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"I have not received a single letter from anybody the whole day," W. said, "but I have written to William

He shook his head: "Poor William! poor O'Connor!

W. smiled: "I admit that 'sthat's ambiguous: but I could n'tcouldn't name William's real politics: he

"William was a strong, an ardent, anti-slavery man: he was a Republican—worked with the Fremont party

William is never a half-way man: he has the temperament of a soldier.

to be dodged or trifled with: but after every allowance is made this fact still remains true: the white

White, even at my expense. Reason, Shakespearean hostility to the subject. This is a pretty note!

O'Connor.W. was anxious about William.

Under what circumstances had he first met William?

Had William taken up L. of G. at the beginning?

I said: "Don't you think it significant that William recognized Leaves of Grass at the start?"

how William would delight to hear you say that!

Then he said: "Clifford must n'tmustn't be scared by William: Clifford's a damsiter himself, though not

in William's way: no two men are alike: Clifford has his own powers, identities: look how he steers

Poetry in America: much ruffled, old, dirty, written on paper of various colors—some of it yellow, some white

Article in December issue of Magazine of Art on portraits of Dante Rossetti written by William his brother

W. said: "They are not extraneous: they all have a place: I think William was justified in all he did

"It is one of William's letters," he explained, "one of the best: full of fire—direct, explicit—with

William resembles a natural law: he is beyond appeal: he delivers himself without apologies: he kills

Grant White had a dastardly mass of lies and perversion in The Atlantic in April anent of Mrs.

White's hide off, and "hang the calf-skin on his recreant limbs."

"Williams sends us good news from Russia, that most inaccessible of all countries.

that is: William can do that sort of thing better than any man writing to-daytoday."

"Yes," said W., "I noticed what William has to say about him.

W. shook his head over William's anti-Garfield argument. "Suppress the piece? Why suppress it?

: who 'dwho'd have thought of diving for it but William?

"It 'sIt's from Rossetti," he said: "I 'veI've been reading it over: William Rossetti: full of wise beautiful

contains no malice, no poison, but is vehement, aggressive, even overwhelming, not impetuous, as William

"I have been wondering if there may not be a better paper than white for our books," adding: "Has the

havealready been experimenting for centuries—three or four of them—and that this is the result: for white

apper, indisputably for white."

William Lloyd Garrison has just written an open letter to Senator Hoar treating this very same subject

He answered: "To William: I wanted William to see it: he has followed things so closely.

Last week I saw William Rossetti, and he advised me to send the amount through the Post Office, which

I shall wait very eagerly for some word from you; with great love (in which William Rossetti asked to

W. had laid aside a William Rossetti letter for me. He handed it to me the last thing.

friendly people: none of them, of course, more nobly generous, comradely, than Rossetti himself: William

it seems queer about the William Rossetti: of course I have never seen him: I only know him in this way

I went up to the White House with a friend of mine, an M.

wouldn't believe until you were convinced,' as you say: you held off: you half thought I was lying: William

We are grateful to William White, the editor of volume 6, who, regretting that he was unable to complete

William D.

Poor William! Great William!"

William! William O'Connor.

William Lloyd.

W. fervently: Yes indeed, all who knew William as I knew him will echo you on that."

mail to Bucke, and said, "There is a pretty malicious spot on the front page—the first review," of William

WhitmanGeorge Horton in the Chicago HeraldAn old man I once saw,Bowed low was he with time,Heart-frosted, white

wondered why Gilchrist did not stop here on his recent visit to the Staffords.W. said, "Talcott Williams

O, if only William O'Connor were alive! How he would take up a lance for him!

And he would say that Tolstoi's picture was true, too, for William knew all those things well—had as

I told him Frank Williams was in to see me. "And he was opposed to Ingersoll, wasn't he?"

"He was a friend of William's; I thought he might be interested.

enough with Southern people to feel convinced that if I lived South I should side with the Southern whites

Frank Williams was in to see me today.

Then when I said she seemed to have a piety not known to William, W. said, "Yes, she has it—it is a bite

William had nothing of it—was free, great, expansive in all deeps, paths.

