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

Y. post office stamp, Mar. 25, I have only just rec'd it, (2 o'clock Wednesday P.M.)

It is quite an interesting story, & I will tell you all about it when I come home.

The tax on my part the last year was quite as much as I received— Well, what we want is to have them

the ruffles exempted by the Committee before Congress adjourns either as parts of articles of clothing

You might ask it as " parts of articles of clothing such as shirt bosoms, ruffles , &c. made by sewing

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

, 1867 and March 12, 1867 letters to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, and at the time of the poet's April 2,

myself and around Walt think you come home you said maybee maybe you would dont don't let the sleeping part

and March 19, 1867 letters to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman,and by the time of Whitman's letter of April 2,

March 12 and March 19, 1867 letters to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, and by Whitman's letter of April 2,

works which aim at satirising the manners and customs of every-day life are necessarily the first parts

To deal with these seriatim , in the first Whitman takes part in a natural and easily comprehensible

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."

March 12, and March 19, 1867 letters to Louisa Van Velsor Whitman, noting that by the time of his April 2,

Harbor in June 1864— & he has had the bullet in him ever since—it was in a very bad place, the lower part

The first Reconstruction Act was passed March 2, 1867.

MY FRIEND I have a friend who is so true to me, We may not parted be.

have here—for several days past, it has been thawing & melting—Here in the office, it is the same old story—it

o'clock—the Attorney Gen'l. & Ashton have gone to the Supreme Court—they go most every day now from 11 till 2—

The vindication I have read part of it and Father has read the rest of it to us, and I shall take the

I have not decided what part of the country I would go to yet and I want to get your advice on the subject

.; CARRIER | FEB | 6 | 2 Del.

Bates, in title case, will be sent up to you at 2 o'clock, according to your request.

It is postmarked: New-York | JAN | 23; CARRIER | JAN | 24 | 2 Del.

letter of the 17th—I have been thinking about you this cold weather—& especially the storm latter part

According to Thomas Jefferson Whitman's December 21, 1866 letter to Walt Whitman, Bergen contributed $2

President of the United States, or such person as he may empower for that purpose, to employ such part

tortured to death probably a happy exchange) i have had a long letter from mr heyde the principle part

often expressed interest in her children, Helen, Emma, and Arthur (another son, Henry, had died at 2

night, she died, & was buried the next Wednesday—they sent me word that the funeral was to be at ½ past 2—

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

ask George whether any thing could be done with $500 cash about getting a lot & moderate-sized two story

W ALT W HITMAN 's Drum-Taps New York. 1865. 12mo. pp. 72. 2.

The leaf consists of two clipped scraps pasted together, and the upper part of the leaf is pasted to

Our images show the front of the leaf, that part of the back visible by lifting the lower part of the

A.MS. drafts.loc.02901xxx.00594for part in L of Gbetween 1867-1876poetryprose9 leaveshandwritten; One

There are also notes about other poems and the arrangement of Leaves of Grass. for part in L of G

write]about 1867prose1 leafhandwritten; This prose fragment, heavily revised, is almost certainly part

Leaves one and three used to form part of the same sheet of paper, and on the verso is another, unrelated

Leaves four and five also used to form part of the same sheet of paper (loc.05224), and on the verso

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

His letter of December 2, 1866 was even more unreserved in its praise of Whitman.

is but a part.

2. TEARS! tears! tears!

2.

THE CENTENARIAN'S STORY.

SONGS BEFORE PARTING. CONTENTS.

2 The love of the Body of man or woman balks ac- count account —the body itself balks account; That of

I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts of you; I believe

bones, and the marrow in the bones, The exquisite realization of health; O I say, these are not the parts

, All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth, These are contain'd in sex, as parts

shall be lawless, rude, illiterate—he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done; I will play a part

I will make divine magnetic lands, With the love of comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. 2

and the silent manner of me, with- out without charm; Yet comes one, a Manhattanese, and ever at parting

—No; But I record of two simple men I saw to-day, on the pier, in the midst of the crowd, parting the

part- ing parting of dear friends; The one to remain hung on the other's neck, and pas- sionately passionately

day; And the first object he look'd upon, that object he be- came became ; And that object became part

of him for the day, or a certain part of the day, or for many years, or stretching cycles of years.

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

The field-sprouts of Fourth-month and Fifth-month became part of him; Winter-grain sprouts, and those

of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day. 2.

2. TEARS! tears! tears!

judge, or any juror, is equally criminal—and any reputable person is also—and the President is also. 2.

2.

spans them, and always has spann'd, and shall forever span them, and com- pactly compactly hold them. 2.

exception ; And henceforth I will go celebrate anything I see or am, And sing and laugh, and deny nothing. 2.

despite of people —Illustrates evil as well as good; How many hold despairingly yet to the models de- parted

how every fact serves, And how now, or at any time, each serves the exquisite transition of Death. 2.

the hermit thrush from the swamp-cedars, Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World. 2

wend—they never stop, Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions; One generation playing its part

, and passing on, Another generation playing its part, and passing on in its turn, With faces turn'd

let others ignore what they may; I make the poem of evil also—I commemorate that part also; I am myself

how superb and how divine is your body, or any part of it. 15 Whoever you are!

the wood, and become undis- guised undisguised and naked; I am mad for it to be in contact with me. 2

mer summer morning; How you settled your head athwart my hips, and gently turn'd over upon me, And parted

If I worship one thing more than another, it shall be the spread of my own body, or any part of it.

List to the story as my grandmother's father, the sailor, told it to me.

is but a part.

2 The love of the Body of man or woman balks ac- count account —the body itself balks account; That of

I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women, nor the likes of the parts of you; I believe

bones, and the marrow in the bones, The exquisite realization of health; O I say, these are not the parts

, All the governments, judges, gods, follow'd persons of the earth, These are contain'd in sex, as parts

shall be lawless, rude, illiterate—he shall be one condemn'd by others for deeds done; I will play a part

I will make divine magnetic lands, With the love of comrades, With the life-long love of comrades. 2

2 Within me latitude widens, longitude lengthens; Asia, Africa, Europe, are to the east—America is pro

palaces, hovels, huts of barba- rians barbarians , tents of nomads, upon the surface; I see the shaded part

on one side, where the sleepers are sleeping—and the sun-lit part on the other side, I see the curious

I see the cities of the earth, and make myself at random a part of them; I am a real Parisian; I am a

day; And the first object he look'd upon, that object he be- came became ; And that object became part

of him for the day, or a certain part of the day, or for many years, or stretching cycles of years.

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

The field-sprouts of Fourth-month and Fifth-month became part of him; Winter-grain sprouts, and those

, They gave this child more of themselves than that; They gave him afterward every day—they became part

Leaves of Grass 2 2.