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Walt i received your letter yesterday with the 10 dollr dollar and the one on friday Friday with the 2

incomparably the largest poetic work of our period" (see "Current Literature," New York Times, July 28, 1867, 2)

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

carpenter's shop, which belonged to Smith, was on Putnam Avenue (see Louisa Van Velsor Whitman's May 2,

Brooklyn 27 April 1867 saturday Saturday 2 oclock o'clock my dear Walt i have just receeved received

very glad to have the dollar you will say a dollar aint ain't much but sometimes it is worth more than 2

house all put in thourough thorough order at the park expence expense ) well Walt i am done with that part

take things coolly as you advise i will write when we get a place i thought we would get a second story

there seems to be quite a number to rent Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [2 May 1867]

Maurice Bucke dated this letter to letter May 3, 1867, and Edwin Haviland Miller dated it to letter May 2,

The letter dates to May 2, 1867.

See Jeff Whitman's August 2, 1867 letter to Walt Whitman (Dennis Berthold and Kenneth M.

After George and his partner decided not to build there (see Louisa's May 2, 1867 letter to Walt Whitman

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

it goes over i have been troubled with a pain in my side i have had a mustard plaister plaster on part

On April 2, 1867, he reported that Kephart "is quite recovered."

this district Jeff feels confidant confident he will be drafted if he does he will not go there is part

like hard times i spoke to some of them one from Ohio said he had never been home since he listed over 2

letter to her i get all the letter you send Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [31 August or 2

letter dates to a range from August 31, 1863, the most likely date of composition, through September 2,

mentions the drafts in Brooklyn: military drafts were held on August 31, September 1, and September 2,

Therefore, Louisa presumably wrote one letter to Walt on August 31, 1863 and another on September 2.

, 1863 to Walt, this letter could date as late as September 2, 1863.

The Eleventh and the Sixteenth Ward Complete," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, September 2, 1863, 2.

y said when he went the second time i gave him 10 he only staid stayed one night the first time an 2

nanc i would pay one month walt they expect to much from me i suppose martha has told nancy i have got 2

would like to have any thing why dont i get it with my bank book i told her the other day because i had 2

jim is better he is here almo st every day as dirty as a pig but very healthy they talk of taking part

a debilitating episode of pleurisy, this letter could date to near Louisa's August 31 to September 2,

is assigned to a date range from September 5 to September 23, 1863.Louisa's September 25 or October 2,

1863 letter to Walt almost certain follows this one, and October 2 is a more likely date for that letter

See also Louisa's August 31 or September 2, 1863 letter to Walt Whitman for additional detail.

of Andrew Jackson Whitman's drinking "spree," see Louisa Van Velsor Whitman's August 31 to September 2,

was there and likewise mary he was very restless and did not want mary to leave him i stayed late the 2

brought here last night and lays in mrs browns room without waches watches is to be buried to morrow at 2

write the rest i am composed and ca lm would not wish him back to suffer poor soul i hope he is at rest 2

from the bank to pay the expences expenses i told the undertaker i would settle it in the course of 2

The second part of the letter (numbered "2") was written later that Friday evening or Saturday morning

butter butter is 36 cents pr lb dear eating aint ain't it we ll by this time Andrew comes lays down part

make them and thimble i believe she has done anythin to them) he is doctoring with dr Brody he has had 2

will send me enoughf enough to not take any from the bank i have given Andrew so much i gave him the 2

might almost write a book from this letter Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to Walt Whitman, [25 September or 2

This letter dates either to September 25 or October 2, 1863.

the date proposed by Miller should be changed to the most recent Friday before Walt's letter, October 2.

The Friday preceding the date proposed by Miller, October 2, 1863, is more probable, but September 25

If this letter dates to October 2, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman had received Walt's September 29, 1863 letter

hospital he had no drawers and only A thin pair of flann el flannel trowsers trousers and no shirt part

Whitman's March 7, 1865 letter to Walt, Richard Maurice Bucke dated this letter February 26 or March 2,

had one of mr heyde s heyde's complimentory complimentary letters over a sheet of foolscap i read part

dated it to 1870 (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

away from her and so that evening cornell came down here but in the mean time i had the children here 2

died going some where or other she says she cant can't make any thing by sewing Jeff or matty gave her 2

the time of his last blow out we had every thing to confuse and irritate we had nanc s children here 2

Whitman with sons Edward and (within a month or two) Jesse occupied the basement (see Louisa's May 2–

Whitman, whom Louisa described as dirty and as being on the street (see her September 25 or October 2,

Louisa made upon seeing soldiers gathered on Fort Greene in Brooklyn (see her August 31 or September 2,

51st New York, "lost during service 9 Officers and 193 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2

basement for the occation occasion well Walt how are you getting along in the money matters for my part

compared with the American patriot as they call the great Jefferson davis) the printer Walt brought 2

—Cases of Brooklyn Men" (Brooklyn Daily Eagle, March 19, 1863, 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,

and consists of hall and parlor dining room kichen and bedroom and woodshed on the lower floor with 2

A "capacious building four hundred feet long, fifty feet wide, and four stories high," the shop "accommodated

morning but i dont don't think i shall take it he gave it to her for that complaint she is not very well part

dated this letter (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

Walt's lost letters (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

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

dated this letter (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

Walt's lost letters (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

calendar of letters (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

Walt's lost letters (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

Grant Declares," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 13, 1868, 2).

