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not merely the words of the interviewed or the informational substance of those words but the entire story

From them emerge, I believe, an ineffable but potent sense of a man that, for the most part, accords

Stayed till 2. Back to hotel with Barrett. He very tired with 9 performances.

"That is only a part and not the most important part of it," said Dr. Furness, in substance.

U NION L EAGUE , P HILADELPHIA , August 2, 1885.

The house, or rather, cottage, is only two stories high and less than fie paces wide.

What you call evil is all part of it. If you have a hill, you've got to have a hollow.

It's all part of the whole; and I can no more honestly cut out that part than any other."

November 2nd VISITS TO WALT WHITMAN AND HIS FRIENDS, E TC ., IN 1891 IN CAMDEN O CTOBER 27 TH TO N OVEMBER 2

—once told a story of a man he had in his studio at Boston.

He spoke of the heroine of the second story: a girl taken in childhood by Indians and brought up by them

slight intrinsic importance, but which, I trust, will add to the completeness and verisimilitude of the story

The houses are, for the most part, timbered structures, painted different, low-toned colours, and of

Number 328—which, by the way, is duplicated next door—is an unpretentious, two-storied building, with

card, and was shown into a room on the left side of the lobby—a sort of parlour—with the blinds three-parts

To which I replied, and he continued, "You find it very warm in these parts, don't you?

(See "Leaves of Grass," p. 56.) 2.

brotherly and always silently planning for my benefit; simple, spontaneous, and natural; easily taking his part

One item of the talk (in connection with the packing of our belongings) was a little story of Whitman's

But I let the greater part of my letter go without answering them. I can't ."

This is, in part, the influence I wish 'Leaves of Grass' to have.

Well, I'll not go back on my promise, thought it seems almost too precious to part with.

I ought not to take the money from you, but I have spent part of it to-day for another purpose."

Horace told W. a story—but I don't remember in what connection—about an American lady, Mrs.

together should not be spent solely in the discussion of current topics and events, but that some part

It resulted in part from our very diversity and from the curious way in which our several personalities

For the part which Whitman himself took in our correspondence, however, we were entirely unprepared.

Leaves of Grass,' because I could not afford to buy it; but I've heard tell that some folks say some parts

The owner was but a few inches above his worldly possessions; he seemed a part of them, and the picture

Whitman in conversation, for in this he seldom took the leading part; and as it was wished above all

We hoped that it might be a permanent improvement, but it was the same old story: extra exertion and

He could always take his own part, and fortunately was capable of doing so still; had it been otherwise

there was a vacant hall bedroom on the floor where we were keeping house—in two rooms of the upper story

for him; the Capitol, too, was a never-ending source of please; and with him I explored the older part

Evans, him of the "meteor beard," go past to his office, it was suggested that O'Connor write a story

Some fresh cold water must be brought in, in a little kettle,—for a very important part of the proceeding

This was in the early part of the conflict, as early perhaps as the spring of 1863.

the removal of his brother, but was still living in Camden, in a small house which he had himself part-purchased

I am satisfied that for America Free Trade and open admission of all foreigners is an integral part of

little, sat at the refreshment tables, and listened to the band—Walt absorbed and quiet for the most part

The House, a narrow three-storied one, stood in one of those broad tree-planted streets which are common

hat he sallied forth with evident pleasure, and taking my arm as a support walked slowly the best part

But for the most part his words were few.

and doubtless one of the chief attractions of this favourite resort, to go down and spend a large part

The masses in every part of the globe are dominated by the necessities of Nature.

happy and animated, and we spent the day together in such hearty and familiar intercourse that when I parted

The book he knew best was the Bible, the prophetical parts of which stirred in him a vague desire to

This was an instance of bad taste, but not of intentional bad faith, on the part of Whitman.

