To this feeling the prose writings are an antidote. We learn in a few pages how simple-minded, patient, and lovable this man really was; how reverent of genius, how free from envy, undisturbed by suffering, ill-repute, and delayed hopes. There was something at once pathetic and noble in his patience, in his magnificent repose and stability. The impersonal character of the tree and the rock, which he admired so much, became in a measure his. He bided his time. The success of other poets awakened no jealousy. He never called names, never picked flaws in the work of his brother bards. The better we know him the more dignified and lofty his figure becomes. FOOTNOTES: [69] ‘Conversations with George W. Whitman,’ _In Re Walt Whitman_, p. 36. [70] ‘... It is therefore deemed needful only to say in relation to his [Whitman’s] removal, that his Chief--Hon. Wm. P. Dole, Commissioner of Indian affairs, who was officially answerable to me for the work in his Bureau, recommended it, _on the ground that his services were not needed_. And no other reason was ever assigned by my authority.’ Extract from a letter from James Harlan to Dewitt Miller, dated Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, July 18, 1894. [71] So called in the edition of 1856. In the edition of 1897 it is entitled ‘Song of Myself.’ [72] See, for example, Stedman’s tribute in _Poets of America_. [73] _Calamus_, p. 27. _Index_ _Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey_, 9, 27. Abolitionists, 260. _Afloat and Ashore_, 71, 88. _Aftermath_, 226, 245. ‘Ages, The,’ Bryant’s Phi Beta Kappa poem, 38. Agnew, Mary, 406. _Alhambra, The_, 9, 24. Allan, Mr. and Mrs. John, befriend Poe, 190, 191. Allegiance, treaty with Germany concerning, 107. American Anti-Slavery Society in New York, Whittier secretary of, 260. _American Democrat, The_, 70, 94. _American Lands and Letters_, 449. American Loyalists, Irving’s attitude towards, 30; in Westchester County, N. Y., 75. _American Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne_, 292, 315. ‘American Scholar, The,’ Emerson’s Phi Beta Kappa oration, 152, 162. _Among My Books_, 458, 475, 476. _Among the Hills_, 263, 280. Amory, Susan, wife of William Hickling Prescott, 125. ‘Analectic Magazine,’ conducted by Irving, 6. André, Major John, Irving’s treatment of, 29. Anti-slavery movement, Whittier’s connection with, 259, 273–277; Thoreau’s, 331; Curtis’s, 420, 421; Lowell’s, 456, 466, 479. _Anti-Slavery Papers_, Lowell’s, 459, 479. Appleton, Frances, wife of Longfellow, 225, 226. Archæological Institute of America, 383. Armada, the, 374. Arnold, Benedict, Irving’s treatment of, 29. Arnold, Matthew, 232. Astor, John Jacob, his commercial enterprise in the Northwest, the subject of _Astoria_, 28. _At Sundown_, 263, 282. ‘Atlantic Monthly,’ founding of, and Whittier’s contributions to, 262; Lowell editor of, 458.