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And William, too, with his lips of fire! Many's the hot word of all that, back in Washington!"

He took over to Frank Williams and they had a laugh over it together.

"That," he said, "must have been written by William Walsh—perhaps Harry. I guess William, however.

"Literary Symposia" up: Professor Parkhurst, Miss Repplier, Owen Wister, Frank Williams and Lincoln Eyre

Coates protested to Frank Williams at last Club meeting, "Why don't you say something in defense of the

The Reinhalters—this woman—and I do not know but Talcott Williams, too—our friend Talcott" (reflecting

about Williams' retention of that manuscript).

As to William O'Connor's idea of Shakespeare, I don't know.

I don't know how far I was prepared to follow William in this, but it always seemed to me a profound

To William O'Connor that was the spirit which moved the writer of the plays."

which I now took.At the Bank a whole string of visitors and inquirers, among them Brinton, Frank Williams

The ground is white but not enough snow to make decent sleighing which is aggravating.

leaving him and taking a very brief run in on Billstein, I hurried towards Camden, meeting Frank Williams

I have anxious letters from Gilder and Rome.Morris and Williams again anxiously in Bank this forenoon

Frank Williams heard from Stedman briefly today but with no mention of W., from which Williams concludes

s friends—deciding upon Ingersoll, Brinton, Bucke and Harned—with Frank Williams to read from old scriptures

First joints of fingers dark underneath and milky white on top.

And Frank Williams will read, at once and easily comprehending the situation and acquiescing with noble

Late in afternoon in to see Frank Williams, then to look up Murray, at Eakins', for taking cast, in case

I telegraphed to Morris, Frank Williams and others: "Holds his own."

McAlister came and went upstairs, reporting him then a trifle worse.Talcott Williams came in, and reporters

All his unopened.)Sent telegrams to Brinton, Morris and Frank Williams: "Has rallied some," and to Bolton

Morris, Frank Williams and Brinton solicitous and tender.

Talcott Williams glided silently in towards 12 and stayed till 12:20.At 12:40 W. called Warrie, who was

Frank Williams over and had talk with Bucke anent funeral, and will be over again Sunday morning.Cables

Frank Williams had been over (we met him round the corner from W.'

Frank Williams to make a search. Bucke, instead of going tonight, will hold over till tomorrow.

Among other greetings, today one from William Winter as follows: "Kindness, sympathy, hope and every

William Winter." Unlike Stoddard, he seems, today, to hold old enmities at bay.

A telegram has come here from William Winter." This made him open his eyes.W.: "From Winter? Oh!"

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

Frank Williams has been sick since Saturday but expects to be down to business again tomorrow.

Dear, dear Nellie—dear William!" H.L.T.: "You seem to enjoy something like peace just now."

Frank Williams not yet about—nor further word from Brinton. To W.'

The foreman was a William Cobbett sort of a fellow.

Williams, Edelheim, Josephine Lazarus, Adler, Baker, Poet-Lore.Cable from Wallace today: "Thanks for

Williams at Press. He was not in.

Williams, Garland, Harned, Tennyson—once or twice passing in to W. to ask him some question, which he

We are grateful to William White, the editor of volume 6, who, regretting that he was unable to complete

William D.

Poor William! Great William!"

William! William O'Connor.

William Lloyd.

W. fervently: Yes indeed, all who knew William as I knew him will echo you on that."

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

WhitmanGeorge Horton in the Chicago HeraldAn old man I once saw,Bowed low was he with time,Heart-frosted, white

wondered why Gilchrist did not stop here on his recent visit to the Staffords.W. said, "Talcott Williams

O, if only William O'Connor were alive! How he would take up a lance for him!

And he would say that Tolstoi's picture was true, too, for William knew all those things well—had as

I told him Frank Williams was in to see me. "And he was opposed to Ingersoll, wasn't he?"

