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December 2, 1890. Dear Mr.

Gilder to Walt Whitman, 2 December 1890

Cable, Kate Field, Alice French, Lucy Larcom, Brander Mattews, Francis Parkman, Celia Thaxter, and others

When Warrie came in, W. took mug—or part of it (Warrie directing it)—and eagerly drank.

She really knew all about her own part in the will. Says that $3000 would no more than pay her.

The door was opened by Bucke, who had a rather dismal story to tell.

At 2 A.M. (Sunday) Warrie tried pulse and found it 90 and at 7:40 pulse was 88.

s, relieving Warrie part of the time.

Introduction xxxii Part One Whitman’s two-story house on Mickle Street, Camden, in 1890 The Whitman house

2:244 The instant you 2:351 W. rarely gives 2:261 Walt do I come 2:375 I want to be 4:88 Well—you are

I made that 2:98 Tell her 5:63 About that 7:370 roared when I 8:116 Yes, it was 1:390 It is part 7:294

86 Said again 2:146 W. said to me 2:316 You’ll hear that 2:306 that big story 2:415 Walt, are you 2:511

115 It is hard 2:235 I have belly aches 2:356 Bad day today 2:376 Osler made light 2:383 I am getting

I enclose you some slips—those relating to myself, (which tell their own story) because I know you will

I tell you this partly to show you I still take some part in affairs, though I am badly shattered & old

22/90 Dear Walt Reading your letter over again—let me say—There was no solicitation whatever on my part

The Philadelphia Inquirer carried the story on the front page on the following day.

The Camden Daily Post article "Ingersoll's Speech" of June 2, 1890, was written by Whitman himself and

Floyd Stovall, 2 vols. [New York: New York University Press: 1963–1964], 686–687).

Gwynplaine, "the man who laughs," the hero of this fantastic story, was the heir to an English peerage

But there is another question in which he has taken a far more pronounced part, and has shown himself

In the old story, though the fatal results of this guilty love are narrated sternly and unsparingly,

Nothing can exceed the simple pathos and dignity of the story as thus told by the ancient historian,

—No. 2. New Series.

The other innings resulted as follows:—Putnam's 3d innings, 0 runs; 4th, 7; 5th, 2; 6th, 2; 7th. 7; 8th

Masten, Catch. 0 6 Dayton, pitcher 2 3 J. V.

Meserole, fi'ld 3 4 Young, 3d base, 4 2 Gillespie, 3d base 4 3 Leggett, Catcher 2 3 Jackson, field. 4

2 Kelly, 1st base, 3 3 Holder, 2d base 3 2 Burr, field, 2 4 Sunderling, field, 2 3 Dakin, pitcher, 4

2 Russell, 1st base, 3 2 31 18 This piece is unsigned, as was the case for most of Whitman's journalism

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.

This is O'Connor's letter:Washington, D.C., October 2, 1884.

although one does not mind such things at first, yet gradually, and especially when they are only part

It is the old story of the basilisk—if you see himfirst, he dies.

his nature and proportions.I regret I am not free of office life, for I am sure I could make Bacon's part

The thieves' song in the Polynesian story is wonderfully fine.)W. saw I was through and remarked: "William

Jorge Luis (1899–1986) Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentinian essayist, poet, and master of the short story

Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1969. xiii–xvii, 2–3. ———. "Note on Walt Whitman."

This remissness is very much of a part with the rest of my story of late.

Heath, & am now at the very top of everything, with fine old trees & gardens all around & the northern part

Galway Kinnell, however, hears another part ofthe story when he observes that in "Lilacs" "the griefis

Vistas(Pw, 2:426-433).

"(Pw, 2:363-364).

SeePW, 2:361-362n.

5I7;NUP, 6: 2,I71.

We parted there, you know, at the corner of 7th st. Tuesday night.

Pete, there was something in that hour from 10 to 11 oclock (parting though it was) that has left me

Tuesday—Aug 2. Well, Pete, you will have quite a diary at this rate.

breeze blowing & the smell of the salt sea blowing up, (sweeter than any perfume to my nose)—It is now 2

this file, as noted: Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 30 July–2

It is postmarked: "New York | Aug | 2 | 10:30 PM."

Emory Holloway [Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page, and Company, 1921], 2:96).

This tale is the second of nine short stories by Whitman that were published for the first time in The

Whitman reprinted a revised version of the story with the same title, under the new heading of "A tradition

A Tale of the Times and in his short stories, including " The Child's Champion ," " The Reformed ," "

However, further research would be necessary to determine whether the stories record or are inspired

Frank had accomplished the greater part of his journey; he was within three miles of his home.

This tale is the second of nine short stories by Whitman that were published for the first time in The

Whitman reprinted a revised version of the story with the same title, under the new heading of "A tradition

A Tale of the Times and in his short stories, including "The Child's Champion," "The Reformed," "The

However, further research would be necessary to determine whether the stories record or are inspired

comprising some fifty acres or more, and existing as a sort of running sore in one of the pleasantest parts

It is indeed a fester, a well-populated blotch, an immense raw to that part of our beautiful city.

