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I set up some of it myself: some call it my hand-work: it was not strictly that—there were about one

The books were put into the stores. But nobody bought them. They had to be given away.

I asked W: "Suppose the millionaires were abolished—that millionairism became impossible, would you feel

"I thought from what you said of Tucker and George that you were maybe a bit reactionary!"

They were here about fifteen minutes.

They were both "of the good sort and come-outers by nature." Letter from Morse.

claim an old acquaintance of mere correspondence, but to tell you, on both our parts, how delighted we were

rendering things in the German: he stands high: I feel as if I was in good hands: as if Rolleston, Knortz, were

"That is true: I know all about that: I was there—realized all that it signified: the Southerners were

good at destroying: especially railroads, locomotive: while our boys would put them up again—were rather

Destruction is easy: the Rebels were easy destroying: a few minutes, an hour, would rake up a whole line—miles

The other was the original notes ("some of them": he said: "I think there were more") of the To the Year

I gave away a great many copies of November Boughs: there were many very dear friends, friends I valued

The letters were warm in spirit.

Ed afterwards said: "I wondered what you were at up there." He was in the parlor below.

He and Sarah Helen Whitman were great friends: he sends me here a few bits from one of her letters to

read his book then as I have read it now.Is it your haunting voice as I heard it that last night we were

He thought the American woman would go to the devil if this thing kept on.

The concerts were always a treat: I was always on hand: the players were most of them Italian: spoke

They were likeable fellows: I think they thought I was a likeable fellow.

His eyes were closed.

"Walt: you and Bryant were personal friends. Did he ever care for your work?"

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.

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

The closing two pages were about the anarchist free speech case in the Illinois courts.W. intensely interested

I said that though Emerson, Whitman and others were quoted from as saying striking things, Whittier was

I saw a crayon picture of W. in a glass case in the city, Market Street: also one out Chestnut, it too

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

Talked of other Lives in American Men of Letters series.

The Gilchrists—were they hurt by marriage? W.: "No—why so? how could they have been? No!"

My folks were always worried about me—my mother especially: some of them regarded it as a crazy whim:

"No: George and I—well, we were never quite so near: not that I have anything against George or that

From the way you speak of your Washington job there your enemies would say you were sojering on it!"

about the prisons: "Do you think there is real, not sectional, evidence that the Southern prisons were

Afterwards he explained: "Brady had galleries in Washington: his headquarters were in New York.

resumed after a brief stop: "But there never has been a portrait of Lincoln—never a real portrait: there were

I had the Willis life in the American Men of Letters series. Would he like to read it?

Permit me to congratulate you and to feel a little pride myself as an American that you have received

If William had gone like Bob—gone into the cities—talked—well, there would have been another great orator

He had a copy of Queries (Buffalo) which had copied, without crediting, American notice, as we believe

He thought "quite a liberal modicum of Republicans" were "holding over."

They made some powerful enemies—both of them: by and by both were dismissed—put out: Marvin first, then

W. said: "Yes, indeed: and there were several more than you have ever heard of—the names forgotten now

"There were womn, too: the women are wonderful friends: did you ever know one good noble genuine woman

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:

It is a fact, of course, that they were piano tunes: still, they were good in their range.

should be left there brushed back—but not in a top knot or Italian curls—which are not now and never were

There were times when I named no amount myself, when they did not pay so well.

Welsh was dead: her effects were to be removed, Carlyle superintending—irascible, nasty: had an immediate

The three drafts of old letters W. gave me the day before yesterday were brief.

It seems to me these little fellows beat our city men: some of the strokes of these out-of-the-way fellows

The city photographers like things toned down, polished, in the mode."

John gets to New York—gets nowhere else: goes down to the city—sees the men there—the literary class:

But the men were hung.

"No: but that wasn't because they were too radical: it was because they were not radical enough."

And herein, as in other fundamental matters, Ibsen is at one with the American, with whom he would appear

always the head and ideal; where children are taught to be laws to themselves; .....there the great city

He was at one time on the North American Review—left there, I don't know whether voluntarily or by Rice's

Kurtz Walt Whitman (1860) cannot find the alleged letter to Marston in any of the Boston papers.

There were people who objected to Fanny Wright as radical and all that.

"The sensations for awhile were anything but comfortable—I had ceased eating when you came in.

Clifford had spoken of the title page portrait today—that the "curls" were, to him, not an insuperable

The Brown habitues were more to my taste.

allusion so much to the form as to the spirit of the book—the underlying recognition of facts which were

They were big, strong days—our young days—days of preparation: the gathering of the forces."

"Yes—he was very beautiful, very serene: there were always new revelations of it in our intercourse.

We got into some discussion at dinner: were perfectly free together: sometimes things would get hot,

He ought to winter in some pleasant Southern city where he could sit by open windows.

Washington was then the grandest of all the cities for such strolls.

In order to maintain the centrality, identity, authority, of the city, a whole chain of forts, barracks

It was therefore owing to these facts that our walks were made easy. Oh!

And there were the detours, too—wanderings off into the country out of the beaten path: I remember one

W. turned to me: "You were the first discoverer of that world!

These were W.'s mems:I328 Mickle St Camden New Jersey Oct: 22, 1888.

Who were the "assured" writers? W. replied: "Thirteen: let me see if I can name them.

There were Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Gray, Shelley, Byron, Wordsworth, Keats

At any rate, they were named."

O'Connor would say, Hugo's real heroes were the cavaliers, the ladies, the gentlemen, lords: in America

W. said again: "Hugo's immortal works were the dramas, the plays, the poems: least accessible, yet greatest

of it again today: "It throws a little side-light on the stage—helps to show you what a few of us were

Doctor handed me the letter while you were here: I opened it just after you had gone—hurried as best

Howells, 330 East 17th st., New York City. And I will write him again about it.

