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suppose you & the rest are reading Herbert's books from time to time—though they are very queer in the story

a nice visit from Harry and Mont—there is nothing new or interesting to write you—it is now ½ past 2,

Added to this, in a second part of the book, are "Democratic Vistas," the long essay written for one

An appendix contains several stories written in the author's youth, and his two first attempts at poetry

The first part of the volume is mostly given up to war reminiscences, and is full of interest.

again before you sail'd sailed —I was at Mrs Lesley's again about three weeks since (to meet Miss Kate

Kate Hillard often goes with us, & she is always good company.

Lesley, Kate Hillard, & the two Miss Lesleys, daughters —us four, only, no men-critters but me—I was

The Child-Ghost; A Story of the Last Loyalist THE CHILD-GHOST; A STORY OF THE LAST LOYALIST.

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

"The Child-Ghost; A Story of the Last Loyalist" was later reprinted under the shortened title of "The

For the publication history of the story, see " About 'The Child-Ghost; A Story of the Last Loyalist

In truth, I have a horror of these superstitious stories; they fret me. But no matter.

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

"The Child-Ghost; A Story of the Last Loyalist" was later reprinted under the shortened title of "The

For the publication history of the story, see "About 'The Child-Ghost; A Story of the Last Loyalist.

Whitman's short story "The Last of the Sacred Army" (March 1842) also deals with the American Revolution

Other short stories of "cruelty, and punishment" include "Death in the School-Room" (August 1841) and

I had been teaching country school for two or three years in various parts of Suffolk and Queens counties

Our transcription is based on Walt Whitman, Autobiographia: or the Story of a Life (New York: Charles

Our transcription is based on Walt Whitman, Autobiographia: or the Story of a Life (New York: Charles

Every Day Talk: Walt Whitman's Story of the Purpose of His Writings—Odds and Ends EVERY DAY TALK.

Walt Whitman's Story of the Purpose of His Writings—Odds and Ends.

"I had to deal with the physical, corporeal and amative—that part which is developed between the ages

It is that part of my endeavor which has caused the harshest criticism and prevented candid examination

This short story is unique among Whitman's fiction in that it is based almost entirely on actual historical

For more information on Whitman's use of these events in his story, see " About 'Richard Parker's Widow

See also Thomas Ollive Mabbott, ed., The Half-Breed and Other Stories (New York: Columbia University

In the early part of M AY , 1797, the British seamen in the vessels about the N ORE , (a point of land

The force of the mutineers, which, toward the latter part of M AY , consisted of twenty-four sail, soon

This short story is unique among Whitman's fiction in that it is based almost entirely on actual historical

For more information on Whitman's use of these events in his story, see "About 'Richard Parker's Widow

had married Richard in 1791.; This is likely a reference to the source Whitman used in writing this story

See also Thomas Ollive Mabbott, ed., The Half-Breed and Other Stories (New York: Columbia University

the Fiction (New York: New York University Press, 1963), notes that Whitman follows Pelham in the story

I notice a peculiar order to the stories—how is that?

Well, it ought to be first: it is the best of the stories, I guess."

It is not a part of me: demonstration."

In Sir Edwin, this becomes Oriental—it is a part of him (I think as natural a part of him, as other things

And as parting admonition W. urged, "I leave that thing in your hands, Horace.

duk.00066xxx.01167ChronologicalBetween 1854 and 1860prose1 leaf, with 2 pasted-on attachmentshandwritten

backing sheet with two smaller manuscript scraps pasted on, which together, at one time, likely formed part

The pasted-on manuscript scraps were originally part of the notebook "women" (loc.05589), which probably

Prose notes written on the back of the bottom paste-on (duk.00878) relate to what became section 2 of

1883prose3 leaveshandwritten; Three-page draft of The Attempted Official Suppression, a section of Part

2, Chapter 1, History of Leaves of Grass, in Richard Maurice Bucke's 1883 biography, Walt Whitman.

are quoted as being the work of an immoral writer, and, altho' although I tried to show they were part

Walt Whitman's works in England (see Harold Blodgett, "Whitman and Buchanan," American Literature, 2:

2 [May 1930], 131–40).

