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Miss Kate Hillard wrote me she is to be in Phila.

Tribune of last Saturday (19th ) had the 2½ column synopsis of my new book, pretty full & fair —I suppose

again before you sail'd sailed —I was at Mrs Lesley's again about three weeks since (to meet Miss Kate

Lesley, Kate Hillard, & the two Miss Lesleys, daughters —us four, only, no men-critters but me—I was

This letter is addressed: Miss Kate Hillard, | 186 Remsen street, | Brooklyn, | New York.

I enclose you some slips—those relating to myself, (which tell their own story) because I know you will

I tell you this partly to show you I still take some part in affairs, though I am badly shattered & old

Jan. 2, 1876 My dear Mr.

A great part of "Two Rivulets," prose and poetry, is fresh matter, hitherto unpublished. Mr.

Gilder to Walt Whitman, 2 January 1876

2 Pembroke Gardens, W. London.

I can only suppose you have seen some bungled & mutilated telegram embodying part of the statement of

seems obvious in the face of a dozen such passages as the famous "Burial Hymn," or the picturesque parts

his prose style may be justly criticised as heavy and disjointed, but the intrinsic interest of the story

It is the old story of Achilles and Patroclus transferred from windy Troy to the banks of the Potomac

private Calculated to make from 2 1/3d to 2 2/3d columns, in the ordinary nonpareil, (or minion, is it

(After getting from you John Burroughs' picture, I sent him in latter part of June '75 a short note and

His biography The Life of Washington relayed several apocryphal stories about George Washington and was

affairs. ( over all sent in a package by Express Sept 5 '76 Mr Harry Lobb £1—1 Richard Bentley Esq. 2—

2 Mr Salaman 1 Mr Browning 2 Mrs Dickens 1—1 Thomas Ashe Alfred Tennyson 5 Townsend Mayer School of Art

361876, Oct.2, "In Memory of Thomas Paine," signed draftloc.01076xxx.00943[Some 35 years ago]1876prosehandwritten6

leaves; Dated "Oct 2 '76" on the last page, this manuscript is a draft of Whitman's speech on Thomas

431 Stevens st Camden New Jersey Sept 2 '76 Scribner, Armstrong & Co: Dear Sirs, I have forwarded you

Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Scribner, Armstrong & Company, 2

He has been "cross" for some days, but appears to be well always—curiously, tho 19 1/2 months old and

I think you may have omitted to "celebrate" one very important part of human nature.

ceases to be a virtue , never was cited tial ecclesiastical by an A for a of the same name important part

May 2. 1876 Dear Walt: Enclosed I send you a copy of a letter received by William.

Eldridge to Walt Whitman, 2 May 1876

This is the whole story. And now what warrant has the Rev. Mr.

description in of December 3, 1881, of Emerson’s talk as a statement “of all that could be said against that part

(and a main part) in the construction of my poems, ‘Children of Adam.’”

right to send torsh forth a letter in wholesale, sweeping, absolute commendation of a book, concerning part

Rochester, April 2, 1876 D[ear] Sir Early in the year 1863—I think in the final month—I lay on a cot

Knapp to Walt Whitman, 2 April 1876

way to bring out the splendid ardor & friendship of those, my unknown friends, my best reward, art & part

Whitman sent the two books on March 2, 1876 (Commonplace Book, Charles E.

Seeger Since writing my note I have secured the promise of one subscription & possibly with it 2 more

He is no longer one of the curiosities of the Republic; and while the stories of his extreme poverty

venerable and heavenly forms of chiming versification have in their time played great and fitting parts

Put in they chants, said he, No more the puzzling hour, nor day—nor segments, parts, put in, Put first

New York 27 Apl 187 6 Brother Walt Whitman Please send us by Express (address as above) 2 sets your books

My new edition 2 Vols Volumes is out & bound, & pictured & autographed .

