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COME UP FROM THE FIELDS FATHER. up from the fields father, here's a letter from our Pete, And come to

sobs, The little sisters huddle around speechless and dismay'd,) See dearest mother, the letter says Pete

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

Whole letters were published by Bucke in Calamus, which contains Whitman's letters to Peter Doyle, and

The war, however, goes on, and the message about Pete, the grief-stricken mother's only son, causes the

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

Calamus also includes an account of an interview with Doyle, conducted after Whitman's death.

personal reflections in his notebooks around 1870 in which he anguishes over his affection for Peter Doyle

The extensive body of letters Whitman wrote to Civil War soldiers, and especially Peter Doyle, usually

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

Nonetheless, in a letter to Peter Doyle remarking on the commencement, Whitman seemed to feel his poem

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

Bemoaning lover problems, Whitman in 1870 compared Vaughan with Peter Doyle, admonishing himself: "Remember

with Charles Eldridge, Lewy Brown, William and Ellen O'Connor, John and Ursula Burroughs, and Peter Doyle

critical biography, Notes on Walt Whitman as Poet and Person (1867).Whitman found friendship with Peter Doyle

Thereafter, the comrades were inseparable, spending long hours riding on Doyle's streetcar, or taking

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

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

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

He boasted to Pete Doyle of his "capacity of flirtation & carrying on with the girls" (Whitman 62), adding

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

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

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

Whitman's major lovers—Fred Vaughan, Peter Doyle, and Harry Stafford—were cut from much the same depressive

Whitman caroused with Vaughan at Pfaff's tavern and with Doyle in its Washington equivalents, enabling

Doyle was his lover for roughly ten years.

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

On four occasions, he was photographed with young male friends—Peter Doyle in the 1860s, Harry Stafford

"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.

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

Although Whitman was not an eyewitness, his close companion, Peter Doyle, was at Ford's Theater, and

Whitman made impressive use of Doyle's story in his imaginative retelling.

seeing her, or meeting her" (Notebooks 2:889), he had originally written "him," referring to Peter Doyle

veterans from all corners of the United States.Whitman widened his circle of friends, meeting Peter Doyle

Kaplan's point is borne out by a brief and informative biography of Peter Doyle, Martin G.

Murray's "'Pete the Great': A Biography of Peter Doyle" (1994), which sketches Whitman's relationship

War—a relationship well-known since 1897, after the appearance of a collection of Whitman's letters to Doyle

About Doyle, Kaplan concluded: "Maybe it doesn't matter"; the "evidence" for Whitman's homosexuality

"'Pete the Great': A Biography of Peter Doyle." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 12 (1994): 1-51. 

Murray Doyle, Peter (1843–1907) The romantic friendship that Walt Whitman shared with Peter Doyle embodied

whom Pete made a home.

In the mid-1880s Whitman and Doyle renewed their intimacy when Doyle—now employed by the Pennsylvania

Bucke to edit and publish Whitman's letters to Doyle, which Doyle had entrusted to Bucke in 1880.

"Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 12 (1994): 1–51.

whom Pete made a home.

there to give.In the mid-1880s Whitman and Doyle renewed their intimacy when Doyle—now employed by the

Doyle attended Whitman's funeral at Harleigh Cemetery.Peter Doyle made a lasting contribution to Whitman

"Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle."

Doyle, Peter (1843–1907)

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.