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Some of the inmates are laughing and joking, others are playing checkers or cards, others are reading
Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 17 March [1874]
Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 20 March [1874]
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Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 10 April [1874]
Your Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 16 April [1874]
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Your old Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 1 May [1874]
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 8 May [1874
without undue fatigue, to all who aim to give practical shape to their ardent belief in equality & fair play
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oysters, raw, fresh & am feeling quite comfortable—Dear son, I shall look for you Walt Walt Whitman to Peter
W Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 29 May [1874]
readings or for changes to this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter
extreme—but I am standing it well, so far—to-day as I sit here writing, a fair breeze blowing in— Peter
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They limp, and halt, and start, and leap, and fairly tumble; then mount and play fantastic tricks, sparkle
Peter, yet discern in every error its basis or contingent of truth.
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 3 July [1874
Nash, Wash Milburn, & the RR boys— Your old Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 10 July [1874]
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Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 7 August
I dont don't want to send you a blue one—Will feel better by next time, Your Walt Walt Whitman to Peter
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Good bye for this time dear son—Your Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 28 August [1874]
Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 3 November [1874]
Nash, & to all inquiring friends Your old Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 3 December [1874]
Whitman saw in New York in the 1850s, and who Whitman mentions in the section of Specimen Days entitled Plays
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Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 26 February
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 19 March
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 26 March
out of money— we put my boo flag) on top our house fap flap we will bin bring big fiddles too, for play
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 16 April
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—love to my darling son— Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 30 April [1875]
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Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 14 May [1875
bad week—papers &c. came all right—will try to send you better news next time— WW Walt Whitman to Peter
Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 25 June [1875]
You might hear his voice, half in sport, declaiming some passage from a poem or play; and his song or
will our ordinary verse-making, our system of forcing thought into all sorts of received forms, our playing
enough to realize the deep criticism of Jefferson on Walter Scott's writings, (& many of the finest plays
Your loving old comrade & father Walt W papers &c came Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 6 August [1875]
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Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 4 September