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"If we do it must be peculiarly ours—like that in November Boughs—a part of our history.

There was enough here to do all he needed done: I would have done it, a part of it: gladly, proudly.

So W. talked the main part of the hour of my stay: evidently deeply moved by Morse's straits—evidently

I put in: "Everything but that big story you were going to tell me: that's not coming very fast."

"No—I guess not: am sure not: he is in great part Philistine, you know." As friendly as Dowden?

I am very impatient of stories which imply the concentration of all historical meanings in single eminent

"Especially the last part, Walt—the part the fellow says you revised and you say you didn't."

, a long story—important!"

—we parted. There was something deeply stirring in his manner.

Still, that may all be a part of his settled policy—I do not object to cheer.

reading Leaves of Grass: had found that the book had a "message for her soul" and thanked me for the part

We stood for the same things up to a certain point but there parted company, she to look back and around

repeated the sentence after me and seemed to be turning it over in his mind: "That's probably the whole story

I am sorry that I asked for the manuscript, or at least part, as I was not aware that Mr.

account would have him break it, much as I desire it, but if at any future time he should care to part

"I do not wonder: it would be hard for me to tell the story myself."

I never seem to have any but the best feeling for Lewes—he is a man I respect: a man of a thousand parts

There is another point to this story which interested me greatly: the publishers have informed Hunter

"I, for my part, am satisfied—fully satisfied: would let it go at that.

in Washington at the time—heard all the dark threats, saw the head-shakings—heard the half-toned stories

you have turned my memory back to an old story. Did I ever tell you?

After a little while I will kick the bucket: then all sorts of reports, stories, will spring up."

whole body of the people: men, women, and children: I want them to have what belongs to them: not a part

C., May 2, 1876. Dear Walt:Enclosed I send you a copy of a letter received by William.

O'Connor, Esq.Dear Sir: The name at the end of this letter is now perhaps unfamiliar to you; the first part

write to-dayoday to claim an old acquaintance of mere correspondence, but to tell you, on both our parts

Ritter.W. said: "You are right to feel warm about the people who felt warm about me when for the most part

It brings back to me a story I heard once: perhaps it is printed somewhere and you have read it: I am

Dear Sir:I send Rolleston's last letter to me—please look at the parts marked in blue—Did you get a note

Then: "I can easily see that what you say is true: for my part these things have little value: but I

as if the From a Photograph WALT WHITMAN (1873)Reproduction of a photograph of Whitman, 1873 first part

, the part I read, was introduced in order that the second might be written.

Bob does not intellectually account for them: he has them in his heart: they are one part of his noble

I can't sit down offhand and dictate the story to you but I can talk with you and give you the documentary

"I liked it—liked it much: the first part is clear, good: the last three lines are not so easy for me

McKay related the story of a drive he took once in the Park with Bucke and W.: Bucke's abstention from

When he heard these stories he stopped his figuring and beamed on us. "Did he do that?" he asked.

It is very funny too: I am glad you told it: some of the little stories—the seemingly insignificant—are

s manner animated, inimitable, as it generally is when he is thoroughly awake over a story.

I don't know that that story is literally true, but it illustrates how such a little turn is often the

assented most heartily.Dear Walt, we long for you, William sighs for you, and I feel as if a large part

You know how for the most part I have always been isolated from my people—in certain senses have been

we have been great chums: always next to each other: always: yet my dear mother never took that part

simply what we are: we do not always run together like two rivers: we are not alike: that 'sthat's the part

"For my part I consider that a masterpiece of work: strong, rugged, even darling": and as to the criticisms

There were quite a number here: not enough to make a big story out of but quite enough to seem formidable

little too fond maybe of his beer, now and then, and of the women: maybe, maybe: but for the most part

Then he said: "I tell that story because it fits so well here: I suppose I was meant, too!"

W. addressed himself directly to Harned, to whom the story was new.

When I said: "Nothing: we only have to wait"—he nodded and said: "Yes: and for my part I have little

that part must not be forgotten either: I want to come out whole on what I have put into the books."

Told W. a story of last evening. I went directly from him to the boat.

He says "The Stage has become part of" his "regular Sunday reading."

Part of the work was to investigate and report on banks, bankers—big concerns.

noticed that letter on the back of the sheet: I 'mI'm glad, however, that you read it: it was, it is, a part

of the story.

your friend's special & expanding glory.Fritschy, I am writing this in Major Hapgood's office, fifth story

It has become an old story. The suffering ones cling to me poor children very close.

"in a cloud," as he said, today: at least, in forenoon and part of the afternoon: but "gathered together

For my own part, I cannot explain my faith in the book: my satisfaction, if I may say so, is intuitive—not

It's the old story of the artist trying to improve on nature again.

"Hunter told a story when he was here last which is to the same effect.

You know how cheery Hunter is—how well he can tell a story, laugh: what a good voice he has.

