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suffering "considerable distress" from headaches (Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University Rare Books

I send you, same mail with this, two copies of the little book Drum-Taps. Farewell.

Williamson, Catalogue of A Collector of Books, Letters, and Manuscripts Written by Walt Whitman (1903

According to Whitman's "Hospital Book 12" (Charles E.

But you mustn't think I wholly like your book.

Leaving hard work out of the Books, and I have thought that were bigger fools than me making a living

troy and went back by the boat from albany" (Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University Rare Book

Whitman recorded that he had been over to Alexandria twice to have dinner with George (Beinecke Rare Book

[George] is very restless" (Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University Rare Books, Manuscript,

mean—reckless characterless, common, and disgusting" (Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University Rare Books

no return: "I would rather go to Patagonia" (Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University Rare Books

superficiality, but under that she is she devil, to men" (Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University Rare Books

room I saw a paragraph about your dismissal from the Interior Department, and as I once read your book

I read your book when it first came out and though I must admit a good deal of it was blind to me, I

of war in Libby Prison, after an extended career of soldiering.

George Whitman was held at Libby Prison in Petersburg, Virginia, from the time of his capture on September

Hill. severe; was here taken prisoner; whole regiment captured.

—Incarcerated in Libby, Salisbury, and Danville military prisons; taken sick in latter; placed in prison

—On duty at Alexandria as commander of military prison, &c. August, 1865.

.; George Whitman was held at Libby Prison in Petersburg, Virginia, from the time of his capture on September

For some of George Whitman's prison correspondence, see his letters of October 2, 1864 and October 23

He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the

It also served as a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp.

Washington Whitman arrived home to Brooklyn for a 30-day leave after his release from the Confederate prison

camp at Andersonville, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman wrote that he "looks quite thin and shows his prison

Mason became a career army officer, and he assisted in getting supplies to George when he was held prisoner

During the war, he was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner

Considerable leisure time, entertaining Books, good company.

During the war, he was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner

Whitman to Walt Whitman, September 11, 1865 [Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University Rare Books

He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the

He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the

that package of papers you must write to him" (Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University Rare Books

date, as well as on September 11, 21, and 27 (Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University Rare Books

It is not the thing that should be said of your book—not the thing that it is in even me to say."

few hours now and then—but don't want to be continually in it—I have made an addition to the little book

. & I wrote him yesterday, & sent the book review.

The first thing she read in the book was Enfans d'Adam , which she cordially liked and wondered how anyone

It is not the thing that should be said of your book—not the thing that it is in even me to say,—as I

That a man should be expelled from Office and held up to public contumely, because of an honest book

a month, Carleton "had the distinction of turning down both Leaves of Grass and Mark Twain's first book

Oct 20 th 1865 Received from Walt Whitman the sum of Fifty dollars on a/c account of binding 300 books

The appearance of Walt Whitman's new book of poems, conjointly with Ward's "Indian Hunter," is not without

All the hapless silent lovers, All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked, All

Poet or not, however, there was that in Walt Whitman's first book which compels attention to his second

Whitman for his first book is past.

There were reasons in the preponderant beastliness of that book why a decent public should reject it;

The pieces of the new book are nearly all very brief, but generally his expression is freer and fuller

strange, shadowy sort of pleasure, but they do not satisfy, and you rise from the perusal of this man's book

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman during the summer had told Walt Whitman that she had received "5 books," copies

Those five books are presumably the "first ones" that she mentions in this letter.

. * I T has been a melancholy task to read this book; and it is a still more melancholy one to write

Whitman is very fond of blowing his own trumpet, and he has made very explicit claims for his book.

your dear sake, O soldiers, And for you, O soul of man, and you, love of comrades; The words of my book

He tells us, in the lines quoted, that the words of his book are nothing.

We look in vain, however, through your book for a single idea.

and prose, but also digests of facts and events, copies of important documents, etc.), compiled into book-length

title is well enough chosen, for it is odd, and it bears no clear relation to the contents of his book

, and in this oddness and apparent incoherency it resembles much in the book.

mornings i have been very lame more so than usuall usual ) i have got a union with an article about your book

He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the

See Ed Folsom, Whitman Making Books/Books Making Whitman: A Catalog and Commentary (University of Iowa

It is hard to criticise the book of a friend.

This book, like Leaves of Grass, consists in disjointed exclamations with no attempt at either rhyme

He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the

housebuilding business after the war, but in this letter Louisa regrets having exhausted the bank book

He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the

doors to me, proud libraries, For that which was lacking among you all, yet needed most, I bring; A book

your dear sake, O soldiers, And for you, O soul of man, and you, love of comrades; The words of my book

nothing, the life of it every- thing everything A book separate, not link'd with the rest, nor felt

book-words! what are you?

in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked, All the joyous, all the sorrowing, all the living,

Browning, and in the effete books.

heartedness, but self-giving, but brave sense, mettle, hard and heavy force, laconic energy, when books

Whitman objected to the book's characterization of his relationship with Emerson; see Horace Traubel,

finally printed it, but without their name, and without taking any of customary steps to introduce the book

Yet neither the author nor the book have any merit to be compared with Tupper and the Country Parson

We have quoted perhaps the most effective poem in the book; but there are lines or passages in nearly

shown by quotations is the broad effect of his poems as a whole; as he says himself, "The words of my book

Harlan's hymn-book. It will do much, we are confident, to remove the prejudice against Mr.

says. he had aught to have staid in the army" (Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University Rare Books

& found fault with everybody—but was always very courteous to me, & spoke very highly of me in his book

Hugo Eicholtz was listed in the Washington Directory of 1869 and in one of Whitman's address books (The

He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the

He was wounded in the First Battle of Fredericksburg (December 1862) and was taken prisoner during the

expressed that wish many times before this letter" (Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University Rare Books

ought to have a month of leave from all cares" (Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University Rare Book

Burroughs would write several books involving or devoted to Whitman's work: Birds and Poets (New York

see Barrus, Whitman and Burroughs—Comrades (1931), 10, and William Sloane Kennedy, The Fight of a Book

Velsor, who was later listed in an address book (The Library of Congress #108), and who had a drugstore

I am having good times here, rather quiet—My book is being printed—gets along rather slowly.

every day—Jeff is very well, & George pretty well—in the latter I can see that campaigning & Danville prison

some for the better and some for the worser" (Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University Rare Books

Burroughs would write several books involving or devoted to Whitman's work: Birds and Poets (1877), Notes

The reason is that my book, which is a little more than half done, does not get along as fast as the

My dear friend, My book has been delayed among the printers,—but I shall stay till it is all printed—it

The book is going to suit me pretty well—it will make a volume of 500 pages, size & style & type, &c

seems impossible to prevent them making lots of ridiculous errors—it is my constant dread that the book

—The weather is perfect here, & if it wasn't for the worriment of the book, I should be as happy as a

Burroughs would write several books involving or devoted to Whitman's work: Birds and Poets (New York

Ballow with paper for end leaves, &c. similar to that you used for the book.

On his table had been laid one day a queerly-shaped book entitled, "Leaves of Grass.

There was not, apparently, a single book in the room.

"He has written a book—hasn't he?" "Not as ever I hearn on."

At the Tombs prison we went among the prisoners, and the confidence and volubility with which they ran

There are two or three pieces in the book which are disagreeable; simply sensual. . . .

I suppose you have got your copy of the new book—I feel satisfied with the looks of it—it might be better

, & handsomer paper, &c—but I am glad it turns out as good as it is—for, in making a book, you can't

enemies, & those who are determined to find fault, will of course still do so—But I feel that the book