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I had manuscript and proofs and a copy of The American containing the first part of Frank Williams' paper

I said I would take it, paying part cash. The owners then offered it for seventeen fifty spot cash.

written by Watson Gilder for one English and one American periodical disapproving of the current stories

I don't believe the conventional literary class take any part in the Colonel's gatherings but all the

s part in it was warm and large, but taken without any understanding of the peculiar base of the theory

Indeed, I am more and more persuaded that the ill, too, has its part to subserve—its important part—that

cowardly—the elements evilly at work, with terrible effect: and stormy disasters anywhere—are they not all part

The latter part of June Gilder and I went to Concord and spent a couple of days there.

Saturday, June 2, 1888.Took W. the first six pages of O'erOver Travel'dTraveled Roads in page form.

"I would like to rehearse the whole story—it has elements all its own. It is a long story, too.

Saturday, June 2, 1888.

Besides, the story is wholly unconfirmed—altogether lacks the ring of authenticity.

So they set to and transported me without the least effort on my part—chair and all.

And then he told a story laughingly: "Well—it was allowable, wasn't it?

I remember dimly a story of Alcibiades.

It was in such a way he retorted: and I adopt the story, as fitting my coat!"

Davis sat in the parlor part of the time with us. Saturday, June 1, 1889

mass—always in such strange agitation—I dare not consent to see anybody except the few who are in effect a part

Madame Dudevant's story was an extra fine one—I read it—oh! what was its name?

As to O'Connor's great admiration for Byron—"It was natural with him—was a part of his nature.

For instance, while it is subject perhaps to criticism, take that part in which he says, there can be

no more Decoration Day orations because men, to speak well, must have acted a part in the thing they

that Lowell's did not stir me: "It is a thing built, not a current flowing: his is a structure, grown story

by story: yours a limpid river."

"It is the same story with those fellows: pork and beans is my dish, therefore you must like it—but no

I read parts of it to W., who contended, "It is easy to be seen that he squirms under it—yet will not

I hardly know what it leads me to; in part this—that he is not to catch 'Leaves of Grass.'

wounded three weeks ago today at Culpeper—hit by fragment of a shell in the leg below the knee—a large part

and is one of the least visited—there is not much hospital visiting here now—it has become an old story—the

gas-burners about half turned down—It is Sunday evening—to-daytoday I have been in the hospital, one part

I know there are interviewer exceptions—that often there's a framework legitimate enough for the story—making

I was reminded of a story—a saying—I think drawn out during our Revolutionary War—that a few more victories

But I incline to believe the first story nearer the truth."

Remember the story of the doctor and the fellow with the corns.

He kept hat off for a great part of the road back. Which way would he go?

I joked about the mantle photos, parted company to various spots about the floor.

Walker was O'Connor's assistant—wrote up parts of many of the reports.

—a large three-story and basement. They had a floor or part, and gave W. the hall room. Mrs.

of designs for things that were never executed: lectures, songs, poems, aphorisms, plays—why, even stories

: I was going to write stories, too, God help me!

Good sand, such as distinguishes our parts here—poor enough from the standpoint of tillage, but sanitarily

I think that the whole story—the whole."

.: "That is Walt Whitmany, to be sure—quite our kind—yet, true to the old instincts, he has had a part

The nurse came to carriage—then had Garrison come to second-story window.

Drank milk punch—2 ozs. milk, whiskey zi., rum zi.1 Still; had his position changed.2 Still quiet.

McA's notes and please have L. send me the notes of the early part of the attack.

The written record but a drop in the bucket—I may say, a drop in the sea—to the whole story."

And we know, too, that it is no easy thing to make up a consecutive story even if the details are perfect

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

shaken & aired—& should not ask his consent.Your essay is the best piece of work of yours I have seen; parts

He had read papers and the mail—yes, even looked over a part of the accumulated mail, which he had Warrie

Room dark—did not therefore read Burroughs' letter—but repeated a great part of it, and all its substance

And we know that is part of the game, against which we must play but which stands for a vital something—a

Saturday, January 2, 1892About ten minutes in W.'s bedroom.

