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| − | :Millet writes of "Trip to the Rhine" in his personal Journal.<ref>Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers, 1858-1984 (bulk 1858-1955). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.</ref> | + | :Millet writes of "Trip to the Rhine" in his personal Journal.He travels with friends Champney, Grundmann and Maynard.<ref>Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers, 1858-1984 (bulk 1858-1955). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.</ref> |
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| − | :Millet writes of "Trip to Holland" in his personal Journal.<ref>Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers, 1858-1984 (bulk 1858-1955). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.</ref> | + | :Millet writes of "Trip to Holland" in his personal Journal. He travels with two friends.<ref>Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers, 1858-1984 (bulk 1858-1955). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.</ref> |
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==1873-1874, October 9.== | ==1873-1874, October 9.== | ||
| − | :Millet writes of Trip to Southern Europe and Turkey in his personal Journal.<ref>Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers, 1858-1984 (bulk 1858-1955). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.</ref> | + | :Millet writes of Trip to Southern Europe and Turkey in his personal Journal. He travels with Maynard.<ref>Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers, 1858-1984 (bulk 1858-1955). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.</ref> |
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| − | :Millet writes "Diary of a Trip to the West".<ref>Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers, 1858-1984 (bulk 1858-1955). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.</ref> | + | :Millet writes "Diary of a Trip to the West". He travels with Adams, Lane and Canfield.<ref>Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers, 1858-1984 (bulk 1858-1955). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.</ref> |
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==1891, June 20-October 26== | ==1891, June 20-October 26== | ||
| − | :Millet writes about his "Canoe Trip Down the Danube" in his personal Journal.<ref>Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers, 1858-1984 (bulk 1858-1955). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.</ref> | + | :Millet writes about his "Canoe Trip Down the Danube" in his personal Journal. He travels with Alfred Parsons.<ref>Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers, 1858-1984 (bulk 1858-1955). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.</ref> |
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==1905== | ==1905== | ||
| − | :Millet writes about "Trip to the Northwest and Alaska" in his personal Journal.<ref>Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers, 1858-1984 (bulk 1858-1955). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.</ref> | + | :Millet writes about "Trip to the Northwest and Alaska" in his personal Journal. He travels with son Laurence.<ref>Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers, 1858-1984 (bulk 1858-1955). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.</ref> |
==1906== | ==1906== | ||
:Stoddard's recollection of meeting Millet in Venice was published in Boston's ''National Magazine''. | :Stoddard's recollection of meeting Millet in Venice was published in Boston's ''National Magazine''. | ||
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| + | :Stoddard writes of his "Trip to the Orient" in his personal Journal. He is accompanied by son Jack. <ref>Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers, 1858-1984 (bulk 1858-1955). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.</ref> | ||
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==1911, March 6-30== | ==1911, March 6-30== | ||
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1846, November 3
- Born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts to Asa (a doctor) and Huddah Millet.
1864, July 11
- Millet enlists in the Massachusetts Volunteers, claiming that he is 18, thereby exaggerating his age by four months, He is mustered into service as a musician, a drummer boy, and later serves as a surgeon's assistant.[1]
1864-1865
- Millet writes in his personal Journal of his adventures in the war in "Civil War Diary". [2]
1865
- Millet's journal begins to record social functions with young ladies. He attended a dancing school in Bridgewater on many Thursday evenings and during March took a girl named Mary to dances in Bridgewater and Abington. They danced late into the evening, and returned home at 2 am. Millet recorded that he would always remember one of those late carriage rides, but never said what had happened.[3]
1865, September 14
- Millet matriculates into Harvard University.[4] At Harvard, Millet becomes friends with Royal Merrill, who has two sisters, ??? and Lily, who Millet eventually marries. Millet lives off-and-on with the Merrill family for several years, before leaving Cambridge.
1868, February-March
- Millet writes a series of four newspaper articles, each titled "Letter from Washington", published in the North Bridgewater Gazette and signed "Davis".[5]
1869, June 25
- Millet graduates from Harvard with a Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, in Modern Languages and Literature in English, French, and German. He is elected to Phi Beta Kappa Society. His Harvard class book contains a photo of him, and a group photo.
