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probably add to next edition of L of G. at end not more than 30 or 35 pages After-Songs and A Letter of Parting

the "letter" prose a sort of résumé & talk in general—The old bulk part of the book left all the same

It is postmarked: Saint Louis | Nov | 10 | 2 PM | Mo,; London, N(?) | (?) | Paid | 24 No 79.

of color that would be your first feeling, & would fill you as it did me—it is a very simple scene (story

sister is off to church somewhere—brother down stairs balancing his acct's accounts —I up here in my 3d story

England— —I have written to Herby to-day today , to Brooklyn —As I write I am sitting up in my third story

. | Apr | 12 | 2 (?) M | (?).

friend I have come up from White Horse, & think of visiting you tomorrow Wednesday—towards the latter part

In Days with Walt Whitman, Carpenter erred in dating his visit May 2 ([New York: The Macmillan Company

It is postmarked: Camden | Jan | 2 | N.J.; (?) N.W. | E | Paid 20 Ja 81.

intended to return day after to-morrow, but shall not be able to, till the last of the week, or the early part

. | Feb 2 | 6am | 88; | P.O. | 2-2-88 | 10-1A | N.Y.

This reference to visiting Anderson and Archer, who had offices in New York, on January 2, 1868, is somewhat

Of course this will be crude to you—yet it is in parts suggestive—I have marked in blue pencil what might

after part, perhaps at quite wide intervals.

Seven different times have parts of the edifice been constructed, sometimes in Brooklyn, sometimes in

The book has been printed partially in every part of the United States.

But I have accepted it all as a part of my work.

Walt Whitman I also supply, when desired, my prose volume "Specimen Days & Collect"—price $2.—374 pages

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

Walt Whitman to an Unidentified Correspondent, 2 June 1887

Story, on December 24, 1877.

Yours rec'd—yes, have for sale a set 2 vols edition alluded to (Centennial ed'n) —price $10—address W

received —Many thanks—shall be happy to supply you with the Book—the best way is by mail—the price is £2

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

soldiers from the States, from the country, especially the West & from New England and the country parts

[unfilled space] | Filed June 2, 1871."

forgetting the dear little ones— —Nothing very new with me—am still a prisoner here in Mickle Street 2d story

Thursday afternoon 1 2 past 2. Dear Mrs.

In response to your letter I send—not my whole volume of Leaves of Grass —but Drum-Taps , a part of it

Your letter of August 15, and the letter of Oct. 2, have both reached me, & I was very glad to hear from

Surratt for taking part in the murder of President Lincoln.

2 | (?) (Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library).

See Whitman's letter to Tennyson of September 2, 1872.

September 2, 1872 . Dear Mr.

Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 2

as I some time since notified you) what you said—(well said)—about actors—I remain here till latter part

.— You will see that the title of the original is "The childhood of Erik Menved"; the latter part of

the original story, consisting very much of prolic prolix detail of historical events, gives it that

name—but that part of the story I have contracted into a few paragraphs—and have taken a singular trait

suit you, and how much it would be worth to you, so that I can have an answer by the middle or latter part

of the week.— The story would make about 65 leaded short columns of the Sun—so that, at an average of

is referring to Fredrika Bremer (1801–1865), who was a Swedish reformer and a writer of romantic stories

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

On August 2, 1882, Spofford, the Librarian of Congress, acknowledged that the 1860 edition had been entered

Bradstreet and Son, had supervised the binding of Drum-Taps (see Walt Whitman's May 2, 1865 letter to

—Pork, cucumbers, and buckwheat bread, we must part, perhaps forever!

Brenton later reprinted Whitman's short story, "The Tomb-Blossoms," in an edited collection titled Voices

Whitman may be making a reference to the Bible; see Acts, Chapter 2, verse 3, in which the Holy Spirit's

together our forces and the, bowls, baskets, and pudding-bags aforesaid, and returned home: for my part

best; and I am just at this time in one of the most stony, rough, desert, hilly, and heart-sickening parts

a very interesting account by the "head of the family" (families of fourteen or fifteen, in these parts

Down in these parts the people understand about as much of political economy as they do of the Choctaw

absence commencing first of next week, and intend coming on to New York, for a while, to spend the first part

I was not able to get over and make you a parting visit, as I wished.

Y. post office stamp, Mar. 25, I have only just rec'd it, (2 o'clock Wednesday P.M.)

)—a copy of Burroughs' article in the Galaxy, and his own article in the New York Times on December 2,

with the baby & all you women—what jolly times you must have—I wish I could just drop in and take part

in them— With me, nothing very new or special—I am well & hearty—feel first-rate the greater part of

Emily Price's baby; Whitman reported the birth in his August 2, 1870 letter to William D. O'Connor.

have lots of money—in fact untold wealth —& I shall not feel right if you undertake to alter this part

husband & I are great friends too—Well I will close—the rain is pouring, the sky leaden—it is between 2

Eldridge, 20 October 1868" (Miller, Correspondence, 2:64–65).

I am in that part of the office where pardons are attended to.

A Love Story was published by Osgood & Co. in 1873.

SOMETHING ANENT THE CURIOUS STORY OF HIS OWN LIFE.

pois'd, the twain yet one, a mo- ment moment 's lull, A motionless still balance in the air, then parting

" one with 2.

He chuckled and smiled ata humor good ous story.

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J.,March 2, 1886.

He spends a part of every year there.

The owner was but a few inches above his worldly possessions; he seemed a part of them, and the picture

Whitman in conversation, for in this he seldom took the leading part; and as it was wished above all

We hoped that it might be a permanent improvement, but it was the same old story: extra exertion and

He could always take his own part, and fortunately was capable of doing so still; had it been otherwise