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Cleveland Rodgers and John Black. 2 vols. New York: Putnam, 1920.  ____.

Emory Holloway. 2 vols. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921. "City Dead-House, The" (1867)

Longfellow's "beautiful words" were equivalent to those of Bryant and Wordsworth ("The Literary World" 2)

Arthur Golden. 2 vols. New York: New York Public Library, 1968. "Excelsior" (1856)

depicted—an essence, a suggestion, an indication leading off into the immortal mysteries" (With Walt Whitman 2:

Boston: Small, Maynard, 1906; Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908. Whitman, Walt. Specimen Days.

Malcolm Cowley. 2 vols. New York: Pellegrini and Cudahy, 1948.

Rpt. as The Works of Walt Whitman: The Deathbed Edition in Two Volumes. 2 vols.

Homes, Stoddard refers to "Song of Myself" as the piece that Whitman "oddly enough named for himself" (2:

Poets' Homes: Pen and Pencil Sketches of American Poets and Their Homes. 2 vols, in one. Boston: D.

fellow of my size, the friendly presence & magnetism needed, somehow, is not here)" (Correspondence 2:

Vols. 2–3. New York: New York UP, 1961–1964. Whitman, Louisa Orr Haslam (Mrs. George) (1842–1892)

Thursday, 2 o'clock p. m.

must look over them Sunday— Well, mother dear, it is now after 12—I expect to get out a little from 2

And besides I feel that I know all about that story, and on good authority, too: from no less a person

long, long, long, confab with him, just for the sake of squaring up some old scores (gratitude on my part

I think:1 The book should be first-class in all respects.2 Price should be ten dollars.3 It should (every

well all is well, and vice versa: I think it was Emerson who, in one of his earlier essays, told the story

"These moods seemed to be a necessary part of O'Connor's life: they had visited him for years and years

intends in any way to make speechifying the business of his life it is especially a first and necessary part

literary clique which resented the original letter—which seemed almost to look upon it as on Emerson's part

Still, that may all be a part of his settled policy—I do not object to cheer.

reading Leaves of Grass: had found that the book had a "message for her soul" and thanked me for the part

We stood for the same things up to a certain point but there parted company, she to look back and around

repeated the sentence after me and seemed to be turning it over in his mind: "That's probably the whole story

stubs of the cut-out leaves, in the way the book rests in the palm of the hand, not to mention in the story

transforming them (as McGann's comments on markup make clear), but there is no doubt that a vital part

immediately into narrative—items we can access later as pieces of a narrative if and when they fit the story

Congress on Condition, &c. of Indian Trust Funds, Stocks, &c. as required to be made by Act of March 2,

Let me remind you that you should also take the oath required by the Act of July 2, 1862, (12 U. S.

Joel 2. 28. 29. 32. John 4. 14. 23. 24. —6. 40. 63. —17. 25. —12 24.

.)— Love to you sister dear—$2 enc'd enclosed Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Hannah Whitman Heyde, 14 April

Bucke is quite sick abed—Love to you, sister dear—$2 enclosed—Sun out shining beautifully—the 1 o'c whistle

Hiles to Walt Whitman, 2 March 1891

Studio 2 W. 14 th st New York Febr. 12 90 My dear sir I have delivered your book to Mr. Bancroft.

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

REES WELSH & CO., BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS. 23 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, 6.5 188 2 Walt Whitman

see Dr B Bucke off—Hope this will find you comfortable, sister dear, & best love to you— Walt Whitman 2

Camden New Jersey U S America June 26 '87—3 1/2 P M— Edith & another girl have been to see me to-day—nearly

"Hunter told a story when he was here last which is to the same effect.

You know how cheery Hunter is—how well he can tell a story, laugh: what a good voice he has.

In the midst of this story W. had suddenly turned my way: "It's a long tale: shall I go on?

Then: "I remember a darky story. Mose didn't report for work—didn't come morning, noon, evening.

Hyde but did not get along with it: I tried some of the short stories: I felt that I should know about

I say so too: that is the whole story, beginning, middle and end."

The story and fabulous portion of this book winds loosely from sentence to sentence as so many oases

reader leaps from sentence to sentence, as from one stepping stone to another, while the stream of the story

We will not dispute the story.

PART FIRST. LEAVES OF GRASS.

