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notebooks and a diary from his visit to Canada, in the three-volume Daybooks and Notebooks (1978), part

depress'd condition," he writes 29 November 1891, four months before his death; "bad all thro Nov" (2:

postscript, "sent back to me rejected," and "David McKay paid me $88.56 for royalty &c," for example (2:

Referring to slang as a "lawless germinal element" (Prose Works 2:572), he believed that slang terms

Slang would be part of the raw materials he would use as the poet of the working class.

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

Whitman's epic hero, who is of course none other than Whitman himself, as a man both separate from and part

In the earliest great poem, "Song of Myself," overrated by some as the only indispensable part of Leaves

Sea-Drift," "Drum-Taps," "Memories of President Lincoln," "Whispers of Heavenly Death," and "Songs of Parting

to its eligibility to express world-meanings rather than literary prettinesses" (With Walt Whitman 2:

Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908; Vol. 6. Ed. Gertrude Traubel and William White.

heard about Herbert's picture there" pointing to the table where a photograph of it stood "is a little story

It is a capital story. I was almost saying the story was better than the picture."

"Frank Stockton's story here in The Century. It is very interesting.

Johnston's taking part in the lecture enterprise would be perfectly agreeable to me —the name of the

Whitman had been with the Staffords from March 2 to 4 (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E.

I wish I had room to quote all of Chainey's lecture, but a part must suffice.

Whoever you are, how superb and how divine is your body or any part of it!

Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.

"In his sight, no part or passion of the body is to be slighted or regarded as vulgar.

All the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth,— These are contained in sex as parts of itself

2 Pet. 3:10, Rev. 16:5).

Bennett,Vibrant Matter, 2–3. 11.

Herman Melville, Correspondence, 656. 2.

Milton, Poetical Works, 2: 63. 28.

Herman Melville: A Biography. 2 vols.

I gave him copy of Christian Register containing reprint of part of preface of Renan's "History of the

But this book seems to have a peculiar fascination perhaps in part the fascination for the Russian character

But the "pessimism" was "possibly a result of conditions—at least so in part.

As he tells the story there it is quite different form the Ledger's and takes quite another tone—loses

Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) was a Unitarian minister and fiction writer, best-known for the short-story

Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) was an American writer who authored novels, short stories, and essays

counterpoint to the narrative of Whitman as the roving bard, wandering the city to draw inspiration; in part

Figure 2.

The first page of a letter from author and historian Henry Onderdonk, Jr., to Whitman, dated July 2,

The Goodrich volume forms part of Whitman's cultural geography scrapbook, held in the Bayley/Whitman

and passing on, / And another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn."

You said in letter of 14th that 1st batch of proof of pt part ii would be sent on 15th I have seen nothing

. | MAR | 22 | 2 PM | RECD.; LONDON | PM | MR 20 | 83 | CANADA.

butter butter is 36 cents pr lb dear eating aint ain't it we ll by this time Andrew comes lays down part

make them and thimble i believe she has done anythin to them) he is doctoring with dr Brody he has had 2

will send me enoughf enough to not take any from the bank i have given Andrew so much i gave him the 2

might almost write a book from this letter Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [25 September or 2

This letter dates either to September 25 or October 2, 1863.

the date proposed by Miller should be changed to the most recent Friday before Walt's letter, October 2.

The Friday preceding the date proposed by Miller, October 2, 1863, is more probable, but September 25

If this letter dates to October 2, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman had received Walt's September 29, 1863 letter

—This work, with that just noticed and Darwin's voyage of a Naturalist , form part of HARPER'S NEW MISSCELLANY

It is most comprehensive; the author sailed to various parts of the world, and this book is the well-written

(Taylor & Co. 2 Astor House, N. Y.) Titian's Venus .

conventions" and even other Philosophers and Poets shall not "master"—And so I ask you, did I not conduct my part

"fiendish expectation" that troubles me on account of the long way to and from the Post Office 3½ X 2

And now let this bit of gossip be a respectful and kind leave taking or a part of something to be continued

Cluster: Songs of Parting. (1871) SONGS OF PARTING.

whither or how long; Perhaps soon, some day or night while I am singing, my voice will suddenly cease. 2

Your horizon rises—I see it parting away for more august dramas; I see not America only—I see not only

advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage; (Have the old forces, the old wars, played their parts

all its horrors, serves, And how now, or at any time, each serves the exquisite transition of death. 2

WILSoN PART 1 1. Erasing Race: The Lost Black Presence in Whitman’s Manuscripts 3 Ed FoLSom 2.

