Notes, Chapter 32

Abbreviations

1. "with a smile"--Mary Anderson, A Few Memories (New York: Harper, 1896), p. 38.

2. "God be with you"--quoted in ibid., p. 41.

3. "for that matter, off"--Odell, Annals, 10, 373.

4. "for our audience"--quoted in Anderson, Few Memories, p. 269.

5. nearly $6,000--Pond, Eccentricities of Genius, p. 315.

6. "Eastern June!"--CC to Alward, December 15, 1874 at PPCc.

7. little farewell ceremony--New York Mirror, January 1, 1885.

8. wind through the trees--CC to Harrington, July 15, 1840, at MB.

9. "e'en in that awful light!"--Lanier to his wife, January 29, 1875, at LNHT.

10. good-bye to all cities--Chicago Tribune, February 12, 1875.

11. "has been gifted"--Cincinnati Commercial, March 2, 1875, p. 8.

12. as a creative artist--ibid., March 6, 1875, p. 5.

13. "the end of work"--CC to Pugh, March 29, 1875, at DFo.

14. "the pointed finger"--Reignolds-Winslow, Yesterdays with Actors, p. 28.

15. "emotion and tender regard"--quoted in Clement, Charlotte Cushman, p. 132.

16. "and Farewell!"--CC's holograph at DFo.

17. "here comes the curtain"--Guild's "Reminiscence" holograph, Boston, August 9, 1883, at MBHi.

18. "in a great lily?"--Lanier to CC, June 17, 1875, at MdBJ.

19. "rest of the way?"--CC to Lanier, June 23, 1875, at MdBJ.

20. "your faithful, Sidney Lanier"--Lanier to CC, July 31, 1875, at MdBJ.

21. "is with you"--CC to Lanier, August 3, 1875 at MdBJ.

22. "to the last"--CC to [Lanier] Dear Friend, September 29, 1875, at TxU.

23. as Dickens had known them--James W. Spring, Boston and the Parker House: A Chronicle of Those Who Have Lived on that Historic Spot Where the New Parker House Now Stands in Boston (Boston: Whipple, 1927), p. 188.

24. "sweetness and welcome"--Lanier to Peacock, November 4, 1875, in Charles R. Anderson and Aubrey H. Starke, The Centennial Edition of the Works of Sidney Lanier (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1945), 9, p. 267.

25. "the happy word"--quoted in Edwin Mims, Sidney Lanier (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1905), p. 190.

26. "ignorant one"--Lanier to Peacock, November 10, 1875, in Letters of Sidney Lanier: Selections from His Correspondence 1866-1881 with Portraits (New York: Scribners, 1899), p. 22.

27. "gave me as a friend"--Lanier to Lady Clare, November 30, 1875, at LNHT.