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.00066xxx.00081To a new personal admirer1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 13 x 11.5 cm; leaf 2

featuring a new first line, became section 12 of Calamus in 1860; in 1867 Whitman dropped the last 2

1/2 lines and permanently retitled it Are you the New Person Drawn Toward Me?

The first page contains verses corresponding to lines 2-3 of the 1860 version, and the lines on the second

It looks bad for you, Horace—as if you'd have to do that part of the job without my assistance."

s request.Arlington, Mass.Apr. 3rd, 1875.My dear friend, I think I have all of your books (2 or 3 editions

Trowbridge.Arlington, Mass.Dec. 2, 1877.Dear Friend Whitman, By the time you get this I suppose you will

I had no idea the story had so many chapters when I handed it over to you."

great as the feet and fingers of the soul, goads and witnesses and alarm clocks of the soul prokers 2

delights, enjoyments touches gives it some f or aint sign of its own the harmony and measure that are part

of its essence; as a good part of the soul is its craving for that which we incompletely describe by

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

The pay of the Commissioners under the act was fixed at $5 for the first hundred days, and $2 per day

to be submitted to the Common Council; and we trust that no opposition which may be offered on the part

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

his brother, and for men, and I an- swer answer for him that answers for all, and send these signs. 2

his own, and bestows it upon men, and any man translates, and any man translates himself also; One part

does not counteract another part—he is the joiner—he sees how they join.

His story bore the appropriate title "As It Was Written."

Stockton, who is just now in the zenith of his popularity as a story writer.

African, his slender figure clad in evening dress, a low cut collar encircling his neck, and his hair parted

Bishop doesn't look a day older than 25, but he has written several successful stories, one of which

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:417–421;.

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:417–421;.

However, by the Act of March 2, 1867, (Less.

granted for, or applied to, any of the purposes above mentioned, is that appropriated by the Act of March 2,

This draft contains stipulations on the part of the Company, comprehending 1st, the relocation and construction

On the part of the United States, the stipulations include,—1st, the grant of a permanent location and

Leaves of Grass (1860) who was serving as Assistant Army Paymaster during the War, Whitman obtained part-time

There the "poet-chief" (Notebooks 2:881) welcomed visiting delegations of Indian tribes, when not performing

Dismissed on 30 June 1865 by Interior Secretary James Harlan for authoring "that book" (Notebooks 2:799

David Reynolds attributes Whitman's conservative political perspective, in part, to his warm personal

Tuesday, February 2, 18928:22 A.M. Found W. awake after restless night.

I never heard the story before, but"—with a merry laugh—"I have heard as bad and worse."

Tuesday, February 2, 1892

place & New York, I go around quite a good deal—it is a great excitement to go around the busiest parts

Library; Edwin Haviland Miller, ed., The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

The Deaths of Rousseau and Voltaire duk.00174 This clipping is a reprint of an excerpt from Volume 2

Whitman's marginalia to Volume 2 of this book is at loc.03459. Teale, Thomas P.

The Life and Works of Goethe: with Sketches of his Age and Contemporaries, from Published and Unpubl 2

of this work is listed at bmr.00013 bmr.00013 Volume 2 of this work is listed at bmr.00012 Harrison,

Chaucer and Selections from His Poetical Works The Cricket on the Hearth The Chimes A Goblin Story A

traits, idiosyncrasy, and environment,—'there being not merely one good way of representing a great part

Suppose, however, he undertook to play the part in a cutaway coat, a plug hat, corduroy trowsers, and

It reminds one of the negro's story of the storm that blew down the house but left the roof standing.

The doctors tell us that the body is not vile, nor any of its parts; and when a genuine poet called it

The man who has a story to build will never fail for want of verbal tools; if he falters, it will be

The age is over-squeamish, and, for my part, I prefer the honest nude to the suggestive half-draped.

His letter of December 2, 1866, was even more unreserved in its praise.

[Showed him] paragraph I had put editorially in today's Post: It should be said that the dubious stories

And at my statement—"That is right, I am glad you said it that way," adding, "There are stories nowadays

These stories about us have the sound of invention, wholly and unmistakably."

"She says women do not create character, write the great poems, construct the great stories."

