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advertisement reads as follows: "Walt Whitman's Poems, 'Leaves of Grass,' 1 vol. small quarto: price $2.

poem later titled "Song of Myself" between pages twenty and twenty-four of (1855), especially the parts

Whitman's use of part of these advertisements as units of text that he could edit, move, and rearrange

kind of precursor to the way he would approach lines of poetry, continually editing and relocating parts

On November 17, 1842, the New York Sun published Whitman's short story "The Reformed" and prefaced the

These story writers do not as a rule reach me—I find they stay too much on the surface of the ground.

I have tried to read Cable—have read several of his stories—Madame Delphine for one, brought here by

churches—the pillar—the money bag of the parish, though I do not, of course, class Cable, who has undisputed parts

It is an old story.

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

Spent last Sunday reading O'Connor's stories & roared in the Athenaeum over his ballad of Sir Ball in

All of O'C's stories contain himself as one character. He always makes me better .

duk.00027) is a poetry manuscript containing ideas possibly connected to Whitman's unpublished short story

more pleasantly than in the intercourse and friendliness between her husband and herself on the one part

It is part of the duty of such as I." "And were you always content?"

I will, if you have patience to bear it, tell you my story.

"Good daughter, I am now coming to a part of my fortunes which I must fain hurry over with a rapid and

Toward the latter part of Father Luke's narration, he had been somewhat interrupted by sundry distant

sport around— Every thing here now is inauguration —& will be till the 4th of March is over— for my part

On March 2, 1873, Ursula Burroughs reported to her husband how much Walt Whitman had enjoyed the ride

PatrickMcGuire"Tomb Blossoms, The" (1842)"Tomb Blossoms, The" (1842)This short story appeared first in

In this well-balanced story, the frets of city life are opposed to the peacefulness of country living

sees the title as one of the central tropes of Whitman's Leaves of Grass, while Callow sees in the story

Louis is about 38 1-2 deg. and San Francisco 37 1-2 north latitude.

many a day." on Kansas, the author presents a the present At one point, this manuscript likely formed part

Chicago, 21 Soflas St Sept. 2 Dear W— I was pleased to get your brief word about yourself, even though

The chair part is as the critics say, "a bold conception," but whether tis not an infraction of the old

Morse to Walt Whitman, 2 September 1888

For his part, undoubtedly with pride in Jeff's accomplishments in mind, Walt praised the great achievements

(Prose Works 2:693). BibliographyAllen, Gay Wilson.

Floyd Stovall. 2 Vols. New York: New York UP, 1963-1964. Whitman, Thomas Jefferson [1833–1890]

It is still as true as it used to be—the story of Socrates: I will always tell this story: I try to restrain

W. said: "It's an old story: I have told it before: you must have heard it: but it will bear retelling—carries

My special trouble now is what they call sclerosis—an induration of the lower part of the spinal cord

him—and so he got a full excoriation before crossing Styx, for after he died I took out the severest parts

But on the 26th of May following a still larger demonstration [the second part] was made.

Of course the "cap of liberty" bore a conspicuous part in the show.

This must have been the most impressive part of the procession.

In another part of the procession were Gov. Daniel D. Tompkins, Daniel D.

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 240–245.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 240–245.

Pearson, Jr., "Story of a Magazine: New York's Galaxy, 1866–1878," Bulletin of the New York Public Library

Walt Whitman withdrew the poem in his November 2, 1868 letter to Francis P. Church.

usual—most of the others are the same—there have been quite a good many deaths—the young man who lay in bed 2

hair—the chaplain took me in yesterday, showed me the child, & Mrs Jackson, his wife, told me the whole story

2 9A 1 dithyrambic trochee iambic anaepest.

regularly be a dactyl—the sixth always a spondee, So thus hav ing spok en the casque nod ding Hec tor de part

.; 2; 9A; 1; 3; Transcribed from digital images of the original.

found a package of letters belonging to you carefully put away, the Rossetti correspondence, & as a part

