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down by the creek —Passed between sauntering —the hickory saplings —& " Honor is the subject of my story
noted that Whitman was fond of quoting Cassius's speech to Brutus, "Well, honour is the subject of my story
I think of being over with you (in all probability) Sunday next, say to dinner about 2.
I am sure as I can be all of those elaborated and lengthy parts from Man's Moral Nature should be ruled
March 31 '82 U S A Down here again spending a few days—nothing very different—pretty much the same story
Whitman was at Glendale from March 18 to 22, March 26 to 30, and April 2 to 7 (Whitman's Commonplace
It is postmarked: Haddonfield | Jan | 2 | N.J.; London, N.W. | C M | Ja 14 | 82.
life"; see Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Charles Godfrey Leland (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1906), 2:
Beach's husband which appeared in the New-York Saturday Press on June 2; see Gay Wilson Allen, The Solitary
one of those nice long rambling drives with George Stafford, in the roomy old light wagon, (a good part
Camden Monday evn'g evening April 2 Think of coming over to-morrow tomorrow Tuesday (say by 1½ o'clock
)—to stay perhaps till Thursday afternoon— WW Walt Whitman to Anne Gilchrist, 2 April [1877]
April 2 was on Monday in 1877.
In his February 2, 1879, letter to "Dear Darling Walt," Herbert mentioned the development of a "tenfold
establishment of the Basic Bessemer Process; see Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society, 2
. | Apr | 12 | 2 (?) M | (?).
Anne Gilchrist wrote after landing in Glasgow on June 20 and on August 2 from Durham, where her son Percy
Whitman visited the Staffords from July 2 to 9.
On August 2, 1879, Anne Gilchrist described her grandson and the Durham Cathedral (The Letters of Anne
of color that would be your first feeling, & would fill you as it did me—it is a very simple scene (story
sister is off to church somewhere—brother down stairs balancing his acct's accounts —I up here in my 3d story
their barracks they lie—in those boarded Washington hospital barracks, whitewashed outside and in, one story
See Whitman's letter from January 2–4, 1863 .
Gray: Since I left New York, I was down in the Army of the Potomac in front with my brother a good part
not Virgil showing Dante on and on among the agonized & damned, approach what here I see and take a part
My notion is, too, that underneath his outside smutched mannerism, and stories from third-class county
I hire a bright little 3d story front room, with service, &c. for $7 a month, dine in the same house,
Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, 2 vols.
Manuscript as first rate , (including the opening part)—My opinion is that you had perhaps better work
very 'cute page about me, but as it happens by accident I had look'd looked over & read the piece in parts
see him—& he told O'Connor he had received a number of letters about that piece in the Times of Dec. 2,
had a present of a beautiful knife, a real Rogers' steel, to-day from the Attorney General—Mother, $2
Barrus, Whitman and Burroughs, 35), and he published O'Connor's review of Leaves of Grass on December 2,
Bardic Symbols," see Walt Whitman's January 20, 1860 letter to James Russell Lowell and Whitman's March 2,
Kirkwood N J New Jersey May 17 Dear John Burroughs I am passing a good part of my time down here at the
Eldridge of June 23, 1873, Whitman had known Kate Hillard's writings since 1871.
Perot, evidently a friend of Kate Hillard, called on the poet on April 3, according to Whitman's notation
my windows—I am writing this in my room— I am feeling just now well as usual in my general health—part
better the last few days—feel better—feel more like myself—I shall come & pay you a visit the first part
parties until a sensational account of Beecher's relations with Tilton's family appeared on November 2,
This note is endorsed: "R | 4 | 2 | 77."
His letter of December 2, 1866 was even more unreserved in its praise.
Louisa Orr Whitman left for Connecticut on July 2 (Whitman's Commonplace Book, Charles E.
Beginning July 2, Whitman took his meals with Caroline Wroth, the wife of a Philadelphia importer who
These later parts of the original 'S.
We propose an interval of four to six or eight months between the 2 vols. so that there is plenty of
Camden N J June 2 '82 Dear Baxter My friend John Sands, a veteran magazine & newspaper writer, has just
Guernsey — Walt Whitman If printed send me three or four copies— Walt Whitman to Sylvester Baxter, 2
article on April 2; evidently he returned the galleys of the "Notes" on April 9 (Whitman's Commonplace
It is postmarked: Camden | Nov | 14 | 2 PM | N.J.; P. O. | 11-14-82 | 7-1P | N.Y.
| 2(?) | 1885 | N.J.
. | Jun 19 83 | 2 30 PM; P.O. | 6-19-83 | 7-1 P | N.Y.
According to his Commonplace Book, Whitman sent the two books on August 2, but the postmark is clearly
request—Yes he can send you two copies fullest & latest ed'ns "Leaves of Grass"—The price of the two $4 (2
wheel chair but shall resume in a day or two—I am sitting here in the old den in Mickle st second story
| Feb 14 | 8 PM | 89; R | 2—15—89 | 6—1A—NY.
To-day quiet & warm & dull here muchly—I am sitting up in the 2d story room alone—door & windows open—Did
(knees to feet) from what appears to be absolute paralysis, abnegation— The Saturday Review (March 2)
Walsh published in The Saturday Review on March 2, 1889.
Fraudulent 'Leaves of Grass,'" about the pirated 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass, in The Critic on June 2.
Charles Fairchild, the president of a paper company, to whom Whitman sent the Centennial Edition on March 2,
The poem appeared with a prefatory comment upon Whitman's "lack of the spiritual element of thought" (2:
Jonathan Trumbull published "Walt Whitman's View of Shakspere" in Poet-lore, 2 (July 1890), 368–371.
Whitman's reply, "Shakspere for America," appeared in Poet-lore 2 (October 1890), 492–493, and was reprinted
been under a cloud, but I see it is plainly coming out—Love to you f'm me & all of us—I enclose $5, 2
for Mrs: M[apes], 2 for the dear mother & 1 for dear boy Glen & my best respects & well wishes to all
328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey US America Aug: 2 '86 A pleasant forenoon as I write, here by the
from Dr B[ucke] two days ago— all well— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Mary Whitall Smith Costelloe, 2
It is postmarked: Camden | Aug | 2 | 3 PM | N.J.
, an excerpt from a private correspondent about gifts of Americans to Walt Whitman (see 1597); June 2,
. | 3-25-87 | 2 A | N.Y.
. | Dec 2(?) | 6 PM | 87; F | 12-30-87 | 6 A | N.Y.
Thursday afternoon 1 2 past 2. Dear Mrs.
Camden New Jersey April 2 '82 My dear Dana Yes I am willing you should make extracts—Enclosed (suggestions
Dana, 2 April 1882
It is postmarked: Morrisania | Aug 9 | 2 PM | N.Y. CITY.
dinner—two hours—every thing just right every way—a dozen people there, (the family & relatives)—for my part
satisfactorily—& I have had my own way in every thing—the old name "Leaves of Grass" is retained—it will be a $2