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42. John Berryman,
Stephen Crane
(New York: William Sloan, 1950), p. 86.
43. "He [Stoddard] is misunderstood by manyas Kipling, one of his most sympathetic friends, predicted he was bound to be when he read 'For the Pleasure of His Company.'" Charles Phillips, "Charles Warren Stoddard,"
Overland Monthly,
n.s. 51 (February 1908), 139.
44. William Morton Payne,
Dial 35
(1 October 1903), 155. The reviewer for the
Sunset
excused the novel on the grounds that it was "the child not of his thought, but of his heart," and interpreted it as a possible sermon with this message: "Do not judge men solely by outward appearances; try to read into their souls and learn the true characters before you condemn."
Sunset 13
(July 1903), 283-84.
45.
Overland Monthly,
n.s. 42 (October 1903), 365. The headline over the
Out West
review was "A Story Without a Plot."
46. Josephine DeWitt Rhodehamel and Raymund Francis Wood,
Ina Coolbrith, Librarian and Laureate of California
(Provo: Brigham Young University Press, 1973), p. 253 See Stoddard's comment on the novel in his Notebook: "It has perhaps made me some friends; has worried some old ones; has stirred the venom in the hearts of some enemies" (Bancroft Library).
47. Ibid., p. 440, n. 46. Stoddard nevertheless annotated George Wharton James's copy of the novel, providing him a key to its characters and events. See
 
Page 191
George Wharton James, "Charles Warren StoddardAn American Appreciation,"
Ave Maria
68 (22 May 1909), 650-56.
48. Stoddard to W. D. Howells, 21 July 1903 (Houghton Library, Harvard University).
Chapter 11
1. Diaries for the period November 1901 to August 1903 are in the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. On the first page of the diary that covers the period from 6 April to 24 April 1903 was written: "The Resurrection and the Life of Charles Warren Stoddard who descended into the Limbo of the Catholic University and of Washington D.C., but who rose again from the dead after fourteen grevious years on Monday of Passion Week, 1903." Quoted in Carl G. Stroven "A Life of Charles Warren Stoddard," (Ph.D. diss., Duke University, 1939), p. 297, n. 12.
2. Stoddard to Daniel Hudson, 16 June 1903 (CHUD, University of Notre Dame Archives).
3. LaRose was a leader among those Harvard undergraduates in the 1890s who had aped Oscar Wilde's "decadence" and who had founded a Bohemian little magazine,
The Mahogany Tree.
See Shirley Johnson's fictional portrait of this group in
The Cult of the Purple Rose
(Boston: Richard Badger, 1902).
4. Kenneth O'Connor also came to Stoddard's bedside. It was to be their last meeting.
5. [Pierre Beringer], "Charles Warren Stoddard,"
Overland Monthly;
n.s. 43 (April 1904), 346.
6.
Overland Monthly,
n.s. 44 (July 1904), 24.
7. Stoddard to Daniel Hudson, 28 October 1904 (CHUD, University of Notre Dame Archives).
8. "A Summer Rest,"
Ave Maria
65 (6 July 1907), 4.
9. Henry James quoted in Leon Edel,
Henry James, The Master: 1901-1916
(Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1972), p. 286.
10. Ibid., p. 285.

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