Visiting friend in the eastern part of the State, I recall that as we went out on a nutting excursion

Of my attempt, in the latter part of these Notes, to give an outline of the poet's personal history,

These are an essential part of his chants.

or have the rocks and the weeds a part to play also?

It is postmarked: CAMDEN | NOV | 2 | 1884 | N.J.; PHILADELPHIA, P.A. | NOV | 2 | 1884 | PAID; SCREA |

As ne your needed blending discord‑parts join'd in offsetting 15 But for your time, — your needed your

part —duly the hinge a‑turning, Really Duly ?

through duly all thy your glamour's Many Through the discord parts that round Time's diapason.) from

joined in The A rhythmus of life eternal.) as needed blended discord parts Many the parts discord parts

Transcribed from digital images of the original. your needed blending discord‑parts

The excised top portion of the leaf became the bottom section of page 2 of 1:3:11, the poem (eighth in

These 2 leaves contain verses first published in section 16 of the 1860 Leaves of Grass cluster.

50-51uva.00206xxx.00276As of the The Truth1857-1859poetryhandwritten4 leavesleaf 2 19.5 x 13 cm, all

sent to Herald March 2 A Prairie sunset.

," which is signed and dated "Jan. 2 1891." William Ingram to Walt Whitman, 24 December 1890

From that I enter on my 72d year— Walt Whitman here is $2 for the young ones, Eva Eva Stafford Walt Whitman

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).

mother & father & have them buried there too, in the tomb I have had built for myself —cloudy wet day—$2

Boston, Mch March 29 188 2 Walt Whitman Esq Dear Sir: We do not think the official mind will be satisfied

Aug 9 th 187 2 Walt Whitman, Dear sir, Your favor of 8th inst instant containing ($50 xx ) Fifty Dollars

REES WELSH & CO., BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS. 23 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, 6, 26 188 2 Walt Whitman

I will make divine magnetic lands, With the love of comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. 2

I will make divine magnetic lands, With the love of comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. 2

his opinion, as he referred in an 1878 newspaper article to Blake's "half-mad vision" (Prose Works 2:

me as Burns is, chiefly as a person: I read with most avidity not their poems but their lives..." (2:

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York UP, 1963–1964.____.

Emory Holloway. 2 vols. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1972. British Romantic Poets

the hermit thrush from the swamp-cedars, Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World. 2

wend—they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions; One generation playing its part

, and passing on; Another generation playing its part, and passing on in its turn, With faces turn'd

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

how superb and how divine is your body, or any part of it. 15 Whoever you are!

the hermit thrush from the swamp-cedars, Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World. 2

wend—they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions; One generation playing its part

, and passing on, Another generation playing its part, and passing on in its turn, With faces turn'd

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

how superb and how divine is your body, or any part of it. 15 Whoever you are!

the hermit thrush from the swamp-cedars, Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World. 2

wend, they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions, One generation playing its part

and passing on, Another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn, With faces turn'd sideways

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

I will not make poems with reference to parts, But I will make poems, songs, thoughts, with reference

wend—they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions, One generation playing its part

and passing on, And another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn, With faces turned

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

how superb and how divine is your body, or any part of it. Whoever you are!

2* Lands where the northwest Columbia winds, and where the southwest Colorado winds!

the hermit thrush from the swamp-cedars, Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World. 2

wend, they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions, One generation playing its part

and passing on, Another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn, With faces turn'd sideways

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

I will not make poems with reference to parts, But I will make poems, songs, thoughts, with reference

moment everything looks favourable for their having a good time of it I cannot tell you how I felt parting

It is postmarked: New York | Sep | 2; D | 91; Paid C | All; Camden, N.J. | Sep 3 | 6AM | 1891 | REC'D

. | Jun 30 | 5pm | 89; London | AM | JY | 2 | 89 | Canada.

also spelled "Eduard," sent Whitman an article that he had published in the Deutsche Presse of June 2,

On July 2, 1889, Whitman sent Bertz Complete Poems & Prose, and on July 7 a copy of Richard Maurice Bucke's

Rolleston and Karl Knortz, and called attention to his own book The French Prisoners (1884), "the story

cryptogram which I hear is more or less of a fraud though perhaps not intentionally so on Donnelly's part

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

noticed that letter on the back of the sheet: I 'mI'm glad, however, that you read it: it was, it is, a part

of the story.

your friend's special & expanding glory.Fritschy, I am writing this in Major Hapgood's office, fifth story

It has become an old story. The suffering ones cling to me poor children very close.