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suppose is a good sign—I expect him this afternoon or evening—he evidently thinks I am on the gain—Pete
I wish—& two or three good friends here—So I want you to not feel at all uneasy—as I write, Peter Doyle
getting well soon—am on a fair way to it now— latest ½ past 4 I have just set up & had my bed made by Pete—I
Cole, a former conductor and a friend of Doyle, who wrote to Walt Whitman, probably in the early 1870
, 1873 letter to Peter Doyle, Whitman asked Doyle to visit him there.
Washington and later visited him in Camden, which Whitman reported in his November 9, 1873, letter to Peter Doyle
Washington and later visited him in Camden, which Whitman reported in his November 9, 1873, letter to Peter Doyle
Evidently Piper settled the bill in February; see Whitman's February 13, 1874 letter to Peter Doyle,
Washington and later visited him in Camden (which Whitman reported in his November 9, 1873, letter to Peter Doyle
Washington and later visited him in Camden (which Whitman reported in his November 9, 1873 letter to Peter Doyle
1877, then Whitman may have been referring to this image when he wrote from Philadelphia to Peter Doyle
In a letter to Peter Doyle, Whitman wrote that Dr.
Whitman to Peter Doyle, September 5, 1873, quoted in Feinberg, “Walt Whit- man and His Doctors,” 837.
10, Corporeality in Leaves of Grass (Moon), 42, 49, 63, 71, 120; Studies on Hysteria, 152 63, 121 Doyle
Then spoke tenderly of Peter Doyle. "I wonder where he is now? He must have got another lay.
Once he mentioned Peter Doyle. "Where are you Pete? Oh!
Pete Doyle was in yesterday and brought some flowers.
I always use Pete's cane: I like to think of it as having come from Pete—as being so useful to me in
W. paused and added: "I have been reading over an old letter from Pete Doyle: so simple, true, sufficient
"This cane was given me by Pete Doyle," he reminded me: "Pete was always a good stay and support."
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.
: a rather remarkable composition: Doyle with a sickly smile on his face: W. lovingly serene: the two
C. 1865—Walt Whitman & his rebel soldier friend Peter Doyle."
Then again: "Tom, you would like Pete—love him: and you too, Horace: you especially, Horace—you and Pete
, has very good cause for being: Pete is a master character."
He asked after From a Photograph WALT WHITMAN AND HIS REBEL SOLDIER FRIEND, PETE DOYLE (1889)Reproduction
He has been looking up old portraits—the Doyle one of them. "If I strike another you shall have it.
It was at that time, in Washington, that I got to know Peter Doyle—a Rebel, a car-driver, a soldier:
Often we would go on for some time without a word, then talk—Pete a rod ahead or I a rod ahead.
To get the ensemble of Leaves of Grass you have got to include such things as these—the walks, Pete's
"I was quite staggered here—it knocked the breath out of me—to read a headline—'The Death of Peter Doyle
'—here in the paper: but it was not our Peter Doyle: it was some old man, somewhere, given the same name
our good Pete—a rebel—not old—big—sturdy—a man, every inch of him! such a fellow—and health!"
Then spoke tenderly of Peter Doyle. "I wonder where he is now? He must have got another lay.
Once he mentioned Peter Doyle. "Where are you Pete? Oh!
I'm feeling rather kinky—not at all peart, Pete—not at all."
I give my friend Peter Doyle the silver watch.I desire that my friends Dr R M Bucke of London, Ontario
raise his right arm and chant that line, 'after all not to create only,' and then laugh, as I did, and Pete
Pete Doyle was in yesterday and brought some flowers.
"It was Pete who gave me the cane," explained W., "the cane with a crook in it.
I always use Pete's cane: I like to think of it as having come from Pete—as being so useful to me in
You have never met Pete? We must arrange it some way some time." Baker is very anxious. "Mr.
W. paused and added: "I have been reading over an old letter from Pete Doyle: so simple, true, sufficient
"This cane was given me by Pete Doyle," he reminded me: "Pete was always a good stay and support."
Doyle, I was allowed to read your—I prefer saying—I was permitted a long look into the wonderful mirror
Wallace wants to go to see Pete Doyle.
And before it passes out of my mind, Horace, let me ask you: Wallace says you report Pete Doyle in Baltimore
The noble Pete! I hear but little from him.
Doyle's letters not frequent? "Oh no! Never!
Further changed the gold watch from Harry Stafford to H.L.T. and the silver watch from Pete Doyle to
Wallace wants to go to see Pete Doyle.
"I read all and copied some of the letters to Doyle, which Bucke has, and I am interested to meet a man
But if Doyle is on the road, he is hard to catch. I think lives at Baltimore now.