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

He and Whitman often conversed, and Whitman loved to hear Hartshorne tell stories about meeting George

Vol. 2. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1921. Hartshorne, William (1775–1859)

His drawing cards were part of a national effort to teach drawing as a skill in the schools while also

Number 182 of Littell's Living Age , (Berford & co., 2 Astor house,) has eighteen splendid full articles

Price $2 per annum, in advance.

His stories are generally full of incident.

HARPER’S STORY BOOKS, No. 33.

A CHILD’S HISTORY OF GREECE, 2 vols. By John Bonner. New York; Harper and Brothers. Mr.

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

year published Whitman's third edition of Leaves of Grass and O'Connor's only novel, Harrington: A Story

first meeting, O'Connor had turned from his artistic pursuits as a daguerreotypist, poet, and short-story

"Walt Whitman," 2 December 1866); and in the New York Tribune in 1876 and 1882 (for example, "Walt Whitman

In 1868 O'Connor published "The Carpenter," a short story with a Christlike portrayal of Whitman as the

"The Carpenter: A Christmas Story." Putnam's Monthly Magazine ns 1 (1868): 55-90. ——. .

year published Whitman's third edition of Leaves of Grass and O'Connor's only novel, Harrington: A Story

their first meeting, O'Connor had turned from his artistic pursuits as a daguerreotypist, poet, short-story

Walt Whitman," 16 February 1867); in the New York Times in 1866 and 1867 (for example, "Walt Whitman," 2

In 1868 O'Connor published "The Carpenter," a short story with a Christlike portrayal of Whitman.

"The Carpenter: A Christmas Story." Putnam's Monthly Magazine ns 1 (1868): 55–90. ____.

word to Dr B[ucke] —Matters going on much the same with me as of late—as I write sit in my den in 2d story—well

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

chiefly because of her eyes, her complexion, the mellowness of her body, though these, too, play their parts

are fathered on him—some of them true, some of them apocryphal—volumes of stories (stories decent and

indecent) fathered on him: legitimate stories, illegitimate: and so Lincoln comes to us more or less

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

He is sweet, affable, courteous: he takes me, not for all in all but for part in part, this or that—yes

something in the world—something I tried to make clear in another way in Calamus" (With Walt Whitman 2:

that its citizenry must be thoroughly infused with an "all penetrating Religiousness" (Prose Works 2:

of living, pulsating love and friendship, directly from them to myself, now and ever" (Prose Works 2:

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

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

Ceaseless Swell," "Proudly the Flood comes in," and "By that Long Scan of Waves," as telling the same story

in Whitman's best way,—the story of the part he has distinctively chosen to uphold amid the democratic

The reader will always have his or her part to do, just as much as I have had mine.

How comes on the preface to the stories? is it nearly done, or not begun, or how?

My plan is to put the six published stories, & the new one, "The Brazen Android" in one volume,—with

Then you know that Appleton proposed to publish the "Carpenter" as an illustrated story for the next

So, if you are in the mood, I shall be very glad of your part as early as you can let one have it, if

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

NO. 2. Original Stock of King's County. First Discovery, 1609. Settlement—1613– 16-26 1626 .

Romantic Stories of the Rapeljes and Jansens. Incident of physical strength. Rule Van Brunt.

Emory Holloway, (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921), 2:228.

Romantic stories were told in early times about these same Rapljes Rapeljes .

One of the stories was that they were Moors by birth, and of prodigious strength.

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

Emory Holloway, (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921), 2:228.; "Wallabout" is a mutation

This letter is addressed: Miss Kate Hillard, | 186 Remsen street, | Brooklyn, | New York.

It was on his part a feeble but a loving grasp—while I found the hand very cold, as if it had been exposed

I told him the story of yesterday's meeting and the applause at the mention of his name.

He was very emphatic in designation of the value of this story.

