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sweating—how short the days are getting—Love to you sister dear—hope & pray this will find you comfortable 2

poorly—have just had a piece printed & paid for by magazine (N A Review March) & I enclose you 5 (give 2

Andrew Rome, in whose job office the work was all done—the author himself setting some of the type. 2

Boston, May 4 188 2 Walt Whitman Esq.

June 17 th 187 2 . Walt Whitman, Esq.

Stevens Street Camden New Jersey April 9 '81 My Dear Miss Gilder Thanks for the slips of No: Number 2,

"No. 2" was part of a series of six articles entitled "How I Get Around at 60 and Take Notes."

Floyd Stovall (New York: New York University Press, 1964), 2:759.

Camden Jan: 24 '88 Just after 2 P M —Yours of 22d has just come—Have you rec'd a letter from J H Johnston

Kossabone"; February 27, "Mannahatta"; February 29, "Paumanok"; March 1, "From Montauk Point"; March 2,

Broadway"; April 15, "Life"; April 16, "To Get the Final Lilt of Songs"; April 23, "To-day and Thee"; May 2,

Walt Whitman I also supply, when desired, my prose volume "Specimen Days & Collect"—price $2.—374 pages

REES WELSH & CO., BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS, 23 South Ninth Street, Philadelphia, 6. 16 188 2 Walt Whitman

Pleasant September days & nights here—I have just been out for an hour on the river—now, 2 p. m., sitting

or 4 hours to assist it (if necessary) that would be more like what is wanted and you might do this 2

It is postmarked: LONDON | AM | FE 27 | 91 | CANADA; NY | 2-28-91 | 230 PM | 12; CAMDEN, N.J. | MAR |

troubles ugly gastric & catarrhal ones—Am still out & around some, however, & shan't give up yet— May 7—2

quickly to sail, come tell me, Come tell me where I am speeding—tell me my destina-tiondestination. 2

over in a carriage to Gutekunst's, Philadelphia & had photo: sittings" (Daybooks and Notebooks, vol. 2,

Gutekunst was "on the top of the heap" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Tuesday, July 2,

till mr Lane sends an inspector out and then he is to inspect the new main he paid my rent and gave me 2

had quite a family home but i insisted on her taking of her had and so did helen so they stayed till 2

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

in Brooklyn, and the couple had four children—Arthur, Helen, Emily, and Henry (who died in 1852, at 2

your promotion" (Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [New York: Rowan and Littlefield, 1961], 2:

He is an admirer of yours, so I asked him if he would make 2 or 3 sketches for me to send to you.

But he is going to Norway for 3 or 4 month's painting in 2 or 3 days, & his time is of course very limited

Yet she added the caveat, "If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her" (Letters 2:408).

The Life of Emily Dickinson. 2 vols. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 1974.

Burroughs began Whitman: A Study with a reference to a "primitive and secluded" (2) spot which is itself

to many mistaken readers, but, rightly perceived, Whitman suggests the "cosmic and the elemental" (2)

Part of it is very fine. I wonder if young William Allingham wrote it.

Grier, ed., Notes and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts [New York: New York University Press, 1961–84], 2:

the $10 to you, but you know how I urged that the committee who have received our contributions for 2½

pressure.I see no way that you can make me clear with Walt unless you let him know just what I have done in 2½

you to know it and Walt to know it, even if you have to tell him about the work of the committee for 2½

Country I ever saw,  the people seem much more inteligent, and every way better, than in any other part

Jeff wrote to Walt Whitman on April 2, 1863, that Andrew was "real sick with his throat.