29Songs of Parting.

leaves; Corrected pages, many originally appearing in the 1876 Leaves of Grass, of cluster Songs of Parting

Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title page reads, "Songs of Parting, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's

Finalé to the Shore, As they Draw to a Close, The Untold Want, Portals, These Carols, To the Reader at Parting

Songs of Parting

in soliciting the subscriptions shall we request parties to communicate direct with you or shall the 2'

Edw Carpenter June 3 '76 2 sets sent 4 vols altogether 45. Brunswick Square Brighton 3.

He is no longer one of the curiosities of the Republic; and while the stories of his extreme poverty

venerable and heavenly forms of chiming versification have in their time played great and fitting parts

Put in they chants, said he, No more the puzzling hour, nor day—nor segments, parts, put in, Put first

So he turned and went away in a rage" (2 Kings 5:12).

The review that is quoted here in parts originally appeared in the New York Daily Tribune , 19 February

So he turned and went away in a rage" (2 Kings 5:12).; "But wisdom is justified of all her children"

I once wrote to you before, but I fear you may not have got the letter—it was about Xmas, 2 years ago

Part of the Sky]1876–1877prose2 leaveshandwritten; A heavily revised draft fragment of The Sky—Days and

Part of the Sky]

Draft fragment of Autumn Side-Bits, that first appeared in the 29 January 1881 issue of The Critic as part

Whitman further revised this prose piece before including it in Specimen Days & Collect (1882–1883) as part

& library we have here, very handy—then home to my own dinner chicken & nice roast potatoes—& now (2½

been moderate & nice here—Nothing new or special in my affairs—I am selling a few of my books (the new 2

I spent a good part of the day over Two Rivulets, the Preface, & the Memoranda of the War, & was not

The non-moral parts of it, such parts as simply are the "tally" of nature are taken up into other portions

of & are spiritualized; & each part belongs to the other.

Memoranda during war 6/—, & all 3 for £2; & of each of these only 100 copies printed.

In the book before us, his peculiar powers are exhibited in all their innate force, and the prose part

is quite as original and interesting as the poetical part.

it was his interest to pay you entire & secure your new book then announced, &c &c To make a long story

Buchanan's letter of April 28, 1876, in addition to these names, cited a contribution £2 from Browning

, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [1906–1996], 1:2–

He says in a concluding part of the preface: Without being a scientist, I have thoroughly adopted the

Put in thy chants, said he, No more the puzzling hour, nor day—nor segments, parts, put in, Put first

2.

emotional, artistic, indefinable, indescribably beautiful charm and hold which fused the separate parts

venerable and heavenly forms of chiming versification have in their time played great and fitting parts

No more the visible human fleeting, fractional face or limb, Nor hour, nor day—no segments, parts put

The order of the manuscript has been established based in part upon the order of linegroups in the poem

On the back of the fourth leaf is part of a faded letter in a hand other than Whitman's. Eidólons

first published in the New York Daily Tribune (19 February 1876), which contains only a version of Part

See Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden (1906–1996), 9 vols., 2:139.

Dublin, 18/2 187 6 My dear Mr Whitman I send you an order for 39/= for a copy of your works the $10 edition

leaf12 x 19.5 cm; This manuscript appears to have been a trial cover leaf for the cluster Songs of Parting

feature draft lines which appeared slightly revised in the 29 January 1881 issue of the The Critic as part

Much of this draft first appeared in the 29 January 1881 issue of The Critic, as part of How I Get Around

Sea-Shore Fancies, a short prose piece that first appeared in the 29 January 1881 issue of The Critic, as part

Wallis, Kensington Art Museum—(& I believe one or two others)—I sent 2 copies Memoranda of War (one bound

.; Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [1906–1996], 1:2).

(No. 1.) before appearing in Specimen Days, as part of the section titled New Themes Entered Upon.

verse, or a response to a newspaper piece about the frigate bird (also known as the man-of-war-bird), part

poem—but I will promise to be there, & speak just a little (say 10 minutes)—if I can be put on the early part