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29. M. M. Marberry,
Splendid Poseur: Joaquin Miller, American Poet
(New York: Crowell, 1953) p. 257.
30. Stoddard to Daniel Hudson, 13 May 1906 (CHUD, University of Notre Dame Archives).
31. "A Life's Labyrinth," p. 17 (Bancroft Library).
32. Ibid., p. 28.
33. Ibid., pp. 20-21.
34. Stoddard to Harry McKenzie, 3 August 1906; letter copied in Stoddard's Notebook (Bancroft Library).
35. Mary Austin quoted in Brian McGinty, "Charles Warren Stoddard: The Pleasure of His Company,"
California Historical Quarterly
52 (Summer 1973), 166.
36. Stoddard to Ina Coolbrith, 19 August 1907 (Bancroft Library).
37. George Wharton James, "Charles Warren Stoddard,"
National Magazine
34 (August 1911), 667.
38. Stoddard was also drafting his autobiography. A section on his youth, titled "Confessions of a Reformed Poet," was completed but never published; a section on his early childhood remained unfinished at his death.
39. Stoddard to Ina Coolbrith, 20 February 1907 (Donohue Rare Book Room, Gleeson Library, University of San Francisco) Robert Ballard to Stoddard, 19 March 1906 (Bancroft Library); Stoddard to Sarah Makee, 25 January 1906 (University of Hawaii at Manoa Library); Yone Noguchi quoted in Stroven, "A
 
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Life"; Stoddard to Jack London (The Huntington Library, San Marino, California); Stoddard to Booth Tarkington, 26 August 1905 (location unknown).
40. Stoddard to Horace Traubel (Bancroft Library); Herbert Peet to Stoddard, 9 October 1907 (Bancroft Library); Corinne O'Connor to Stoddard, 10 August 1906 (Bancroft Library); Iza Hardy to Stoddard, 28 July 1905 (IC 349, The Huntington Library).
41. Stoddard to Daniel Hudson, 18 November 1905, 9 December 1906, 22 April 1908 (CHUD, University of Notre Dame Archives); Stoddard to DeWitt Miller, 10 September 1907 (HM 38407, The Huntington Library); Stoddard to Mark Twain, 27 May 1907 (Mark Twain Papers, Bancroft Library); Stoddard to Benton Gifford, 8 February 1907 (Robert Louis Stevenson House).
42. Stoddard to Ethel Armes (location unknown); Stoddard to Edwin McKenzie, 17 January 1906 (location unknown); Stoddard to George DeVoll, 15 March 1906 (Bancroft Library).
43. Stoddard to DeWitt Miller, 10 January 1907 (HM 38405, The Huntington Library).
44. See Roger Austen,
Playing the Game: The Homosexual Novel in America
(Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977), pp. 20-27.
45. Tan Notebook (Bancroft Library).
46.
The Poems of Charles Warren Stoddard,
ed. Ina Coolbrith and Thomas Walsh (New York: John Lane, 1917). One reviewer criticized the omissions from this "collected" edition, placing the blame for inept editing on Father Thomas Walsh, who had known Stoddard at Notre Dame. See Edward F. O'Day,
"The Poems of Charles Warren Stoddard," Town Talk
30 (25 August 1918), 5-6.
47. See "Find Dying Poet Made Bonfire of Manuscripts of All of His Work," San Francisco
Bulletin,
9 October 1909 (Ina Coolbrith Papers, Bancroft Library).
48. Xavier Mayne [Edward I. Prime-Stevenson],
Imre: A Memorandum
(Naples, Italy: The English Book Club: R. Rispoli, 1906), p. 188.

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