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He thought Burr "justly should be regarded as above the ordinary estimate of him"—"the school book stories

intellectualist: cold dispassionate, calculating: yet he was truly a patriot—performed no inconsiderable part

How good the stories he told! how well reflecting things as they must have been!"

Still the Paine story needed to be told.

whether one approves him or not—and to call him a Frenchman, or anything save an Italian, is meaningless).2.

O'Connor will delight the readers of the Galaxy with some charming stories.

Those who remember "The Ghost Story" in Putnam, "What Cheer" in Harpers', and his rich and affluent romance

A evening she goes out, in the rain and darkness and returns at bed time, with scandal stories, of sexual

I am sorry to be compelled to give such a lamentable story. It would not appear well in print.

Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Family. London: Gollancz, 1980.

Rpt. as Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women.

Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Family. London: Victor Gollancz, 1980.

Rpt. as Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women.

It is too long a story.

Then the story goes on—oh!

Last night I had him here telling me sailor-stories—stories of the big steamers.

It is a capital story. I was almost saying the story was better than the picture."

There are several shiftings-about at sea—but the story as a whole is a land story.

vouchsafe to me what has yet been vouchsafed to none—Tell me the whole story, Tell me what you would

The project did not materialize, but on May 2, 1877 Carpenter managed to reach that shabby working-class

In a couple of scathing short stories Melville squared his account with a money-oriented society.

"Leaves-Droppings," divided into two parts: "Correspondence" and "Opinions.1855-6."

There are 2 or 3 pieces in the book which are disagreeable to say the least, simply sensual.

(and a main part) in the construction of my poems, "Children of Adam."

vouchsafe to me what has yet been vouch- safed vouchsafed to none—Tell me the whole story, Tell me what

compliment)—the wonder is not that there are a few errors & plate-breakages—but that there are so few—your part

. | Jun | 14 | 4 30 AM | 1883 | 2.

"That is easily explained: the object, the principle, of a reporter is to make a story—a story at all

"I have forgotten that part of it: how did The Press put it?"

I told him of several of Zola's minor stories which I have recently read—also of Sims's recent criticism

will convince you: I have sometimes thought you had an idea we were romancing a bit in telling that story

"This is the real thing," I said: "This puts the Lincoln story on ice." W. was heartily amused.

Camden, N.J., March 7, 1889 I am still quite bodily helpless—imprison'd the same in my 2d story sick

The identity of the "large, good-looking woman" and the source of the story about Tom Thumb are unknown

The identity of the "large, good-looking woman" and the source of the story about Tom Thumb are unknown

M A X H A Y E K ( 1 8 8 2 - ?

Inspired bythe Irish nationalist movement, NOTES TO PAGES 2 0 -2 3 213 this group was part ofthe British

10.See Griinzweig, '"Teach Me Your Rhythm,'" pp. 2 2 6 -2 2 8 . n.

Grunzweig, 16 December1987. 2.

2 0 3 finde ihn doch nicht.

he had gone from the lawyers' room the irrepressible Chauncey Depew was put on a chair and told a story

Alcott had "always had the idea of a mission," and part of his mission was "to keep these Journals."

I found on examining it that it came back because I had neglected to put 'third story' on it.

I put in, "That's not a part of the discussion. They are to go in whether or not that is settled.

It is for her Browning writes plays—makes a part for her—to fit her.

He told this story with great vehemence and then said, "But of course Buchanan is more than that—has

could tell everything or anything—yet, so far as I know, there is no record of betrayal in the whole story

But I can see how all this is emphasized in Grant: it is part of him.

But Bucke probably did not tell you the whole of that story—did not, it is like, know it.

That was a necessary part of my career." Mrs. O'Connor tells me of W.'

Sojourner knew him to be innocent, took care of him in prison, testified as to his innocence,—a long story

It has formed a large part of their education.

startling case of attempted murder has just been coming off, over in Brooklyn, in one of the prettiest parts

Those stories of negroes going to the Buffalo Convention, are nonsense.

prison terms, totalling eighteen years ("Sentence of Korth," Brooklyn Evening Star, October 27, 1848, 2;

"Frederick Louis Korth," Brooklyn Evening Star, August 10, 1848, 2).

discussed—see "Indigination Meeting of the Omnibus Drivers," The New York Herald (August 7, 1848), 2.

I spoke of it to W., who said, "I am free at once to discredit the story," adding: "Instead of being

Saying, too, as to the title: "It is the old story—the old story of the fellows who don't like the cabbage

The Herald brings back one of the good stories of my dear Daddy: there was a man named Smith, or something

—poor Harry Stafford's throat trouble is the same as ever— Walt Whitman Belmont Jan 2 '88 To Walt Whitman

Dressed as Portia, when a Shakespeare masquerade (in which everyone took some part from the plays) was

Whitman wrote this letter to Bucke on the the back of a January 2, 1889, letter from William Sloane Kennedy

"It was like being born again," he would later tell Horace Traubel (With Walt Whitman 2:71–72).

This "sympathy with Nature" allows Whitman in old age to think of his life as part of the world's great

Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906; Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908; Vol. 3.

every day, / And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, / And that object became part

of him for the day or a certain part of the day, / Or for many years or stretching cycles of years (

Through the primal energy of the words, he encourages the reader to take part in his imaginative journey

Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1964. 572–577.Zweig, Paul. Walt Whitman: The Making of the Poet.

243) and even that Scott's novels are his "chief pleasure nowadays" (2:251).

like Shakspere, exhale that principle of caste which we have come on earth to destroy" (Prose Works 2:

Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906; Vol. 2. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1915. Whitman, Walt.

Cleveland Rodgers and John Black. 2 vols. New York: Putnam, 1920. ———. Prose Works 1892. Ed.