But Emerson had no thought of acting the imperial part toward so adventurous a voyager.

first, nor his second, but his third edition, comprising the larger and by far the most important part

He began several stories that he had to leave unfinished—he was sure to forget the salient point.

writing, I had for, between two and three years, been occupying rooms on Tenth street, in the lower part

Frequently, also, chairs were placed upon the grass in the front part of the garden facing the street

Evidently he was disinclined to take part in any discussion which would be likely to arouse feelings

This story, if my recollection serves me not amiss, was written by the same friend of Mr.

His habit was to be absent from the house for the whole or the greater part of the evening.

For my part when I meet anyone of erudition I want to get away, it terrifies me.

"I think," said Walt, "I shall have to leave these parts.

We want pretty verbiage, part of a poem or a picture, without reference to the whole."

Then the fine vista of buildings, some four and five stories high.

It has marred that story-telling faculty—the memory.

—Spent several hours of January 2 with Whitman (on my way home from New Orleans).

, a complimentary benefit on the part of friends and disciples,—Mr.

The corner grocery-man pointed out a low, two-story frame house...

"As he told the story slowly and clearly, the effect was peculiar.

The latter part of May appeared the last booklet issued by Walt Whitman,—"Good-bye my Fancy."

"Of course, I know—" he directed me: "—and then you see a little two story frame house, grey, that's

which Whitman applies this word to Carlyle, viz: II 169.) * *Volume and page quotations from the 1891-'2

I, for my part, shall never forget how he read the simple words, 'the hospitals, oh, the hospitals.'

To write the life of a human being takes many a book, and after all the story is not told."

The rest of this call's conversation consisted almost entirely of questions on my part, and extremely

The dingy little two-storied domicile is so disappointingly different from what we were expecting to

A moment later we are in his presence, in the spacious second-story room which is his sleeping apartment

his rolling and ample shirt-collar, worn without a tie, is open at the throat and exposes the upper part

Whitman is at once interested, and questions until he has drawn out the pathetic story of her struggles

Why should he have deemed it his part to submit to the axe?

He had a way of spending at least a part of his Sundays with the Harneds—(Mr.

Yet he is occupied the larger part of every day.

I have already alluded to it: a second-story room, about twenty feet square, facing north.

He delights to tell and to hear stories. His sense of the humorous is strong.

Who will play his part for him? And Hawthorne—wasn't he expected?

Traubel .— But meantime, Donaldson, what's become of your Oscar Wilde story?

Whitman, that my story didn't even get started. Whitman .— I own it, Tom. Go on.

Whitman .— No doubt, Harrison, that is part of the story—but there's a deal more beyond—a deal more!

For me the democracy of your verse is only the lesser and smaller part of it.

and of the Pacific, the Mississippi, the great lakes, the Gulf of Mexico, cities and towns in all parts—the

Born almost in its outskirts, he passed the greater part of his life in and about the vast city, which

Last comes Philadelphia,—for Camden, though in New Jersey, is essentially a part of that city.

The scenes of homely peasant life told him the full story of what went before, and necessitated, the

The piece was "Romeo and Juliet," and Rossi played his part with much ardor, as well as delicacy.

everywhere well known or easily taken for granted, Walt Whitman was also personally most accessible; it was part

end, but that to that end the most perfect equilibrium was essential, the physical having its great part

There had been no misunderstanding of his words on my part, and no contradiction, save of the accidental

The story of his career has been written at by many hands, and material for a complete biography has

diffused clews and indirections," covering an acquaintanceship of about twenty years, during the greater part

His theme was himself and his book, and he told the story not at all to me, as it seemed, but as though

I have seen a manuscript, a part of "November Boughs," a single page of which was composed of at least

, others on the blue paper that had once formed a part of the cover of a pamphlet, and each piece of

It is two stories high, without a basement, and the poet's bedchamber is on the second story, and does

the "Leaves," and in you are reverence and affection; despondency and despair are as truly component parts

(For a little of the first part of that time in printing a daily and weekly paper.) 1855.

