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work he can his house is begun the cellar is dug and the foundation laid he is going to build a three story

we shall i think it will be quite so extensive) the cheapest house that you could build would be a 2

story house with 2 rooms below and 2 rooms above with a shed kichen kitchen with no fireplace in the

lou Lou was lying down and i was lame and he said if i would get a pint of the best whiskey and put 2

Haviland Miller agreed (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

212, n. 59; 2:370).

Edwin Haviland Miller [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:209, n. 50).

in Brooklyn, and the couple had four children—Arthur, Helen, Emily, and Henry (who died in 1852, at 2

address—Wm left two great boxes of MSS wh' she is to overhaul—he had for many years been at intervals on a story

partly set in type (by the Atlantic ) & then recall'd by O'C— I am sitting here as usual (the same old story

shining in on big bunch of snowy white chrysanthemums— Love— Whitman wrote this letter to Bucke in two parts

He wrote each of the two parts of this letter on a repurposed envelope in which he had previously received

He wrote the second part—his evening note—to Bucke on an envelope that accompanied a letter from an unknown

When he republished the story in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle on January 22, 1846, while he was editing that

paper, Whitman included a poem just before the story titled "Thoughts of Heaven."

This sentence was cut from the story in the Eagle .

intended revisions for Specimen Days & Collect (1882), although he ultimately decided not to include this story

The lips that had been still, parted a passage for the misty breath,—and the leaden fingers glowed with

When he republished the story in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle on January 22, 1846, while he was editing that

paper, Whitman included a poem just before the story titled "Thoughts of Heaven."

'"; This sentence was cut from the story in the Eagle.

intended revisions for Specimen Days & Collect (1882), although he ultimately decided not to include this story

One such wrote a 2 column article for the Evening Journal of May 31.

"He stayed some time & almost came to be a nuisance, but made up for it in part at least, by the bright

things he would say, & then told "old varmint" story.

&c, but told the little story accidentally one day. But—its all in a life time.

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

Meeting with Victor Hugo in 1878" (Time: A Monthly Miscellany of Interesting and Amusing Literature, 2

which Morse refers has not been located, but the passages alluded to, including the "old varmint" story

raspberries & blackberries—I had some & a little oatmeal for my breakfast—Am sitting here yet, the same old story—God

bless you—love to you sister dear—2 enc'd enclosed — Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Hannah Whitman Heyde

i felt as if i should preserve it for i liked it it was so solemn) i got your letter this day with 2

last sunday Sunday he said there was three houses on that side about 15 feet from the old shop three story

astonishing how houses rents there was a place in clermont went to see about but it was taken the uper upper part

against building a house on the lot shortly after the purchase (see Louisa Van Velsor Whitman's May 2,

In his revision to the story of Franklin Evans, Whitman omitted the temperance frame and much of the

He also revised the title to reflect the story's shift to a more general piece of sensational fiction

at fault to tell the exact whereabouts of this locality, I may as well say, that Long Island is a part

Some part of what I learned about these personages, in the course of our journey, I may as well state

of a two story house in Broome street.

Franklin Evans; In his revision to the story of Franklin Evans, Whitman omitted the temperance frame

He also revised the title to reflect the story's shift to a more general piece of sensational fiction

of a two-story house in Broome-street.

I never asked the child—but I knew the principal part of his story from his actions.

I sicken as I narrate this part of my story.

The latter part of the story was an addition of the busy tongue of common report.

Bourne was loth to part with me.

Washingtonians were known for their "experience meetings" in which former drunkards would tell the story

His short story "Wild Frank's Return," first published in November 1841, ends with the gruesome death

Mabbott, editor of The Half-Breed and Other Stories by Walt Whitman (1927), has suggested that Whitman

The tale was extracted from the novel and reprinted as a separate short story titled "The Unrelenting

Whitman later revised the story and published it as "The Death of Wind-Foot" in the American Review in

:2 1 -2 2 ). 2 4 APRIL.

:2 4 2 ).

(Myerson, Time, 2 8 2 ) 2 JUNE.

:2 2 2 , 223). 26 JUNE.

:2 9 8 ). 1 7 - 2 8 OCTOBER.Whitman is ill of a liver disorder, and a newspaper story puts him at death's

PatrickMcGuire"Child and the Profligate, The" (1841)"Child and the Profligate, The" (1841)This important short story

After much revision, the story appeared with its present title in Columbian Magazine, October 1844.

The story's obvious didactic purpose is the reformation of a wastrel in contrast to the dissolution of

The vulnerability of the poor and the greed of Charley's employer are also part of its didacticism.

Moreover, Moon connects "Calamus" number 29 (1857) to elements of the story.

