 | "So you see I have stepped into Howells' shoes and must perforce become realistic" (CHUD, University of Notre Dame Archives); quoted in Stroven, "A Life," pp. 251-52.
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| 18. Howells's reaction to the draft was negative. He wrote to Louise Imogen Guiney on 3 January 1896: "I never saw good material so slightly and inconclusively treated by so charming a master as in his story. There was the potentiality of three or four beautiful stories in his strange performance; but they seemed not to arrive at any common destination. . . . I felt, as you did, the pathetic nervelessness of it. . . . I doubt if the book ever finds a publisher, or if it does, a public."
Selected Letters of W. D. Howells,
ed. George Arms et al. (Boston: Twayne, 1979-83), 4:137-38.
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| 19. Stoddard to W. D. Howells, 9 September 1888 (Houghton Library, Harvard University); Stoddard to Daniel Hudson, 14 December 1888 (CHUD, University of Notre Dame Archives).
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| 20. About Father Regan, Stoddard wrote to Father Hudson on 8 July 1888: "I wish I could feel safewith Regan aboutbut I cannot; and I never never shall. He is not one of Christ's folk!" A year later, on 9 July 1889, Stoddard was still brooding about the "accursed atmosphere" at Notre Dame: "O, my God! Will I never get the taste out of my mouth? the iron out of my soul? I wish I could forget it and everybody in it, save you alone'' (CHUD. University of Notre Dame Archives).
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| 21. Patrick Ahern,
The Catholic University of America, 1887-1896
(Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1948), pp.
3
ff.
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| 22. Stoddard to Daniel Hudson, 25 March 1889 (CHUD, University of Notre Dame Archives).
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| 23. Frank Millet to Stoddard, [July 1889] (George Arents Research Library for Special Collections at Syracuse University).
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| 24. Henry James, "Our Artists in Europe,"
Harper's Monthly
79 (June 1889), 50-66.
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| 25. Stoddard to Daniel Hudson, 30 July 1889 (CHUD, University of Notre Dame Archives).
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| 1. The facts and quotations in this chapter are derived from a large body of material, including Stoddard's diaries, twenty-eight of his letters to Father Daniel Hudson, forty-five pieces of miscellaneous correspondence (much of it from Theodore Dwight), yearbooks for Catholic University, Stoddard's articles in the
National Magazine
and the
Ave Maria.
Exact sources will be cited only when quoted material is of extraordinary interest or length. Stoddard's diaries for the periods September 1892 to March 1893 and October to November 1895 are at the Catholic University of America.
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| 2. See Patrick Ahern,
The Catholic University of America, 1887-1896
(Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1948), pp. 121-61.
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