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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

written and part printed.

W. was annoyed by this story.

That is the whole story, if story there be."

Davis sat in the parlor part of the time with us.Sunday, June 2, 188910.15 A.M.

the good story well told.

It is an old story.

Yet that is not the whole story. That's my part of the story.

of things done and missed being done, stories of heroism and cowardice, stories of meanness and generosity—stories

"Part of it—yes."

It is excellent—the first part and the closing part of it especially.

W. had read a baseball story in a paper.

At the point where Sarrazin discusses evil as interpreted by W. he exclaimed: "Yes: that is a part of

it—tells a part of it, indeed, a good part of it: but that is not all."

W.,Aug. 2, 1887.Dear Sir.Presumptuous as it may be, I cannot refrain from sending these few lines to

Adding: "As Miss Nipper says in Dickens' story—in Dombey and Son (you remember it, don't you?)

further: "But we must show great consideration for Kennedy: we know that at bottom—in osseous, integral parts—the

Perhaps I would stand in the same relation to this case," he said, "if I heard, read, the Doctor's story

Bucke assented: "Yes, Walt: I mean theft: unmitigated unexampled theft: why, if ever you read the real story

I said: "Walt, there's a story goes with all that: do you want to hear it?"

"Well—that's certainly a good story."

That was the story, Walt. Does it sounds right to you?" Laughed heartily.

"But the fish part is very fishy: I am not inclined to accept it."

They parted at Hartford—Starr and Thoreau did not exchange names.

Saturday, March 2, 1889Hunting up Bucke at Dooner's, according to appointment, we took together the 8.31

Two stories. Brick. The door was opened by Nellie. We were ushered into the little parlor. Talk.

see him: he is the youth in our story—its poetry, its prophecy, made visible."

And he said again: "Do not mistake me: John is most parts the same John: but lately something has been

Saturday, March 2, 1889

let me hear it: I'd like to: read it to me" Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands,March 2, 1869.To Walt Whitman.May

The native villagers gather about me, for strangers are not common in these parts.

W. said: "He is right: occidental people, for the most part, would not only not understand but would

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 is still as true as it used to be—the story of Socrates: I will always tell this story: I try to restrain

W. said: "It's an old story: I have told it before: you must have heard it: but it will bear retelling—carries

My special trouble now is what they call sclerosis—an induration of the lower part of the spinal cord

him—and so he got a full excoriation before crossing Styx, for after he died I took out the severest parts

It brings in my favorite story of the Sultan and the poet over again: gives me a wish: the subtle answer

I read to him part of the letter of the 4th from Mrs. Baldwin characterizing Doctor Bucke.

calmly reasoned it out than appears: O'Connor—all the fellows, nearly—would argue (though I took no part

"When Emerson did come out it was with the power, the overwhelmingness, of an avalanche: I, for my part

doubt whether even a second-rate man (probably a third- or even fourth- or fifth-rater)—is for his part

I said: "Walt, they say you have no sense of humor but I notice you generally have a neat little story

This story amused W. a great deal.

Then continued his message for Bucke (as to health): "I can only say it in these words: the same story

"I always enjoy the story of Lord Palmerston—think it very happy: there was a clerk somewhere under him

The story convulsed W.

Then that home in W. was of course more to her than to me; her time was all passed there and only a part

I told Bucke the story. He guffawed. "You fellows are decidedly Rabelaisian," he said.

He said: "Part of my difficulty was verbal: I can't quite make out Nelly's scribble: now that I hear

I'm glad you told me the story: it's so unexampled—so like nothing but itself." Then he paused.

That deafness quite often occurs, even now—seems to be a part of the cold."

W. said: "I know it: but there is a story of Madame Dudevant's—you remember it?

speaks of the man who tells his wife of his visit to another woman but does not tell her the whole story

of him—as much a part of him as his books."

company, comprising the membership of an intelligent reading club ignorant, however, for the most part

.: "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

He said; "The accounts have not been exaggerated: the truth was worse than the stories of it—far worse

He said that similar stories from Europeans were told of the vendetta—of massacres &c.

