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W. had spent a day of varied indications—part of it restless, part peaceful.

Has fallen into a quiet sleep without hiccough.2:30 Asked to have his grey English undershirt put on

"And I have its counterpart," said W. after he had read it.2 Jan 1891My dear HoraceAll well and quiet

Sent mine home 2 months ago.

whole body of the people: men, women, and children: I want them to have what belongs to them: not a part

C., May 2, 1876. Dear Walt:Enclosed I send you a copy of a letter received by William.

O'Connor, Esq.Dear Sir: The name at the end of this letter is now perhaps unfamiliar to you; the first part

write to-dayoday to claim an old acquaintance of mere correspondence, but to tell you, on both our parts

Ritter.W. said: "You are right to feel warm about the people who felt warm about me when for the most part

O'Connor was a student, a scholar, a passionate lover of art, and took no part in practical affairs.

my vineyards, but hope to find time to get off a week or so in JulyIf Walt could come here & occupy part

W. remarked, "It is the old, old story: woe be to the man who believes in any doxy that is not mine—does

Here he laughed heartily—held it out from him some distance—"What a fat old duffer of a story-teller

He for his part produced an old letter, of which he said: "This is already a letter of long ago: this

Monday, July 2, 1888.To W's at eight o'clock. Frank Harned present for awhile.

Monday, July 2, 1888.

And what does Nellie hear about the stories, anyway? Is there no definite understanding yet?"

W. lamented—asked the full number of stories (seven). "And what decision has she come to?

The two stories should go together."

Of course that story not in O'Connor's manuscript, which was written at the time of the event.

deeps," he assented, "Yes"—adding after a slight pause—"It seems to me he has lost the most necessary parts

Now it comes back fresh to me—almost like a new thought, a new story.

W. said very positively: "That sounds very doubtful—I know nothing about it—especially the part of it

That alone would stamp the story, is not me. You see, Horace, that is the way history is written.

I should say, this story is not only essentially wrong, but wrong in detail.

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

That is queer—it is one of my favorite stories—one of the very richest I know.

"We all know how purely made-up it is—out of whole cloth—a determination with somebody to make a story

Praise the Press when you can but notYour sincere and grateful friendTalcott WilliamsTWI enclose $10—(2

W. greatly amused at my story of getting the Doctor's glasses.

And the whole story rich and funny. You must tell it to Doctor." Monday, July 6, 1891

Read it again—part of it aloud—and asked W. some questions suggested by it.50 Wellington Road, Dublin

is something manufactured in them—they do not adhere and cling quite close, and become an invisible part

Then he said: "One part of that would suit O'Connor and one part would suit Burroughs but as a whole

And a not inconsiderable part of it against me, too, but somehow I held up—somehow.

.: "I do not feel that I have anything to say on that point—or want to take on any part in such controversy—still

The thing that justifies the whole piece—my part as others'—is its naturalness—extreme—and vigor, integrity

I said, "We proposed to have Ingersoll revise his part, too." W.: "Yes, do!

I want to tell you about it some day—the whole story: Buchanan had a story, too: I am not equal to it

Monday, June 2, 18908 P.M.

tasted—but I feel short of my measure of it—some one of the waiters must have confiscated it, or a part

The Ledger today contained a notice of the dinner.The account from the Camden Post of June 2, 1890: INGERSOLL'S

Monday, June 2, 1890

offer a practical suggestion:—that if you see no reason against it, the new edition might be issued in 2

vols, lettered, not vols. 1 and 2, but 1st series and 2nd series, so that they cdcould be priced and

Four pages of manuscript in his own hand indorsedendorsed in this way: "Part of Wm.William O'Connor's

Bucke was here this afternoon some hours, Osler being with him a part of the time.

.: "That interminable dreary story!"

You remember the Lessing story? It always seemed to me very deep: very, very.

I told W. a story. Ingersoll was lecturing in Philadelphia.

W. still elaborated his story. "What a mistake!

what a host of enthusiastic boys would have been afoot taking part—arguing, contending, unfalteringly

It is a story yet to be told." And again, "The proof-reader has his story to tell, too. Oh!

