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Commonplace Book, Whitman stayed with the Gilchrists from January 10 to 16 and from January 25 to February 2
Dear friend, I have (yesterday) sent a P.O.O for £2 for your 2 vols volumes .
press that the Editor of the Examiner sh d . have failed to pay you his just debt, especially after the 2
Within the last 2 or 3 years she had shown mental excitability of a morbid kind: she married Foote 8
December 1877 letter to Whitman (see also Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Sunday, December 2,
December 2, 1877.
Trowbridge to Walt Whitman, 2 December 1877
John Townsend Trowbridge (1827–1916) was a novelist, poet, author of juvenile stories, and anti-slavery
You know when you put it on there was but one thing to part it from me and that was death.
whether it will be of any interest to you—it ought to be for it was inspired directly by yourself—it is part
Putnam's Sons, 1879], 2).
New Jersey November 2 1877 Dear friend, I received your welcome letter on the 31, was glad to get it,
I hear that: Elmer was over to see you 2 times and you and him went over to Mrs.
Stafford PS write soon Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 2 November 1877
Saturday if nothing happens more than I know of now, will be down on the (5 ½) train, perhaps on the (2)
A evening she goes out, in the rain and darkness and returns at bed time, with scandal stories, of sexual
I am sorry to be compelled to give such a lamentable story. It would not appear well in print.
Walt Whitman to Edward Carpenter, 2 October [1877]
431 Stevens Street Camden Oct October 2 My dear girls (for this letter is for you both) I will just write
only room to send love from Uncle Walt Walt Whitman to Mannahatta Whitman and Jessie Louisa Whitman, 2
See Whitman's October 2, 1877 letter to Edward Carpenter.
See the letter from Walt Whitman to Mannahatta Whitman and Jessie Louisa Whitman of October 2, 1877.
sister has gone out to market—Hattie & Jessie are down stairs sewing—I am sitting up here in my 3d story
They were not miscellaneous poems, but one vol: a drama and the other a Chinese story.
Nothing but July 2, June, March John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 16 September 1877
out twice for short walks, (my little dog accompanying me)—rest of the time up here alone in my 3d story
G before now, but for incessant occupations, & in the last 2 mos. months much anxiety regarding my brother's
Mendocino Co., California Aug. 2. 1877 Walt Whitman My beloved.
Kate A. Evans. from the Californian Kate Evans (? rather gushing) Kate A.
Evans to Walt Whitman, 2 August 1877
No additional information is available about Kate A. Evans.
I may likely come East this fall or latter part of the summer to see about getting the money to start
Kirkwood New Jersey July 2— Dear boy Pete I still keep pretty well, & am again down here at the farm
back—Love, love, love, Your old Walt I still make my headquarters in Camden— Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 2
New Jersey , July 2, 1877.
Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 2 July 1877
Kirkwood noon July 2 .
for me—We expect to come up Friday—(possibly I not till Saturday)— WW Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 2
In a news article in the Camden Daily Post on August 2, which quoted from the Washington Star, Whitman
Up to 2 June, nothing that was worthy the name even of Spring: then suddenly on 3 June hot summer, continues
till until now—but less decidedly these 2 days.
Stevens st. street June 14—11 a m Dear friend I am afraid to venture out much in the heat of the day (as part
and and — please stand by them let no blandishments *Are you not ambiguous in "Two Rivulets" latter part
Kirkwood N J New Jersey May 17 Dear John Burroughs I am passing a good part of my time down here at the
treacherous you think so right around within a gun shot is a dozen Widows this is not a very healthy part
invite you to make us a visit some time during the summer & boy is at school he will be home the latter part
friend I have come up from White Horse, & think of visiting you tomorrow Wednesday—towards the latter part
In Days with Walt Whitman, Carpenter erred in dating his visit May 2 ([New York: The Macmillan Company
the author of The Fathers of Jesus: A Study of the Lineage of the Christian Doctrine and Traditions, 2
. | Apr | 12 | 2 (?) M | (?).
In an entry in his Commonplace Book on September 2, 1878, Whitman wrote the following note: "Mrs Sarah
Camden Monday evn'g evening April 2 Think of coming over to-morrow tomorrow Tuesday (say by 1½ o'clock
)—to stay perhaps till Thursday afternoon— WW Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 2 April [1877]
April 2 was on Monday in 1877.
This note is endorsed: "R | 4 | 2 | 77."
his hat, smilingly said, in response to calls for a speech, that he "must decline to take any other part
believes thoroughly not only in the future world, but the present, and especially in our American part
write a hurried line to let you know my whereabouts—Shall (probably) be returning to Camden latter part
Whitman leaves this week for Philadelphia, where he spends a part of his time with some English friends
biography of William Blake was completed by his wife, who wrote a preface, which is said to be the best part
He was in New York from March 2 to 27 (Commonplace Book, Charles E.
not write to you on that account, except that seeing you goes along with—is, in some sense, the main part
I enclose 2 or 3 specimens of much that I have been writing in spare hours of late—social complications
Whitman was with the Gilchrists from January 25 to February 2 (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E.
1877 My dear Sir, I hardly know through what a malign series of crooked events—absence chiefly on my part
If you will send me 2 copies of each, the other £1 will serve for postage.
receive any works printed by me—echoes of my studies in the history of Greece & Italy for the most part
Symonds is likely referring to his Studies of the Greek Poets (London: Smith, Elder, 1876, 2 vols.) and
I think of being over with you (in all probability) Sunday next, say to dinner about 2.
Washington, D.C.), and he stayed with the Gilchrists from January 10 to 16 and January 25 to February 2.
are quoted as being the work of an immoral writer, and, altho' although I tried to show they were part
Walt Whitman's works in England (see Harold Blodgett, "Whitman and Buchanan," American Literature, 2:
2 [May 1930], 131–40).
For the story of Swinburne's veneration of Whitman and his later recantation, see two essays by Terry
Camden Tuesday noon Jan 2 The snow is so heavy & the ferry obstructed so by ice I defer my coming for
well & will come soon—(I won't trouble you to come over for me) WW Walt Whitman to Herbert Gilchrist, 2
It is postmarked: Camden | Jan 2 | N.J.
Whitman ended up delaying his visit until January 10 to 16 and again from January 25 to February 2.
(No. 2), Critic (9 April 1881).
For the complex history of how Whitman, for Specimen Days, mined his six-part Critic series on How I
Part of a Lecture proposed, (never deliver'd.) in Specimen Days & Collect (1882–83).
notesTramp & strike questionabout 1882prose1 leafhandwritten; These notes, jotted with apparent haste, are part
Part of a Lecture proposed, (never deliver'd.) in Specimen Days & Collect (1882–83).
These notes first appeared in the 9 April 1881 issue of The Critic as part of How I Get Around at Sixty
(No. 2), under the section heading Convalescent Hours.