Burning boy, p.98
Burning Boy, page 98
I see they have been pounding C, 111.
In their futility and affectation Weatherford, 66.
Is this poetry? Weatherford, 67.
vigorous earnestness Weatherford, 68.
a true poet Weatherford, 63, 65.
I saw a meter measuring gas Log, 139.
The one thing that deeply pleases me C, 195.
It is not in any sense C, 171.
It is good that you like C, 180.
As a matter of fact C, 116.
grotesque tales C, 111.
I am cruising around C, 118.
Dear Willis: It’s dramatic criticism C, 121.
Dear old man C, 122.
Mr. Stephen Crane, the author Weatherford, 108.
has now attempted Weatherford, 91.
interest which you have shown C, 115.
Your New Year’s greeting C, 188–89.
a chromatic nightmare Log, 143.
a vicious satire Weatherford, 140–41.
The New York Times Weatherford, 89.
Sydney Brooks Weatherford, 101.
this mysteriously unknown youth Weatherford, 115, 116.
I had just become well habituated C, 192.
My dear Willis: There are none C, 189.
Dear Mr. Hitchcock: I fear that when C, 191.
I lost my temper C, 145.
My dear Willis: The brown October C, 127.
the story is working out C, 128.
I am working out-of-sight C, 134.
The novel is one-third completed C, 136.
The novel is exactly half finished C, 140.
The new novel is two-thirds done C, 144.
I have been frantically hustling C, 148.
Thank you for your kind words C, 161.
I think it is well C, 204.
Before “The Red Badge” C, 230. To Demorest’s Family Magazine, May 1896.
a weak sister The comments from Buffalo, New York, Brooklyn, Springfield, and Providence are all cited in Log, 255, 258.
Godey’s Magazine Weatherford, 214–15.
The dinner scheme C, 175.
a magazine of that kind LOF, 178–81.
might as easily have been green C, 110n1.
trusting you will not C, 109.
It was difficult for the world Amy Lowell, Introduction to The Black Riders and Other Lines, xxii, xxvi.
Recognizing in yourself C, 137.
you may answer C, 138–39.
I am a very simple person C, 138.
when I think I was low enough C, 139–40.
admire the valiant Philistines C, 108.
I have mapped out C, 154–55.
If you reach the Genesee C, 156–57.
that dinner, held Claude Bragdon, Merely Players (Knopf, 1905). SCR, 169.
Thursday evening SCR, 168–69.
Years later SCR, 341–42. Cited in n257.
Mr. Crane responded Log, 156.
the irrepressible mediocrity Log, 157.
the fag-end of the century Lotus, March 1896. Encyclopedia, 165.
Hubbard and Taber think C, 162–63.
prim, thoroughly conventional As described in Log, 123.
I do not suppose C, 162–63.
a man in Boston C, 170–72.
How dreadfully weary C, 180–83.
served as a foot soldier LOF, 411n28.
Your recent confession C, 200–203.
Dear me, how much C, 207–8.
The following year Encyclopedia, 78.
I am very glad C, 196.
I have dispensed with C, 197.
I have carefully plugged C, 200.
Maggie was born C, 206–7.
I will begin to drive Maggie C, 214.
the proofs make me ill C, 224.
I am writing a story C, 175.
gradually learning things C, 214.
You may see me back C, 218.
Washington pains me C, 219.
I think the agreement C, 192.
Don’t go to Bacheller or McClure C, 254.
Reynolds (1864–1944) Encyclopedia, 293.
Evidently the change Works 3, Introduction, xxxv.
prompt sympathy C, 200.
He puts on paper the grossness Log, 185–86.
the hand of an artist Weatherford, 42.
He’s a good boy Log, 196.
There is a curious unity Weatherford, 47.
The wonder of it Weatherford, 48.
It is of course C, 295.
as three young exponents Log, 208.
enormous room at the top Log, 192.
In common with C, 130.
would be very glad C, 133.
this lieutenant is C, 221.
his uncle Wilbur Peck LOF, 39–40.
How much money C, 244.
It is likely that Crane met Encyclopedia, 278.
McClure was toying LOF, 197.
Court opens at ten C, 241.
