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"They are a part of me—I am a part of them—William, Nellie.

part true.

Phillips told the story beautifully; indeed, I think the best part of Phillips was in the asides, the

This is a part of the so much that went towards producing my English editions: the story is not to be

of the story."

Take Donnelly's cryptogram: I could read the first part but never the cipher business—I could not unravel

He for his part produced an old letter, of which he said: "This is already a letter of long ago: this

after—Whittier's general attitude towards me, with his friends, with my friends: it has been made a part

But I, for my part—we—must not play the game with that end in view.

So the line is unbroken, so the new chapter of my story fits with the chapter just before it, as I am

Up a good part of the time.

But that is not the whole story.

I read a large part of the letter aloud, W. listening intently, several times exclaiming "bravo!"

, and the part of all your friends, is to whale them.

Then you'll have to keep up the story alone."

W. then writes Fields.Washington, Nov. 30, '68. sent Dec. 2.Dear Mr.

I could not expect to do more for my own part at this late day than collect a little of the driftwood

Now it comes back fresh to me—almost like a new thought, a new story.

I for my part refuse to connect America with such a failure—such a tragedy, for tragedy it would be."

The stories of Socrates—of his courage, invincibility, nerve, inertia—are very credible: they seem quite

So I set to and rearranged the piece: discarded some parts, changed the position of certain paragraphs

I have heard many stories about him and they were all the right kind—all on the side of love.

I do not suppose anybody pretends that the present newspaper with all its parts—and it has parts—I concede

them: great parts—stands for that something or other above money and the monitions of money which controlled

What amazing differences develope in the attempt of a dozen observers to tell the same story!"

every side—even from my blind side"—laughing—"taken in utter wretchedness of posture for the most part

It was to have been a very complete story—I had the largest hopes, designs, for it—still, as I read it

I must be satisfied now if I have succeeded in hinting at matters which it was a part of my original

of beauty: short, musical, rich in cadence, pithy, never too much, never too little: and the best part

wounded three weeks ago today at Culpeper—hit by fragment of a shell in the leg below the knee—a large part

and is one of the least visited—there is not much hospital visiting here now—it has become an old story—the

gas-burners about half turned down—It is Sunday evening—to-daytoday I have been in the hospital, one part

Bucke's letters have become a part of W.'s routine.

"They are a part of me—I am a part of them—William, Nellie.

I heard a story once how the brilliant Douglas Jerrold astonished an evening party in London by a constant

I feel like imitating this wit, and saying, not in parting but in welcome, to our new friend, "Good Morrow

written and part printed.

W. was annoyed by this story.

That is the whole story, if story there be."

Davis sat in the parlor part of the time with us.Sunday, June 2, 188910.15 A.M.

the good story well told.

It is an old story.

Yet that is not the whole story. That's my part of the story.

of things done and missed being done, stories of heroism and cowardice, stories of meanness and generosity—stories

"Part of it—yes."

It is excellent—the first part and the closing part of it especially.

W. had read a baseball story in a paper.

At the point where Sarrazin discusses evil as interpreted by W. he exclaimed: "Yes: that is a part of

it—tells a part of it, indeed, a good part of it: but that is not all."

W.,Aug. 2, 1887.Dear Sir.Presumptuous as it may be, I cannot refrain from sending these few lines to

Adding: "As Miss Nipper says in Dickens' story—in Dombey and Son (you remember it, don't you?)

further: "But we must show great consideration for Kennedy: we know that at bottom—in osseous, integral parts—the

Perhaps I would stand in the same relation to this case," he said, "if I heard, read, the Doctor's story

Bucke assented: "Yes, Walt: I mean theft: unmitigated unexampled theft: why, if ever you read the real story

I said: "Walt, there's a story goes with all that: do you want to hear it?"

"Well—that's certainly a good story."

That was the story, Walt. Does it sounds right to you?" Laughed heartily.

"But the fish part is very fishy: I am not inclined to accept it."

They parted at Hartford—Starr and Thoreau did not exchange names.