Transforming the Kosmos: Yusef Komunyakaa Musing on Walt Whitman 124 JACoB WILkENFELd PART 2 7.

June Jordan’s 1980 essay is the lead piece in part 2, which fea- tures reflections on Whitman by contemporary

Ibid., 2:572.

This kind of erasure would continue to dominate Civil War memory, as monuments to only part of the story

Am sitting here in the 2d story room, alone, trying to while away the day—But this is all the old, old

story—Am feeling fairly to-day but dull, dull—I told you that Harper's Monthly (H M Alden editor) had

There are two reports now before the Board; that made by Alderman Kalbfleisch, on the part of the majority

a business of hundreds of thousands of dollars, rather than that the fashionable inmates of a four-story

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

wounded three weeks ago to-day at Culpepper—hit by fragment of a shell in the leg below the knee—a large part

cases & is one of the least visited—there is not much hospital visiting here now—it has become an old story—the

few gas-burners about half turned down—It is Sunday evening—to-day I have been in the hospital, one part

serious for that" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961], 2:

See also Stilwell's letters to Whitman from July 5, 1864, and September 2, 1864.

PS 3201 1855 4to c.2 Bright red marbled endpapers, not original.

Seth Rogers PS3201 1855a c.2 Houghton Collection.

Richard Maurice Bucke PS3201 1855e c.2 Feinberg Collection.

One of the roughs, large, proud, affectionate,," 81.5 x 13.8 cm. 2.

The second copy of signature [2] has leaves 1 and 2 excised.

SONG OF MYSELF 2 :2 2 -3 :5 1 Have you reckoned a thousand acres much ?

SONG OF M YSELF 2 1 :4 3 2 -2 2 :4 6 7 1 5 Have you olitstript the rest ?

SONG OF M YSELF 2 5 :5 6 4 -2 6 :5 9 2 19 We also ascend dazzling and tremendous as the sun, We found

SONG OF M YSELF 4 9 :1 2 9 6 -5 2 :1 3 2 4 43 t ascend from the moon . . . .

AmericanPoetry, 2, no. 2 (Winter 1985): 2-16. Adicks, Richard R.

entourage of slaves—a man used to being served—military—a disciplinarian, yet a jolly man—fond of a good story—living

I objected, "But Grant was a man of larger mental parts."

You mind the story of the boarder: 'Yes, Madam, it is good butter.'

(My own position on these theological disputes ought to be understood—to have no part in them.

animosity have doubtless exaggerated the statements of some winesses witnesses , as for instance the hair story

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

and animosity have doubtless exaggerated the statements of some witnesses, as for instance the hair story

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

A good part of every day goes in excursions across the mountains, but I usually write in the mornings

Later they sat round the fire, & sang & told stories,—all in Welsh of course, & some score or more of

letter from Ezra H Heywood—dated Princeton, Mass: Massachusetts —Heywood has been arrested by Comstock—part

As I write, it is a cloudy moist warmish Sunday, 10¼ a. m. pleasant—quiet here—I am up in my 3d story

. | Nov | 13 | 430 AM | 1882 | 2.

A dingy two-story frame cottage, it nestles modestly between its more modern brick neighbors.

dishabille, by the window of the second room of the two humble apartments where he passes the greater part

He was still suffering slightly from his recent prostration by the heat and when the wanton breeze parted

for all time, I think their absorption into the future as elements and standards will be the best part

—tangled and many- vein'd and hard has been thy part, To admiration has it been enacted!

the case was one of law, and that the judgment, accordingly, could only be reviewed by writ of error. 2.

as will present the legal questions for review clearly and distinctly—and to make such statement a part

Its London agent, William Horsell, would play a part in establishing Whitman's English reputation.

American Literature 2 (1931): 350-384. Stern, Madeleine B.

despite of people —Illustrates evil as well as good; How many hold despairingly yet to the models de- parted

how every fact serves, And how now, or at any time, each serves the exquisite transition of Death. 2.

ceaseless ferry, faces, and faces, and faces: I see them, and complain not, and am content with all. 2

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

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

Lincoln," "Autumn Rivulets," "Whispers of Heavenly Death," "From Noon to Starry Night," "Songs of Parting

Portrait; cloth; $2 00. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co.

