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conventions" and even other Philosophers and Poets shall not "master"—And so I ask you, did I not conduct my part

"fiendish expectation" that troubles me on account of the long way to and from the Post Office 3½ X 2

And now let this bit of gossip be a respectful and kind leave taking or a part of something to be continued

The good old man tho, bject ur part of the performan g, upon asking, that he saw no imp the uni ver se

I got about 3 weeks ago the two John Burroughs' picture—sent a reply 2 weeks ago.

Getting on well, having sell my 2 big cotton bales for t year's must sustain considerable loss from th

that not able to offer the little present or keepsake as would be suited dignity or exalted worth the part

acquainted with at a school I attended in my 15th year, and married when I was just 18 yrs years & 2

meat", we yet have not dire from the house any very li vely outlook But a minutes travel brings us to parts

Our people are very plain or Democratic in ways—no aristocracy—little crime—the religious part are old

it seemed like there must be unnecessary matter—I see now you et finds each item of the Universe an part

Your card of July 2 acknowledged my letter of June 27, but didn't mention my letters of June 10 or 12

(After getting from you John Burroughs' picture, I sent him in latter part of June '75 a short note and

His biography The Life of Washington relayed several apocryphal stories about George Washington and was

He has been "cross" for some days, but appears to be well always—curiously, tho 19 1/2 months old and

I think you may have omitted to "celebrate" one very important part of human nature.

ceases to be a virtue , never was cited tial ecclesiastical by an A for a of the same name important part

service, but if you— —are about to "go down", I say "by God" you shall not without an effort on my part

nearest village Post-script My family Physician quite lately borrowed from me, all my money except 2

white population predominates here enough to free us from the unpleasantness experienced in other parts

and sounds would a wild man very much, and he might not a distinct remembrance of any considerable part

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer, author of The Scarlet Letter.

troubling you too much, can you not recommend to me some cheaper edition of your complete poems, sold for $2

Pond, and English poet Sir Edwin Arnold at Whitman's Camden home on November 2, 1891: "Sir Edwin had

Whitman related his thoughts on the visit to Traubel on Monday, November 2, 1891.

wrote this letter to Whitman on surface one (which had a printed letterhead), left the verso (surface 2)

One White House story comes to me of his leaving Lincoln in wrath, "slamming the doors behind him" because

I think also that he was the hero of the famous whisky story of Lincoln, now an undying part of the literature

Of the noisy, frothy world he never seemed to be a part, was more at home with the chestnut tress and

listened in benevolent, complacent wonder to argument, heard my speech as if it were by no means a new story

Nor does the freedman appear in any part of the poet's noble vision of the restored Union.

The Philadelphia Inquirer carried the story on the front page on the following day.

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).

Aug 12 188 2 My dear Walt— Nine years ago, I delivered before a German Society of New York City a lecture

John Townsend Trowbridge was a novelist, poet, author of juvenile stories, and antislavery reformer.

Ferry Boy and the Financier (Boston: Walker and Wise, 1864); he described their meetings in My Own Story

December 2, 1877.

Trowbridge to Walt Whitman, 2 December 1877

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

.; It is postmarked: CARRIER | JAN| 2 |1867 | 2 DEL.

See John Townsend Trowbridge, My Own Story (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903), 265–67.

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

happy and animated, and we spent the day together in such hearty and familiar intercourse that when I parted

The book he knew best was the Bible, the prophetical parts of which stirred in him a vague desire to

This was an instance of bad taste, but not of intentional bad faith, on the part of Whitman.

But Emerson had no thought of acting the imperial part toward so adventurous a voyager.

first, nor his second, but his third edition, comprising the larger and by far the most important part

STRYKER, from his late residence, No. 260 Jay Street, on MONDAY, JANUARY 18th, 1892, at 2 o'clock, P.M

See the March 2, 1888, letter from Judah B. Voorhees to Whitman.

Albuquerque NM 6/2/87 Mr Walt Whitman Camden N.J.

sun as we hastened over a level stretch of praire, then we would slowly slowly be going up a steep part

Wroth to Walt Whitman, 2 June 1887

It is postmarked: NEW YORK | DEC 2 | 10 M | H; H; 91 | REC'D; CAMDEN, N.J. | DEC 2 | 4PM | 91 | REC'D

The order of the parts, and the connexion connection of part with part are obliged—logically justifiable—say

Less coherent than other clusters in Leaves of Grass and consisting in great part of edited and transposed

cannot be known in any complete or homogenous way while it lives, necessarily, in the flux of its parts

General statements of principle and program play their part, but the part is strictly limited to introducing

treacherous you think so right around within a gun shot is a dozen Widows this is not a very healthy part

company, comprising the membership of an intelligent reading club ignorant, however, for the most part

passages by men with good strong voices; and some who came, perhaps, to snicker remained to listen with parted

wrote on this envelope, as well as the lines he wrote on five others from around the same time, are part

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

Traubel, will you tell him to please hurry up with his part of the work.

Surrogate's Office Kings County Brooklyn, March 2 188 8 Walter Whitman Esq Dear Sir I take great pleasure

Voorhees to Walt Whitman, 2 March 1888

Whitman crossed out this autograph request and used the verso to compose parts of a draft of his "Autobiographical

no journals—no "reviews," or masses of cheap literature demanded— Clipping is reprinted from Volume 2

Clipping is reprinted from Volume 2 of Julia Kavanaugh's Woman in France During the Eighteenth Century

See also Stilwell's letters to Whitman from July 5, 1864, and September 2, 1864.

I further enclose a string of sentences, which express part of the ideas.

My Dear Poet: I would be very glad to go to Philadelphia to take part in the testimonial in your honor

here this winter & there wont be now its to late in the season They are making maple sugar in this part

for pantheists and "cosmic" mystics, so that Whitman (in "Chanting the Square Deific") made Satan part

let others ignore what they may, / I make the poem of evil also, I commemorate that part also..."

In this respect, he was part of a strain pervasive in American literature (as evidenced by Duane MacMillan's

The Evolution of Walt Whitman. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1960–1962.Jarrell, Randall.

Scripta Hierosolymitana 2 (1955): 82–118._____. "The Problem of Evil in Literature."

Two parts are especially vivid: the deathbed scene (section 2) and the funeral scenes (section 4).

But without eyesight lingers a different living [spirit] and looks curiously on the corpse" (section 2)

The Evolution of Walt Whitman. 2 vols. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1960–1962.Kahn, Sholom J.

In the summer of 1862, Whitman records telling Frank Sweezey "the whole story . . . about Ellen Eyre"

(Notebooks 2:488).

Walt Whitman Newsletter 2 (1956): 24–26. Holloway, Emory. "Whitman Pursued."

Walt Whitman Newsletter 2 (1956): 24–26. Miller, Edwin Haviland. "Walt Whitman and Ellen Eyre."

Whitman later memorialized this "most worthy member of the craft preservative of all crafts" (Uncollected 2:

Emory Holloway. 2 vols. 1921. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1972. Long Island Patriot

Vol. 2. 1921. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1972. Long Island Star

In the evenings, the boys of the village gathered in the printing room to hear him read stories or some

Emory Holloway. 2 vols. Gloucester, Mass.: Peter Smith, 1972. Long Islander