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Once he mentioned Peter Doyle. "Where are you Pete? Oh!

I'm feeling rather kinky—not at all peart, Pete—not at all."

I give my friend Peter Doyle the silver watch.I desire that my friends Dr R M Bucke of London, Ontario

raise his right arm and chant that line, 'after all not to create only,' and then laugh, as I did, and Pete

Pete Doyle was in yesterday and brought some flowers.

"It was Pete who gave me the cane," explained W., "the cane with a crook in it.

I always use Pete's cane: I like to think of it as having come from Pete—as being so useful to me in

You have never met Pete? We must arrange it some way some time." Baker is very anxious. "Mr.

W. paused and added: "I have been reading over an old letter from Pete Doyle: so simple, true, sufficient

"This cane was given me by Pete Doyle," he reminded me: "Pete was always a good stay and support."

Doyle, I was allowed to read your—I prefer saying—I was permitted a long look into the wonderful mirror

Wallace wants to go to see Pete Doyle.

And before it passes out of my mind, Horace, let me ask you: Wallace says you report Pete Doyle in Baltimore

The noble Pete! I hear but little from him.

Doyle's letters not frequent? "Oh no! Never!

Further changed the gold watch from Harry Stafford to H.L.T. and the silver watch from Pete Doyle to

Wallace wants to go to see Pete Doyle.

"I read all and copied some of the letters to Doyle, which Bucke has, and I am interested to meet a man

But if Doyle is on the road, he is hard to catch. I think lives at Baltimore now.

And before it passes out of my mind, Horace, let me ask you: Wallace says you report Pete Doyle in Baltimore

The noble Pete! I hear but little from him.

Doyle's letters not frequent? "Oh no! Never!

But of course I always humored Pete in that.

Hutton, Greenhalgh, Humphreys, Sharrock & self—when Wallace read to us extracts from Walt's letters to Pete

Doyle and greatly did we all enjoy the evening.Sorry to hear of Mrs.

s letters to Pete Doyle.

Someone was sure Peter Doyle was seen somewhere in the crowd, but I saw nothing of him till we had got

Whitman, Longaker, Reeder, McAlister, Ed Stafford, Miss Helen Price, Pete Doyle, Mrs.

Further changed the gold watch from Harry Stafford to H.L.T. and the silver watch from Pete Doyle to

472 July 1, 1865 Walt Whitman From a photograph, 1873 494 Walt Whitman and His Rebel Soldier Friend, Pete

Doyle, 1889 544 Sidney Morse 554 From a photograph by Metcalf & Welldon, 1889 Walt Whitman From a photograph

"I walked great walks myself in the Washington days: often with Pete Doyle: Pete was never a scholar:

Two pieces of a letter from Pete Doyle. One piece a letter from Josie Morse, New York.

Pete used the stationery of the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad Company.

"I walked great walks myself in the Washington days: often with Pete Doyle: Pete was never a scholar:

sthat's so fine—so fine, fine, fine: he brings back my own walks to me: the walks alone: the walks with Pete

Bucke has Peter Doyle and Harry Stafford letters from W.Sunday, October 26, 1890Spent the day roaming

Picture of W. and Peter Doyle: the two sitting gazing into each other's eyes, a picture which O'Connor

And when I said it was he went on, "I know it is good of Pete—it is first-rate: the best I have," etc

., and he exclaimed, "Dear Pete!

Bucke has Peter Doyle and Harry Stafford letters from W. Saturday, October 25, 1890

Picture of W. and Peter Doyle: the two sitting gazing into each other's eyes, a picture which O'Connor

And when I said it was he went on, "I know it is good of Pete—it is first-rate: the best I have," etc

., and he exclaimed, "Dear Pete!

"I was quite staggered here—it knocked the breath out of me—to read a headline—'The Death of Peter Doyle

'—here in the paper: but it was not our Peter Doyle: it was some old man, somewhere, given the same name

our good Pete—a rebel—not old—big—sturdy—a man, every inch of him! such a fellow—and health!"

Doyle no longer in Washington. "He has not been here for some years.

Doyle no longer in Washington. "He has not been here for some years.

not to see Tucker till I have all the sheets to show him.Wallace writes 21st (gone deep into Whitman-Doyle

Calamus: A Series of Letters Written During the Years 1868—1880 by Walt Whitman to a Young Friend (Peter Doyle

Later, Whitman would get a first-hand report of the assassination from his friend Peter Doyle, an Irish

immigrant and former Confederate soldier whom Whitman had met when Doyle was an out-patient in Washington

Doyle's description would form the basis of Whitman's later speech, "Death of Abraham Lincoln," which

W. " I should like to see Pete ] Doyle" while I am here. Can you give me his address? W. W.

where Pete is as I am rather uneasy about him.

So I don't know where Pete is now." " /. W. W.

I said that one reason why I wanted to see Pete Doyle was that he perhaps represented the average American

Pete hardly does. For years past Pete has been whirled among the sophistications."

"I should like to see Pete Doyle while I am here. Can you give me his address?" W. W.

I should like to know where Pete is as I am rather uneasy about him.

So I don't know where Pete is now." J. W. W.

I said that one reason why I wanted to see Pete Doyle was that he perhaps represented the average American

Pete hardly does. For years past Pete has been whirled among the sophistications."

jolliest man I ever met, an artist, a great talker," Whitman wrote in a November 9, 1873, letter to Peter Doyle

spent the rest of the morning in looking over the papers you sent, & in copying some of the letters to Pete

Doyle that the doctor has.

