 | 5. Stoddard said that Joe had "seemed inclined that way" in a letter to DeWitt Miller, 15 October 1901 (HM 38383, The Huntington Library, San Marino. California). Miller had asked whether any of Stoddard's island companions had been "Greek"in the sense meant by John Addington Symonds in
A
Problem in Modern Ethics: Being an Inquiry into the Phenomenon of Sexual Inversion
(1891), which Miller had sent to Stoddard.
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| 6. Harte quoted in CRP.
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| 7. The quotations that follow are taken from columns published in the
Golden Era
between 19 September 1869 and 29 May 1870.
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| 8. "The Pet of the Circus,"
Golden Era 17 (3
October 1869), 4-5. Carl G. Stroven, overlooking Stoddard's comic exaggeration, takes this incident in all seriousness, calling it "almost a parody of the situation in Herman Melville's 'Benito Cereno.'" "A Life of Charles Warren Stoddard." (Ph.D. diss., Duke University, 1939), pp. 4-5.
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| 9. Stoddard to William Gilmore Sims, 28 July 1869 (Columbia University Library); quoted in Stroven, "A Life," p. 127.
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| 10. Miller and Keeler are quoted in Stroven, "A Life," p. 128. See also Thomas Wentworth Higginson to Stoddard, 23 August 1869 (Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Yale University); Jay B. Hubbell, "George Henry Boker, Paul Hamilton Hayne. and Charles Warren Stoddard: Some Unpublished Letters,"
American Literature 5
(May 1955): 163, 165.
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| 11. The story itself provoked at least one remarkable hate letter, which Stoddard attributed to the Reverend Dr. Lee, M.D., of New York: "I have read with the greatest possible disgust your stupid and assinine [sic] article. . . . It is so fearfully silly and stupid that I shall keep it to use as an emetic. Whenever I wish to disgust an enemy I have only to send him 'My South Sea Show.' Sir, you are an insensate hummoxthe very worst writer I ever knew or heard of. Poh! you make me sickgo bag your head. Dolt and miscompoop avaunt!" See Mary Bell, "The Essayist of the West-Charles Warren Stoddard,"
University of California Magazine
2 (November 1896), 277
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| 12. Horace Traubel,
With Walt Whitman in Camden,
vol. 3 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1961), pp. 444-45.
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| 13.
Walt Whitman; The Correspondence, 2
:97.
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| 14. See Jonathan Katz,
Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A.
(New York: Crowell, 1976), pp. 499-500.
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| 15. Stoddard to Will Stuart, 15 December 1880 (HM 2981 The Huntington Library).
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| 16. Bayard Taylor,
Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania
(New York: Putnam, 1870). See Roger Austen,
Playing the Game: The Homosexual Novel in America
(Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977), pp. 9-10.
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