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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."
Doyle, which is given by Dr.
Bucke in his edition of Whitman's lettersto Pete 1— one of the best running accounts of Walt which we
have, though of course quite extempore— Pete says in one pas- — sage : 'I never knew a case of Walt's
to Pete are veritablelove-letters.
And there is a passage in Pete Doyle's already quoted interview which curiously corroborates this.
“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
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.
In letters written the same day to Peter Doyle and William D.
ADDRESS : Pete Doyle M st. South –Bet 4 12 & 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.
W. " I should like to see Pete ] Doyle" while I am here. Can you give me his address? W. W.
where Pete is as I am rather uneasy about him.
So I don't know where Pete is now." " /. W. W.
I said that one reason why I wanted to see Pete Doyle was that he perhaps represented the average American
Pete hardly does. For years past Pete has been whirled among the sophistications."
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
s letterto his mother and to Peter Doyle.
Portraitof Whitman and Doyle together,by Harry D.
Wiksell's personal recollectionsof Pete Doyle.
J., I give to my friend,Peter Doyle, my silverwatch. I give to H.
Doyle, Peter, 261. Finta, Alexander, 118, 119.
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,
fancy. suppose," he replied, "myking for and associa tion with car drivers stage drivers, (Pete
Doyle, my friend, was a car driver),and boat hands attracted and attracts atten tion and produces inquiries
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
28 And even Binns, who implied that he knew the truth when he called the question "about Calamus+ Doyle
, 158, 253n Dostoyevsky, Fyodor M., 140 Gand, Eric, 226 Dowden, Edward, 212n Garland, Hamlin, 230n Doyle
GERARD MANLEY H O PK IN S Letter to Robert Bridges, October 18, 1882 I have read ofWhitman's (1)"Pete
us about him, in Washington, a part ofhis life-the part which he devoted to his young friend Peter Doyle-remains