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together our forces and the, bowls, baskets, and pudding-bags aforesaid, and returned home: for my part

best; and I am just at this time in one of the most stony, rough, desert, hilly, and heart-sickening parts

a very interesting account by the "head of the family" (families of fourteen or fifteen, in these parts

Down in these parts the people understand about as much of political economy as they do of the Choctaw

—Pork, cucumbers, and buckwheat bread, we must part, perhaps forever!

Brenton later reprinted Whitman's short story, "The Tomb-Blossoms," in an edited collection titled Voices

Whitman may be making a reference to the Bible; see Acts, Chapter 2, verse 3, in which the Holy Spirit's

.— My stories, I believe, have been pretty popular, and extracted liberally.

This tale is Whitman's earliest known short story and the first of nine stories by Whitman that were

When Whitman reprinted this story in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1847, while

Whitman included a poem just before the story titled "Christmas Hymn."

For a complete list of revisions to the language of the story made or authorized by Whitman for publication

4th of March we had a grand fireman's procession and I think it was larger than the one (the firemen part

Your part of the letter comes on the part where their is no lines, so I think it will be pretty crooked

I have such a part of the mail (and I can do it most over night) and then I have nothing to do for the

street assassination;—there you have, in disjointed sentences, and some words that are heard in every part

of the neighborhood every five minutes, a picture of current "life" as developed in that part of New

But the latter is merely created, for the most part, "to fill up."

For my part, I am astonished that, while they were about it, they did’nt make the street twenty feet

We all have part in the immortal glory won by our troops in that Mexican war; and it will do us good,

Indeed, this impertinence on the part of Hon.

Sheldon, The Story of the Volunteer Fire Department of the City of New York [New York: Harper & Brothers

Well, for my part, I think the practice a very commendable one; it creates a general good feeling between

But the Ex-Lieutenant, instead of making them over, on his arrival here, presented (that's the story,

It is as well, however, to wait for the other side of the story, before giving the harsh judgment which

, and soldier's nature, that there are some extenuating circumstances on Green's side, or that the story

N EW Y ORK , August 2, 1848. Eds.

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 2 August 1848

the drivers, see "Indignation Meeting of the Omnibus Drivers," The New York Herald (August 7, 1848), 2.

startling case of attempted murder has just been coming off, over in Brooklyn, in one of the prettiest parts

Those stories of negroes going to the Buffalo Convention, are nonsense.

prison terms, totalling eighteen years ("Sentence of Korth," Brooklyn Evening Star, October 27, 1848, 2;

"Frederick Louis Korth," Brooklyn Evening Star, August 10, 1848, 2).

discussed—see "Indigination Meeting of the Omnibus Drivers," The New York Herald (August 7, 1848), 2.

account of the news from Ireland, see "State of Ireland," The New Orleans Crescent, (August 25, 1848), 2.

See "Address to the Friends of Ireland," The New Orleans Crescent (August 25, 1848), 2.

Mos of the stores have an unusual number of clerks, and boxes e piled up for miles along the lower part

See "Military Order," The New Orleans Crescent (September 5, 1848), 2.

The workmen are up to the third story.

Bertrand], Alexandria Gazette, November 18, 1848, 2).

All accounts agree in stating that Van Buren divides the western and interior parts of the State with

In those parts, Gen. Cass may be emphatically said to be "nowhere."

Bertrand], Alexandria Gazette, November 18, 1848, 2).

Morrell, 1867], 2:495; "Music and the Fine Arts," The Anglo American [November 6, 1847], 68).

Morrell, 1867], 2:167, 444; N. M.

Morrell, 1867], 2:364).

establishment, killing Shea ("Correspondence of the Examiner and Herald," Lancaster Examiner, October 4, 1848, 2.

, at first, does not realize its magnitude—for that's one of the results of an exact proportion of parts

Perhaps the noisiest part of Broadway is from the Astor House to Chambers street.

So much for even a hasty transcript of a part of one's impressions in Broadway.

New York, Monday, October 2. Eds.

If they flee to the uttermost parts of the earth, their character is apt to be there before them—and

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 2 October 1848

establishment, killing Shea ("Correspondence of the Examiner and Herald," Lancaster Examiner, October 4, 1848, 2.

