"Best Gains-must have the Losses' test-": Fr 499.

"The Soul unto itself": Fr 579A.

In June 1863: The collection Out-Door Papers Out-Door Papers includes such nature pieces as "April Days," "My Out-Door Study," "Water-Lilies," "The Life of Birds," "Procession of the Flowers," and "Snow," as well as essays on physical culture, such as "Saints, and Their Bodies," "A Letter to a Dyspeptic," and "The Health of Our Girls." includes such nature pieces as "April Days," "My Out-Door Study," "Water-Lilies," "The Life of Birds," "Procession of the Flowers," and "Snow," as well as essays on physical culture, such as "Saints, and Their Bodies," "A Letter to a Dyspeptic," and "The Health of Our Girls."

The Springfield Republican Springfield Republican went so far: went so far: Springfield Republican, Springfield Republican, June 6, 1863; June 20, 1863; quoted in June 6, 1863; June 20, 1863; quoted in YH, YH, 2:79. 2:79.

"It is still as distinct as Paradise-": ED to TWH, [spring 1876], Letters, Letters, 2:552. 2:552.

"Precisely at half past three": TWH, "Water-Lilies," p. 466.

"The Birds begun at Four o'clock-": Fr 504B.

"At Half past Three": Fr 1099.

"that which is remembered": TWH, "Water-Lilies," p. 473.

"Absence is the very air of pa.s.sion": TWH, "Water-Lilies," p. 473.

"No man can measure what a single hour with Nature" "The influence is self-renewing": TWH, "Procession of the Flowers," pp. 656, 657.

"I was thinking, today-": ED to TWH, [February 1863], Letters, Letters, 2:424. 2:424.

"Perception of an Object costs": Fr 1103.

"The Myrrhs, and Mochas, of the Mind": In Fr 1608.

"Heaven over it-": In Fr 508.

"The Zeros taught Us-Phosphorus": Fr 284.

"So instead of getting to Heaven, at last-": In Fr 236.

"The snow-light offends them": ED to Louise Norcross, [1865], Letters, Letters, 2:439. 2:439.

"What I see not, I better see-": Fr 869.

"yet I work in my Prison": ED to TWH, June 1864, Letters, Letters, 2:431. 2:431.

"I wish to see you more than before I failed-": ED to TWH, [June 1864], Letters, Letters, 2:431; "I heard a Fly buzz": Fr 591. 2:431; "I heard a Fly buzz": Fr 591.

word of it would "excel" her own: ED to TWH, June 1864, Letters, Letters, 2:431. 2:431.

"The only News I know": Fr 820B.

"a Calamity" "I had a woe": LL, LL, p. 76. p. 76.

"Further in Summer than the Birds": Fr 895D.

But in them we can hear "August burning low": Alfred Habegger interprets the poem similarly. See My Wars Are Laid Away in Books, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books, pp. 492493; see also Charles Anderson's fine reading in pp. 492493; see also Charles Anderson's fine reading in Emily d.i.c.kinson's Poetry, Emily d.i.c.kinson's Poetry, pp. 169175. pp. 169175.

"Would you instruct me now?": ED to TWH, [January 1866], Letters, Letters, 2:449. 2:449.

CHAPTER NINE: NO OTHER WAY It struck him: TWH, journal, August 16, 1870, Houghton.

that "inward darkness": TWH, quoted in Strange Enthusiasm, Strange Enthusiasm, p. 99. p. 99.

"a man among men": See Henry James, "The Works of Epictetus" (originally published as "Higginson's Works of Epictetus" in the North American Review, North American Review, April 1866, pp. 599606), review of April 1866, pp. 599606), review of The Works of Epictetus, The Works of Epictetus, trans. TWH, in Henry James, trans. TWH, in Henry James, Literary Criticism, Literary Criticism, 1:12. 1:12.

"When you do anything from a clear judgment": TWH, trans., The Works of Epictetus, The Works of Epictetus, p. 392. p. 392.

"I seem to find her now": TWH, "Sunshine and Petrarch," p. 308.

"n.o.body comprehends Petrarch": Malbone, Malbone, p. 150. p. 150.

His home had become a hospital: See TWH, journal, December 23, 1866, Houghton, and TWH, TWH, pp. 276277. pp. 276277.

"On the whole": HHJ to Kate Field, March 7, 1866, BPL.

"All ladies do": TWH to ED, [late winter 1869], Houghton.

