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They say there is a time to be silent, and though no part or function of man if properly treated is disgraceful

It consists for the most part of hack writers to the press who think it no portion of their duty to know

Veiled obscenity in the shape of a joke, a spicy story, or the reports of criminal cases in the Pall

above all else zealous for the virtue of their womankind, just as if they had never laughed over the story

Gespräche mit Goethe , Leipzig, Band 1 und 2: 1836, Band 3: 1848, S. 743.

Gespräche mit Goethe, Leipzig, Band 1 und 2: 1836, Band 3: 1848, S. 743.; Ernest Rhys, "Introduction"

The owner wouldn't part with it at any price, and I bid as high as $20.

being in want of the necessaries of life, I will state that I make it a rule never to affirm or deny stories

2.

I leave the city to day for 2 or 3 months (Marlton N.J. Your friend Mr.

I have been collecting every little item pertaining to you for the past 2 or three years that I find

street after an inquiry or two, and finally arrived at number 328, which designates a modest, two story

By 2 o'clock I was all through with my part of the work and adjourned.

"I helped set part of the type myself.

politely invite everybody who happened to be sitting in the cave he had under the sidewalk to some other part

countenance, and so warm and captivating and magnetic were the glimpses we now and then caught of the inner part

There may be parts of Walt Whitman's poetry so incomprehensibly common, so deeply obscure, as to suggest

receiving it, it has occurred to me that perhaps you might have some matter of published manuscript (say parts

In the latter part of the volume I have treated of the Age of Democracy and its thought, taking as foundation

The upshot of it all will be that either Unwin will sign my agreement as drawn by Ross or I shall part

You have not acknowledged Richard Colles' ￡2. sent by me per money order before Browns ￡5. and I have

clothed in pretty dress has been my first consideration— & cudos necessarily plays but a fractional part

question, Roden Noel's (1834–1894) "A Study of Walt Whitman: The Poet of Modern Democracy" (Dark Blue 2

Why can you not have your boy do that for 1/2 hour each day, also drink a good deal of water.

I am eating but two meals a day, the last at 2 1/2 p.m. 2:30 p.m. I sleep much better for it.

Mid Ala Feb 2 1886 John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 2 February 1886

. & 2 Riv. (sent on last order) but nothing further so far.

—also current Ed. of L. of G. & specimen days, also for any thing you might have and be willing to part

Haviland Miller, ed., Walt Whitman: The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 4:2–

you may remember me with some other lads who used to sit in your room in Myrtle ave & hear you tell stories

deliver your Lecture entitled "Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln" in Salem some time the latter part

The act would be purely voluntary on the part of Congress, and not in response to any petition from you

It is in the Old Colony, the part of the country where your first American ancestors lived.

Schofield, Seek for a Hero: The Story of John Boyle O'Reilly (New York: Kennedy, 1956).

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

Over his lower parts a huge skin of an unfortunate polar bear is always present, which is strangely in

Back of that, in still earlier and lower forms of life, sensation or consciousness played its part in

"Some may condemn them as Godless, but for my own part, and I speak for the great advanced culture of

Camden U S America Nov. 23 '86—2 p m— I am ab't as usual—took a long drive by myself midday yesterday—basked

328 Mickle street Camden July 6 '86— yours rec'd recieved with the $2 as pay for the book.

In an undated letter to Whitman written about January 2, William Sloane Kennedy had disparaged his own

Whitman wrote the following note on the back of this letter: "Black & 1 & 2 opening?"

The price is £2, which please remit me by p. o. order.)

.; Walt Whitman 3[2]8 Mickle street Camden New Jersey July 25 '86 Dear Sir, I have finished the article

O. order 14s-6d-rec'd—(the three sums, £2 10s, £5, & 14s-6d safely rec'd) —Fervent thanks—(I wish I could

street Camden New Jersey U S America Aug. 23 '86 Dear Herbert Thank you for the remittance of the £2

The poem appeared with a prefatory comment upon Whitman's "lack of the spiritual element of thought" (2:

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey US America Aug: 2 '86 A pleasant forenoon as I write, here by the

from Dr B[ucke] two days ago— all well— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe, 2

It is postmarked: Camden | Aug | 2 | 3 PM | N.J.

20 '86 Dear Sir Yours of 19th rec'd received —Yes, Monday will suit me—will be ready for you by 10 1/2

It is postmarked: Camden | May | 2(?) | 3 PM | 188(?) | N.J.

Street Camden New Jersey U S America Aug: 26 '86 My dear Edward Dowden Herbert Gilchrist has sent me £2

English "offering" (through Rossetti and Herbert Gilchrist) will am't amount to over $500—the principal part

In a letter on January 5 Rossetti mentioned that he had inserted in The Athenaeum on January 2 "a reminder

never forgets the market basket" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [1906–1996], 9 vols., 2:

sure I don't know why I dwell on him: A lady had his volume here in the house yesterday, & I re-read part

Knortz sent 2 of the pamphlets to Germany. Bucke took 10.

The Poet as A Craftsman (see the letter from Whitman to William Sloane Kennedy of December 2, 1885).

volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were Poets of America, 2

Whitman delivered his "Death of Abraham Lincoln" lecture at a banquet of the "Pythian Club" on February 2,

. | Aug | 25 | 2 30 PM | 1886 | 4.

PM | 1886 | 2.

sure I don't know why I dwell on him: A lady had his volume here in the house yesterday, & I re-read part

Knortz sent 2 of the pamphlets to Germany. Bucke took 10.

William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, [2 January 1886]

volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were Poets of America, 2

after Whitman's praise of The Poet as A Craftsman (see the letter from Whitman to Kennedy of December 2,

I have been 2 weeks in a fever of parturition. . . .

O'Connor's stories, adds: 'It is a story of which Walt Whitman is visibly the idealized hero, and it

poets—Lowell, Whittier, Bryant, Longfellow, etc.,—and then puts you far above them all, giving you the larger part

In the Athenaeum (& I believe Academy) of 2 Jany a paragraph was put in, to serve as a reminder to any

See Herbert's letter to Whitman of December 2, 1885.

is addressed: Walt Whitman | Camden | New Jersey | 328 Mickle St.It is postmarked: BELMONT | JUL | 2

volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were Poets of America, 2

I have been 2 weeks in a fever of parturition & have gone over all the notes writings, & literature of

Then in Part II, I make an analysis of the poems & all their vast implications & ancillary topics: this

Part will of course be for the Whitman fellows throughout the world.

For my part, I dislike to ask anyone for to serve as go-between, but you seemed to think it would be

Aug. 2 / 86. Dear Walt Whitman, I send the MS to-day by Adams Express.

Kennedy William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 2 August 1886

The leaves that make up this manuscript incorporate parts of a previous version, published in the New