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 YOUTH'S COMPANION Sept. 50/82

My dear Charles:—

I was very glad to receive your letter, and
still more glad to hear that you are happy. Exceptional and most
fortunate being - you are alone among millions if you feel at
peace and unembittered by disappointed ambitions and the futil-
ity of life. As for me I am chronically unhappy. The corners of
the world are always cutting into my sensibilities, and the re—
frain of Aldrich‘s song is ever in my mind — "I wonder what day
of the week, I wonder what month of the year!" I have had a great
deal of unavoidable sorrow in my life, and I must confess that I
have added to it by the follies which are strewn behind me like
dead leaves. Since I last saw you I have suffered much from in—
somnia. The least excitement puts me off my sleep, and every so-
cial pleasure is followed by the agonies which shattered nerves
alone can inflict. It is not (no) use, however. I cannot live
like an ascetic; I must have my cakes and ale, though the demons
of sleeplessness usuriously discounts every enjoyment. Materially,
that is as far as salary and duties go - I am pleasantly situated
in Boston. I came here about six months ago after spending eighteen
months in England; and I have almost lost my old attachment to New
York. My principal chum here is J. B. Millet, a brother of Frank's,
and I hobnob a good deal with the witty T. B. Aldrich, who arrived
home from a trip to Russia, etc- last Tuesday. Every two or three
months I run into New York, and there I see among others Edgar F.
and Fnank Saltus. Poor Saltus is an invalid - no wonder! — but he
laughs in the face of His Skeleton Majesty and will depart this
life with an epigram. Edgar is fat and prosperous — much given to
choice dinners at the Union Club and subsequent b and s'as at Del—
monico's. I called with him to see Oscar Wilde a few weeks ago -
that insincere and calculating mountebank who affects an interest
in you. I dislike that fellow — there is such an evident vein of
humbug in him, but he is tremendously clever, - an immeasurablgg
clever man and an immeasurable humbug combined in one. You pro a-
ably know better than I do whether you are likely to see him.

This is the longest letter I've written in an age, my dear boy,
and I must close it. I remember Du Bois in a most friendly way,
and beg that you will remenber me to him. If he ever comes this
way, tell him that I shall have a welcome for him, as I will also
have for you. My dear Stoddard, goodbye, write soon, and believe
me to be

Cordially and sincerely yours

[Charles Warren Stoddard]
William H. Rideing

I send you some numbers of the Companion containing a pretty
little serial of Wm Black.

 

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Rideing, William Henry (1855—1918) b. Liverpool. Author and
editor. He was associate editor of The Youth's Companion, 1881—
1918; managing editor, North Americap Review, 1888-9, and on the
staff of the New York Times. He was a friend of Mark A. Dew. Howe,
to whom I sent a copy of this letter. ' V

Charles Warren Stoddard (1845—1909) author and poet, was at the
date of this letter living in Hawaii.

5 and s'as [brandies and sodas]