Saturday, March 2, 1889Hunting up Bucke at Dooner's, according to appointment, we took together the 8.31

Two stories. Brick. The door was opened by Nellie. We were ushered into the little parlor. Talk.

see him: he is the youth in our story—its poetry, its prophecy, made visible."

And he said again: "Do not mistake me: John is most parts the same John: but lately something has been

Saturday, March 2, 1889

let me hear it: I'd like to: read it to me" Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands,March 2, 1869.To Walt Whitman.May

The native villagers gather about me, for strangers are not common in these parts.

W. said: "He is right: occidental people, for the most part, would not only not understand but would

doing now: it was not to be disputed or suspected: he was not a man to be guilty of detraction: the story

the story of Frank Sanborn's son?" I again asked: "What?"

Now W. went on: "Well—well: the part of it which sticks most in my noodle is the fact that Donnelly's

It is still as true as it used to be—the story of Socrates: I will always tell this story: I try to restrain

W. said: "It's an old story: I have told it before: you must have heard it: but it will bear retelling—carries

My special trouble now is what they call sclerosis—an induration of the lower part of the spinal cord

him—and so he got a full excoriation before crossing Styx, for after he died I took out the severest parts

It brings in my favorite story of the Sultan and the poet over again: gives me a wish: the subtle answer

I read to him part of the letter of the 4th from Mrs. Baldwin characterizing Doctor Bucke.

calmly reasoned it out than appears: O'Connor—all the fellows, nearly—would argue (though I took no part

"When Emerson did come out it was with the power, the overwhelmingness, of an avalanche: I, for my part

doubt whether even a second-rate man (probably a third- or even fourth- or fifth-rater)—is for his part

I said: "Walt, they say you have no sense of humor but I notice you generally have a neat little story

This story amused W. a great deal.

Then continued his message for Bucke (as to health): "I can only say it in these words: the same story

"I always enjoy the story of Lord Palmerston—think it very happy: there was a clerk somewhere under him

The story convulsed W.

Then that home in W. was of course more to her than to me; her time was all passed there and only a part

I told Bucke the story. He guffawed. "You fellows are decidedly Rabelaisian," he said.

He said: "Part of my difficulty was verbal: I can't quite make out Nelly's scribble: now that I hear

I'm glad you told me the story: it's so unexampled—so like nothing but itself." Then he paused.

That deafness quite often occurs, even now—seems to be a part of the cold."

W. said: "I know it: but there is a story of Madame Dudevant's—you remember it?

speaks of the man who tells his wife of his visit to another woman but does not tell her the whole story

of him—as much a part of him as his books."

company, comprising the membership of an intelligent reading club ignorant, however, for the most part

.: "That interminable dreary story!"

You remember the Lessing story? It always seemed to me very deep: very, very.

I told W. a story. Ingersoll was lecturing in Philadelphia.

W. still elaborated his story. "What a mistake!

what a host of enthusiastic boys would have been afoot taking part—arguing, contending, unfalteringly

He said; "The accounts have not been exaggerated: the truth was worse than the stories of it—far worse

He said that similar stories from Europeans were told of the vendetta—of massacres &c.

Then as truly as Denmark is at this moment doing the principal part of the intellectual work of the Scandinavian

"Yes, I can see it: and it was good because of you: I am sure you told the story straight: from what

W. said: I thought the story would give me a good résumé of Priestley's career—some adequate picture

He has sat up a part of the day, but is now, at 4 P.M., sleeping.

"I have been told the story a number of times by old men—I have quite a penchant for hunting up the old

roosters, having their stories from the farthest back possible."

"Their stories seemed wonderfully to agree—seemed plausible.

.: "May not a great part of it be mental." B. then: "It probably is."

I read a story years ago—a French story, by a great humorist—who pictured the return of Christ, his going

all other matters: people get accustomed to a certain order of traditions, forms: they think these a part

To lose his tone is almost to lose the whole stir of the story. "The good old lady!

