 1824, M5. Finley tried to revive/ Sculptor: SFB to LWM, 16 Aug 1823, M4. Leaving: SFB to “Mr. Poinsett” (draft), [ca. Dec 1823], M5. Finley’s latest scheme/ Consent: ELM, I, 253. Health: LWM to SFB, 26 Aug 1823, XM. The first week/ Farewell: P, p. 137. A week later/ Hazard: SFB to LWM, 22 Apr 1824, M5. Finley went back/ Desert: SFB to LWM, 27 Jun 1824, Y. Whatever the cause/ Gloomy: SFB to LWM, 22 Jun 1824, M25. For a few months/ Poverty: SFB to his parents, 16 Aug 1824, M5. On New York see Burrows, 450. Unlike Finley/ Service: RM to SM, 10 Apr 1823, Y. Schemes: SM to EM, 11 Aug 1824, Y. Finley settled/ Wonder: ELM, I, 258. Storms: P, p. 138. “We must begin/ Rational: LWM to SFB, 6 Jan 1825, M25. Safely: LWM to SFB, 5 Dec 1824, Y. On the reception of Lafayette see Cunningham, Kramer, and McNamara. On first shaking/ Revolution: P, p. 140. Finley not only heard/ Nobleness: P, p. 141. Excited at being/ Sorrowful: P, p. 142. Just twenty-five/ Affection: JM to Samuel S. Breese, 2 Mar 1825, Archives of American Art. See also LWM’s obituary in N-YO, 19 Feb 1825. Finley received the agonizing/ Blow: P, pp. 144–45. And what would/ Darkest: SFB to his parents, 5 May 1825, M5. Dare: SFB to his parents, 1 Dec 1825, M5. As he tried to/ Ready: P, p. 148. Shake: SFB to his parents, 18 Apr 1826, M5. Although still uncompleted/ Pumping: SFB to his parents, 3 Nov 1825, M5. Finley’s commission/ Intensity: SFB to his parents, 5 May 1825, M5. Trumbull had liabilities/ Shoemaker: Jaffe, John Trumbull, 270. In October/ Beggars: Dunlap, History, 280. Finley was pleased/ Harmony: ELM, I, 282. See also Thayer, 58 ff. Finley seems not to/ Stately: Cummings, 22. Finley led an effort/ Ensuring: SFB, undated committee report, New-York Historical Society. Finley’s peacemaking/ I have glided over the many complexities in this matter, which also involved the payment of a stockholders’ fee by artists who were elected to the board of directors. For a fuller account see Rebora, esp. 273–80. Four days after/Assumed: Cummings, 26, 29 The members elected/ Rallying: SFB to John L. Morton, 18 Apr 1831, National Academy of Design. Freedom: SFB to Henry Pratt, 26 Mar 1833, Massachusetts Historical Society. Balance: ELM, I, 284. Shrink: SFB to his parents, 15 Jan 1826, M25. On the later development of the N.A.D. see especially Clark and Samuel F. B. Morse Educator. The idea of lecturing/ Alone: SFB, Lectures on the Affinity, 14. All the quotations in the next four paragraphs are from this volume. According to Finley/ Solely: Cummings, 35. On this and other exhibitions