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He was a man of parts.

I think that probably the best part of that letter, which is full of best parts, is his sentence on the

"And you say—" "Then I tell them a few of your stories and get them convulsed."

My other works are History of Ireland, Heroic Period, Vols I and 2, an epical representation chiefly

For my own part I put him high very high; his meaning lies fold within fold never to be exhausted.

as that I do not meet in you the expression of every changing ideal penetrating even the remotest parts

The latter part of June Gilder and I went to Concord and spent a couple of days there.

they are substantial facts, notwithstanding a very few exceptions, and in truth they are a necessary part

Upon reading over my letter, previous to mailing it, I had almost decided not to send it as a part of

"Part of it—yes."

Monday, July 2, 1888.To W's at eight o'clock. Frank Harned present for awhile.

Monday, July 2, 1888.

"Read the letter," said W. again.Times Office, Wednesday Night 2 O'Clock.

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

I was much better satisfied to listen to a fight than take part in it."

It makes me think of a story I once heard of a Bridget whose mistress found her weeping bitterly before

I said to Doctor when he was here: 'Maurice, you put too much emphasis upon my part in the scheme: you

of place in Leaves of Grass—not integral—too distinctly different in character to connect with the story

They all go to make up a story. A story? Yes. But will the world ever wish to hear it?

My dear sir,I send by this mail the second part of my study of your works.

"the holy hour"—"the hour of the man who returns from work: the hour of the family, the table, the story

doubted or gone off—that I can count on him in all exigencies: and I think affection plays a great part

"The senile Emerson is the old Emerson in all that goes to make Emerson notable: this shadow is a part

passages are quoted as being the work of an immoral writer, and, altho'although I tried to show they were part

Monday, April 2, 1888.Mousing among some old papers on his table today, looking for something else, W

ever a fighter lived, Boyle O'Reilly is that fighter: he writes me fiery letters, he tells me fiery stories

Good-bye.Faithfully yours,Boyle O'ReillyThe enclosed letter follows:39 Bowdoin Street [Boston]10, 2,

Monday, April 2, 1888.

I am done with the letter of the church—with its hands and knees: but that part of the church which is

"The best part of every man is his mother," said W.

"Not at all: it is free in all its basic dynamics: that is, the free human spirit has its part to perform

Wigglesworth, and to your own sister Margaret, that as I feel it a privilege myself to be doing a part

The beautiful portrait of the Poet in 1880, to Chapter 2, is exquisite and adds much to our interest

stations with the best professionals, no matter what their politics, and so make the life-saving work part

that it make you think of a rubicund sailor with his hands folded across his belly about to tell a story

Last winter Story of Rome the author of Cleopatra, you remember, asked me for your photo once.

"As I read I think of a funny story Mary Davis tells me of some one who said once in a sudden humor:

I read W. a story about Turner—how he had on varnishing day once blacked out one of his brilliant canvases

Next thing we shall have to meet will be the stories of what Emerson said to this man and that man.

The parting at Providence was hard.

Most of all did I desire to hear from your own lips—or from your pen—some story of athletic friendship

The story writers do not as a rule attract me.

The stories might just as well have be told of me—yet I never tasted strong liquortilluntil I was thirty

Why did he not himself write up this story?

mass—always in such strange agitation—I dare not consent to see anybody except the few who are in effect a part

When I was through—parts of it put a shake into my voice—he said fervently: "I thank God for having permitted

Dear Whitman, Some while ago I received your kind present of the 2 vols—Leaves of Grass and Specimen

Read it again—part of it aloud—and asked W. some questions suggested by it.50 Wellington Road, Dublin

is something manufactured in them—they do not adhere and cling quite close, and become an invisible part

Then he said: "One part of that would suit O'Connor and one part would suit Burroughs but as a whole

I guess friendship is constitutional, or in great part so—you like cabbage or you don't and that's all

I think that explains one part of Carlyle—that and perhaps something constitutional."