Whitman had not taken much part in the great Abolutionist Abolitionist propaganda which preceded the

One White House story comes to me of his leaving Lincoln in wrath, "slamming the doors behind him" because

I think also that he was the hero of the famous whisky story of Lincoln, now an undying part of the literature

Of the noisy, frothy world he never seemed to be a part, was more at home with the chestnut tress and

listened in benevolent, complacent wonder to argument, heard my speech as if it were by no means a new story

Nor does the freedman appear in any part of the poet's noble vision of the restored Union.

I had been teaching country school for two or three years in various parts of Suffolk and Queens counties

Our transcription is based on Walt Whitman, Autobiographia: or the Story of a Life (New York: Charles

Our transcription is based on Walt Whitman, Autobiographia: or the Story of a Life (New York: Charles

The poet was in his own room on the second story, a comfortable apartment about six yards square.

A two-story-and-a half frame building, painted a dark brown, with the upper shutters closed and the edges

White curtains were drawn part way down.

For years it was my wish to live long enough to round out my life's story in my little book, 'The Leaves

There are stories of unrequited love, of war and of deeds of chivalry.

When we parted I gave him a copy of my poems. I trust we shall meet again.

up," the same yielding, with reservations by each of us, the same apprehensive watchfulness on his part

In Miriam's Heritage , a story written by me before my marriage and published by Harper Brothers, a headline

troubled himself little about its politics, or, indeed, the politics of any party; they were each but a part

the applause that greeted it drove him into his shell again, and he made no allusion to the social part

with me, and then, seated on one of the benches beneath a gnarled old apple-tree, we told each other stories

I awoke just in time to hear the preacher tell the story of Dives and Lazarus.

Walt Whitman, who was 71 years old on May 31, was found yesterday sitting at the window of his two-story

His shirt was wide open at the throat, exposing his large neck and part of his bosom.

At the door, as we passed into the street, we met a postman with an armful of letters from many parts

: Walt Whitman April 22 '90 Then he added his message of regard to "the boys in New York," and we parted

to bring forth any more books, but I still write whenever the spirit moves me, (and you know I am part

the supreme merits of his own work, and labors on serenely, notwithstanding the fact that so large a part

to be a line or two in the "Light of Asia" especially that was available for use in a variety of stories

The heads at the windows were drawn in and the group of little ones parted and went their way.

Whitman enjoyed it no less on his part. In the afternoon he was faint after the excitement.

Walt Whitman, the old poet, was sitting in what he calls his "den," the north room, second story, of

magazines covering the floor, the accumulation of the ten years he has had his "den" in the second story

Walt Whitman's cottage is a very plain, rather dingy, two-storied and attic-roofed frame dwelling, such

wide, rolling collar, open well at the front, leaving bare the strong, columnar neck and the upper part

The lower part of the face set well forward. The whole shape, a large and distinct oval.

To write the life of a human being takes many a book, and after all the story is not told.

In the little frame house on Mickle street, Camden, confined to his second story front room, with a cheerless

However, after much fruitless search, I succeeded in finding the abode in which the poet dwells—a two-storied

For my part, I said, I thought Mr.

It was with regret that I parted from him—his talk was so eloquent, so free, and so flowing, and there

A large part of 'Leaves of Grass' consists of war poems on a variety of themes, all jotted down at the

Every Day Talk: Walt Whitman's Story of the Purpose of His Writings—Odds and Ends EVERY DAY TALK.

Walt Whitman's Story of the Purpose of His Writings—Odds and Ends.

"I had to deal with the physical, corporeal and amative—that part which is developed between the ages

It is that part of my endeavor which has caused the harshest criticism and prevented candid examination

Alone with his housekeeper he reigns undisturbed in the two-story frame house, editing his random verses

in the morning sunlight, which streamed upon a carpet of waste paper—letters, journals, pamphlets, story

Whack away at everything pertaining to literary life—mechanical part as well as the rest.