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to "American National Literature: Is there any such thing—or can there be?"

We were all convinced—the rest of us—otherwise; that Lincoln was the sanest, wisest, moralest political

We were deceived, foolish—he knew it.

Bucke said: "We will make a new examination of your urine: let Ed take some of it to the city tomorrow

s condition he might "live for some time," but: "He is worse than when we were there: if there should

boarding place: they all liked him: he had come, not knowing whether to go into the War or stay in the city

The "nigger" was faced: "the facts were put together so the public would be satisfied in what way the

Even while in this clerkship he had got himself a little place outside of the city—a little house with

Said his mails were "singularly destitute of news" nowadays.

All hands were of one notion in the matter. "You see, Walt," said Harned, "we're all agreed."

I saw a good deal of him about the city. He went quite freely everywhere alone.

The question went round: what would you do if you were the victim?

W. somehow talked of American poets who were "hardly of international scope."

we got through he gave me an old Kennedy letter, saying of it: "It was along in the period when we were

Kennedy was clean—clean: he made the inferences—but they were clean inferences.

I think (though I am not sure) that an article on it will appear in The American soon by a couple of

But I have never wondered that you were caviare to the general; because, although I see clearly that

While we were together, there came a light knock at the door, and Buckwalter entered.

"They were of course just where I put them myself."

He had said to Harned, speaking of the dinner: "The people were very glowing: they lauded me to the seventh

Half a dozen fellows over there in England who were trying to help me got at loose ends over my poverty

"But you got into the magazines, some—you were received here and there—you didn't have any more fight

Austin's letter to the same paper in which he said "While we talk, he starves"; to defend your American

last loaf with you; and to free you from the charge of getting aid on false pretences of which you were

here are quite at one on the subject, and Rossetti wrote to me that he knew Buchanan's statements were

And asked me about special fellows, some of whom I had met, some of whom were gone or I missed.

As to its exceeding the pages Stoddart allows me, "I do not mind your writing to Stoddart—or going to

I picked up a copy of Leaves of Grass Imprints (1860) he seeing what it was and saying: "You ought to

Didn't you say they were down stairs? Why does Mary detain them? Why don't she send them right up?"

We were both silent after that.

soul—the Adamic democracy: is significant (if significant at all) as affecting a world, not simply an American

If you were blessed with an unsurpassably good mother, I can with truth say the same of myself.

abroad," said W., "he went once to see Rossetti—the first visit—they did not seem altogether to hit it—were

When some people were here awhile ago and one of them said he was sorry I was poor I made a kick.

him he said, "powerfully"—"this evening especially—and down by the river" but—"I wondered why so few were

out sailing—there has been a good free breeze, and yet the yachts were few.

the odors they threw out were sweeter than words can tell!"

left to go into type except the Hicks notes and the Fox paper.W. asked me whether I had seen The American

Vol is interesting—I shall want it returned, but am in no hurry"W W" His suggestion on proofsheets were

leaves his blood tingling even up to morn's waking hour.I was there but a few minutes.W. spoke of American

the period of the War recedes I am more than ever convinced that it is important for those of us who were

People went there for all sorts of reasons, none of which were my reasons: went to convert, to proselyte

The Methodists were entitled to Lincoln's attention—not his alone but everybody's—for their loyalty in

Hay and Nicolay were for Harlan at that time, but Hay, at least, warmed towards me later on and has been

Just in to see if things were all right.

Johnston a badly bruised hip and leg, whilst both were considerably shaken.

I shall talk to my Dr. about you when I see him again, but if I were you I would adopt such a diet as

Dear W—I sent word by Horace one day that I had an intuition that you were about to enter upon a new

The next day the telegraph announced you were slightly improved from a severe attack of "heart failure

Also a piece I recited at the opening of the American Institute in New York; and then several criticisms

Washington, for the sole and avowed reason that he was the writer of the book—that, up to this time, no American

Stopped in on my way to the city. All well there.

Would put out Dave's book so I could get it on my way over to the city to-morrowtomorrow morning.

Insisted that the cords were short.

There were four or five envelopes indicating his appointments under the government at Washington.

He found certain passages marked; and there were marks by and upon passages all through the book.

The mass of men are no longer capable of being gulled and duped and victimized as they were once.

If the masses were essentially unsound the prophet and the wise man would have only a barren soil to

democracy but he didn't have the feel of the thing: all his antecedents, training, the schools he went to, were

They were dosing him with paregoric and brandy.

He added: "I have been telling Eddy, I feel as if seven or eight hundred pounds were tied to me, to be

"Nor did we: there were doubtful days indeed!" Had he too had the same misgivings?

"Yes indeed: those first days were full of seriosities."

He sat still—examined: there were about a dozen. "But all Democratic Vistas!

We were just talking of personal things—of the Leaves—the complete book: we insist upon the personal:

Had already caused the magazines and papers to be put on his bed (Arena, Illustrated American, Star).

heartily.Dear Walt, we long for you, William sighs for you, and I feel as if a large part of myself were

out of the city.

The O'Connor home was my home: they were beyond all others—William, Nelly—my understanders, my lovers

My relations with Nelly and William were quite exceptional: extended to both phases—the personal, the

general: they were my unvarying partisans, my unshakable lovers—my espousers: William, Nelly: William

I have not yet succeeded in telling you (you know we were interrupted each time we began to talk of it

It is as if the Cheeryble Brothers were rolled into one.