Department and as Assistant Collector for the Port of New York ("Appointment," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 2,

1848, 2).

prison terms, totalling eighteen years ("Sentence of Korth," Brooklyn Evening Star, October 27, 1848, 2;

"Frederick Louis Korth," Brooklyn Evening Star, August 10, 1848, 2).

Department and as Assistant Collector for the Port of New York ("Appointment," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 2,

1848, 2).

the theatres, where the appearance of the biggest military characters attract no attention......That story

It is a very pretty story as it stands; but one has no spare sympathy to expend these days....It is estimated

Washington Irving (1783–1859) was a biographer, historian, and short story writer.

prison terms, totalling eighteen years ("Sentence of Korth," Brooklyn Evening Star, October 27, 1848, 2;

"Frederick Louis Korth," Brooklyn Evening Star, August 10, 1848, 2).

gas, sulphuric acid, iron, and water ("The Balloon Ascension," The Evening Post, October 11, 1848, 2)

Broadway and Chatham street—the dark and dim trees of the Park—long row of printers' lights in the top stories

It is not an idea, one of whose parts is very funny; it is the whole idea, so ludicrous.

gas, sulphuric acid, iron, and water ("The Balloon Ascension," The Evening Post, October 11, 1848, 2)

gas, sulphuric acid, iron, and water ("The Balloon Ascension," The Evening Post, October 11, 1848, 2)

From Bowling Green to the City Hotel forms Character No. 1; from that to Chambers street forms No. 2;

opposite his old one, has just been completed; and is as spruce and dashy as expense can make a five story

Probably this excitement does not pervade any other part of the land so much as New York city.

For my part I confess I did not vote for the old General, but I am willing to see all the good developments

twenty-five omnibuses and several nearby houses ("Destructive Fires," The Evening Post, November 20, 1848, 2)

The latter part of yesterday afternoon was oppressively warm —and this on the 8th of December!

Brooklyn, where it was burnt up—and that was about five acres of its best part—is being rapidly rebuilt

One of the late propositions is to construct an arch over some upper part of Broadway, and put a colossal

They are given by the Whigs in honor of Taylor's success—just as if that had not come to be an old story

The paper published the first two chapters of "The Fireman's Dream: With the Story of His Strange Companion

Inman's magazine published five of Whitman's short stories in 1844.

of Fulton and Nassau Streets ("The Doings of a Night," The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 11, 1848, 2)

.— You will see that the title of the original is "The childhood of Erik Menved"; the latter part of

the original story, consisting very much of prolic prolix detail of historical events, gives it that

name—but that part of the story I have contracted into a few paragraphs—and have taken a singular trait

suit you, and how much it would be worth to you, so that I can have an answer by the middle or latter part

of the week.— The story would make about 65 leaded short columns of the Sun—so that, at an average of

is referring to Fredrika Bremer (1801–1865), who was a Swedish reformer and a writer of romantic stories

published Fanny Fern's novels Ruth Hall (1855) and Rose Clark (1856), as well as her collection of stories

for children The Play-Day Book: New Stories for Little Folks (1857), among other titles.

He is best known for his short tales, including detective fiction and stories of the macabre.

in Brooklyn, and the couple had four children—Arthur, Helen, Emily, and Henry (who died in 1852, at 2

Brooklyn Daily Advertiser of May 25, 1850, reprinted in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2

to be myself I entirely coincide with you in what will be the result of greater experience on the part

I do think that the greater part of the difficulties that exist among men on all most almost all theological

Whitman is about to publish another edition of Leaves of Grass, leaving out all the objectionable parts

Boston March 2, 1860 Walt Whitman Dear Sir, Your favor is at hand. Our Mr.

discussing the whole thing thoroughly Yours Truly Thayer & Eldridge Thayer & Eldridge to Walt Whitman, 2

Friday morning, March 2, '60.

Walt Whitman to the Editor of the Atlantic Monthly, 2 March 1860

stopping at a lodging house, have a very nice room, gas, water, good American folks keep it—I pay $2—

About 12 I take a walk, and at 2, a good dinner.

Mother has taken the house and rented the lower part to a Mr "John Brown" @ $14 per month Mat and I keeping

office (Edwin Haviland Miller, ed., The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2: