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so frequently happens: the differences between people are remarkable: Nellie is somber, overgrave: William
William can sit up: he can read: but it seems he cannot write: some forms of paralysis affect the nerves
He acknowledged it: "I am brooding over William: I can't shake the cloud off: I want to go to him: yet
Poor William—poor me: I want him to live, I want him to die: "I can't think of being left in the world
[W. broke in: "Oh, William, William! it wasn't, it wasn't! God help us!"]
William? that's a fighting word!" laughing.]
This morning Doctor Bucke sends me William's letter.
Poor William! poor all of us!" I said again: "Rich all of us, too! Rich William! rich Walt!"]
Talked of young Emperor William.
what wouldn't I give to be near enough to William now to see him occasionally."
taught it: grown-up people should be forced to remember it: it is precious, sacred, everlasting: William
There is no change in William: he remains just as he was."
"I sit here doing things, reading, seeing the sky, dawdling along, always with my mind fixed on William
"He came over with Talcott Williams: seemed careless, negligent, indifferent, quiet: you would not say
seems to be digging a grave for our William.
No change in William.
W. protestingly: "No, Tom: you are wrong, wrong, wrong: William is hot: he is a giant—like other giants
"As William's letters all have more or less to contribute to the story of the ups and downs of the Leaves
As you know, I am mainly with them—with Donnelly, with William: but ciphers, three and two make five,
ordinary—principally rabbits and squirrels.Again apologizing for thus troubling you, I amYours Sincerely,William
Shelley wrote to William Godwin and they became friends.
William: maybe it's something that belongs in your treasure box: you have too much stuff, nonsense, in
that box, but nothing of William's comes within such a category.
good points in it, which I took in.I am in great mourning that I can't get my reply to Richard Grant White
letter down on my knee and looked at him: "Well—that is a fusillade, a volley, a charge on the run—William
at his vehementest: a nugget too: God knows what not: when he goes on in that mood William is simply
I said: "William calls Comstock an unmitigated ass." W. laughed most heartily.
"Not a suspicion of a word: I sit here seeing William thousands-wise: he presents himself to me persistently
"I'm afraid I was: William said to me more than once: 'Walt, you're as fast as frozen molasses!'"
fearful road to that great castle "success" which looms up in the dim religious distance, and from which white-winged
Sumner said to William once: 'Whitman would have been all right if he'd only written Democratic Vistas
But he went on: "I had a postal from O'Connor—Nellie O'Connor: William is still in a very sad state:
He says he has sense enough to expect "the worst, as the world calls it": that which, in William's case
would have thought that you might like to know these few particulars about R.B.C.Yours with affection,William
become more impatient, restless: I have tried to have Nellie understand how much I need to know about William
brief experience in the South—an intimate experience while it lasted—was convinced that the 'poor white
The horrible patois attributed to the 'poor white' there in the South (and not to them only—to Western
The great country, in fact, is the country of free labor—of free laborers: negro, white, Chinese, or
Everything is white with snow but the sun has been clear and dazzling all day.
is of a disposition to look with something of favor on my work—which I might say, quoting one of William's
William is always wideawake—always plants both of his two eyes on life.
Bucke's letters often go off into words—off into the air—but William is always true to the scent of himself
W. does not acquiesce in the recent revival of Bewick and William Blake.
wonder what Leaves of Grass would have been if I had been born of some other mother and had never met William
The other jewels were letters from William Michael Rossetti and Mrs.
Watson Gilder to W. and a never-delivered letter from William Swinton to Charles Sumner "to introduce
Richard talked about you with William M.
While I was reading the Swinton letter W. said: "William just let himself go—kept nothing vital back.
Would you have supposed the school-bookman—Swinton—William—could ever so forget himself—wax so eloquent
explains all I wish explained: is personal, confessional: a variegated product, in fact—streaks of white
the Hicks and said: "It makes him look like a cross between an Injun and a Nigger, without a drop of white
Talcott Williams. Also give me a five pound note to have cashed for him.
