Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . 1 c c 6 * IX OLD BOSTON 375 dear sake. It is, indeed, Whitman at hisvery dry est. Which proves that he could beimpersonal in treating a subject upon whichhe felt deeply. His moment of deepest self-revelation seems to have come later when,speaking to Horace Traubel of Rossettis warmbrotherly love for Mrs. Gilchrist, he said, Shewas his friend; she was more than my feel like Hamlet when he said forty thousandl)rolhers could not feel what he felt for Ophelia.^ Another literarj^ woman who
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . 1 c c 6 * IX OLD BOSTON 375 dear sake. It is, indeed, Whitman at hisvery dry est. Which proves that he could beimpersonal in treating a subject upon whichhe felt deeply. His moment of deepest self-revelation seems to have come later when,speaking to Horace Traubel of Rossettis warmbrotherly love for Mrs. Gilchrist, he said, Shewas his friend; she was more than my feel like Hamlet when he said forty thousandl)rolhers could not feel what he felt for Ophelia.^ Another literarj^ woman who came to Bostonduring the period we are here considering, —though, in point of years, her visit ante-datedMrs. Gilchrists by a whole quarter of a century,— v/as Miss Delia Bacon, originator of theso-called Baconian theory. In ]Mrs. JohnFarrars Recollections of Seventy Years mayl)e found a highly interesting account of thiswriters unusual i)ersonalily and of her saddecline. She was the first lad}^ whom I everheard deliver a public lecture and the hall inwhich she spoke was so crowded that I co
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