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However, after much fruitless search, I succeeded in finding the abode in which the poet dwells—a two-storied

For my part, I said, I thought Mr.

It was with regret that I parted from him—his talk was so eloquent, so free, and so flowing, and there

The poet was in his own room on the second story, a comfortable apartment about six yards square.

—Spent several hours of January 2 with Whitman (on my way home from New Orleans).

, a complimentary benefit on the part of friends and disciples,—Mr.

The corner grocery-man pointed out a low, two-story frame house...

"As he told the story slowly and clearly, the effect was peculiar.

The latter part of May appeared the last booklet issued by Walt Whitman,—"Good-bye my Fancy."

"That is only a part and not the most important part of it," said Dr. Furness, in substance.

U NION L EAGUE , P HILADELPHIA , August 2, 1885.

The house, or rather, cottage, is only two stories high and less than fie paces wide.

What you call evil is all part of it. If you have a hill, you've got to have a hollow.

It's all part of the whole; and I can no more honestly cut out that part than any other."

The story of his career has been written at by many hands, and material for a complete biography has

diffused clews and indirections," covering an acquaintanceship of about twenty years, during the greater part

His theme was himself and his book, and he told the story not at all to me, as it seemed, but as though

I have seen a manuscript, a part of "November Boughs," a single page of which was composed of at least

, others on the blue paper that had once formed a part of the cover of a pamphlet, and each piece of

echoed the old man, with a smile, "why Lord bless you, any one in these parts could do that; only 'taint

The corner groceryman pointed out a low two-story frame house, which looked like a cube with faces eighteen

A large part of "Leaves of Grass" consists of war poems and a variety of subjects, occurences on the

The corner groceryman pointed out a low two-story frame house.

A large part of "Leaves of Grass" consists of war poems on a variety of subjects, fierce tussels tussles

I had been teaching country school for two or three years in various parts of Suffolk and Queens counties

Our transcription is based on Walt Whitman, Autobiographia: or the Story of a Life (New York: Charles

Our transcription is based on Walt Whitman, Autobiographia: or the Story of a Life (New York: Charles

.— About the most significant part of the Poe re-burial reburial ceremonies yesterday—which only a crowded

his hat, smilingly said, in response to calls for a speech, that he "must decline to take any other part

believes thoroughly not only in the future world, but the present, and especially in our American part

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

writing, I had for, between two and three years, been occupying rooms on Tenth street, in the lower part

Frequently, also, chairs were placed upon the grass in the front part of the garden facing the street

Evidently he was disinclined to take part in any discussion which would be likely to arouse feelings

This story, if my recollection serves me not amiss, was written by the same friend of Mr.

His habit was to be absent from the house for the whole or the greater part of the evening.

The dingy little two-storied domicile is so disappointingly different from what we were expecting to

A moment later we are in his presence, in the spacious second-story room which is his sleeping apartment

his rolling and ample shirt-collar, worn without a tie, is open at the throat and exposes the upper part

Whitman is at once interested, and questions until he has drawn out the pathetic story of her struggles

and of the Pacific, the Mississippi, the great lakes, the Gulf of Mexico, cities and towns in all parts—the

Born almost in its outskirts, he passed the greater part of his life in and about the vast city, which

Last comes Philadelphia,—for Camden, though in New Jersey, is essentially a part of that city.

The scenes of homely peasant life told him the full story of what went before, and necessitated, the

The piece was "Romeo and Juliet," and Rossi played his part with much ardor, as well as delicacy.

"Of course, I know—" he directed me: "—and then you see a little two story frame house, grey, that's

which Whitman applies this word to Carlyle, viz: II 169.) * *Volume and page quotations from the 1891-'2

I, for my part, shall never forget how he read the simple words, 'the hospitals, oh, the hospitals.'

To write the life of a human being takes many a book, and after all the story is not told."

The rest of this call's conversation consisted almost entirely of questions on my part, and extremely

Walt Whitman's cottage is a very plain, rather dingy, two-storied and attic-roofed frame dwelling, such

wide, rolling collar, open well at the front, leaving bare the strong, columnar neck and the upper part

The lower part of the face set well forward. The whole shape, a large and distinct oval.

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

P HILADELPHIA , November 2.— White with the snows and storms of winter, bent, bowed, and scarred with

He is about as handsome an old man as I have seen, his white locks parting over a serene and most noble

Let others ignore what they may, I make the poem of evil also—I commemorate that part also, I am myself

upon and received with wonder, pity, love or dread, that object he became, And that object became part

of him for the day, or a certain part of the day, or for many years, or stretching cycles of years.

The early lilacs became part of this child; And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

, The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt-marsh and shore-mud— These became part

He began several stories that he had to leave unfinished—he was sure to forget the salient point.

happy and animated, and we spent the day together in such hearty and familiar intercourse that when I parted

The book he knew best was the Bible, the prophetical parts of which stirred in him a vague desire to

This was an instance of bad taste, but not of intentional bad faith, on the part of Whitman.

But Emerson had no thought of acting the imperial part toward so adventurous a voyager.

first, nor his second, but his third edition, comprising the larger and by far the most important part

One White House story comes to me of his leaving Lincoln in wrath, "slamming the doors behind him" because

I think also that he was the hero of the famous whisky story of Lincoln, now an undying part of the literature

Of the noisy, frothy world he never seemed to be a part, was more at home with the chestnut tress and

listened in benevolent, complacent wonder to argument, heard my speech as if it were by no means a new story

Nor does the freedman appear in any part of the poet's noble vision of the restored Union.

November 2nd VISITS TO WALT WHITMAN AND HIS FRIENDS, E TC ., IN 1891 IN CAMDEN O CTOBER 27 TH TO N OVEMBER 2

—once told a story of a man he had in his studio at Boston.

He spoke of the heroine of the second story: a girl taken in childhood by Indians and brought up by them

slight intrinsic importance, but which, I trust, will add to the completeness and verisimilitude of the story

The houses are, for the most part, timbered structures, painted different, low-toned colours, and of

Number 328—which, by the way, is duplicated next door—is an unpretentious, two-storied building, with

card, and was shown into a room on the left side of the lobby—a sort of parlour—with the blinds three-parts

To which I replied, and he continued, "You find it very warm in these parts, don't you?

(See "Leaves of Grass," p. 56.) 2.

But I let the greater part of my letter go without answering them. I can't ."

This is, in part, the influence I wish 'Leaves of Grass' to have.

Well, I'll not go back on my promise, thought it seems almost too precious to part with.

I ought not to take the money from you, but I have spent part of it to-day for another purpose."

Horace told W. a story—but I don't remember in what connection—about an American lady, Mrs.

Leaves of Grass,' because I could not afford to buy it; but I've heard tell that some folks say some parts

Whitman leaves this week for Philadelphia, where he spends a part of his time with some English friends

biography of William Blake was completed by his wife, who wrote a preface, which is said to be the best part

A two-story-and-a half frame building, painted a dark brown, with the upper shutters closed and the edges

employment of seven years or more in Washington after the war (1865-72) I regularly saved a great part

shipped to Philadelphia and from them David McKay, publisher of the latter city, issued in the latter part

I have heard him say he believes a perfectly legitimate part of any new poet, artist or reformer, is

him "beyond compare the greatest of American poets, and indeed one of the greatest now living in any part

But first let me explain part of my head-line.

On such occasions he contributes his part to the general fun.

There was a crowded house, the report in the local paper saying: "Probably the best part of the audience

Clifford, in a London lecture on "the Relation between Science and Modern Poetry," assigned a main part

brotherly and always silently planning for my benefit; simple, spontaneous, and natural; easily taking his part

One item of the talk (in connection with the packing of our belongings) was a little story of Whitman's

together should not be spent solely in the discussion of current topics and events, but that some part

It resulted in part from our very diversity and from the curious way in which our several personalities

For the part which Whitman himself took in our correspondence, however, we were entirely unprepared.

the supreme merits of his own work, and labors on serenely, notwithstanding the fact that so large a part

"Yes, you have the historical part of it all right.

"Yes; I look upon that as the best part of my life, those four or five years that I spent in the war,

He only told about one-tenth of the story. In conclusion it may be said that Mr.

"You can see that I had first to deal with the physical, the corporeal, the amative business—that part

It is that part of my endeavor which caused most of the harshest criticism, and prevented candid examination

SOMETHING ANENT THE CURIOUS STORY OF HIS OWN LIFE.

Why should he have deemed it his part to submit to the axe?

He had a way of spending at least a part of his Sundays with the Harneds—(Mr.

Yet he is occupied the larger part of every day.

I have already alluded to it: a second-story room, about twenty feet square, facing north.

He delights to tell and to hear stories. His sense of the humorous is strong.

Who will play his part for him? And Hawthorne—wasn't he expected?

Traubel .— But meantime, Donaldson, what's become of your Oscar Wilde story?

Whitman, that my story didn't even get started. Whitman .— I own it, Tom. Go on.

Whitman .— No doubt, Harrison, that is part of the story—but there's a deal more beyond—a deal more!

For me the democracy of your verse is only the lesser and smaller part of it.

His shirt was wide open at the throat, exposing his large neck and part of his bosom.

At the door, as we passed into the street, we met a postman with an armful of letters from many parts

We re-tell retell the story, as it illustrates the Sabbatarianism that existed in Boston a few years

I always think of supercilious people as acting a part.'

'No, it is part of the fun.'

The story is melancholy. 'Ah, when the Greeks treated of tragedy, how differently it was done.

"Well, honour honor is the subject of my story," —was the commencement of a favourite speech with him

For my part when I meet anyone of erudition I want to get away, it terrifies me.

"I think," said Walt, "I shall have to leave these parts.

We want pretty verbiage, part of a poem or a picture, without reference to the whole."

Then the fine vista of buildings, some four and five stories high.

It has marred that story-telling faculty—the memory.

However the Capitol has been swept and garnished, re-painted in part, revarnished, and it is ready now

When the Democratic party triumphs, if ever, it cannot be that Pagan part of it, which is to succeed,

exalted a lineage, and having a tolerably decent respect for an adventurer if he rides boldly and shows parts

: Walt Whitman April 22 '90 Then he added his message of regard to "the boys in New York," and we parted

The story of Tithonus is still a parable of the poet,—he is immortal in his love, but loses with years

This part of his philosophy—for such it is—must not be confounded with the erotic paroxysms of Swinburne

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

there was a vacant hall bedroom on the floor where we were keeping house—in two rooms of the upper story

for him; the Capitol, too, was a never-ending source of please; and with him I explored the older part

Evans, him of the "meteor beard," go past to his office, it was suggested that O'Connor write a story

Some fresh cold water must be brought in, in a little kettle,—for a very important part of the proceeding

This was in the early part of the conflict, as early perhaps as the spring of 1863.

The owner was but a few inches above his worldly possessions; he seemed a part of them, and the picture

Whitman in conversation, for in this he seldom took the leading part; and as it was wished above all

We hoped that it might be a permanent improvement, but it was the same old story: extra exertion and

He could always take his own part, and fortunately was capable of doing so still; had it been otherwise

the removal of his brother, but was still living in Camden, in a small house which he had himself part-purchased

I am satisfied that for America Free Trade and open admission of all foreigners is an integral part of

little, sat at the refreshment tables, and listened to the band—Walt absorbed and quiet for the most part