Of all Americans so far, I am inclined to rank Bryant highest.

It has always seemed to me Bryant, more than any other American, had the power to suck in the air of

He was an American: that is one of the palpable facts: thoroughly American, patriotic: moreover, he had

"No—I had my doubts the other night but they were only momentary doubts.

Millet had the peasants at his doors—Hugo the varied, often loathsome, criminal life of the cities."

Look at the headline in The Press: 'The British Minister tells an American citizen how to vote in the

What were they here for?"

Tom describing the interruptions of Irishmen present, concluding: "The fun of it was the visitors were

When I was in Washington, there were about two thousand of them, full half of whom had nothing to do.

North American today contained a study of W. W. by George Rogers.

said: "That was not all I sent Bucke: I wrote him a postal—also forwarded some papers: the North American

The North American man has evidently written without reading the book: he is markedly sophomoristic:

KurtzWalt Whitman(1860) a pause, as if to qualify his speech: "At least, we hope so."

I alluded to John Burroughs' statement while here that Gilder and Stedman were "coming over," W. responding

On the last page were opinions from Howells, Whittier, Higginson, Tyler, and others.

Also told him to send Kennedy his extra copy of the North American.

highly-wrought, over-ardent Republican I had met in the forenoon who said: "If Cleveland is elected, if the American

idiot, sure enough: I didn't know anybody cared that much about the election either way: I thought we were

I read all the speeches—they were genial, good-natured, sensible, helping things along—South, North—especially

Louis at the time—sick: I liked the speeches—liked them much though they were much criticised: I thought

His comments on the title page were equally earnest.

There were things revealed to me which I never realized in George Eliot before—for one thing a subtlety

He asked me about Fels' views on the tariff, which I thought were rather liberal.

, they were inferior.

A typical American.

—"It is a high word: one would wish he were the man even if he were not!"

—"Mary got them for me—they were recommended to her there in the city as policemen's mitts.

I can send him the names of some sixty men (native Americans, necessarily) who were voted for, besides

you"—reaching to table and taking from it a bulky big envelope marked "'Leaves of Grass Imprints' 1860

A young Englishman recently told me, the young fellows over there were leaving Tennyson and taking up

Yet, even in his life, just before he died, there were those astonishing prices."

Seeing papers in my hand, and learning they were last Sunday's Press and Times—he referred emphatically

Indeed, the American character itself is my backer—for an American as a rule does no such gazing, impertinently—what

He said: "As ex-president Hayes and I were coming up Wall Street in the crowd a man rose up before me

I quoted a review of Florian's Montaigne: " 'Myselfe am the groundworke of my booke': such were the Whitmanesque

I have heard somewhere there were volumes of them."

But you must not wonder or feel disappointed, the speeches being commonplace: they were—but the note-worthy

thing in this celebration lies just here: that there were such men a century ago, that now there is

Potter's advocating the grand Cathedral for New York city.

W. at first did not comprehend—thought reminiscences were meant.

He assured me the accounts of the ball were not unfair. W. listened to all I thus repeated to him.

But these were the Elite of New York?

They were driven at a devil of a rate—it was damnable—the whole old constitution of affairs!"

Thence much talk of probabilities in connection with the future of American art.

American art today is not in a temper to receive it.

Among others were essays on Shelley, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Browning—perhaps Byron, too, but of this I

Twelve pages, anyhow, of the Whitman essay were given over to quotes.

s last words were: "Be sure you get the pictures"—adding slowly, knowing our frequent disappointments

I said I thought all his postals to O'Connor were preserved: Mrs.

These were "deeply impressive" to W.

how I wish it were eligible for you to step in for an hour on O'Connor himself on your walks this afternoon

the chairs they used at the Centennial, but I want one a little different from them in shape: they were

I suggested writing to Brown at once about it, but W. suggested: "If you get over to the city in the

In cities where Sunday is free—the cars run—they avail themselves of all opportunities."

Not only were they wonderful and saving in their generosity at a time when I needed it—if ever I did

I consider the Smiths as good friends, if not Americans—Mary Smith, Mary Costelloe—as any of 'em."

raise a purse, exclusively from Camden contributions: to issue cards, for home and abroad—in other cities

to be the most Whitmaniac of all, and the biggest woman, too—which is saying a good deal, for they were

very big woman, too—which is saying a good deal, for they were very big women.

They were brought me yesterday by Mrs. Allen—you don't know her?

W. were written in Edward Emerson's book. W. curious.

Though badly gone in body, my talking, thinking powers remain, perhaps as good as ever they were.

I thought to send a copy to France—to the American book department there—but I can't, for one thing,

"Considering that we were willing to pay for it done well—it is a great pity we were not gratified.

We were all sorrowed this morning to light upon this item in the paper: "W. D.

s whole look and tone were pathetic. "Poor Nellie! Poor Nellie!"

What the knights were to chivalry, O'Connor was in literary action.

what were their names? Let me see?" But they would not been seen.

"Anyhow—they were young fellows—only came in a minute—left this flower.

And again: "We went quietly on our way—no one disturbed us—no questions were asked."

experiment—"the green trees—to get out into the free air—to catch once more the sight of the river, the big city

I asked him about the idea of writing a page for the American dealing in a more strictly biographic way

W. said of them now: "They were very satisfying to me—I read them with an intense interest.

We were there a full half hour together.

And Danny said: "I heard you were out—I am glad to see it.

If I were a young man, still with hot blood, I know I should fight him—know we'd have many a tussle,

"It were a great victory if there never come another trip on it—though we hope for more and more.

"This seems natural—seems just like old times—is just as if we were made for each other—this chair and