1871

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January 07, 1871

• Hartford Courant Hartford, Connecticut Saturday, January 07, 1871 - Page 2 — Paul Morphy, the noted chess player, is now practicing law in New Orleans. He very seldom plays chess.

• Chicago Tribune Chicago, Illinois Saturday, January 07, 1871 - Page 2 — Paul Morphy is practicing law in New Orleans, and has practically abandoned chess. ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★

January 11, 1871

• Richmond Dispatch Richmond, Virginia Wednesday, January 11, 1871 - Page 2 — Paul Morphy, the noted chess-player, is now practicing law in New Orleans. ★ / ★ / ★ / ★

• Buffalo Weekly Courier Buffalo, New York Wednesday, January 11, 1871 - Page 3 — Paul Morphy, the noted chess player, is now practicing law in New Orleans. He very seldom plays chess. ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ / ★

January 22, 1871

• The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Sunday, January 22, 1871 - Page 4 — Official List of Letters Remaining in the New Orleans Post Office, Jan. 21, 1871

January 25, 1871

• The Perry County Democrat Bloomfield, Pennsylvania Wednesday, January 25, 1871 - Page 2 — Paul Morphy's law business in New Orleans rarely gives him leisure for chess. ★

January 29, 1871

• The Era London, Greater London, England Sunday, January 29, 1871 - Page 4 — Chess. — “The lines quoted by a Contributor in your Chess notices of January 8th are given in the American Chess Monthly of 1859, and are there said to be the conclusion of a Chess poem by G. Hawkins, 1764. The same volume of the Monthly in which I found this reference to G. Hawkin's poem contains some not unamusing ‘Epigrammatic observations,’ as they are termed, on the set of Gold and Silver Chessmen presented to Paul Morphy in New York in 1859.” Read More

March 12, 1871

• Chicago Tribune Chicago, Illinois Sunday, March 12, 1871 - Page 3 — Chess - Game Played by Captain McKenzie

March 12, 1871

• Chicago Tribune Chicago, Illinois Sunday, March 26, 1871 - Page 3 — Chess - Game between Blackburne and Winawer at Baden

April 06, 1871

• The Brooklyn Union Brooklyn, New York Thursday, April 06, 1871 - Page 4 — Interesting Chess Tournament in Prospect - Eugene Delmar and Mr. Perrin

May 23, 1871

• Chicago Tribune Chicago, Illinois Tuesday, May 23, 1871 - Page 4 — Chess — The Proposed American Congress. A meeting was held on last evening, at the rooms of the Chicago Chess Club, for the purpose of taking the preliminary steps toward constituting an American Chess Congress. On motion, Messrs. James Morgan, A.W. Giles, H. Barber, William Goggin, W.A. (illegible), and V. R. (illegible) were appointed a committee to correspond with other chess clubs in relation to the programme for the congress. Mr. Echorn offered the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted: Resolved. That this meeting extends a special greeting to Paul Morphy. In expressing the hope that he will not fail to attend the coming American Chess Congress the meeting believes that it represents the feeling of all the chess players of the Northwest. The meeting then adjourned to June 5, when the Committee on Correspondence will report. It is expected that matters will be in a (illegible) by that time to make further action practicable. Read More

May 25, 1871

• The Times-Picayune New Orleans, Louisiana Tuesday, May 23, 1871 - Page 6 —The Daily State Journal Alexandria, Virginia Monday, March 25, 1872 — Paul Morphy, the chess player, has turned corner grocer at New Orleans. (Paul Morphy was not idle. There are many useful things any lawyer can do… and assisting in the family business was one of them.)

Paul Morphy, Corner Grocer 24 Mar 1872, Sun Nashville Union and American (Nashville, Tennessee) Newspapers.com Morphy Business 23 May 1871, Tue The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana) Newspapers.com

September 09, 1871

• The Pittsburgh Commercial Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Saturday, September 09, 1871 - Page 1 — Dr. L.P. Meredith, of Cincinnati, who won the local championship during the Morphy excitement, and who has never lost a match since, has been prevailed upon to challenge any player in Ohio to a match of chess, the contest to be for no stakes except the honors of victory. The challenge will remain open to all players in that State until Dr. Meredith finds a conqueror. Read More

September 17, 1871

• The Daily Commonwealth Topeka, Kansas Sunday, September 17, 1871 - Page 4 “We were pleased to make the acquaintance of E.L. Morphy, of Quincy, Illinois. He is a cousin of Paul Morphy, the renowned chess player.“

November 20, 1871

• Birmingham Daily Post Birmingham, West Midlands, England Monday, November 20, 1871 - Page 5 — Blindfold Chess

December 07, 1871

• Star Tribune Minneapolis, Minnesota Thursday, December 07, 1871 - Page 1 — The American Chess Congress

December 29, 1871

• The Tennessean Nashville, Tennessee Friday, December 29, 1871 - Page 1 — Paul Morphy. A New Orleans correspondent writes: Paul Morphy, the foremost chess player of any age or country, a nephew of Ernest Morphy, was born and still resides in this city. All lovers of chess will recollect how in 1850, when but thirteen years of age, he defeated the great Hungarian player, Lowenthal, who was then on a visit to New Orleans; how in 1857 he beat everybody, and astonished the natives at the Chess Congress in New York, and still better how a year or two later, during his visit to Europe, where he received calls from Princes, and was invited to dine with dukes, and was flattered by poets, he beat all the great players of the world, including the German chess king, Anderssen. But his father having studied law with the famous Edward Livingston, then Supreme Judge of Louisiana, and Paul having also read law before going to Europe, he resumed that profession after his great chess conquests, and since has been like any other quiet and unassuming lawyer in our midst. His grandfather was a Spaniard, of Madrid; his father was born in Charleston, and his mother was the descendant of a French family from Santo Domingo. This chivalrous knight errant of chess is of short stature and slight build, a dapper little dark eyed and dark haired man of the South, who, as he trips along from his office on Royal Street, would be the last man one would suppose has won such triumphs at home and abroad. He is now thirty-five years of age, and, being half a Frenchman, of course, speaks that tongue with equal facility to English. Yes, times have changed in New Orleans; and Old John Robinson's Big Show ill this week attract more of her citizens under its tents than would all the chess congress or reading rooms in the universe. ★ / ★ / ★ / ★ Read More