1868

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January 01, 1868

• Aberdeen Journal, and General Advertiser for the North of Scotland Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland Wednesday, January 01, 1868 - Page 3 — Chess At The Exhibition — The fight between the Hungarian and the Austrian was extremely exciting. Steinitz, since he conquered Anderssen, has been thought of as the right man to meet Paul Morphy, should he revisit Europe. Read More

March 13, 1868

• So the biting campaign of syndicated defamation by media begins… The New Orleans Crescent New Orleans, Louisiana Friday, March 13, 1868 - Page 2 — The chess champion of the world, Paul Morphy, has emerged from his retirement. He played, in Paris, four games with Mr. Steinitz, losing one and drawing three. ★ claims Morphy beat Steinitz in all four games ★ Morphy-Steinitz Rumor ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ Read More

False Report About Paul Morphy Makes It's Rounds In Syndicated Press 13 Mar 1868, Fri The New Orleans Crescent (New Orleans, Louisiana) Newspapers.com Morphy Steinitz (Claims Morphy beat Steinitz in Each Game) 15 Mar 1868, Sun The Times-Democrat (New Orleans, Louisiana) Newspapers.com

March 13, 1868

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, March 15, 1868 - Page 5 — Mr. Paul Morphy. — The following, for the truth of which we cannot vouch, is taken from Wilkes (New York) Spirit of the Times. If true, we shall be glad to see the games:— “Chess In Paris.—It gives us much pleasure to announce that the champions of the world, Mr. Paul Morphy, has emerged from his retirement. Rumour says that he has played four games with Mr. Steinitz, losing one and drawing three. It is impossible that he will remain satisfied with that result with a player who was beaten by Mr. Kolisch at the Paris Tournament; therefore, we confidently expect to see him contest a series of games either with Mr. Steinitz, or some other chess champion of equal strength, without fear that the laurels which he has earned will be wrested from him.” Read More

Mr. Paul Morphy 15 Mar 1868, Sun The Era (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com

March 15, 1868

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, March 15, 1868 - Page 5 — Chess.

March 18, 1868

• Star Tribune Minneapolis, Minnesota Wednesday, March 18, 1868 - Page 1 — Rumor has it that Mr. Morphy has again entered the chess arena, having played four games with Mr. Steinitz, of which number he lost one, the other three being drawn. If this is so, Mr. Morphy is either out of play or played very carelessly.

March 22, 1868

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, March 22, 1868 - Page 5 — Chess

March 29, 1868

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, March 29, 1868 - Page 5 — Chess. — Chess In New York. — The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin reproduces the following game which was played some years ago between Mr. Morphy and Mr. Lichtenhein, and prefaces it with this REMARKABLE statement:—“In connections with the following game, we deem it but just to Mr. Lichtenhein to state that after having beaten Mr. Morphy three games to a draw at the odds of a Knight, the last-named gentleman desired Mr. Lichtenhein to make certain inferior defenses, because he (Mr. Morphy) wishes to test them. In these analyses Mr. Lichtenhein, of course, took back moves, but what took him back the most was that Mr. Morphy published them as actual encounters, and that the analysis was merely a little dodge to improve his own score.” Now, Mr. Morphy has been guilty of many silly things, one of the silliest being his insufferable affectation of despising Chess! Chess, to which he owes all the little celebrity he has attained to, and without which he would probably never have been heard of beyond the precincts of his native town; but we cannot conceive him capable of such meanness as this statement implies, and we shall expect to find it contradicted the moment it becomes known to him.
  In this game, Mr. Morphy gives his Q's Kt; remove, therefore, White's Q's Kt from the board. Read More

Defamation of Paul Morphy 29 Mar 1868, Sun The Era (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com

March 31, 1868

• New Orleans Republican New Orleans, Louisiana Tuesday, March 31, 1868 - Page 2 — Radical Republican Ticket, E.C. Morphy, Assistant Alderman ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★

May 31, 1868

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, May 31, 1868 - Page 6 — Chess

July 12, 1868

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, July 12, 1868 - Page 7 — Chess

August 23, 1868

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, August 23, 1868 - Page 7 — Chess in New Orleans. A brilliant little Gambitto, played by Mr. E. Morphy and Mr. Schaub (Allgaier Gambit).

