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"It was like being born again," he would later tell Horace Traubel (With Walt Whitman 2:71–72).

This "sympathy with Nature" allows Whitman in old age to think of his life as part of the world's great

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

, 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.

The volume was provoked in part by a trip to Whitman's childhood haunts and the family graveyards on

The decade 1865-1875 was very lonely and depressing for the poet, not easy to integrate into the story

Such meditations are, in part, a means of bolstering the faith of the "good gray poet" in the integrity

Specimen Days is, then, a new form of autobiography shaped in part by new challenges to the aging self

"Withdrawal and Resumption: Whitman and Society in the Last Two Parts of Specimen Days."

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.

Vol. 2. 1908. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961. Wright, Frances.

He took part in both the libations and the conversation when he joined his friends of the Bohemian crowd

Although the article focuses in part on the physical and moral attributes of the young men who take part

The unified guide project, a part of the online Walt Whitman Archive begun in 1995, is funded with a

Moreover, some prose passages are part of the gestation process of poetry.

Briusov, Izbrannye Sochineniia [Moskva: Goslitizdat, 1955 Volume 2], p. 130.)

times when he brought together a group of people who were eager to publish some of the wonderful stories

The group came together, determined to tell the story of the Garden of Eden and Adam's rather unfortunate

On the other hand, he could be genuinely critical of American poetry and parts of its intellectual life

He appreciated the parts of Whitman's poetry that were critical of American society, or could at least

I went to the Soldiers Home and got my supper and took a good sleep I left Pittsburg a little after 2

On May 2, at the Battle of Chancellorsville, 153 men from the 55th Ohio were killed, wounded, or missing

SOMETHING ANENT THE CURIOUS STORY OF HIS OWN LIFE.

May 2, 1868. O. F. May, Esq. Clerk, Auburn Prison, Auburn, N. Y.

May, 2 May 1868

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"You can see that I had first to deal with the physical, the corporeal, the amative business—that part

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

answered Feb 2 '92 I said 'yes.' see notes Feb. 3 1892 J. E.

considerations seem to arise: 1: The particular executive power of interference invoked by this petition. 2:

May 2, 1867. James C. Kennedy, Esq. Washington, D. C.

Kennedy, 2 May 1867

September 2, 1868. Hon. W. T. Otto, Acting Secretary of the Interior.

Otto, 2 September 1868

September 2, 1868. Hon. W. T. Otto, Acting Secretary of the Interior.

Otto, 2 September 1868

to his authority to use the military as a posse nor does there seem to be any indisposition on the part

November 2, 1868. George P. Bowen, Esq. Clerk of the U. S. District Court, Springfield, Ill.

Bowen, 2 November 1868

November 2, 1868. S. C. Sprague, Clerk of the U. S. District Court, Boston, Mass.

Sprague, 2 November 1868

Banks is desirous, on the part of the claimant, of a prompt determination of the question whether the

August 2, 1865. Hon. J. E.

Wycke, 2 August 1865

Attorney Gen'l's Office, August 2, 1865. Hon. W. H.

Seward, 2 August 1865

-parts against The young man informed me that "Mr.

(See Leaves of Grass," p. 56.) 2.

Wednesday, October 2%th.~-1 called atW.'

' Jan. 2<)th. No change.

One Vol.$2 438pp.,GreeCover.Singlcopiesent.

"Yes, you have the historical part of it all right.

"Yes; I look upon that as the best part of my life, those four or five years that I spent in the war,

He only told about one-tenth of the story. In conclusion it may be said that Mr.

But first let me explain part of my head-line.

On such occasions he contributes his part to the general fun.

There was a crowded house, the report in the local paper saying: "Probably the best part of the audience

Clifford, in a London lecture on "the Relation between Science and Modern Poetry," assigned a main part

treat of, escaping in those sighs of Viola, who never told her love, nor could tell, nor a billionth part

the supreme merits of his own work, and labors on serenely, notwithstanding the fact that so large a part

We also enclose 2 photos 1 st —one of J.

ambulance class, of which he was the teacher, and who gave him the writing cabinet shown on the table. 2

brotherly and always silently planning for my benefit; simple, spontaneous, and natural; easily taking his part

One item of the talk (in connection with the packing of our belongings) was a little story of Whitman's

But I let the greater part of my letter go without answering them. I can't ."

This is, in part, the influence I wish 'Leaves of Grass' to have.

Well, I'll not go back on my promise, thought it seems almost too precious to part with.

I ought not to take the money from you, but I have spent part of it to-day for another purpose."

Horace told W. a story—but I don't remember in what connection—about an American lady, Mrs.

together should not be spent solely in the discussion of current topics and events, but that some part

It resulted in part from our very diversity and from the curious way in which our several personalities

For the part which Whitman himself took in our correspondence, however, we were entirely unprepared.

The next year, a block house, called "Fort Nassau," was built on Castle ☜ Island, now forming a part

of the famous apostle of New England, John Eliot, to teach the gospel to the savages, near Boston. 2

this congregation remained in Holland, under their clergyman, the Reverend John Robinson : another part

The ground on which the church is erected is part of what formed one of the intrenchments of our army

Morse later wrote: "One part of the preliminary business was the visit to a photographer.

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

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

He pursues these objects through a hundred pages of matter which remind us irresistibly of the story

This were indeed a wise precaution on his part if the intelligence were only submissive!

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22, Kammenstr. 2. Rivage ANTWERP.

O'Connor died this morning about 2 o'clock.

Brooklyn Daily Advertiser of May 25, 1850, reprinted in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2

You will like the story. Don't lose them Yr Friend: James M Scovel To W.W. Esq. Scovel James M.

Don't you think y in the early part of Ju James.

(2) To start right again I think you had better send me my MSS—and let me do as I d—m please with it

Tuesday Eve April 2 / 90 10 PM Dear Walt Sometime ago you kindly said you wd give me something for the

Scovel to Walt Whitman, 2 April 1890

Boston, May 4 188 2 Walt Whitman Esq.

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

Boston, March 21 188 2 Walt Whitman Esq Dear Sir: Since our letter of yesterday we have received a memorandum

The seven lines entitled "To a Common Prostitute" beginning on page 299 and ending on page 300 303. 2-

your letter seems to imply that this possible change is the result of a "settled decision" on our part