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write a hurried line to let you know my whereabouts—Shall (probably) be returning to Camden latter part
Whitman leaves this week for Philadelphia, where he spends a part of his time with some English friends
biography of William Blake was completed by his wife, who wrote a preface, which is said to be the best part
his hat, smilingly said, in response to calls for a speech, that he "must decline to take any other part
believes thoroughly not only in the future world, but the present, and especially in our American part
This note is endorsed: "R | 4 | 2 | 77."
Camden Monday evn'g evening April 2 Think of coming over to-morrow tomorrow Tuesday (say by 1½ o'clock
)—to stay perhaps till Thursday afternoon— WW Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 2 April [1877]
April 2 was on Monday in 1877.
In an entry in his Commonplace Book on September 2, 1878, Whitman wrote the following note: "Mrs Sarah
. | Apr | 12 | 2 (?) M | (?).
the author of The Fathers of Jesus: A Study of the Lineage of the Christian Doctrine and Traditions, 2
friend I have come up from White Horse, & think of visiting you tomorrow Wednesday—towards the latter part
In Days with Walt Whitman, Carpenter erred in dating his visit May 2 ([New York: The Macmillan Company
treacherous you think so right around within a gun shot is a dozen Widows this is not a very healthy part
invite you to make us a visit some time during the summer & boy is at school he will be home the latter part
Kirkwood N J New Jersey May 17 Dear John Burroughs I am passing a good part of my time down here at the
and and — please stand by them let no blandishments *Are you not ambiguous in "Two Rivulets" latter part
Stevens st. street June 14—11 a m Dear friend I am afraid to venture out much in the heat of the day (as part
Up to 2 June, nothing that was worthy the name even of Spring: then suddenly on 3 June hot summer, continues
till until now—but less decidedly these 2 days.
Kirkwood New Jersey July 2— Dear boy Pete I still keep pretty well, & am again down here at the farm
back—Love, love, love, Your old Walt I still make my headquarters in Camden— Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 2
New Jersey , July 2, 1877.
Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 2 July 1877
Kirkwood noon July 2 .
for me—We expect to come up Friday—(possibly I not till Saturday)— WW Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 2
In a news article in the Camden Daily Post on August 2, which quoted from the Washington Star, Whitman
I may likely come East this fall or latter part of the summer to see about getting the money to start
Mendocino Co., California Aug. 2. 1877 Walt Whitman My beloved.
Kate A. Evans. from the Californian Kate Evans (? rather gushing) Kate A.
Evans to Walt Whitman, 2 August 1877
No additional information is available about Kate A. Evans.
G before now, but for incessant occupations, & in the last 2 mos. months much anxiety regarding my brother's
Nothing but July 2, June, March John Newton Johnson to Walt Whitman, 16 September 1877
out twice for short walks, (my little dog accompanying me)—rest of the time up here alone in my 3d story
They were not miscellaneous poems, but one vol: a drama and the other a Chinese story.
sister has gone out to market—Hattie & Jessie are down stairs sewing—I am sitting up here in my 3d story
See the letter from Walt Whitman to Mannahatta Whitman and Jessie Louisa Whitman of October 2, 1877.
Walt Whitman to Edward Carpenter, 2 October [1877]
431 Stevens Street Camden Oct October 2 My dear girls (for this letter is for you both) I will just write
only room to send love from Uncle Walt Walt Whitman to Mannahatta Whitman and Jessie Louisa Whitman, 2
See Whitman's October 2, 1877 letter to Edward Carpenter.
A evening she goes out, in the rain and darkness and returns at bed time, with scandal stories, of sexual
I am sorry to be compelled to give such a lamentable story. It would not appear well in print.
Saturday if nothing happens more than I know of now, will be down on the (5 ½) train, perhaps on the (2)
New Jersey November 2 1877 Dear friend, I received your welcome letter on the 31, was glad to get it,
I hear that: Elmer was over to see you 2 times and you and him went over to Mrs.
Stafford PS write soon Harry Stafford to Walt Whitman, 2 November 1877
whether it will be of any interest to you—it ought to be for it was inspired directly by yourself—it is part
Putnam's Sons, 1879], 2).
You know when you put it on there was but one thing to part it from me and that was death.
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
December 1877 letter to Whitman (see also Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden, Sunday, December 2,
press that the Editor of the Examiner sh d . have failed to pay you his just debt, especially after the 2
Within the last 2 or 3 years she had shown mental excitability of a morbid kind: she married Foote 8
Dear friend, I have (yesterday) sent a P.O.O for £2 for your 2 vols volumes .
Commonplace Book, Whitman stayed with the Gilchrists from January 10 to 16 and from January 25 to February 2
appear in this manuscript also were published posthumously as "Supplement Hours," a poem that formed part
The lines that appear in this manuscript were published posthumously as part of a poem titled Supplement
The poem was part of a cluster entitled Old Age Echoes, included in an edition of Leaves of Grass compiled
A revised version of this prose piece was eventually published as part of Specimen Days & Collect (1882
these leaves comprise a nearly complete draft of A Sun-Bath—Nakedness, which Whitman published as part
called him "Uncle Walt," and he found them "model children lively & free & children" who "form a great part
called him "Uncle Walt," and he found them "model children lively & free & children" who "form a great part
Harry wrote Whitman: "You know when you put it on there was but one thing to part it from me and that
the little Irish have got through with the deviding dividing of the place: they have each taken a part
January 1878, Whitman sent Peter Doyle a copy of his poem "Autumn Rivulets" and a West Jersey Press story
volumes of poems and was an indefatigable compiler of anthologies, among which were Poets of America, 2
Then if you are rested enough to bear to laugh some more, I will say this—somebody had a curious story
was copied by an American newspaper which accidentally fell into my hands—I was prepared for it in part
Maybe you know who wrote the story entitled "John's Hero"— If I am "a seer" or in any way "great", certainly
one of those nice long rambling drives with George Stafford, in the roomy old light wagon, (a good part