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indescribable look; Of the dead on their backs, with arms extended wide, I dream, I dream, I dream. 2

it is impossible for me to get rid of them; I am fill'd with them, and I will fill them in return. 2

From all that has been near you, I believe you have im- parted imparted to yourselves, and now would

evident and amicable with me. 4 The earth expanding right hand and left hand, The picture alive, every part

; The body does not travel as much as the soul; The body has just as great a work as the soul, and parts

All parts away for the progress of souls; All religion, all solid things, arts, governments,—all that

Saturday, March 2, 1889Hunting up Bucke at Dooner's, according to appointment, we took together the 8.31

Two stories. Brick. The door was opened by Nellie. We were ushered into the little parlor. Talk.

see him: he is the youth in our story—its poetry, its prophecy, made visible."

And he said again: "Do not mistake me: John is most parts the same John: but lately something has been

Saturday, March 2, 1889

He had heard rather questionable stories of Tom, "but I give them no credence—never did: I put the matter

I could never entirely shake off the desire to stop there—stay there—become part of that new country.

W. wished this proof entire, not in parts. F. tells me his printers found W.'

nearly in touch with the spirit of our modern democracy as the plays of the Greeks—as the Homeric stories

that story of Paine—of the funeral! I shall not forget it—never, never.

I'm in favor of this last piece—Young's, the second part of it—going in—though perhaps Young has ideas

when Doctor sent his tonic later on I took that—but I knew at once that it had quinine as one of its parts—my

In fact the manuscripts were bad, and I think stories somewhat disappointed him.

I read all his stories, of course, long ago—and they have their value.

and reasons of formal dignity, for being retained: that we ought to stickle, insist upon, them, as a part

Of course I do not want any part of it published.

But I had heard of his Democratic Review stories, that someone had a volume of them almost ready to put

of "feudalism, caste, the ecclesiastic traditions," as described in Democratic Vistas (Prose Works 2:

the correspondent and counterpart to the current Scientific and Political New Worlds" (Prose Works 2:

shall possess the origin of all poems, / You shall possess the good of the earth and sun" (section 2)

The self moves from "the song of me rising from bed and meeting the sun" in section 2 to an oedipal rivalry

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

Perhaps I ought to apologize for saying so much to you about a matter I know plays but the smallest part

had suggested that Thayer & Eldridge print Leaves of Grass; see the New Voice, 16 (4 February 1899), 2.

This letter is endorsed: "Answ'd Dec 2/83."

It is postmarked: Philadelphia, Pa. | Oct | 1 | 11 AM | Transit; Washington, Recd. | Oct | 2 | 4 30 AM

| 1883 | 2.

failed, and these plates were stored away and nothing further done;—till about a year ago (latter part

Mr Eldridge, (of the Boston firm alluded to) is accessible in Washington D C—will corroborate first parts

plates—subscription to purchase" (Whitman's Commonplace Book).In a letter to the editor of The Critic on June 2,

they would probably meet it with another, perhaps a better, story: the story told by one of the Greek

or does he only go part way?

Yet for its better advancement I have to play the part of a grateful citizen—part repugnant!

it—tells a part of it, indeed, a good part of it: but that is not all."

The story convulsed W.

C.,July 2, 1864.Dear Walt:Your note of June 25th did not reach me till the 28th.

After W. had taken his sherry, telling a story of someone who "does everything that is bad," W. said:

A wonderful story, if no more—but more, too." He asked me: "Did you send the Carlyle bit?"

—the space for each averaging only 3 1/2 pages.

Case of Sea-Bird, Fanny, Forrest, & Black Warrior 2. Case of the Gaines. 3.

The same   ag't   The same, action No 2 Henry A. Tilden  ag't . . . . The same. Henry N.

Representatives has notified me that, pursuant to the seventh section of the Act of Congress of March 2,

1Diaries, 1863–1864, hospital notebooks (2 vols.)loc.00485xxx.00502xxx.00890xxx.00891[Hospitals Culpepper

1Diaries, 1863–1864, hospital notebooks, (2 vols.)loc.04695xxx.00472xxx.00977Hospital book 121864prose40

I enclose an order for £2 8". I have seen these editions at Mr H Buxton Forman's.

