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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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

"He is wanting in two indispensable requisites for a great writer. (1) Knowledge—(2) Form."

for all time (giving permanent expression to facts of great interest & importance, but the theoretic part

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.

.— West Hills is a romantic and beautiful spot; it is the most hilly and elevated part of Long Island

place, it is indeed a fine situation, and it seemed familiar enough to me, for I remembered every part

that I remember, appear to have been cut down.— The Whitmans were among the earliest settlers of that part

by descendants in New England My father's grandfather was quite a large territorial owner in that part

the canvass covering of the stage was painted, would make me.— After my own grandmother died, in 18 2

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

Camden December 2, 1883 ["Acknowledging receipt of an invitation to the reception of Henry Irving, which

Walt Whitman to Thomas Donaldson, 2 December 1883

manuscript draft of the poem, My Canary Bird, which was first published in the New York Herald on March 2,

It reminds me of a story Henry Peterson told me.

He may have fabricated this story because Mrs. Stafford wanted to borrow money.

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Jan 11 '83 Dear Sir Yours of 2 d just rec'd received .

any time within the next two weeks, I would sit either in the forenoon say 10 to 12—or afternoon say 2

This letter is endorsed: "Answ'd Dec 2/83."

It is postmarked: Philadelphia, Pa. | Oct | 1 | 11 AM | Transit; Washington, Recd. | Oct | 2 | 4 30 AM

| 1883 | 2.

have ever seen them We are all well and send you love R M Bucke Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt Whitman, 2

William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 2:325).

Though no letter of receipt is currently known, Whitman marked the order "paid" (Daybooks and Notebooks, 2:

Though he would sometimes not touch a book fora week, he generally spent a part (though not a large part

APPENDIX TO PART I.

A poem a large part of which is 18.

As for the part taken by Messrs.

APPENDIX TO PART II.

The editors deducted $2 for the offprints which Whitman requested.

from December 22 to 26 (see Whitman's Commonplace Book and his letter to Harry Stafford of January 2,

Note also Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1915], 2:341, and

. | Dec 18 83 | 2 30 PM; P.O. | 12-18-83 | 9 P | N.Y.

. | Jun 19 83 | 2 30 PM; P.O. | 6-19-83 | 7-1 P | N.Y.

. | Feb | 24 | 4 30 AM | 1883 | 2.

AM | 1883 | 2.

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.

Asylum for Insane, Mar. 27, 1883 Proofs of bulk of app. to pt part ii received this day and now returned—please

Whitman was with the Smiths from December 30 to January 2 (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E.

| 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.

. | Feb | 24 | 4 30 AM | 1883 | 2.

. | Sep | 14 | 4 30 AM | 1883 | 2.

not already done) to forward the parcel to you at Providence— I last night forwarded proofs of good part

. | Jun | 19 | 4 30 AM | 1883 | 2.

I shall not feel half comfortable untill until I have had the proof of the rest of p part ii and have

the text—but helping the typography & reader—I think most decidedly helping — The foot note (early part

The latter part of June Gilder & I went to Concord & spent a couple of days there, called on Mrs Mrs.

After writing "Carlyle and Emerson" for The Critic, 2 (20 May 1882), 140–141, and an unsigned review

. | Sep 17 83 | 2 30 PM.

. | Feb | 20 | 4 30 AM | 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

. | MAR | 14 | 2 PM | RECD.

According to his Commonplace Book, Whitman sent the two books on August 2, but the postmark is clearly

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

see notes Sept 2 & 4, 1888 Providence, R.I. April 1, 1883.

that there was no reason why the letter should not appear twice, or even three times in different parts