The technique of this story is unusual in Whitman's work in that a first narrator introduces another

Reynolds reads the story as Whitman's attempt to purge his psychological demons, perhaps oedipal in nature

Kaplan sees this story as comparable to the work of Edgar Allan Poe, and Allen sees it as part of Whitman's

The story also relates to another frequent theme of Whitman's fiction: the separating of two brothers.BibliographyAllen

.— ☞ At a late fire in Cambridge, Mass., while the flames were consuming the lower part of a dwelling

Fay, a merchant of Boston, and boarder at the Brattle House, observed in the upper story a female and

The entire upper part of the building was in a moment after enveloped in flames.

Tribune March 12 1852 Part of this notebook outlines a piece of early fiction.

The name of the character "Covert" also appears in Whitman's story "Revenge and Requital; A Tale of a

The name of the character "Covert" also appears in Whitman's story "Revenge and Requital; A Tale of a

first published in the United States Magazine and Democratic Review in 1845, although the plot of that story

Wednesday, October 2, 18898.05 P.M. W. in kitchen, talking with Gilchrist.

G. repeated several amusing stories of James' visit to Gilder some time ago.

Described minutely 'The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish,' then: "A very good play was founded on this story many

A great French pantomimist—a Madame Celeste—a famous woman in those days—took the part of the lost girl

Wednesday, October 2, 1889

Camden tripled in population between 1828 and 1840, from 1,100 to about 3,300, in part because it continued

George Whitman, Walt's younger brother, worked part-time in Camden for several years while also running

and his brother Edward to live with them in August of 1872 and soon began construction of a three-story

So when an opportunity arose to buy a two-story frame house on Mickle Street for $1,750, he took it,

Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1964. Camden, New Jersey

Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Family. London: Victor Gollancz, 1980.

Rpt. as Remarkable Relations: The Story of the Pearsall Smith Women.

Vol. 2. New York: New York UP, 1978. Smith, Robert Pearsall (1827–1898)

house all put in thourough thorough order at the park expence expense ) well Walt i am done with that part

take things coolly as you advise i will write when we get a place i thought we would get a second story

there seems to be quite a number to rent Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [2 May 1867]

Maurice Bucke dated this letter to letter May 3, 1867, and Edwin Haviland Miller dated it to letter May 2,

The letter dates to May 2, 1867.

See Jeff Whitman's August 2, 1867 letter to Walt Whitman (Dennis Berthold and Kenneth M.

After George and his partner decided not to build there (see Louisa's May 2, 1867 letter to Walt Whitman

conscientious, old-fashioned man, a man of family . . . . youngish middle age" (see Walt's September 2,

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."

" Death in the School-Room. ( A Fact .) " For a complete list of revisions to the language of the story

back to the story.

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

Whitman returned, at least in part, to the original ending by adding the final sentence back to the story

Mother, I send you the part of the N. Y. Times, containing a good long piece about me. It is the N.

Daily Times, of Sunday, Dec 2—but perhaps George or Jeff brought it to you last Sunday.

Raymond, on December 2, 1866, granted O'Connor four columns for a review of the new Leaves of Grass;

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

This tale may be, in part, autobiographical.

For more on the autobiographical aspects of this story, see " About 'The Shadow and the Light of a Young

Unlike Lugare, the cruel schoolmaster depicted in his story " Death in the School-Room.

See "The Conflagration," The Herald , December 18, 1835, [2].

Had he not ransacked every part of the city for employment as a clerk?

For more on the autobiographical aspects of this story, see "About 'The Shadow and the Light of a Young

Unlike Lugare, the cruel schoolmaster depicted in his story "Death in the School-Room. A Fact."

See "The Conflagration," The Herald, December 18, 1835, [2].; In the nineteenth century, most clerks

I sit here in 2 d story room, alone—rather expect to go out later in wheel chair, first time in ab't

Arnold was best known for his long narrative poem, The Light of Asia (1879), which tells the life story

And that is very profound: to me it has always seemed as if that enclosed the whole story—saying that

I told him a story I had heard of Eakins—of a girl model who had appeared before the class, nude, with

Morris told him a story he had from Hamilton Gibson—of a twig, or limb, from the pine-tree over-arching

W. then told the story of the Englishman whom a doctor had treated by a thermometer—the doctor having

I walked through the storm to the ferry with Morris, when we parted.

Directors and a few warm friends of the project put their hands in their own pockets and raised a great part

The extreme northern part is allotted to colored persons. The south wing is four stories in height.

.. 145 Italy....    3 Germany............. 87 China....    3 Sweden & Norway..... 80 Finland....    2

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. 288–292.

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. 288–292.

