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during his October 1868 visit to Providence, Rhode Island (see Walt's October 17, 1868 letter to Peter Doyle

Letter to Peter Doyle, September 6, I87o, SPL, p. 993· 3x.

But in a letter to Peter Doyle June 27, I872 (SPL, pp.

Letter to Peter Doyle, July I6, I87I, SPL, p. 996. THE HEROIC INVALID 337 I89.

I4-I5· 3· Letter to Peter Doyle, August 28, I873, Calamus, p.

See letter to Peter Doyle, December 3, 1875, Calamus, p. 163. 42.

COME up from the fields father, here's a letter from our Pete, And come to the front door mother, here's

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

COME up from the fields father, here's a letter from our Pete, And come to the front door mother, here's

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

In 1873, he wrote to his friend Peter Doyle, “I shall get out this afternoon, & over to the Reading room

Indeed, a few days later he wrote Doyle to inform him that he had resolved “to pair off with a friend

In his biographyof Peter Doyle, Martin G.

See “Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle,” Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 12 (Summer 1994): 1–51

“Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle.”

assisted with the move by "hiring a stout young laboring man" (see his September 25, 1868 letter to Peter Doyle

late September (see her August 26, 1868 letter to Walt and Walt's September 25, 1868 letter to Peter Doyle

during his October 1868 visit to Providence, Rhode Island (see Walt's October 17, 1868 letter to Peter Doyle

Louisa's August 26, 1868 letter to Walt Whitman and Walt Whitman's September 25, 1868 letter to Peter Doyle

“Dear Boy,” Whitman wrote in 1868 to Peter Doyle, a streetcar driver and ex-Confederate soldier whom

dearest comrade, & with more calmness than when I was there—I find it first rate to think of you, Pete

I will imagine you with your arm around my neck saying Good night, Walt — & me—Good night, Pete—” (COR

Whitman and Peter Doyle, ca. 1869. Photograph by M. P. Rice, Washington, DC.

“Dear Boy,” Whitman wrote to Doyle from New York in 1868, “I think of you very often, dearest comrade

Come up from the fields, father, here's a letter from our Pete; And come to the front door, mother—here's

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

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."

s letterto his mother and to Peter Doyle.

Portraitof Whitman and Doyle together,by Harry D.

Wiksell's personal recollectionsof Pete Doyle.

J., I give to my friend,Peter Doyle, my silverwatch. I give to H.

Doyle, Peter, 261. Finta, Alexander, 118, 119.

Little is known about the firm; Rice took the well-known photos of Whitman and Peter Doyle.

family, was attentive to the newsboys, drivers, and other carriers of the written word Yellow Joe, Pete

While there, he spent much of his time with non-southerners, with the important exception of Doyle.

On Whitman and Doyle, see Martin Murray, “Pete the Great: A Biography of Peter Doyle,” WWQR 12 (Summer

On Garfield, see WC 1:324; Doyle also mentions this habit of James Garfield’s (Bucke, Calamus, 32). 66

See also Whitman’s image of Dowden, Edward, 116, 117 neglect Doyle, Peter, 32, 143, 149, 218n11 drift

were nursing Walt after his paralytic stroke: "give my love to mrs oconor and remember me to peter doyl

family (again, though May 1873) far exceed in number those to any family member: forty-five to Peter Doyle

html That Walt began his revision earlier is also suggested in his October 9, 1868 letter to Peter Doyle

October 9, 1868 letter to Peter Doyle.

was happy Schlaf was resisting Bertz's assertions: "The question you raise about Calamus & [Peter] Doyle

The night before, in Washington, Peter Doyle, who liked the theater and was attracted by celebrities,

For his commemorative Lincoln lectures, which began in 1879, Whitman drew on Doyle's eyewitness account

Consider the memoirs ofPri vate Henry Robinson Berkeley, a Confederate soldier who, like Peter Doyle,

In corre spondence with Whitman, Doyle's love of the theater, including burlesque, is evident.

Come up from the fields, father, here's a letter from our Pete; And come to the front door, mother—here's

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

developed during his work in the hospitals (and indeed for his relationships after the war with Peter Doyle

In reviewing a collection ofWhitman's letters to Peter Doyle, issued significantly under the title Calamus

Whitman's former lover Peter Doyle, whom he had seen only infrequently since leaving Washington seven

But before making that trip, Walt and Pete spent a short time together in the nation's honeymoon capi

He told her that the next issue of his newspaper was to be about Peter Doyle.

"There are some things about Pete that I've not yet said."

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

indispensable source for the issue in question is the Boston Calamus edition of the letters to Peter Doyle

44-48. 2 Calamus—A Series of Letters Written During the Years 1868-1880 by W.W. to a Young Friend (Pete

Doyle).