"He was a friend of William's; I thought he might be interested.

enough with Southern people to feel convinced that if I lived South I should side with the Southern whites

Frank Williams was in to see me today.

Then when I said she seemed to have a piety not known to William, W. said, "Yes, she has it—it is a bite

William had nothing of it—was free, great, expansive in all deeps, paths.

My main impulse was to authoritatively clap it down forever that this was my love for William and by

'The Brazen Android' I have never seen, though William made the notes for it before he knew me."

Captain Williams, assistant secretary, said that he had not heard anything about such an application.Several

that case we trust you will allow us an opportunity to consider it.I am, dear Sir, Faithfully Yours,William

Then added, "It reminds me of a Quaker story William O'Connor told often—enjoyed telling—of a merchantman

I referred to William O'Connor: "If we had him today, he would rush in the thick of this fight!"

I could never do that quite—at least, never did it, in William's way—though my philosophy—if I have that—would

But William had a sort of natural chivalry and acceptivity, and never gave a scholar to neglect."

At dinner at Reisser's, with Morris and Frank Williams. Discussed Tuesday.

He advised me, "Go to anybody on the Press—go to the City Editor— anybody—not to Williams particularly

I do not know if Williams would be favorably disposed to this."

Found Williams was not yet back, so we had a little chat with Merrill, Managing Editor, who told us he

Talcott Williams and wife still away in Adirondacks.

Afterward we gave his ticket to Thomas Earle White.

We took dinner with Morris and Frank Williams at Reisser's—debating there vehemently Whitman's philosophy

Morris and Williams had met us. When finding Ingersoll was upstairs, they were for going away.

Bonsall, Carl Edelheim and daughter, Frank Williams, Harrison S.

Morris, William Ingram, William Ingram, Jr. Most of these and others assembled in the wings.

Among those present were Harned and wife, Clifford, Bucke, Morris, Williams, Williamson, Johnston and

There were white beards, but none were so white as that of the author of "Leaves of Grass."

He sat calm and sedate in his easy wheeled chair, with his usual garb of gray, with his cloudy white

hair falling over his white, turned-down collar that must have been three inches wide.

I say they for I look upon the piece as composite—made up—for Morris, Frank Williams, perhaps several

about it, "It ought to be worth hearing: it must have great points," and this led him to refer to William

Would give me a copy to send on.Attention called to old note from Gleeson White (abroad).

Williams today; they had asked after W. and now he asked after them.

Courtesy Library of Congress, Traubel Collection William Sloane Kennedy, 1924.

the dear and loved ones gone before.I have just written to Walt thanking him for the Preface to William's

much.Thank you for your many kindnesses.Can you give me a hint, as to a good, and just the right title to William's

O'Connor's "solicitations of counsel about William's book," had "by the accident been so postponed, perhaps

And when I said, "You remember, Talcott Williams says he has that speech and has promised me a copy."

Talcott Williams has just been here," he reported, "and we had a good talk—about his trip, his return

Then Williams was a radical Republican? He laughed again.

O'Connor saying she had not yet heard from the publishers concerning William's book.

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

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

digression, "I sent a note to the Critic today for their holiday number—about four lines, telling about William's

Better than Macaulay, too, was William O'Connor.

edited; & The Brazen Android was sent to the Atlantic Monthly, & partly in type when recalled by William

I hope it will be the only one, for I hope they will accept.I am glad you spoke of the picture of William

whom you brought to see me.An invitation (W. by letter and I a card) to meet Miss Gale, at Talcott Williams

O'Connor's letter, too, and "sorry," he said, "that all the publishing of William's book seems yet in

Poor William! Great William!"

Frank Williams writes me thus:Drexel Building, Room 333,PhiladelphiaNov 28/90My dear Traubel:I am much

Talcott Williams was over today.

various walkers on literary fields—"is all from" his "hand," he says, "and on its way it would give William's

Unpinned a sheet proving to be the page extract I had written from the note about Tennyson that Frank Williams