I Story of the Reception of ''Leaves of Grass" by the World 3 PART II (Reader'sVade-Mecum of Aids) I

PART I STORY OF THE RECEPTION OF LEAVES OFGRASS BY THE WORLD J PART I Story of the Reception of Leaves

In 1876, shortly after the issue of Whitman's personal 2 -volume Centennial edition, and STORY OF ITS

W. 2.

Centenarian's Story, 177. Bryant, William Cullen, 287, Chadwick, John, 2, 139. note.

Whitman directly, but he certainly heard of him through family stories, particularly the stories of his

and homestead in West Hills amounted to nearly five hundred acres of land and became an important part

prefatory notice, a memoir, or whatever it may be, as brief or long as you will, for a volume of his stories

" — As soon as William passed away his friends began to say that I ought to collect & reprint his stories

Three of O'Connor's stories with a preface by Whitman were published in Three Tales: The Ghost, The Brazen

Originally, Nelly O'Connor imagined she would include all of her husband's short stories in the volume

The Philadelphia Inquirer carried the story on the front page on the following day.

The Camden Daily Post article "Ingersoll's Speech" of June 2, 1890, was written by Whitman himself and

Floyd Stovall, 2 vols. [New York: New York University Press: 1963–1964], 686–687).

times—this beautiful day among the rest—(now toward sundown, & I am writing this alone up in my room, 3d story—have

to Leibkeucher, Newark, to ask whether I should send him the two vol. $10 edition, or the one vol. $2

I have just had a drink of milk punch—am sitting at present in my two-story den in Mickle St, alone as

usual, more buoyant than you might suppose Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, [2 March 1890

Burroughs—Comrades (1931), Clara Barrus observes that this letter "came on Sunday afternoon, March 2"

The career of the every-day common-place man presents fewer striking passages on which to found a story

received hitherto both from the American and English journals, are singularly favorable; and for our own part

DEMOSTHENES. 2 vols. Harper’s Classical Library.

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

McNamee, Brower, Story, Bergen, Ward, Lewis, Clapp and Van Buren (all young men employed in our office

) each $2.

Story, a surveyor.

INSANE ASYLUM LONDON ONTARIO 5 Jan. 18 90 1891 Your letter of 3 d enclosing Mrs O'Connor's of 2 just

M. & co. will publish O.C.' s stories and I guess the way they propose is the best.

On January 2, 1891, Ellen O'Connor informed Whitman that Houghton, Mifflin & Company was planning to

O'Connor's story "The Brazen Android" in The Atlantic Monthly in April and May.

They also planned to publish a collection that included three of O'Connor's stories and a preface by

Among other points of interest in the neighborhood we are speaking of was an ancient two-story house,

The large edifice, the eastern part of [the] Military Garden, was put up about 1826 or '7, by Mr.

These gardens, let us here remark, were a conspicuous feature in Brooklyn during the earlier part of

Those stretched away down to the river, from the upper part of Fulton street.

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 296–300.

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. 296–300.

A Legend of Life and Love A LEGEND OF LIFE AND LOVE This tale is the seventh of nine short stories by

Whitman reprinted this story with the same title in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on June 11, 1846, while

He included a poem just before the story titled "The Prison Convict," which was attributed to Albert

Seated upon the marble by which they had met, Mark briefly told his story.

The disciple of a wretched faith ceased his story, and there was silence a while.

This tale is the seventh of nine short stories by Whitman that were published for the first time in The

Whitman reprinted this story with the same title in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on June 11, 1846, while

He included a poem just before the story titled "The Prison Convict," which was attributed to Albert

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

by part, like the several lays of the telescope."

, a story—poem—used in the readers—at least, used when I was a boy, the Peterkin story.

But he jocularly turned the matter off by a story. "Did I never tell you the Long Island story?

Then the story goes on—oh!

Saying further: "I thought it a happy illustration—that story.

Greeted me very cordially, "I am glad for your regular visits again—they have become a part of me."

copiously on the handkerchief—then enclosed it in an envelope on which he wrote that it was sent to Kate

For instance, while it is subject perhaps to criticism, take that part in which he says, there can be

no more Decoration Day orations because men, to speak well, must have acted a part in the thing they

that Lowell's did not stir me: "It is a thing built, not a current flowing: his is a structure, grown story

by story: yours a limpid river."

"It is the same story with those fellows: pork and beans is my dish, therefore you must like it—but no

body: "The love of the body of man or woman balks account, the body itself balks account" (section 2)

In section 2 the "chanter of Adamic songs" provides a random catalogue of men and women engaging in various

strongest of his attractions—Anne Gilchrist, who fell in love with the poet upon reading Leaves of Grass; Kate

In "A Woman Waits for Me" the poet assumes the role of Adam as everyman, contributing his vital part

dreadful was happening"; though nevertheless she imagined confusedly that the pistol shot must be part

While she was telling me the story, she left me several times for a few minutes to go into the adjoining

A clever girl who had carried on, all through a stirring episode of history, a good part of her senator

Lincoln from the theatre & was with her, I think she said, a good part of the night.