Even Williams, Talcott, seems to have given in to the pressure—the hue and cry of the provincials—yet
Then said as to the Cox portraits: "Advise Coates to go to see William Carey—no doubt Coates is often
William has more right words for right places in him than any man I know of in America."
William would call me by a few strong names and then go to work again with his heresy.
John and William are very different men.
John is a placid landscape—William is a landscape in a storm.
William is quite different: he whips me with cords—he makes all my flesh tingle—he is like a soldier
home with either—equally at home—but on the whole William mixes best with my blood."
William mentions you.
William will die with a hurrah on his lips."
William always has the effect of the open air upon me," said W.
"Next to getting out of my room here is to stay in my room and get a letter from William.
I don't know which contains the most open air—William or out-doors.
William Winter has been making a speech in England defending America against the negations of Arnold.
belonging to the oldest school of any in England—to the great foundation of the strong priest and ruler, William
After that, William ShaksperShakespeare is no more for me—for me, at least.
Cute thinkers have said (Williams Legett—one of the best of 'em: Leggett, of the Post, who always said
Read what he says of William." Bucke had written: "I had a letter from O'Connor.
that and more: like a grandest fellow as he is: words are so weak and William is so strong!"
McPhelim seems to have an idea that Charles O'Connor and our William O'Connor are the same person.
been reading in a paper about a big free trade meeting in New York addressed by Henry George and William
Sons of the big men are rarely big: it would be curious if William Lloyd Garrison two should get as famous
Affectionately,William D.
O'Connor.Here is what W. said of O'Connor: "William is the last of his race—no one is left but William
Burroughs thinks William too strenuous—keyed up monotonously too high—but I do not.
To me William is self-justified in the truest sense of the word.
William's onslaught is terrifying—it always means business."
It is a strong defense: William says of it himself: 'Walt, it puts them all to flight!'
find another kind of humor, a humor more remote (subtle, illusive, not present)—the sort of humor William
You object to the Emperor Frederick William? Well—object: objection is right, too.
Monday, April 30, 1888.W. said: "I want you to have this letter of William's for your archives.
It would be valuable enough if it was only William's—but it happens to be more than that.
He encloses a letter from George William Curtis—it makes good history.
William elicited a noble reply.
Part of it is very fine.I wonder if young William Allingham wrote it?
W. said: "My attention was first called to him by William O'Connor, who may have met him personally—I
was at the regimental hospital, at a place called Baltimore Corners, down not very many miles from White
William used to say the Leaves would before their work was done make all tongues of the earth their tongue
Talcott Williams sent a clip of it over to W. with this message: "I know you will be interested in this
William O'Connor used to say this was rather a contradiction between my life and my philosophy.
W. gave me two letters—one from William Rossetti and one from Edward Dowden—and said of them: "They are
William O'Connor was a storm-blast for Bacon.
I never saw anybody stand up against William when he really got going: he was like a flood: he was loaded
with knowledge—yes, with knowledge: and knowledge with William was never useless—he knew what to do
By the way, the little Twilight poem, like his Emperor William poem, brought him some excited correspondence
The easiest thing to do with a man like William O'Connor when he gets a-going about Bacon is to do nothing—to
"Not at all—I should not be prepared to go as far as that: I only say they were not written by William
William O'Connor's explanation of Rabelais was, that he became disgusted with the cant of intellect,
all the claims of my friends, especially at the fund from abroad, of which he said once to Talcott Williams
"It does a fellow good to receive such notes: William is always so breezy, so cute.
By the way, Horace, here is an old letter of William's I have saved for you."
What I mean is this—that William is a great scholar—has the whole business in his fingers—can reel off
William is a constant marvel to me—like the sun each morning, like the stars every night: he never grows
the days pass, the years pass, by and bye William will pass, I am afraid, with the work undone.