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about 1 Dec '68 My dear walter Walter i have just got your letter with the order and am much Obliged
woman that i expected to have to help me about moving has took it on her head to get married about the 1
Tuesday Oct. 3d 1871 see notes May 1 1888 Splendid off hand letter from John Burroughs—?
The £3 included about £1 from myself, the subscriptions mentioned in your letter being almost all I received
1867 saturday Saturday 2 oclock o'clock my dear Walt i have just receeved received your letter with 1
rs in the bank they never gave Jim one cent worth when he went away not even a shirt when Jeff has 1
5 Dec. 18 '63 1 friday Friday night My dear Walt i write to night some of the particulars of Andrews
September 10 I am about as usual—your postal card came to-day—papers last Monday—As I write, (1 p.m.)
—sitting by the window—1 st floor I have just been talking with a young married RR man Thomas Osler,
suffered greatly with it 5 days & nights—had it lanced yesterday, & is better—he stood by the open window, 1
room—Whenever you have the Star or Republican once in a while you can send them (you can send 2 for a 1
These plays are: (1) The Troubador—who nurses wounded heroes during the war of the Rebellion (2).
here continued—I feel comparatively easier & freer also continued—sat for 40 minutes in the sun ab't 1,
night—the painful irritation, spasms, &c have mainly stopt & I am feeling decidedly easier, freer—rose ab't 1½
Dec 1 —Last night bad & sleepless—up forty to fifty times—water-works irritation, scalding—I have been
weather—not cold—no word of O'C[onnor] — Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 30 November–1
here alone as usual—good letter (enclosed) f'm Pearsall Smith —had a good currying (kneading) ab't 1—
am interested in that program of lectures, concerts, balls, &c: for the patients there—good, good — 1¼
Camden '89 Friday 8 P M Nov. 1 —Been in the room here of course all day—y'rs rec'd—of Ed's safe arrival
1/2 past 2 —still dark & raining—had a good pummeling an hour ago—& shall have another at 9 evening—My
sweating a good deal of the time)— God bless you all— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 1–
Boughs" are completed—all will be attended to, the same— Sunday afternoon early July 1 Feeling miserably
B & the childer— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 30 June —1 July 1888
rec'd the 10th & concluding Vol. of Stedman's "American Literature" collect —good I fancy— Tuesday, 1
up the massages—am sitting here alone in my den—lots of fog here lately—My supper is coming— March 1
pamphlet)—have just drink'd a mug of milk punch—dull & heavy enough here—read the papers, & read again— 1½
weather as I close— God bless you all Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 28 February–1
sphere & land—Your letters come & are always welcome—As I close I am sitting in my big chair in my room 1½
toast, and a cup of milk (or two, during the day) with some ice cream (wh' tastes good & welcome) ab't 1½
M Chicago, June 1 st 18 89 My Dear Old Friend The enclosed I clipped from the Inter Ocean today, and
Mickle street Well Maurice every thing here goes on much the same, & fairly enough—As I write it is abt 1
letters rec'd—am sitting here the same in cane chair in my Mickle Street den—the big whistle has sounded 1
good oak-wood fire—God bless you all Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 28 February–1
usual—head bad—water w'ks trouble bad—frequent visitors—Harrison Morris and Miss A Repplier yestdy Nov: 1—
funny discoveries —cloudy half-raw day— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Richard Maurice Bucke, 31 October–1
to come as he is one of the heads of the meeting Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [28 May–1
other sons seem to think money is nessessary necessary for me to have george and loo is coming the 1
Elizabeth Lorang Ashley Lawson Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, [1]
Friday evening, May 1.
Vol. 1. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906; Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908; Vol. 3.
Vol. 1. New York: New York UP, 1961. Attorney General's Office, United States
O'Dowd sent his first complete letter to Whitman, thus inaugurating a correspondence that lasted until 1
Osgood of Boston, but on 1 march 1882 it was classified as obscene literature by the Boston district
Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1947. 1–13.Miller, James E., Jr.
Construction of the New Bible / Not to be diverted from the principal object—the main life work" (Notebooks 1:
Nearly 1,100 pages long, its various sections document (1) all books and pamphlets wholly by Whitman,
Resources for American Literary Study 20 (1994): 1–15.____. "The Whitman Project: A Review Essay."
Vol. 1. Boston: Hall, 1989. 199–234.Tanner, James T.F.
Whitman praised for being "like Adam in Paradise, and almost as free from artificiality" (Uncollected 1:
, Whitman complained of the "lush and the weird" then in favor among readers of poetry (Prose Works 1:
In an 1848 review he referred to Byron's "fiery breath" (Uncollected 1:121), and forty years later the
As Whitman remarked to Traubel in 1888, "Byron has fire enough to burn forever" (With Walt Whitman 1:
Vols. 1–3. 1906–1914. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961; Vol. 4. Ed. Sculley Bradley.
Vol. 1. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921. 104–106. ____. Specimen Days.
Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 2.3 (1984): 1–9.Dulles, Foster Rhea.
Lines of the address, "To the Voters of the Vth Congressional District" (1 November 1858), were double-spaced
On 1 November Whitman rushed the newspaper back into print to get in a final word on the upcoming election
waiters, and bartenders.Starting in 1825 Whitman attended Brooklyn's first public school, District School 1,
"Brooklyniana" appeared in twenty-five installments from 8 June 1861 through 1 November 1862 and consisted
most of the summer quietly on the "ample and charming garden and lawns of the asylum" (Prose Works 1:
be the majority, promises to be the leaven which must eventually leaven the whole lump" (Prose Works 1:
dismisses this as a sentiment which rather foolishly "overrides the desire for commercial prosperity" (1:
shall form two or three grand States, equal and independent, with the rest of the American Union" (1:
Lawrence, whose length he had just traveled, not a "frontier line, but a grand interior or mid-channel" (1:
that such economic injustice "is an evil... that... sows a public crop of other evils" (Uncollected 1:
(Gathering 1:150–151).As a poet, however, Whitman often presented himself as one who has the unique capacity
declamations and escapades undoubtedly enter'd into the gestation of 'Leaves of Grass'" (Prose Works 1:
daily reportage Whitman always recalled fondly (see, for example, "Starting Newspapers," Prose Works 1:
fields, trees, birds, sun-warmth and free skies, or it will certainly dwindle and pale" (Prose Works 1:
of every earlier printed text which Whitman used, in whole or in part, in the 1892 Complete Prose" (1:
literary and social activities, notes about "his friendships, his habits, his health, the weather" (1:
Leaves of Grass developed over the separate editions and impressions spanning thirty-seven years" (1:
Part 1, volumes 1–3, "contains material more or less biographical" and is arranged in "loosely chronological
" order (1:xix).
notice.A list of the major public repositories of manuscripts, letters, and related papers follows.1.
This set includes three volumes in six physical books: parts one and two of volume 1 include the poetry
Chicago.Volumes 4–10 of the Complete Writings comprise Complete Prose Works, numbered separately as volumes 1–
manuscripts, and notes of Whitman, as well as some essays by the executors drawing on that material.Volume 1