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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

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

occupied an entire page of the paper (as Whitman alludes to in his November 28, 1873, letter to Peter Doyle

occupied an entire page of the paper (as Whitman alludes to in his November 28, 1873, letter to Peter Doyle

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

us about him, in Washington, a part of his life—the part which he devoted to his young friend Peter Doyle—remains

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.

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,

In Whitman's February 19, 1875, letter to Peter Doyle—one of Whitman's closest comrades and companions—Whitman

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

nature writer, literary critic, and author of Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (1867); 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.”

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

In accordance with your request I met Peter Doyle at Milburn's after office and we proceeded to your

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

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

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

occupied an entire page of the paper (as Whitman alludes to in his November 28, 1873, letter to Peter Doyle

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

developed during his work in the hospitals (and indeed for his relationships after the war with Peter Doyle

We had a good time here last night when Wallace read to us extracts from your letters to Pete Doyle which

Despite his status as a veteran of the Confederate Army, Doyle's uneducated, youthful nature appealed

limited the time the two could spend together, their relationship rekindled in the mid-1880s after Doyle

After Whitman's death, Doyle permitted Richard Maurice Bucke to publish the letters Whitman had sent

For more on Doyle and his relationship with Whitman, see Martin G.

Murray, "Doyle, Peter," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D.

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

Little is known about the firm; Rice took the well-known photos of Whitman and Peter Doyle.

Washington and later visited him in Camden (which Whitman reported in his November 9, 1873, letter to Peter Doyle

to have yours also if you have a double one of yourself & I would like to have that if not why stir Pete

I supposed by Petes Pete's letters that he was as gay as usual, but guess the boy is coming to his senses

opportunities which he has, How does he & the widow pull together now, I suppose Ile I'll find you & Pete

PS Tell Pete answer his as soon as Snowing here now Adeau Adieu Yours Muchly Ed C Stewart "Continuation

Today I received two papers from Pete I suppose. "Sunday Chron" & Balto Sun.

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.

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.

“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

“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

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

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.

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

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.

Peter Doyle (1843–1907) was one of Walt Whitman's closest comrades and lovers, and their friendship spanned

Despite his status as a veteran of the Confederate Army, Doyle's uneducated, youthful nature appealed

After Whitman's death, Doyle permitted Richard Maurice Bucke to publish the letters Whitman had sent

For more on Doyle and his relationship with Whitman, see Martin G.

Murray, "Doyle, Peter," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D.

Washington and later visited him in Camden (which Whitman reported in his November 9, 1873, letter to 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.

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

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.

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

same here I only want you to be well again I do like that young fellow that is so kind to you, Peter Doyle

His friends in Washington, D.C. helped to care for him: John Burroughs, Peter Doyle, and Ellen O'Connor

Despite his status as a veteran of the Confederate Army, Doyle's uneducated, youthful nature appealed

After Whitman's death, Doyle permitted Richard Maurice Bucke to publish the letters Whitman had sent

For more on Doyle and his relationship with Whitman, see Martin G.

Murray, "Doyle, Peter," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D.

Washington and later visited him in Camden, which Whitman reported in his November 9, 1873, letter to Peter Doyle

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

472 July 1, 1865 Walt Whitman From a photograph, 1873 494 Walt Whitman and His Rebel Soldier Friend, Pete

Doyle, 1889 544 Sidney Morse 554 From a photograph by Metcalf & Welldon, 1889 Walt Whitman From a photograph

"I walked great walks myself in the Washington days: often with Pete Doyle: Pete was never a scholar:

Two pieces of a letter from Pete Doyle. One piece a letter from Josie Morse, New York.

Pete used the stationery of the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad Company.

Then spoke tenderly of Peter Doyle. "I wonder where he is now? He must have got another lay.

"I walked great walks myself in the Washington days: often with Pete Doyle: Pete was never a scholar:

Doyle, I was allowed to read your—I prefer saying—I was permitted a long look into the wonderful mirror

sthat's so fine—so fine, fine, fine: he brings back my own walks to me: the walks alone: the walks with Pete

Then spoke tenderly of Peter Doyle. "I wonder where he is now? He must have got another lay.

Two pieces of a letter from Pete Doyle. One piece a letter from Josie Morse, New York.

Pete used the stationery of the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad Company.

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

I'm feeling rather kinky—not at all peart, Pete—not at all."