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Outside, the sky perfectly clear & cloudless, the fountain playing, the trees across the open space,

—Evening spent in the house—chiefly in learning & playing "Pedro" with Willie & his friends.

Then fortunately it cleared up and we began driving & playing tennis, I went fishing with our vicar's

Mariechen and Frank Costelloe & I however have been reading one of Sophocles' plays to-gether.

November Boughs (1888), and Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) are important Whitman sources for the names of plays

Whitman called Cushman the greatest performer he had seen and admired her for playing any role that would

toward Forrest, however, and barely mentions Macready in his articles.Thomas Hamblin (1800–1853) played

Kemble (1809–1893) impressed Whitman in his early days; he claims to have seen her every night she played

Price Elizabeth Lorang Zachary King Eric Conrad Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 2 October [1868]

Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 15 March [1872]

mothers is interesting to me— —Give my love to Mr & Mrs Nash— Your loving old Walt Walt Whitman to Peter

funny how many of my books are sent for from Ireland — Love to you dearest son— Walt Walt Whitman to Peter

Nash—& to Parker & Wash Milburn—& in short to all my friends— Your old Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle

up—which puts me in better spirits—good bye for present, my dear loving son— Your Walt Walt Whitman to Peter

been—he says I am doing very well— John Burroughs is here temporarily—he comes in often—Eldridge and Peter

impression of their majesty and beauty: the Canadian Falls especially seeming to testify to the elemental play

s home.Shall long know this day, for its play upon the sense of the sublime.No letter for either of us

to the theatre last week, & enjoyed it, "Francesca da Rimini"—lots of love-making & hugging in the play

spied me in front, & sent around to ask me to come behind the scenes, which I did at the end of the play

Commonplace Book on January 30: "B[arrett] sent for me behind the stage & I went at the close of the play

To Richings's Caliban, how sweetly she could then play and sing the gentle Ariel.

Hers was playing.

She "did" Marianne, in The Wife; and many a man, who had visited the theatre for years, then saw playing

He started performing at the Park Theatre as a child, acted in numerous plays, and, later, leased and

She acted in many principal women's roles of the era, including playing Juliet in William Shakespeare's

remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing

For more information on Levi Slamm and the Locofocos, see: Peters Adams, The Bowery Boys: Street Corner

Volume I: 1834–1846 (New York: Peter Lang, 1998).

Herbert Bergman, vol. 1, 1834–1846 [New York: Peter Lang, 1998], 309–310). This piece is unsigned.

Volume I: 1834–1846 (New York: Peter Lang, 1998).

for his notions of Atlantis as an antediluvian civilization and for his belief that Shakespeare's plays

Bacon, an idea he argued in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

O'Connor attempted to defend Ignatius Loyola Donnelly's Baconian argument—his theory that Shakespeare's plays

idea Donnelly wrote about in his book The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in Shakespeare's Plays

Whitman saw in New York in the 1850s, and who Whitman mentions in the section of Specimen Days entitled Plays

And again, "We are players in a play: this is all part of the play, to be welcomed along with the rest

count great, O soul, to penetrate the themes of mighty books, Absorbing deep and full from thoughts, plays

Peters and David G. Halliburton (Lafayette: English Literature in Transition: 1880-1920, 1966), 8.

finds the revision rather pointless because he feels that for all the poet's supposed intimacy with Peter

New York: Peter Smith, 1932. Mississippi River

Your loving old Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 22 March [1872]

Walt Pete I will probably send the shirts early next week by express Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 28

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 24–25 July [1873]

likely Charlotte Cushman (1816–1876), an American stage actress who also lived in Europe and could play

Volume I: 1834–1846 (New York: Peter Lang, 1998).

likely Charlotte Cushman (1816–1876), an American stage actress who also lived in Europe and could play

remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing

remain in the same room with you, Little you know the subtle electric fire that for your sake is playing

Then spoke tenderly of Peter Doyle. "I wonder where he is now? He must have got another lay.

He listened intently while Anna played a fine air (and played it finely) on the piano.

Scovel once told me of an old play she had heard of or seen—a play in which much hangs upon the saying

No. 1’s playing was nearly as good as was expected by her men—it being anticipated by them that about

passed the TIMES office, they halted and gave us some of the tallest kind of cheering, while the band played

another occasion many years later, in 1888, Whitman was deep in memories of his dearest companion Peter

I can't think of the author's name—my memory plays me such shabby tricks these days—(though I should

We do not know if Whitman was aware that the author was born in Limerick, birthplace of his friend Peter

Peter Barr Sweeny, one of the original Ring organizers, was a Tammany sachem and city chamberlain, and

He wrote to Peter Doyle: The N.

The Nibelungen vast passions of man, with play of heat & cold & storm, like undercurrents, or volcanos

See also Whitman's description of "youngsters playing 'base,' a certain game of ball," in an article

Recchia (New York: Peter Lang, 1998), 477. the same may be said of cricket—and, in short, of all games

Boys should be encouraged to play the game.

In country places it is often played with flat stones, or with horse-shoes.

Most of our American cities have grounds where it is regularly played.

See also Whitman's description of "youngsters playing 'base,' a certain game of ball," in an article

Alluded to Castle with considerable affection—"he plays, I see—and who else, do you know?"

W. himself very philosophical over it, said, "This is not the first time I have been played with—I could

Lychenheim sent W. back by Ed a book of the play. Wednesday, August 7, 1889

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 21–23 June 1871

Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 23 February 1872

Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 6 February [1874]

hadn't the heart to turn 'em out—God help the homeless & moneyless this weather— Walt Walt Whitman to Peter

Nash, & to all inquiring friends Your old Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 3 December [1874]

Good bye for this time dear boy— Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 12–13 March [1874]

Peter’s River way to the Missouri, every “extra claim” is taken up.

me over 10 years ago) boxed up & stored with other traps in Washington at the house of old Mr Nash, Peter

a cloudy drizzly day here & heavy mist—There is nothing very new or special—There was a big match played

another is to come off between a New York & the Philadelphia club I believe—thousands go to see them play

On the following day the Nationals played the New York Atlantics.

Foster's poem quotes, echoes, and plays upon Whitman's epigraph poem for the 1876 and 1891–92 editions

Volume I: 1834–1846 (New York: Peter Lang, 1998).

Recchia (New York: Peter Lang, 1998), 1: 93.

For more on financial bubbles, see: Peter M.

Volume I: 1834–1846 (New York: Peter Lang, 1998).

Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and The First Leaves of Grass, 1840-1855 (New York: Peter

Volume I: 1834–1846 (New York: Peter Lang, 1998).