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me this memorandum written on a slip of colored paper: "Get me some paper like this—I prefer it to white

Again: "Frank Williams was over today—came about 3.

Again: "Frank Williams said there was something in yesterday's Times about us—about so much"—measuring

He said: "Probably William: I have passed many of my letters around, as you know—from one to the other

: sometimes starting with Bucke, sometimes with William: now and then with Kennedy."

quiet sleep without hiccough.2:30 Asked to have his grey English undershirt put on instead of the new white

Speaking of the Philadelphia symposium on W. he said: "Did n'tDidn't I think at the time that Frank Williams

Dear Walt:Enclosed I send you a copy of a letter received by William.

You had better accept their invitation.How did you like William's article? And how is your health?

The paragraph to which he alluded was as follows: William Douglas O'Connor, the author of the "Good Gray

Macaulay" W. said: "O'Connor was very violently set against Macaulay because of his vilification, as William

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

William O'Connor used to say: 'Be careful, Walt, that in your revolt you do not go to the other extreme

As I understood it, he went to Boston to urge on Houghton the publication of William's book.

Indeed, yes—I often stopped in on William there: they were great days."

After all, William was the top bough—the nearest heaven!

I asked William, 'Is that authentic?'

William was an ardent lover of Ingersoll's, always—thought everything of him."

"They are a part of me—I am a part of them—William, Nellie.

He smiled quietly: "When William gets going he is more exciting than an alarm of fire. Read it."

Did you notice William's fling at Comstock? What a foolish question—of course you noticed it.

W. thought the "Good Morrow" incident in the letter, "most characteristic of William—most beautiful:

just like him in every way," adding: "You know William never stopped to invent, to manufacture, such

proposed to write Woodbury more specifically—W. not protesting.Showed W. a letter I had from Talcott Williams

Adding—"William gave of his best in those letters —his best, quite aside from the general references

But William would not admit that Hugo was artificial—attitudinized.

Williams'), but quickly read at my suggestion. How did he feel?

Talcott Williams was over. Some reporters.

Williams had not given me the copy W. corrected. Professed not to be able to find it.

"We must not forget William O'Connor's priest, who took up Leaves of Grass, spent an hour over it, then

It was a splendid exhibit of mock passion in William."

He said: "And I wrote to William Carey yesterday—a postal merely—asking if he, or Coxe, would assent

"I suppose William [O'Connor] tops us all for vehemence and consecutiveness of life."

He said he thought Burroughs "shied some at O'Connor's directness but I don't admit that that's William's

"I have said a good many things to you about William O'Connor—but there's Ellen, too—superb woman—without

"William is right—I do not cease or reduce my admiration: I have often had the idea of getting out an

My mail today had also brought me letters from Rhys, Rolleston, Rossetti and William Morris.

One was a William Rossetti letter. First he said: "Let me see it."

The pictures are in the hands of William Carey—and are subject to copyright: I suppose we would have

Have you had any news from William?" W.'s color not so bad, but he looked tired.I did not stay.

read it to myself: you are in a hurry: take it along—read it by the way: notice particularly what William

"William claimed that he had a heap to do with that," I said.

Then he advised me: "I think you should write William—when you have five minutes and the spirit moves

William!"

Adding to this after a pause: "Frank Williams was here today—came in with your friend Harrison Morris

Here W. interluded an expression of pleasure at having "the brief glimpse of Williams and Morris."

W. said again: "I'd like you to look carefully into the Walsh matter: William and Morris took it very

Frank Williams over to see me about J.C.T., Jr. footnote.

At which I read him William Clarke's, sent by Johnston. "Who is he?" —when I was done.

has often written me about—and quite a character, too: I have read it—like it: so will you: this is William

Another paper contained the symposium Walsh asked W. to contribute to and Williams regarded as a bait

Gave me a sample portrait—a portrait of Emperor William (the old).

visit.Our New York Recorder has the best and largest picture of him.Sincerely yoursJ H Johnston Talcott Williams

also protests and this I am sure is the general voice of those who loved him.Yours trulyTalcott Williams

As to Sir William Don: "He was not a man of the highest talent, but in the range of his art (to use a

magazine, "I have been reading this—it came from Wallace—the National Review, containing an article by William

Even William—God Bless him!

Had to tell him about William's room, too.

Bucke wanted to know if K. had met William.

"No: I'm wrong: it was from Marshall Williams: portrait and book: he sent both: Williams wishes them

to bring William physically closer to me."

I don't know if William ever met Stoddard at all—if he did, it was not intimately.

William's sweep, as you say, was tremendous—astounding: he found a place for all—even for poor Poe in

William O'Connor's explanation of Rabelais was, that he became disgusted with the cant of intellect,

I met William Swinton at McKay's, having a long talk with him about W.

the Club meeting tomorrow we have arranged for an informal talk between Brinton, Bucke, Morris, Williams

W. expressed pleasure with the idea that Frank Williams would be present and possibly speak.

W. was questioning, to know if Frank Williams' wife is to come.

Frank Williams again, "I remember the Smiths used to feud themselves against her—she was too urgent,

A young Jewess up there, with a noble white team, came to Emerson's—took me up there.

Reference having been made to William Morris W. said: "Rhys and those fellows set great store by him—seem

was at the regimental hospital, at a place called Baltimore Corners, down not very many miles from White

He was a wonderfully fluent man—had something of William O'Connor's fluency—something of his very figure

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

"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?

Brinton thinks inter-marriage would deteriorate the white race.

expresses affection for the fellows—with a particular word for Brinton and Morris—and concern for Frank Williams

Talcott Williams present at Penn Club. The main thing—the cordiality mixed with entire freedom.

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

William Lloyd who sends W. sheet of some paper (no name attached) containing a poem "To Walt" written

At that particular time it was fully as much Nellie as William to whom credit belonged—though then and

When Morse was here last year, at the time of the Anarchist trials, he was at white-heat—I could see

William O'Connor ought to be here to hear that! Wouldn't he storm, rage!

W. said: "That's Talcott's piece—he wrote it: Talcott Williams.