My main impulse was to authoritatively clap it down forever that this was my love for William and by

'The Brazen Android' I have never seen, though William made the notes for it before he knew me."

Captain Williams, assistant secretary, said that he had not heard anything about such an application.Several

that case we trust you will allow us an opportunity to consider it.I am, dear Sir, Faithfully Yours,William

Then added, "It reminds me of a Quaker story William O'Connor told often—enjoyed telling—of a merchantman

I referred to William O'Connor: "If we had him today, he would rush in the thick of this fight!"

I could never do that quite—at least, never did it, in William's way—though my philosophy—if I have that—would

But William had a sort of natural chivalry and acceptivity, and never gave a scholar to neglect."

At dinner at Reisser's, with Morris and Frank Williams. Discussed Tuesday.

He advised me, "Go to anybody on the Press—go to the City Editor— anybody—not to Williams particularly

I do not know if Williams would be favorably disposed to this."

Found Williams was not yet back, so we had a little chat with Merrill, Managing Editor, who told us he

Talcott Williams and wife still away in Adirondacks.

Afterward we gave his ticket to Thomas Earle White.

We took dinner with Morris and Frank Williams at Reisser's—debating there vehemently Whitman's philosophy

Morris and Williams had met us. When finding Ingersoll was upstairs, they were for going away.

Bonsall, Carl Edelheim and daughter, Frank Williams, Harrison S.

Morris, William Ingram, William Ingram, Jr. Most of these and others assembled in the wings.

Among those present were Harned and wife, Clifford, Bucke, Morris, Williams, Williamson, Johnston and

There were white beards, but none were so white as that of the author of "Leaves of Grass."

He sat calm and sedate in his easy wheeled chair, with his usual garb of gray, with his cloudy white

hair falling over his white, turned-down collar that must have been three inches wide.

I say they for I look upon the piece as composite—made up—for Morris, Frank Williams, perhaps several

about it, "It ought to be worth hearing: it must have great points," and this led him to refer to William

Would give me a copy to send on.Attention called to old note from Gleeson White (abroad).

Williams today; they had asked after W. and now he asked after them.

Courtesy Library of Congress, Traubel Collection William Sloane Kennedy, 1924.

the dear and loved ones gone before.I have just written to Walt thanking him for the Preface to William's

much.Thank you for your many kindnesses.Can you give me a hint, as to a good, and just the right title to William's

O'Connor's "solicitations of counsel about William's book," had "by the accident been so postponed, perhaps

And when I said, "You remember, Talcott Williams says he has that speech and has promised me a copy."

Talcott Williams has just been here," he reported, "and we had a good talk—about his trip, his return

Then Williams was a radical Republican? He laughed again.

O'Connor saying she had not yet heard from the publishers concerning William's book.

"Talcott Williams has been here," he said, "bringing over a man named Aide" (or 'Adie': W. spelling it

O'Connor told him to whom she had submitted William's book? "No, she did not tell me."

digression, "I sent a note to the Critic today for their holiday number—about four lines, telling about William's

Better than Macaulay, too, was William O'Connor.

edited; & The Brazen Android was sent to the Atlantic Monthly, & partly in type when recalled by William

I hope it will be the only one, for I hope they will accept.I am glad you spoke of the picture of William

whom you brought to see me.An invitation (W. by letter and I a card) to meet Miss Gale, at Talcott Williams

O'Connor's letter, too, and "sorry," he said, "that all the publishing of William's book seems yet in

Poor William! Great William!"

Frank Williams writes me thus:Drexel Building, Room 333,PhiladelphiaNov 28/90My dear Traubel:I am much

Talcott Williams was over today.

various walkers on literary fields—"is all from" his "hand," he says, "and on its way it would give William's

Unpinned a sheet proving to be the page extract I had written from the note about Tennyson that Frank Williams

I am sure that was Talcott Williams'—Talcott can say such things when he wants to."

William D.

Woodbury, who is an undergraduate of Williams College, came under the benign personal influence of the