"ever lamented and deceased father": Janette Ralston Chase to SPC, August 14, 1824, [filed as 18241825 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. 12021.
Salmon"s journey to Worthington: SPC to Trowbridge, January 23, 1864, reel 31, Chase Papers; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 911.
"was not pa.s.sive...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. 1819; Frederick J. Blue, Salmon P. Chase: A Life in Politics (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, 1987), pp. 67.
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, 18291872, 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. 13233, 143.
distinct cla.s.ses 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. 12425, 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. 67576.
Wirt welcomed: Entries of January 10, 29, 30, 1829; February 9, 1829; April 8, 20, 1829; Chase Papers, Vol. I, pp. 59, 1314; 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: Correspondence, April 18631864, ed. John Niven (Kent, Ohio, and London: Kent State University Press, 1997), p. 283.
the social gulf...discouraged: Elizabeth Goldsborough to Robert Warden, quoted in Warden, Private Life and Public Services, p. 126; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 23, 40.
"thousands...universal scholar": Alexander R. Chase to SPC, November 4, 1825, reel 4, Chase Papers.
"Day and night...my labours": Entry for March 1, 1830, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 45.
"knowledge may yet...be mine": Entry for January 13, 1829, ibid., p. 6.
"You will be...in that walk": William Wirt to SPC, May 4, 1829, reel 4, Chase Papers.
"G.o.d [prospering]...your example": SPC to William Wirt, June 16, 1829, reel 4, Chase Papers.
self-designed course of preparation: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 23, 26.
"his voice deep...of my toils": Entry for February 14, 1829, diary, reel 1, Papers of Salmon P. Chase, Ma.n.u.script Division, Library of Congress [hereafter Chase Papers, DLC].
"I feel humbled...of well-doing": Entry for December 31, 1829, diary, reel 1, Chase Papers, LC.
Chase before the bar, 1829: William Cranch, quoted in Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 27.
"study another year"...sworn in at the bar: SPC, "Admission to the Bar," June 30, 1853, reel 32, Chase Papers, DLC.
"I would rather...wherever I may be": SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, February 8, 1830, reel 4, Chase Papers.
Cincinnati in 1830: Hart, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 1316.
"was covered by the primeval forest": SPC, "On the Dedication of a New State House, January 6, 1857," reel 41, Chase Papers.
"a stranger and an adventurer": Entry for September 1, 1830, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 53.
shyness, speech defect: Niven, Salmon P. Chase, p. 31.
"I wish I was...provide the remedy": William Wirt to SPC, May 4, 1829, reel 4, Chase Papers.
"awkward, fishy...little inconvenience": SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, February 8, 1830, reel 4, Chase Papers.
"I made this resolution...excel in all things": Entry for April 29, 1831, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 57.
"I was fully...a "crown of glory"": Entry for March 1, 1830, ibid., p. 45.
founded a popular lecture series...berated himself: Entry for February 8, 1834, diary, reel 40, Chase Papers; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 32, 3438; Mary Merwin Phelps, Kate Chase, Dominant Daughter: The Life Story of a Brilliant Woman and Her Famous Father (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1935), pp. 12, 35.
"I confess...terminate in this life": Abigail Chase Colby to SPC, April 21, 1832, reel 4, Chase Papers.
death of Catherine Garniss Chase: Entries for November 21 and December 1, 1835, Chase Papers, Vol. I, pp. 87, 9293.
"so overwhelming...has been severed": SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, April 6, 1836, reel 5, Chase Papers.
"Oh how I accused...tempted me away": Entry for December 25, 1835, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 94.
"that death was within...left but clay": Entry for December 1, 1835, ibid., pp. 9394.
"the dreadful calamity...care for her": SPC to Charles D. Cleveland, April 6, 1836, reel 5, Chase Papers.
doctors had bled her so profusely: Entry for December 26, 1835, Chase Papers, Vol. I, p. 96.
he delved into textbooks: Entry for December 28, 1835, ibid., p. 99.