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by Paul Collins

trip home from Cunningham’s party, 92–94

  turkey for Littlefield, 84, 99, 100, 193, 213, 289n

  visit to Francis Parkman, 62

  visit to Littlefield quarters, 102–3

  see also trial of John Webster

  Webster, Marianne

  after father’s conviction, 225, 232, 261

  at home in Cambridge, 88, 225

  letters from father in jail, 149–50, 197

  at Mrs. Cunningham’s party, 90–91, 92

  testimony at trial, 203–4

  Webster, Redford, 228

  Webster’s lab

  acid splashes and spots, 20, 86–87, 226, 241

  assay furnace in, 21, 81, 83, 126–27, 134, 184, 226

  coal pen off of, 21, 81, 86

  cod hooks and twine, 126, 127, 241

  description of, 20–21, 278n

  filed keys in drawer, 126, 241

  grapevines, 74, 90, 100, 110, 240

  hot wall, 85–86, 109, 193

  knife found in tea chest, 135, 241

  knife (Turkish yatagan), 182, 185, 241

  leather, 74, 90

  locked doors, 82, 85–86, 87, 100, 109, 193, 217

  nitrate of copper on floor, 186, 217

  pine pitch kindling, 86

  police search, 73–75, 118, 125–27, 133–36

  public viewing of, 226–27, 230

  sealable tin box, 197, 241

  tea chest, 74, 134–35, 143, 175, 197, 226, 241

  Welsh, Catharine, 104

  Wentworth, Samuel, 141

  Whipple, John Adams, 169, 306n

  White-Jacket (Melville), 196

  Wilkins, John, 219

  Willard, Sidney (mayor), 132–33

  Winsor, Justin, 267

  Wyman, Jeffries, 143–44, 183, 212, 243, 277n

  Wyman, Morrill, 204

  ALSO BY PAUL COLLINS

  Banvard’s Folly:

  Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn’t Change the World

  Sixpence House:

  Lost in a Town of Books

  Not Even Wrong:

  A Father’s Journey into the Lost History of Autism

  The Trouble with Tom:

  The Strange Afterlife and Times of Thomas Paine

  The Book of William:

  How Shakespeare’s First Folio Conquered the World

  The Murder of the Century:

  The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars

  Duel with the Devil:

  The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

  Teamed Up to Take on America’s First Sensational Murder Mystery

  Edgar Allan Poe: The Fever Called Living

  Copyright © 2018 by Paul Collins

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  The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

  Names: Collins, Paul, 1969– author.

  Title: Blood & ivy : the 1849 murder that scandalized Harvard / Paul Collins. Other titles: Blood and ivy

  Description: First edition. | New York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2017057354 | ISBN 9780393245165 (hardcover)

  Subjects: LCSH: Parkman, George, 1790–1849. | Webster, John White, 1793–1850. | Harvard University—History—19th century. | Murder—Massachusetts—Boston—Case studies.

  Classification: LCC HV6534.B6 C65 2018 | DDC 364.152/3092—dc23

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