It is postmarked: Camden | Feb | | | ; PO | 2-13-87 | 12PM; A | 2-14-87 | 5-

At its easternmost part, Long Island opens like the upper and under jaws of some prodigious alligator

The bay that lies in here, and part of which forms the splendid harbor of Greenport, where the Long Island

Gelardi, “Nearshore Saltwater Sportfish,” New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, pg. 2,

and the Use and Abuse of Calomel In Nineteenth Century America," Pharmacy in History , Vol. 13, No. 2

Gelardi, “Nearshore Saltwater Sportfish,” New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, pg. 2,

Theory and the Use and Abuse of Calomel In Nineteenth Century America,"Pharmacy in History, Vol. 13, No. 2

John Townsend Trowbridge (1827–1916) was a novelist, poet, author of juvenile stories, and anti-slavery

Pearson, Jr., "Story of a Magazine: New York's Galaxy, 1866–1878," Bulletin of the New York Public Library

He is no longer one of the curiosities of the Republic; and while the stories of his extreme poverty

venerable and heavenly forms of chiming versification have in their time played great and fitting parts

Put in they chants, said he, No more the puzzling hour, nor day—nor segments, parts, put in, Put first

"in a cloud," as he said, today: at least, in forenoon and part of the afternoon: but "gathered together

For my own part, I cannot explain my faith in the book: my satisfaction, if I may say so, is intuitive—not

It's the old story of the artist trying to improve on nature again.

I guess friendship is constitutional, or in great part so—you like cabbage or you don't and that's all

I think that explains one part of Carlyle—that and perhaps something constitutional."

W. greatly interested—had me repeat the story.

A similar colloquy occurs in "The Centenarian's Story"; a veteran of Washington's campaign recalls for

Whitman presents to the reader the immediacy of military experience, the sense of being part of an army

critical attention has been paid to the poems which follow the climactic "The Wound-Dresser," in large part

echoed the old man, with a smile, "why Lord bless you, any one in these parts could do that; only 'taint

The corner groceryman pointed out a low two-story frame house, which looked like a cube with faces eighteen

A large part of "Leaves of Grass" consists of war poems and a variety of subjects, occurences on the

Who will play his part for him? And Hawthorne—wasn't he expected?

Traubel .— But meantime, Donaldson, what's become of your Oscar Wilde story?

Whitman, that my story didn't even get started. Whitman .— I own it, Tom. Go on.

Whitman .— No doubt, Harrison, that is part of the story—but there's a deal more beyond—a deal more!

For me the democracy of your verse is only the lesser and smaller part of it.

The vindication I have read part of it and Father has read the rest of it to us, and I shall take the

I have not decided what part of the country I would go to yet and I want to get your advice on the subject

.; CARRIER | FEB | 6 | 2 Del.

It is postmarked: Philadelphia | Dec | 14 | 2 PM | (?); Washington, Recd. | (?) | 5 AM | 1882 | 2.

These lines come from the first verse paragraph of section 2 of the poem.

Whitman numbered the pages 2 and 3 in pencil.

Sir: In accordance with a requirement in the Act of Congress of March 2, 1867, entitled "An Act making

Claims, Present Sir: I have to acknowledge receipt of a copy of the Reports of the Court of Claims, Vol. 2—

are requested to forward to this office a copy of Bennett & Heard's Digest of Massachusetts Reports, 2

of Year] in Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts (New York: New York University Press, 1984) 2:

fol.00010xxx.00589Y.d.1036 (2)Autograph notes by Walt Whitman [manuscript], 19th century.

2[1860], Boston notebookloc.04605xxx.00981Note Book1860prosepoetry34 leaveshandwritten; A notebook from

Still, Whitman regarded Gutekunst as being "on the top of the heap" (Tuesday, July 2, 1889) as far as

I have 2 assistants in same room reading proof—at least half of the time. K.

The "Rejoinder" was later reprinted in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) (see Prose Works 1892, Volume 2: Collect

need to be radically changed, and made anew for to-day's purposes and finer standards" (2:658).

New York 27 Apl 187 6 Brother Walt Whitman Please send us by Express (address as above) 2 sets your books

my books selling so so, lucky to keep up & sell at all—I will send Dr Bingham one —Best love to you—2

. $2 enclosed—God bless you, Han— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Hannah Whitman Heyde, 11 March 1891

On the back of this letter, Whitman wrote a letter to Richard Maurice Bucke dated February 2–3, 1888.

George Washington Whitman to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, 2 October 1864

Almost the entire Fifty-First New York Regiment was lost: killed (2), wounded (10), and captured or missing

I lectured to students 2½ hours yesterday afternoon.

It is unbound, about 2/3 the size of this sheet, contains 16 pp. & has written on it in pencil "Presented