The old story of the sculptor is not inapplicable here.

the beautiful, the true, the high, the noble, the best that is meant in the word "taste," is also a part

—"these here in Herald no doubt a part of them"—and offered them to K.

I turned to him with this story and ended with saying, "That is how the Professor explains."

A fellow tells a story two or three times when he is drunk (though this won't explain Dick Hinton, who

So far from that story being true, I never took the books around—may have sent some of them away (some

He tells a good story apropos, of two visitors, the first complaining of heat and inducing W. to throw

Up a good part of the time.

But that is not the whole story.

I read a large part of the letter aloud, W. listening intently, several times exclaiming "bravo!"

, and the part of all your friends, is to whale them.

Then you'll have to keep up the story alone."

friend I have come up from White Horse, & think of visiting you tomorrow Wednesday—towards the latter part

In Days with Walt Whitman, Carpenter erred in dating his visit May 2 ([New York: The Macmillan Company

other in the entire work, and every word should express, or assist in expressing, an act which is a part

has employed his powers of delineation, and that the only field he can find to work on is where the story

be inclined to think that the poet had chosen to dwell so much longer on the wheels than the other parts

, of which there is a translated American edition, we find an apparent and continued effort on the part

being thus effected, the ultimate reunion of those parts, in the imagination, must always be a work

Then he went on: "I once read a story of Socrates—I can't tell where any more: I was young at the time—it

was in New York: a story, if I'm not mistaken, from Bacon, or credited to him.

As the story goes it was such a man in old Greece who happened into the Socratian circle—into one of

W. told this story with great gusto.

There's always a heap in such stories, but this, likely enough, this Socratian story, is fiction, as

homosexuality; and fourth, that beginning in the 1870s he imposed a theme of immortality on Leaves as part

that was to "vivify, and give crowning religious stamp, to democracy in the New World" (Prose Works 2:

Then in the second part of "Scented Herbage," he interprets the calamus as symbol of the comradeship

primal woods & of nature pure and holy" and its song was a "hymn / real, serious sweet" (Notebooks 2:

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

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

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

Explaining then, "That is in no sense a preface to the stories: simply a reminiscence, so to speak.

He did "not know just what would be included in the book," whether "more than the stories" or not.

B. said his own view of Hugo "is undoubtedly in great part a reaction from O'Connor's attempt to ram

Thence telling of stories for nearly half an hour, W. as gay as either of us.

"I can remember clearly one of Samuel Lover's stories—I have told it to you?

A story of some one's falling overboard somewhere and being fished out—handing the Irishman a small coin—a

Tom told a sea of Galilee story which quite convulsed us all, with W.'

published Fanny Fern's novels Ruth Hall (1855) and Rose Clark (1856), as well as her collection of stories

for children The Play-Day Book: New Stories for Little Folks (1857), among other titles.

in which this letter arrived and used the blank inside of it to write drafts of lines that became part

journalist best known for his long narrative poem, The Light of Asia (1879), which tells the life story

of place in Leaves of Grass—not integral—too distinctly different in character to connect with the story

They all go to make up a story. A story? Yes. But will the world ever wish to hear it?

My dear sir,I send by this mail the second part of my study of your works.

it is all stupid—hardly a choice between parts.

I want you somehow to take a hand in the contradiction of these stories, Horace.

"But I should like to know who furnished the thread of the story: if you can get that from Talcott without

I can see that he is annoyed by the Press story more and more.

none—that perhaps to call it by the name of one of the unprinted pieces, 'The Brazen Android and Other Stories

It is the story of all incomes (nearly) say, from three thousand a year to ten.

I sent the seven stories, six printed, and the Brazen Android with Walt's preface, to Houghton & Mifflin

I may yet accept, at any rate, a part of it.

believe everybody I know writes books or something—everybody: some of them write everything—poetry, stories

That entails something on my part: I feel somehow as if I was consecrated to you.

How it happened that I had never read this book before . . is a story not worth the telling; but, in

Lanier Letter to Walt Whitman] [A Lanier Letter to Walt Whitman] [A Lanier Letter to Walt Whitman] Part

Harned dropped in and the three of us went off immediately to his house, Bucke meanwhile telling us the story

Walt don't seem at all averse to telling it, but I don't think he wants to tell part—he feels that a

part would put him in a wrong light—while he is not able to tell the whole story, which is a long one