the children but she hasent hasn't been george wright is in the insane assilum asylum very bad the 2

calendar of letters (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

calendar of letters (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

calendar of letters (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

calendar of letters (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

America's claimed republican virtue ("Prince does his duty," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, January 31, 1870, 2)

Royalty in Brooklyn: Beauty, Wealth, Worth, and Birth Colliding," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, February 5, 1870, 2)

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

calendar of letters (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

calendar of letters (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

Fugitive Mail: The Deliverance of Henry 'Box' Brown and Antebellum Postal Politics," American Studies 50.1/2

have put 300 in the bank but so it is we live very saving indeed but things is very high i have got 2

Fugitive Mail: The Deliverance of Henry 'Box' Brown and Antebellum Postal Politics," American Studies 50:1/2

November 10, 1868 (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

about" May 17, 1873 (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–75], 2:

to January 1, 1872 (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

Edwin Haviland Miller [New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977], 2:369).

His "Common Story" in a recent Century won smiling praise everywhere for its shrewd and tender comprehension

Baletsier's "A Common Story," was publshed by Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine in August 1891.

The Naulahka: A Story of West and East was a novel set in the fictional state of "Rahore" in India by

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was an English novelist, poet, and short-story writer.

least two are adolescent or purely romantic biographies, Cameron Rogers's The Magnificent Idler: The Story

Otherwise, Kaplan relies for the most part on information found in Allen and elsewhere between 1955 and

The Evolution of Walt Whitman. 1954. 2 vols.

again for purposes of health, visiting Italy, Germany, France, and England, and returned with at least part

Yet Whitman may have been inspired by Emerson in part for his crisis poems as he was for those, such

Excepting in the western parts, which are mostly hilly, the surface is either level or composed of gentle

Scotland, or the northern part of Britain, is more rugged and hilly than England, and is much indented

Scotland, latterly, has advanced in social and physical improvement at a more rapid pace than any other part

it cannot be doubted that Ireland will ultimately enjoy a degree of prosperity equal to that of any part

sanction of all the three branches of the legislature, it is called an Act of Parliament, and becomes part

Subsequently, the poem was included unchanged, except for minor variations in punctuation, as a part

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.

Still later, in 1867, the poem became a part of the Drum-Taps annex to Leaves of Grass, in which both

The edited poem became a permanent part of the "Drum-Taps" cluster of Leaves of Grass and appeared in

Miller, Jr., cites this poem along with other short poems in this part of the cluster as being "among

see notes July 2 1891 Walt Whitman, Be thou accursed,—who, calling thyself a poet, in the extremist tone

This letter is addressed: Walt Whitman | The Poet (2 u) | Camden, N—J.

worshipped in distance reverence, that I cannot doubt that you will do me this little act on your part

The numbers 2, 29 (or 27), and 40 have been written on the recto of the envelope; both the numbers 2

Wheeler Whitman crossed this letter out, cut it into pieces, and pasted part of it back together with

On the back he drafted part of one of his lectures on the death of Abraham Lincoln. M. C.[?]

Lawrence [London: Heinemann, 1967], 2: 633).

Manuscript in British Museum. 2.

3    1    2     3  1   2   3   1  2       3 "or a hańd kerchief. . . . desígn edly drópped" —and there

Now you can of course say that he meant pure verse and the foot is a paeon  1   2    3    1     2     

The night, the tempest, the seashore are part of the solitude and the despair they cover, part of the

As for the rest, some is quite formless; but for the most part there is a strongly marked and characteristic

A 'sane sensuality,' as it is called by one of his friends, is a necessary part of the ideal man.

On the whole no part of his work is more interesting than this; it is as if he were the born poet of

of heroes and martyrs, And when all life and all the souls of men and women are discharged from any part

of the earth, Then only shall liberty, or the idea of liberty, be discharged from that part of the earth

"To Learn from the Crises of Anguish": Tragedy, History, and the Meaning of Democratic Mourning Part

Floyd Stovall. 2 vols. New York: New York University Press, 1963. QC The Quest for Certainty .

First, I attempt to explicate the many parts of Whitman's democratic vision and describe how those parts

In chapter 2, I take up the issue of Whitman's democratic conception of selfhood.

Just as significant is the pivotal part played by emotion in the transaction.

later "One's-Self I Sing" and "Small the Theme of My Chant"], "The Runner," "Leaves of Grass" number 2

The images of a coherent Union proliferate throughout all parts of the 1867 edition, but the physical

Union, but they were also written "before" the 1861 "parting" of the South from the North.

In 1867, these songs can be re-heard in the context of the "parts" becoming united again.

Arthur Golden. 2 vols. New York: New York Public Library, 1968.

Thus, while Drum-Taps appeared as a part of Leaves for the first time in this fifth edition, the Civil

Whitman supported himself (and to some extent his mother) first as a part-time clerk in the Army Paymaster's

major work into multiple annexes appended to Leaves along the way: Drum-Taps, Sequel, Songs Before Parting

fragment after the war, beginning with Drum-Taps (1865), Sequel to Drum-Taps (1866), Songs Before Parting

presented in its final version in 1881.Sidney Krause divides the poem's six numbered sections into three parts

: I, section 1; II, sections 2 through 5; III, section 6.

Otherwise, sleep is mentioned only once, toward the beginning of section 2.

In section 2 music from human activities, human music-making, and nature blend into one orchestra which

Section 3 divides into two parts.

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