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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).

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

The issue also contained a review of Specimen Days (2–3).

The New York Times of yesterday has a notice—by Montgomery, I suppose—excellent in parts, prodigiously

I will tell you a story about Percy's mother, when she was a little child, seven years old.

They are but parts of the actual distraction, heat, smoke, and excitement of those times.

The poet and short story writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) also served as editor of the Atlantic

The American poet and critic Richard Henry Stoddard (1825-1903) was part of a circle of genteel writers

.; The poet and short story writer Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) also served as editor of the Atlantic

. | Dec | 18 | 430 AM | 1882 | 2.

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 2:310).

It is postmarked: Philadelphia | Dec | 14 | 2 PM | (?); Washington, Recd. | (?) | 5 AM | 1882 | 2.

As for the rest, some is quite formless; but for the most part there is a strongly marked and characteristic

A 'sane sensuality,' as it is called by one of his friends, is a necessary part of the ideal man.

On the whole no part of his work is more interesting than this; it is as if he were the born poet of

of heroes and martyrs, And when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part

of the earth, Then only shall liberty, or the idea of liberty, be discharged from that part of the earth

Walt Whitman I also supply, when desired, my prose volume "Specimen Days & Collect"—price $2.—374 pages

. $2.

A large part of the volume is occupied by Whitman's diary during the American War.

"They are but parts of the actual distraction, heat, smoke, and excitement of those times.

You annex your friends so closely, that your health & strength becomes part of theirs— I send you the

It is postmarked: Camden | Nov | 14 | 2 PM | N.J.; P. O. | 11-14-82 | 7-1P | N.Y.

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.

I wish I had room to quote all of Chainey's lecture, but a part must suffice.

Whoever you are, how superb and how divine is your body or any part of it!

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

"In his sight, no part or passion of the body is to be slighted or regarded as vulgar.

All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth,— These are contained in sex as parts of itself

The stories written while he was still in his teens are so melodramatic and unreal, that they would be

The passages about the civil war (he was in the hospitals through the greater part of the war) are very

This book is in two parts; the first part is devoted principally to the author's experience in Washington

The second part, or "Collect," is much the more elaborate portion of the work.

Added to this, in a second part of the book, are "Democratic Vistas," the long essay written for one

An appendix contains several stories written in the author's youth, and his two first attempts at poetry

The first part of the volume is mostly given up to war reminiscences, and is full of interest.

it with a memorandum ("mem.," as he is fond of neglecting to write it) made "Down in the Woods July 2,

got into any trouble there—he & a friend had a rather narrow escape for there their lives in those parts

I do not like the last part of the title; it brings me up with such a short turn.

S. mail part—but the Mass: Massachusetts statutes on printed "indecency" are sweepingly stringent I believe

. | Oct | 30 | 4 30 AM | 1882 | 2.

.; P O | 10-2(?)-82 | 6 I A | N.Y.

.; Washington, Recd | Oct | 26 | 5 AM | 1882 | 2.

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.

.; Washington, Rec'd | Oct | 8 | 5 30 AM | 1882 | 2.

octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span or make it im- patient impatient ; They are but parts

, any thing is but a part.

Whitman forwarded to O'Connor three letters from William Harrison Riley, dated March 5, April 2, and

One volume. 12mo. (7 5/8 x 5 3/8 in.), 382 pp., cloth; price, $2. Philadelphia: Rees Welsh & Co.

A great part of Whitman's poems is perfectly sound and safe reading for even the tenderest of girlhood

troublesome job was off my hands The enclosed adv't advertisement will give you some idea of it —a great part

, binding, general appearance &c. with L of G—same price—As I write (Sunday afternoon) up in my 3d story

As I write, (Sunday afternoon) up in my 3d story room, heavy clouds & rain falling in torrents.

size, same sort of type, binding &c as L of G—same price—as I write, (Sunday afternoon) up in my 3d story

I rec d received quite a long letter from Mrs Gilchrist the other day, part of which I extracted & sent

She lives in one of the most desirable parts of London; it was an hours ride out there on the 'buss'

Aug 12 188 2 My dear Walt— Nine years ago, I delivered before a German Society of New York City a lecture

Price, $2.] "Leaves of Grass"

On August 2, 1882, Spofford, the Librarian of Congress, acknowledged that the 1860 edition had been entered

it philosophy even to declare that the "sweat" and the "bowels" and "the toe-joints" are not only parts

WORTHINGTON, PUBLISHER, 770 BROADWAY New York July 25 188 2 Mr.

"a dozen times" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1915], 2:

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 story has gone broadcast over the country, and must have dismayed the Comstockians.

account & formal letter shift the relative positions—but taking in Judge R[ay]'s remarks which are a part

A front-page story on July 15 quoted at length the defense of Leaves of Grass offered by the Reverend

REES WELSH & CO., BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS. 23 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, 7, 5 188 2 Walt Whitman

which they will put freely in the market in ten or twelve days—exactly as squelched in Boston,—(a $2

REES WELSH & CO., BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS. 23 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, 6, 26 188 2 Walt Whitman

REES WELSH & CO., BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS. 23 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, June 21 188 2 Walt

favor of 20th, The terms regarding "Leaves of Grass" are satisfactory, we publishing the books for two (2)

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