 | margin of "In a Transport": "Every word of this is true. The little Frenchmen were mighty good to me."
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| 19. In DeWitt Miller's copy of the book, Stoddard wrote: "This chapter is absolutely true in every particular,
So help me God!"
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| 20. See John Horne Burns,
The Gallery (1947;
rpt. New York: Bantam, 1948), pp. 332-33.
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| 21. See also Stoddard to George Sterling, 15 November 1907 (The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley): "Once when I was starving in Tahiti . . . I would have joyfully have
[sic]
thrown myself upon the bosom of the Angel of Death, butI knew not where to find him. Certainly the Sea invited me and its song was like a dirge; but I am afraid of the water as I can't swim." Quoted in Stroven, "A Life," p. 146.
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| 1. Albert Parry,
Garrets and Pretenders: A History of Bohemianism in America
(New York: Covici-Friede, 1933), pp. 213-14.
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| 2. Kevin Starr,
Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1973), p. 242.
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| 3. From a poem by Richard H. Savage, dated 14 June 1881, in Stoddard's autograph "Album" (HM 35075, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California).
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| 4. Ambrose Bierce to Stoddard, 29 December 1872 (HM 10102, The Huntington Library).
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| 5. George Wharton James, "Charles Warren StoddardAn American Appreciation,"
Ave Maria
68 (22 May 1909), 655.
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| 6. "Swallow Flights,"
Daily Alta California,
14 January 1872.
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| 7. "In Old Bohemia,"
Pacific Monthly
18 (December 1907), 639.
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| 8. Joaquin Miller to Stoddard, 24 March 1873 (The Huntington Library); quoted in Carl G. Stroven, "A Life of Charles Warren Stoddard," (Ph.D. diss., Duke University, 1959), p. 167.
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