This text is part of:
“
[245]
but sympathetic and intelligent.
Alger was in all his glory.”
“April 11.... Between a man governed by inner and one governed by outer control, there is the difference which we find between a reptile in a shell and a vertebrate.
The one has his vertebrae within to support him, the other has them without to contain him.”
“April 19. Very busy all day. Ran about too much, and was very tired.
Had friends, in the evening, to meet young Perabo.
I did not wish to give a party, on account of Uncle's death, but could not help getting together quite a lovely company of friends.
Aldrich and wife were here, Alger, Bartol, Professor Youmans, Perabo, Dresel, Louisa D. Hunt, and others.
It was a good time.... Saw my last cent go-- nothing now till May, unless I can earn something.”
“April 20. Began to work over and correct my poem for the Church Festival, which must be licked into shape, for the Gods will give me none other.
So I must hammer at it slowly, and a good deal.... To write purely for money is to beg, first telling a story.”
In these days the Doctor was very weary through excess of work.
He longed for a change, and would
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York. 1916.
Tufts University provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.