August 28, 1868

• The New Orleans Crescent New Orleans, Louisiana Friday, August 28, 1868 - Page 1 — Edward Morphy, Brother of Paul Morphy

August 30, 1868

• The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Sunday, August 30, 1868 - Page 2 — A Distressing Casualty. - Ernest Morphy

September 01, 1868

• The New Orleans Crescent New Orleans, Louisiana Tuesday, September 01, 1868 - Page 11 — Stella Morphy and One Hundred Thousand People on the Streets.

September 03, 1868

• The Selma Times and Messenger Selma, Alabama Thursday, September 03, 1868 - Page 2 — Paul Morphy, the great chess player, is in Hamburg. / ★

September 20, 1868

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, September 20, 1868 - Page 5 — Mr. Morphy. — The following paragraph is from The New York Spirit of the Times:— “Mr. Morphy is, we believe, still in Paris. He abstains from Chess play in public from a dislike to let his name appear in print in connection with Chess.” This is delicious, if true. Mr. Morphy, who would probably never have been heard of ten miles beyond the precincts of his native town but for Chess, dislike to have his name connected with the game! Faugh! ([Realistically, Morphy's detest of Chess was so great, that the previous year (June 1867), he and his family took a trip all the way from New Orleans to Paris to be present for the Chess Congress of 1867. Not chess, itself, but the malicious rumor-rousing by unsavory souls which unfortunately attach themselves to sports to promote personal political agendas … that Mr. Morphy found so appalling.]) Read More

September 22, 1868

• Chicago Tribune Chicago, Illinois Tuesday, September 22, 1868 - Page 2 — Paul Morphy has returned from Europe. ★

September 25, 1868

• Buffalo Morning Express and Illustrated Buffalo Express Buffalo, New York Friday, September 25, 1868 - Page 2 — Paul Morphy is in New York.

October 05, 1868

• The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Brooklyn, New York Monday, October 05, 1868 - Page 1 — Paul Morphy, Chessist (It was never funny.) ★ / ★ / ★

October 13, 1868

• The Independent Monitor Tuscaloosa, Alabama Tuesday, October 13, 1868 - Page 3 — Paul Morphy, great chess player, has returned to New Orleans from abroad.

October 14, 1868

• The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Wednesday, October 14, 1868 - Page 1 — Arrival of Steamship Maryland

October 24, 1868

• The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Saturday, October 24, 1868 - Page 4 — We are pained to record the death of Diego Morphy, Esq., one of the oldest and most respected citizens of New Orleans, who died yesterday at the ripe old age of 78 years. Mr. Morphy was a man of finished education, and is well known as having been a teacher of the French, Spanish and Latin languages. He was a brother of the late Judge A. Morphy, of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, the father of our respected fellow-citizen, D.E. Morphy, and an uncle of Paul Morphy, of chess renown. The funeral will take place today at 4 o'clock P.M., from the late residence of the deceased, No. 26 Claiborne street, above Canal street. Friends of the family are invited to attend. ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ Read More

Death of Diego Morphy, Esq., 24 Oct 1868, Sat The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana) Newspapers.com

October 26, 1868

• New Orleans Republican New Orleans, Louisiana Monday, October 26, 1868 - Page 3 — A.E. Morphy

November 01, 1868

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, November 01, 1868 - Page 5 — Chess — Paul Morphy And His Souvenirs. — The arrival of Mr. Morphy in this city on his return from Europe was noticed in the Sunday Mercury the week before last. However much a subject of regret, it was scarcely, from past experience, one for surprise, that Mr. Morphy should have left for New Orleans without thinking proper to pay a visit to the New York Chess Club. While on this subject it may not be amiss to undeceive a large proportion of our readers, who entertain the erroneous idea that the gold and silver chessmen presented to Mr. Morphy, some ten years since, by his admirers in New York, were appropriated to the public service (!) at New Orleans during the late war. We are happy to be able to set our readers right in this matter. Mr. Morphy, far too cautious a player to leave his pieces en prise of an opponent whose little game he so well knew, with characteristic foresight, caused their removal on board a Spanish man-of-war, which happened, at the nick of time, to be in port. White thus moved his King out of check, and the manipulator of the black men, Gen. Butler, was stale-mated.—New York Sunday Mercury. ★ / ★ Read More

Vicious, Vindictive Rumors from Northern Newspapers to Ruin the Reputation of Paul Morphy 01 Nov 1868, Sun The Era (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com