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“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
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.”