In the midst of this story W. had suddenly turned my way: "It's a long tale: shall I go on?

Garrison always spoke like a man who had a story to tell and was determined to tell it: he never seemed

Harned was in during a part of our talk.

Did I ever tell you the story of a visit he paid me once on the way to lecture at Newark?

.: "Walt, are you in earnest in saying you have a big story to tell me some day?"

undertake it tonight: it involves so much—feeling, reminiscence, almost tragedy: it's a long, long story

: and I don't want you to know only a part of it—I want you to know it all: when I start I want to finish

walks, Pete's friendship: yes, such things: they are absolutely necessary to the completion of the story

W. said: "The reference to Hawthorne brings back to my mind a story once told me by a friend in Brooklyn

Hawthorne was an extremely reticent character: I have read somewhere the story of his slipping off at

The story has the air of being authentic—I believe is authentic."

The best part of the laws anyhow, Tom, don't help, are in the way of, justice." These were W.'

Then: "You've heard the story of the valet who was packing up for his master?

the dramas, the plays, the poems: least accessible, yet greatest of all—greater than the novels, stories

W. laughed most heartily: then, as if to satisfy himself, went over the story half in soliloquy, with

And the Bishops are not all dead yet: they still crop up to remind us of the faithfulness of the old story

Cooper could take his own part magnificently: let a scribbler go for him and Cooper would hit back, with

Have you got the Cooper stories: the Leatherstocking tales? The Last of the Mohicans, chiefly?

"I am sure it will appeal to me—parts of it, at least."

"I allow all you will on that, but must still put the main part of such gossip down to the inventive

You both know many of the Lincoln stories: the thousands of them given currency, laughed over, brought

All day long these boys would loaf about, talk together, invent stories—invent filthy stories: their

Then he would take a seat, draw up his chair—'listen'—and tell you some story."

And added: "Then in a day or two the story would turn up in the papers foisted on Lincoln—fastened to

I sat back on the bed and read the letters—this one first:Treasury Department, Washington, Aug. 2, 1864

"I have read Vanity Fair and liked it: it seemed to me a considerable story of its kind—to have its own

He had read Dickens more generally: "But Dickens had something the same make up as Conway: if a story

I suggested that there was some difference between the obligations of a story writer and a historian.

They make up probably a couple—maybe more—good-sized volumes: as stories they are the most fascinating

I for my part can see no reason why West should not have his say—why any man should not have his say:

I for my part am distrustful of any personal rules or public customs which interpose barriers between

W. took the thing smilingly: "That is a familiar story: I am not a saint—have never been guilty of setting

I remember one of his stories—it is in point (maybe I am not any too clear about its details any more

be mentioned, named, described, but always felt when present: the direct off-throwing of nature, parting

had never been forthcoming.I had a long talk with Ferguson today, who gave me in a general way the story

He had written on margin of copy that if more was required to fairly fill the 2 pages he would "eke it

It is too long a story.

Then the story goes on—oh!

Last night I had him here telling me sailor-stories—stories of the big steamers.

It is a capital story. I was almost saying the story was better than the picture."

There are several shiftings-about at sea—but the story as a whole is a land story.

And he responded: "Yes indeed—I was going to say, in part because of them—on the ground that none of

Leaves of Grass for me"—and our marks "must be in blue pencil"—and he started forthwith to give me a part

he had gone from the lawyers' room the irrepressible Chauncey Depew was put on a chair and told a story

Alcott had "always had the idea of a mission," and part of his mission was "to keep these Journals."

I read at least a part of the Bishop's speech but I didn't come to what you quote.

Thursday, May 2, 188911 A.M. Ed making bed—W. had started to write a letter.

And you must remember the part the reporters had in it, too: we know well enough how to take them.

"That is not only good as an event—a fact—for its benefits to him—but good, excellent, as a story."

Thursday, May 2, 1889

People little know how less than a thousandth part—a thousandth thousandth part—of things written, prepared

" W. criticised the want of truth in the magazine stories now vogued—"the stories of Western, South-Western

It spoils some of those very good stories in the magazines—stories excellent in themselves, but too apt

Then he said: "Well do I remember Valjean, the Bishop—indeed the whole story."

Mills—he was in Washington at the time—a Supreme Court lawyer—a man of prominence and parts—and qualities

I, for my part, should say that Sunday of all days they should run the cars.

"The back of such a chair will be a very essential part—we will need to have that high, so my head can

I had been out in Germantown the main part of the day, working with Clifford over Johnson's Parker manuscript

Luburg's 145 North 8th Street"The above just as he punctuated it—and down in the corner his address, part

written and part printed.

And to Tom's further urgings: "Well—you must remember the story of the French physician who took a quart

I suggested the appointment of certain hours—say, 2 to 4 or 5 in the afternoon—a reception season, so

"Whether this is almost the end"—W. reflected—"whether the story is now nearly closed, it baffles us