You know these stories are rife, or were, even then in those old days; it seemed the necessity with some

It is the old story of the man who dislikes to have the sauce he has so often passed around served up

It is the Socrates story over again: there's the eligibility for all that in me.

penetrate the fellows—by subtle questions—not too direct—suggestion, manner, speech—till the whole story

There are—so I am told—a few Indians more toward the western part of Easthampton, who live nearer to

other to the most deadly combats—we tore various past passions into tatters See Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2,

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. 316–318.

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

their soldiers on the eve of battle in Shakespeare's Richard III, Act 5.; See Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2,

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 316–318.

And the story ran that Mr.

Parts of it remind one of the "Manuscript Symphony of Dolon," but the most of it is an echo of Emerson

He had never gone farther than the first part; so digusted was he that he threw the book across the room

It is not essentially altered in the main part, nor is what coarseness was once there in the least softened

The ancient method of making steel was by burying iron in the ground for years, till its feebler parts

States," embodying an interesting account of the political state of our country during the latter part

The Professor" discourses about ladies' dresses, superstition and fear, interweaving a quaint love story

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

thirty thousand men, women and children, either out of our own city or concentred here from other parts

The little two story building to the left is the place for preparations in morbid and healthy anatomy

In the second story is the Museum, valuable to students and amateurs.

In the next cot is Frank Osborne, a young fireman, belonging to No. 2 steamer; he was knocked down while

W. said, "I have not got over it yet—it was a startling story! And such a fellow!

And then, "You see—the story of the shirt is quite circumstantial—it has been told before—it is long

put upon me and will stick—but they are all lies—all stories of the kind.

It is like Lincoln and the smutty stories—time was, when a fellow got a particularly dirty story, he

And so these shirt stories are put back to me." And further, "It shows what books may be worth."

has been part of all the editions of Leaves of Grass.

The story is not unlike the story Whitman tells in his 1859 elegy “A 162 Radical Imaginaries WordOutoftheSea

Bryan Rennie (London: Equinox, 2006), 17–22; 20. 2.

Floyd Stovall, 2 vols. (NewYork: NewYork University Press, 1964), 1:288.

(Fr 391). 2. Walt Whitman, Daybooks and Notebooks, ed.

all sorts of newspaper rumors in regard to the yellow fever in St Louis —but the truth is that the stories

reasonably well have pretty good health—indeed just now it is extremely good—at one time—near the latter part

And then Dr B told us the story about the Camden Hackman who asked him where he was to drive to—"Oh,"

letter to him in which you referred to us in such high terms—I could see that it cost him a wrench to part

Etemad [Tehran, Iran] (July 2, 2013). 1) In some anthologies we read about the “Whitmanic” elements.

His poetry celebrates democracy and encompasses a diverse range of people. 2) If we use a stylistic approach

fact believed that a great poet would be embraced by readers, but this was a miscalculation, on his part

The $4, namely: $2 from Theo. A. Drake and 2 [from] John D.

now—even if one don't get it)—I have seen Charles Sumner three times—he says every thing here moves as part

Lane enclosed a contribution of $1 from Martin in a letter on May 2, 1863.

that is the last breath he has to breathe and he then can be removed legally into a hot oven and in 2

hours nothing is left of him except 5 lbs of bone dust which I pay 2 cts a lb for, to enrich my farm.

These are part of what thoughts were crowding in my brain as I stood watching for one hour till my friend

Saturday, June 2, 1888.Took W. the first six pages of O'erOver Travel'dTraveled Roads in page form.

"I would like to rehearse the whole story—it has elements all its own. It is a long story, too.

Saturday, June 2, 1888.

. & shall probably go there & spend a few days, latter part of October.

Shall I tell you about it, or part of it, just to fill up?

So I try to put in something in my letters to give you an idea of how I pass part of my time, & what

In his October 2, 1868 letter to Doyle, Whitman responded to Henry Hurt's request for information about

Towards one o'clock I myself stopped at 328 and stayed half an hour, with Warren, part of the time in

Hiccough for some time, continuous.2 Slept but little today.

Much cooler to watch it than to take part in it!

Sends love to you. see notes Oct 2 1891 James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 17 September 1891

Kurunégala Ceylon 11 Dec 90 My dear Walt— It's good to get your letter of Nov 2 nd forwarded to me here

On the other hand I think they are wanting in the part of Love.

See Whitman's letter to Carpenter of November 2, 1890.

2 Pembroke Gardens, W. London.

I can only suppose you have seen some bungled & mutilated telegram embodying part of the statement of

philosophy adequate to it is one that makes contradiction and the terms contradicted an essential part

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770–1831)

in Baltimore until Thursday evening then took the 9 oclock train for Harrisburg arived at H. about 2

morning I arrived at my uncles at McFarland Station I stayd there two weeks, then started for another part

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

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

Julian B.Freund"Return of the Heroes, The" (1867)"Return of the Heroes, The" (1867)As part of the cluster

miracle of nature found in God's "calm annual drama" as life eternally springs from death (section 2)

poem begins with an image of two lovers sleeping peacefully together (perhaps the "friend" of line 2,

The poem ends with a salutation to procreation, and a parting gesture in which this "bunch" (of semen

my spade through the sod and turn it up underneath, I am sure I shall expose some of the foul meat. 2

Perhaps every mite has once form'd part of a sick person—yet behold!

my spade through the sod and turn it up underneath, I am sure I shall expose some of the foul meat. 2

Perhaps every mite has once form'd part of a sick person—yet behold!

I have been working very hard in the past year and, in addition to my work in Lachine, have had 2 patents

(in which I am only part inventor) on my mind, with much writing and drawing to do in all my spare moments

We could give only 2 days to romantic Edinboro town and 1 of these I gave to the Forth bridge, most stupendous

and hideously ugly of bridges, having 2 spans each of 1600 ft (same as Brooklyn) and many smaller spans

shall not now start, until after New Years I will ask a friend in New York to send you the am't for 2

delegations and had what he called "quite animated and significant" conversations with them (Prose Works 2:

propensities, monstrous and treacherous, that make them unfit to be left in white neighborhoods" (Notebooks 2:

representations, essential traits . . . arousing comparisons with our own civilized ideals" (Prose Works 2:

American poem; Whitman wanted to include them, even as they seemed to be disappearing as an active part

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963-1964.  Native Americans [Indians]

The name of the character "Covert" also appears in Whitman's story Revenge and Requital; A Tale of a

in the United States Magazine and Democratic Review in July–August 1845, although the plot of that story

could wish—(after most a week of rainy, dark & disagreeable but warmish weather)—I have the same old story

inclined to try for you—(You know there is nothing of that sort done without trying)—Did you get the story

From Shakespeare, Richard III , Act IV, Scene 2: "Richmond!

minutes—and shortly afterwards we made a solemn procession down to the water, each man carrying a part

But the strongest part of all is that when we got through there were fragments enough to rival the miraculous

They told love stories, and ghost stories, and sang country ditties; but the night and the scene mellowed

.; From Shakespeare, Richard III, Act IV, Scene 2: "Richmond!

The Gilders have stood by me now through the better part of 20 years, which is something to say—both

Met there Esling, local poet and writer, who had traveled much and was replete with story or fable.

more carefully read it than before (if ever read before) and imbibed a certain sort of enthusiasm for parts

this letter, Elmina Slenker enclosed a circular letter advertising her children's book Science in Story

editions of Leaves of Grass as "annexes" (the 1881 edition concludes with the section called "Songs of Parting

poems he had to include references to his sickness and invalidism, since they had become so much a part

Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908.Whitman, Walt.

W. said: I thought the story would give me a good résumé of Priestley's career—some adequate picture

He has sat up a part of the day, but is now, at 4 P.M., sleeping.

"I have been told the story a number of times by old men—I have quite a penchant for hunting up the old

roosters, having their stories from the farthest back possible."

"Their stories seemed wonderfully to agree—seemed plausible.

Jackson's hand-picked successor, Martin Van Buren, in his first campaign (1836) and took an active part

with a wrinkled and dark-yellow face," and lacking "conventional ceremony or etiquette" (Prose Works 2:

Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908; Vol. 3. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1914.Whitman, Walt.

Cleveland Rodgers and John Black. 2 vols. New York: Putnam, 1920.____. Prose Works, 1892. Ed.

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

Watch Quartier Au Loete Swisse No. 51,575 1 3 0 00 50 A Ap 14 " 17 19 2 5 37 80 75 25 M Ju " s to 2n

is to be poor, rather than rich—but to prefer death sooner than any mean dependence.— Prudence is part

of the new born child is greater than the woman's part— or where father than is more needful than a

And the world is no joke, Nor any part of it a sham, This passage contains a line directly related to

w ill you sting me most even at parting?

Myself: Walt Whitman and the Making of Leaves of Grass (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010), 2–

the Composition of Leaves of Grass: The 'Talbot Wilson' Notebook," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 20:2