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He said: "It did not come through the mail: William must have handed it to me or sent it by a messenger
draw lines: I don't: only, some of the fellows do these things in totals and some do them in halves: William
I don't need to name anyone: yet there are Dowden, Symonds: there is William: and John, too: and do you
Furness, William Henry, though eighty-five, still preaches occasionally: preached last Sunday at Clifford's
It is so very tender and brilliant, so like William at his best, that I'dI would want to keep it here
I might say the same thing of William that I did of Mrs.
We at least have William's letters: there are many of them: they may console us in some part for what
O William: you can hit a thing like that off with absolute finality.
Cooper has been coaxing, persuading, begging, entreating, commanding even William to go on with them
and I assented most heartily.Dear Walt, we long for you, William sighs for you, and I feel as if a large
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
But read, Horace: read: I want to hear William: read! read!" Providence, R.I. Mar. 27, 1883.
["That 'sThat's right, William!"
["Don't be so sure of that, William!
["It did, William!" said W., "and the noise of it has not yet all died out!"]
["O William! William!
John on that point that we hear nothing or very little: that for weeks we have not had a word: that William
I put in this question: "You have said William was an Anarchist, too: how can he be both a party Republican