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January 10, 1867

• The Times-Democrat New Orleans, Louisiana Thursday, January 10, 1867 - Page 3 — Southern Hospital Association Ball - Committee of Arrangements, Paul Morphy ★ / ★

January 23, 1867

• The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Wednesday, January 23, 1867 - Page 2 — Southern Hospital Association Ball. Reception, Paul Morphy. Reception Committee will meet on Wednesday night, 23d inst., at Gen. Beauregard's office, 44 Carondelet. Notice. Office of the Southern Hospital Association for Disabled Soldiers, New Orleans, Jan. 22, 1867. The Hackmen's Benevolent Association has kindly offered the use of their carriages on the occasion of the ball at the New Opera House on Thursday next, at half price… ★ Read More

• The Times-Democrat New Orleans, Louisiana Wednesday, January 23, 1867 - Page 3 — Office of the Southern Hospital Association For Disabled Soldiers, New Orleans, January 5, 1867. (Paul Morphy was on the “Arrangements” committee, and acting as a “Receptionist” for this charitable outreach for disabled veterans.)

February 04, 1867

• Pittsburgh Daily Post Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Monday, February 04, 1867 - Page 1 — Chess Club.

February 10, 1867

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, February 10, 1867 - Page 4 — Chess

February 24, 1867

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, February 24, 1867 - Page 4 — Chess. / ★ / ★ / ★

February 27, 1867

• The Courier and Argus Dundee, Tayside, Scotland Wednesday, February 27, 1867 - Page 3 — Chess Announcement Premature — The announcement in some of the English and French papers that Mr. Morphy and other well-known players will take part in the Paris tournament is premature, as the committee of management is not yet fully formed. ★

March 11, 1867

• Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, Pennsylvania Monday, March 11, 1867 - Page 1 — Morphy's Match Games-Edited with Notes-By Charles Stanley. (Morphy's Match Games: Being a Full and Accurate Account of His Most Astounding Successes Abroad, Defeating, in Almost Every Instance, the Chess Celebrities of Europe, Paul Charles Morphy, Charles Henry Stanley, R.M. De Witt, 1859) Read More

March 17, 1867

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, March 17, 1867 - Page 5 — Chess. — “An unpromising beginning; but one with worshipful sanction, for, if we remember rightly, the greatest of German players, Anderssen, adopted it successfully against the great of American players, Morphy.)

March 22, 1867

• The Weekly Republican Plymouth, Indiana Friday, March 22, 1867 - Page 5 — A feature of the Paris Exposition is to be an international chess tourney. Russia, Germany France, England and America will be contestants. Russia's knight is said to be a magnificent player. Germany boasts a man who has vanquished twenty opponents at one time. Mr. Devinck, Counsellor General of the Department of the Seine, is the defender of France. The English champion has not yet been announced; but it will probably be the veteran Staunton. Paul Morphy, whom the French journals speak as the handsome young who plays blindfold, is to represent America. ★ / ★ Read More

April 10, 1867

• Hartford Courant Hartford, Connecticut Wednesday, April 10, 1867 - Page 2 — “A great chess tournament, some of the prizes of which are given by the Emperor Napoleon, is to take place at Paris during the Exposition. Where is Paul Morphy?”

April 27, 1867

• The Sydney Morning Herald Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Saturday, April 27, 1867 - Page 6 — Chess.

May 09, 1867

• The Guardian London, Greater London, England Thursday, May 09, 1867 - Page 4 — Great International Chess Tournament. — A great international chess tournament is to take place at the Cercle International in Paris on the 15th. It is expected that the famous American chess player, Morphy, will take part in the tournament.

May 20, 1867

• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Brooklyn, New York Monday, May 20, 1867 - Page 2 — An eclectic English journal calls the great chess-player Morphy—Murphy.

• The Brooklyn Union Brooklyn, New York Monday, May 20, 1867 - Page 2 — Morphy is playing chess in Vienna. / ★ (False rumor).

June 02, 1867

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, June 02, 1867 - Page 7 — Chess. “A finely played game, wherein Mr. Morphy gave the odds of his Queen's Rook to Mr. Michaelis.”

June 09, 1867

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, June 09, 1867 - Page 7 — Chess. — The following is one of the remarkable positions from the “Abécédaire Echiqueen,” or Problems formed to represent the letters of the Alphabet, of which we spoke in our last. It will be seen that the pieces are so arranged as to form the letter M, the initial of Mr. Morphy's name, to whom it is dedicated by the author:— Read More

June 12, 1867

• Hartford Courant Hartford, Connecticut Wednesday, June 12, 1867 - Page 4 — The National Game. — “…In 1867 the effects of this infatuation are visible and the mercury in the thermometer of sport has fallen far below its old point of summer heat. A parallel to this state of things may be found in the chess mania of 1857—the year of the American chess congress and of the advent of Paul Morphy—which was succeeded in 1858 by a reaction as marked as that which we now witness in the case of baseball. The lesson that all this teaches is the lesson that everything else teaches—moderation. It is a lesson, too, that Americans especially need. We are too much accustomed to become intensely interested in a thing, to devote ourselves to that thing with a zeal which knows no bounds, and finally when our very eagerness has brought on a feeling of satiety to abandon the object of our passion, and turn to something else…” Read More

June 19, 1867

• The New Orleans Crescent New Orleans, Louisiana Wednesday, June 19, 1867 - Page 4 — Paul Morphy, Esq., and family left here, yesterday, for Paris.

