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Williams'—she is going—I thought I would bring it in for you to see."

And when I asked: "Has he ever—or anyone—in any way indicated William Morris' feelings toward you?"

O'Connor said if William ever recovered consciousness he would no doubt enjoy W.'

I had a postal from Washington this morning of rather dark import—telling me my dear friend William O'Connor

W. bantered with him: "You will get a good apron—a nice clean white apron—and be given a harp or what-not—and

"William is dead," he remarked, "you saw?" And then: "It was in the papers.

off the edges as closely as they will admit—use your own taste and judg- ment—I like a little more white

Poor William! Poor me! And yet," W. said again, "yet I can understand him.

W. said: "I never look for anything but what a lot of white paper turns up." This paper was ruled.

Harned for his drink, had defined his desires on a little card, and closed with this: "My dear friend William

But if you write remember the idea I started last evening—that William was a chosen knight—was selected

I suppose William was buried today or will be tomorrow! The grand O'Connor!"

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

He says that in one of his last letters—perhaps the very last—from O'Connor, William said that he wished

human history, as any man alive—yet radical as a boy—even a socialist—all around I should judge a William

And he went on further: "I have been dipping into the Stedman books today again—reading Channing—William

Henry Channing"—I interrupted—"You mean William Ellery, don't you?"

In trimming the plates, & (if yet to be done) trim them, especially No: 1, and No: 4, a little more white

And there is Frank Williams, too—and the wife: Oh! the wife has been very good to me!

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

Frank Williams said to me yesterday that he supposed Stedman was still "disgruntled."

So far Gilchrist, Clifford, Frank Williams and Harned are sure.

"Yes—that would mean Clifford, Tom, Herbert, Frank Williams, perhaps the Colonel—who else?"

I referred W. to a letter from William C. Gannett today.

I have had talks about it with his mother, with Talcott Williams—controversies—at least, if not controversies

—and then on the plate where there was the monotony of white flowers, he carelessly placed a soft red

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

There was Gilchrist, Tom, Clifford, Williams, and Gilder.W.: "There is a thick letter down stairs from

The speeches came in order mostly as announced—Grey, Harned, Gilchrist, Williams, Clifford, Garrison,

Frank Williams was plain, straightforward, unostentatious; Gilder delicate, happy, with a touch of sweet

I had Frank Williams at one side at the table, a Press reporter on the other.

Frank Williams said he had never seen W. in such a guise before.

laughed and explained that the expression was "all right"—"a current saying"—adding: "I have heard William

I used to argue so with William—oh! many's the strong sweet talks we've had over it!

But William would not have it so—it was to him a living, breathing question—and indeed, looking at it

contribution to the record of your birthday—a draft for $19495 (£ 40) from Bessie & Isabella Ford, William

Said: "Tom was in—brought me the Tribune—got William's book."

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

W. sent interested queries after some of the men—asked about Foley, Cook, Major Williams.

Said he would write to William Carey, asking permission to use the negative.

Promised, also to prepare books for Harned, Gilchrist and Frank Williams.

Had not yet written to William Carey. I urged, let me write.

Morris told me today of Tom White's new enthusiasm over L. of G.Leaves of Grass, to him a new book.

O'Connor of William. "I sent it to her a while ago—now she sends it back.

She had asked me about a picture of William to have engraved—she says she has this.

expansive," he threw his arms open wide and his body back in the chair.Gilchrist asked W. if Talcott Williams

Talcott Williams writes me, "The workingmen's letters are printed just as they are received."

I see he has cut the leaves out of Bucke's black-bound annual report, pasted a sheet of white paper over

Frank Williams in to see me today.

I spoke of Williams' curiosity to see Symonds' note, of which he had heard from Morris.

From its framework of thin white hair and flowing beard, the face of the venerable bard peers out, not

"No—it is not very rare—but it is beautiful, a pure white—white as alum.

that: a clientage of the orthodox fellows—the regulation literary men—the men of the Richard Grant White

He exclaimed—"That's Talcott Williams!" Thought he would "make an effort to get out today."

I remarked: "This week I have read in Harper's Weekly an article on Jefferson by William Winter."

.: that "he came down stairs with his long white beard all on," that she was "afraid of him," that he

wrong in pretty nearly everything they touch—men like Willie Winter, Dick Stoddard, Richard Grant White—that

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

No reply as yet from William Carey.

for what purpose.I was sorry not to be able to grasp your hand on your birthday.Yours very truly,William

I wrote to William Carey in the way W. had wished: and explaining now to him, he said, "That was right

I received today the following letter from William Carey: Editorial DepartmentThe Century MagazineUnion

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

Inside was a bundle on which he had pasted an inscription: :Two books: one for Frank Williams and one

I had given Frank Williams his book today.

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

Said Frank Williams was over today.

When I spoke of Williams as a good, genuine, almost boyish, fellow, W. responded, "Yes, that is Frank—every