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accounts of his journey (see the letters from Whitman to Whitelaw Reid of June 17, 1880 and to Peter Doyle

O'Connor's tenure was brief; as of Walt Whitman's March 12–13, 1874 letter to Peter Doyle, O'Connor had

Calamus: A Series of Letters Written during the Years 1868–1880 by Walt Whitman to a Young Friend (Peter Doyle

beautiful day—I am now sitting in my room, by the stove, but there is hardly need of a fire—Peter Doyle

"I should like to see Pete Doyle while I am here. Can you give me his address?" W. W.

I should like to know where Pete is as I am rather uneasy about him.

So I don't know where Pete is now." J. W. W.

I said that one reason why I wanted to see Pete Doyle was that he perhaps represented the average American

Pete hardly does. For years past Pete has been whirled among the sophistications."

Whitman wrote at greater length about the new will in his October 3–4, 1873 letter to Peter Doyle.

Nelly dear, I am guiltless of the cologne present—(don't know any thing about Peter Doyle, in this case

Whitman's statement explains why letters from Charles Eldridge, Peter Doyle, Ellen O'Connor, and others

Huntington (whose death was reported in Whitman's March 29, 1872 letter to Peter Doyle), or the widow

comes & sits a few minutes every morning before going to work—he has been very good indeed—he & Peter Doyle

Despite his status as a veteran of the Confederate Army, Doyle's uneducated, youthful nature appealed

limited the time the two could spend together, their relationship rekindled in the mid-1880s after Doyle

After Whitman's death, Doyle permitted Richard Maurice Bucke to publish the letters Whitman had sent

For more on Doyle and his relationship with Whitman, see Martin G.

Murray, "Doyle, Peter," Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, ed. J.R. LeMaster and Donald D.

In Whitman's February 19, 1875, letter to Peter Doyle—one of Whitman's closest comrades and companions—Whitman

Whitman also wrote of this meeting in his July 19, 1872 letter to Peter Doyle.

His affectionate bond with Peter Doyle, the Washington, D.C., streetcar conductor he met in late 1865

How much Doyle and Stafford reciprocated his affection is somewhat uncertain, but the letters demonstrate

occasionally—I had seen in the newspapers of William's appointment, & was truly pleased—I hear from Peter Doyle

See also Whitman's July 10, 1874 letter to Peter Doyle, in which Whitman left instructions for the delivery

I hear regularly from Peter Doyle—he is well & hearty, works hard for poor pay, on the Balt Baltimore

in the week; Whitman confirmed receipt of Eldridge's letter in a February 6, 1874 letter to Peter Doyle

Some poor imprisoned victim puts an end to her wretched life, or some Pete Dawson is arrested, and for

Whitman wrote of the sale in his July 10, 1874 letter to Peter Doyle.

Wraymond (or Raymond), also called "Pittsburgh," worked for one of the Washington railroads; see Doyle's

Peter Doyle called on June 4, Edward Carpenter was in Camden from June 18 to 20, and Whitman's brother

jolliest man I ever met, an artist, a great talker," per Whitman's November 9, 1873 letter to Peter Doyle

Later, Whitman would get a first-hand report of the assassination from his friend Peter Doyle, an Irish

immigrant and former Confederate soldier whom Whitman had met when Doyle was an out-patient in Washington

Doyle's description would form the basis of Whitman's later speech, "Death of Abraham Lincoln," which

Further changed the gold watch from Harry Stafford to H.L.T. and the silver watch from Pete Doyle to

Years of London Life: Memoirs of a Man of the World (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885), 402, and Doyle's

Whitman heard Brignoli sing in 1867, in 1872 (see the letter from Whitman to Peter Doyle of March 15,

Washington and later visited him in Camden (which Whitman reported in his November 9, 1873 letter to Peter Doyle

When he died, Whitman left Stafford his silver watch, originally intended for Peter Doyle.  

"Birds and Poets," which had appeared in Scribner's Monthly in 1873 (see Whitman's letter to Peter Doyle

Whitman visited the Channings in 1868 (see the letters from Whitman to Peter Doyle of October 18, 1868

unceremoniously exited Washington for Camden, which left him separated from his intimate friend, Peter Doyle

Doyle, I was allowed to read your—I prefer saying—I was permitted a long look into the wonderful mirror

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.

Song of Myself (first broadcast 9 March 1976), starring Rip Torn as Whitman and Brad Davis as Peter Doyle

Whitman's last breath of inspiration and his last exhalation, with dialogues between Whitman and Peter Doyle

New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1970.Doyle, James. "Whitman's Canadian Diary."

as the contents confirm, was written at the same time as Whitman's March 15, 1872 letter to Peter Doyle

In his September 3, 1869 letter to Peter Doyle, however, Whitman wrote that he was still "unwell most

nature writer, literary critic, and author of Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (1867); Peter Doyle

Yet in 1898, James finds Whitman's posthumously published letters to Peter Doyle in Calamus "positively

1877, then Whitman may have been referring to this image when he wrote from Philadelphia 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

Walt befriended Peter Doyle (1843–1907), a horsecar conductor in Washington, around 1865.

Though Whitman informed Doyle of his flirtations with women in their correspondence, Martin G.

Murray affirms that "Whitman and Doyle were 'lovers' in the contemporary sense of the word."

Doyle assisted in caring for Whitman after his stroke in January 1873.

See Murray, "Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle."

On October 31, 1873, Whitman wrote Peter Doyle that "I got a letter from Mr.

occupied an entire page of the paper (as Whitman alludes to in his November 28, 1873, letter to Peter Doyle

Washington and later visited him in Camden (which Whitman reported in his November 9, 1873, letter to Peter Doyle

, 1868 letter to Peter Doyle.

Calamus: A Series of Letters Written During the Years 1868—1880 by Walt Whitman to a Young Friend (Peter Doyle

Calamus: A Series of Letters Written During the Years 1868–1880 by Walt Whitman to a Young Friend (Peter Doyle

O'Connor and his July 28, 1871, letter to Peter Doyle.

Washington and later visited him in Camden (which Whitman reported in his November 9, 1873, letter to Peter Doyle

Doyle, which is given by Dr.

Bucke in his edition of Whitman's lettersto Pete 1— one of the best running accounts of Walt which we

have, though of course quite extempore— Pete says in one pas- — sage : 'I never knew a case of Walt's

to Pete are veritablelove-letters.

And there is a passage in Pete Doyle's already quoted interview which curiously corroborates this.

Washington and later visited him in Camden (which Whitman reported in his November 9, 1873, letter to Peter Doyle

occupied an entire page of the paper (as Whitman alludes to in his November 28, 1873, letter to Peter Doyle

not to see Tucker till I have all the sheets to show him.Wallace writes 21st (gone deep into Whitman-Doyle