so they moved to morristown. a few months later, they bought that house and then he spent the next couple of decades, fancying it up. i don't mean fixing it up, i mean doing things like going to the centennial in 1876, and buying as far as i can tell everything in sight i mean he thought.. he bought a stair rail. he bought hey fans. i didn't know you could just buy offense, but he did. and you can see what the house would have been like if you can see the backgrounds. the backgrounds were drawn from his own home, so when you see the christmas decorations where there is a mantle and all the stuff that is his house. also there is archival collections in a couple of places. there are auction lists. when he died, there were auctions. you get a sense of what that would have looked like because there are whole categories for suits of armor, and daggers, and you, know, silver cups. so he filled it with interesting things but he would like. >> he was a shopper. >> yeah. then he used those things as props. >> many people

and so they moved to morristown.nd a few months later the records are a little unclear, they bought that house. and then he spent the next couple of decades fancying it up. and i don't mean fixing it up. i mean doing things like going to the centennial in 1876 and buying as far as one could tell, everything in sight. i mean, he bought a stairrail. he bought fencing. like, i didn't know you could just buy a fence out at like a fair. but he did. and you can kind of see what the house would've been like if you look at some of his christmas illustrations that have backgrounds. because the backgrounds were drawn from his own home. so when you see the christmas illustrations where there's a mantle and all this stuff on the walls that's his house. and also there are in archival collections there are these auction lists. when he died his belongings were auction. and you get a sense of what that house must've been like. because there are categories for suits of armor and daggers and, you know, silver cups. and so he filled it

it's in morristown. i'm just looking at my book for a list of illustrations. because it's still there and it's a private home, but you can look at it. there is a museum in a home to him which contains many objects related to him. um, but as i understand it is not the same house. i have a photograph of the house in my book. um seeing if i can find it. um, and he loved that house he and his wife moved. there we go. so gotta love technology. there's the house. there you go. yeah, it's a perfectly nice house. he and his wife moved there because he said he had been threatened by boss tweed, um, which his story was and it's hard to know how much this story was nasty and exaggeration and how much of it was um, absolutely true, but he his story was that he noticed some big hulking folks lurking outside of he and his wife's house in harlem, which was a village at the time. and was aware that that was probably intimidation from the tweed ring and then a lawyer came for tea and offered him a great deal of money if he would go on vacation to europe for say a year or two,