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In August 1841, he had published a short story about a cruel schoolmaster, "Death in the School-Room,

In August 1841, he had published a short story about a cruel schoolmaster, "Death in the School-Room,

In August 1841, he had published a short story about a cruel schoolmaster, "Death in the School-Room,

In August 1841, he had published a short story about a cruel schoolmaster, "Death in the School-Room,

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Feb: 2 '81 Dear Sir Yours of Jan: 31 just rec'd received .

Walt Whitman Walt Whitman | Feb. 2/81 settled o.k. | F.H.R. Walt Whitman to Frank H.

Ransom, 2 February 1881

Whitman made the following note in his Commonplace Book on February 2: "Sent a set Two Vols: to Frank

A single drop less than the 2½ gallons, it was shown, would not move the hands of the dial; but the instant

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

graphic firsts.Whitman himself, for example, pastes "intercalations" (paper scraps of poems, titles, and parts

Camden New Republic 11 Mar. 1876: 2. Leaves of Grass, 1876, Author's Edition

"Spider" was finally incorporated into Leaves of Grass in 1881, still a part of "Whispers," which contained

By 1862 or 1863, in another notebook entry (Notebooks 2:522–523; 700), the worm had become a spider,

mother, he wrote, were "the two best and sweetest women I have ever seen or known" (Correspondence 2:

When the newly married couple moved into the Whitman household, Mattie became an integral part of the

We have caught over a hundred in the last 2 months.

this on my way Home to get my rights, if I dont get it I will not come to Washington till the latter part

Grier's Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984), 2:541

who have travel'd in Spain I guess there is no portrait-painting existing any better than V's— Nov. 2

1/2 past 2 —still dark & raining—had a good pummeling an hour ago—& shall have another at 9 evening—My

a good deal of the time)— God bless you all— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 1–2

It is postmarked: Camden, NJ | Nov 2 8PM | 89; Philadelphia | Nov 2 | 9 PM | 1889 | Transit.

Parts of the book have appeared previously.

: sex, class, & commerce 2.

(GF 2:64).

The linguistic textures of the verse, however, tell another story: a story of conflicting levels of language

Smith, Loafer,” 63. 2. See R. H.

On the verso is a letter from Henry Hopkins dated November 2, 1891. [The tangled long]

I for my part can see no reason why West should not have his say—why any man should not have his say:

I for my part am distrustful of any personal rules or public customs which interpose barriers between

W. took the thing smilingly: "That is a familiar story: I am not a saint—have never been guilty of setting

Tonight urgent: asked after proof anxiously—seemed disappointed when he found I had only brought him a part

appears to be in the intrinsic man a disposition to turn the back on phrases which signify absolute partings

I told the story of Ingersoll's visitor and his everlasting "yes, yes"—and after W. had ceased his laugh

It tells the story of travel. Yes, I like it—it has something for us—some true, subtle strokes."

And further, "That was only a little quibble on Kimball's part, that the law might be brought in against

That is a part of John which does not appeal to me.

And Bucke seems to have as good an opinion as I have—probably through you—or through you in part—and

sometime, should think all this very important—especially if 'Leaves of Grass' continues—becomes a part

W. told me with great gusto a Washington story related to him by Tom Donaldson.

Perhaps the morning, as you say, will tell me a better story.

No answer yet—if I get it will spend part of the time at Atlantic City and part (I guess) at Ingram's

As I write, (Sunday afternoon) up in my 3d story room, heavy clouds & rain falling in torrents.

as 1888, he claimed that his admiration for Heine was "a constantly growing one" (With Walt Whitman 2:

He identified with Heine's unconventional "improprieties" (With Walt Whitman 2:553) (presumably his liberal

bookishness in his works: "always warm, pulsing—his style pure, lofty, sweeping in its wild strength" (2:

Original lyrical property, "a superb fusion of culture and native elemental genius" (With Walt Whitman 2:

Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906; Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908. Heine, Heinrich (1797–1856)

See also note 2 to Whitman's letter from January 20, 1865 .

Thereafter he compiled extremely successful textbooks, and established the magazine Story-Teller, in

Kerr, 1902), and Meyer Berger, The Story of The New York Times, 1851–1951 (New York: Simon and Schuster

least two are adolescent or purely romantic biographies, Cameron Rogers's The Magnificent Idler: The Story

Otherwise, Kaplan relies for the most part on information found in Allen and elsewhere between 1955 and

The Evolution of Walt Whitman. 1954. 2 vols.

to correct a pencil number 7 to a 1, and on the third side the blue pencil corrected a pencil 8 to a 2.

Calamus, but the five lines beginning "Scented herbage of my breast" became the opening verses of section 2

It makes me think of a story I once heard of a Bridget whose mistress found her weeping bitterly before

I said to Doctor when he was here: 'Maurice, you put too much emphasis upon my part in the scheme: you

Another story was that Washington, D.C., police "run him out" from that town for shamelessly living with

As far as the author turns our thoughts—wittingly or unwittingly on his own part—to Diderot and the encyclopædists

He has done something I don't like—withheld a part of the explanation of the cipher, and moreover expounded

The fragments of the cipher story in the book are quite amazing and have wonderful vraisemblance.

volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were Poets of America, 2

Am going in to Athenaeum this afternoon to look up & read some of O'Connor's stories.

parents in a day or two—(intended to have gone to-day)—Nothing very new with me, much the same old story—H

It is the same old story. I have a great deal of pain in my head yet—no let up.

It is a very warm Sunday afternoon—as I write up in my third story south room— W W Walt Whitman to Anne

the theatres, where the appearance of the biggest military characters attract no attention......That story

It is a very pretty story as it stands; but one has no spare sympathy to expend these days....It is estimated

Washington Irving (1783–1859) was a biographer, historian, and short story writer.

prison terms, totalling eighteen years ("Sentence of Korth," Brooklyn Evening Star, October 27, 1848, 2;

"Frederick Louis Korth," Brooklyn Evening Star, August 10, 1848, 2).

Bok writes this story to the Boston Journal about W.

And my friend, in telling me the story, said he saw his mistake at once, but Whitman never noticed it

again, "This man Bok is an irresponsible paragrapher, anyway, never excited my respect—is in for a story

inaccurate: there is a slip now and then: two or three places where I'dI'd like to make changes: but the story

"Well, she said he was a man of parts—that he would be a man of far greater prominence if he was not

themselves to need too much money—then they sell out to get it: Conway did more or less: he had the story

I swore I would never listen to such stories, read them, again: then something else appears—new material

must be all there in his face if you can look deep enough: the fierce unforgivable Siberia of his stories

O'Connor's stories, adds: 'It is a story of which Walt Whitman is visibly the idealized hero, and it

Whitman sir On page 31 verse 2 line 3 of Drum Taps the word "recalls" is spelled "recals."

plates 3 Reams paper 63.00 7 " 8.25   $192.85 Cr[edit] by cash 138.00 54.85 Sent $20 April 26 $20 May 2

leaving (May 2 '65.) $14.85 due Peter Eckler to Walt Whitman, 22 April 1865

According to Whitman's notations on the statement, he paid $20.00 on April 26 and again on May 2.

President. cable NUMBER 15 SENT BY EL REC'D By —M CHECK 20 Received at 627 No. 7 North THIRD St. 6/2

188 9 Dated London 6/2/89 , To Walt.

Henry Irving Henry Irving to Walt Whitman, 2 June 1889

, December 28, 1859, 2; rpt. in The Walt Whitman Archive.; "All about a Mocking-Bird," 3.; Like many

You and Me and To-Day," New-York Saturday Press 14 January 1860, 2.

Poemet [Of him I love day and night]," New-York Saturday Press 28 January 1860, 2.

