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belief in this truth since it burst upon me a veritable sunrise in reading your poems in 1869—each part

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

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

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

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

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

your letter seems to imply that this possible change is the result of a "settled decision" on our part

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-

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

We are given to understand that if certain parts of the book should be withdrawn its further circulation

Boston, May 4 188 2 Walt Whitman Esq.

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'

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

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

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

But man is a rational animal, and not like the beasts, which have no sense; and all effort on his part

Price, $2.] "Leaves of Grass"

The poet's allusions to death are among the finest passages in his works, and his songs of parting are

In reference to the position which a part of the public has taken towards the book we are reminded of

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

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

Croly to Walt Whitman, 2 May 1882

into account the imagination often informing some one of these rhapsodies as a whole, even when its parts

him of in my name, that I have by no manner of means relaxed my admiration of his noblest works—such parts

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.

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

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, 7, 5 188 2 Walt Whitman

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

but a little humor, his poetry would have been less immoral; and we prefer to think that it is but a part

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

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.

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

. $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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Rolleston's poem "Calvin Harlowe" appeared in Kottabos, 4.1 (1882), 1–2.

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

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

This is the edition to which Whitman refers in his postcard of December 2, 1881.

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

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

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

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

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

–22); "To a Common Prostitute" (pp. 299–300, in entirety); "Unfolded Out of the Folds" (p. 303, ll. 2–