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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).

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.

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

He tells us that he loves us and proves it by narrating as parts of his own being our inmost thoughts

Medea's cauldron is a reference to the story of Greek myth, Medea and Aeson, in which Jason (Aeson's

Medea's cauldron is a reference to the story of Greek myth, Medea and Aeson, in which Jason (Aeson's

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

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

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

This royalty was fixed at twenty-five cents for every $2 copy sold.

But the author, feeling that he could not remove a part of the work of his life without endangering its

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

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.

And the story ran that Mr.

Parts of it remind one of the "Manuscript Symphony of Dolon," but the most of it is an echo of Emerson

He had never gone farther than the first part; so digusted was he that he threw the book across the room

It is not essentially altered in the main part, nor is what coarseness was once there in the least softened

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

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

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

size, same sort of type, binding &c as 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.

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.

Camden New Jersey April 2 '82 My dear Dana Yes I am willing you should make extracts—Enclosed (suggestions

Dana, 2 April 1882

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

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

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

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

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)

Boston, March 21 188 2 Walt Whitman Esq Dear Sir: Since our letter of yesterday we have received a memorandum

The seven lines entitled "To a Common Prostitute" beginning on page 299 and ending on page 300 303. 2-

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

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).

just rec'd received —I will be happy to see you Saturday next—Will be in from 9 to 10½ forenoon—& from 2

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

Feb: 18—Evn'g— Yours of 15th rec'd received , with the $10 for Centennial Edition—2 vols volumes —Sincere

send it forth to the world with a complacent smirk required great courage—or brazen effrontery—on the part

Holmes sings, he yet may have succeeded in uttering but a small part of the music that is in him.

things, One swallow does not make a summer, nor do a few happy turns of phrase make a poet—for our part

is a common saying among publishers that next to very warm praise of a book downright abuse on the part

Osgood & Co. 1881. $2. Simon-pure, short for "the real Simon Pure," means real or genuine.

Croly to Walt Whitman, 2 May 1882

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

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;

REES WELSH & CO., BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS. 23 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, 6.5 188 2 Walt Whitman

Boston, Mch March 29 188 2 Walt Whitman Esq Dear Sir: We do not think the official mind will be satisfied

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

Kirkwood amid the pouring rain—nothing like a ducking I say to make a fellow appreciate sunshine, the old story

Boston, May 4 188 2 Walt Whitman Esq.

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

REES WELSH & CO., BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS, 23 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, 6. 16 188 2 Walt Whitman

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

The Herald, Boston, May 26 188 2 Dear Walt Whitman: I thank you heartily for the "little picture."

Price, $2.] "Leaves of Grass"

Times—2½ columns headed "Whitman Poet and Seer" if you have not I will send you one.

Boston, April 10 188 2 Walt Whitman Esq Dear Sir: We have laid before the District Attorney the alterations

very bad piece of luck has happened to me in my new Boston book—but it would be quite a complicated story

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

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

. $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.

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