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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

You play a prominent part in this picture—seated at table bending over a nosegay of flowers, poetizing

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

I will send you the proof for suggestions & revision, especially the part that relates to you Eldridge

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,

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

. | MAR | 14 | 2 PM | RECD.

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

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

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

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

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

.— 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

"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

On the contrary I feel that it is a part of our life where the exercise of human freedom must come in

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

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.

It is a very warm Sunday afternoon—as I write up in my third story south room— W W Walt Whitman to Anne

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

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

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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

that composite American identity of the future, Spanish character will supply some of the most needed parts

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

Walt Whitman to Thomas Donaldson, 2 December 1883

Charles Fairchild, the president of a paper company, to whom Whitman sent the Centennial Edition on March 2,

Whitman's "eyes were full of tears" (With Walt Whitman in Camden [New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1915], 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.

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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.

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

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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.

. | Aug | 30 | 4 30 AM | 1883 | 2.