Poemet [That shadow, my likeness]," New-York Saturday Press 4 February 1860, 2.

Leaves," New-York Saturday Press 11 February 1860, 2. 1.

The whole volume, in its arrangement, is pregnant with Whitman's personality, and it seems more a part

…Prefaces to "Leaves of Grass," l855, 1872, 1876…Poetry Today in America…Death of Abraham Lincoln…Stories

The parts that deal with the war have been emphasized as forming one of the most important phases of

Occasionally throughout the book, and as notable as any parts, are some of Whitman's special letters.

Here, for example, is one which tells its own story. CAMDEN, N. J., U. S. A., Dec. 20, 1881.

letters: "they will go down in history with Leaves of grass: they are inseparable from it: they are part

undoubtedly it is one story."

disapproval of the general conditions of the series, at the same time not objecting to the most urgent part

copy of Leaves of Grass [Philadelphia, 1883 edition] I have taken to pieces and carry the different parts

For my own part I can't tell you with what elation and pride I recited some of the noblest passages in

Thursday, August 2, 1888. W. stayed on his bed this evening as we talked.

I read only the fore part of it—the hospital pieces—was peculiarly, intensely, interested in that—but

It is Conway's opinion that the Rebellion was in great part a war that could have been avoided—a war

the American Poet Walt Whitman would shortly visit England," and there and then I sat down and wrote part

Thursday, August 2, 1888.

His quiet life, and his never having taken a part in momentous affairs of any kind, make it impossible

Hartshorne occupied part of an old Revolutionary building in Fulton street, east side, third door below

For our own part, we used always to stop and salute him, with good-will and reverence.

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. 245–249.

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. 245–249.

Camden June 2, 1887 [A letter of thanks for a birthday present.]

Walt Whitman to an Unidentified Correspondent, 2 June 1887

Brooklyn Aug. 2. Dear friend, I write a line just to give an account of myself.

O'Connor, 2 August [1870]

Thereafter he compiled extremely successful textbooks, and established the magazine, Story-Teller, in

T HE religious growth and character of a settlement is by no means the least important part of its record

stood for over a century—indeed for some hundred and twenty-five or thirty years, and for the greater part

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. 257–261.

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. 257–261.

Thursday, January 2, 1890Detained in Philadelphia in the Bank—with a meeting to attend late in the evening—therefore

Thursday, January 2, 1890

distinction whatever, is neither more or less than another, and the debatable points to be settled 2

countrymen ours in several sections of the Republic who profess their readiness to pick out certain parts

of that half part of the compact as either not necessary or not right just.— .

—For myself however I am free to say with a candid heart I know not of any such parts.

— 20 References to the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 indicate that parts of this manuscript were likely

.; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; Transcribed from digital images

W. had spent a day of varied indications—part of it restless, part peaceful.

Has fallen into a quiet sleep without hiccough.2:30 Asked to have his grey English undershirt put on

He has become part of the canon of general English studies. Two of his poems ("O Captain!

Parts 1 and 2. Masa 8 (29 May 1952): 4–5; 9 (12 June 1952): 3, 8, 9, 11.Porat, Zephyra.

Mixed in with these reviews are a number of pieces—including two stories debating Whitman’s rumored stint

Whitman once called "the little book before the war," had a relatively large circulation, thanks in part

Lingering concerns over Thayer & Eldridge’s overzealous handling of Imprints might, in part, explain

vicious attacks on Leaves of Grass), neither of Whitman’s characterizations—that he either had no part

Imprints offers itself as evidence that Whitman was beginning to achieve at least part of the "proof

Monday, December 2, 1889 Detained in city—could not get to W.'

Monday, December 2, 1889

My brother & I are pleased with your plan, in general—my brother favors the ground story of stone ,—but

Whitman referenced the progression of his health in his September 2, 1873, letter to Burroughs, stating

for not replying to it before,) I have to inform you that some time ago Dion Thomas, bookseller, 2d story