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I intend to excoriate them for their shameful part in this shameful transaction.

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.

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

wish you would let me know the price, as I have enquiries on this point, and can only suppose it is $2,

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

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

While answering freely, Walt wound up this part of the conversation by saying that those were problems

Not the least part of his visit, it may be noted, is the intertwining, which is becoming closer and closer

But as for Tennyson, he has not allowed himself to be a part of the living world, and of the great currents

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.

Yet consider the forces that make the flower, the elements that are parts of it, the intricacy of its

eras, a few octillions of cubic leagues, do not hazard the span, or make it impatient, They are but parts

, anything is but a part.

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

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

but the overlying grace of the poet and the underlying spirit of the philanthropist animate every part

promised, When through these States walk a hund- red hundred millions of superb persons, When the rest part

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

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

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

that the "Children of Adam" pieces were inevitable and consistent—and in that sense, at least, proper—parts

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).

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

.; Washington, Recd | Oct | 26 | 5 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

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

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

It is postmarked: Camden | May | 17 | 2 PM | N.J.; Washington, D.C. | May | (?) | 1882 | Recd.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am sure as I can be all of those elaborated and lengthy parts from Man's Moral Nature should be ruled

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

article on April 2; evidently he returned the galleys of the "Notes" on April 9 (Whitman's Commonplace

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

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

March 31 '82 U S A Down here again spending a few days—nothing very different—pretty much the same story

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

Dana, 2 April 1882