Says W., "I guess I'd better not try to write one now.")Spent the evening in Philadelphia—part of it

Drank over one pint of milk, ate nearly a slice (large) of bread and butter and a cake of beef (1 1/2

by Whitman—books, pamphlets, collected editions, separately published poems, articles and essays, stories

English and other languages during his lifetime but also those published in English through 1991; (2)

The Walt Whitman Archive: A Facsimile of the Poet's Manuscripts. 3 vols. 6 parts.

"Walt Whitman's Short Stories: Some Comments and a Bibliography."

Vol. 2. New York: Macmillan, 1974. 759–768, 997–1001, 1310–1313.Killingsworth, M. Jimmie.

Hampstead is by far the highest part of London, & this cottage is very near the top of the Heath, approaching

I find it much healthier than the low-lying parts near the river.

For my own part, I feel now that concentration is the one thing that I lack.

See especially note 2.

who wrote under the pseudonym Sidney Luska (Josh Lambert, "As It Was Written: A Jewish Musician's Story

Had some friendly chats with Kate Hillard last week, & went with her to call on Mrs.

Kate Hillard we often see & have lively chats with.

About the same time that I received your volumes I got a letter from Kate Hillard, (a brilliant girl

Grier [New York: New York University Press, 1984], 2:840).

article in question—Roden Noel's "A Study of Walt Whitman: The Poet of Modern Democracy" (Dark Blue 2

1975) Esther Shephard, scholar, poet, and folklorist (she compiled a popular edition of Paul Bunyan stories

Vol. 2. Detroit: Gale Research, 1978. Shephard, Esther. Walt Whitman's Pose.

see notes Dec 22 1888 Copenhagen, 2 January 1874.

Dear Walt Whitman, To day the first part of the manuscript of the translation of 'Democratic Vistas"

Your letters shall reach me surely, when sent to the old address: Klareboderne 16, 2.

Schmidt Jan. 2, '74 Rudolf Schmidt to Walt Whitman, 2 January 1874

my breast a thousand wide-winged strengths and unknown ardors and terrible ecstasies" (Uncollected 2:

are printed in italics in order to emphasize the lyrical quality of the aria, while the recitative parts

Vol. 2. New York: Appleton, 1908. Trowbridge, John Townsend. "Reminiscences of Walt Whitman."

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

Emory Holloway. 2 vols. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921.  Opera and Opera Singers

I feel how weak and pitiful physically and mentally I must look to the better, the stronger part of me—my

Crandall remarked that Bensel's "life is the pathetic and too familiar story of suffering and unfulfilled

The first issue of the Crescent contained Whitman's feature story entitled "Crossing the Alleghenies.

Whitman later characterized his situation with the Crescent as "a rather pleasant one" (Prose Works 2:

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

Emory Holloway. 2 vols. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921. Zweig, Paul.

In the 1867 and 1871–72 editions it appeared again as 2 in clusters titled Thoughts.

Finally, in Leaves of Grass (1881–82) Whitman combined parts of this and another poem, again titled Thoughts

, and included it in the By the Roadside cluster. 2

That is queer—it is one of my favorite stories—one of the very richest I know.

"We all know how purely made-up it is—out of whole cloth—a determination with somebody to make a story

Praise the Press when you can but notYour sincere and grateful friendTalcott WilliamsTWI enclose $10—(2

W. greatly amused at my story of getting the Doctor's glasses.

And the whole story rich and funny. You must tell it to Doctor." Monday, July 6, 1891

Imagine a long one-story wooden shed like short wide rope walk well whitewashed, then cluster ten or

Bowen: An Unknown Whitman Letter Recommending an Army Doctor," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1, no. 2

Coleman, Willie Durkee, and Kate Lane.

On February 10, 1863 , Jeff sent $2 from Theodore A.

Drake, a waterworks inspector, and $2 from John D. Martin.

Bowen: An Unknown Whitman Letter Recommending an Army Doctor," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1, no. 2

Coleman, Willie Durkee, and Kate Lane.

On February 10, 1863, Jeff sent $2 from Theodore A.

