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Rolleston of December 2, 1881.
Upon reading over my letter within, previous to mailing it, I had almost decided not to send it—as a part
In a November 2, 1873, letter, Walt Whitman offered "Song of the Redwood-Tree" to Henry M.
Having successfully submitted "Song of the Redwood-Tree" to Harper's New Monthly Magazine on November 2,
Camden New Jersey US America Evn'g Sept 8 '89— Here I sit toward sunset in my big old chair in the 2d story
the waistcoat if it takes our last cent" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Wednesday, May 2,
Morse brought four of the heads on September 2, one of which was sent to Richard Maurice Bucke (Whitman's
It will probably be $2 ab't— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Robert Pearsall Smith, 11 January 1888
Lay $2 weekly from April 5 to September 27.
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey April 2 Thanks, dear Colonel, for your kind letter & for your books
Ingersoll, 2 April [1880]
Buchanan's letter of April 28, 1876, in addition to these names, cited a contribution £2 from Browning
, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [1906–1996], 1:2–
.; Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [1906–1996], 1:2).
failed, and these plates were stored away and nothing further done;—till about a year ago (latter part
Mr Eldridge, (of the Boston firm alluded to) is accessible in Washington D C—will corroborate first parts
plates—subscription to purchase" (Whitman's Commonplace Book).In a letter to the editor of The Critic on June 2,
The price is £2, which please remit me by p. o. order.)
thinking a good deal of O'Connor —sent to him a letter & papers last night— Y'rs of 7th has come by the 2
bro't over four copies of the "Complete" in their good half-calf binding—they are superb, the best part
& collected & conservative but I consider him a real honest permanent friend of self & L of G— 3 1/2
cane chair in my den after my daily bath—Shall probably get out in wheel chair at sunset (same old story
See Prose Works 1892, Volume 2: Collect and Other Prose, ed.
The Camden Daily Post article "Ingersoll's Speech" of June 2, 1890, was written by Whitman himself and
Floyd Stovall, 2 vols. [New York: New York University Press: 1963–1964], 686–687).
yesterday & knows him & speaks very well of him—my own feeling w'd be to leave the event to tell the story
Rossiter Johnson (Boston, Massachusetts: The Biographical Society, 1904), Volume 2.
Camden noon Nov: 8 '90 Fine sunny day mild—was out in wheel chair two hours yesterday 12 to 2—sick but
See Bucke's letter of November 2, 1890.
William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:575.
White had requested permission to visit in his letter of November 2, 1890.
Have finish'd the proofs of poetic part (very brief) of "Good-Bye" & now go on with the prose bits— W
God bless you all Walt Whitman Whitman wrote this letter to Bucke on the verso of a page that was part
Camden noon Aug:8 '89 Feeling pretty well—sitting here in 2d story den—rec'd a letter from Logan Smith
volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were Poets of America, 2
chestnut burr" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Thursday, May 17, 1888; Monday, October 2,
Three of O'Connor's stories with a preface by Whitman were published in Three Tales: The Ghost, The Brazen
Herbert Spencer Harned (1888–1969) was born on December 2, 1888.
the name of " Old Poets—(and other things) —don't know what I sh' make of it—moderately short—ab't 2½
See Bucke's letter to Whitman of September 2, 1890.
I am sure as I can be all of those elaborated and lengthy parts from Man's Moral Nature should be ruled
On November 1, 1888, Bucke complained that Gurd had "only written one letter in 2½ weeks."
Camden Wednesday Nov: 6 A M '89 Feeling fairly—bright sunny day—cool—was out yesterday ab't 2 in wheel
(am a little fearful that the Spanish journey & racket will feed the enemy as much as it saps him)— 2
Kennedy had reported in a letter to Whitman of January 2, 1888 that Frederick W.
O'Connor's stories with a preface by Whitman were published in Three Tales: The Ghost, The Brazen Android
—poor Harry Stafford's throat trouble is the same as ever— Walt Whitman Belmont Jan 2 '88 To Walt Whitman
Dressed as Portia, when a Shakespeare masquerade (in which everyone took some part from the plays) was
Whitman wrote this letter to Bucke on the the back of a January 2, 1889, letter from William Sloane Kennedy
last complete —after 33 yr's of hackling at it all times & moods of my life, fair weather & foul, all parts
Camden 2½ p m Dec: 6 '88 Probably the two or three letters lately from me have sketch'd in the situation—Last
February 24, 1890 (see The Collected Writings of Walt Whitman: Prose Works 1892, ed. by Floyd Stovall, 2
vols. [1963–1964], 2:676–677).
Woodbury had spread the story that Emerson told him that he once met Whitman for dinner at the Astor
Whitman is referring to a lost letter from Bucke; see Bucke's letter of December 24, 1888, note 2.
had suggested that Thayer & Eldridge print Leaves of Grass (see The New Voice, 16 [4 February 1899], 2)
He defended William O'Connor's The Good Gray Poet in the Milwaukee Sentinel on February 9, 1866 (2).
The International Congress of American States opened in Washington on October 2; the delegates began
the forthcoming Canadian elections: "I am boiling over with suppressed excitement thank goodness only 2
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yesterday)—am moved (as the Quakers say) to write some poemetta these days—partly small orders, & part
much—will soon send you a printed slip of the Sarrazin fragment as the proof from K[ennedy] has come in the 2
all here last evn'g—Mr & Mrs Ingram this forenoon— I am sitting as usual in the big chair in second story
Pond, and English poet Sir Edwin Arnold at Whitman's Camden home on November 2, 1891: "Sir Edwin had
Whitman related his thoughts on the visit to Traubel on Monday, November 2, 1891.
Conference in Phila: is over—had lots of speeches, discussions, advices pro & con &c: I suppose all part
On November 2, 1889, Whitman sent the piece, now called "Old Age Echoes," to Nineteenth Century and asked
The Philadelphia Inquirer carried the story on the front page on the following day.
The Camden Daily Post article "Ingersoll's Speech" of June 2, 1890, was written by Whitman himself and
Floyd Stovall, 2 vols. [New York: New York University Press: 1963–1964], 686–687).
On June 2 he observed: "There is nothing in God's world more absurd than these balls & parties at which
The cluster was rejected by Benjamin Orange Flower, the editor of the magazine, on December 2, 1890;
Lectures Delivered Before the Lowell Institute (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1867), 2 vols.
See Bucke's letter to Whitman of December 2, 1888.