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A City Walk: 2 V Just a list of all that is seen in a walk through the streets of Brooklyn & New York

.; 2; V; Transcribed from digital images of the original.

The lines eventually became part of the independent poem "Poets to Come."

book in a conversation with Horace Traubel on December 9, 1889 (With Walt Whitman in Camden, 6:180–2)

book in a conversation with Horace Traubel on December 9, 1889 (With Walt Whitman in Camden, 6:180–2)

sent to Herald March 2 A Prairie sunset.

2 (+) As to you, if you have never not yet learned to think, enter upon it now, Think at once with directness

Beneath them can be discerned the ink number 2.

Beneath them can be discerned the ink number 2.

Though the subject matter is similar, the manuscripts do not appear to be continuous.; 2; Transcribed

At one point, this manuscript likely formed part of Whitman's cultural geography scrapbook.

.— At one point, this manuscript likely formed part of Whitman's cultural geography scrapbook.

life a share, or more or less, None born but it is born—conceal'd or unconceal'd the seed is waiting. 2

.— Parts of this section may be related to the poem that would later be titled "Great Are the Myths":

hexameters —verses whose lines are six poetic feet, either dactyls or spondees "Then when An 1 dromache 2

utterance of these liquid tongues And To pass within my soul, which loves the grim, mysterious, wordless story

sparse leaves of me Ah not that granite dead & cold published You tides with ceaseless swell & ebb 2

To th 9. 2 Last of the ebb, and daylight waning of the poured-out ebb, and daylight waning, s S cented

on —on, and do your part, ye shrouding burying waters! On, for your time, ye furious debouché!

The poem was later published in Leaves of Grass as part of the "Autumn Rivulets" cluster.

verse, or a response to a newspaper piece about the frigate bird (also known as the man-of-war-bird), part

had occupied, & where the preceding night, they had gathered their dead— the an dea d lay in certain parts

This manuscript is a draft of "Proudly the Flood Comes In," first published as part of "Fancies at Navesink

, Duly from you the inborne tide again —duly the hinge a‑ turning Duly the needed blending discord‑parts

last 2 11 At the Mouth of the River Last of the ebb, and daylight waning, Scented sea‑breaths landward

As ne your needed blending discord‑parts join'd in offsetting 15 But for your time, — your needed your

part —duly the hinge a‑turning, Really Duly ?

through duly all thy your glamour's Many Through the discord parts that round Time's diapason.) from

joined in The A rhythmus of life eternal.) as needed blended discord parts Many the parts discord parts

Transcribed from digital images of the original. your needed blending discord‑parts

and fire, and wholesale elemental crash, (this voice so solemn, strange,) I too a minister of Deity. 2

The poem was later published in Leaves of Grass as part of the "Autumn Rivulets" cluster.

and put in a volume, as giving the clue to all departments of our early history, for the use of that part

The houses were one story, of logs, covered with thatch.

Some had seen a witch burnt—and then they all told stories of witchcraft.

The records he kept of the town still exist, though dimly legible in parts.

All day at this part of Fulton street, the living thousands are the thickest—always hurrying along.

Commencing at this part of Fulton street, within stone's throw of the grave yard, and running east for

The position of the old grave yard, in the most thronged part of Fulton street, has of course made it

In the new south part of the Hospital are the sailors' wards, &c.

This—as I think I have mentioned before—is in a little two-story building, standing by itself, between

These being collected together in the upper story of the building, with the accumulations of past curators

thirty thousand men, women and children, either out of our own city or concentred here from other parts

The little two story building to the left is the place for preparations in morbid and healthy anatomy

In the second story is the Museum, valuable to students and amateurs.

In the next cot is Frank Osborne, a young fireman, belonging to No. 2 steamer; he was knocked down while

But there is another and full as important side to the story.

Imagine a long one-story wooden shed like short wide rope walk well whitewashed, then cluster ten or

Bowen: An Unknown Whitman Letter Recommending an Army Doctor," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1, no. 2

Coleman, Willie Durkee, and Kate Lane.

On February 10, 1863 , Jeff sent $2 from Theodore A.

Drake, a waterworks inspector, and $2 from John D. Martin.

Bowen: An Unknown Whitman Letter Recommending an Army Doctor," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 1, no. 2

Coleman, Willie Durkee, and Kate Lane.

On February 10, 1863, Jeff sent $2 from Theodore A.

Drake, a waterworks inspector, and $2 from John D. Martin.

A powerful faction, ruling the North, was art and part A term in Scottish law indicating the indirect

, hovering on the edge at first, and then merged in its very midst, and destined to play a leading part

The omnibuses and other vehicles had been all turned off, leaving an unusual hush in that busy part of

He has been in genuine fighting service in all parts of the war, including the Carolina coast, the battles

above named, most parts of Northern and Eastern Virginia and Western Maryland, also Vicksburgh, Jackson

He took part in the hottest service there, and so on through Spottsylvania, In the Battle of Spotsylvania

at the battle of Poplar Grove Church, In the Battle of Poplar Grove (Virginia, September 30–October 2,

For some of Whitman's prison correspondence, see his letters of October 2, 1864 and October 23, 1864

.; In the Battle of Poplar Grove (Virginia, September 30–October 2, 1864), alternately known as the Battle

For some of Whitman's prison correspondence, see his letters of October 2, 1864 and October 23, 1864,

marching down from camp by regiments, to do our picket, and the incessant efforts of the men in all parts

I have, for this letter, some items, a part of the general history of the war, which I think you will

It will be remembered that this regiment formed part of the original Burnside expedition.

of Northern Virginia and Northwestern Maryland, and taking an active and important part during that

A PARTING REMARK.

side of the bed, with a quantity of blood and bloody pieces of muslin—nearly full; that tells the story

But there is every kind of wound in every part of the body.

age of twenty-five years, the four last of which he had spent in active service in the war in all parts

Now, such a list makes a Washington journal much more called for, and is an indispensable part of the

Let me mention a visit I made to the collection of barrack-like one-story edifices, called the Campbell

LONG ONE-STORY WOODEN BARRACKS.

