Notes, Chapter 27

1. "the old story"--Browning to Blagden, February 19, 1867, quoted in McAleer, Dearest Isa, p. 255.

2. "her own hands"--Story to editor of Athenaeum, December 19, 1863.

3. "namely, separation"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, January, 1864, in CCP, 2, 619.

4. frightened speechless--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, January, 1864, in CCP, 2, 613.

5. "how beautiful they are"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, January 22, 1864, in CCP, 2, 617.

6. "an inferior calibre"--ibid., 620.

7. "chiselers"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, March 3, 1865, in CCP, 3, 759.

8. "I say it of all!"--CC to Story, April 1, 1864, at TxU.

9. "revolving around her"--quoted in James, William Wetmore Story, 2, 127.

10. "ideas for himself"--CC to Field, August 26, 1864, at MB.

11. "a pure poet's heart"--CC to Fanny Seward, undated, quoted in Stebbins, p. 199.

12. "down to Camelot"--ibid.

13. "no acting can reach it"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, quoted in Stebbins, p. 172.

14. "true and faithful!"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, March 4, 1865, in CCP, 3, 758.

15. "to recognize bondage"--CC to Fanny Seward, April 11, 1865, quoted in Stebbins, p. 191.

16. "glorious, free"--ibid.

17. "dread and fear"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, April 28, 1865, in CCP, 3, 781.

18. "to a public"--CC to Emma Crow Cushman, May 6, 1865, in CCP, 3, 785.

19. saw it all--J. C. Derby, Fifty Years among Authors, Books, and Publishers (New York: Carleton, 1884), pp. 79-80.

20. "would say but cannot"--quoted in Stebbins, pp. 200-01.

21. "to have a name!"--CC to Field, August 23, 1865, at MB.

22. "noble, self-sacrificing"--CCP, 3, 788.

23. "worst thing I ever saw"--quoted in Thorp, Literary Sculptors, p. 91.

24. "home to stay?"--Seward to CC, September 8, 1865, in CCP, 13, 3704.