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assented most heartily.Dear Walt, we long for you, William sighs for you, and I feel as if a large part

You know how for the most part I have always been isolated from my people—in certain senses have been

we have been great chums: always next to each other: always: yet my dear mother never took that part

simply what we are: we do not always run together like two rivers: we are not alike: that 'sthat's the part

"For my part I consider that a masterpiece of work: strong, rugged, even darling": and as to the criticisms

There were quite a number here: not enough to make a big story out of but quite enough to seem formidable

little too fond maybe of his beer, now and then, and of the women: maybe, maybe: but for the most part

Then he said: "I tell that story because it fits so well here: I suppose I was meant, too!"

W. addressed himself directly to Harned, to whom the story was new.

When I said: "Nothing: we only have to wait"—he nodded and said: "Yes: and for my part I have little

that part must not be forgotten either: I want to come out whole on what I have put into the books."

Told W. a story of last evening. I went directly from him to the boat.

He says "The Stage has become part of" his "regular Sunday reading."

Part of the work was to investigate and report on banks, bankers—big concerns.

noticed that letter on the back of the sheet: I 'mI'm glad, however, that you read it: it was, it is, a part

of the story.

your friend's special & expanding glory.Fritschy, I am writing this in Major Hapgood's office, fifth story

It has become an old story. The suffering ones cling to me poor children very close.

"in a cloud," as he said, today: at least, in forenoon and part of the afternoon: but "gathered together

For my own part, I cannot explain my faith in the book: my satisfaction, if I may say so, is intuitive—not

It's the old story of the artist trying to improve on nature again.

"Hunter told a story when he was here last which is to the same effect.

You know how cheery Hunter is—how well he can tell a story, laugh: what a good voice he has.

In the midst of this story W. had suddenly turned my way: "It's a long tale: shall I go on?

Garrison always spoke like a man who had a story to tell and was determined to tell it: he never seemed

Harned was in during a part of our talk.

Did I ever tell you the story of a visit he paid me once on the way to lecture at Newark?

.: "Walt, are you in earnest in saying you have a big story to tell me some day?"

undertake it tonight: it involves so much—feeling, reminiscence, almost tragedy: it's a long, long story

: and I don't want you to know only a part of it—I want you to know it all: when I start I want to finish

walks, Pete's friendship: yes, such things: they are absolutely necessary to the completion of the story

W. said: "The reference to Hawthorne brings back to my mind a story once told me by a friend in Brooklyn

Hawthorne was an extremely reticent character: I have read somewhere the story of his slipping off at

The story has the air of being authentic—I believe is authentic."

The best part of the laws anyhow, Tom, don't help, are in the way of, justice." These were W.'

Then: "You've heard the story of the valet who was packing up for his master?

the dramas, the plays, the poems: least accessible, yet greatest of all—greater than the novels, stories

W. laughed most heartily: then, as if to satisfy himself, went over the story half in soliloquy, with

And the Bishops are not all dead yet: they still crop up to remind us of the faithfulness of the old story

Cooper could take his own part magnificently: let a scribbler go for him and Cooper would hit back, with

Have you got the Cooper stories: the Leatherstocking tales? The Last of the Mohicans, chiefly?

"I am sure it will appeal to me—parts of it, at least."

"I allow all you will on that, but must still put the main part of such gossip down to the inventive

You both know many of the Lincoln stories: the thousands of them given currency, laughed over, brought

All day long these boys would loaf about, talk together, invent stories—invent filthy stories: their

Then he would take a seat, draw up his chair—'listen'—and tell you some story."

And added: "Then in a day or two the story would turn up in the papers foisted on Lincoln—fastened to

I sat back on the bed and read the letters—this one first:Treasury Department, Washington, Aug. 2, 1864

"I have read Vanity Fair and liked it: it seemed to me a considerable story of its kind—to have its own

He had read Dickens more generally: "But Dickens had something the same make up as Conway: if a story

I suggested that there was some difference between the obligations of a story writer and a historian.

