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Doyle, I was allowed to read your—I prefer saying—I was permitted a long look into that wonderful mirror
Despite his status as a veteran of the Confederate Army, Doyle's uneducated, youthful nature appealed
limited the time the two could spend together, their relationship rekindled in the mid-1880s after Doyle
After Whitman's death, Doyle permitted Richard Maurice Bucke to publish the letters Whitman had sent
For more on Doyle and his relationship with Whitman, see Martin G.
Murray, "Doyle, Peter," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D.
weather here is very pleasant indeed—if I could only get around, I should be satisfied— I expect Peter Doyle
Peter Doyle (1843–1907) was one of Walt Whitman's closest comrades and lovers, and their friendship spanned
Despite his status as a veteran of the Confederate Army, Doyle's uneducated, youthful nature appealed
After Whitman's death, Doyle permitted Richard Maurice Bucke to publish the letters Whitman had sent
For more on Doyle and his relationship with Whitman, see Martin G.
Murray, "Doyle, Peter," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D.
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 24 April
This postcard bears the address, "Pete Doyle, | M street South—bet 4½ & 6th | Washington, D.C."
Since Whitman wrote about Doyle's first visit to Camden on March 23, March 26–27, and May 22, 1874, this
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 8 May [1874
This piece of correspondence is addressed, "Pete Doyle, | M st.
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 15 May [1874
This piece of correspondence is addressed, "Pete Doyle, | M street South, bet 4½ & 6th | Washington,
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 5 February
This postcard bears the address, "Pete Doyle, | M st South—bet 4½ & 6th | Washington, D.C."
The four brief postcards to Doyle in February 1875 were written on Fridays, and the discussion of his
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Postcard from Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle
This postcard bears the address, "Pete Doyle | M street South bet 4½ & M. | Washington, D.C."
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 23 October
This postcard bears the address, "Pete Doyle, | M street South, bet 4½ & 6th | Washington, D.C."
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 2 October
This piece of correspondence is addressed, "Pete Doyle, | M street South, bet 4½ & 6th | Washington,
Whitman pasted this letter together with a letter he received from Peter Doyle.
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 7 August
This postcard bears the address, "Pete Doyle, | M street South, bet 4½ & 6th | Washington, D.C."
The dating of this postcard as well as the notes and letters to Doyle on July 31, August 14, 21, and
this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Postcard from Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle
This postcard is addressed, "Pete Doyle, | M st. South bet 4½ & 6th | Washington D. C."
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 21 August
This postcard bears the address, "Pete Doyle, | M street South, bet 4½ & 6th | Washington, D.C."
The dating of this postcard as well as the notes and letters to Doyle on July 31, August 7, 14, and 28
Your papers come— W W Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 24 July [1880]
This letter is addressed: Peter Doyle | M Street South bet: 4½ & 6th | Washington | D C | U S A.
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 15 January
This postcard bears the address, "Pete Doyle, | M street South bet 4½ & 6th | Washington, D.C."
same here I only want you to be well again I do like that young fellow that is so kind to you, Peter Doyle
His friends in Washington, D.C. helped to care for him: John Burroughs, Peter Doyle, and Ellen O'Connor
Despite his status as a veteran of the Confederate Army, Doyle's uneducated, youthful nature appealed
After Whitman's death, Doyle permitted Richard Maurice Bucke to publish the letters Whitman had sent
For more on Doyle and his relationship with Whitman, see Martin G.
Murray, "Doyle, Peter," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D.
Two pieces of a letter from Pete Doyle. One piece a letter from Josie Morse, New York.
Pete used the stationery of the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad Company.
"I walked great walks myself in the Washington days: often with Pete Doyle: Pete was never a scholar:
Your Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 16 April [1874]
In accordance with your request I met Peter Doyle at Milburn's after office and we proceeded to your
improve in walking—& then I shall begin to feel all right—(but am still very feeble & slow)—Peter Doyle
Walt befriended Peter Doyle (1843–1907), a horsecar conductor in Washington, around 1865.
Though Whitman informed Doyle of his flirtations with women in their correspondence, Martin G.
Murray affirms that "Whitman and Doyle were 'lovers' in the contemporary sense of the word."
Doyle assisted in caring for Whitman after his stroke in January 1873.
See Murray, "Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle."
This and Whitman's May 8 letter to Peter Doyle can be assigned to 1874 because of the particularized
which are elaborated upon in Whitman's May 1 letter to Ellen O'Connor and his May 15 letter to Peter Doyle
s letters to Pete Doyle.
