Stoddard, Charles Warren (1843-1909)

Charles Warren Stoddard, an American writer from San Francisco, first wrote to George Eliot as a young admirer, sending her his verses, which she praised warmly. He met Eliot and Lewes in person in London in the autumn of 1873, when he arrived as a roving correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle and attended Eliot's Sunday reception at the Priory; Eliot wrote to him in October 1873 and Lewes in November. Stoddard was already known to the Leweses' circle as the author of South Sea Idylls (1873) and as an ardent correspondent of Walt Whitman. He celebrated Whitman's Calamus poems in letters Whitman answered with guarded sympathy, and the two never met.

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GE to Charles Warren Stoddard, Blackbrook, [October 1873]
GHL to Charles Warren Stoddard, London, [14 November 1873]

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Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909), Stoddard, Charles Warren (1843-1909), Social Network Gallery, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett, https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed November 11, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/97125