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Whitman's "eyes were full of tears" (With Walt Whitman in Camden [New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1915], 2:
William White [New York: New York University Press, 1977], 2:325).
Though no letter of receipt is currently known, Whitman marked the order "paid" (Daybooks and Notebooks, 2:
This letter is endorsed: "Answ'd Dec 2/83."
It is postmarked: Philadelphia, Pa. | Oct | 1 | 11 AM | Transit; Washington, Recd. | Oct | 2 | 4 30 AM
| 1883 | 2.
not already done) to forward the parcel to you at Providence— I last night forwarded proofs of good part
the text—but helping the typography & reader—I think most decidedly helping — The foot note (early part
| 1883 | 2.
. | Sep | 14 | 4 30 AM | 1883 | 2.
. | Sep 17 83 | 2 30 PM.
This letter is endorsed: "Answ'd Dec 2/83."
It is postmarked: Camden | Sep | 25 | 4 PM | N.J.; Washington, Recd. | Sep | 26 | 5 AM | 1883 | 2.
It is postmarked: Camden | May | 2(?) | 188(?)
Richard Maurice Bucke visited Whitman from December 2 to 5, and Burroughs joined them on December 4 (
Death of General Grant," with the title "As One by One Withdraw the Lofty Actors," was sent on April 2
. | Jul | 2? | 9 AM | 1890 | Transit, Philadelphia, PA | Jul | 23 | ? PM | 1890 | Transit.
. | 9–1–90 | 11 AM | 9; London | AM | SP 2 | Canada.
the name of " Old Poets—(and other things) —don't know what I sh' make of it—moderately short—ab't 2½
See Bucke's letter to Whitman of September 2, 1890.
last complete —after 33 yr's of hackling at it all times & moods of my life, fair weather & foul, all parts
Manchester Guardian Dec: 2 '91 On December 1, 1891, Whitman received a letter from J.
newspaper article in pencil at the bottom of the newspaper clipping, as follows: "Manchester Guardian Dec. 2
O'Connor's stories with a preface by Whitman were published in Three Tales: The Ghost, The Brazen Android
Washington, Nov. 2, 187– I offer the enclosed Poem "The Mystic Trumpeter" for the January number, 1872
Church, 2 November 187[1]
2 | (?) (Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library).
Harper, 1896], 223; for Flower, see Whitman's letter of February 2, 1872).
Whitman had praised the book's opening chapters in his May 2, 1875 letter to John Burroughs.
[New York: New York University Press, 1961–1977], 2:76).
This reference to visiting Anderson and Archer, who had offices in New York, on January 2, 1868, is somewhat
Mann replied to Whitman's queries on April 2, 1874 (Oscar Lion).
Jersey May 2 . Dear John Burroughs, I send you a letter, &c.
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 2 May
Price Elizabeth Lorang Kathryn Kruger Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to John Burroughs, 2 September
Sally Mead, whom Whitman had mistaken for her sister Phebe Pintard in his April 1–2, 1873 letter to Louisa
Canterbury Tales, a collection of 24 tales in Middle English, primarily written in verse, presented as stories
May 10, 1889 Our dear friend O'Connor died peacefully at 2 a m yesterday.
On June 2, 1888, photographs of Walt Whitman and drawings of his birthplace, his Camden house, and his
Camden, N.J., March 7, 1889 I am still quite bodily helpless—imprison'd the same in my 2d story sick
. | Aug | 25 | 2 30 PM | 1886 | 4.
PM | 1886 | 2.
Camden New Jersey U S America June 26 '87—3 1/2 P M— Edith & another girl have been to see me to-day—nearly
See Whitman's letter to Rhys of February 2, 1887.
. | Jul 2 | 4 30 PM | 87.
For the story of Swinburne's veneration of Whitman and his later recantation, see two essays by Terry
window, temperature moist & pleasant, & I feeling comfortable—Our "Indian Summer" now— Sunday mn'g Oct. 2
Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Ernest Rhys, 1–2 October 1887
. | Oct 2 | 5 PM | 87; Philadelphia, Pa | (?) | 2 | 1887 | Paid; London E.C. | A | Oc 14 87 | AB.
Whitman had sent the copy of Specimen Days on February 2, 1887 (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E
Camden Nov. 2 '87 Dear Sir The $16.50 on acc't of photo. sales, came safely to hand & this is the receipt—with
Would send those only— Am ab't as usual— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to William Carey, 2 November 1887
. | Nov 2 | 6 PM | 87; P.O. | 11-3-87 | 1-1(?) | N.Y.
328 Mickle Street—Camden New Jersey U S America Feb. 2 '87 Dear friend Yours rec'd & welcomed, as always—I
She is an American, & my best friend— Walt Whitman to Ernest Rhys, 2 February 1887
It is postmarked: Camden | Feb | 2 | 6 PM | 1887 | N.J.; Philadelphia | Feb | 2 | 1887 | Paid; London
In a lengthy letter on August 2, 1887, Ellen M.
It is postmarked: Camden | Dec | 21 | 2 PM | 1885 | N.J.; New York | Dec 21(?) | 7 30 (?) | (?)
. | Jun | 12 | 7 AM 1885 | 2.
after Whitman's praise of The Poet as A Craftsman (see the letter from Whitman to Kennedy of December 2,
I have been 2 weeks in a fever of parturition. . . .
O'Connor's stories, adds: 'It is a story of which Walt Whitman is visibly the idealized hero, and it
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