H. B. B.

London, January, 1905.

CONTENTS

PAGE
[Preface][vii]
[Table of Contents][xiii]
[List of Illustrations][xv]
[Abbreviations Employed in the Notes][xvii]
[Introduction: Whitman’s America][xix]
chap.
[I.]The Whitman’s of West Hills[1]
[II.]Boyhood in Brooklyn[10]
[III.]Teacher and Journalist[28]
[IV.]Romance (1848)[46]
[V.]Illumination[56]
[VI.]The Carpenter[79]
[VII.]Whitman’s Manifesto[95]
[VIII.]The Mystic[110]
[IX.]“Year of Meteors”[134]
[X.]The Testament of a Comrade[148]
[XI.]America at War[171]
[XII.]The Proof of Comradeship[190]
[XIII.]A Washington Clerk[205]
[XIV.]Friends and Fame[221]
[XV.]Illness247
[XVI.]Convalescence[258]
[XVII.]The Second Boston Edition[278]
[XVIII.]Among the Prophets[289]
[XIX.]He Becomes a Householder[301]
[XX.]At Mickle Street[314]
[XXI.]“Good-Bye, My Fancy”[325]
[Appendix A][347]
[Appendix B][349]
[Index][351]
[Methuen’s Catalogue of Books]
[Transcriber’s Note]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE
Walt Whitman at 35, from a daguerrotype in possession of Mr. J. H. Johnston[Frontispiece]
His Mother, from a daguerrotype in possession of Mr. Traubel[6]
West Hills: The Whitman House from the Lane (1904)[8]
W. W.’s Father[14]
West Hills: House from Yard[28]
New Orleans about 1850[48]
R. W. Emerson[92]
W. W. at 40, from a photo, in the possession of Mr. D. McKay[140]
W. W. at 44, from photo, in possession of Mr. Traubel[179]
William Douglas O’Connor[190]
John Burroughs in 1900[201]
Anne Gilchrist, from an amateur photograph[225]
W. W. at about 50[227]
Pete Doyle and W. W., by permission of Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co., from a photo, by Rice, Washington, 1869[231]
Peter G. Doyle at 57, from a photo, by Kuebler, Philadelphia[233]
No. 431, Stevens Street, Camden (1904)[240]
Facsimile of MS. of Portion of Preface to 1876 Edition, L. of G.[243]
Timber Creek, The Pool[259]
Timber Creek, below Crystal Spring[261]
Edward Carpenter at 43[267]
Dr. R. M. Bucke[270]
W. W. at 61[276]
Mr. Stafford’s Store, Glendale (1904)[286]
Mart Whitall Smith (Mrs. Berenson) in 1884[302]
W. W. and the Butterfly; aged 62; from photo, by Phillips & Taylor, Philadelphia[304]
Facsimile of Autograph Letter to Mr. R. P. Smith, in possession of Mrs. Berenson[315]
Mickle Street, Camden, from a photo, by Dr. J. Johnston[317]
Facsimile of Autograph Post Cards (1887-88), in possession of Mrs. Berenson[326]
W. W. at 70, by permission of Mr. Gutekunst, Philadelphia[331]
Robert G. Ingersoll[334]
W. W. at 72, from a photo, of Mr. T. Eakins, by permission of Messrs. Small, Maynard & Co.[338]
Horace Traubel[342]
The Tomb, Harleigh Cemetery (1904)[346]