Chanler—of her story The Lass of"—here he stopped—could not recall the title: "Well—something or other

cultivate that talent: then, at that time, I knew nothing about her, except what I caught from that one story

Monday, March 2, 18917:55 P.M.

Press, March 2, 1891.)

Keep me postedRM Bucke Monday, March 2, 1891

shaking his head & sighing.)Johnston is reading a paper (quite a long one—he told me it would take him 2

first responded, "True, true—perhaps," and then, "But it will bear saying in full: it tells the whole story

interested in all I told him of the Ingersolls—firing at me question after question to enlarge my story

shine to Hunter: he is so big, lusty: he has such a cheery, hearty manner—especially when he tells a story

He said: "It takes us to the unseen—it is a poem—the supreme fact of art: it is the end of the story,

Harrison's letter to Blaine there in part facsimiled.

This will be my birthday gift to the world, my last, my parting, gift: the world has made many birthday

photograph all safe.And now to-day, when I got home, I found the Atlantic had been sent me with the first part

doing now: it was not to be disputed or suspected: he was not a man to be guilty of detraction: the story

the story of Frank Sanborn's son?" I again asked: "What?"

Now W. went on: "Well—well: the part of it which sticks most in my noodle is the fact that Donnelly's

It will become a part of our history—touches a spot right at the heart and gives curious tinctures, glints

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

Now, when they are all crying expurgate, expurgate, expurgate, the story comes back to me: the ghost

W. put in: "Some people think I am someway, in some part, Rabelaisian.

me—"If you leave a note for Doctor at the ferry, with Ed Lindell, tell him in it to be here sharp at 2

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

to certain irritations, which I find it difficult to bear patiently—but after all that is the small part

of any man: a very small part: in a man like Stedman, so sterling in the trunk, they count for practically

them are good fellows—rather sympathize with the struggles of the people—but they are for the most part

O. for £2 for your two vols. They are ordered by Edward T.

And then, "This world—this part of it—is full of philistines—and you must not forget that this is held

He went over the Sanborn story again.

I have told you the story of Lord Houghton? And George Childs knows something about it, too.

put a final signature upon the Leaves, a sort of consummating entablature, some phrase to round its story—give

I have been told that Nettleship at one time when Leaves of Grass was out of print and scarce, parted

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

And hospital life tells the story against mere flesh and rose-color.

"Not very well: all right the fore part: then I had a bad turn: it has gripped me now since the middle

everything returns to the one force, element—whatever it is called: all life is a witness to the basic part

"Why, yes: it is for you: I came near forgetting it: it is a Rolleston letter: it refers in part to Grashalme—the

would be a mistake to suppose that fanaticism inheres only to the conventional: it may come to act a part

M. brought me papers—2 for Whitman. W. said he would send these to Sarrazin and Bucke.

So a good part of my work was to spare him work—to go over the correspondence,—give him the juice, substance

Monday, November 2, 18914:50 P.M. To W.'

Though it is hard to discuss such a man in parts. But his message—well, it was good as a lover's.

Did not get to bed till 2:10. And were to get up at 6:30—in order to get train 8:20.

It saved him from having anything on his own part to say to Warren.

Monday, November 2, 1891

say—with all its spirit and naturalness, and as the thing blows—the wind blows—that is not the whole story

W. quoted earlier passages in a general way, then said, "It is a part of our history to say that this

Certainly he is grand there; the part fits him well."

A ghost story, a phantasy, must be interesting: it is a bad sign when it is not: Brown is one of the

, not the least excited—not the least anxious to take up the book again: which is a bad sign for a story

As to The Critic's discussion, in which W. took part: "It seems to lead nowhere: is profitless: at the

Milton is a copy of a copy—not only Homer but the Eneid: a sort of modern repetition of the same old story

: legions of angels, devils: war is declared: waged, moreover, even as a story it enlists little of my

But for my own part I would put it in quite another way.

Where the Atlantic and Cape May roads part, the one train going one way, the other the other.

entourage of slaves—a man used to being served—military—a disciplinarian, yet a jolly man—fond of a good story—living

I objected, "But Grant was a man of larger mental parts."