Tree,” as we shall see, creates poetry just as much, and perhaps more so than the dramatic scene of Pete’s

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

express-wagon — I love him though I do not know him, The half-breed straps on his light boots to com- pete

At auction: Doyle, New York (September 30, 2020, lot 186) London label affixed to title page.

Whitman admits as much to another lover, Washington street- car driver Peter Doyle, in a September 2,

Peter Doyle’s long romantic friendship with the poet is well- established.

See Murray, “‘Pete the Great,’” 14. 44. Corr. 1:11. 45.

“‘Pete the Great’: A Biography of Peter Doyle.”

Maddock, 86 Garrison,William Lloyd, 25 Douglas, Stephen A., 6, 125–26 Gay, Getty, 91–92; “Royal Bohemian Doyle

us about him, in Washington, a part of his life—the part which he devoted to his young friend Peter Doyle—remains

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.

Price sode treats the Peter Doyle–Whitman relationship.

For discussion of this program, see Joann Krieg, “Walt and Pete in the Family Hour,”Walt Whitman Quarterly

has argued, Whitman also left a small cache of “marital” photographs taken with his boyfriends Peter Doyle

162 Chinese treaty with Japan, 174 Down by Law, 50, 52–54, 53 Chinese vernacular poetry, 175, 181, Doyle

Gerard Manley Hopkins Letter to Robert Bridges, October 18, 1882 I have read of Whitman's (1) "Pete"

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

Maynard had published Bucke’s Calamus, an edition of Whitman’s letters to Peter Doyle, in early 1897,

Elephant, his brother Young Elephant (who came afterward,) Tippy, Pop Rice, Big Frank, Yellow Joe, Pete

My favorite manu- script item is a postcard to Peter Doyle, which I was surprised to win on eBay.

copy of Calamus in order to ramp up the price of the book —after all, a copy of Calamus inscribed by Doyle

is currently being offered for $17,500 and Memoranda During the War, inscribed by Whitman to Doyle,

argument seems plausible in such cases as the infamous manuscript in which he refers to his lover, Peter Doyle

family’s trunks in letters of 1864, 1872, and, in separate requests to Charles Eldridge and Peter Doyle

Ethiopia Saluting the Colors,” 8 “Europe, the 72d and 73d Years of 147–50 These States” (“Resurgemus”), Doyle

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

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

"C up from the fields, father, here's a letter from our Pete; And come to the front door, mother—here's

The little sisters huddle around, speechless and dismayed); "See, dearest mother, the letter says Pete

Come Up from the Fields, Father. 1 COME up from the fields, father, here's a letter from our Pete; And

sisters huddle around, speechless and dis- may'd dismay'd ;) See, dearest mother, the letter says 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!

pointment at the loss it represents for then-emerging gay iden- tity.11 Whitman’s longtime companion Peter Doyle

; on Whit- double consciousness, ix man, 125 “Double V” campaign, 118 “For My People” (Walker), xi Doyle

Come up from the fields, father, here's a letter from our Pete; And come to the front door, mother—here's

little sisters huddle around, speechless and dis- may dismay'd ;) See, dearest mother, the letter says Pete

COME up from the fields father, here's a letter from our Pete, And come to the front door mother, here's

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

28 And even Binns, who implied that he knew the truth when he called the question "about Calamus+ Doyle

, 158, 253n Dostoyevsky, Fyodor M., 140 Gand, Eric, 226 Dowden, Edward, 212n Garland, Hamlin, 230n Doyle

COME up from the fields father, here's a letter from our Pete, And come to the front door mother, here's

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

express-wagon — I love him though I do not know him, The half-breed straps on his light boots to com- pete

Retorna dos campos, pai Retorna dos campos, pai, aqui está a carta do nosso Pete, E vem para a porta

soluços, As irmãzinhas amontoam-se em volta caladas e pálidas,) Vê, queridíssima mãe, a carta diz que Pete

Tanto George, seu irmão, quanto Peter Doyle, que foi seu amigo entre os 45 e os 50 anos de idade, afirmam

Lebens dauernde, innige, väterlich-zärtliche Kameradschaft mit dem jungen Irisch-Amerikaner Peter Doyle

„Piet, mein liebster Sohn“, schreibt er an Peter Doyle, „ich denke immer noch, ich werde durchkommen,

Elephant, his brother Young Elephant (who came afterward,) Tippy, Pop Rice, Big Frank, Yellow Joe, Pete

walks out from Washington, five, seven, perhaps ten miles and back; generally with my friend Peter Doyle

GERARD MANLEY H O PK IN S Letter to Robert Bridges, October 18, 1882 I have read ofWhitman's (1)"Pete

us about him, in Washington, a part ofhis life-the part which he devoted to his young friend Peter Doyle-remains

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