THE LIFE AND CHESS OF PAUL MORPHY                                                                                                                                                                                     Paul Morphy: Documents

 

  


 


Before 1857

2/20/1829

6/10/1856

12/17/1856

1850

1857

 

11/16

11/17

1858

1/25

2/4

3/9

4/3

4/3

5/30

7/?

7/6

7/27

7/29

8/6

8/14

8/21

8/28

10/6

10/6

10/8

10/8

10/9

10/14

10/17

10/17

10/24

10/26

10/30

10/30

11/3

11/13

11/15

11/17

11/18

11/26

11/27

12/4

 

1859

1859

4/3

5/?

5/26

8/3

11/7

12/31

1859-1860

various

After 1859

2/1/1860

 

2/4/1863

1874

12/5/1875

 

12/8/1875

 

1/15/1876

5/2/1877

4/16/1879

6/1881

11/3/1881

7/31/1882

1883

6/28/1884

8/13/1884

7/1884

 

8/1884

1/25/1885

8/20/1891

3/14/1901

 

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Documents Pertaining to Paul Morphy

 

The marriage agreement between Alonzo Morphy and Thelcide Le Carpentier

Ernest Morphy's Letter to the New York Clipper

The estate of Alonzo Morphy

Edouard and Paul Morphy's registration at Spring Hill, 1850?

 

An excerpt from a1857 Letter written by Daniel Willard Fiske to Prof. George Allen

A Letter from Morphy to Maurian, November 16, 1857

An excerpt from a Letter written by Howard Staunton to Eugene Beauharnais Cook  - November 17, 1857

 

A Letter from Morphy to Fiske, January 25, 1858

The New Orleans Chess Club's original challenge to Howard Staunton  - February 4, 1858

A Letter from Morphy to Fiske, March 9, 1858

Staunton's Response to Morphy's Challenge  - April 3, 1858

Howard Staunton's Reply to the New Orleans Chess Club - April 3, 1858

A Letter from Morphy to Fiske, May 30, 1858

American Chess Monthly  July, 1858

A Letter from Edge to Fiske, July 6, 1858

A Letter from Charles A. Maurian to Daniel W. Fiske, July 27, 1858

A Letter from Charles A. Maurian to Daniel W. Fiske, July 29, 1858

A Letter from Edge to Fiske, August 6, 1858

Morphy's Letter to Staunton, August 14, 1858

Morphy's Letter to Staunton, August 21, 1858

Staunton's Reply to "Anti-book's Letter" - the Illustrated London News,  August 28, 1858

Morphy's Letter to Howard Staunton - October 6, 1858

Morphy's Letter to the Era - October 6, 1858

Morphy's Letter to T. Hampton (Secretary of St. George's Chess Club) - October 8, 1858

Morphy's Letter to the Breslau Chess Club - October 8, 1858

Staunton's Letter to Morphy -October 9, 1858

Morphy's Letter to the Breslau Chess Club - October 14, 1858

"Fair Play's" Letter to Bell's Life in London October 17, 1858

"M. A.'s" Letter to Bell's Life in London October 17, 1858

"Edge's" Letter to Bell's Life in London October 24, 1858

Morphy's Letter of Appeal to the British Chess Association  - October 26, 1858

The Letter from Frederick Edge to the Chess Clubs of Europe - October 30, 1858

The Letter from Frederick Edge to the Breslau Chess Club - October 30, 1858

Lord Lyttleton's Reply to Morphy's Letter of Appeal  -  November 3, 1858

Pawn-and-Two's Letter to the Field November 13, 1858

Staunton's Letter the Editor of the Illustrated London News  - November 15, 1858

The Manchester Chess Club Resolutions, November 17, 1858

A Letter from Frederick Milne Edge to Daniel Willard Fiske, November 18, 1858

Cambridge University Chess Club Resolutions Concerning Staunton - Nov. 26, 1858

Boden's comments on Staunton's letter (as printed in the November 27 issue of the Field)

Boden's comments from the December 4, 1858 issue of the Field

 

 

Letter from Max Lange to Adolph Anderssen

A Letter from Edge to Fiske, April 3, 1859

Morphy Seen Through a Lady's Eye Glass - from the Philadelphia Item -May 1859

Ladies After Paul Morphy - New York Times

A Letter from Paul Morphy to the Philadelphian Professor George Allen  - August 3, 1859

A Letter from Edge to Fiske, November 7, 1859

A Letter from Adolph Anderssen to Heyderbrandt Von der Lasa concerning Morphy

The Harrisse Correspondence

 

 

Fisk published "A Card"

Morphy's Preface to J. Löwenthal's Morphy's Games of Chess

A Letter from Morphy to Fiske, February 4, 1863

Paul Morphy's opinion of Howard Staunton as a Chess Player, 1874

Letter to J. E. Orchard from "D,"  December 5, 1875

Letter from Charles A. Maurian published in the Watertown, N.Y. Re-Union

Letter from Charles A. Maurian to Capt. Geo. Mackenzie, December 8, 1875

An undated letter from Maurian, recipient unknown

Letter from Charles A. Maurian's to Jean Prèti,  January 15, 1876

Charles Maurian's defense of Paul Morphy - May 2, 1877

Dr. L. P. Meredith's Letter in the Cincinnati Commercial -April 16, 1879

Ernst Falkbeer and Morphy's Memory, June 1881

Paul Morphy, the Chess Player by I. E. Nagle

Letter from Paul Morphy to l'Abeille

1883 Interview with Steinitz on his Meeting Morphy

Interview with Johannes Zukertort

Letter from the Manhattan Chess Club to Telcide Morphy / her reply -  August 13, 1884

Two Obituaries
        New York Times
        New Orleans Times-Democrat

Resolutions adopted by the Manhattan Chess Club - August, 1884

Times-Democrat article on Thelcide Morphy by James DeBenneville Séguin

Paulsen's opinion of Morphy - August 20, 1891

Letter from Daniel W. Fiske to John G. White - March 14, 1901


   


 

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