Drake, a waterworks inspector, and $2 from John D. Martin.

The Centenarian's Story THE CENTENARIAN'S STORY.

As wending, the crowds now part and disperse—but we, old man, Not for nothing have I brought you hither—we

eighty-five years a-gone, no mere parade receiv'd with applause of friends, But a battle, which I took part

in myself—aye, long ago as it is, I took part in it, Walking then this hill-top, this same ground.

It is well—a lesson like that, always comes good; I must copy the story, and send it eastward and west

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

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

A tale of a Murderer escaped.) " He kept that title but dropped the subtitle when he published the story

Whitman did not include the number before the first section of this story when he published it in the

Toward the latter part of the same afternoon, Mr.

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

When he republished this 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 the publication history of the story under its earliest known title and under its later title, see

'"; Whitman did not include the number before the first section of this story when he published it in

They say there is a time to be silent, and though no part or function of man if properly treated is disgraceful

It consists for the most part of hack writers to the press who think it no portion of their duty to know

Veiled obscenity in the shape of a joke, a spicy story, or the reports of criminal cases in the Pall

above all else zealous for the virtue of their womankind, just as if they had never laughed over the story

Gespräche mit Goethe , Leipzig, Band 1 und 2: 1836, Band 3: 1848, S. 743.

Gespräche mit Goethe, Leipzig, Band 1 und 2: 1836, Band 3: 1848, S. 743.; Ernest Rhys, "Introduction"

Friday, January 2, 18917:55 P.M. W. in his room—not even reading.

It is a part for us to know." I laughed and said, "Dave has paid you $300 for them?

could have if they lived adjacent, W. nodded, "Yes," but said after: "We must however remember the old story—I

Friday, January 2, 1891

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

For the publication history of the story, see " About 'The Angel of Tears .'" BY WALTER WHITMAN .

Whitman evidently coined the name Alza for the sake of this story.

In the Shrouded Volume, doubtless, it might be perceived how this is a part of the mighty and beautiful

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

For the publication history of the story, see "About 'The Angel of Tears.

'"; Whitman evidently coined the name Alza for the sake of this story.

if he were to move from Long Island, "Wisconsin would be the proper place to come to" (Prose Works 2:

Bucke, Whitman believed that the New Orleans trip helped him gather "the main part" of the "physiology

There Whitman parted with his friends, who returned East, and began an extended visit with Jeff which

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

Emory Holloway. 2 vols. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1972. Travels, Whitman's

In order to assist and to speed up the writing of the novel, Whitman included some stories that he had

Probably the stories of the Indian in chapter two; "Little Jane," in chapter 14; and possibly the allegorical

For example, Gay Wilson Allen calls Franklin Evans a "melodramatic maudlin story" (59).

As the novel continues, Franklin Evans, as first person narrator, relates the story in which strong drink

Vol. 2. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1921.  Winwar, Frances.

March 2, 1871. Hon. Geo. Vickers, U.S.

The subject had been brought to my notice before, by a rumor that there had been remissness on the part

The material part of it is this: That he applied to the Collector at Norfolk for information upon the

Akerman to George Vickers, 2 March 1871

Bebington Cheshire 2 Sept 1887 Dear Walt Whitman, It seems fitting that, as I have been writing about

Part of what I told them is contained in the present article & part in a pamphlet which I will send you

Walter Lewin to Walt Whitman, 2 September 1887

, "is wholly without plan: the first thing at hand, that is the thing I take up" (With Walt Whitman 2:

sets me free," Whitman proclaimed in 1888, "in a flood of light—of life, of vista" (With Walt Whitman 2:

Democratic Vistas about the "shreds of Hebrews, Romans, Greeks" that dominated attention (Prose Works 2:

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

Emory Holloway. 2 vols. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1972. Reading, Whitman's

He looks pretty well, however, and his hand was strong and honest when I shook it at parting.

Feinberg Collection; Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961), 2:

See Trowbridge, My Own Story, with recollections of noted persons (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903), 179