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But there's more to the story than that, Tom—oh! much more.

asked W. something about the letter to Schmidt which he gave to me yesterday.To Rudolf Schmidt.Feb. 2,

that strata of life more directly—seen what it signifies, what it starts from, what it means as a part

I read the whole letter again to myself and the particular part he asked for aloud to W.Winstead, Temple

He looks pretty well, however, and his hand was strong and honest when I shook it at parting.

There's a man, now, who is only damned and damned again in history and yet who had his parts.

I for my part don't want to be either haughty or humble.

singular genius, and appreciates deeply Leaves of Grass, the central sun of which, and permeating all its parts

W. thought it should go over to page 140, so prepared an additional "note" to go in with the Hicks—part

of it written many years ago, part of it today.

formal sense but strangely knowing: she excelled in narrative— had great mimetic power: she could tell stories

Cryptogram, which I fear is more or less of a fraud, though not perhaps intentionally so on Donnelly's part

Again: "They used to load all their indecent stories on Lincoln: now some people are loading all their

The story seemed incredible.

Niebelungen themes for his operas: "I question the wisdom of selecting the Jack and the Beanstalk stories

I ought to apologize for saying so much to you about a matter which I know plays but the smallest part

Then he saw how conspicuously it had been placed, at the head of the long story describing the Sheridan

"The sad fact about the story that I never made a living through literature is, that it is for the most

part true.

Conway spoke of him to Carlyle as an ornithologist, whereupon Carlyle had a story to tell.

It was wonderful to me—the undertone, the overtone, of that story. Mrs.

"Tell Ferguson we'll back him up for the best he can do: tell him the story of the old woman who said

Whitman:Can you come, with Bartlett, Kate, and a charming lady and myself, to see Mr.

Quincey Shaw's pictures on Friday at 2 p.m.? I shall call for you with carriage.

along—often as I sat—talking, maybe, as with you here now—I writing while the other fellow told his story

Some day I'll gather all the stories of these books together and give them out: what a jail delivery

There's the story of Lige: it plays the dickens with the character of Stonewall Jackson—taking him down

Their stories justified themselves—did not need to be argued about.

Stedman.I did not read W. the first part of Stedman's letter.

The age is over-squeamish, and, for my part, I prefer the honest nude to the suggestive half-draped.

I wish I had the other letter now for you to read—it puts a finish on the little story.

For his own part he had read, written letters and received two reporters—one from the Camden Courier

Kennett Square, Penna., Dec. 2, 1866.

I say just this: I hear all sorts of vague stories about Taylor nowadays—vague stories which may be false

It is a good story to know and tell.

He got about a good deal, saw people, had a story to tell. Now he seems too busy.

In the latter part of the volume I have treated of the Age of Democracy and its thought, taking as foundation

sure on all that: hold your horses, hold your horses—don't be too confident that you know the whole story—the

They are not parts of a play—acts one, two, three—or chapters of a romance—that they need to be put together

W. said: "I have seen and read it—part of it, anyway.

I had reminded him of a story.

I won't thank anyone for it—it's all a part of our gamble—but I'll thank our stars."

His Cryptogram is a great book in spite of Donnelly himself—the first part of it, I mean, which staggered

Maybe that is a story which explains her taste."

me—like nothing else: as a man might like your leg or arm and forget the body of which they form a part

and through you I give him my hand and my thanks.I have lately been reading a beautiful and noble story

"You are right—right to read it: and how good in John: that part of the letter and all the letter so

Besides, there's a side to that story which is known to but one person—a side mine, never divulged—a

My hesitations make me think of a story.

—assured W. that for his part W's. work was unexceptionable: W. saying concerning it all: "They do not

It looks bad for you, Horace—as if you'd have to do that part of the job without my assistance."

s request.Arlington, Mass.Apr. 3rd, 1875.My dear friend, I think I have all of your books (2 or 3 editions

Trowbridge.Arlington, Mass.Dec. 2, 1877.Dear Friend Whitman, By the time you get this I suppose you will

I had no idea the story had so many chapters when I handed it over to you."

though he could not get interested in my poems he was sure that if I would submit some of my short stories

No story is complete without the slaps as well as the kisses."

"He may have been right—certainly was in part right.

And besides I feel that I know all about that story, and on good authority, too: from no less a person

long, long, long, confab with him, just for the sake of squaring up some old scores (gratitude on my part

I think:1 The book should be first-class in all respects.2 Price should be ten dollars.3 It should (every

Sunday, September 2, 1888.2 P. M.

national or individual, good and bad, each has its own inherent law of punishment or reward, which is part

Sunday, September 2, 1888.