An envelope—big—with mail—from North American Review.

, then of our own, thinking ours "distinctly more brutal—less caring—the New York fellows long ago were

They were tracking the road. I knew the boss well—very well—and one day remonstrated with him.

It would be a blessing if he were to slip away, quietly, quietly, some night as he rested."

Warrie went to the door with me, and while we were there talking we heard W.'

"Yes: there were other visitors, too: Billings, or somebody: he came with a couple of young fellows."

The thing started with the idea that the sun's rays were in themselves beneficial: all that: that much

In reading John of late I have felt that his studies were drawing him the other way.

They were closely written over. "Is this something new?" I asked.

All these were meant for thee, and more I need not now extract.Hast thou had experience such as I speak

And if it were possible, I know thou wouldst come.Yet it shall come to pass somehow, soon or late.

the curious, beautiful self-deception of youth: Stoker, this boy: it's the same: they thought they were

writing to me: so they were, incidentally: but they were really writing more definitely to themselves

I don't feel as if civilization, progress, life (American or other), hangs in any way upon the existence

Dutch ancestry, was born on May 31, 1819, at Huntington, in that island, thirty miles from New York City

He was much in the great city, employed both as printer and newspaper writer or editorial assistant.

His notes or diaries, part of which were published, give many touching anecdotes of the brave sufferers

, who were of both sides in the war.

How were Brinton's charts Friday night?

"His leave of absence is doubtless from a certain day to a certain day: that's the way they were arranged

These little things were not important, but "to a man in jail they are a whole world—the only world he

worth saying (of course he felt they were worth saying: he would not have said them otherwise): that

W. said: "These points were always so obvious in Emerson."

Emerson had been the chosen one in The Critic's symposium about American poets.

Called my attention to a score or so of prints, [illegible] heads from Appleton's Cyclopedia of American

He had "much enjoyed them"—they were "so delicate—so unique."

Big fire in the city. I described it to him. He asked many questions. Hunter was up at the house.

Left word with my father for me to say to W. his feet were too bad for him to try to get to Mickle street

Then he said: "They undoubtedly were crows: it was, must have been, a fine spectacle."

direction; for those who by means of the vehicles now transport themselves beyond the limits of Jersey City

, will on the stoppage of the stages be induced to go no further than the city itself.

While the inhabitants of the cities have a right to spend the Sunday in a trip to the green shades of

Here, then, is one great argument for the consolidation of the police of the two cities and their suburbs

G. participating) and when he learned—Some Tendencies of American Art—said: "What a dry subject: it must

Was "glad to see" that there were "some who objected to be classified with reactionaries: Jefferson,

"It came a week or more ago when you were not so well: I thought it best then not to speak of it."

I asked: "What's the matter with her being the grand American mother?"

to Rome for our mothers: the grand American mother: is there anything beyond being that?"

:"That was the time when you and Swinburne were coquetting." "Coquetting, do you call it?

"If I were called in now as I was last Sunday, I should be apt to give a much less dismal judgment."

Were the stars not full out? Was it cold? Then of my trip. Always brightens up when so humored.

Spoke of "American ballade rondeau writers—their small calibre, mean aims—the mere literary hangers-on

Yet W. felt that "Ruskin's notions of professional integrity—in art, literature—were noble, admirable

of: I think even their feet were extremely sensitive."

I make no bones of petting them just as if they were—have long given up formalities and reserves in my

After they were finished, he remarked, "I feel none the worse for the ordeal except for my left leg:

but there was more to it: I suppose at that time I had got half through the book—the Bulwer: there were

ignored time: said naturally (it was a famous mot): 'My friends, seigneurs, grand gentlemen, as we were

Spoke of visitors—said they were few.

Ryan, President of the Irish American Club, on the train: he spoke of "some Whitman piece" he had read

Our American policy so called—our little, insignificant, muddy, God-damned, policy—is beyond words despicable

"the delicate pipes" with which this work was done—Clifford interpolating that in the factory they were

When Chubb inquired of the big cities—whether they did not militate against America, W. responded: "I

think I can say without hesitating about that—no: I accept all the cities—all that America so is—then

ask for more," that America were "less going wrong in what she has than what she has not."

He is a man who needs to be studied out, and that I can't do, even if I were inclined to.

I quoted him as saying he did lie and would have lied to the soldiers if they were in danger and the

Now W. said to me, "You were right, Horace: I found cases without number.

I picked up a copy of Illustrated American from the floor and handed to Brinton, who "liked" the portrait

Dixon asked Conway, "Has the time yet come for a truthful history of the American Revolution?"

Said he woke "feeling very well"—and that his "days nowadays" were of "a better cast."

Delvecchio deserves the thanks of the citizens of the City of Churches for his efforts in behalf of the

write line upon line and precept upon precept for the instruction of the saintly directors of the City

.— The result of the meeting last night of the Brooklyn City Railroads, was, in effect, that the cars

We are more and more confirmed in our opinion that the time has arrived when the Brooklyn city cars should

for this additional convenience and facility of intercourse between the different sections of our city

from the usual means of travel on that day for such purposes as seemed good to him so long as they were

said would be necessary, Deputy Superintendent Folk sends the following short but satisfactory reply: CITY

Stanton, President of Brooklyn City Railroad, Co., whether, as the religious journals prophesied, the

After all the Puritanical outcry therefore, about the evils that were sure to result from this additional