Bucke has Peter Doyle and Harry Stafford letters from W. Saturday, October 25, 1890
Peter Doyle has been with me. It is as pleasant and warm as summer here to-day.
Whitman's major lovers—Fred Vaughan, Peter Doyle, and Harry Stafford—were cut from much the same depressive
Whitman caroused with Vaughan at Pfaff's tavern and with Doyle in its Washington equivalents, enabling
Doyle was his lover for roughly ten years.
Peter Doyle has also come on from Washington, to spend a short time here & then return with me to Philadelphia
with Charles Eldridge, Lewy Brown, William and Ellen O'Connor, John and Ursula Burroughs, and Peter Doyle
critical biography, Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (1867).Whitman found friendship with Peter Doyle
Thereafter, the comrades were inseparable, spending long hours riding on Doyle's streetcar, or taking
M s: Feinberg Collection, Library of Congress To Pete Doyle Brooklyn, September 2,1870 Dear Pete, . .
Walt M s: Feinberg Collection, Library of Congress To Pete Doyle Brooklyn, July 14, 1871 Dear Pete, It
M s: Feinberg Collection, Library of Congress To Pete Doyle Coney Island, July I6and 2I, I87I Dear Pete
M s: Feinberg Collection, Library of Congress To Pete Doyle Camden, August I4and 15, 1873 Pete, dear
M s: Feinberg Collection, Library of Congress To Pete Doyle Camden, September 26, I873 Dear son Pete,
Doyle, against newspaper claims of police brutality re- 1 8 6 8 -18 7 5 [g1] lated to Doyle's arrest
Whitman writes to William O'Connor on be half of Edward Doyle, Pete's brother, who is seeking em ployment
Peter Doyle visits(n N , 2 :3 5 Pete's mother had died on 24 May.
Whitman learns from Wallace that Peter Doyle is living in Baltimore; he speaks of "The noble Pete!
"'Pete the Great': A Biography of Peter Doyle."
of this letter is determined by the reference to it in Whitman's October 9–10, 1873 letter to Peter Doyle
Old Elephant (and afterward his brother, Young Elephant), Tippy, Pop Rice, Big Frank, Yellow Joe, Pete
The war, however, goes on, and the message about Pete, the grief-stricken mother's only son, causes the
says I am doing very well— John Burroughs is here temporarily—he comes in often—Eldridge and Peter Doyle
extreme—but I am standing it well, so far—to-day as I sit here writing, a fair breeze blowing in— Peter Doyle
The visit took place about May 25, 1874; in his May 29, 1874 letter to Peter Doyle, Whitman mentioned
that Doyle had recently left Camden.
Calamus: A Series of Letters Written During the Years 1868–1880 by Walt Whitman to a Young Friend (Peter Doyle
Calamus also includes an account of an interview with Doyle, conducted after Whitman's death.
the revision rather pointless because he feels that for all the poet's supposed intimacy with Peter Doyle
See also Whitman's September 5, 1873 letter to Peter Doyle.
10 years ago) boxed up & stored with other traps in Washington at the house of old Mr Nash, Peter Doyle's
Washington on November 8, 1875 (see Whitman's November 3, 1875, and November 5, 1875 letters to Peter Doyle
In his September 5, 1873 letter to Peter Doyle, Whitman omitted this part of Grier's diagnosis.
Although Whitman was not an eyewitness, his close companion, Peter Doyle, was at Ford's Theater, and
Whitman made impressive use of Doyle's story in his imaginative retelling.
Nonetheless, in a letter to Peter Doyle remarking on the commencement, Whitman seemed to feel his poem
Bemoaning lover problems, Whitman in 1870 compared Vaughan with Peter Doyle, admonishing himself: "Remember
letter to O'Connor and the similar phrasing of this postcard and Whitman's May 29, 1874 letter to Peter Doyle
verified by the reference to Burroughs' visit mentioned in Whitman's April 16, 1874 letter to Peter Doyle
In letters written the same day to Peter Doyle and William D.
On July 28, he wrote Peter Doyle, "I thought he would die while I was there—he was all wasted to a skeleton
the sin and shame of prostitution in the United States, and must have had a prophetic vision of the Pete
I rec'd received a letter from Marvin to-day—from Peter Doyle yesterday—snowing here as I write—the baby