Stoddart see | notes | 2/9/91 Whitman has written a letter to Horace Traubel at the bottom of this letter

as usual—lots of sickness ab't about here —oatmeal & an egg for b'kfast breakfast —small appetite—$2

Dear Sir: Enc d Enclosed pls please find $10. 00 to cvr cover amt amount due for the 2 Vols Volumes of

New York, January 28 189 2 Walt Whitman Esq Dear Sir: Mr.

The price is £2, which please remit me by p. o. order.)

My Dear Friend, I think I have all of your books (2 or 3 Editions of some) except the last, —specified

I think: 1 The book should be first class in all aspects 2 Price should be $10. 3 It should (every copy

Ontario London, Ont., 5 June 188 9 Your card of 2 d came to hand last ev'g and this morn'g I received

Bucke is referring to Whitman's letter of June 2, 1889.

Memoirs. 2 vols. London: William Heinemann, 1893. Stovall, Floyd.

excuse bad riten an short leter yours rspectivly Direct your leter to Co E 2 tennossee regment Conal

Street Camden New Jersey U S America Aug: 26 '86 My dear Edward Dowden Herbert Gilchrist has sent me £2

My new edition 2 Vols Volumes is out & bound, & pictured & autographed .

INSANE ASYLUM LONDON ONTARIO 17 Oct 18 91 Well, dear Walt, here we are still—same old 2 & 6—I have your

.; Philadelphia, PA | Oct | 20 | 1230 PM | 1891 | Transit; 3 | Oct | 2 | M | | .

Burlington Thursday, Jan 2.

myself & could not help it today Good bye Han Give my love to all Hannah Whitman Heyde to Walt Whitman, 2

edd will stay here martha Martha has very much to doo do she has been foolish enoughf enough to take 2

he and A man by the name of smith Smith has been talking of buying some lots and building A shop and 2

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

offer a practical suggestion:—that if you see no reason against it, the new edition might be issued in 2

vols., lettered, not vols. 1 & 2, but 1st series & 2nd series, so that they be priced & sold separated

animalistic features as "the tangling fores of fishes or rats" (section 3), "a dog's snout" (section 2)

, a "milk-nosed maggot" (section 2), and other loathsome visages—that they are "my equals" whose "never-erased

Calamus 2 2.

& I sign & return them—Wm Carey, at the Century office, seems to be managing the sale & financial part

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

29Songs of Parting.

leaves; Corrected pages, many originally appearing in the 1876 Leaves of Grass, of cluster Songs of Parting

Opposite a portrait of Whitman, the title page reads, "Songs of Parting, by Walt Whitman, The Poet's

Finalé to the Shore, As they Draw to a Close, The Untold Want, Portals, These Carols, To the Reader at Parting

Songs of Parting

SusanRieke"Songs of Parting" (1871)"Songs of Parting" (1871) "Songs of Parting" stands prominently as

," a poem that comes into "Songs of Parting" in 1871 and remains through the 1881 edition.

The 1867 edition uses the title Songs Before Parting for a separate book of poems bound with Leaves and

Drum-Taps, and in 1871 "Songs of Parting" appears as a cluster in Leaves.

"Songs of Parting" (1871)

Whitman's democracy shows itself in great part not as a political manifestation, but, rather, as a form

, and a strong part, of that future which is swiftly coming toward us, which is, indeed, already being

Chukovsky, "Turgenev i Whitman," Literatura Rossiya 2 (July 28, 1967): 17; I.

Christova, "Turgenev i Whitman," Russkaya literatura 2 (1966): 196–199.

Translated by Stephen Stepanchev. 2. D. S.

1874 (Edwin Haviland Miller, ed., The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

275–277) and June 10, 1867 (Correspondence, 2:303–304), and also note 7 in Whitman's letter from January

The paper published the first two chapters of "The Fireman's Dream: With the Story of His Strange Companion

Inman's magazine published five of Whitman's short stories in 1844.

Sunday, August 2, 1891Did not see W. today—but on my way to Philadelphia stopped at Post Office where

Anderson Alone and Not Said She Had Been Insulted, All Would Have Been Well.Croton Landing, N.Y., Aug. 2.

Sunday, August 2, 1891

say they had a mighty good dinner (nothing to drink but Appollinaris water)—I was not at the eating part

See also Whitman's June 2, 1889, letter to Horace Traubel, regarding the published volume of birthday

Here he laughed heartily—held it out from him some distance—"What a fat old duffer of a story-teller

He reports, simply: tells his story on others' lips—goes to work legitimately, so that the record means