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Whitman thought Doyle was born in Limerick on June 3, 1845, while Pete's death certificate gave 1848

Pete's parents were Peter Doyle and Catherine Nash. The couple were married in St.

The following day, Doyle's sister-in-law Ellen (nee Branzell) Doyle and Skip Branzell, visited Pete at

A James Doyle (Pete's brother?)

With the death of Catherine Doyle, Pete's primary emotional tie to D.C. ended.

whom Pete made a home.

there to give.In the mid-1880s Whitman and Doyle renewed their intimacy when Doyle—now employed by the

Doyle attended Whitman's funeral at Harleigh Cemetery.Peter Doyle made a lasting contribution to Whitman

"Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle."

Doyle, Peter (XXXX-XXXX)

He boasted to Pete Doyle of his "capacity of flirtation & carrying on with the girls" (Whitman 62), adding

Kaplan's point is borne out by a brief and informative biography of Peter Doyle, Martin G.

Murray's "'Pete the Great': A Biography of Peter Doyle" (1994), which sketches Whitman's relationship

War—a relationship well-known since 1897, after the appearance of a collection of Whitman's letters to Doyle

About Doyle, Kaplan concluded: "Maybe it doesn't matter"; the "evidence" for Whitman's homosexuality

"'Pete the Great': A Biography of Peter Doyle." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 12 (1994): 1-51. 

after having read over again an old letter from "Pete."

When not with her, Walt told Pete, he was riding the ferry and visiting Coney Island.

time-honored sentiment, "Pete, I wish you were with me."

He wrote to Peter Doyle: The N.

Pete's brother, Francis, was a police officer in Washington, D.C.

Murray Doyle, Peter (XXXX-XXXX) The romantic friendship that Walt Whitman shared with Peter Doyle embodied

whom Pete made a home.

In the mid-1880s Whitman and Doyle renewed their intimacy when Doyle—now employed by the Pennsylvania

Bucke to edit and publish Whitman's letters to Doyle, which Doyle had entrusted to Bucke in 1880.

"Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 12 (1994): 1–51.

M s: Feinberg Collection, Library of Congress To Pete Doyle Brooklyn, September 2,1870 Dear Pete, . .

Walt M s: Feinberg Collection, Library of Congress To Pete Doyle Brooklyn, July 14, 1871 Dear Pete, It

M s: Feinberg Collection, Library of Congress To Pete Doyle Coney Island, July I6and 2I, I87I Dear Pete

M s: Feinberg Collection, Library of Congress To Pete Doyle Camden, August I4and 15, 1873 Pete, dear

M s: Feinberg Collection, Library of Congress To Pete Doyle Camden, September 26, I873 Dear son Pete,

Doyle, against newspaper claims of police brutality re- 1 8 6 8 -18 7 5 [g1] lated to Doyle's arrest

Whitman writes to William O'Connor on be half of Edward Doyle, Pete's brother, who is seeking em ployment

Peter Doyle visits(n N , 2 :3 5 Pete's mother had died on 24 May.

Whitman learns from Wallace that Peter Doyle is living in Baltimore; he speaks of "The noble Pete!

"'Pete the Great': A Biography of Peter Doyle."

Whitman's major lovers—Fred Vaughan, Peter Doyle, and Harry Stafford—were cut from much the same depressive

Whitman caroused with Vaughan at Pfaff's tavern and with Doyle in its Washington equivalents, enabling

Doyle was his lover for roughly ten years.

with Charles Eldridge, Lewy Brown, William and Ellen O'Connor, John and Ursula Burroughs, and Peter Doyle

critical biography, Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (1867).Whitman found friendship with Peter Doyle

Thereafter, the comrades were inseparable, spending long hours riding on Doyle's streetcar, or taking

Calamus: A Series of Letters Written During the Years 1868–1880 by Walt Whitman to a Young Friend (Peter Doyle

Calamus also includes an account of an interview with Doyle, conducted after Whitman's death.

The war, however, goes on, and the message about Pete, the grief-stricken mother's only son, causes the

the revision rather pointless because he feels that for all the poet's supposed intimacy with Peter Doyle

Although Whitman was not an eyewitness, his close companion, Peter Doyle, was at Ford's Theater, and

Whitman made impressive use of Doyle's story in his imaginative retelling.

