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Letter from Henry S. Butler to [James D. Butler], 1873 Mar 21.
No full text[4]cannot remember your name. Then I saw that he had asked me all those questions while he was trying to think of my name. He hated to confess that he could not remember it. Very often the first thing I see on getting up in the morning is Dr. Soule taking a walk. He is very erect in his walk-quite remarkbly so I think. I have read this term Vathek by William Beckford, Franklin\u27s Autobiography, First part of Don Zuixote transla- ted by Motteux, Macauley\u27s Lays of Ancient Rome and Legends of West by James Hall, a book in Golden Branch Library about 30 years old, containing some very beautiful stories of that country where I was born and bred, and where I hope my home will always be. Please send me my term bill. I am very happy to learn of my mother\u27s improved health. I send my love to her, and my sisters. Your Affectionate Son, Henry S. Butler. Prof. James D. Buter. Lake-Wood Cottage Madison, Wisconsin.https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/35423/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Henry S. Butler to [Mrs. Butler], 1872 Dec 5.
No full text[3][underlined: Sunday]. I wrote this letter during the week but it has hung on till another Sabbath. In the meanwhile I have received a very kind present from you -the note-paper, which will be of great use to me and for which I express my thanks. Our minister - the Rev. Mr Street has just returned fro Europe where he has been for six months recruiting. He was on board the Botaira which came near being wreck ed itself and took the survivers from a vessel which had foundered. Mark Twain was on board and has written a letter on it. Mr. Street gave a description of it in church Love to my sisters and to Father. Your Loving Son, Henry S. Butler.https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/37526/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Henry S. Butler to [Mrs. Butler], 1870 Apr 25.
No full textso fresh that we could have your on many miles more. Please ask Mrs Taylor about Devil\u27s Lake, as Frank and I would like to go there this vaca- tion. Tell Agnes that Rake comes every day to see her. - Our cistern has given out. it must leak. I think I will have the mason look at it. Sam is coming to- night to help me bring water from Gen Lourd\u27s for the washing tomorrow. A letter came for father, from R N Rice. Concord Mass. - a few days ago. I would write more. but must go to the story of the man who says [um pins Aemeas?]. whom I left filling himself at the table of Queen Dido. Yours truly from your Son Henry S. Butler.https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/34952/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Henry S. Graves, Forest Service to Carl Hayden
No full textLetter from Henry Graves to Carl T. Hayden regarding the land ownership and grazing rights of the Havasupai
Polyphony and the anxiety of influence in the fiction of Henry James
No full textJames's fiction, especially in the Middle Phase, centres
on the figure of the artist and is characterized by, the two
interrelated aspects which previous criticism has largely
overlooked: the Bakhtinian 'polyphonic' -creation of
'author-thinkers'; and the conflict between ephebes and
precursors, for which Harold-Bloom's concept of 'the-anxiety of
influence' is the most illuminating model. Polyphony is the
narrative mode, and influence is the intra-artistic, theme.
These, as the Introduction to the thesis makes clear, are
rehearsed in James's inaugural novel, Roderick Hudson. Rowland
Mallet is an author-thinker, and his failure is caused by
authorial limitations. His monologism -is impaired by his
mistaking empathy for the authorial sympathy. Likewise,
Hudson's failure does not arise from a mercurial temperament,
but from a polyphonic shortcoming: not possessing the power of
fiction to contain the fiction of power in, his mentor. And the
relationships among the three artists - Gloriani, Hudson and
Singleton - perfectly exemplify the Bloomian-theme. It is these
two concepts, polyphony and influence, which are the major
preoccupation in the Middle Phase; as, the works chosen
demonstrate. These are a novella, a novel, and a number of
short stories all of which have been unjustifiably neglected.
Chapter One, on The Aspern Papers, argues that Tina Bordereau,
far from being, the artless victim seen by many critics,
actually challenges and defeats the narrator by the very form
of her narrative. Her 'realist' discourse undermines his
language of 'romance', and shows up its internal unstability.
Chapter Two is an extensive study of the critical reception of
The Tragic Muse. The most common areas of critical attention
have been its contemporary topicality, its relation to previous
novels on similar themes, and the possible genealogy of Gabriel
Nash. Those have all missed the core of the work. - Chapter Three
demonstrates how polyphony and the anxiety of influence make
the novel what it really is. Influence arises from the
juxtaposition of, and the wrestling between, artistic ephebes
and their precursors (Nick and Nash,, Miriam and Madame Carre).
The dialogic quality defined by Bakhtin is crucial to the
proper, and even-handed, characterization of all, the conflicts
in the novel. And since most of James's tales in the eighties
and nineties -are about 'masters - and acolytes, the anxiety of
influence remains central. Chapter Four is a study of 'The
Author of Beltraffiol' and 'The Lesson of the Master'. Again the
characters' manipulations are a crucial focus in a way that
G6rard Genette's terminology helps to illuminate. The fact that
the ephebe is the author-thinker emphasizes the inextricability
of the Bakhtinian and the Bloomian in James. Just as
polyphony offers a different focus for explicating the poetics
of James's fiction; so the ephebal conflict provides the basis
for a fresh perception of James's own artistic struggle
Letter from Henry S. Butler to John Muir, 1867 Feb 24
No full textMadison. Feb 24th. 1867. John Muir Esq. My Dear Friend. For sometime I have been intending to write you. Ever since my Father\u27s re- turn I have wanted to thank you for the beautiful present you sent me, Paradise Lost, which is among the best of books With the Dollar you were so kind as to send, I did as you wished, and bought a bundle of candy for Albert Carr one for the Griffen\u27s another for the Pickards, one for the Sterlings, and some for myself, and my sisters; all thank you very much. I was very glad to find you were so pleasantly situated but wish the little Lake City had more inducements to bring you here. I have been reading the travels of Lewis & Clark, the first explorers of our western country. I suppose that if you had been with them you would have found a great many flowers, that they did not notice I carry Papers around every night, which makes me strong.https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/43304/thumbnail.jp
Henry Sienkiewicz, the great Polish author from a painting by S. Ryszkowski, a local artist.