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964. Scott, Sir Walter (1771–1832)

per.00302 Walt Whitman Sun-Down Papers—[No. 2] Hempstead Inquirer 14 March 1840 [2] per.00303 Walt Whitman

Sun-Down Papers—[No. 3] Hempstead Inquirer 28 March 1840 [2] per.00304 Walt Whitman Sun-Down Papers—

1840 [3] per.00307 Walt Whitman Sun-Down Papers—[No. 8] Long-Island Democrat 20 October 1840 [2] per

.00309 Walt Whitman Sun-Down Papers—[No. 9] Long-Island Democrat 24 November 1840 [2] per.00313 Walt

Papers—[No. 10] Long-Island Farmer 20 July 1841 [2] per.00316 Written for the Walt Whitman Archive .

D.C. left unpublished the MS: of "the Brazen Android," a tale, which with other new and some other stories

Company published a collection that included three of her late husband William Douglas O'Connor's stories

Camden Sunday P M July 21 '89 Dull with me—am sitting quietly in my 2d story room—am not taking the tonic

.— West Hills is a romantic and beautiful spot; it is the most hilly and elevated part of Long Island

place, it is indeed a fine situation, and it seemed familiar enough to me, for I remembered every part

that I remember, appear to have been cut down.— The Whitmans were among the earliest settlers of that part

by descendants in New England My father's grandfather was quite a large territorial owner in that part

the canvass covering of the stage was painted, would make me.— After my own grandmother died, in 18 2

seems obvious in the face of a dozen such passages as the famous "Burial Hymn," or the picturesque parts

his prose style may be justly criticised as heavy and disjointed, but the intrinsic interest of the story

It is the old story of Achilles and Patroclus transferred from windy Troy to the banks of the Potomac

My special trouble now is what they call schlerosis —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

A front-page story on July 15 quoted at length the defense of Leaves of Grass offered by the Reverend

What he says does not satisfy me, does not take us to the end of the story.

Do you think you cd manage to send us some more copies of the Camden Post—we sd like 2 dozen if possible

American counterpart that the essential character of a people inheres in its language, songs, and stories

Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1961.Yeats, William Butler. The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats. Ed.

—from his 'Chants Democratic,' from his Drum Taps , from his Leaves of Grass , from his 'Songs of Parting

Mere parts have been nowhere selected.

to his productions, to those Poems of his which have been here selected for us from his 'Songs of Parting

Friends,"— "Two two simple men I saw to-day on the pier, in the midst of the crowd parting the parting

Keats's (1795-1821) poem "Isabella, or the Pot of Basil" (1817-18), which is an adaptation of the story

Keats's (1795-1821) poem "Isabella, or the Pot of Basil" (1817-18), which is an adaptation of the story

track gangs, station hands & train crews Jacob Behmen born 1575 died 1624 "Two Runaways & other stories

-1859poetryprosehandwritten5 leaves20 x 16 cm; The verses on the recto became lines 6-40 of section 2

Section 2 of the Calamus group was permanently retitled Scented Herbage of my Breast in 1867.

On the second page Whitman added, in a combination of normal and blue pencil, the number 43 (1/2).

the poem became section 16 of Calamus in 1860; the lines on the first draft page correspond to verses 2-

Whitman also numbered each leaf in the lower-left corner in pencil: the leaves follow the order 1-9, 9 1/2

The expression "the Eightieth year of / These States" at the top of leaf 2 indicates that Whitman was

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

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

1816–1876), an American stage actress who also lived in Europe and could play both male and female parts

We will confess, for our part, a fondness for a tastily illustrated work—like those of which the Harpers

The No. 6 is occupied with the latter part of Henry Beauclerk's reign—the full regins "Reigns" is misspelled

England (1133–1189), successor of King Stephen, grandson of Henry I, Empress Matilda's son. , and part

Some of the storied ones of earth! How rich with meaning, is the life of each of them!

Sunday, June 2, 188910.15 A.M. W. was writing postals at this time. Looked exceedingly well.

I was never in favor of reducing the postage from 3 to 2 cents—and now somebody even proposes to make

It has always been so: it is a part of my ancestral quality persisting and saving.

Sunday, June 2, 1889

side—to have some one indicate that things are not all they might be: as the old lady says in the story

of sympathy: but there you could buckle to"—here he slapped the arm of his chair—"lend a hand, take part

And yet, if after all the noise, doubt, expectation, Cleveland should be elected I for my part would

laughed but answered at once: "I must be a good deal of an anarchist, too—though anarchist only tells a part

of the story."

"It belongs in—I consider it a part of the history of the book—integral.

"Well—that's the actor's part—that's his power.

You annex your friends so closely that your health and strength becomes part of theirs.I send you the

I cited a story repeated by Emerson to Whittier.

W. enjoyed the story. "Well—I could forgive Carlyle much for that—that's a classic!"

cane chair in my den after my daily bath—Shall probably get out in wheel chair at sunset (same old story

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

I will do my part, eagerly, though I think I had better wait a few days now, hoping to feel better, and

For my part, I should as soon think of the form of Leaves of Grass in connexion connection with that

He also had over the story about his reading Leaves of Grass when he was sea-sick, &c.

"The Carpenter" is a story about a Christ-like character based on Whitman, written by Whitman's friend

A translation of the article appeared in the New Eclectic Magazine, 2 (July 1868), 325–329; see also

forgetting the dear little ones— —Nothing very new with me—am still a prisoner here in Mickle Street 2d story

personal attention that the overtaxed hospital staff could not, listening empathetically to their stories

His experiences and the men's stories also opened a new world of literary materials for Whitman to explore