Bemoaning lover problems, Whitman in 1870 compared Vaughan with Peter Doyle, admonishing himself: "Remember

Nonetheless, in a letter to Peter Doyle remarking on the commencement, Whitman seemed to feel his poem

Calamus: A Series of Letters Written during the Years 1868–1880 by Walt Whitman to a Young Friend (Peter Doyle

His affectionate bond with Peter Doyle, the Washington, D.C., streetcar conductor he met in late 1865

How much Doyle and Stafford reciprocated his affection is somewhat uncertain, but the letters demonstrate

Later, Whitman would get a first-hand report of the assassination from his friend Peter Doyle, an Irish

immigrant and former Confederate soldier whom Whitman had met when Doyle was an out-patient in Washington

Doyle's description would form the basis of Whitman's later speech, "Death of Abraham Lincoln," which

When he died, Whitman left Stafford his silver watch, originally intended for Peter Doyle.  

unceremoniously exited Washington for Camden, which left him separated from his intimate friend, Peter Doyle

Song of Myself (first broadcast 9 March 1976), starring Rip Torn as Whitman and Brad Davis as Peter Doyle

Whitman's last breath of inspiration and his last exhalation, with dialogues between Whitman and Peter Doyle

New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1970.Doyle, James. "Whitman's Canadian Diary."

Yet in 1898, James finds Whitman's posthumously published letters to Peter Doyle in Calamus "positively

Calamus: A Series of Letters Written During the Years 1868–1880 by Walt Whitman to a Young Friend (Peter Doyle

personal reflections in his notebooks around 1870 in which he anguishes over his affection for Peter Doyle

The extensive body of letters Whitman wrote to Civil War soldiers, and especially Peter Doyle, usually

“dear Bo y,” Whitman wrote in 1868 to Peter doyle, a street- car driver and ex-Confederate soldier whom

often, dear- est comrade, & with more calmness than when I was there—Ifinditfirstratetothinkofyou,Pete

I will imagine you with your arm around my neck saying Good night, Walt—& me—Good night, Pete.” 36 In

“enormous PerTUrBaTIon” of his “feverISH, flUCTUaTInG” physical and emotional attachment to Peter doyle

Brown and other soldiers he met and cared for in the Washington hospitals, as well as with Peter doyle

seeing her, or meeting her" (Notebooks 2:889), he had originally written "him," referring to Peter Doyle

veterans from all corners of the United States.Whitman widened his circle of friends, meeting Peter Doyle

Doyle.’”

Once he mentioned Peter Doyle. ‘Where are you Pete? Oh!

The real Irish character. pete’s cane A week later: “Peter Doyle was in yesterday and brought some flowers

A few weeks afterward: “This cane was given to me by Pete Doyle,” Whitman re- minded Traubel, “Pete was

Doyle was over C4:174 I have been reading 1:376 Pete Doyle was in 1:349 This cane was 1:415 It was at

Pete’s early association with Walt Whitman, after they met in Washington, Pete being then a young man

Pete was easy to ap- proach.

But Pete felt hurt, somehow.

Doyle.

The “Interview with Peter Doyle” by Dr.

Whole letters were published by Bucke in Calamus, which contains Whitman's letters to Peter Doyle, and

On four occasions, he was photographed with young male friends—Peter Doyle in the 1860s, Harry Stafford

In letters written the same day to Peter Doyle and William D.

ADDRESS : Pete Doyle  M st. South –Bet 4 12 & 6th  Washington, D. C.

From Peter Doyle. Barrett. Silver, 200–1 (dated 1869?).

From Peter Doyle. Trent. November 25. From Louisa Van Velsor September 23. From Peter Doyle.

From Peter Doyle. Morgan. December 5. From James T. Fields.

His close friend, streetcar conductor Peter Doyle, is to his right. Courtesy of Frank Wright.

Painting of the Grand Review showing Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle.

American" par excellence A letter sent on the 25th of September 1868 from New York to his young lover Pete

Doyle in Washington shows how deeply "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" is shaped by Whitman's long familiarity

The letter is written in the simple language familiar to Pete, who was an omnibus driver: "The river

Letter to Peter Doyle, September 6, I87o, SPL, p. 993· 3x.

But in a letter to Peter Doyle June 27, I872 (SPL, pp.

Letter to Peter Doyle, July I6, I87I, SPL, p. 996. THE HEROIC INVALID 337 I89.

I4-I5· 3· Letter to Peter Doyle, August 28, I873, Calamus, p.

See letter to Peter Doyle, December 3, 1875, Calamus, p. 163. 42.

In 1873, he wrote to his friend Peter Doyle, “I shall get out this afternoon, & over to the Reading room

Indeed, a few days later he wrote Doyle to inform him that he had resolved “to pair off with a friend

In his biographyof Peter Doyle, Martin G.

See “Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle,” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 12 (Summer 1994): 1–51

“Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle.”

“Dear Boy,” Whitman wrote in 1868 to Peter Doyle, a streetcar driver and ex-Confederate soldier whom

dearest comrade, & with more calmness than when I was there—I find it first rate to think of you, Pete

I will imagine you with your arm around my neck saying Good night, Walt — & me—Good night, Pete—” (COR

Whitman and Peter Doyle, ca. 1869. Photograph by M. P. Rice, Washington, DC.