They make up probably a couple—maybe more—good-sized volumes: as stories they are the most fascinating

I for my part can see no reason why West should not have his say—why any man should not have his say:

I for my part am distrustful of any personal rules or public customs which interpose barriers between

W. took the thing smilingly: "That is a familiar story: I am not a saint—have never been guilty of setting

I remember one of his stories—it is in point (maybe I am not any too clear about its details any more

be mentioned, named, described, but always felt when present: the direct off-throwing of nature, parting

had never been forthcoming.I had a long talk with Ferguson today, who gave me in a general way the story

He had written on margin of copy that if more was required to fairly fill the 2 pages he would "eke it

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.

And he responded: "Yes indeed—I was going to say, in part because of them—on the ground that none of

Leaves of Grass for me"—and our marks "must be in blue pencil"—and he started forthwith to give me a part

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 read at least a part of the Bishop's speech but I didn't come to what you quote.

Thursday, May 2, 188911 A.M. Ed making bed—W. had started to write a letter.

And you must remember the part the reporters had in it, too: we know well enough how to take them.

"That is not only good as an event—a fact—for its benefits to him—but good, excellent, as a story."

Thursday, May 2, 1889

People little know how less than a thousandth part—a thousandth thousandth part—of things written, prepared

" W. criticised the want of truth in the magazine stories now vogued—"the stories of Western, South-Western

It spoils some of those very good stories in the magazines—stories excellent in themselves, but too apt

Then he said: "Well do I remember Valjean, the Bishop—indeed the whole story."

Mills—he was in Washington at the time—a Supreme Court lawyer—a man of prominence and parts—and qualities

I, for my part, should say that Sunday of all days they should run the cars.

"The back of such a chair will be a very essential part—we will need to have that high, so my head can

I had been out in Germantown the main part of the day, working with Clifford over Johnson's Parker manuscript

Luburg's 145 North 8th Street"The above just as he punctuated it—and down in the corner his address, part

written and part printed.

And to Tom's further urgings: "Well—you must remember the story of the French physician who took a quart

I suggested the appointment of certain hours—say, 2 to 4 or 5 in the afternoon—a reception season, so

"Whether this is almost the end"—W. reflected—"whether the story is now nearly closed, it baffles us

for me seems to be first- rate duplicate sample of pictures herewith numbered No. 1—the frontispiece 2

"I think we are now all done—for our part," W. reflected.

And he would take part in the interests of the youngsters.

A sort of apportionment of tone—what part the clarinet, trombone, flute, fiddle—any other instrument—is

Alluding to Harrison and his lack of heroic qualities, W. said merrily: "To make much of him is the old story

ground floor (as might all be arranged well enough) there is no reason why you should not spend a good part

But I think I must reply to the Doctor by repeating a story I read long long ago.

W. described Linton thus: "He is a man of varied parts, as they say—polished, informed—as full of knowledge

W. said to me, "My friend, John Forney, used to say that one of the best parts about having a good thing

me is the spirit: as the old man said, my spirit is tremenjuous —tremenjuous, thanks to myself in part

, thanks in part to on occasional sip of sherry!"

"I think I should report upon such an expression by telling a story—the story of the old man who was

He went into paroxysms of laughter over a story I told him of a late car the other night on which a young

And to me: "That's a good story to keep. The young fellow must have been a drunkard!"

W. told a story of Jim Scovel: "He would quote somebody who said 'money'? Oh! watch the money!

set of sheets of the pocket-edition to Bucke—was afraid they would make a bad impression—thought the parts

I should read Kennedy's piece "there towards the close of Bucke's book" for "it says this—or says part

"Not particularly, though that in part—just thought to lie down awhile."

W. was annoyed by this story.

Then you sit down and meditate, and wonder which it will be.That is the whole story, amplify it as you

Of course for me, from my person, the great moral, emotional, testimony the story bears is never to be

Of course I must be there, at least through part of it.

When my friends gather from all parts in my honor, it would be a cruel, an inexcusable, slight, for me

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

W. said for his own part: "I am persuaded that my painter has not yet arrived.

And I, for my part, not only include anarchists, socialists, whatnot, but Queens, aristocrats."