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“once repeating…a single recitation”: Biographical sketch of Salmon P. Chase, quoted in Warden, Private Life and Public Services, p. 39.
“for the entertainment they afforded”: Warden, Private Life and Public Services, p. 38.
“quite a prodigy…and head down”: SPC to Trowbridge, January 21, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.
“sliding down hill”…would swear: SPC to Trowbridge, December 27, 1863, reel 30, Chase Papers.
made him abhor intemperance: Warden, Private Life and Public Services, p. 63.
“face forward…sufficed to save”: SPC to Trowbridge, January 21, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.
Ithamar’s glass venture and financial ruin: SPC to Trowbridge, January 19, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 7–8.
Ithamar Chase’s fatal stroke: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 8.
“He lingered…our home”: SPC to Trowbridge, January 19, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.
“almost to suffering”: SPC to Trowbridge, February 1, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.
“ever lamented and deceased father”: Janette Ralston Chase to SPC, August 14, 1824, [filed as 1824–1825 correspondence], reel 4, Chase Papers.
Salmon sent to Philander Chase: SPC to Trowbridge, January 21 and 31, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers; Arthur Meier Schlesinger, “Salmon Portland Chase: Undergraduate and Pedagogue,” Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly [hereafter OAHQ] 28 (April 1919), pp. 120–21.
Salmon’s journey to Worthington: SPC to Trowbridge, January 23, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 9–11.
“was not passive…quite tyrannical”: SPC to Trowbridge, January 25, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.
“My memories…wish I had not”: SPC to Trowbridge, January 27, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.
Cincinnati College…“gave it to reading”: SPC to Trowbridge, January 31, 1864, typescript copy, reel 31, Chase Papers.
his “life might have been…more fun!”: Warden, Private Life and Public Services, p. 94.
first teaching position…dismissed: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 17.
At Dartmouth: Ibid., pp. 18–19; Frederick J. Blue, Salmon P. Chase: A Life in Politics (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, 1987), pp. 6–7.
two lifelong friendships: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 97.
“Especially do I…have been wasted”: SPC to Thomas Sparhawk, July 8, 1827, reel 4, Chase Papers.
“the author is doubtless…vilest purposes”: Entry for September 22, 1829, SPC diary, reel 40, Chase Papers. The editors of the published edition of the Salmon P. Chase Papers identify the author of the novel as Edward Bulwer-Lytton. See note 65 for entry of September 22, 1829, The Salmon P. Chase Papers. Vol. I: Journals, 1829–1872, ed. John Niven (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, 1993), p. 24 [hereafter Chase Papers, Vol. I].
established a successful school: SPC to Trowbridge, February 10, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers; Schlesinger, “Salmon Portland Chase,” OAHQ (1919), pp. 132–33, 143.
distinct classes of society…“utter contempt”: SPC to Hamilton Smith, May 31, 1827, reel 4, Chase Papers.
“I have always thought…to achieve”: SPC to Hamilton Smith, April 7, 1829, reel 4, Chase Papers.
“saw the novelty…poor and young”: Appleby, Inheriting the Revolution, p. 7.
wrote to an older brother in 1825 for advice: Alexander R. Chase to SPC, November 4, 1825, reel 4, Chase Papers.
Attorney General William Wirt: Warden, Private Life and Public Services, pp. 124–25, 175; Fidler, “Young Limbs of the Law,” pp. 245, 276. See also Michael L. Oberg, “Wirt, William,” American National Biography, Vol. XXIII, ed. John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, American Council of Learned Societies (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 675–76.
Wirt welcomed: Entries of January 10, 29, 30, 1829; February 9, 1829; April 8, 20, 1829; Chase Papers, Vol. I, pp. 5–9, 13–14; Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, p. 29.
to read and study…his students: SPC to Trowbridge, February 13, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers.
“many happy hours…the stars”: SPC to Trowbridge, February 10, 1864, in The Salmon P. Chase Papers. Vol. IV: