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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

How had the second part of O'Connor's story impressed him? He said, "I read it."

I might say, love.I hope that as the sunshine comes, he will grow better, and that he may have his part

from the writings of Pliny, do not materially differ from those of our own census; and none of the stories

statesmen presented a similar category, in the persons of Talleyrand, Metternich, and Nosselrode: and the parts

However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified

later "One's-Self I Sing" and "Small the Theme of My Chant"], "The Runner," "Leaves of Grass" number 2

The images of a coherent Union proliferate throughout all parts of the 1867 edition, but the physical

Union, but they were also written "before" the 1861 "parting" of the South from the North.

In 1867, these songs can be re-heard in the context of the "parts" becoming united again.

Arthur Golden. 2 vols. New York: New York Public Library, 1968.

.— My stories, I believe, have been pretty popular, and extracted liberally.

This tale is Whitman's earliest known short story and the first of nine stories by Whitman that were

When Whitman reprinted this story in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1847, while

Whitman included a poem just before the story titled "Christmas Hymn."

For a complete list of revisions to the language of the story made or authorized by Whitman for publication

Japan has been wonderfully pleasant to me by reason of the unbounded hospitality, not only on the part

Discussed as to how much of hall to reserve, finally deciding—if possible—all floor and part gallery.

I told him a story of a Quaker who, hit on his one cheek, turned the other and was hit there also; then

W. laughed a long while over this—said it was "as good a story as he had heard in a long while."

Then added, "It reminds me of a Quaker story William O'Connor told often—enjoyed telling—of a merchantman

the Age of Accelerating Print: Whitman as Printer, Journalist, Teacher, and Fiction Writer Chapter 2.

Part of chapter 2 appeared in another form as Ed Folsom, "'Many MS.

Writing of the 1855 ," in Anthony Mortimer, ed., From Wordsworth to Stevens (Peter Lang, 2005), and part

The Journalism, 2 vols., ed. Herbert Bergman, Douglas A. Noverr, and Edward J.

to Rudolfo Anaya, Garrett Hongo, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Yusef Komunyakaa—the intense urge on the 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,

1877 My dear Sir, I hardly know through what a malign series of crooked events—absence chiefly on my part

If you will send me 2 copies of each, the other £1 will serve for postage.

receive any works printed by me—echoes of my studies in the history of Greece & Italy for the most part

Symonds is likely referring to his Studies of the Greek Poets (London: Smith, Elder, 1876, 2 vols.) and

going with me leaves peace and routine behind him, And stakes his life, to be lost at any moment.) 2

heroes and martyrs, And when all life, and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part

of the earth, Then only shall liberty, or the idea of liberty, be dis- charged discharged from that part

sending itself ahead countless years to come. 2 O but it is not the years—it is I—it is You; We touch

and am all, and believe in all; I believe materialism is true, and spiritualism is true— I reject no part

Have I forgotten any part? Come to me, whoever and whatever, till I give you recognition.

sending itself ahead countless years to come. 2 O but it is not the years—it is I, it is You, We touch

and am all and believe in all, I believe materialism is true and spiritualism is true, I reject no part

(Have I forgotten any part? any thing in the past?

sending itself ahead countless years to come. 2 O but it is not the years—it is I, it is You, We touch

and am all and believe in all, I believe materialism is true and spiritualism is true, I reject no part

(Have I forgotten any part? any thing in the past?

for pantheists and "cosmic" mystics, so that Whitman (in "Chanting the Square Deific") made Satan part

let others ignore what they may, / I make the poem of evil also, I commemorate that part also..."

In this respect, he was part of a strain pervasive in American literature (as evidenced by Duane MacMillan's

The Evolution of Walt Whitman. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1960–1962.Jarrell, Randall.

Scripta Hierosolymitana 2 (1955): 82–118._____. "The Problem of Evil in Literature."

quite cool if there is any air at all but monday Monday night we had to keep shut up all the front part

feel the effects of the heat georges George's house is raised was raised last saturday Saturday three story

with Bucke's date (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–75], 2:

15, 1868, was a Wednesday, and the date assigned by Bucke is correct because it corresponds with stories

conscientious, old-fashioned man, a man of family . . . . youngish middle age" (see Walt's September 2,

candidate along the train route for his return to Utica, New York (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 14, 1868, 2)

Poem As in Visions of — — at night— All sorts of fancies running through the head 2 Spring has just set

Although the narrowest part of the Sound in this vicinity is four miles, and the widest ten, days succeed

.; 2; 3

the South, something like a fight has very probably happened at last: AUGUSTA, Ga., Wednesday, June 2.

However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified

see notes Feb 9 1889 Confidential United States Senate Chamber, Washington, Jan. 31, 187 2. Mr.

followed by conception; maintaining that the fact of conception was conclusive evidence of consent on the part

INSANE ASYLUM LONDON ONTARIO 4 Feb 18 91 Yours of 2 d to hand this forenoon.

I gave Beemer one of the 4 pictures—shall not part with any of the other unless the spirit strongly moves

Bucke is referring to Whitman's letter of February 2, 1891.

people's democracy, and impassioned writing inspired by social and political affairs was as much a part

controlled legalization—and he stretched the limits of sensationalistic news reporting with regular stories

The Gathering of the Forces.2 vols. Cleveland Rodgers and John Black.

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964.____.

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman. 2 Vols. Ed. Emory Holloway.

with the baby & all you women—what jolly times you must have—I wish I could just drop in and take part

in them— With me, nothing very new or special—I am well & hearty—feel first-rate the greater part of

Emily Price's baby; Whitman reported the birth in his August 2, 1870 letter to William D. O'Connor.

lately, as you see); C's wife comes home (she was in Chicago) & R. leaves, & goes to the house of Kate

Kate Gannett Wells (1813–1911) was a philanthropist, writer, educational reformer, and anti-suffragist

My price is $60—same reservation as before & same obligation on my part — The following are responsible

Draft letter.Whitman refers here to "Song of the Redwood-Tree," offered in Whitman's November 2, 1873

In small parts, and in the lower walks of the art, the English public will admit this truth readily.

Yet the words of the part do not by themselves supply the actor with one-hundredth part of the actions

There is no logical process by which all these things can be evolved out of the mere words of a part.

Macbeth in Kemble's hand is only a cooperating part.

Siddons play this part you scarcely can believe that any acting could make her part subordinate.

I heard a story once how the brilliant Douglas Jerrold astonished an evening party in London by a constant

I feel like imitating this wit, and saying, not in parting but in welcome, to our new friend, "Good Morrow

New York, Monday, October 2. Eds.

If they flee to the uttermost parts of the earth, their character is apt to be there before them—and

Walt Whitman to the Editors of The Daily Crescent, 2 October 1848

establishment, killing Shea ("Correspondence of the Examiner and Herald," Lancaster Examiner, October 4, 1848, 2.

Department and as Assistant Collector for the Port of New York ("Appointment," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, October 2,

1848, 2).

Monday, June 2, 18908 P.M.

tasted—but I feel short of my measure of it—some one of the waiters must have confiscated it, or a part

The Ledger today contained a notice of the dinner.The account from the Camden Post of June 2, 1890: INGERSOLL'S

Monday, June 2, 1890

Every evening since Tuesday last, the upper part of Mulberry street, and all of the thoroughfares in

See: [untitled], April 12, 1842, Vol I, No 119, 2, Col 1; "Results of the Election," April 13, 1842,

Vol I, No 120, 2, Col 1; "The Late Riots," April 15, 1842, Vol I, No 122, 2, Col 1.

See: [untitled], April 12, 1842, Vol I, No 119, 2, Col 1; "Results of the Election," April 13, 1842,

Vol I, No 120, 2, Col 1; "The Late Riots," April 15, 1842, Vol I, No 122, 2, Col 1.

Hemans that appears on the page just above this last installment, here titled "Nameless Martyrs," is part

No additional installments of this story have been located in subsequent issues of the Brooklyn Daily

.; No additional installments of this story have been located in subsequent issues of the Brooklyn Daily

Yes Nelly the magazine came all straight —We all like the story—so much in the turn of it reminds me

published in two parts The Atlantic Monthly: Part 1, vol. 67, no. 402, April 1891, pp. 433–454; Part 2,

On January 2, 1891, Ellen O'Connor informed Whitman that Houghton, Mifflin & Company was planning to

O'Connor's story "The Brazen Android" in The Atlantic Monthly in April and May.

They also planned to publish a collection that included three of O'Connor's stories and a preface by

PatrickMcGuire"Death in the School-Room (a Fact)" (1841)"Death in the School-Room (a Fact)" (1841)This short story

Whitman reprinted it more than any other of his stories.

The story involves Lugare, a sadistic teacher, and sickly Tim Barker, only child of a widow, who is falsely

Along with "Wild Frank's Return" (1841) and "Bervance: or, Father and Son" (1841), the story suggests

The beating in this story has been tied to the seaman's forcefulness in "The Child and the Profligate

PatrickMcGuire"Reuben's Last Wish" (1841)"Reuben's Last Wish" (1841)This short story was published on

This temperance story is openly didactic.

Whitman announces in the first paragraph that the story "may haply teach a moral and plant a seed of

The story is told by a narrator who heard it directly from Frank Slade at a temperance meeting.

the prose is almost precious at times.While not as cruel as the many unhappy fathers in Whitman's stories

Before we came back from the trip, we had resolved that we had better part no more, & in March 1874 we

He has been in all parts of the world—N. & S.

Rossetti and Hueffer edited a posthumous collection of young Brown's stories.

Rossetti and Francis Hueffer edited a posthumous collection of Brown's stories including "The Dwale Bluth

This tale is the third of nine short stories by Whitman that were published for the first time in The

A LMOST incredible as it may seem, there is more truth than fiction in the following story.

It is a strange story—the true solution of which will probably be found in the supposition of a certain

degree of unsoundness of mind, on the one part, manifesting itself in the morbid and unnatural paternal

My story is nearly ended. We never saw or heard of the hapless Luke more.

This tale is the third of nine short stories by Whitman that were published for the first time in The

poet who previously had seen himself as the singer of songs for "The States" (l. 43), like Whitman in parts

The five-line fourth poem ("This moment as I sit alone") announces the poet's thought (part hope, part

(l. 46) and answers that it is the parting of two men on a pier: "The one to remain hung on the other's

of a love affair with a man, along with a story of a coming out that affects Whitman's other poetry

Nina Baym, et al., 2 vols. (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1994), I, 2,097–2,101.

PatrickMcGuire"Legend of Life and Love, A" (1842)"Legend of Life and Love, A" (1842)This short story

There is a simple message to this story of two brothers, orphans whose last remaining relative, a grandfather

After seventy years they meet each other and tell their stories.

Allen sees the grandfather in this story as a variation on the cruel father theme that plays through

several of Whitman's short stories.

Some of the language at the beginning of this story also appears in the draft poem "I am that half-grown

—And many 2 a time again approached he to the coffin, and held up the white linen, and gazed and gazed

open road" in her novel My Ántonia (1918), and to "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" in her 1932 story

Curtin. 2 vols. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1970. Comeau, Paul.

o'clock O Walt i have just got your letter i thought it was a goner but it has come all safe with the 2

matt says Jeff is glad they come he is very tired of hotell hotel life this house is out of the thick part

with Bucke's date (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

The letter paraphrases a story about women who slipped on the ice on their way to a service at the church

The story appeared in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on February 10, 1868, a Monday.

Edwin Haviland Miller [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:360), though it is more likely

One volume. 12mo. (7 5/8 x 5 3/8 in.), 382 pp., cloth; price, $2. Philadelphia: Rees Welsh & Co.

A great part of Whitman's poems is perfectly sound and safe reading for even the tenderest of girlhood

(See figure 2.)

Whitman, LG 1855, 14. 2.

Huntington, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, vol. 2, part 3 (Washington,

Vol. 2, part 3. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1883. Otis Historical Archives.

Vol. 2.

I send George papers now & then—Mother, one of your letters contains part of my letter to the Union,

street, not far from Pennsylvania avenue, (the big street here,) & not far from the Capitol—it is in 3d story

for rooms, I went in to see a couple of furnished rooms about like our two in Wheelers houses (2d story

are not so very dear, very much the same as in Brooklyn—dear mother, Jeff wrote in his letter latter part

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

Tuesday, July 2, 18898 P.M. W. sitting at the parlor window, reading papers.

And so of Sarrazin, "he gets there—tells his story: I don't know that we need trouble about his way of

Tuesday, July 2, 1889

find the volume to be nothing more than "an auctioneer's inventory of a warehouse" —6 May 1856 [Norton 2:

Working mainly for New York and Brooklyn newspapers, Whitman wrote stories and editorials on a variety

divine principle, or fountain, from which issued laws, ecclesia, manners, institutes" (Prose Works 2:

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1884. 2 vols.

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964. ____.

Attorneys. 2. Alfred Kearney, vs. Benj. F. Butler, commenced in the Sup.

any correspondence in the records of the office relating to the five suits I have named in the first part

defence of the suits, and what the condition of the suits is, in reference to any obligation on the part

Molinoff, No. 2, p. 37.

Molinoff, No. 2, p. 18.

Molinoff, No. 2, p. 11.

Molinoff, No. 2, p. 13.

Molinoff, No. 2, p. 12.

In the winter they protect the naked parts of the earth and the tender roots of others plants hidden

elements of the highest fertility within his reach, in the inexhaustable beds of marl which underlie this part

—According to the cenus returns, the entire number of Indians inhabiting all parts of our country amounts

In the Pelasgic, the Etruscan, or the British story, there is nothing so shadowy and unreal.

Thoreau At one point, this manuscript likely formed part of Whitman's cultural geography scrapbook.

I saunter'd, pondering, On time, space, reality—on such as these, and abreast with them, prudence. 2

is of consequence; Not a move can a man or woman make, that affects him or her in a day, month, any part

of his mouth, or the shaping of his great hands; All that is well thought or said this day on any part

The world does not so exist—no parts palpable or im- palpable impalpable so exist; No consummation exists

What is prudence, is indivisible, Declines to separate one part of life from every part, Divides not

Burroughs tells some Greek story of two armies, one of them nearly conquered yet not despairing.

When it comes to a story Donaldson can give you that glint: or if not a story then just a bit of current

Has spent part of the day making up packages of the Centennial Edition.

I said to W.: "I've been waiting to hear the big story you were going to tell me."

"You may imagine," said he, "with what horror we first heard the story of your death, and in such a manner

peaceful settlement, I questioned the men over and over again with regard to the details of their story

But they told that story with evident truth—and I could not but believe them.

"Let Boddo go at once to the village," said the blacksmith, "and tell the truth of the story.

were needed in so obscure an apartment—the monk took Boddo by the hand, and stepping into the outer part