“Dear Boy,” Whitman wrote to Doyle from New York in 1868, “I think of you very often, dearest comrade

family, was attentive to the newsboys, drivers, and other carriers of the written word Yellow Joe, Pete

While there, he spent much of his time with non-southerners, with the important exception of Doyle.

On Whitman and Doyle, see Martin Murray, “Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle,” WWQR 12 (Summer

On Garfield, see WC 1:324; Doyle also mentions this habit of James Garfield’s (Bucke, Calamus, 32). 66

See also Whitman’s image of Dowden, Edward, 116, 117 neglect Doyle, Peter, 32, 143, 149, 218n11 drift

was happy Schlaf was resisting Bertz's assertions: "The question you raise about Calamus & [Peter] Doyle

The night before, in Washington, Peter Doyle, who liked the theater and was attracted by celebrities,

For his commemorative Lincoln lectures, which began in 1879, Whitman drew on Doyle's eyewitness account

Consider the memoirs ofPri vate Henry Robinson Berkeley, a Confederate soldier who, like Peter Doyle,

In corre spondence with Whitman, Doyle's love of the theater, including burlesque, is evident.

In reviewing a collection ofWhitman's letters to Peter Doyle, issued significantly under the title Calamus

Whitman's former lover Peter Doyle, whom he had seen only infrequently since leaving Washington seven

But before making that trip, Walt and Pete spent a short time together in the nation's honeymoon capi

He told her that the next issue of his newspaper was to be about Peter Doyle.

"There are some things about Pete that I've not yet said."

indispensable source for the issue in question is the Boston Calamus edition of the letters to Peter Doyle

44-48. 2 Calamus—A Series of Letters Written During the Years 1868-1880 by W.W. to a Young Friend (Pete

Doyle).

Tree,” as we shall see, creates poetry just as much, and perhaps more so than the dramatic scene of Pete’s

is interrupted by the “daughter’s call”: “Come up from the fields, father, here’s a letter from our Pete

news that their only son has been wounded; they are unaware at the time they read the letter that Pete

of the wholesomeness of family life and to emphasize that, ironically, its own fruit—its only boy, Pete—would

calls to her mother and father to come “to the front door” as she has just received “a letter from our Pete

Unfortu- nately, the letter is not written in Pete’s characteristic handwriting, and so the letter suggests

Whitman admits as much to another lover, Washington street- car driver Peter Doyle, in a September 2,

Peter Doyle’s long romantic friendship with the poet is well- established.

See Murray, “‘Pete the Great,’” 14. 44. Corr. 1:11. 45.

“‘Pete the Great’: A Biography of Peter Doyle.”

Maddock, 86 Garrison,William Lloyd, 25 Douglas, Stephen A., 6, 125–26 Gay, Getty, 91–92; “Royal Bohemian Doyle

Price sode treats the Peter Doyle–Whitman relationship.

For discussion of this program, see Joann Krieg, “Walt and Pete in the Family Hour,”Walt Whitman Quarterly

has argued, Whitman also left a small cache of “marital” photographs taken with his boyfriends Peter Doyle

162 Chinese treaty with Japan, 174 Down by Law, 50, 52–54, 53 Chinese vernacular poetry, 175, 181, Doyle

Maynard had published Bucke’s Calamus, an edition of Whitman’s letters to Peter Doyle, in early 1897,

Elephant, his brother Young Elephant (who came afterward,) Tippy, Pop Rice, Big Frank, Yellow Joe, Pete

My favorite manu- script item is a postcard to Peter Doyle, which I was surprised to win on eBay.

copy of Calamus in order to ramp up the price of the book —after all, a copy of Calamus inscribed by Doyle

is currently being offered for $17,500 and Memoranda During the War, inscribed by Whitman to Doyle,

argument seems plausible in such cases as the infamous manuscript in which he refers to his lover, Peter Doyle

family’s trunks in letters of 1864, 1872, and, in separate requests to Charles Eldridge and Peter Doyle

Ethiopia Saluting the Colors,” 8 “Europe, the 72d and 73d Years of 147–50 These States” (“Resurgemus”), Doyle

In a letter to Peter Doyle, Whitman wrote that Dr.

Whitman to Peter Doyle, September 5, 1873, quoted in Feinberg, “Walt Whit- man and His Doctors,” 837.

10, Corporeality in Leaves of Grass (Moon), 42, 49, 63, 71, 120; Studies on Hysteria, 152 63, 121 Doyle

pointment at the loss it represents for then-emerging gay iden- tity.11 Whitman’s longtime companion Peter Doyle

; on Whit- double consciousness, ix man, 125 “Double V” campaign, 118 “For My People” (Walker), xi Doyle