Saturday, January 2, 1892

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.

The saddest part about it is, that they still have a following, a constituency.

W. thereupon, "You are right: that is a profound thought—and it belongs with us—is part of us."

14 Jan 1892My dear HoraceI did not write yesterday—very much occupied all forepart of day and took 1/2

I have (since last writing) 2 letters 10th, 2—11th and 1—12th (forenoon). Also "Post" and "Record."

I can see why Ingersoll thought you gave Lowell too much credit, but as I said yesterday, that is part

have met them—Johnson is one of them: sometimes I think them the justification of America—of that part

Oldach told me "the story of" his "life" today in brief.

followed by conception; maintaining that the fact of conception was conclusive evidence of consent on the part

"Yes, certainly: it goes with the story." I folded it and put it away in my pocket.

I just half remember some Spanish story—was it in Don Quixote?—that involved the same problem."

Anyway, what ever his intention may have been, I take the story for what it seems to mean.

typically hitting off American life—"probably with some justification"—yet—"I am not a reader of stories—would

"That is our story: the threads are mixed." Critic quotes W. at about a column's length.

last night: when he left I gave him the Pall Mall Gazette criticism and the Lippincott containing the story

W. said: "They all go with the story: they all help to unravel the mystery: for it is a mystery, eh?

They are not a story of the fight—they are the fight itself.

Saturday, February 2, 18898 P.M W. sitting ruminatively in his chair by the window. Cordial.

Millthorpe near Chesterfield,March 2, 1884.Dear Walt:Just a line to give you my changed address.

; fruit, flowers and vegetables; have about two and a half acres grass and about the same quantity part

wheat for ourselves and part oats for the horse.

Saturday, February 2, 1889

plays—that the play's not the thing—not the thing alone: that something more was intended than the story

Then: "I'm afraid what you say of Harry is part true: he does not resist enough: he permits himself to

"As William's letters all have more or less to contribute to the story of the ups and downs of the Leaves

It reminds me of a story Henry Peterson told me.

"Certainly: that's a part of his game." "What game?" Harned said: "I guess you know."

For if there is one thing that is not true, that is the thing: not but that moral goodness has its part

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.

And when we parted he offered to draw up contract in afternoon, I to meet him at his father's reception

But our fellows never show so big an eye—they see only today—sometimes only the small part of today—as

well all is well, and vice versa: I think it was Emerson who, in one of his earlier essays, told the story

"These moods seemed to be a necessary part of O'Connor's life: they had visited him for years and years

intends in any way to make speechifying the business of his life it is especially a first and necessary part

literary clique which resented the original letter—which seemed almost to look upon it as on Emerson's part

I detailed the story to W., who then went over the sketch of Bird's Gladiator, saying at the end: "The

Rector Station—looking up there at the Mills building and Bush at the top of it—about the eleventh story

He smiled and looked at me, "It is a long story, isn't it?

After all the mind, the special local consciousness, is only a smallish part of oneself.

The children always insisted on a story—on hearing me talk—say something.

Oh how different the stories!

I hope it may be some pleasure to you to read it, if only that I may pay part of the debt I owe you for

Welcomed me and said: "I am reading a story here of Amelia Barr's—in the November Century."

Not the least part of that is the engraving, which is superb."

I told him the Haydn story (I think Haydn)—the K?nfurst[?]

This made him laugh though he said nothing in direct reply to it—only instancing the story of Fortunatus

When Warrie came in, W. took mug—or part of it (Warrie directing it)—and eagerly drank.

She really knew all about her own part in the will. Says that $3000 would no more than pay her.

The door was opened by Bucke, who had a rather dismal story to tell.

At 2 A.M. (Sunday) Warrie tried pulse and found it 90 and at 7:40 pulse was 88.

s, relieving Warrie part of the time.

I told him some stories of the factory life at Graham's.

Take your little story of the six o'clock whistle: that gets down to real life—the heart of life: there

Then you seem to have considerable faculty for telling a story: you should make something of it—give

As to this he said: "I take no part in it: it excites my contempt."

W. was silent as I read it.Copenhagen, 2 January, 1874.