In general terms a hospital in and around Washington is a cluster of long one-story wooden buildings

There will be ten or twelve wards grouped together, named A, B, C, &c., or numerically 1, 2, or 3, &c

Then there were others, off and on; the Whitby (she was the first, and was burnt toward the latter part

Most of the crowding of the prisoners, and the more odious part of the treatment occurred in the earlier

The ceremony alluded to, consisted of two parts, one on the 12th of April, 1808, and a following one

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 236–245.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 236–245.

Quite a good deal of house-building is in progress in one part of Washington and another.

But his parents home continued to hear all sorts of stories, and had all sorts of hopes and fears; thought

Before long the Eighty-seventh was disbanded; part of it, men and officers, went into the Sixteenth Virginia

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

Dutch West India Company (1622–1791) oversaw the colony of New Netherland, of which New York was a part

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

We have frequently seen them when a youngster, while rambling about this part of King's County.

soon after the men commenced working; and the event making a good deal of talk, before noon a large part

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 261–267.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 261–267.

we have at one time or another personally visited), and all of them in operation now in different parts

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 249–253.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 249–253.

T HE religious growth and character of a settlement is by no means the least important part of its record

stood for over a century—indeed for some hundred and twenty-five or thirty years, and for the greater part

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 257–261.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 257–261.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 253–257.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 253–257.

His quiet life, and his never having taken a part in momentous affairs of any kind, make it impossible

Hartshorne occupied part of an old Revolutionary building in Fulton street, east side, third door below

For our own part, we used always to stop and salute him, with good-will and reverence.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 245–249.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 245–249.

Wallabout to Red Hook, that formed the American lines, in the battle of Long Island, in the early part

No part of the city has made a more utter revolution in its topography than this quarter of Brooklyn.

Part of it was, in due time, filled up by the city, and forms the present City Park, with its northerly

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 267–270.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 267–270.

great nation of the Lenni-Lenape, or Delawares, of which stock the aborigines of this region were a part

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 274–278.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 274–278.

This was the spot occupied, until 1858, by the three-story edifice known as the Apprentices' Library.

Clustering around the last-named establishment, and forming part of its authentic records, are so many

The County Clerk's apartments were in the same edifice, and in the upper story the Judges of several

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 283–288.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 283–288.

Exchange building was quite a large edifice at the corner of Fulton and Cranberry streets, and the third story

Sheriffs' administrations, and of the residences of many of them and their families in the dwelling part

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 270–274.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 270–274.

transcribe, however, an account of one of the largest fires that occurred in Brooklyn in the earliest part

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 278–283.

in The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921), 2:

The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, 2 vols. New York: Doubleday, 1921. pp. 278–283.

Demarest with reference to the Brooklyn of former days, "most of which he saw, and part of which he was

the hand of Washington himself on one of his visits here, and had lived among men who took an active part

The demolition took place in the early part of the present century, some fifty-five or sixty years since

a private in Thirteenth Regiment; served the following hundred days in Baltimore, Washington, and parts

—Spottsylvania; In the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse (Virginia, May 8–21, 1864), part of Grant's

—North Anna; The Battle of North Anna (Virginia, May 23–26, 1864) was part of General Grant's Overland

June 2.

For some of George Whitman's prison correspondence, see his letters of October 2, 1864 and October 23

ended on May 30, 1864 (see above note), although a minor skirmish erupted at Bethesda Creek on June 2.

as the Battle of Poplar Spring Church or the Battle of Peebles' Farm (Virginia, September 30–October 2,

For some of George Whitman's prison correspondence, see his letters of October 2, 1864 and October 23

The original Military Garden was that part of the edifice nearest to Joralemon street, and was standing

The large edifice, the eastern part of Military Garden, was put up about 1826 or '7, by Mr.

These gardens were a conspicuous feature in Brooklyn during the earlier part of the present century.

These stretched away down to the river, from the upper part of Fulton street.

Here in the early part of the century, the dominic often preached in the Dutch tongue.

He took an early part in the struggle, being roused by the assault of the Baltimore mob on the United

him the next day to Sergeant-Major, in which capacity he left with the regiment in October, 1861, as part

The latter part of the summer of 1862, with the fall and early winter, gave Lieutenant Whitman and his

On the 30th of September last a reconnoissance reconnaissance in strong force—comprising part of the

Ninth and part of the Fifth Corps—advancing to the west, attacked some rebel works near Poplar Grove

alternately the Battle of Poplar Spring Church or the Battle of Peebles' Farm (Virginia, September 30–October 2,

For some of his prison correspondence, see his October 2, 1864, and October 23, 1864, letters to his