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It's too long a story to begin on just as you are about to go home." Tuesday, May 29, 1888.

It cuts to the marrow—at least to my marrow: is a sort of confession of faith on my part.

W. wished this proof entire, not in parts. F. tells me his printers found W.'

nearly in touch with the spirit of our modern democracy as the plays of the Greeks—as the Homeric stories

The Leaves of Grass have become a part of my every-day thought and experience.

Saturday, June 2, 1888.Took W. the first six pages of O'erOver Travel'dTraveled Roads in page form.

"I would like to rehearse the whole story—it has elements all its own. It is a long story, too.

Saturday, June 2, 1888.

Harned told W. a story about General Sherman, which started W. into quite a monologue: "Yes, I see he

here awhile ago, some Englishman—many Englishmen come to see me—who told me a characteristic Tennyson story

I was very much tickled with the story—it seemed to show Tennyson up in a new light—as being far more

Bucke was here this afternoon some hours, Osler being with him a part of the time.

Spent a good part of today, like yesterday, up stairs—"in my big arm chair there—God bless my big arm

While I would not be afraid to assent to this as a part of the truth I still insist that I am on the

The missing pages contained part of I Sing the Body Electric and all but the concluding stanzas of A

in the mountains: was 'froze out and starved out' as the niggers say: I guess he has told you the story

What is the nature of the stories he repeated to Kennedy? I cannot understand.

Did he believe the stories? Shocked at me? Shocked at Jim?" "Shocked," I said—"just shocked."

I often say that even Jefferson Davis should put his story down—put himself on record—give the world

The whole theory of the book is against gems, abstracts, extracts: the book needs each of its parts to

I had manuscript and proofs and a copy of The American containing the first part of Frank Williams' paper

I said I would take it, paying part cash. The owners then offered it for seventeen fifty spot cash.

written by Watson Gilder for one English and one American periodical disapproving of the current stories

I don't believe the conventional literary class take any part in the Colonel's gatherings but all the

You will have twenty chapters to your Emerson story by and bye." He was quiet for a few minutes.

I read a story once of a man who was thought remarkable because possessed of the power to see with his

Doctor Bucke concedes a good deal of weight to the first part of the book though he seems to reject the

opportunity to influence any forthcoming article on them, I think it would be a proper and an even essential part

W. is in his chair every day part of the time but has not yet been able to give any connected attention

I do not like the last part of the title; it brings me up with such a short turn.

Was up a great part of the afternoon. Wrote somewhat. Read some. "Drowsed a good deal," as he said.

Smith has his parts, no doubt, but he ought to play his piece in some village backyard: he don't seem

Referred to the newspaper stories current about his condition: "I am dying, dead— almost buried."

It don't seem to me my part to take sides as between them: the thing finally found its own legitimate

I can only suppose you have seen some bungled and mutilated telegram embodying part of the statement

I want to tell you about it some day—the whole story: Buchanan had a story, too: I am not equal to it

like an old man who has to lean on a cane, but they belong where they are—are necessary to round my story

submitted this notable statement: "I suppose I should have been free of all this today—free at least in part—if

questions—no time to think about either staying or running away: there was but one thing to do, one part

offer a practical suggestion:—that if you see no reason against it, the new edition might be issued in 2

vols, lettered, not vols. 1 and 2, but 1st series and 2nd series, so that they cdcould be priced and

Four pages of manuscript in his own hand indorsedendorsed in this way: "Part of Wm.William O'Connor's

I might as well copy "the Conway document" right here."2.

He was a man of parts.

I think that probably the best part of that letter, which is full of best parts, is his sentence on the

"And you say—" "Then I tell them a few of your stories and get them convulsed."

My other works are History of Ireland, Heroic Period, Vols I and 2, an epical representation chiefly

For my own part I put him high very high; his meaning lies fold within fold never to be exhausted.

as that I do not meet in you the expression of every changing ideal penetrating even the remotest parts

The latter part of June Gilder and I went to Concord and spent a couple of days there.

they are substantial facts, notwithstanding a very few exceptions, and in truth they are a necessary part

Upon reading over my letter, previous to mailing it, I had almost decided not to send it as a part of

"Part of it—yes."

