The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (97 page)

271
One day a child:
Elihu Washburne Diary, November 11, 1870, Library of Congress.

272
“I am depressed”:
Elihu Washburne to Adele Washburne, September 2, 1870, Library of Congress.

272
Yesterday forenoon:
Ibid.

272
“Everything that energy”:
Hoffman,
Camp, Court, and Siege
, 154.

272
“And here let me remark”:
Ibid., 154–55.

273
Raised on a farm in Maine:
Hunt,
Israel, Elihu, and Cadwallader Washburn: A Chapter in American Biography
, 155.

273
A judgment expressed by
The Nation: Hess, “An American in Paris,”
American Heritage
, February 1967, 18.

273
The
New York World
had called him: New York World
, December 12, 1868.

274
“coarse, uncultivated”:
Welles,
Diary of Gideon Welles
, Vol. III, 551.

274
“enlarged views”:
Ibid., 543.

274
“He may represent”:
Ibid., 551.

274
“Our family was very, very poor”:
Hunt,
Israel, Elihu, and Cadwallader Washburn
, 158.

274
He had been born on September 23, 1816:
Ibid., 155.

274
The family struggled to survive:
Kelsey,
Remarkable Americans: The Washburn Family
, 8.

274
It would be said of the Washburn children:
Hunt,
Israel, Elihu, and Cadwallader Washburn
, 300.

275
her mind was “quick”:
Ibid., 158.

275
“The foundation that is layed”:
Martha Benjamin Washburn to Elihu Washburne from Livermore, Maine, March 21, 1846, Washburn-Norlands Living History Center, Livermore, Maine.

275
When I think of her labors:
Hunt,
Israel, Elihu, and Cadwallader Washburn
, 158.

275
As one of the founders of General Mills:
Grossman and Jennings,
Building a Business Through Good Times and Bad: Lessons From 15 Companies, Each with a Century of Dividends
, 45.

275
“I dug up stumps”:
Hunt,
Israel, Elihu, and Cadwallader Washburn
, 159.

275
“more congenial”:
Ibid., 160.

276
“There is no humbug”:
Ibid., 163.

276
In 1839, after another two years:
Ibid., 166.

276
He arrived by stern-wheeler:
Elihu Washburne Diary, April 1, 1871, Library of Congress.

276
“knee deep”:
Ibid.

276
“a litigious set”:
Hunt,
Israel, Elihu, and Cadwallader Washburn
, 172.

276
In less than a month:
Ibid., 173.

276
In a rough, wide-open town:
Ibid.

276
He liked the life:
Ibid., 172.

277
In 1845, at twenty-nine:
Ibid., 178.

277
“He was not under the influence”:
Ibid., 179.

277
In little time:
Ibid., 183.

277
He was praised:
Ibid., 183, 193.

277
An Ohio newspaperman:
Ibid., 192–93.

277
“blow off like a steam engine”:
Ibid., 192.

277
As chairman of the Committee on Appropriations:
Ibid., 183.

277
It was Israel Washburn:
Ibid., 32–33.

277
It happened at about two in the morning: New York Herald
, February 6, 1858;
New York Times
, February 8, 1858;
New York Tribune
, February 6, 8, 1858;
Chicago Tribune
, February 8, 1858.

277
“Mr. Washburne of Illinois”: New York Herald
, February 6, 1858.

278
In 1860, when Lincoln ran for president:
Hess, “An American in Paris,” 21.

278
On the day Lincoln stepped:
Hunt,
Israel, Elihu, and Cadwallader Washburn
, 229–30; Hess, “An American in Paris,” 21.

278
“Without doing any injustice”:
Hunt,
Israel, Elihu, and Cadwallader Washburn
, 220.

278
The confidence Washburne placed in Grant:
Ibid., 243.

279
“His life was despaired of”:
Fowler,
Reminiscences: My Mother and I
, 23.

279
“quiet and repose”:
Elihu Washburne to his sister, October 12, 1870, Library of Congress.

279
In its long history:
Sibbet,
Siege of Paris
, 169.

279
“The weather is charming”:
Elihu Washburne to Adele Washburne, September 28, 1870, Library of Congress.

279
The formal exchange:
Undated news article in Elihu Washburne scrapbooks, Library of Congress.

280
On September 21, a daring balloonist:
Kranzberg,
The Siege of Paris, 1870–1871
, 38.

280
Eventually some sixty-five balloons:
Ibid.

280
“I have never before so much”:
Elihu Washburne to Adele Washburne, September 28, 1870, Library of Congress.

280
To his brother Israel in Maine:
Elihu Washburne to Israel Washburn, October 21, 1870, Library of Congress.

281
“great courage and spirit”:
Elihu Washburne Diary, September 30, 1870, Library of Congress.

281
In early October:
Transcript of recollections by Charles William May of his balloon trip out of Paris, Manuscript Collection, Boston Athenaeum, 3.

281
But when, on the morning of October 7:
Horne,
The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune, 1870–1871
, 85.

281
It was another perfect day:
Transcript of recollections by Charles William May of his balloon trip out of Paris, Manuscript Collection, Boston Athenaeum, 7.

281
The air was clear:
Ibid., 7–8.

282
So we opened the sand bag:
Ibid., 8.

282
“There was no sense of motion”:
Ibid.

282
“The days go and”:
Washburne,
Recollections of a Minister to France, 1869–1877
, Vol. I, 189.

282
“laid by” his own sufficient stock:
Ibid., 133.

282
“Were it not for Mr. Washburne”:
Labouchère,
Diary of a Besieged Resident in Paris
, 24.

282
“cheerily shaking everyone”:
Ibid., 70.

283
“The world cannot fail to admire”: Chicago Journal
, no date, Elihu Washburne scrapbooks, Library of Congress.

283
“suffering … so sore I can hardly move”:
Elihu Washburne Diary, October 15, 1870, Library of Congress.

283
Many people called:
Ibid., October 17, 1870, Library of Congress.

283
“But Washburne”:
Hoffman,
Camp, Court, and Siege
, 203.

283
“interminable gabble”:
Washburne,
Recollections of a Minister to France
,
1869–1877
, Vol. I, 201.

283
“a little depression”:
Elihu Washburne to Israel Washburn, October 27, 1870, Library of Congress.

283
“We drove to the French”:
Hoffman,
Camp, Court, and Siege
, 204.

283
While we waited:
Ibid., 205.

284
On October 31, Trochu’s army:
Kranzberg,
The Siege of Paris, 1870–1871
, 54–55.

284
That same day:
Elihu Washburne Diary, October 31, 1870, Library of Congress.

284
“marched with gigantic strides”:
Ibid.

284
“People, and people”:
Sheppard,
Shut Up in Paris
, 120.

284
Women with big feet:
Ibid., 120.

285
A tall well-bred-looking:
Ibid., 122–23.

285
“They all seemed to regard”:
Elihu Washburne Diary, October 31, 1870, Library of Congress.

286
“What a city!”:
Washburne,
Recollections of a Minister to France, 1869–1877
, Vol. I, 211.

286
“One moment revolution”:
Ibid.

286
“perfectly raving”:
Ibid., 219.

286
But by this time Bismarck:
Ibid., 219–20.

286
“a prodigy of strength”:
Elihu Washburne Diary, November 7, 1870, Library of Congress.

286
“Indeed, the defenses all round the city”:
Ibid.

286
“I do not see for the life of me”:
Ibid., October 30, 1870, Library of Congress.

287
At the Louvre, where Trochu:
Becker, ed.,
Paris Under Siege, 1870–1871: From the Goncourt Journal
, 81.