One of the American medical students in 1830s Paris featured in McCullough’s The Greater Journ
One of the American medical students in 1830s Paris featured in McCullough’s The Greater Journey. “In a pencil drawing done by a fellow student named Robert Hooper, he is distinguished by a full head of hair, a thin cigar clenched in his teeth at a jaunty angle, and just a suggestion of the fancy attire for which he was known. …[W]hatever the season, his coats and trousers were ‘irreproachable,’ his shirts, 'exquisite,’ each of his several waistcoats, 'a separate triumph of varied color and design.’ The considerable running cost of such a wardrobe seems not to have distressed his father in the least.” -- source link
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