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John Townsend Trowbridge (1827–1916) was a novelist, poet, author of juvenile stories, and anti-slavery

It is postmarked: London | AM | Fe 2 | 87 | Canada; | | 22 | 2 PM | 1887 | Rec'd.

Camden Feb. 17 '87 2 p m I continue much the same.

| 2-14-87 | 5-(?).

there is an ink smudge where Whitman apparently changed 12 to 14; one legible postmark is clearly "2-

It is postmarked: Camden | Feb | | | ; PO | 2-13-87 | 12PM; A | 2-14-87 | 5-

The Mills Building was a 10-story business building named after San Francisco banker and owner of the

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

Walt Whitman had sent the copy of Specimen Days on February 2 (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E.

See Whitman's letter to Rhys of February 2, 1887.

328 Mickle Street—Camden New Jersey U S America Feb. 2 '87 Dear friend Yours rec'd & welcomed, as always—I

She is an American, & my best friend— Walt Whitman to Ernest Rhys, 2 February 1887

It is postmarked: Camden | Feb | 2 | 6 PM | 1887 | N.J.; Philadelphia | Feb | 2 | 1887 | Paid; London

significance, indeed, of your poetic standpoint, and I wish I could prevail upon you to embody the essential parts

occur peculiarly to me just at present, for in spite of winter & storm, these have meant more in the story

," and so it was natural that I should go down to the sea-shore a good deal during my stay in this part

appear on January 25, the newspaper's "fiftieth year edition" (Prose Works 1892, ed. by Floyd Stovall, 2

Gilder (1888), and in Critic Pamphlet No. 2 (1898).

I am getting ready my pictures (2) for the spring Exhibition.

, an excerpt from a private correspondent about gifts of Americans to Walt Whitman (see 1597); June 2,

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.

These lines come from the first verse paragraph of section 2 of the poem.

A note at the top states: "sent to Herald March 2" indicating the draft was likely completed around the

Still, Whitman believed the picture was "like a total—like a whole story," and he was proud that Tennyson—to

Notes on the back of the photograph indicate it was originally part of the Frank J. and Harriet Sprague

We re-tell retell the story, as it illustrates the Sabbatarianism that existed in Boston a few years

I always think of supercilious people as acting a part.'

'No, it is part of the fun.'

The story is melancholy. 'Ah, when the Greeks treated of tragedy, how differently it was done.

"Well, honour honor is the subject of my story," —was the commencement of a favourite speech with him

Whitman wrote the following note on the back of this letter: "Black & 1 & 2 opening?"

You have not acknowledged Richard Colles' ￡2. sent by me per money order before Browns ￡5. and I have

I am eating but two meals a day, the last at 2 1/2 p.m. 2:30 p.m. I sleep much better for it.

The owner wouldn't part with it at any price, and I bid as high as $20.

being in want of the necessaries of life, I will state that I make it a rule never to affirm or deny stories

O. order 14s-6d-rec'd—(the three sums, £2 10s, £5, & 14s-6d safely rec'd) —Fervent thanks—(I wish I could

poets—Lowell, Whittier, Bryant, Longfellow, etc.,—and then puts you far above them all, giving you the larger part

The act would be purely voluntary on the part of Congress, and not in response to any petition from you

It is in the Old Colony, the part of the country where your first American ancestors lived.

Schofield, Seek for a Hero: The Story of John Boyle O'Reilly (New York: Kennedy, 1956).

Charles Fairchild, the president of a paper company, to whom Whitman sent the Centennial Edition on March 2,

. & 2 Riv. (sent on last order) but nothing further so far.

—also current Ed. of L. of G. & specimen days, also for any thing you might have and be willing to part

Haviland Miller, ed., Walt Whitman: The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 4:2–

In the latter part of the volume I have treated of the Age of Democracy and its thought, taking as foundation

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

The price is £2, which please remit me by p. o. order.)

clothed in pretty dress has been my first consideration— & cudos necessarily plays but a fractional part

The upshot of it all will be that either Unwin will sign my agreement as drawn by Ross or I shall part

Street Camden New Jersey U S America Aug: 26 '86 My dear Edward Dowden Herbert Gilchrist has sent me £2

. | Aug | 25 | 2 30 PM | 1886 | 4.

street Camden New Jersey U S America Aug. 23 '86 Dear Herbert Thank you for the remittance of the £2

PM | 1886 | 2.

Aug. 2 / 86. Dear Walt Whitman, I send the MS to-day by Adams Express.

Kennedy William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 2 August 1886

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.

.; Walt Whitman 3[2]8 Mickle street Camden New Jersey July 25 '86 Dear Sir, I have finished the article

The poem appeared with a prefatory comment upon Whitman's "lack of the spiritual element of thought" (2:

receiving it, it has occurred to me that perhaps you might have some matter of published manuscript (say parts

I leave the city to day for 2 or 3 months (Marlton N.J. Your friend Mr.

I have been collecting every little item pertaining to you for the past 2 or three years that I find

you may remember me with some other lads who used to sit in your room in Myrtle ave & hear you tell stories

street after an inquiry or two, and finally arrived at number 328, which designates a modest, two story

By 2 o'clock I was all through with my part of the work and adjourned.

"I helped set part of the type myself.

politely invite everybody who happened to be sitting in the cave he had under the sidewalk to some other part

328 Mickle street Camden July 6 '86— yours rec'd recieved with the $2 as pay for the book.

is addressed: Walt Whitman | Camden | New Jersey | 328 Mickle St.It is postmarked: BELMONT | JUL | 2

Why can you not have your boy do that for 1/2 hour each day, also drink a good deal of water.