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Interpretation of the Poetry of Walt Whitman

  • Date: 1930
  • Creator(s): Pavese, Cesare
Text:

indispensable source for the issue in question is the Boston Calamus edition of the letters to Peter Doyle

44-48. 2 Calamus—A Series of Letters Written During the Years 1868-1880 by W.W. to a Young Friend (Pete

Doyle).

Tree,” as we shall see, creates poetry just as much, and perhaps more so than the dramatic scene of Pete’s

Intimate with Walt: Selections from Whitman’s Conversations with Horace Traubel 1888-1892

  • Date: 2001
  • Creator(s): Schmidgall, Gary
Text:

Doyle.’”

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

The real Irish character. pete’s cane A week later: “Peter Doyle was in yesterday and brought some flowers

A few weeks afterward: “This cane was given to me by Pete Doyle,” Whitman re- minded Traubel, “Pete was

Doyle was over C4:174 I have been reading 1:376 Pete Doyle was in 1:349 This cane was 1:415 It was at

Introduction

  • Creator(s): Dennis Berthold | Kenneth M. Price
Text:

developed during his work in the hospitals (and indeed for his relationships after the war with Peter Doyle

James, Henry (1843–1916)

  • Creator(s): Dye, Renée
Text:

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

James M. Scovel to Walt Whitman, 21 June 1880

  • Date: June 21, 1880
  • Creator(s): James M. Scovel
Annotations Text:

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

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 21 September 1891

  • Date: September 21, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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.

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 23 September 1891

  • Date: September 23, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

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.

Annotations Text:

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.

James W. Wallace to Walt Whitman, 24 September 1891

  • Date: September 24, 1891
  • Creator(s): James W. Wallace
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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.

John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 13 September 1874

  • Date: September 13, 1874
  • Creator(s): John Newton Johnson
Annotations Text:

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

Josie Morse to Walt Whitman, 22 November 1875

  • Date: November 22, 1875
  • Creator(s): Josie Morse
Text:

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

Leaves of Grass (1856)

  • Date: 1856
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

express-wagon — I love him though I do not know him, The half-breed straps on his light boots to com- pete

Leaves of Grass (1867)

  • Date: 1867
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Come up from the fields, father, here's a letter from our Pete; And come to the front door, mother—here's

little sisters huddle around, speechless and dis- may dismay'd ;) See, dearest mother, the letter says Pete

Leaves of Grass (1871)

  • Date: 1871
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

Come Up from the Fields, Father. 1 COME up from the fields, father, here's a letter from our Pete; And

sisters huddle around, speechless and dis- may'd dismay'd ;) See, dearest mother, the letter says Pete

Leaves of Grass (1881–1882)

  • Date: 1881–1882
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

COME up from the fields father, here's a letter from our Pete, And come to the front door mother, here's

sobs, The little sisters huddle around speechless and dismay'd,) See, dearest mother, the letter says Pete

Leaves of Grass (1891–1892)

  • Date: 1891–1892
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

COME up from the fields father, here's a letter from our Pete, And come to the front door mother, here's

sobs, The little sisters huddle around speechless and dismay'd,) See, dearest mother, the letter says Pete

Leaves of Grass, 1876, Author's Edition

  • Creator(s): Keuling-Stout, Frances E.
Text:

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

Leaves of Grass. The Poems of Walt Whitman [Selected]

  • Date: 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
Text:

COME UP FROM THE FIELDS FATHER. up from the fields father, here's a letter from our Pete, And come to

sobs, The little sisters huddle around speechless and dismay'd,) See dearest mother, the letter says Pete

Leaves of Grass: The Sesquicentennial Essays

  • Date: 2007
  • Creator(s): Belasco, Susan | Folsom, Ed | Price, Kenneth M.
Text:

Maynard had published Bucke’s Calamus, an edition of Whitman’s letters to Peter Doyle, in early 1897,

Elephant, his brother Young Elephant (who came afterward,) Tippy, Pop Rice, Big Frank, Yellow Joe, Pete

My favorite manu- script item is a postcard to Peter Doyle, which I was surprised to win on eBay.

copy of Calamus in order to ramp up the price of the book —after all, a copy of Calamus inscribed by Doyle

is currently being offered for $17,500 and Memoranda During the War, inscribed by Whitman to Doyle,

Lincoln's Death [1865]

  • Creator(s): Eiselein, Gregory
Text:

Although Whitman was not an eyewitness, his close companion, Peter Doyle, was at Ford's Theater, and

Whitman made impressive use of Doyle's story in his imaginative retelling.

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, 1 July [1868]

  • Date: July 1, 1868
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [11–13 February 1873]

  • Date: February 11–13, 1873
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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."

