THE
EXPLOITS AND TRIUMPHS,
IN EUROPE,
OF
PAUL MORPHY,
The Chess Champion;
INCLUDING
AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF CLUBS, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
OF FAMOUS PLAYERS, AND VARIOUS INFORMATION AND
ANECDOTE RELATING TO THE NOBLE
GAME OF CHESS.
BY
PAUL MORPHY'S LATE SECRETARY.
ILLUSTRATED WITH TEN PORTRAITS ON WOOD.
NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,
346 & 348 BROADWAY.
M.DCCC.LIX.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859,
BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.
THIS RECORD
OF
PAUL MORPHY'S
ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE OLD WORLD,
IS DEDICATED
TO
The Members of
THE FIRST AMERICAN CHESS CONGRESS,
BY
THEIR MOST GRATEFUL
AND OBLIGED SERVANT,
THE AUTHOR.
PREFACE.
I am much indebted, in the following pages, tothe kind assistance of that able writer and veteranchess-player, Mr. George Walker, who has furnishedme with most of the very interesting andvaluable information contained in the fourth chapterof this work. I am likewise under obligationsto Herr Löwenthal for many anecdotes relating tochess celebrities of the past, and other information;and also to Mr. George Medley, Honorary Secretaryof the London Chess Club, and Mr. Ries, of theDivan.
The cuts with which this work is embellishedhave been engraved by the well-known BrothersDalziel. The portrait of Paul Morphy, copied froma photograph taken shortly after his arrival in Londonlast year, is an excellent likeness.
The portraits of Messrs. Staunton, Boden, Anderssen,and Löwenthal, are copies of photographs,[Pg vi]for which they sat at the Manchester Meeting, in1857. The originals of Messrs. Saint Amant andHarrwitz are admirably executed lithographs ofthose gentlemen, taken about four years ago, andthat of Mr. Mongredieu is copied from a photographkindly lent for the purpose.
I am under great obligations to Mr. Lewis, whocame to London expressly to sit for his likeness;and I feel assured that my readers will value this"very form and feature" of an amateur who wasfamous before Labourdonnais was known outsidethe Régence; and whose works are found in everychess-player's library.
I had considerable difficulty in obtaining theportrait of Mr. George Walker. Photographs,lithographs, etc., of that most popular of all chesswriters, did not exist, and many friends prophesiedthat his likeness would not be in my book. But Iimportuned him so that he relented, and confided tomy care an oil painting, for which he sat five yearsago, and which was the on