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Camden N J Dec 13 —(1876) Dearest Pete, I ought to have written to you before—but I believe lazy & listless
ones know well is more chance & accident (I mean the victory in battles) than it is generalship— —Pete
how many of my books are sent for from Ireland — Love to you dearest son— Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle
chicken & nice roast potatoes—& now (2½) up stairs in my room writing this, & feeling very fair— O Pete
mothers is interesting to me— —Give my love to Mr & Mrs Nash— Your loving old Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle
Nash were old Washington friends of Whitman and Doyle.
Price Ashley Lawson Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle
This postcard bears the address, "Pete Doyle | M Street South | bet 4½ & 6th— | Washington | D.C."
, 1876 seems more plausible; note the similar phraseology in Whitman's December 13, 1876 letter to Doyle
account book, this bound manuscript notebook dates from March 1876 to 30 May 1889) that Whitman wrote to Doyle
Probably Doyle had answered Whitman's December 13, 1876 letter.
Nash were old Washington friends of Whitman and Doyle.
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 22 January
This postcard bears the address, "Pete Doyle, | M street South—bet 4½ & 6th | Washington, D.C."
This postcard appears to have been written one week after Whitman's January 22, 1876 letter to Doyle,
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 15 January
This postcard bears the address, "Pete Doyle, | M street South bet 4½ & 6th | Washington, D.C."
I rec'd received a letter from Marvin to-day—from Peter Doyle yesterday—snowing here as I write—the baby
Whitman wrote of the sale in his July 10, 1874 letter to Peter Doyle.
Washington and later visited him in Camden, which Whitman reported in his November 9, 1873, letter to Peter Doyle
Whitman mentions Davis in his letter to Peter Doyle of December 27, 1876.
Whitman also wrote about Burroughs's visit in a January 15, 1876 letter to Peter Doyle.