Paul Morphy, Esq., and family left here, yesterday, for Paris. 19 Jun 1867, Wed The New Orleans Crescent (New Orleans, Louisiana) Newspapers.com

June 24, 1867

• Daily News London, Greater London, England Monday, June 24, 1867 - Page 5 — Chess Congress of 1867 — There are chess tournaments held every evening in the conference saloon or in the international concert room of the club. The most celebrated chess players join in these contests. Among the foremost are Anderson, of London; Neumann, of Berlin, and the champion of Prussia. Mr. Morphy —the king of chess—is to be here, and has announced his willingness to give odds to the greatest among the great, so that there is no doubt that the chess congress of 1867 will be one of abscribing interest, and will be a memorable one in the history of this noble game. ★ Read More

Chess Congress of 1867 24 Jun 1867, Mon Daily News (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com

June 27, 1867

• The Buffalo Commercial Buffalo, New York Thursday, June 27, 1867 - Page 1 — Morphy, the chess-player, is to take part in the coming Chess Congress, in Paris.

• Memphis Daily Appeal Memphis, Tennessee Thursday, June 27, 1867 - Page 1 — The celebrated chess player, Paul Morphy and family, left New Orleans last week for Paris. / ★

July 08, 1867

• The Evening Telegraph Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Monday, July 08, 1867 - Page 1 — Chess in Paris and in New York — “The Paris correspondence of the London Daily News says:—…Morphy's determination to give odds doubtless excludes him from the Congress, but will give extraordinary interest to the meeting of great players. We have no report of any games by Anderssen…” ★ / ★ / ★ Read More

July 28, 1867

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, July 28, 1867 - Page 13 — “Chess. — Mr. Morphy it must be remembered, has not had any hard practice in Chess for some years, and whether if he had entered for the Emperor's Prize he would have won it is problematical. In his best play we have not a doubt he would have beaten any player in the list.”

September 10, 1867

• The Daily Standard Raleigh, North Carolina Tuesday, September 10, 1867 - Page 2 — Paul Morphy, the distinguished American chess-player has arrived in Paris, but it is not announced whether or not he will resume the practice of the game which of late years he has abandoned. Major Jaemish, a well-known Russian chess-writer and analysis, after a short stay in Paris has reached London. — N.Y. Tribune ★ / ★ Read More

• The Brooklyn Union Brooklyn, New York Tuesday, September 10, 1867 - Page 2 — Paul Morphy has again gone to Paris to beat the European chess players.

September 13, 1867

• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Brooklyn, New York Friday, September 13, 1867 - Page 1 — Paul Morphy Is In Paris. / ★

September 14, 1867

• The Times-Democrat New Orleans, Louisiana Saturday, September 14, 1867 - Page 1 — Paul Morphy is reported seriously ill, in Paris with typhoid fever. ★ / ★

September 15, 1867

• The Times-Democrat New Orleans, Louisiana Sunday, September 15, 1867 - Page 1 — Saturday morning we copied a paragraph from the Missouri Republican of the 11th stating that Mr. Paul Morphy, of this city, was ill in Paris of typhoid fever. This morning we give the following paragraph from the St. Louis Democrat of the 13th: Paul Morphy is still in Paris, but has not played any of the new chess monarchs there. This is quite contradictory, and coupled with the fact that his friends have letters from him dated the 23d ult., which make no mention of ill health, leads us to hope there may be no truth whatever in the report of his illness. Read More

Paul Morphy Reported With Typhoid Fever 15 Sep 1867, Sun The Times-Democrat (New Orleans, Louisiana) Newspapers.com

September 28, 1867

• Fort Smith Weekly Herald Fort Smith, Arkansas Saturday, September 28, 1867 - Page 2 — Paul Morphy is still in Paris, but has not played any of the new chess monarchs there. ★

October 31, 1867

• The Ouachita Telegraph Monroe, Louisiana Thursday, October 31, 1867 - Page 1 — Wonderful Memories. — Morphy and other chess-players have recently given instances of their extraordinary memories. Dr. Wallis tell us that he could by mere effort of memory perform arithmetical calculations, as multiplication, division, extraction of roots, etc, up to forty places.… Read More

November 12, 1867

• The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Tuesday, November 12, 1867 - Page 1 — Young Kaiser, Boy Violinist — “Indeed, when we consider the tender age of this remarkable child, and remember how weak must be the arm that guides the bow with such perfect taste, we are filled with wonder, and conclude the boy must have a soul of music, as Paul Morphy is said to have a ‘chess brain.’ …” Read More

December 03, 1867

• The Daily Standard Raleigh, North Carolina Tuesday, December 03, 1867 - Page 2 — Mr. Daniel W. Fiske, formerly of the Astor Library, since of the Chess Monthly, and still since editor of the Hartford Courant, sailed on Saturday for Egypt, to “do” the Nile, and incidentally to buy books for the Cornell Library. Mr. Fiske is an excellent linguist, a man of extraordinary knowledge of books, and after Morphy, perhaps the best chess player in this country. ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ Read More

December 12, 1867

• The Tennessean Nashville, Tennessee Thursday, December 12, 1867 - Page 1 — Paul Morphy is in Paris, but not playing chess. ★ / ★ / ★