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2 unusual facts about Robert Underwood Johnson


Housatonic River

Inspired by the river during his honeymoon, the American classical music composer Charles Ives wrote "The Housatonic at Stockbridge" as part of his composition Three Places in New England during the 1910s, drawing his text from a poem of the same name by Robert Underwood Johnson.

The Secret of Nikola Tesla

Morgan is portrayed by Orson Welles, while Croatian actress Oja Kodar, Welles' companion for the last 24 years of his life, has the role of Katharine Johnson (1855–1924), with whom Tesla corresponded for many years, and whose husband, Robert Underwood Johnson (1853–1937) (portrayed by Croatian actor Boris Buzančić) was a poet, scholar, diplomat and Tesla's longtime friend and supporter.


Nikola Tesla Museum

Selected documents and photographs from correspondence with friends, writers and artists—George Westinghouse, Mark Twain, Robert Underwood Johnson, and others—are also in the show-case.


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