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [13 June 1871]

  • Date: June 13, 1871
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Annotations Text:

Brooklyn for his vacation on Wednesday the following week (see his June 21–23, 1871 letter to Peter Doyle

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [15 July 1868]

  • Date: July 15, 1868
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, 19 October [1869]

  • Date: October 19, 1869
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [20 to 22 December 1870]

  • Date: December 20 to 22, 1870
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [21 April–3 May? 1873]

  • Date: April 21–May 3?, 1873
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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."

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [25 August 1868]

  • Date: August 25, 1868
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Annotations Text:

Louisa's August 26, 1868 letter to Walt Whitman and Walt Whitman's September 25, 1868 letter to Peter Doyle

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, 25 June [1868]

  • Date: June 25, 1868
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [26 August 1868]

  • Date: August 26, 1868
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, 28 December [1868]

  • Date: December 28, 1868
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Annotations Text:

Whitman had assisted his mother during the move (see Walt Whitman's September 25, 1868 letter to Peter Doyle

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [3 March 1868]

  • Date: March 3, 1868
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Annotations Text:

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

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [3–24 January 1871]

  • Date: January 3–24?, 1871
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Annotations Text:

Walt took his summer vacation in June (see Walt's June 21, 1871 letter to Peter Doyle).

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [30 January 1873]

  • Date: January 30, 1873
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Annotations Text:

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."

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, 30 [May 1869]

  • Date: May 30, 1869
  • Creator(s): Louisa Van Velsor Whitman
Annotations Text:

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."

Love

  • Creator(s): Gould, Mitch
Text:

Whitman's major lovers—Fred Vaughan, Peter Doyle, and Harry Stafford—were cut from much the same depressive

Whitman caroused with Vaughan at Pfaff's tavern and with Doyle in its Washington equivalents, enabling

Doyle was his lover for roughly ten years.

Media Interpretations of Whitman's Life and Works

  • Creator(s): Britton, Wesley A.
Text:

Song of Myself (first broadcast 9 March 1976), starring Rip Torn as Whitman and Brad Davis as Peter Doyle

Whitman's last breath of inspiration and his last exhalation, with dialogues between Whitman and Peter Doyle

Men and Memories

  • Date: 16 January 1892
  • Creator(s): John Russell Young
Text:

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

Monday, July 20, 1891

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

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

Monday, June 18, 1888.

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

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.

Monday, March 7, 1892

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

s letters to Pete Doyle.

Monday, November 10, 1890

  • Creator(s): Horace Traubel | Traubel, Horace
Text:

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!

Nellie Eyster to Walt Whitman, 14 June 1870

  • Date: June 14, 1870
  • Creator(s): Nellie Eyster
Text:

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

Annotations Text:

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.

[nor humility's book]

  • Date: 1868
Text:

book]1868poetryhandwritten2 leaves; A draft of a poem on the verso of an 1868 draft letter to Peter Doyle

Notebook, 1868-1870

  • Date: about 1868-1870
Text:

notes that scholars have identified as autobiographical comments on Whitman's relationship with Peter Doyle

Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [1984]

  • Creator(s): Andriano, Joseph
Text:

seeing her, or meeting her" (Notebooks 2:889), he had originally written "him," referring to Peter Doyle

Notes on Whitman's Photographers

  • Creator(s): Ed Folsom
Text:

Little is known about the firm; Rice took the well-known photos of Whitman and Peter Doyle.

Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle

  • Date: 1994
  • Creator(s): Murray, Martin G.
Text:

Whitman thought Doyle was born in Limerick on June 3, 1845, while Pete's death certificate gave 1848

Pete's parents were Peter Doyle and Catherine Nash. The couple were married in St.

The following day, Doyle's sister-in-law Ellen (nee Branzell) Doyle and Skip Branzell, visited Pete at

A James Doyle (Pete's brother?)

With the death of Catherine Doyle, Pete's primary emotional tie to D.C. ended.

Peter Doyle to Walt Whiman, 18 September [1868]

  • Date: September 18, 1868
  • Creator(s): Peter Doyle
Text:

this morning have to cut this short as write a part of it while the car is in motion farewell Peter Doyle

Price Ashley Lawson Elizabeth Lorang Janel Cayer Peter Doyle to Walt Whiman, 18 September [1868]

Peter Doyle to Walt Whitman, 1 October [1868]

  • Date: October 1, 1868
  • Creator(s): Peter Doyle
Text:

get tired of so much scribbling as its done with a lead pencil & very often in the car yours truly Pete

Price Ashley Lawson Janel Cayer Elizabeth Lorang Peter Doyle to Walt Whitman, 1 October [1868]

Peter Doyle to Walt Whitman, 14 October [1868]

  • Date: October 14, 1868
  • Creator(s): Peter Doyle
Text:

assasinate the President but i dont think there is any truth in the report all the boys send their love Pete

Price Elizabeth Lorang Janel Cayer Peter Doyle to Walt Whitman, 14 October [1868]

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