I am much obliged C, 249.
the remote Port Jervis Evening Gazette The three articles are so obscure that they were still unknown when the ten-volume University Press of Virginia edition of Crane’s works was released in the 1970s. Discovered by Crane scholar Joseph Katz, they were first published in Katz’s 1983 article “Stephen Crane: Metropolitan Correspondent,” Kentucky Review 4, no. 3 (1983): 39–51.
like a man in trouble The lunch and Garland’s comment are reported in LOF, 199.
I’ve been having chuck Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (Oxford University Press, 1999), 959.
he built a fortune LOF, 195–96.
The Tenderloin is more Works 8:392.
a notorious hangout LOF, 204.
the young woman denied Stallman and Hagemann, 220–21. The newspaper from which the article was reprinted is unidentified. It was found in a scrapbook kept by Crane and is now in the Stephen Crane Papers at Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
I was strongly advised Stallman and Hagemann, 224–25.
Stephen Crane, novelist Fryckstedt, 148–49.
Everyone who thinks Fryckstedt, 149.
A Detail Works 8:111–13.
In the Tenderloin: A Duel Works 8:384–87.
the veriest filth Wave, November 7, 1896. Log, 218.
Yen-Hock Bill Works 8:396–99.
Diamonds and Diamonds Works 8:114–18.
The Tenderloin as It Really Is Works 8:188–92.
The Devil’s Acre Works 8:664–69.
it was long considered Mike Dash, Satan’s Circus: Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York’s Trial of the Century (Rivers Press, 2008), 329.
Filled with faces F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925; reprint, Scribner, 2004), 70.
On September 20, 1896 Stallman and Hagemann, 232.
On October second Fryckstedt, 151.
Stevie Crane seems Stallman and Hagemann, 231.
There is not an atom Stallman and Hagemann, 234–35.
leaned against a window Stallman and Hagemann, 236. From a partial report written before the trial had ended, New York Journal, October 16, 1896.
the women with artificial manners Stallman and Hagemann, 243. New York Journal, October 17, 1896.
another woman of the streets Stallman and Hagemann, 237. New York Journal, October 16, 1896.
a legendary prostitute Fryckstedt, 155, quoting New York City Folklore, ed. B. A. Botkin (Random House, 1956), 318–19.
nothing so much Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Ballantine, 1980), 490.
a gallant gentleman Stallman and Hagemann, 254. New York Journal, October 18, 1896.
a man who had not violated Stallman and Hagemann, 253. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 17, 1896.
At nine o’clock Pieced together from Log, 217; Stallman and Hagemann, 229; and Fryckstedt, 162.
A man who possessed Fryckstedt, 161–62.
I forgot to mention C, 266.
Howells was apparently Berryman, 146. The source is unnamed. Berryman’s sentence reads: “‘Mr. Howells was greatly distrest by the incident,’ one friend recalled in 1924, ‘until I put the matter before him in its true light.’”
small hand Morris, 490.
You knew this fellow Crane Cecil Carnes, Jimmy Hare, News Photographer: Half a Century with a Camera (Macmillan, 1940), 128–29. The full passage is reprinted in Log, 210–11.
Garland sold his inscribed copy LOF, 114.
claim that she was pregnant A note by Marlene Zara in the Ohio State University Library reads, “Mrs. Anthony told me that Hawkins told her that Amy had ‘framed’ Crane, saying she was pregnant, in an effort to get Crane to marry her.” C, 262.
totaling $776.50 Log, 218.
I am broke Hilt and Wertheim, 264.
My Blessed Girl C, 268–69.
My dearest C, 269.
In case you see Amy C, 267.
My own Sweetheart C, 270–71.
My Beloved C, 271.
Exile
No doubt a winking nod Log, 213.
We are troubled occasionally C, 271.
The Filibustering Industry Works 9:94–99.
in case my journey is protracted C, 267.
perfectly satisfactory C, 264–66.
the 1920 census report Hilt and Wertheim, 265.
being closely watched Daily Florida Citizen, December 2, 1896. Quoted in Linda H. Davis, Badge of Courage: The Life of Stephen Crane (Houghton Mifflin, 1998), 174.
Her great-grandfather See Gilkes, 30–37, for the history of Cora’s family.
during a difficult pregnancy Information on Cora’s mother’s death is from a conversation with Elizabeth Friedmann, who is currently at work on a new biography of Cora Crane.
Sometimes I like to sit at home A grateful salute to Elizabeth Friedmann for providing the source of this quotation as well as the two others on p. 440 and the fourth on p. 444. Robert Hitchens, “Reggie Hastings in Society: A Green Carnation,” excerpted in Current Literature (December 1894), 543.
If more allowance Edmund Pendleton, One Woman’s Way (Appleton, 1893), 66.
I am a strange woman W. K. Clifford, Love-Letters of a Worldly Woman (Harper & Brothers, 1892), 73.
an all around man Evening World, December 26, 1894.
Whatever is too precious Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Lilac Sunbonnet, serialized in Current Literature (December 1894), 553.
handsome, of some real refinement Letter from Ernest W. McCready to Benjamin R. Stolper, January 22,1934 (Stephen Crane Papers, Columbia University). Unless otherwise noted, subsequent quotations of McCready derive from this source. SCR, 204–12.
guiding star Gilkes, 57.
The first thing my mouse James E. Kibler Jr., “The Library of Stephen and Cora Crane,” Proof: The Yearbook of American and Bibliographic Studies, ed. Joseph Katz (University of South Carolina Press, 1971), 221. Log, 226.
Brevity is an element C, 269.
To an unnamed sweetheart C, 270.
By the end of 1896 Stallman, 244, on the two successful and two failed attempts by the Commodore.
arms or sausages Florida Times-Union, December 3, 1896. LOF, 219.
Certainly I will Florida Times-Union, December 3, 1896. Log, 220.
as the representative Log, 232.
Are you fellows “Stephen Crane’s Own Story,” New York Press and other papers, January 7, 1897. In the Library of America edition, 875–84.
even old sailors Stallman, 247.
the water gained upon us Stallman, 246.
The dynamite was Stallman, 247.
That newspaper feller Stallman, 248.
He reminded me of George Washington Horatio S. Rubens, Liberty: The Story of Cuba (Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932), 155. Log, 237–38.
fear the worst C, 274. From a clerk at the St. James Hotel who was providing Cora with updates on the situation.
Telegram received C, 274.
Congratulations on plucky C, 275.
Come by special today C, 276.
They sat in a corner “The Day That Stephen Crane Was Shipwrecked,” Daytona Beach News Journal, April 22, 1962.
Where’s that album? LOF, 225.
I am unable to write C, 277.
a newspaper from Asbury Park The article from the unidentified paper is in the Syracuse University Library.
Seven of the Commodore’s men C, 277.
manly bearing C, 279. From a letter written by Hawkins on behalf of the Lantern Club.
Thanks awfully old man C, 278.
a bright yellow halo Gilkes, 62.
so worn out New York Press, January 7, 1897. Gilkes, 62.
rather slouchy Branch Cabell and A. J. Hanna, The St. Johns: A Parade of Diversities (Farrar & Rinehart, 1943), 281. Quoted in Linda H. Davis, Badge of Courage, 189.
to go to Cuba Log, 240.
I am feeling stronger Log, 240.
The yearly ball LOF, 234–35.
looked like a man from a grave C, 263.
In the presence of extraordinary Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous (Knopf, 1957), 165.
la grande maladie Charles Baudelaire, Mon Coeur Mis à Nu: Journal Intime (published posthumously, 1887). Reprint, La Collection Électronique de la Bibliothèque Municipale de Lisieux, 1999.
Roads of Adventure Ralph D. Paine (Houghton Mifflin, 1922). SCR, 191–92.
Wire here Heinemans C, 280.
To Lyda C, 280.
My dear Will C, 281.
a riotous welcome and the four ensuing paragraphs: Linson, 99, 101, 110. In the first sentence of the final paragraph, he erroneously gives Crane’s age as twenty-six, which I have silently corrected.
Mr. Stephen Crane Log, 247.
“Maggie” should be put beside Weatherford, 58.
stuffed parrot C, 186.
the last word Stallman, 268.
very modest sturdy and shy LOF, 239.
a bi-roxide blonde Stallman, 268.
I left Athens Stallman, 268.
While Stephen considered Gilkes,74
I expect to get a position C, 285.
the wild ass Works 9:18.
My maid who grumbled “Imogene Carter’s Adventure at Pharsala,” Works 9:270.
He has not seen as much Log, 251.
I spent most of the time “Imogene Carter’s Pen Picture of the Fighting at Velestino,” Works 9:274.
Stephen Crane is here Log, 260–61.
Bunked on Floor “Manuscript Notes,” Works 9:72.
a beautiful town “The Blue Badge of Cowardice,” Works 9:45.
mouse ill Log, 253.
How Novelist Crane Log, 253–54.
I have seen a battle Log, 260.
So the enemy withdrew “The Blue Badge of Cowardice,” Works 9:45.
A Fragment of Velestino Works 9:27–44.
Mr. Stephen Crane’s letters Works 9:49–53.
you ought to be very LOF, 250.
the most thoroughly abused John N. Hilliard, “Stephen Crane,” New York Times, July 14, 1900. LOF, 249.
three notches above The Chronology of American Literature, ed. Daniel Burt (Houghton Mifflin, 2004), 289.
a butler in shirt sleeves Stallman, 305.
chief-house-maid C, 300.
southern hot biscuits Gilkes, 121.
very vivid and agreeable Stallman, 303.
rotten bad C, 306; to Reynolds, October 1897.
I have not written C, 294.
My dear Harry C, 295.
We were almost killed C, 300.
from London to Glasgow “The Scotch Express,” Works 8:739–51. I have used the information provided by Stanley Wertheim’s dependable Encyclopedia for the approximate date of the trip on the Scotch Express as well as the route S.C. and Cora followed between England and Ireland, but as with so many other events in Crane’s life, both the date and the itinerary are open to question. Writing to his brother Edmund from Ireland on September 9, Crane says, “Next week I am going to Scotland for McClure” (C, 296). In a letter written to Reynolds sometime in October, he says, “As for my existing contracts there are only two. I. To write an article on the engine ride from London to Glasgow for the McClures. II. To give them my next book” (C, 305). With three possible dates to choose from, it is impossible to know which one is correct. In the long run, however, the when is less important than the what. We know that Crane traveled from London to Glasgow on the Scotch Express sometime in August, September, or October 1897 and that he wrote about the experience in an article published in January 1899 by McClure’s Magazine in America and Cassell’s Magazine in England.
The first of the sketches, “Queenstown” Works 8:483–86.
An Old Man Goes Wooing Works 8:495–98.
My dear Amy C, 297–98.
embedded in Crane family lore LOF, 264–65.
Another presence in Crane’s LOF, 266.
They came in hordes Berryman, 202–3.
out of the ardent grasp C, 305–6.
I have been in England C, 300–303.
speaks and acts like a Frenchman Written on the reverse side of a detached page bearing an inscription from Conrad to the Cranes—“with the Author’s / regard.” Cora’s text is a summary of Conrad’s life, up to and including his change of address to Pent Farm in 1899. C, 342n1.
We shook hands Conrad, 6. Except for passages from letters, all of Conrad’s remarks in this chapter are taken from his Introduction to Thomas Beer’s biography of Crane.
an approving grunt On the subject of friendship between novelists, I offer this example from my own life: a letter I wrote to one novelist friend about my long friendship with another novelist: “We communicate by emitting short grunts, reverting to a kind of shorthand language that would be incomprehensible to a stranger. As for our own work (the driving force of both our lives), we rarely even mention it.” Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee, Here and Now: Letters 2008–2011 (Viking, 2013), 5.
with the greatest regard C, 309.
too good, too terrible C, 310.
I must write to you C, 312–13.
I had Crane here The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, ed. Frederick R. Karl and Lawrence Davies (Cambridge University Press, 1983), 416. Log, 281.
would retract them “… a wonderful artist in words whenever he took a pen in his hand. Then his gift came out—and it was seen to be much more than a felicity of language. His impressionism of phrase went really deeper than the surface.” “Stephen Crane: A Note Without Dates.” SCR, 250.
a worthy pendant Conrad: The Critical Heritage, ed. Norman Sherry (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973), 13.
W. L. Courtney Daily Telegraph, December 8, 1897. Log, 282.