They are the putrid drippings of the numberless residences of the hogs, cows, and goats, that (in part

Putridity, poisoned air, that is what penetrates the whole body, the blood, every part of one.

We forgot to say that it is well known by the shrewd politicians of the part of Brooklyn treated of,

John Townsend Trowbridge was a novelist, poet, author of juvenile stories, and antislavery reformer.

Ferry Boy and the Financier (Boston: Walker and Wise, 1864); he described their meetings in My Own Story

Feinberg Collection; Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961], 2:

See Trowbridge, My Own Story, with recollections of noted persons (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903), 179

.00309xxx.00413Thought [Of these years I sing]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 21.5 x 13 cm, leaf 2

Whitman combined it with the second Thought to form the poem Thoughts in the supplement Songs Before Parting

In 1871 Thoughts appeared in the cluster Songs of Parting within the main body of Leaves of Grass, and

of mankind: with some subordinate sketches of human nature and human life (London: Longman, 1825), 2:

principal articles are concocted by one Whitman, whilome little known in these diggings; which latter part

Examples of stories are: John Simpson, Smiles and Tears; or, Sketches from Real Life (London: Thomas

of mankind: with some subordinate sketches of human nature and human life (London: Longman, 1825), 2:

Examples of stories are: John Simpson, Smiles and Tears; or, Sketches from Real Life (London: Thomas

I never knew Moncure to let himself out so: a good summing up—and curious wit, stories and turns."

Traubel Warren Fritzinger Kate G Traubel Mary O Davis Thomas B. Harned Jr. Mrs Hannah Reed Anna A.

ISBn-13: 978-1-58729-958-2 (pbk.), ISBn-10: 1-58729-958-5 (pbk.)

the parting of dear friends.

Walt Whitman, ProseWorks, 2: 466. 49.

Walt Whitman, ProseWorks, 2: 471. 52.

Love Stories: Sex between Men before Homosexuality.

The two lower stories will be used for artillery, meeting rooms, armorer’s rooms, &c.

The upper story will be unobstructed, the whole size of the building for drill-room.

However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified

I would like to begin by briefly telling a long story, an all too familiar one, a story of American literary

scholarship over the last half century, a story of how changing technologies have gradually altered

It's a story that—in the case of Walt Whitman and many others—begins in the late 1940s and early 1950s

So in the mid-1950s a relatively young group of twelve scholars joined together to devote a major part

The three-volume Variorum Edition of Leaves of Grass , part of the , was originally slated to record

in the corner of the page to the left of Whitman's letter to Baxter was written by Kennedy and was part

Charles Fairchild, the president of a paper company, to whom Whitman sent the Centennial Edition on March 2,

Schofield, Seek for a Hero: The Story of John Boyle O'Reilly (New York: Kennedy, 1956).

Jan. 2, 1876 My dear Mr.

A great part of "Two Rivulets," prose and poetry, is fresh matter, hitherto unpublished. Mr.

Gilder to Walt Whitman, 2 January 1876

songs by these]1857-1859poetryhandwritten2 leavesleaf 1 9 x 12.5 cm pasted to 17.5 x 13.5 cm, leaf 2

Whitman combined it with the second Thought to form the poem Thoughts in the supplement Songs Before Parting

In 1871 Thoughts appeared in the cluster Songs of Parting within the main body of Leaves of Grass, and

THE CARPENTER A CHRISTMAS STORY I.

I could sit here all night and tell ye stories about him!

He'd got hold of the old story of Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew, d'ye see.

Another story," returned Elkanah half savagely.

The carpenter paced slowly to the back part of the room.

William Douglas O'Connor's "The Carpenter: A Christmas Story" first appeared in Putnam's Monthly Magazine

I can appreciate a story—even a loose story—if it have wit, if it pass for a good purpose—illustrate,

What a list of dirty stories he accumulated!

But one thing deserves to be said of him—he never used the stories but for a purpose.

But it is more than that—that is only a part of the story."

Heyde i shall be very sorry if she get them george George says he thinks its it's all right) we sent 2

muslin and flannel skirts and can of peaches and new years cake and lot of french French candy and 2

to take home) the house is progressing quite well the weather has been so good they have the second story

dated it to 1872 (Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:

Edwin Haviland Miller [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:361).

The farm slopes up from the sea (the house 2 fields away) with rugged hills behind, with wooded glens

farm servants, & neighbors coming into supper, & then adjourning to the barn, where to the light of 2

Am looking forward to the publication of O'Connor's stories.

O'Connor's story "The Brazen Android" (which Whitman misremembers here as "The Bronzoid Android") in

They also planned to publish a collection that included three of O'Connor's stories and a preface by

June 2, 1870. Wm. Alexander, Esq.

