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river yesterday toward dusk, the old fellow, the chargè of the ferry house, told me that between 12 & 2

I am now in the eighth week of my furlough—it is seven weeks last Tuesday night since we parted there

by wars of Italian unification, established the capital of the newly unified Italy at Rome on July 2,

bean soup, boiled beef, & pumpkin-pie, all good—so you see I might be doing worse—it is now just after 2,

killed, over a hundred wounded—but you have seen all about it in papers—it was all up in a distant part

February 13, 2½ p.m.

been moderate & nice here—Nothing new or special in my affairs—I am selling a few of my books (the new 2

himself a house there, right on a steep bank, with the road on one side, & the river on the other—a 2½

story stone house—(but sufficient space between)— I have heard from Charley Towner—I got a very nice

He was interred in the potter's field on September 2.

February 1875 were written on Fridays, and the discussion of his ailments is confirmed in Whitman's March 2,

which, (if so,) he has left—but was parted from quite a while ago— —Pete, so your shirts came all safe

great distress in my head, & an almost steady pain in left side—but my worst troubles let up on me part

of the time—the evenings are my best times—& somehow I still keep up in spirit, &, (the same old story

Jersey, May 1–2 p.m. 1874 Dear Pete, I have been out halting around for a walk, as it is quite pleasant

from me—your own soap)—As I write, it is 4½ o'clock Friday afternoon—I am sitting here alone, in the 2

d story front room—every thing quiet here—I rec'd the other letter, & Sunday Chronicle—when you write

431 Stevens Street Camden Jan: 18 Walt Whitman will be in from 2 till 3½ this afternoon, & will be most

his noblest works" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1915], 2:

The quotation was from a letter written by Swinburne to Wilde on February 2 (Feinberg).

request—Yes he can send you two copies fullest & latest ed'ns "Leaves of Grass"—The price of the two $4 (2

Hempstead and Son, [2 May 1888]

Hempstead & Son, see Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Wednesday, May 2, 1888).

. | Dec 18 83 | 2 30 PM; P.O. | 12-18-83 | 9 P | N.Y.

Gray: Since I left New York, I was down in the Army of the Potomac in front with my brother a good part

not Virgil showing Dante on and on among the agonized & damned, approach what here I see and take a part

My notion is, too, that underneath his outside smutched mannerism, and stories from third-class county

I hire a bright little 3d story front room, with service, &c. for $7 a month, dine in the same house,

Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, 2 vols.

.— My stories, I believe, have been pretty popular, and extracted liberally.

This tale is Whitman's earliest known short story and the first of nine stories by Whitman that were

When Whitman reprinted this story in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1847, while

Whitman included a poem just before the story titled "Christmas Hymn."

For a complete list of revisions to the language of the story made or authorized by Whitman for publication

My dear Madam — Yours of 9th rec'd received —I should be pleased to send you the book—the price is $2—

Pearsall; see frontispiece to The Correspondence (New York: New York University Press, 1961–69), vol. 2;

Feb: 18—Evn'g— Yours of 15th rec'd received , with the $10 for Centennial Edition—2 vols volumes —Sincere

328 Mickle Street Monday 2 PM I have just learned that a young man whom I sent to speak for me in my

Grier [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 2:844).

Whitman was with the Gilchrists from January 25 to February 2 (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E.

mostly by water,—and spent several days in "the Lakes of the Thousand Islands"—that is what they call a part

an acre or two covered with cedars—but the water every where I travel in this country is the best part

again before you sail'd sailed —I was at Mrs Lesley's again about three weeks since (to meet Miss Kate

.; Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [1906–1996], 2:284).

He had visited Walt Whitman in February; see Morley's Recollections (1917), 2:105.

For the story of Swinburne's veneration of Walt Whitman and his later recantation, see Harold Blodgett

flag"—grows all over the Northern and Middle States—(see Webster's Large Dictionary—Calamus—definition 2)

letter to 1884 on the basis of the following undated entry in Whitman's Commonplace Book after June 2

. | Oct 2(?) | 8 PM | 88; Philadelphia | | PM | .

Camden U S America Nov. 23 '86—2 p m— I am ab't as usual—took a long drive by myself midday yesterday—basked

Camden, NJ America Sunday Evng Sept: 2 '88 Your good letter just rec'd & here I am sending word back—still

all old & young—I sufficiently comfortable Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe, 2

Camden NJ U S America Sunday aft'n—March 2, '90 Only a line to say I am here yet & in buoyant spirits

husband & children — Walt Whitman Love to dear boy Logan Walt Whitman to Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe, 2

. | Mar 2 | 5 PM | (?) | 90; Paid | Liverpool | US Packet | (?) MR 90 | 5(?)

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey US America Aug: 2 '86 A pleasant forenoon as I write, here by the

from Dr B[ucke] two days ago— all well— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe, 2

It is postmarked: Camden | Aug | 2 | 3 PM | N.J.

Camden NJ US America April 19 '89 Am still anchor'd here in my second story in Mickle street—not much

. | NOV 19 | 6 AM | 90; 2.

For the story of Swinburne's veneration of Whitman and his later recantation, see two essays by Terry

Camden — Feb. 11 '87 Nothing very new or special with me—As I write toward latter part of afternoon the

2 3 328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey July 20 '85—noon— Dear Mary Smith Your second letter (dated July

been under a cloud, but I see it is plainly coming out—Love to you f'm me & all of us—I enclose $5, 2

for Mrs: M[apes], 2 for the dear mother & 1 for dear boy Glen & my best respects & well wishes to all

Washington, Friday morning, Jan. 2, 1863.

and all—What distressing news this is of the loss of the Monitor — Walt Whitman to Martha Whitman, 2–

Whitman related the harrowing story of Holmes's illness in the New York Times, February 26, 1863 (in

According to his diary, Whitman wrote a (lost) Letter to Vliet on May 2, 1863 (Glicksberg, 133).

wounded three weeks ago to-day at Culpepper—hit by fragment of a shell in the leg below the knee—a large part

cases & is one of the least visited—there is not much hospital visiting here now—it has become an old story—the

few gas-burners about half turned down—It is Sunday evening—to-day I have been in the hospital, one part

serious for that" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961], 2:

See also Stilwell's letters to Whitman from July 5, 1864, and September 2, 1864.

431 Stevens Street Camden Oct October 2 My dear girls (for this letter is for you both) I will just write

only room to send love from Uncle Walt Walt Whitman to Mannahatta Whitman and Jessie Louisa Whitman, 2

See Whitman's October 2, 1877 letter to Edward Carpenter.

panorama on both sides of the river all the way for nearly 100 miles here—the magnificent north river bay part

. | Apr 2 | 12 M | 87; P.O. | 4–21–87 | 4–1P | N.Y.; D | 4–21–87 | 5 P | NY.

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey Jan. 2 '87 I mail you the two Vols.

Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Maggie Biddle, 2 January 1887

It is postmarked: Cam[den] | Jan | 2 | (?) | 1887; Philadelphia, Pa. | Jan | 2 | (?) | Transit.

. | | FE 2 88 | AC; Philadelphia | | Paid.

(For information on Russell, see footnote 2 to Whitman's letter to him from December 3, 1863.)

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Feb: 2 '81 Thanks for your kind note just rec'd received —I think

shall meet—I shall be on the look out for you— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Louise Chandler Moulton, 2

you to put up a couple of small houses, to be worth about $2000 a piece, in some good spot, outer part

Washington Monday 2 o'clock—May 9th Dearest Mother There is nothing from the army more than you know,

from 600 to 1000 wounded coming up here—(not 6 to 8000 as the papers have it) —I cannot hear what part