Despite his status as a veteran of the Confederate Army, Doyle's uneducated, youthful nature appealed

limited the time the two could spend together, their relationship rekindled in the mid-1880s after Doyle

After Whitman's death, Doyle permitted Richard Maurice Bucke to publish the letters Whitman had sent

For more on Doyle and his relationship with Whitman, see Martin G.

Murray, "Doyle, Peter," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D.

I think it a blessed Providence that led the D to shew me the letters he has that you wrote to Pete Doyle

Despite his status as a veteran of the Confederate Army, Doyle's uneducated, youthful nature appealed

limited the time the two could spend together, their relationship rekindled in the mid-1880s after Doyle

After Whitman's death, Doyle permitted Richard Maurice Bucke to publish the letters Whitman had sent

For more on Doyle and his relationship with Whitman, see Martin G.

Murray, "Doyle, Peter," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D.

And this afternoon I have been reading some old letters of yours to Pete Doyle, & their wonderful loving

Despite his status as a veteran of the Confederate Army, Doyle's uneducated, youthful nature appealed

limited the time the two could spend together, their relationship rekindled in the mid-1880s after Doyle

After Whitman's death, Doyle permitted Richard Maurice Bucke to publish the letters Whitman had sent

For more on Doyle and his relationship with Whitman, see Martin G.

Murray, "Doyle, Peter," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D.

occupied an entire page of the paper (as Whitman alludes to in his November 28, 1873, letter to Peter Doyle

Our Pete hit in a cavalry skirmish and to die; the boy shot in the abdomen, "face as white as a lily;

Whitman pasted this letter together with a letter he received from Peter Doyle.

When he died, Whitman left Stafford his silver watch, originally intended for Peter Doyle.  

unceremoniously exited Washington for Camden, which left him separated from his intimate friend, Peter Doyle

Doyle, against newspaper claims of police brutality re- 1 8 6 8 -18 7 5 [g1] lated to Doyle's arrest

Whitman writes to William O'Connor on be half of Edward Doyle, Pete's brother, who is seeking em ployment

Peter Doyle visits(n N , 2 :3 5 Pete's mother had died on 24 May.

Whitman learns from Wallace that Peter Doyle is living in Baltimore; he speaks of "The noble Pete!

"'Pete the Great': A Biography of Peter Doyle."

after having read over again an old letter from "Pete."

When not with her, Walt told Pete, he was riding the ferry and visiting Coney Island.

time-honored sentiment, "Pete, I wish you were with me."

He wrote to Peter Doyle: The N.

Pete's brother, Francis, was a police officer in Washington, D.C.

personal reflections in his notebooks around 1870 in which he anguishes over his affection for Peter Doyle

The extensive body of letters Whitman wrote to Civil War soldiers, and especially Peter Doyle, usually

Whitman admits as much to another lover, Washington street- car driver Peter Doyle, in a September 2,

Peter Doyle’s long romantic friendship with the poet is well- established.

See Murray, “‘Pete the Great,’” 14. 44. Corr. 1:11. 45.

“‘Pete the Great’: A Biography of Peter Doyle.”

Maddock, 86 Garrison,William Lloyd, 25 Douglas, Stephen A., 6, 125–26 Gay, Getty, 91–92; “Royal Bohemian Doyle

assisted with the move by "hiring a stout young laboring man" (see his September 25, 1868 letter to Peter Doyle

late September (see her August 26, 1868 letter to Walt and Walt's September 25, 1868 letter to Peter Doyle

September (see her August 26, 1868 letter to Walt Whitman and his September 25, 1868 letter to Peter Doyle

late September (see her August 26, 1868 letter to Walt and Walt's September 25, 1868 letter to Peter Doyle

September (see her August 26, 1868 letter to Walt Whitman and his September 25, 1868 letter to Peter Doyle

during his October 1868 visit to Providence, Rhode Island (see Walt's October 17, 1868 letter to Peter Doyle

and me poor poor matt good bie dear keep up your spirits and hope for the best what a good fellow pete

Pete is i have had quite a lot of correspondence from new york New York concerning your condition our

Walt befriended Peter Doyle (1843–1907), a horsecar conductor in Washington, around 1865.

Though Whitman informed Doyle of his flirtations with women in their correspondence, Martin G.

Murray affirms that "Whitman and Doyle were 'lovers' in the contemporary sense of the word."

Doyle assisted in caring for Whitman after his stroke in January 1873.

See Murray, "Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle."

Walt befriended Peter Doyle (1843–1907), a horsecar conductor in Washington, around 1865.

Though Whitman informed Doyle of his flirtations with women in their correspondence, Martin G.

Murray affirms that "Whitman and Doyle were 'lovers' in the contemporary sense of the word."

Doyle assisted in caring for Whitman after his stroke in January 1873.

See Murray, "Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle."

write as often as you can give my love to mrs Mrs. oconor O'Connor and remember me to peter Peter Doyl

Doyle we saw the news of the modoc massacre last sunday Sunday but thought maybee maybe it true till

Walt befriended Peter Doyle (1843–1907), a horsecar conductor in Washington, around 1865.

Though Whitman informed Doyle of his flirtations with women in their correspondence, Martin G.

Murray affirms that "Whitman and Doyle were 'lovers' in the contemporary sense of the word."

Doyle assisted in caring for Whitman after his stroke in January 1873.

See Murray, "Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle."