459.5 tsubaki] Japanese camellia, a flowering evergreen shrub.
466.6 locum tenens] Substitute for, placeholder.
466.7 Eliot House] A Harvard residence for undergraduates.
466.20 Doch, ist’s so spät] “Is it really so late?”
473.34 ‘By their fruits shall ye know them,’] Matthew 7:20.
475.17 The Well-Tempered Clavichord] The Well-Tempered Clavier, collection (book I, 1722; book II, 1742) of keyboard preludes and fugues by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750).
478.37 the Old Manse . . . Howard Johnson] House in Concord, Massachusetts, built in 1770, that was the residence of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834–35, and of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1842–45. The Howard Johnson restaurant chain was founded in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1925.
483.20 wanderlustig] Desiring to wander.
489.22–23 arbiter bibendi] Master of drinking.
494.37–495.2 “One thing have . . . rock of stone.”] Cf. Psalm 27:4–5.
495.21 St. Marks] Episcopal boarding school for boys in Southborough, Massachusetts, founded in 1865.
495.28 the Tuileries] The Tuileries Garden in Paris.
497.28 “Ulalume!”] “Ulalume,” poem (1847) by Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849).
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