And before it passes out of my mind, Horace, let me ask you: Wallace says you report Pete Doyle in Baltimore
The noble Pete! I hear but little from him.
Doyle's letters not frequent? "Oh no! Never!
But of course I always humored Pete in that.
Hutton, Greenhalgh, Humphreys, Sharrock & self—when Wallace read to us extracts from Walt's letters to Pete
Doyle and greatly did we all enjoy the evening.Sorry to hear of Mrs.
s letters to Pete Doyle.
Someone was sure Peter Doyle was seen somewhere in the crowd, but I saw nothing of him till we had got
Whitman, Longaker, Reeder, McAlister, Ed Stafford, Miss Helen Price, Pete Doyle, Mrs.
Further changed the gold watch from Harry Stafford to H.L.T. and the silver watch from Pete Doyle to
472 July 1, 1865 Walt Whitman From a photograph, 1873 494 Walt Whitman and His Rebel Soldier Friend, Pete
Doyle, 1889 544 Sidney Morse 554 From a photograph by Metcalf & Welldon, 1889 Walt Whitman From a photograph
"I walked great walks myself in the Washington days: often with Pete Doyle: Pete was never a scholar:
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:
sthat's so fine—so fine, fine, fine: he brings back my own walks to me: the walks alone: the walks with Pete
Bucke has Peter Doyle and Harry Stafford letters from W.Sunday, October 26, 1890Spent the day roaming
Picture of W. and Peter Doyle: the two sitting gazing into each other's eyes, a picture which O'Connor
And when I said it was he went on, "I know it is good of Pete—it is first-rate: the best I have," etc
., and he exclaimed, "Dear Pete!
Bucke has Peter Doyle and Harry Stafford letters from W. Saturday, October 25, 1890
Picture of W. and Peter Doyle: the two sitting gazing into each other's eyes, a picture which O'Connor
And when I said it was he went on, "I know it is good of Pete—it is first-rate: the best I have," etc
., and he exclaimed, "Dear Pete!
"I was quite staggered here—it knocked the breath out of me—to read a headline—'The Death of Peter Doyle
'—here in the paper: but it was not our Peter Doyle: it was some old man, somewhere, given the same name
our good Pete—a rebel—not old—big—sturdy—a man, every inch of him! such a fellow—and health!"
Doyle no longer in Washington. "He has not been here for some years.
Doyle no longer in Washington. "He has not been here for some years.
not to see Tucker till I have all the sheets to show him.Wallace writes 21st (gone deep into Whitman-Doyle
Washington and later visited him in Camden (which Whitman reported in his November 9, 1873, letter to Peter Doyle
fancy. suppose," he replied, "myking for and associa tion with car drivers stage drivers, (Pete
Doyle, my friend, was a car driver),and boat hands attracted and attracts atten tion and produces inquiries
is interrupted by the “daughter’s call”: “Come up from the fields, father, here’s a letter from our Pete
news that their only son has been wounded; they are unaware at the time they read the letter that Pete
of the wholesomeness of family life and to emphasize that, ironically, its own fruit—its only boy, Pete—would
calls to her mother and father to come “to the front door” as she has just received “a letter from our Pete
Unfortu- nately, the letter is not written in Pete’s characteristic handwriting, and so the letter suggests
Bemoaning lover problems, Whitman in 1870 compared Vaughan with Peter Doyle, admonishing himself: "Remember
Doyle.’”
Once he mentioned Peter Doyle. ‘Where are you Pete? Oh!
The real Irish character. pete’s cane A week later: “Peter Doyle was in yesterday and brought some flowers
A few weeks afterward: “This cane was given to me by Pete Doyle,” Whitman re- minded Traubel, “Pete was
Doyle was over C4:174 I have been reading 1:376 Pete Doyle was in 1:349 This cane was 1:415 It was at
Pete’s early association with Walt Whitman, after they met in Washington, Pete being then a young man
Pete was easy to ap- proach.
But Pete felt hurt, somehow.
Doyle.
The “Interview with Peter Doyle” by Dr.
Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle by M.P.
Rice, ca. 1869 A sitting with Peter Doyle from the same session as another photograph of the couple.For
an 1868 portrait of Doyle also taken by M.
And, for an extended look at Whitman's relationship with Peter Doyle, see Martin G.
Murray, "Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle."
Walt Whitman and Peter Doyle by M.P.
Doyle was a horsecar driver and met Whitman one stormy night in 1865 when Whitman, looking (as Doyle
Doyle.'
Pete would get to be great chums.
Murray, "Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle."
jolliest man I ever met, an artist, a great talker," Whitman wrote in a November 9, 1873, letter to Peter Doyle