Lincoln's temper & her abuse of her husband, & part of the stories told I knew from competent & trustworthy

And then he said: "It is a glorious story all through. The Captain—what is his name?

s manner, brief, sketchy, was intense: "And now the grandeur of the story.

The town was full of the story of it." Had he ever written anything about it?

—And he asked me: "Is the story at all known to you?" It was not.

"I suppose the papers will be full of it tomorrow—full of it—part truth, a good part fiction, only that

I felt soon, & feel now, that it was a great impropriety on my part, & it has caused me much compunction

he would also give me one in more technical form, and wrote, signed, & handed me the receipt marked 2

1906–1996], 3:237–239), was Walt Whitman's version, written at the insistence of O'Connor when the story

210; Frank Luther Mott, A History of American Magazines (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957), 2:

In the summer of 1862, Whitman records telling Frank Sweezey "the whole story . . . about Ellen Eyre"

(Notebooks 2:488).

Walt Whitman Newsletter 2 (1956): 24–26. Holloway, Emory. "Whitman Pursued."

of the "gigantic swimmer" and the story of the shipwreck serve to dramatize the speaker's encounter

with death, while the Washington episodes and the story of the Native American woman offer examples of

In parts 3 and 4, the sea, still feminine, is still destructive.

Martin suggests, not too plausibly, that the story of the Native American woman and the poet's mother

This "I" is "both overspecified and secondary, both at the center of the story and inconsequential to

Also parted with manuscript of "To-bey or not To-bey"—beautiful in sight and sound.

We talked—Kimball told some college stories. They showed me O'Connor's room and desk.

We parted on the street, I going to Mrs. O'Connor's for dinner, reaching about three.

from Atlantic though part of it was already in type.

O'Connor left no full stories in manuscript. Mrs.

Harper’s Story Books, No. 33.

These story books are issued monthly; they contain a series of narratives, dialogues, biographies and

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

Townsend Trowbridge left a deft and important portrait of their relationship in his autobiography, My Own Story

Boston based, Trowbridge was editor, novelist, poet, antislavery reformer and writer of many juvenile stories

In My Own Story Trowbridge relates how he first came across excerpts of Leaves of Grass while staying

Undoubtedly, Trowbridge always found the sexual parts of Leaves of Grass unpleasant and unnecessary and

My Own Story. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903. ———. The Poetical Works of John Townsend Trowbridge.

He began to experiment with less conventional metrics and abandoned rhyme altogether.For the most part

"A Hitherto Unknown Whitman Story and a Possible Early Poem."

Emory Holloway. 2 vols. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921. Pre-Leaves Poems

spirited drives along the Wissahickon, the rocks and banks, the hemlocks, Indian Rock—Miss Willard, Miss Kate

Whitman was again with the Smiths from December 30 to January 2 (Whitman's Commonplace Book).

For his own part he had read, written letters and received two reporters—one from the Camden Courier

Kennett Square, Penna., Dec. 2, 1866.

I say just this: I hear all sorts of vague stories about Taylor nowadays—vague stories which may be false

It is a good story to know and tell.

He got about a good deal, saw people, had a story to tell. Now he seems too busy.

When he republished the story in installments in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 7–9, 1846, while

He kept that title but dropped the subtitle when he published the story again in the "Pieces in Early

" For a list of several of the revisions to the language of the story for publication in the Eagle and

For the publication history of the story see " About 'Revenge and Requital; A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

Toward the latter part of the same afternoon, Mr.

When he republished the story in installments in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on September 7–9, 1846, while

He kept that title but dropped the subtitle when he published the story again in the "Pieces in Early

For a list of several of the revisions to the language of the story for publication in the Eagle and

For the publication history of the story see "About 'Revenge and Requital; A Tale of a Murderer Escaped

He kept that title but dropped the subtitle when he published the story again in the "Pieces in Early

It was one of nine Whitman short stories that were published for the first time in the journal—the eight

Tomb-Blossoms " (January 1842), " The Last of the Sacred Army " (March 1842), " The Child-Ghost; A Story

Whitman was in his early twenties when his stories began appearing in The Democratic Review .

The story also seems to imply Whitman's opposition to capital punishment.

Collect (1882) in which he reprinted a selection of his short stories.

I for my part will advise him to collect and send on the whole amount as soon as he possibly can.

I am sure we shall all be quite satisfied with yr plans, for my part I am pleased that you are going

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,