Then as truly as Denmark is at this moment doing the principal part of the intellectual work of the Scandinavian

"Yes, I can see it: and it was good because of you: I am sure you told the story straight: from what

W. said: I thought the story would give me a good résumé of Priestley's career—some adequate picture

He has sat up a part of the day, but is now, at 4 P.M., sleeping.

"I have been told the story a number of times by old men—I have quite a penchant for hunting up the old

roosters, having their stories from the farthest back possible."

"Their stories seemed wonderfully to agree—seemed plausible.

.: "May not a great part of it be mental." B. then: "It probably is."

I read a story years ago—a French story, by a great humorist—who pictured the return of Christ, his going

all other matters: people get accustomed to a certain order of traditions, forms: they think these a part

To lose his tone is almost to lose the whole stir of the story. "The good old lady!

C.,July 2, 1864.Dear Walt:Your note of June 25th did not reach me till the 28th.

After W. had taken his sherry, telling a story of someone who "does everything that is bad," W. said:

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

"Take these," he said: "if anybody asks about Walt Whitman say: 'Here's the whole story: take one.'"

He himself apologizes not a whit for these spontaneous outbursts (Expektorationen); he is a part, or

for Walt Whitman in Germany or not, we will leave undecided; but if I should find only the fiftieth part

did you see the first part of it?

he said: "it reminds me of the story—was it Dickens'?—where somebody says: 'hit takes 'old of me!

"As I understand it, Gurd, the Doctor, their men, were to control the larger part of the stock: they

that there was no reason why the letter should not appear twice, or even three times, in different parts

As we talked Ed came in from the post office bringing a letter from Bucke, which W. read forthwith, part

of it aloud, part of it to himself.

America than you are ever willing to admit: you have been endorsed here more than has been told in the story

myself—the book is very rapid—is a book that can be read by the five or ten minutes at (being full of small parts

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

Beyond and outside of that is another story, and I have no doubt (as you have so well taught) that all

Hood.W. said: "It looks as if we were right up against our great bereavement—as if the story was rapidly

enter into the French character—its life: yet it is a thing not to be reckoned without: all that is a part

Yet this is necessary, I suppose: narrow, despicable, hateful, as it is to me, it is yet part of the

story: the tail of the cat is long: and much as I despise for myself some of those tendencies, I would

I intend to excoriate them for their shameful part in this shameful transaction.I am at work on my Tribune

It would have been a long story." Then reflectively. "So he used it?"

It is the same old story—the whole drift of the thing is usual—that is to say, for preservation: yes,

I have heard both sides of the story: if there was a failure on either side to carry out anything I'm

W. addressed me: "Was it you, Horace, who told me a story of Frederick, the old Emperor?

W. said: "I remember a story that is told of Southey—or some line from him somewhere—in which he says

W. was in such good condition he did the major part of the talking. Blake sat on the sofa opposite.

says he is willing to make another try: if you won't let him do that then you should assume at least part

"It's one of my regrets that the Wagner operas have never come my way—that I for my own part have not

There is a story Mrs. Shelley tells—or a character-study, rather—that makes me think of myself.

I told W. another Shelley story (new to him) in which Byron figured.

"You mean Hartmann's damn lying stories?" I explained. He said: "Oh!"

I told W. a story.

W. exclaimed: "That's a fine story: I'm glad you told it to me: it's the other side of the shield: yes

Sat so for the greater part of my half-hour's stay—closing the window finally himself.

Is that the purport of the story?" Then I gave him the details of C.'

a wonderful and curious spectacle anyhow—the United States having the vessels there at all: for my part

the International Congress of American Governments, once proposed by Blaine, now revived—there is a story

Kristian Elster, Strandgade 38, Trondhjem, Norway.2.

Again: "I've been reading a newspaper story about Colonel Bob: it was about somebody he befriended: I

W. again: "The largest part of our human tragedies are humanly avoidable: they come from greed, from

He said: "It's the best story in a long time: and bilin', too! haven't I been there?

Yes, it's a story whose meaning goes way beyond itself." Blake went home this morning.

He doubted the story that Hawthorne was killed by the War.

Tuesday, April 2, 188911 A.M. W. looking rather pale and troubled. Reading papers.

"That's a good boy story," he said: "I can appreciate your remorse!"

Tuesday, April 2, 1889

I left.Belmont, Mass., Dec. 2, 1885.

who would go into the pulpit and insist upon the true Christ—the Christ as he was in the original story

The story, what we know of it, is so faded, so pale, as well as so manufactured (almost theatrical),

Had read the long Abe Lincoln story quoted by the Press from N. Y. Tribune.

A story of a widow for whom he got a pension. W. said: "Look it over, Tom: we want your opinion."

W. said: "I have seen Booth—the present Booth—and seen him often: he is a man of bright parts, interesting

: all his parts were related: as an actor he always seemed to me to be consistent with himself.

W. said: "I guess the economics play a part: that's rather your cue than mine: I have heard about Glasgow

P.M.G. usually treats me rather cavalierly over my own things: the young fellows who do the literary part

Did you ever read his Story of My Heart? ["No," said W.]

I think some men, some writers, owe a great part of their reputations to the excellence of their proofreaders—to

"It is a part of the man—it is a thing we ought to engrave here in letters of gold, everywhere—cherish

He interrupted me here and there over Ford but for the most part said nothing to O'Connor.

I asked W.: "There was Nicholas Bacon: what part did he perform in the mystery of the plays?"

He touched the vol. on his chair: "I have read all the Doctor's part of the report: it is quite a collection

I said: "But that if tells the whole story: that if makes you Walt Whitman."

W. then vehemently: "And that will be the windup: the story will stop right there."

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

He said: "No—not really read it: yet I looked it honestly over—looked through the whole story."

The story "had no attraction" for him.

men who take the large view that includes all—Jesus, Buddha, Zoroaster, Confucius: know they are all part

"It seems to me you may find some use for it: it belongs to the English end of our story: read it anyway

type of our public men—all know what it signifies: especially is it conceded by those who have been part

He answered: "Of some part of it, anyhow, I have no manner of doubt: I never enthused greatly over Brown

Tennyson's Northern Famer says to his son, 'the poor in a lump is bad': but stories like yours tend to

across the lawn, chanting, chanting: here and there an invocation: overhead the stars: everybody taking part

I for my part am rather more disposed to William's than to John's estimate, characterization, of Hugo

Sunday, December 2, 1888.7.15 P. M. W. lying on bed.

said: "At that time, while I lived in Washington, even while I lived in New York, I read a good many stories

"After you once get inoculated, initiated, Bulwer is very likely to satisfy you: he could tell a story—had

the story-telling skill: was not of the first class, yet without a doubt was gifted—perhaps will be

Sunday, December 2, 1888.

How rare a story: health: health where health seldom exists: entire unequivocal health."

John told me a story about Andrew Jackson—authentic I learned and believed: a story whose scene was a

Besides, "John never spared the concomitants in telling a story." Rice and milk!

This story of John's had "Oh!

I have always doubted the story.

I have been asking myself that question all day: he is the bookman probably in that part of Scotland.

W. said: "No—no: it 'sit's not that—not that alone: there 'sthere's something to this story—just enough

"I don't think so: maybe: hardly: there were other elements in the story—venom, jealousies, opacities

: they played a big part: and, if I may say it, women: a woman certainly—maybe women: they kept alive

would also give me one in more technical form, and wrote, signed, and handed me the receipt marked 2.

transcendentalist of our group here—the best of us all in that: second, because it throws some light on the story

They had settled in this place—Edward for some part of the time off on the continent—seeking adventures—interesting

English cities"— "a venture reformatory in nature—supposed to be for the people: but according to the story

He had seen "many such cases, seemingly insignificant in themselves, yet part of the real history of

often, all these years —" finally, this, just added the other day in black pencil: "Translated a good part