Part 83 (1/2)
The Sewards' relations.h.i.+p was sustained: Seward, An Autobiography, p. 162; Johnson, ”I Could Not be Well or Happy at Home,” URLB (1978), p. 53.
”above every other thing in the world”: WHS to FAS, August 22, 1834, reel 112, Seward Papers.
whose ”silver rays”...in the mail: WHS to FAS, January 27, 1831, in Seward, An Autobiography, p. 173.
played in the smoke from his cigar: WHS to FAS, January 15, 1831, in ibid., p. 168.
”Clouds and darkness...twelve months ago”: SPC to CS, September 8, 1850, reel 7, Sumner Papers.
isolated in the Senate...achieve his position: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 142, 14647.
routine at Miss Haines's School: Julia Newberry, Julia Newberry's Diary, intro. Margaret Ayer Barnes and Janet Ayer Fairbank (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1933), pp. 3536: Phelps, Kate Chase, Dominant Daughter, pp. 7475; Alice Hunt Sokoloff, Kate Chase for the Defense (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1971), pp. 2829.
”without...we could hardly breathe”: Newberry, Julia Newberry's Diary, p. 36.
correspondence between Chase and Kate: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 201. Examples of loving but critical letters to KCS: July 22, August 23, September 5, 1850; January 15, March 2, April 19, August 30, September 10, 1851; January 23, 1853; May 27, 1855; April 30, 1859.
”Your last letter...use your eyes, reflect”: SPC to KCS, January 15, 1851, reel 9, Chase Papers.
”I wish...into your letters”: SPC to KCS, January 22, 1851, reel 9, Chase Papers.
”Your nice letter...drowsy G.o.d”: SPC to KCS, June 21, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.
”It will be a...pleasurable sensation”: SPC to KCS, February 8, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.
”Remember...preparation for another!”: SPC to KCS, December 5, 1851, reel 9, Chase Papers.
”strong, robust...give you grace”: SPC to KCS, June 15, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.
”I am sorry...to you the reasons why”: SPC to KCS, August 10, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.
”you have it...by ill conduct”: SPC to KCS, January 23, 1853, reel 9, Chase Papers.
”To an affectionate father...delightful future”: SPC to KCS, March 27, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.
”be made President”: SPC to KCS, February 21, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.
”I knew Clay...and was a brilliant talker”: ”Kate Chase in 1893,” undated newspaper clipping from the Star, ”Sprague, Kate Chase” vertical file, Was.h.i.+ngtoniana Division, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library, Was.h.i.+ngton, D.C. [hereafter KCS vertical file, DWP].
”You cannot think...hear you praised”: SPC to KCS, January 8, 1855, reel 10, Chase Papers.
”have visited...as they should be”: SPC to KCS, August 27, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.
”The sun s.h.i.+nes...the chirp of insects”: SPC to KCS, June 15, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.
”I should like...a ramble together”: SPC to KCS, April 3, 1852, reel 9, Chase Papers.
Chase understood her desire: Hart, Salmon P. Chase, p. 419.
”Miss Lizzie...among gentlemen”: SPC to KCS, August 4, 1853, reel 9, Chase Papers.