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Tom told some story of how Scovel had come to him Sunday for Whitman "bits" for a "pretty" piece he was

Told him of a letter I had from Baker today—aroused his curiosity.Note from Bucke today—the 2nd inst.2

The whole thing—that part of it—is nebulous, uncertain. I am glad you spoke out."

literature descending from a purer, less affected age than ours, and will play a very considerable part

And with swinging of arm and "good-bye" Warrie sailed him off, W. saying to me as we parted at the corner

A silence on my part—and their solicitude!

a bit of debris lodged in the river—the currents flow on—add to it—fasten it—till in time it is a part

and things delayed, put off, might find occasion and man irrevocably parted. "Let us push on.

That's the whole story. But of course the ass will be beaten off?"

It seemed to me Moncure was quite simple—conversational—went direct to his point—told his little story—then

s part? "Yes, yes! I know! I know! But damn the Doctor!

And further, "That brings back a story—a fastidious young man had been in the country—returns—says to

Of course I do not want any part of it published.

But I had heard of his Democratic Review stories, that someone had a volume of them almost ready to put

Johnston's English letter (15th), part of it before and part written after word of J.W.W.'

s impressions & reflections & these we shall prize.Sept 16th 2 P.M.I have just received a bundle of stuff

Told me a story, "Swinton—William Swinton—dined with me once at Washington. It was at Willard's.

Yes, dead and buried, and here is the whole story of it,' which was said in a way to induce me to go

But now I suppose they have parted, Doctor his way, Wallace his.

O'Connor alive with anecdote and story—brings new pictures of William and W.

A story travelling about in the papers took W. capture when I narrated it: a poor Catholic, denied admission

Wednesday, September 2, 18915:10 P.M.

Wednesday, September 2, 1891

"Not very well: all right the fore part: then I had a bad turn: it has gripped me now since the middle

everything returns to the one force, element—whatever it is called: all life is a witness to the basic part

"Why, yes: it is for you: I came near forgetting it: it is a Rolleston letter: it refers in part to Grashalme—the

I repeated to him a Gartenlaube story told by a German who went to call on Hugo one early morning and

you remember that I said to you at the time that if the name was changed it would pass as a Whitman story

instead of a Millet story?"

W. had read the story. I asked: "Did n'tDidn't the resemblance strike you?" "Never."

that: people come: I brighten up: they brighten me up: they go away thinking that 'sthat's the whole story

brought up near the sea which exerts a profound influence on the mode of thought and feeling of each."2.

W. said: "It was charged against him that he showed an anxiety to prove the story of revelation—so-called—true

W. assented "Yes: but there 'sthere's more to the story: I never once have questioned the decision that

tall and handsome lady, and her actions are so graceful as she moves about the stage, playing her part

it should have been answered.)About the same time that I received your volumes I got a letter from Kate

"No set one—sometimes preferring to put the name above, sometimes below," but "never across any part

found that my hide was thick—that it could stand all sorts of rubbing and drubbing—they brought these stories

He went on with his story. "I think it was The Press—the New York Press, as it was called."

s part—questioning, mostly. He asked about the weather. "Is it colder than yesterday?"

Clifford also told a Josh Billings snake story which W. called "wonderfully apt" and said "has a moral

Knortz was himself part translator: I thought it would please him to know."

After a pause as if to reassure himself: "I think that is the whole story of the publication."

He repeated the story of the nobleman whom Lowell turned back.

He thought Burr "justly should be regarded as above the ordinary estimate of him"—"the school book stories

intellectualist: cold dispassionate, calculating: yet he was truly a patriot—performed no inconsiderable part

How good the stories he told! how well reflecting things as they must have been!"

Still the Paine story needed to be told.

whether one approves him or not—and to call him a Frenchman, or anything save an Italian, is meaningless).2.

He said: "True, true: it is dry enough—light enough: but there 'sthere's a story, and it covers more

letters: "they will go down in history with Leaves of grass: they are inseparable from it: they are part

undoubtedly it is one story."

disapproval of the general conditions of the series, at the same time not objecting to the most urgent part

copy of Leaves of Grass [Philadelphia, 1883 edition] I have taken to pieces and carry the different parts

For my own part I can't tell you with what elation and pride I recited some of the noblest passages in

He has been down on his bed a great part of the day. "I feel weak—exhausted."

well—never well in fact: not altogether seeable: but Hunter is always cheery, hearty, interesting: has a story

Friday, November 2, 1888.8 P.M. W. reading Pepacton—rather lazily.

to W. who said: "Yes, I like him: yet when you tell me of his self congratulation I recall a little story

Friday, November 2, 1888.

inaccurate: there is a slip now and then: two or three places where I'dI'd like to make changes: but the story

"Well, she said he was a man of parts—that he would be a man of far greater prominence if he was not

themselves to need too much money—then they sell out to get it: Conway did more or less: he had the story

I swore I would never listen to such stories, read them, again: then something else appears—new material

must be all there in his face if you can look deep enough: the fierce unforgivable Siberia of his stories

I remember a story which Bryant told me.

corroborates all that has gone before—is in the usual strain: is genuine: it adds nothing to the Carlyle story

Gaudens'—far better: Lincoln has for the most part been slanderously portrayed.

Y., Nov. 2, '88. Dear Horace:I rec'dreceived the book all right and wrote so to W.

The story of the Sierras has the difficulty of following Bret Harte.

know of no case: there have been allusions—some of them strong (some kindly enough): but for the most part

I put no faith in the stories of his political crookedness: his literary enemies make a lot of it: consider

stream: there is a spirit abroad in our age which is bent upon the destruction of falsely cherished stories

that Cæsar was not thus and so, but thus and so: that there was no William Tell—that the William Tell story

the last days of Socrates: it is wonderfully cute, keen, undeniable: he complained that the usual stories

Grote had a peculiar way of putting his stories into shape: I might express his Socrates version in such

Gaustich—I think that was his name—wrote a story in which he said somewhere off towards the end, in the

whole face would light up anticipatingly as he spoke: he was serene, quiet, sweet, conciliating, as a story

Curiously, too, Emerson enjoyed most repeating those stories which told against himself—took off his

W. laughed over this: "That reminds me of a story: a man calls on his friend: they are together: he looks

Harned left shortly.W. had not been very well to-daytoday—though for his own part expressing no complaint

s cat story.

so much—I am told: that picture was more like a total—like a whole story: and this picture too is not

beginning, but I made up what I may call a prophetic judgment from things I heard of him: facts, stories

"There is a curious story about his death: it occurred while I was there.

s cat story.

instead of a Millet story?"

This story of John's had "Oh!

Conway.No. 2[W.

W. had me repeat the story.

"I want you to have it: it throws a little more light on that English part of our history: speaks of

Up to 2 June, nothing that was worthy the name even of spring: then suddenly at 3 June hot summer, which

"That is easily explained: the object, the principle, of a reporter is to make a story—a story at all

"I have forgotten that part of it: how did The Press put it?"

I told him of several of Zola's minor stories which I have recently read—also of Sims's recent criticism

will convince you: I have sometimes thought you had an idea we were romancing a bit in telling that story

"This is the real thing," I said: "This puts the Lincoln story on ice." W. was heartily amused.

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