No full textHenry Sienkiewicz, the great Polish author, from a painting by S. Ryszkowski, a local artist.https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/fronczak-photo3/1034/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Samuel Butler to Henry Festing Jones
No full textAutograph letter written by Samuel Butler to Henry Festing Jones. Written from London. Transcription included.[printed heading, with day, month, and year digit in MS]
Samuel Butler.
15, Cliffords Inn,
London, E. C.
Feb.11 1902
My dear Jones
How I am to fill this sheet I know not—If I succeed the feeding of the 5000 will be a small miracle in comparison, for I have as it were but a single literary loaf & fish for my nucleus.
Talking of fishes did you see what I am told was in the Daily Mail about the sea-gulls? I was going last Friday over London Bridge to Delph Street where I have a big job on—(everything seems to come at once) and saw thousands of gulls and people on the bridge feeding them. They were lovely, but they are unprincipled. A man was walking over London Bridge last week with a crate of fresh herrings on his head. The gulls swooped down on fish in such numbers that he was powerless against them, & half his fish were gone before he could get his crate down on to the pavement.
The job at Delph Street will cost me [p. 2] near £100. Sanitary inspector of course; but it is a good job done—entire reconstruction of drains, & a lot more. The houses are freehold and will stand a large increase of rent, so that I shall be a gainer rather than loser by the job.
Alfred & I have again been to Attwell Road this afternoon & were again starved—but I do not think we have taken any harm. Sanitary inspector of course. I don’t suppose I shall get out of it all under £400, & lucky if that covers it. The rents here too will stand stand [sic] some increase but it is a nuisance.
I told you of my visit to the Fuller Maitlands—but I forgot to say that they told me Nice is very full of small-pox now—So you had better not go & stay with Cattie. They were very full of going to Sicily in April & May, and it seems quite on the cards that I may meet them & put them through Trapani and Mt. Eryx. We shall see.
I sent my letter to The Spectator. I submitted it first to Rendall (Editor of the Athenaeum) as well as to Grant Richards and they both cordially approved of my sending, but they doubted whether the editor would insert it. Rendall said that several [p. 3] people had written to him admiring my Sonnet, & one or two indignantly, but these last fewer & less important.
By the last post I am sure to have a line from Longman declining to publish a new edition of Ex Voto at his own risk. I was bound to offer it to him before trying Grant Richards. As soon as he has declined it I can see whether G. R. will do it or no. if he will not I shall again appeal to Shaw for counsel.
I have this morning received a long & most flattering review of Erewhon & Erewhon Revisited from the New Z. Canterbury Press. They are very proud of the fact that Erewhon began in their own paper, & nothing is good enough for me. I must show it to Grant Richards when I take him Ex Voto, & will send it on to you when he had seen it. It is far the most flattering article that I have ever had.
I am puzzled by something in my correspondence. Do you remember our getting two bottles of some spirit or liqueur from Varese—one of which I was to take to my father? I remember sending him some honey from Promontogno as soon as I got home, but I am pretty sure [p. 4] that on an earlier occasion—say 1883 or 1882 I had sent [canceled and superscribed “taken”] him a bottle of liqueur which he examined in my presence to see whether or no it had been tampered with. Do you remember my ever saying anything to you about this? I find that some years ago I made a note to this effect as regards the Promontogno honey, which note letters now read prove to have been wrong—but the incident is so strongly vivid in my mind that I cannot believe it to be an unconscious invention of my own. Please help me if you can.
Erewhon (the old book) was casually mentioned quite friendly wise in last Friday’s Times Literary Supplement.
Monro, an Oxford don, has published the last 12 books of the Odyssey—Merry did the first 12 some years ago. Not a word about my theory. I am told, but have not seen the book, that there is no mention of what I have said about Trapani & M. Eryx in Douglas Sladen’s Sicily. I shall not break my heart in either case.
There; my loaf & fish have held out better than I feared they would, but I fear the loaf has been rather unleavened, & the fish but as one of those Mediterranean gray mullets which we get in train restaurants—However, I have done my best.
With very kind regards to your sister,--I am, Yours—
S. Butler-
Oral History Interview: Henry Wortis (1371)
No full textAbstract: In his March 2005 interview with Matt Levin, Henry Wortis discusses his involvement in the Labor Youth League while an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He details the group?s membership, activities, and relationship with the wider array of leftist political ideologies, emphasizing the growing division between the Old Left and youth in the LYL. This interview was originally conducted for the author?s research for Cold War University and has been submitted for inclusion into the UW-Madison Oral History Program
James Tift Champlin, a memorial.
No full textBiographical sketch, by Henry S. Burrage.--Selections from Champlin's works: Inaugural address as president of Waterville college ... August 10, 1858. Religion and philanthrophy [!] Bishop Butler. Daniel Webster as a statesman and an orator. Christian education.Mode of access: Internet
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