It worked in my noddle that Browning wanted it as a part of his Philadelphia correspondence, which don't

way of taking that charge up—says Walt Whitman don't start out to be humorous: humor is no implied part

W. showed me an English serial publication called Parodies (part 58: Vol. 5) put out by Reeves & Taylor

Part of it is very fine.I wonder if young William Allingham wrote it?

had designed to go on the continent, but I shall not stir out of London until I have vanquished some part

Wednesday, May 2, 1888.Returned to W. the Marston volume containing Garden Secrets and the memoir from

Wednesday, May 2, 1888.

These story writers do not as a rule reach me—I find they stay too much on the surface of the ground.

I have tried to read Cable—have read several of his stories—Madame Delphine for one, brought here by

churches—the pillar—the money bag of the parish, though I do not, of course, class Cable, who has undisputed parts

It is an old story.

Emerson, and, in short, made such a story that the gentleman changed his plan of visiting W.

chiefly because of her eyes, her complexion, the mellowness of her body, though these, too, play their parts

are fathered on him—some of them true, some of them apocryphal—volumes of stories (stories decent and

indecent) fathered on him: legitimate stories, illegitimate: and so Lincoln comes to us more or less

Yet that is not the whole story. That's my part of the story.

He is sweet, affable, courteous: he takes me, not for all in all but for part in part, this or that—yes

I spent a good part of the day over Two Rivulets, the Preface, and the Memoranda of the War, and was

The non-moral parts of it, such parts as simply are the "tally" of nature, are taken up into other portions

of L. of G.Leaves of Grass and are spiritualized, and each part belongs to the other.

The best part of Griffin's note is in what he refrains from saying: the best of us is never put into

Well, a blustering day is part of a year, too: I like all kinds of days: Tom's kind the same's any other

Brinton is doing just that—he is eminent: he insists upon the work and does his part."

He told me some good stories of Ingersoll—of his generosity, of his Shakespearean scholarship: Alexander

I may be reading the story the wrong way about but that's the way it looks to me.

plain board table, with plenty and good to eat, in a house that was perfectly plain, telling their stories—stories

of things done and missed being done, stories of heroism and cowardice, stories of meanness and generosity—stories

Then: "I remember a darky story. Mose didn't report for work—didn't come morning, noon, evening.

Hyde but did not get along with it: I tried some of the short stories: I felt that I should know about

I say so too: that is the whole story, beginning, middle and end."

Now, when they are all crying expurgate, expurgate, expurgate, the story comes back to me: the ghost

W. put in: "Some people think I am someway, in some part, Rabelaisian.

Nobody hunts them up—nobody puts them into a story.

The first thing necessary is the thought—the rest may follow if it chooses—may play its part—but must

This story contradicts Stedman's idea that my friends are in error when they contend that the Leaves

Don't think I blame 'em—feel anyway hard about all this: it all belongs to the story—I always take what

This is O'Connor's letter:Washington, D.C., October 2, 1884.

although one does not mind such things at first, yet gradually, and especially when they are only part

It is the old story of the basilisk—if you see himfirst, he dies.

his nature and proportions.I regret I am not free of office life, for I am sure I could make Bacon's part

The thieves' song in the Polynesian story is wonderfully fine.)W. saw I was through and remarked: "William

I could tell you some interesting stories. I just think of this one.

to certain irritations, which I find it difficult to bear patiently—but after all that is the small part

of any man: a very small part: in a man like Stedman, so sterling in the trunk, they count for practically

them are good fellows—rather sympathize with the struggles of the people—but they are for the most part

O. for £2 for your two vols. They are ordered by Edward T.

W. laughed: "It's really a long story.

the wounded, sick, dying soldiers here came safe to hand—it is being sacredly distributed to them—part

to minister to them, to sit by them—some wind themselves around one's heart and will be kissed at parting

believe everybody I know writes books or something—everybody: some of them write everything—poetry, stories

That entails something on my part: I feel somehow as if I was consecrated to you.

How it happened that I had never read this book before . . is a story not worth the telling; but, in

Lanier Letter to Walt Whitman] [A Lanier Letter to Walt Whitman] [A Lanier Letter to Walt Whitman] Part

shoulders and bust as the photograph does—make only the neck, the collar with the immediately neighboring part

The eyes part and all around the eyes try to re-produce fully and faithfully, exactly as in the photograph

It is an index to my emotions at the time: it is a part of that history: it will inform you.

put a final signature upon the Leaves, a sort of consummating entablature, some phrase to round its story—give

I have been told that Nettleship at one time when Leaves of Grass was out of print and scarce, parted