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Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 25 June [1875]
—love to my darling son— Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 30 April [1875]
Your loving old comrade & father Walt W papers &c came Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 6 August [1875]
bad week—papers &c. came all right—will try to send you better news next time— WW Walt Whitman to Peter
—must get in some time before dark— Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 5 November [1875]
WW Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 17 September [1875]
enough to realize the deep criticism of Jefferson on Walter Scott's writings, (& many of the finest plays
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 19 February
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 12 February
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 19 March
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 5 February
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 26 February
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 3 November
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 16 April
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 7 May [1875
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 23 April
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 26 March
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 2 October
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 20 August
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 4 September
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 14 May [1875
meet you at the Depot the train gets to Wash 4:10 PM i will Say no more until i see you So Long Pete Peter
Whitman pasted this letter together with a letter he received from Peter Doyle.
out of money— we put my boo flag) on top our house fap flap we will bin bring big fiddles too, for play
You might hear his voice, half in sport, declaiming some passage from a poem or play; and his song or
will our ordinary verse-making, our system of forcing thought into all sorts of received forms, our playing
Buchanan, who have praised his performances, appear to me to be playing off on the public a well-intentioned
, arising out of a life of depression and enervation as their result—or else that class of poetry, plays
Whitman saw in New York in the 1850s, and who Whitman mentions in the section of Specimen Days entitled Plays