- During his last year at Harvard, Millet meets Vilma Marie Morse. A month after Millet's graduation they two go for a ride to pick violets and this begins a relationship that lasted for five years (until 1874).[6]
Date?
- Millet workes as a reporter and editor for the Boston Courier.
- Any bylines?
Date?
- Millet works as a correspondent for the Advertiser at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition.
- Bylines?
1871
- Millet enrolled in the Royal Academy, Antwerp. There, unlike anyone before him, he won all the art prizes the school offered and was officially hailed by the king of Belgium.
1871,September 11-21
- Millet writes of "Trip to the Rhine" in his personal Journal.He travels with friends Champney, Grundmann and Maynard.[7]
1872
- Millet receives a Master of Arts Degree from Harvard, the archives of which are mute on the circumstances under which this degree was granted.[8]
1872, March 30
- Millet writes of "Trip to Holland" in his personal Journal. He travels with two friends.[9]
1873, May 7
- Millet, employed as secretary of the Massachusetts commission to the Vienna exposition, for the first time meets and forms a life-long friendship with the American Charles Francis Adams, Junior.[10]
1873-1874, October 9.
- Millet writes of Trip to Southern Europe and Turkey in his personal Journal. He travels with Maynard.[11]
1870s, early
- Millet rents a studio in Rome.
1874, end of year
- Millet invites Charles Warren Stoddard to join him in the house he (Millet) has rented in Venice. The two lived and sleep together there in an upstairs room.
=1875, January 27-June 27
- Millet writes of "Trip Throughout Italy" in his personal Journal. He travels with Charles Warren Stoddard.[12]
1875
- Stoddard writes columns about Venice and other Italian cities for the San Francisco Chronicle. These include coded references to his affair with Millet.
1875, February
- Stoddard, seeking new cities to write about for the San Francisco Chronicle, makes a three-week tour of northern Italy, and Millet accompanies him. Stoddard revises these Chronicle columns twelve years later [in 1887?] for the Catholic magazine Ave Maria, published at Notre Dame University.
1876
- Millet returns to Massachusetts and paints murals at Trinity Church in Boston with John LaFarge.
1885
- Millet writes "Diary of a Trip to the West". He travels with Adams, Lane and Canfield.[13]
1877-1882, June 5-June 18
- Millet writes of "Russo-Turkish War and Trip to Sweden" in his personal Journal.[14]
1887
- Stoddard revises his stories for the San Francisco Chronicle about a trip with Millet through northern Italy and publishes them in the Catholic magazine Ave Maria, published at Notre Dame University.
- 1889, June==
- Millet and his wife Lily return to England. Shortly after their arrival they travel to Paris to the newly erected Eiffel Tower at the Universal Exposition of 1889. Several of Millet's pictures are exhibited in two different locations. Piping Times of Peace is show in the British Sections. Handmaiden and A Difficult Duet are shown in the United States Section. The Millets settle in their home, Russell House, in Broadway, England, for the summer season.[15]
1889, June 18
- Millet writes to Stoddard from Broadway, England, inviting him to stay in his home, Russell House. and that his wife will be delighted to see him.[16]
1889, [July 28?]
- In another letter dated "Sunday" (possibly written on July 28, 1889] Millet urges Stoddard to visit, but to come alone (Stoddard had evidently written that he might bring a guest). Millet tells Stoddard there is a nearby monastery that Stoddard can visit and where Stoddard is sure to make friends with the father and the boys of the order. Millet says that Henry James often comes to stay. There is no record of Stoddard's visit.[17]
1891, June 20-October 26
- Millet writes about his "Canoe Trip Down the Danube" in his personal Journal. He travels with Alfred Parsons.[18]
1892
- Francis Davis Millet. The Danube from the Black Forest to the Black Sea. books.google.com. 326 pages
- Francis Davis Millet. The Designers of the Fair [at Chicago, 1893]. Published 1892.
