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wish you would let me know the price, as I have enquiries on this point, and can only suppose it is $2,
Next thing we shall have to meet, will be the stories of what Emerson said to this man or that man.
I wish the article I wrote for Bucke could appear, because a part of it was devoted to the recent critiques
It is all right for you to take such an attitude as you do toward them—for you personally; but my part
, and the part of all your friends, is to whale them.
The story has gone broadcast over the country, and must have dismayed the Comstockians.
I heard a story once how the brilliant Douglas Jerrold astonished an evening party in London by a constant
I feel like imitating this wit, and saying, not in parting but in welcome, to our new friend, "Good Morrow
The New York Times of yesterday has a notice—by Montgomery, I suppose—excellent in parts, prodigiously
I intend to excoriate them for their shameful part in this shameful transaction.
The whole volume, in its arrangement, is pregnant with Whitman's personality, and it seems more a part
…Prefaces to "Leaves of Grass," l855, 1872, 1876…Poetry Today in America…Death of Abraham Lincoln…Stories
The parts that deal with the war have been emphasized as forming one of the most important phases of
Occasionally throughout the book, and as notable as any parts, are some of Whitman's special letters.
Here, for example, is one which tells its own story. CAMDEN, N. J., U. S. A., Dec. 20, 1881.
.; P O | 10-2(?)-82 | 6 I A | N.Y.
that Ed was up here in Camden in a store—(I have not seen Ed yet)—Van I send you a paper—read that story
just rec'd received —I will be happy to see you Saturday next—Will be in from 9 to 10½ forenoon—& from 2
troublesome job was off my hands The enclosed adv't advertisement will give you some idea of it —a great part
On August 2, 1882, Spofford, the Librarian of Congress, acknowledged that the 1860 edition had been entered
which they will put freely in the market in ten or twelve days—exactly as squelched in Boston,—(a $2
very bad piece of luck has happened to me in my new Boston book—but it would be quite a complicated story
Walt Whitman I also supply, when desired, my prose volume "Specimen Days & Collect"—price $2.—374 pages
Leaves of Grass, (in a style as good as the Osgood issue) from W W's electrotype plates to retail at $2—
Leaves of Grass, to be of about the same size & in equally good type, paper & style & to retail at $2—
WW a Study to retail at $2—will call soon W W Walt Whitman to Rees Welsh & Company, 20 June 1882
I am sure as I can be all of those elaborated and lengthy parts from Man's Moral Nature should be ruled
March 31 '82 U S A Down here again spending a few days—nothing very different—pretty much the same story
Camden N J June 2 '82 Dear Baxter My friend John Sands, a veteran magazine & newspaper writer, has just
Guernsey — Walt Whitman If printed send me three or four copies— Walt Whitman to Sylvester Baxter, 2
article on April 2; evidently he returned the galleys of the "Notes" on April 9 (Whitman's Commonplace
It is postmarked: Camden | Nov | 14 | 2 PM | N.J.; P. O. | 11-14-82 | 7-1P | N.Y.
Camden New Jersey April 2 '82 My dear Dana Yes I am willing you should make extracts—Enclosed (suggestions
Dana, 2 April 1882
My dear Madam — Yours of 9th rec'd received —I should be pleased to send you the book—the price is $2—
Pearsall; see frontispiece to The Correspondence (New York: New York University Press, 1961–69), vol. 2;
Feb: 18—Evn'g— Yours of 15th rec'd received , with the $10 for Centennial Edition—2 vols volumes —Sincere
William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 2:310).
, binding, general appearance &c. with L of G—same price—As I write (Sunday afternoon) up in my 3d story
–22); "To a Common Prostitute" (pp. 299–300, in entirety); "Unfolded Out of the Folds" (p. 303, ll. 2–
As I write, (Sunday afternoon) up in my 3d story room, heavy clouds & rain falling in torrents.
431 Stevens Street Camden Jan: 18 Walt Whitman will be in from 2 till 3½ this afternoon, & will be most
his noblest works" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1915], 2:
The quotation was from a letter written by Swinburne to Wilde on February 2 (Feinberg).
Whitman forwarded to O'Connor three letters from William Harrison Riley, dated March 5, April 2, and
that the "Children of Adam" pieces were inevitable and consistent—and in that sense, at least, proper—parts
It is postmarked: Camden | May | 17 | 2 PM | N.J.; Washington, D.C. | May | (?) | 1882 | Recd.
.; Washington, Rec'd | Oct | 8 | 5 30 AM | 1882 | 2.
.; Washington, Recd | Oct | 26 | 5 AM | 1882 | 2.
S. mail part—but the Mass: Massachusetts statutes on printed "indecency" are sweepingly stringent I believe
. | Oct | 30 | 4 30 AM | 1882 | 2.
letter from Ezra H Heywood—dated Princeton, Mass: Massachusetts —Heywood has been arrested by Comstock—part
As I write, it is a cloudy moist warmish Sunday, 10¼ a. m. pleasant—quiet here—I am up in my 3d story
. | Nov | 13 | 430 AM | 1882 | 2.
under—of which I the slightest idea though—but I feel sure the book will gather added, perhaps a main part
The Herald supported Whitman against the Boston censors on May 24 and 28, and on June 2 it quoted Oscar
A front-page story on July 15 quoted at length the defense of Leaves of Grass offered by the Reverend
spirited drives along the Wissahickon, the rocks and banks, the hemlocks, Indian Rock—Miss Willard, Miss Kate
Whitman was again with the Smiths from December 30 to January 2 (Whitman's Commonplace Book).
The issue also contained a review of Specimen Days (2–3).
account & formal letter shift the relative positions—but taking in Judge R[ay]'s remarks which are a part
"a dozen times" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1915], 2:
. | Dec | 18 | 430 AM | 1882 | 2.
size, same sort of type, binding &c as L of G—same price—as I write, (Sunday afternoon) up in my 3d story
It is postmarked: Philadelphia | Dec | 14 | 2 PM | (?); Washington, Recd. | (?) | 5 AM | 1882 | 2.
This is the edition to which Whitman refers in his postcard of December 2, 1881.
strange frame of mind, yet common to us all—we feel it an imperious duty or a thrilling impulse to take part
Recently then, some 2 months ago, I think, he has delivered an address before the German Anthropological
got into any trouble there—he & a friend had a rather narrow escape for there their lives in those parts