American writer, son of the above, graduated at Harvard in 1831, had some reputation as an artist and a patron of the fine arts, but was better known for his witticisms, one of which, the oft-quoted “Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris,” is sometimes attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes. He published some poems and, in prose, Nile Journal (1876), Syrian Sunshine (1877), Windfalls (1878), and Chequer-Work (1879).
See Susan Hale’s Life and Letters of Thomas Gold Appleton (New York, 1885).