O'Connor to Walt Whitman, 2 August 1887

If you thought well of the idea you might like to take a part payment in sheets, or bound copies, from

I have just published a new vindication "Memoir of Poe" in 2 vols. and am always desirous of gathering

Philadelphia, 2 Mo. 23 188 3 Walt Whitman Camden NJ My dear friend I claim the privileges of the name

irrevocably for me and in name and stead, but to use, to sell, assign, transfer and set over, all or any part

I was so rejoiced to see substantive proof of your part recovery in the firmly written post cards to

I have just received a letter from Ernest Rhys who speaks of having been back to England 2 weeks.

A poet and short story writer, he was a close friend of the Costelloe family in England.

stay here in N Y New York ten or twelve days & then home for a while —Lou I expect to spend a good part

two more letters—affectionately— Brother Walt —The books are for sale to any that want them—price $2—

This royalty was fixed at twenty-five cents for every $2 copy sold.

But the author, feeling that he could not remove a part of the work of his life without endangering its

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.

expressive, That anguish as hot as the hottest, and contempt as cold as the coldest, may be without words. 2

is Life, real and mystical, wherever and who- ever whoever ; Great is Death—sure as life holds all parts

together, Death holds all parts together.

war, (that shall serve for our pre- lude prelude , songs of soldiers,) How Manhattan drum-taps led. 2

flung out from the steeples of churches, and from all the public buildings and stores; The tearful parting—the

mother kisses her son—the son kisses his mother; (Loth is the mother to part—yet not a word does she

.— As small pipes from the aqueduct main The rest are par beautiful parts that flow out of it.

I want that tenor large and fresh as the creation parting of whose dark orbed mouth shall for me lift

Paradise the delight in the universe . that is I want that tenor, large and fresh as the creation, the parting

Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

I never have any pain from such stories, though they have been circulated by hundreds.

For instance, the Appleton Journal stories—one of them—and by a writer who must have known better had

he inquired—the story that Walt Whitman always went swaggeringly about, with his tarpaulin hat and red

And you remember that other story—of the old man who claimed that I wrote to Longfellow asking permission

The further details of the story being, that Longfellow wrote back, asking to see the book or specimen

three literary executors, Richard Maurice Bucke, Thomas Harned, and Horace Traubel, who then published parts

Stovall provides "every variant reading of every earlier printed text which Whitman used, in whole or in part

contain the complete text of two "Daybooks" Whitman kept between 1876 and 1889, in which for the most part

Part 2, volumes 4–6, "is arranged according to more sharply defined topics, such as Projected Poems,

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

s.2:15 P.M. Reached W.'s. Warrie not home. Upstairs immediately. Mrs. Davis had admitted us.

"I remember the man, too: the man was the chief part of him."

They have been driving hot and fast in each other with dark stories: the worst of which is, that the

Wallace increasedly good at story-telling. Not to bed, Camden, till midnight.

that: people come: I brighten up: they brighten me up: they go away thinking that 'sthat's the whole story

brought up near the sea which exerts a profound influence on the mode of thought and feeling of each."2.

W. said: "It was charged against him that he showed an anxiety to prove the story of revelation—so-called—true

W. assented "Yes: but there 'sthere's more to the story: I never once have questioned the decision that

"the holy hour"—"the hour of the man who returns from work: the hour of the family, the table, the story

doubted or gone off—that I can count on him in all exigencies: and I think affection plays a great part

I had brought him a copy of the new Atlantic containing the second part of O'Connor's story.

, to forget the daintinesses, in their places, but to have an elemental acceptivity, taking all as part

say nothing except to remark, "It is new to me, entirely new," and then pass away, "but this skin story—this

exceedingly entertaining, and the reader opening at hap hazard, will be apt to rush right through the story

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

Or stories—the damnable stories that float round—that they may hear, there as here.

