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1883prose3 leaveshandwritten; Three-page draft of The Attempted Official Suppression, a section of Part
2, Chapter 1, History of Leaves of Grass, in Richard Maurice Bucke's 1883 biography, Walt Whitman.
manuscript draft of the poem, My Canary Bird, which was first published in the New York Herald on March 2,
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Jan 11 '83 Dear Sir Yours of 2 d just rec'd received .
Whitman was with the Smiths from December 30 to January 2 (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E.
The editors deducted $2 for the offprints which Whitman requested.
AM | 1883 | 2.
. | Feb | 20 | 4 30 AM | 1883 | 2.
. | Feb | 22 | 430 AM | 1883 | 2.
Philadelphia, 2 Mo. 23 188 3 Walt Whitman Camden NJ My dear friend I claim the privileges of the name
irrevocably for me and in name and stead, but to use, to sell, assign, transfer and set over, all or any part
. | Feb | 24 | 4 30 AM | 1883 | 2.
. | Feb | 24 | 4 30 AM | 1883 | 2.
any time within the next two weeks, I would sit either in the forenoon say 10 to 12—or afternoon say 2
Whitman's "eyes were full of tears" (With Walt Whitman in Camden [New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1915], 2:
. | MAR | 14 | 2 PM | RECD.
that there was no reason why the letter should not appear twice, or even three times in different parts
not already done) to forward the parcel to you at Providence— I last night forwarded proofs of good part
the text—but helping the typography & reader—I think most decidedly helping — The foot note (early part
You told me McKay could get the pictures printed in Phila at $1.80 or $2 p.m. have a letter from McK.
for wh which I feel very grateful—But dear Walt be very careful like a good fellow with chap iii of part
In "In Analysis of Poems, Continued" (part 2, chapter 3), Bucke presents a religious interpretation of
I shall not feel half comfortable untill until I have had the proof of the rest of p part ii and have
You said in letter of 14th that 1st batch of proof of pt part ii would be sent on 15th I have seen nothing
. | MAR | 22 | 2 PM | RECD.; LONDON | PM | MR 20 | 83 | CANADA.
Asylum for Insane, Mar. 27, 1883 Proofs of bulk of app. to pt part ii received this day and now returned—please
After writing "Carlyle and Emerson" for The Critic, 2 (20 May 1882), 140–141, and an unsigned review
see notes Sept 2 & 4, 1888 Providence, R.I. April 1, 1883.
The parting at Providence was hard. I fear I shall never see Jeannie well again.
| 2.
Do you see in the Heywood trial, the Judge peremptorily ruled out the L of G Leaves of Grass slips part
the indictment—(which ruling out "was received with applause") & H was afterwards on the remaining part
or parts acquitted.
. | Apr | 15 | 4 30 AM | 1883 | 2.
On the contrary I feel that it is a part of our life where the exercise of human freedom must come in
You play a prominent part in this picture—seated at table bending over a nosegay of flowers, poetizing
My special trouble now is what they call schlerosis —an induration of the lower part of the spinal cord
him—and so he got a full excoriation before crossing Styx, for after he died, I took out the severest parts
A front-page story on July 15 quoted at length the defense of Leaves of Grass offered by the Reverend
It is a very warm Sunday afternoon—as I write up in my third story south room— W W Walt Whitman to Anne
The Camden County Courier noticed the book on June 2, the New York Times on July 1 (see the letter from
have ever seen them We are all well and send you love R M Bucke Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 2
compliment)—the wonder is not that there are a few errors & plate-breakages—but that there are so few—your part
. | Jun | 14 | 4 30 AM | 1883 | 2.
It reminds me of a story Henry Peterson told me.
. | Jun | 19 | 4 30 AM | 1883 | 2.
. | Jun 19 83 | 2 30 PM; P.O. | 6-19-83 | 7-1 P | N.Y.
the struggle to ministering to the sick and wounded in the military hospitals, living for the most part
external Nature, on the songs and habits of birds, on the trees, the skies, the stars, of which a great part
so shaped in reference to this, and that, and the other, that the simply good and healthy and brave parts
For his own part (p. 326), Whitman thinks— "the problem of origins, human and other, is not the least
that composite American identity of the future, Spanish character will supply some of the most needed parts
have successively added, or from which they have subtracted—we should have expected that the greater part
Part of the present prose has appeared before in his books, part in the magazines, and part in the newspapers
any person, place, or thing to which the author "feels to devote a memorandum," falling for the most part
add, in every respect but one,—in this instance, the reader can discover a definite meaning on the part
Book of Ezekiel 2:1. The edition of Messrs.
Book of Ezekiel 2:1.; The edition of Messrs.
We have had pleasant glimpses of several American friends this summer—of Kate Hillard for instance, who
overturned them & it—but when they crawled out no worse harm was done than a few cuts from the glass—& Kate
He may have fabricated this story because Mrs. Stafford wanted to borrow money.
The latter part of June Gilder & I went to Concord & spent a couple of days there, called on Mrs Mrs.
According to his Commonplace Book, Whitman sent the two books on August 2, but the postmark is clearly
. | Aug | 30 | 4 30 AM | 1883 | 2.
Glasgow, 1883. 2. Specimen Days and Collect Same author. Glasgow, 1883. 3. Poems of Walt Whitman .
the Preface of 1876, 'I have felt temporary depression more than once, for fear that in the moral parts
Following these, and forming the concluding part of the Specimen Days , is a number of memoranda written
The greater part of them are distributed under the headings—'Inscriptions,' 'Children of Adam,' 'Calamus
The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt-marsh and shore-mud; These become part
| 1883 | 2.
to the subject, but I believe it is the best I can do after all and so it must go—as for the paying part
. | Sep | 14 | 4 30 AM | 1883 | 2.
. | Sep 17 83 | 2 30 PM.
This letter is endorsed: "Answ'd Dec 2/83."
It is postmarked: Camden | Sep | 25 | 4 PM | N.J.; Washington, Recd. | Sep | 26 | 5 AM | 1883 | 2.