1892, September
- The Century Magazine, published in ........., contains an article titled "Francis Davis Millet". CHECK.
1892, August 31.
- The Century Magazine for September. Alexandria Gazette, August 31, 1892, page ??.[19]
1894
- Daniel Hudson Burnham, Francis Davis Millet. The book of the builders: being the chronicle of the origin and plan of the World's fair, of the architecture of the buildings and landscape, of the work of construction, of the decorations and embellishments, and of the operation. Columbian Memorial Publication Society. Springfield, Ohio, 1894.
1905
- Millet writes about "Trip to the Northwest and Alaska" in his personal Journal. He travels with son Laurence.[20]
1906
- Stoddard's recollection of meeting Millet in Venice was published in Boston's National Magazine.
1908
- Stoddard writes of his "Trip to the Orient" in his personal Journal. He is accompanied by son Jack. [21]
1911, March 6-30
Millet writes "Diary of Trip to Panama." He is accompanied by Lily.[22]
1912, April 10
Millet boarded the RMS Titanic at Cherbourg, France, bound for New York City.
1912, April 15
Millet dies on the Titanic.
Notes
- ↑ Peter Engstrom, Francis Davis Millet: A Titanic Life (East Bridgewater, Massachusetts: Millet Studio Publishing, 2010), page 23.
- ↑ Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers, 1858-1984 (bulk 1858-1955). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- ↑ Peter Engstrom, Francis Davis Millet: A Titanic Life (East Bridgewater, Massachusetts: Millet Studio Publishing, 2010), page 26.
- ↑ Peter Engstrom, Francis Davis Millet: A Titanic Life (East Bridgewater, Massachusetts: Millet Studio Publishing, 2010), page 27.
- ↑ Peter Engstrom, Francis Davis Millet: A Titanic Life (East Bridgewater, Massachusetts: Millet Studio Publishing, 2010), page 32.
- ↑ Peter Engstrom, Francis Davis Millet: A Titanic Life (East Bridgewater, Massachusetts: Millet Studio Publishing, 2010), page 33.
- ↑ Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers, 1858-1984 (bulk 1858-1955). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- ↑ Peter Engstrom, Francis Davis Millet: A Titanic Life (East Bridgewater, Massachusetts: Millet Studio Publishing, 2010), page 31.
- ↑ Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers, 1858-1984 (bulk 1858-1955). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- ↑ Peter Engstrom, Francis Davis Millet: A Titanic Life (East Bridgewater, Massachusetts: Millet Studio Publishing, 2010), page 48.
- ↑ Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers, 1858-1984 (bulk 1858-1955). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- ↑ Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers, 1858-1984 (bulk 1858-1955). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- ↑ Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers, 1858-1984 (bulk 1858-1955). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- ↑ Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers, 1858-1984 (bulk 1858-1955). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- ↑ Peter Engstrom, Francis Davis Millet: A Titanic Life (East Bridgewater, Massachusetts: Millet Studio Publishing, 2010), page 92.
- ↑ Peter Engstrom, Francis Davis Millet: A Titanic Life (East Bridgewater, Massachusetts: Millet Studio Publishing, 2010), page 92, note on page 400 citing "Russell House", June 18 [1889], Charles Warren Stoddard Collection, Syracuse University Library.
- ↑ Peter Engstrom, Francis Davis Millet: A Titanic Life (East Bridgewater, Massachusetts: Millet Studio Publishing, 2010), page 192, and note on page 400 citing "Russell House", [c. July 28, 1889], Engstrom's date attribution, Charles Warren Stoddard Collection, Syracuse University Library.
- ↑ Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers, 1858-1984 (bulk 1858-1955). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- ↑ Alexandria gazette., August 31, 1892, Image 2, accessed from Chronicling America, February 16, 2012.
- ↑ Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers, 1858-1984 (bulk 1858-1955). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- ↑ Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers, 1858-1984 (bulk 1858-1955). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
- ↑ Francis Davis Millet and Millet family papers, 1858-1984 (bulk 1858-1955). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