"I had promised to visit my Physician": ED to TWH, [1866], Letters, Letters, 2:450. 2:450.

"I must omit Boston": ED to TWH, June 9, 1866, Letters, Letters, 2:453. 2:453.

"I do not cross my Father's ground": ED to TWH, [June 1869], Letters, Letters, 2:460. Given the date of Higginson's letter, which I can ascertain by reference to his papers and meetings, the d.i.c.kinson letters dated by Johnson (in brackets) may be in error: they may have been written two years later. Of course, Johnson may be correct if ED was responding to a series of requests from TWH. 2:460. Given the date of Higginson's letter, which I can ascertain by reference to his papers and meetings, the d.i.c.kinson letters dated by Johnson (in brackets) may be in error: they may have been written two years later. Of course, Johnson may be correct if ED was responding to a series of requests from TWH.

"Thin dry & speechless": TWH to MCH, August 16, 1870, Houghton.

"there is always one thing to be grateful for": quoted in TWH to AH, December 9, 1873, Houghton.

"Sometimes I take out your letters & verses": TWH to ED, Letters Letters 2:461. 2:461.

"I am always the same toward you": TWH to ED, [late winter 1869], Letters, Letters, 2:461462. 2:461462.

"Of 'shunning Men and Women'-": ED to TWH, [August 1862], Letters, Letters, 2:415. 2:415.

"It isolates one anywhere": TWH to ED, May 11, 1869, Houghton.

"I will be at Home": ED to TWH, August 16, 1870, Letters, Letters, 2:472. 2:472.

"These are my introduction": ED, quoted in TWH to MCH, August 16, 1870, BPL.

"A narrow Fellow in the Gra.s.s": Fr 1096.

It first surfaced: It was subsequently reprinted in The Weekly Republican. The Weekly Republican.

"lest you meet my Snake": ED to TWH, [1866], Letters, Letters, 2:450. 2:450.

"defeated too of the third line by the punctuation": ED to TWH, [March 1866], Letters, Letters, 2:450. 2:450.

"If I still entreat you to teach me": ED to TWH, [March 1866], Letters, Letters, 2:450. 2:450.

"A Death blow is a Life blow to Some": Fr 966.

"Still, you see, I try": TWH to ED, May 11, 1869, Houghton.

"I would like to be what you deem me": ED to TWH, [June 9, 1866], Letters, Letters, 2:453. 2:453.

"It is hard [for me] to understand": TWH to ED, May 11, 1869, Houghton.

"To undertake is to achieve": Fr 991.

"You mention Immortality" "The 'infinite Beauty'-" "To escape enchantment": ED to TWH, June 8, 1866, Letters, Letters, 2:454. 2:454.

"Time is a test of trouble": ED to TWH, June 8, 1866, Letters, Letters, 2:454. 2:454.

"Ample make this Bed-,": Fr 804C; "As imperceptibly as Grief": Fr 935D.

"Is it more far to Amherst?": ED to TWH, [early 1866], Letters, Letters, 2:450. 2:450.

"Bringing still my 'plea for culture'": ED to TWH, [July 1867], Letters Letters 2:457. 2:457.

"The Luxury to apprehend": Fr 819.

"write & tell me something": TWH to ED, May 11, 1869, Houghton.

"I would like to thank you for your great kindness": ED to TWH, [June 1869], Letters, Letters, 2:460. 2:460.

"Why do the insane cling to you so?": MCH, quoted in TWH to AH, December 9, 1873, Houghton.

"The great reason why the real apostles of truth": TWH, TWH, p. 68. p. 68.

"If every man who is accused": TWH, "Divergent Reformers," Independent, Independent, March 26, 1868, p. 4. March 26, 1868, p. 4.

"I feel this strangely": TWH to AH and LH, December 30, 1864, Houghton. However, Higginson published these accounts at regular intervals from September 1864 until August 1867, and they became the basis for Army Life in a Black Regiment. Army Life in a Black Regiment.

"That I was in it [the war] myself": TWH to AH and LH, April 9, 1865, Houghton.

"Until it is done": TWH, TWH, p. 252. p. 252.

the "one right residence": Henry James, Notes of a Son and Brother, Notes of a Son and Brother, p. 67. p. 67.

