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dyspeptic trouble has been serious, & is perhaps so yet—pains in left side, distress in head, &c—the old story

weather here—lately rain & fog, most a week—but to-day is bright & fine—I am sitting up in the 3d story

Stafford (see the letter from Whitman to Harry Stafford of January 2, 1884).

Harned told a story of a fellow suing a client of his for a hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.

And there is the other, too: I took the better part of two days putting it together.

W. told his "good story" of the Benton-Calhoun duel.

pert apparel, the deformed attitude, drunken- ness drunkenness , greed, premature death, all these I part

matter who they are, And when all life, and all the Souls of men and women are discharged from any part

of the earth, Then shall the instinct of liberty be discharged from that part of the earth, Then shall

vouchsafe to me what has yet been vouchsafed to none—Tell me the whole story, Tell me what you would

Wood, I write to solicit from you $2, for helping my soldier boys to some festivities these holiday &

morning but i dont don't think i shall take it he gave it to her for that complaint she is not very well part

dated this letter (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

Walt's lost letters (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

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

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

, like the Injun, will be eliminated: it is the law of races, history, what-not" (With Walt Whitman 2:

He told Horace Traubel point-blank, "The Injun, will be eliminated" (With Walt Whitman 2:283). 

fact Whitman's privileging of Asian cultures over African and Native American ones might be based in part

Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908; Vol. 3. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1914; Vol. 5. Ed.

I expect to return Monday, June 2, bet. ½ past 5 & 6, but probably too late to see you that evening.

Whitman evidently returned to Washington on June 2, as planned.

I put no faith in the stories of his political crookedness: his literary enemies make a lot of it: consider

stream: there is a spirit abroad in our age which is bent upon the destruction of falsely cherished stories

that Cæsar was not thus and so, but thus and so: that there was no William Tell—that the William Tell story

the last days of Socrates: it is wonderfully cute, keen, undeniable: he complained that the usual stories

Grote had a peculiar way of putting his stories into shape: I might express his Socrates version in such

It is an old story.

Yet that is not the whole story. That's my part of the story.

of things done and missed being done, stories of heroism and cowardice, stories of meanness and generosity—stories

"Part of it—yes."

It is excellent—the first part and the closing part of it especially.

Sunday, September 2, 1888.2 P. M.

national or individual, good and bad, each has its own inherent law of punishment or reward, which is part

Sunday, September 2, 1888.

And then I kissed his hand and he said again, "Tomorrow, then—tomorrow—" All this talk on his part was

No hiccough.2 Had position changed.

Hiccough for a few minutes after.2:20 Sleeping quietly.3 Sleeping.

we have at one time or another personally visited), and all of them in operation now in different parts

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. 249–253.

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. 249–253.

just rec'd received —I will be happy to see you Saturday next—Will be in from 9 to 10½ forenoon—& from 2

Will not write much—$2 enc'd enclosed —Best love & God bless you— W W Geo here yesterday— Walt Whitman

Street Camden New Jersey Dec. 19 '87 I send you same mail with this, Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets —2

Saturday, April 2, 1892All the papers moved to my house today. Bucke took supper at McAlister's.

Johnston Saturday, April 2, 1892

American Literature; Embracing Personal and Critical Notes of Authors [New York: Charles Scribner, 1855], 2:

It was Benjamin who Whitman accused of the act of plagiarism discussed in note 2.

American Literature; Embracing Personal and Critical Notes of Authors [New York: Charles Scribner, 1855], 2:

It was Benjamin who Whitman accused of the act of plagiarism discussed in note 2.; Our transcription

See "Literary Notices," Brooklyn Daily Eagle , August 26, 1846: 2.

'The Fisherman,' in no. 2, is one of the best done engravings of its size, we know . . . . . .

See "Literary Notices," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, August 26, 1846: 2.

letter to day as i got one saturday Saturday we have just had our dinner after waiting for george George 2

the size of what i wrote about would do and wouldent wouldn't cost very much with a cellar under the 2

with Bucke's date (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

Oct 2 .

Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Henry Hurt, 2 October [1868]

Jersey Friday afternoon Jan January 30, 2 o'clock Dear Pete, I am having another of my bad spells to-day—but

felt better since 4 o'clock & have come out & crossed the river, & taken quite a ride up Market st. 2

Washington Feb 2 1864 Dearest Mother, I am writing this by the side of the young man you asked about,

love—he says he knows he would like you if he should see you— Walt Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 2

Camden Thursday Evening June 2 My dear friend I suppose it must look fine down there after the heavy

come down soon, for two or three days—will send you word— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Susan Stafford, 2

The parcels contained 1 Complete Works, 2 "Good-Bye my Fancy," 1 "As a Strong Bird," 1 Burroughs, 1 "

should like, besides, the cloth covered & inscribed "Good-Bye," six more of the unbound copies like the 2

Brooklyn 27 April 1867 saturday Saturday 2 oclock o'clock my dear Walt i have just receeved received

very glad to have the dollar you will say a dollar aint ain't much but sometimes it is worth more than 2

afternoon— About an hour ago the big Adams Express wagon drove up to the door, with a box for me—it was 2

doz 2 lb cans of fresh Oregon salmon from St.

see him—& he told O'Connor he had received a number of letters about that piece in the Times of Dec. 2,

had a present of a beautiful knife, a real Rogers' steel, to-day from the Attorney General—Mother, $2

Barrus, Whitman and Burroughs, 35), and he published O'Connor's review of Leaves of Grass on December 2,

noted, "If I've become a Whitmanite I'm sorry—I never read 40 lines of him in my life" (qtd. in Gribben 2:

Mark Twain's Library: A Reconstruction. 2 vols. Boston: Hall, 1980. Kaplan, Justin.

American Mercury 2 (1924): 328–332. ———. With Walt Whitman in Camden. Vol. 1.

Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906; Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908; Vol. 3.

The opening line's injunction is explained and justified by lines 2 and 3, which have a syllogistic force

The causal progression in lines 2 and 3 is echoed by the gradual limiting of the opening line's address

Rochester, April 2, 1876 D[ear] Sir Early in the year 1863—I think in the final month—I lay on a cot

Knapp to Walt Whitman, 2 April 1876

Ashley I have November Boughs Address Miss Ashley sent poem Jan 9 1892 see note Feb 3 1892 wrote her 2/

2/92 Mary Ashley to Walt Whitman, 17 December 1891

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

Leaves of Grass 2 2.

majority of the merchants and prosperous mechanics do not appear in their columns— indeed rarely in their 2

run around and look to all intermediate agencies for a situation.— As to And among the commercial part

—Not a few of them are really good looking; although, as a general thin k g , the best part of their

The complete text of the 1855 2.

viewer The core of our edition is the main text, which anchors the other resources to the relevant parts

Blue boxes in the right margin give information about the part of currently displayed in the center of

White curtains were drawn part way down.

For years it was my wish to live long enough to round out my life's story in my little book, 'The Leaves

There are stories of unrequited love, of war and of deeds of chivalry.

When we parted I gave him a copy of my poems. I trust we shall meet again.

of over two hundred and thirty years upon it, and relating exclusively to the settlement of these parts

It is in part stone and part brick, and was built in 1699 by N ICHOLAS V ECHTE , and is known as the

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The first (1855) edition ends with the affirmation that "death holds all parts together . . . death is

"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" casts Whitman as a benign Spiritualist incarnation, "disintegrated yet part

many hundred years hence" and invoking "the similitudes of the past and those of the future" (section 2)

at various times) titled "Whispers of Heavenly Death," "From Noon to Starry Night," and "Songs of Parting

of the manuscript leaves are stored with a letter to the editor, James Russell Lowell, dated October 2,

Camden 2½ P M Dec: 23 '88 Fair day—all quiet—Dr Walsh call'd—I sit here in the big chair hour after hour—hardly

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

WORTHINGTON, PUBLISHER, 770 BROADWAY New York July 25 188 2 Mr.

Then: "I can easily see that what you say is true: for my part these things have little value: but I

as if the From a Photograph WALT WHITMAN (1873)Reproduction of a photograph of Whitman, 1873 first part

, the part I read, was introduced in order that the second might be written.

Bob does not intellectually account for them: he has them in his heart: they are one part of his noble

I can't sit down offhand and dictate the story to you but I can talk with you and give you the documentary

Harned told W. a story about General Sherman, which started W. into quite a monologue: "Yes, I see he

here awhile ago, some Englishman—many Englishmen come to see me—who told me a characteristic Tennyson story

I was very much tickled with the story—it seemed to show Tennyson up in a new light—as being far more

He lied to me 2 or 3 times.

Several of his friends know the story in part (from his own lips).

This is the whole story.

Appleton, 1908), 2:19–20.

(2:16).

terrible bowel obstinacy (pills) & I have just sent off to the druggist's for it—the proofs of the poetic part

See Whitman's letter to Wallace of March 14, 1891, especially note 2.

volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were Poets of America, 2

Let others ignore what they may, I make the poem of evil also—I commemorate that part also, I am myself

upon and received with wonder, pity, love or dread, that object he became, And that object became part

of him for the day, or a certain part of the day, or for many years, or stretching cycles of years.

The early lilacs became part of this child; And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

, The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt-marsh and shore-mud— These became part