Will you be so kind as to inform me whether, in your opinion, and that of the respectable part of the

Lorang Vanessa Steinroetter Kevin McMullen John Schwaninger Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to William Alexander, 2

and the Grinnell Automatic Sprinkler Van Ness House F ine iews of the L akes and M ountains from all parts

circumstances, and placed a 5 dollar bill, in my hand, as he has done once before, this winter, which got me 1/2

I am on the petite petit jury, commencing April 2 dollars per day.

ill-educated reader feels, which he would write if he wrote a book—hence it is his beau ideal of a story

However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified

Carver hospital & again saw the man of the 51st, Thos McCowell, who told me of George, up to latter part

I questioned him, & his story was very clear, so I felt perfectly satisfied—he is wounded in hand, will

Thackeray’s Virginians, a large instalment of which is given, grows in interest as the story proceeds

However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified

and she had been detained but it seems she got home all safe i will write a few lines and send that part

ain't quite so lame to day O can you send the week for i have got up to the 17th i am reading the story

, 1870 (see Walt Whitman, The Correspondence [New York: New York University Press, 1961], 2:367).

Edwin Haviland Miller [New York: New York University Press, 1961–77], 2:362).

I have, of course, treated the subject in my own way—certain parts strong & earnest—but there is nothing

will be best not to delay too long, as the interest in the thing is now up, something like a serial story

Pearson, Jr., "Story of a Magazine: New York's Galaxy, 1866–1878," Bulletin of the New York Public Library

$11. 10 from Hill & Newman and $1. from Henry Carlow  On Tuesday I again wrote you, sending you $4…$2

Drake and 2 from "Cash" through John D. Martin  The enclosed $5 is from our friend Mr. E. Rae.

I am having a plan for a small 2 Story house (22 x 32) made and shall try to get Rae to build it for

direct them to me, (if you should find convenient to send them) to Washington, 456 Sixth St north, 3d story

John Townsend Trowbridge was a novelist, poet, author of juvenile stories, and antislavery reformer.

Ferry Boy and the Financier (Boston: Walker and Wise, 1864); he described their meetings in My Own Story

the descriptive list had arrived, and that the package contained two copies of The Drummer Boy, a Story

Feinberg Collection; Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden [New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1961], 2:

See Trowbridge, My Own Story, with recollections of noted persons (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903), 179

and the Grinnell Automatic Sprinkler Van Ness House F ine iews of the L akes and M ountains from all parts

March 2 18 89 Bro. Walt.

Heyde to Walt Whitman, 2 March 1889

ESCAPE AND THE GRINNELL AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER VAN NESS HOUSE NE VIEWS of the LAKES AND MOUNTAINS from all parts

She has but now come from her bedroom. 2 good fires to make her comfortable—has every thing necessary

couple of dollars could you spare as much—just now, or ev en one—You have your daily needs— I have sent 2

Kate Hillard read an amusing paper on Swinburne at a meeting of the Woman's Club in Brooklyn—& we had

For the story of Swinburne's veneration of Whitman and his later recantation, see two essays by Terry

(No. 2.), which was published in the Critic on April 9, 1881.

Though he did not include this essay as a whole in Specimen Days & Collect (1882–83), Whitman reprinted parts

May 2—91 Dear Comrade It is after much hesitation that I venture at last to write these few words.

To find, perchance, some smallest part, Seen dimly by life's dying flame.

FERDINAND What shall I add for mine own part? Is it possible for me to say anything worth saying.

praise & homage has reached you Believe me Yours very sincerely Eli Shore Eli Shore to Walt Whitman, 2

I procured mine from Trubner paying £2-10 whereas I understand they may be had from you for £2-0-0 &

My other works are History of Ireland Heroic Period Vols 1 & 2, an epical representation chiefly of Cuculain's

In the revolt of Islam he has a fine Panegyric on the future of America Fr For my own part I put him

as that I do not meet in you the expression of every changing ideal punctuating even the remotest parts

right fist and set his eyes to a mock fire, laughter almost preventing him telling the rest of the story

The manner in which he told this was convulsing, but he added more seriously: "Of course that's a story—will

do to go along with other stories.

He was not "disposed to ridicule investigation of the sort," but for his own part he was "staggered by

“Journey through the Land of the Aztecs”; then another illustrated paper on “Caracus”; then come stories

However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified

“Viola” is one of the series of Harper’s Story Books.

However, this editorial is part of a series of texts that deal with a coherent theme that has been identified

along very well indeed—A book rec'd f'm Edwd Carpenter "Civilization, its cause & Cure" (the disease part

have been reading (4th time probably) Walter Scott's "Legend of Montrose" and other of his Scotch stories—Dave

Below the note is pasted a newspaper clipping with a story attributed to Aristotle.

In letters and essays, as well as in "The Sleepers" and "The Centenarian's Story," Whitman recalled George

including Manhattan and Long Island, and consistently presents Brooklyn as a place central to the story

"The Sleepers" briefly remembers the battle of Brooklyn, as does "The Centenarian's Story," in which

Here Whitman presents Brooklyn as a living part of American history, a part perhaps not appreciated enough

in the 1860s ("Centenarian's Story").BibliographyAllen, Gay Wilson.