Monday, July 2, 1888.To W's at eight o'clock. Frank Harned present for awhile.

Monday, July 2, 1888.

"Read the letter," said W. again.Times Office, Wednesday Night 2 O'Clock.

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

I was much better satisfied to listen to a fight than take part in it."

It makes me think of a story I once heard of a Bridget whose mistress found her weeping bitterly before

I said to Doctor when he was here: 'Maurice, you put too much emphasis upon my part in the scheme: you

of place in Leaves of Grass—not integral—too distinctly different in character to connect with the story

They all go to make up a story. A story? Yes. But will the world ever wish to hear it?

My dear sir,I send by this mail the second part of my study of your works.

"the holy hour"—"the hour of the man who returns from work: the hour of the family, the table, the story

doubted or gone off—that I can count on him in all exigencies: and I think affection plays a great part

"The senile Emerson is the old Emerson in all that goes to make Emerson notable: this shadow is a part

passages are quoted as being the work of an immoral writer, and, altho'although I tried to show they were part

Monday, April 2, 1888.Mousing among some old papers on his table today, looking for something else, W

ever a fighter lived, Boyle O'Reilly is that fighter: he writes me fiery letters, he tells me fiery stories

Good-bye.Faithfully yours,Boyle O'ReillyThe enclosed letter follows:39 Bowdoin Street [Boston]10, 2,

Monday, April 2, 1888.

I am done with the letter of the church—with its hands and knees: but that part of the church which is

"The best part of every man is his mother," said W.

"Not at all: it is free in all its basic dynamics: that is, the free human spirit has its part to perform

Wigglesworth, and to your own sister Margaret, that as I feel it a privilege myself to be doing a part

The beautiful portrait of the Poet in 1880, to Chapter 2, is exquisite and adds much to our interest

stations with the best professionals, no matter what their politics, and so make the life-saving work part

that it make you think of a rubicund sailor with his hands folded across his belly about to tell a story

Last winter Story of Rome the author of Cleopatra, you remember, asked me for your photo once.

"As I read I think of a funny story Mary Davis tells me of some one who said once in a sudden humor:

I read W. a story about Turner—how he had on varnishing day once blacked out one of his brilliant canvases

Next thing we shall have to meet will be the stories of what Emerson said to this man and that man.

The parting at Providence was hard.

Most of all did I desire to hear from your own lips—or from your pen—some story of athletic friendship

The story writers do not as a rule attract me.

The stories might just as well have be told of me—yet I never tasted strong liquortilluntil I was thirty

Why did he not himself write up this story?

mass—always in such strange agitation—I dare not consent to see anybody except the few who are in effect a part

When I was through—parts of it put a shake into my voice—he said fervently: "I thank God for having permitted

Dear Whitman, Some while ago I received your kind present of the 2 vols—Leaves of Grass and Specimen

Read it again—part of it aloud—and asked W. some questions suggested by it.50 Wellington Road, Dublin

is something manufactured in them—they do not adhere and cling quite close, and become an invisible part

Then he said: "One part of that would suit O'Connor and one part would suit Burroughs but as a whole

I guess friendship is constitutional, or in great part so—you like cabbage or you don't and that's all

I think that explains one part of Carlyle—that and perhaps something constitutional."

W. greatly interested—had me repeat the story.

Thomson.Forks Road, Natchez, May 2, 1848.When I had finished W. at once spoke out: "I recognize it.

My dear Sir,I hardly know through what a malign series of crooked events—absence chiefly on my part in

receive any works printed by me—echoes of my studies in the history of Greece and Italy for the most part

of designs for things that were never executed: lectures, songs, poems, aphorisms, plays—why, even stories

: I was going to write stories, too, God help me!

Friday, October 2, 1891To W.'

My lecture is with my sketches, about 2 hours long—1/2 hour to each part, & about 1/2 hour to the sketches

part would put him in a wrong light—while he is not able to tell the whole story, which is a long one

W. had spent a day of varied indications—part of it restless, part peaceful.

It is a necessary part of the story." Referring to Chile, "How absurd we are!