, drank, in taverns, telling filthy and obscene stories, delighting in dirt, wallowing in the excretions

And you remember the Washington story—I can see O'Connor now as he tells it—with his vehement eye, voice

The story was, that Walt Whitman had been driven out of Washington—that was the very statement, driven

Such stories have pursued me for many years—many, many—and in all forms.

(1845)This short story was initially published in United States Magazine and Democratic Review, July–August

Whitman's extensive revisions, see Brasher's edition of The Early Poems and the Fiction.This Dickens-like story

Thomas Brasher notes that the revisions weaken the story's original opposition to capital punishment.

Boddo, the half-breed, is the story's villain, but he is evil because society has made him evil; ostracism

may have been written as an implicit attack on capital punishment, although David Reynolds sees the story

merely as sensationalism.Whitman used the story to inaugurate a regular front-page literary feature

the Light of a Young Man's Soul, The" (1848)This autobiographical piece, more exemplum than short story

The story is told broadly.

Archie sees the spinster's story as a rebuke of his own conduct and resolves to be more hard-working

W. said very positively: "That sounds very doubtful—I know nothing about it—especially the part of it

That alone would stamp the story, is not me. You see, Horace, that is the way history is written.

I should say, this story is not only essentially wrong, but wrong in detail.

For my part when I stop and think of it I am fairly dazed—the strangest thing, to me, about it all is

that I have had premonitions of this spiritual upheaval and of my (small) part in it since I was eight

yesterday evening—the boys were much affected by it—they have taken the letter from me to facsimile that part

Noble life through peace and strifeImmortal be his story!

lungs, excrement, urine, blood, wounds, disease, death, corruption—physical corruption—to go the whole story

came into the “Long Island Patriot” office, and found himself to be adjudged the writer of the “prize story

ground (among them the writer of this, at that period six or seven years old,) were helped into places, part

Shortly it became an incorporated city; then the Common Council met in an immense room forming the upper story

all relating to the Dutch settlement of New York and Long Island, and to the earlier growth of these parts

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

Mary Elizabeth appears in several of Walt Whitman's stories, and she often seems to be the subject of

She is an unnamed fourteen-year-old in his story "My Boys and Girls" (1844) and is presented as the sweet

Sister Mary in his children's story "The Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier" (1845).

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:

Saturday, May 2, 18917:58 P.M.

was an ordeal for the poet to come down from his snug arm-chair in his cozy bedroom on the second story

Saturday, May 2, 1891

The House, a narrow three-storied one, stood in one of those broad tree-planted streets which are common

hat he sallied forth with evident pleasure, and taking my arm as a support walked slowly the best part

But for the most part his words were few.

and doubtless one of the chief attractions of this favourite resort, to go down and spend a large part

The masses in every part of the globe are dominated by the necessities of Nature.

not get mad worth a cent —True religion ( the most beautiful thing in the whole world , & the best part

See the letter from Whitman to Harry Stafford of January 2, 1881.

We are in our new house—we occupy part & rent out part.

It is the latter part of the afternoon. I feel better the last hour or so.

deteriorate; he had written about a "severe cold" with "bad spells [of] dizziness" in his February 2–

got the letter and money all safe and very acceptable as i was rather short) georgey Georgey having parted

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

Those descriptions of symptoms are from the portion of Walt's letter dated February 2, but the letter

month, Walt Whitman reported a "severe cold in my head" and "bad spells, dizziness" (see his February 2–

February 15, 1869 (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

]bout December 8" (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

This review reprints material that appeared in the Saturday Review on May 2, 1868 .

However, a new opening is provided and only parts of the piece are reproduced.

This review reprints material that appeared in the Saturday Review on May 2, 1868.

Ware and Miss Lucy McKim, but consists also of contributions from the best sources in all parts of the

embraces the Sea Islands, and the Main from Charleston to the Gulf, nearly a hundred songs in all. 2.

Physiology and Pathology of the Mind and Nervous System, and on Questions of Medical Jurisprudence. 2.