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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

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

This tale may be, in part, autobiographical.

For more on the autobiographical aspects of this story, see " About 'The Shadow and the Light of a Young

Unlike Lugare, the cruel schoolmaster depicted in his story " Death in the School-Room.

See "The Conflagration," The Herald , December 18, 1835, [2].

Had he not ransacked every part of the city for employment as a clerk?

For more on the autobiographical aspects of this story, see "About 'The Shadow and the Light of a Young

Unlike Lugare, the cruel schoolmaster depicted in his story "Death in the School-Room. A Fact."

See "The Conflagration," The Herald, December 18, 1835, [2].; In the nineteenth century, most clerks

.— These lines were probably drafted as part of the poem published as "The Mississippi at Midnight" on

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

The workmen are up to the third story.

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

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

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).

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

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

, 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.

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Earth O River, you offer us burial1848poetry1 leafhandwritten; These lines were probably drafted as part

Parts of the poem were reworked and first published as section five of Passage to India (1871).

This page of notes, numbered "2," describes the journey across Lake Erie; Whitman's visits to Buffalo

.00480MS q 111wooding at nightbetween 1848 and 1887prose2 leaveshandwritten; Manuscript that chronicles part