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been one of my chosen delights, from earliest boyhood up, to follow the flights particularly of American

The odd thing is, that all the little pictures have a foreign air, are not American—improbable stereotyped

I had been examining American reprint of Review of Reviews. Whitman matter not copied there.

He was a rich old man—a New-York-City man and with a grand port, too—grey-bearded—fine head and body—I

To one who knows as I do what it all means, it is always painful to come back into the cities—the streets—the

Thought Symonds' "Democratic Art" was "somewhat like the play 'Our American Cousin'—in which the only

American participating is an invented American, whose like you would wander America from shore to shore

But if I were you I should not wait to hear from her—commence at once: then if she sends what you can

But they were (some of them) too much attenuated—diffuse.

There were features in his mysticism with which I had little sympathy but the purport of his message

I have found by experience that when I undertook to make a historic statement my facts were straight.

Longaker felt his pulse, reporting, "So far as the external signs go, you are as well as you were."

It is the Greek of it—the Greeks were very cute some ways."

And again, when I asked—"or the American?" "No—hardly that.

I composed the article under great affliction, for as the devil would have it, there were several days

Voltaire never was of a mind to condone Shake-speareShakespeare: Shake-speareShakespeare's crudities were

Even as it is, today, were I eligible, I would take the trouble to write, if do no more by him.

Had opened entire shirt front; sleeves were rolled up.I did not stay but for a little while: say, 10

And they were to appear in the Herald.

words of Pope in his "Vital Spark of Heavenly Flame," and of other poets who have uttered words that were

But I remember one evening, in the midst of a talk, when we were all having a good time (in Washington

"I think Carlyle saw all the horrors of life in European centres of population—that Elias Hicks it made

Denver is bound to be one of the most wonderful of our city-growths—wonderful: she will always be a great

necessity: America, traffic—traffic even before the railroad; none the less since—ordained that a city

was needed at just that precise point—a distributing center—a depot—and so this city grew, and so is

They were on their way to W. I wrote a little note.

seventy-second birthday of Walt Whitman, "the good gray poet," was celebrated at his home in this city

Letters were read from Lord Alfred Tennyson, Richard Watson Gilder, Edmund Stedman, and others.

That is Robert Buchanan's recipe for awakening the higher intelligence of the young American.

I gave away a great many copies of November Boughs: there were many very dear friends, friends I valued

He had never been himself a partaker of these dinners—"they were for the big guns exclusively.

Then—on my asking what he had clipped from the Tribune extract (I noticed it was cut): "There were two

"There were very few listeners, it seems.

.: "I thought they were made! But that's not a great matter—to make the stamp: a day or two."

H.L.T.: "One of the letters was from Forman—and in it he confirms what you heard before you were sick

His eyes were shut most of the time, though now and then they partly opened as if to catch my face as

Said left hip and leg were painful. Hiccough on turning.11:45 Had face sponged and hands washed.

W. said again: "Yes: I remember that day at Pearsall's: they were the days when Pearsall had other notions

no idea that the Plays all came from the same source: "There are evidences that various influences were

W. said: "Shakespeare stood for the glory of feudalism: Shakespeare, whoever he was, whoever they were

require to eat, to drink, to live: but to put any emphasis whatever on the trapperies, luxuries, that were

Were the Shakespeare plays the best acting plays? W. said: "That's a superstition—an exaggeration."

He "wondered" how far "these folks" were favorable to him, how far not.

In mail W. sent by me were portraits for Dr.

I said to him, "I am glad to hear from Williams that you saw Bucke's picture over there and were attracted

New York has a vast population of foreigners—the Jews alone a world in themselves.

"You were in at Dave's?" McKay promised to push right ahead. W. gratified. "Good for Dave!

I feel like thanking the man from myself, for America, for Americans."

Davis to tell W. they were there and to find out if he would receive them and for how long. Mrs.

Davis came down to say they should go up—W. desired it, but were to stay only a minute.

Stedman told W. he would be in the city four weeks and probably would call again, W. expressing welcome.What

I left Illustrated American with him. He had wished an extra copy and now asked for it.

They were only here a few minutes, but they were bright minutes."

about the prisons: "Do you think there is real, not sectional, evidence that the Southern prisons were

He says there's an American exhibit preparing, and he wants to put as much there as possible."

He had read the Gladstone-Blaine controversy in The North American Review about the tariff.

Y.) which I had asked for: "The best typical American of the business class I know—a man of ventures,

many: that she, in going about, was attracted to one spot by a thick group of visitors: found they were

Andrew Lang's Bobs and Pinches—Murray paper on American-English courtesies, &c. W. pleased.

The telegraph boys were a remarkable body: picked up here and there—often waifs, mechanics, sometimes

And let alone they were."

He said Quentin Durward and Ivanhoe were "just as wonderful." He felt Scott to be "perennial."

the opinion of Morris and Frank Williams that W. should not embrace the tender—that the young men were

W. had laid out a package of letters for me, among them one from Stoddart.Others were from Bucke, Bertha

"But there were papers: quite a budget of them." Told him of Bucke's letter from Mrs. O'Connor.

fifty devil-knows-whats if there were two: I had to work hard over it: now it is in very good shape.

They were favorable.

Doctor said that in his translation some things were "not literal" but were "what Sarrazin said"—and

B. said outside: "In spite of his bluff I could see that we were wearying him." Room severely hot.

which I least crave—which I in fact despise—which has gone a good way towards the marrow of the American

uplifted arm, the turn of a finger, the simple drapery and attitude that belonged to the act and moment, were

What were her subjects? "Oh!

Bad or good, its publication by the Sun will make Fra Diavolo Godkin howl.I return your Salt Lake City

The North American man called it "so very valuable a manuscript," apologizing for declining it on the

Hackett were examples of many in our profession who have committed this fatal error."

after the modern sense, but he was a man who could hold his audiences—and high-class audiences they were

Vernon and Charlie Fisher—these were the true creatures of the time—the highest-born of all to their

I went right in, and as he proved to be awake, we were quickly in conversation together.

The two volumes I mentioned as having been sold by me were purchased by the National Library for one

I wish you were here this minute that we might talk the whole matter over.

book in the fall rather than in the spring.It has occurred to me that some light could be thrown if I were

ask if you will not find an early opportunity to write a line to Peter Eckler of 35 Fulton St. this city—the

Gilder turned to me, "You were reading to him? Don't let me interrupt you.

me better than I knew—and he set it down so hotly I have been wondering myself if my old opinions were

"I doubt it: his eyes were closed."

While those on one side were thus passing down in line to the stern, those on the other, having faced

about, were passing up toward the bow, drawing their poles floating on the water.

They were the most athletic, restless, and reckless set of men the country ever produced.

In their habits, the keel-boatmen were lawless in the extreme, and would set the civil authorities at

Had their numbers increased with the population of the West, they would have endangered the peace of

Copy of Illustrated American I sent last evening he will send to Bucke.

There were about 400 persons in the room." W.: "A great array! And what did they do?"

H.L.T.: "They were mainly after the magazines—the symposia of magazines; and they seemed to wonder if

it was not all a mistake—a financial ambition backing it—whether, in fact, the people were benefitted

assuming their own—were reading, thinking, doing; that only one man in all the world, in all history

The electric lights are new since my time: there were never any along the river's front as I knew it.

turn about—have another way of explaining its limitations: I say to myself: those very limitations were

The doctors were reticent while here. I of course was not present: they came this afternoon.

I looked at them enough to see what they were. Then I was for sitting right down and reading them.

I am interested in all you choose to communicate.Emerson is just home from your city of steeples and

Then, however: "And yet my friend Arnold would say to all this: You would not talk so if you were a reader

Had it louder while Drs. were here.3 Took medicine. Has drank water frequently.4 Juice of orange.

editorial—read:A POET ON POETSWalt Whitman gives a review of his contemporaries in a brief paper in the North American

the part, The virtues implying the failings keep warm your old place in the heart: We will say you were

There is music in murmur of forest and rhythm in slapping of waves, And of such were the music and rhythm

trick of the rhyme and the tinkle are easy enough to acquire, But the insight and reading of nature were

Disbelieve since you must in the ardor of old you were first to extol, Disbelieve in the present the

He said to me what he said to you, that the women were high-born—proud.

I suggested that there were many parallelisms.

He said: "I don't congratulate you—I congratulate myself, others: if you were as lucky as I was in your

Had any city two such institutions as Gerard College and the Drexel Institute? "Has any one?

Again "curious" to know if there were "odors of a sickroom" here.

How often I have heard him argue that the plays were no defense of feudalism—that no man who meant to

The folks were cleaning about the room: no one could know what was in the wind: it had all along through

went at them like an avalanche: when he was through there was the avalanche taking a rest but where were

He and Rachel were the only vast actors I ever saw.Always affectionately,W. D.

"Were you informed on that Eastern question?"

Gilchrist said to several who were in a group discussing Eakins' Agnew picture in the Haseltine Art Gallery

There were several of my friends present there—vehement friends—and they thought I had made a great mistake

And to my remark: "Australia is more American than English, anyway—" he said: "Yes, it is so: see how