W. greatly interested—had me repeat the story.

Thomson.Forks Road, Natchez, May 2, 1848.When I had finished W. at once spoke out: "I recognize it.

My dear Sir,I hardly know through what a malign series of crooked events—absence chiefly on my part in

receive any works printed by me—echoes of my studies in the history of Greece and Italy for the most part

of designs for things that were never executed: lectures, songs, poems, aphorisms, plays—why, even stories

: I was going to write stories, too, God help me!

Friday, October 2, 1891To W.'

My lecture is with my sketches, about 2 hours long—1/2 hour to each part, & about 1/2 hour to the sketches

part would put him in a wrong light—while he is not able to tell the whole story, which is a long one

W. had spent a day of varied indications—part of it restless, part peaceful.

It is a necessary part of the story." Referring to Chile, "How absurd we are!

No definite outcome except discovery on part of the strangers that W. can be driven to do nothing.

Friday, October 2, 1891To W.'

Friday, October 2, 1891

And part of him left in this place, or there once, and now memoried. The good Wallace!

So I want to buy him his copy, for a part of his essential outfit, whether you write on it or not.

American gentleman visiting Europe who had seen Tennyson, etc., and then goes on to give the awful story

He was a man fitting well in minor parts—one of the walking gentlemen—indispensable, yet not important

I found on examining it that it came back because I had neglected to put 'third story' on it.

I put in, "That's not a part of the discussion. They are to go in whether or not that is settled.

A story of Kipling's there, started with quite a quote from W.

Meet—part—meet again!" News? Who had news? His old question.

as to the first part, then, "I don't know about the book. Sure enough, did he send the money?

To tell the story of William's life—what he seemed here for—what he stood for—the aim, accomplishment

He has seen Gilchrist, spent part of a day there.

And for my part I think he has gone about under fortunate conditions.

He had had the long talk with W., "yet I hardly remember any part of it—certainly not his words.

W. laughed heartily, "It was a retort, the best part of which is, that it is steeped deep—oh!

But it seems almost too precious to part with."

I find he tells some stories inimitably.

Says he has no sense of humor, but contradicts himself by his laugh, and this story-telling faculty.Showed

s we all went upstairs—about 1:50—and were there the greater part of an hour.

All our mayors have been low, but this one beats every previous chapter in the story.

H.L.T.: "Wallace protests that he has no sense of humor, yet tells a splendid story." "Is that so?

I often think to take up pencil and tell it—or hint, suggest it—my own, William's, part in it.

After we had shaken hands, I said immediately, handing them out, "I have kept my part of the bargain:

Broadway New York" (envelope all crushed, torn, discolored) and forwarded from them to "Walt Whitman 91 1/2

Which I told to W. as "good doctrine," and which he said was that, "if Whitmanism itself was a part of

(The toasted toes, the stories told, the cane, the quiet dwelling lingering eyes!

He said, when asked if the book had in any way repulsed him at the start, "There were parts that did

Lowell, Stedman and Arnold up—Clifford told his story of Arnold at Mrs.

A good many stories told—frank, easy, quiet talk.

I really ought not to take the money you left, anyhow—but I've already spent a part of it."

W. told this with great gusto and feeling, but J.W.W. said, "That's a story told of Leigh Hunt—Hunt and

The Gilders have stood by me now through the better part of 20 years, which is something to say—both

Met there Esling, local poet and writer, who had traveled much and was replete with story or fable.

more carefully read it than before (if ever read before) and imbibed a certain sort of enthusiasm for parts

I get so sleepy and stupid—come over to the bed, then go back again—and that is about all my day's story

"Give my love to Frank when you see him"—this the parting shot as I passed out the door.

W. responding, "Never mind, Frank—that's but a part of the evidence of my good will.

Again, "There are parts, features, faculties, detached bits, beauties, perhaps—these the fellows got—but

Wallace rather quiet, yet now and then freely taking part. Likes her ways—her voice, etc.