Higginson borrowed it too: See Malbone, Malbone, p. 93: "'Good Americans when they die go to Paris,' said Philip." p. 93: "'Good Americans when they die go to Paris,' said Philip."

he called this part of town Oldport: See "Oldport in Winter," Atlantic Monthly, Atlantic Monthly, May 1867, pp. 612618, and "Oldport Wharves," May 1867, pp. 612618, and "Oldport Wharves," Atlantic Monthly, Atlantic Monthly, January 1868, pp. 6168. January 1868, pp. 6168.

"When the freedmen are lost in the ma.s.s of freemen" "Fail in this result": TWH, "Fair Play the Best Policy," Atlantic Monthly, Atlantic Monthly, May 1865, pp. 623, 625. May 1865, pp. 623, 625.

"I do not want to give any more years of my life": TWH to AH and LH, October 8, 1865, Houghton.

"If it had been left to him": TWH, "The South Victorious in Georgia," Independent, Independent, May 24, 1866, p. 4. May 24, 1866, p. 4.

"what most men mean to-day": TWH, "Too Many Compliments," Independent, Independent, October 26, 1865, p. 4. October 26, 1865, p. 4.

"Do you suppose that black men are born": TWH, "Political Notes," Springfield Republican, Springfield Republican, May 9, 1867, p. 1. May 9, 1867, p. 1.

"Galloping through green lanes": Army Life, Army Life, p. 106. p. 106.

Howard Mumford Jones: See Howard Mumford Jones, introduction to Army Life in a Black Regiment, Army Life in a Black Regiment, by TWH (Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1960), pp. viixvii. by TWH (Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1960), pp. viixvii.

"Doubts trembled in my mind": Army Life, Army Life, pp. 123124. Contemporary academic critics read Higginson's book and, in particular, this chapter as deflected h.o.m.oeroticism and cross-racial ident.i.ty. See Christopher Looby, "'As Thoroughly Black as the Most Faithful Philanthropist Could Desire': Erotics of Race in Higginson's pp. 123124. Contemporary academic critics read Higginson's book and, in particular, this chapter as deflected h.o.m.oeroticism and cross-racial ident.i.ty. See Christopher Looby, "'As Thoroughly Black as the Most Faithful Philanthropist Could Desire': Erotics of Race in Higginson's Army Life in a Black Regiment," Army Life in a Black Regiment," in Stecopoulos and Uebel, in Stecopoulos and Uebel, Race and the Subject of Masculinities, Race and the Subject of Masculinities, pp. 71115, and Looby, "Flowers of Manhood." pp. 71115, and Looby, "Flowers of Manhood."

"All Southern white men": TWH, "The Logic of Must," Independent, Independent, September 7, 1865, p. 4. September 7, 1865, p. 4.

"It is we who are permitting black loyalists to be disarmed": TWH, "Too Many Compliments," Independent, Independent, October 26, 1865, p. 4. October 26, 1865, p. 4.

"It is not that politics are so unworthy": TWH, "A Plea for Culture," pp. 34, 36.

"A precious-mouldering pleasure-'tis-": Fr 569.

"In these later years, the arduous reforms": TWH, "Literature as an Art," p. 754.

"I don't believe there is a man here": TWH, journal, May 16, 1876, Houghton.

"n.o.body has any weight in America": Malbone, Malbone, p. 99. p. 99.

"except to secure the ballot for woman": TWH, "Literature as an Art," p. 745.

"My nature seems to be rather that of an artist": TWH to Ralph Waldo Emerson, July 4, 1864, Houghton.

"Is it...a great consecration": TWH, "An Artist's Dream," Atlantic Monthly, Atlantic Monthly, July 1867, p. 103. July 1867, p. 103.

"the artist had attained his dream": TWH, "An Artist's Dream," p. 108.

he had modeled Malbone: The name Malbone also refers to the late-eighteenth-century miniaturist Edward Malbone, born in Newport.

"a certain wild, entangled look": Malbone, Malbone, p. 8. p. 8.

"Every one must have something": Malbone, Malbone, p. 150. p. 150.

"Forgive me if I am frightened" "Manner between Angie Tilton & Mr. Alcott" and subsequent quotations: TWH to MCH, [August 16, 17, 1870], BPL.

anyone "who drained my nerve power" "I am glad not to live": TWH to MCH, notes, [August 1870], BPL.

"Say in a long time": TWH to MCH, notes, [August 1870], BPL.

CHAPTER TEN: HER DEATHLESS SYLLABLE "the Vein cannot thank the Artery": ED to TWH, [c. October 1870], Letters, Letters, 2:479. 2:479.