C.,July 2, 1864.Dear Walt:Your note of June 25th did not reach me till the 28th.

After W. had taken his sherry, telling a story of someone who "does everything that is bad," W. said:

Chanler—of her story The Lass of"—here he stopped—could not recall the title: "Well—something or other

cultivate that talent: then, at that time, I knew nothing about her, except what I caught from that one story

"Take these," he said: "if anybody asks about Walt Whitman say: 'Here's the whole story: take one.'"

He himself apologizes not a whit for these spontaneous outbursts (Expektorationen); he is a part, or

for Walt Whitman in Germany or not, we will leave undecided; but if I should find only the fiftieth part

did you see the first part of it?

he said: "it reminds me of the story—was it Dickens'?—where somebody says: 'hit takes 'old of me!

"As I understand it, Gurd, the Doctor, their men, were to control the larger part of the stock: they

that there was no reason why the letter should not appear twice, or even three times, in different parts

As we talked Ed came in from the post office bringing a letter from Bucke, which W. read forthwith, part

of it aloud, part of it to himself.

America than you are ever willing to admit: you have been endorsed here more than has been told in the story

myself—the book is very rapid—is a book that can be read by the five or ten minutes at (being full of small parts

shine to Hunter: he is so big, lusty: he has such a cheery, hearty manner—especially when he tells a story

He said: "It takes us to the unseen—it is a poem—the supreme fact of art: it is the end of the story,

Harrison's letter to Blaine there in part facsimiled.

This will be my birthday gift to the world, my last, my parting, gift: the world has made many birthday

Beyond and outside of that is another story, and I have no doubt (as you have so well taught) that all

Hood.W. said: "It looks as if we were right up against our great bereavement—as if the story was rapidly

enter into the French character—its life: yet it is a thing not to be reckoned without: all that is a part

Yet this is necessary, I suppose: narrow, despicable, hateful, as it is to me, it is yet part of the

story: the tail of the cat is long: and much as I despise for myself some of those tendencies, I would

I intend to excoriate them for their shameful part in this shameful transaction.I am at work on my Tribune

It would have been a long story." Then reflectively. "So he used it?"

It is the same old story—the whole drift of the thing is usual—that is to say, for preservation: yes,

I have heard both sides of the story: if there was a failure on either side to carry out anything I'm

W. addressed me: "Was it you, Horace, who told me a story of Frederick, the old Emperor?

W. said: "I remember a story that is told of Southey—or some line from him somewhere—in which he says

W. was in such good condition he did the major part of the talking. Blake sat on the sofa opposite.

says he is willing to make another try: if you won't let him do that then you should assume at least part

"It's one of my regrets that the Wagner operas have never come my way—that I for my own part have not

There is a story Mrs. Shelley tells—or a character-study, rather—that makes me think of myself.

I told W. another Shelley story (new to him) in which Byron figured.

"You mean Hartmann's damn lying stories?" I explained. He said: "Oh!"

I told W. a story.

W. exclaimed: "That's a fine story: I'm glad you told it to me: it's the other side of the shield: yes

Sat so for the greater part of my half-hour's stay—closing the window finally himself.

Is that the purport of the story?" Then I gave him the details of C.'

a wonderful and curious spectacle anyhow—the United States having the vessels there at all: for my part

the International Congress of American Governments, once proposed by Blaine, now revived—there is a story

Kristian Elster, Strandgade 38, Trondhjem, Norway.2.

Again: "I've been reading a newspaper story about Colonel Bob: it was about somebody he befriended: I

W. again: "The largest part of our human tragedies are humanly avoidable: they come from greed, from

He said: "It's the best story in a long time: and bilin', too! haven't I been there?

Yes, it's a story whose meaning goes way beyond itself." Blake went home this morning.

He doubted the story that Hawthorne was killed by the War.

Tuesday, April 2, 188911 A.M. W. looking rather pale and troubled. Reading papers.

"That's a good boy story," he said: "I can appreciate your remorse!"

Tuesday, April 2, 1889