have already mentioned them in a former letter. Yesterday I rode the trip I describe, with a friend on a 5th Avenue stage No. 26, a sort [of] namesake of yours, Pete Calhoun, I have known him 9 or 10 years. The day was fine and I enjoyed the trip muchly. So I try to put in something in my letters to give you an idea of how I pass part of my time and what I see here in New York. Of course I have quite a variety. Some four or five hours. every day I most always spend in study, writing, etc. The other serves for a good change. I am writing two or three pieces. I am having finished about 225 copies of Leaves of Grass bound up, to supply orders. Those copies form all that is left of the old edition. Then there will be no more in the market till I have my new and improved edition set up and stereotyped, which it is my present plan to do the ensuing winter at my leisure in Washington. Mother is well, I take either dinner or supper with her every day. Remember me to David Stevens and John Towers. Tell Harry on No. 11 I will go to the hall again and see if I can find that man in the Sheriff's office. I send you my love and so long for the present. Yours for life, dear Pete (and death the same).

A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

A THE WRITINGS OF WALT WHITMAN

(New Standard Editions published 1897-98

By Small, Maynard & Company, Boston.)

LEAVES OF GRASS: Containing Whitman's Poetical Work complete, as collected by him in the Osgood Edition of 1881, together with the subsequent Ane nexes to Leaves of Grass (Sands at Seventy and Good Bye my Fancy), the whole finally revised and corrected by Whitman, during his last illness, for the 1891 edition; with a new section of poems, under the title, suggested by Whitman himself for such a purpose, of Old Age Echoes, concluding with A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads, Whitman's summing-up (in prose) of the motives and purposes of Leaves of Grass. Containing an Index of First Lines and three illustrations: a frontispiece portrait from the old-age photograph by Gutekunst; a double-page facsimile of the original manuscript of a poem; and the steel portrait (from a daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison) which originally appeared in the first edition (1855), now re-engraved. One volume, crown 8vo, pp. 455.

COMPLETE PROSE WORKS: Containing in a single volume all the material previously published in Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs, and Good Bye my Fancy: including Autobiographical Notes; Memoranda of the Secession War and Army Hospitals; Nature Notes and Memoranda of Travel; Democratic Vistas; Prefaces to Various Editions of Leaves of Grass; a Collection of Pieces written in Early Youth (1834-42); and Essays, Critical and Speculative. With five full-page reproductions illustrating the autobiographical character of the book, namely: a frontispiece portrait from the painting by Charles Hine (1859); views of the Poet's birthplace, at West Hills, Long Island; his residence ("the little house in Mickle Street") in Camden, New Jersey; his tomb at Harleigh Cemetery, near Camden; and a portrait of Elias Hicks; together with a facsimile reproduction from one of Whitman's Note-books. One volume, crown 8vo, 540 pp.

CALAMUS: A series of letters written, during the years 1868-80, by Walt Whitman to a young friend (Peter Doyle). Edited by Richard Maurice Bucke, M.D., with an introduction including a recent interview with Peter Doyle; a table of chronological notes of Whitman's life; and 110 letters illustrating one of the closest of those friendships with the common people which were - so characteristic of Whitman. Illustrated by a hitherto unpublished portrait

of Whitman and Doyle and a facsimile reproduction of one of the letters. One volume, 12m0, pp. viii, 173.

THE WOUND DRESSER: A series of letters written from the hospitals at Washington, during the War of the Rebellion, by Walt Whitman, containing three letters published in war time in The New York Times and The Brooklyn Eagle, and fifty-nine letters to his mother and other members of the poet's family. Edited by Richard Maurice Bucke, M.D. Illustrated by war-time portraits of Whitman and his mother. One volume, 12m0, pp. x, 201.

B

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL

I BOOKS

WALT WHITMAN, by R. M. Bucke, M.D., Phil. 1883 (authorized biography), with portrait of Whitman from painting by Gilchrist, and from photograph taken in 1880, portraits of Whitman's father and mother, and pen sketches in Long Island by Pennell. Contents: Chronology, Biographical Sketch, Personnel, Conversation, Letters from W. D. O'Connor and his "Good Gray Poet,' History of Leaves of Grass, Analysis of Poems, Appendix: Contemporaneous Criticisms.

IN RE WALT WHITMAN, ed. by Whitman's literary executors, H. L. Traubel, R. M. Bucke, T. B. Harned, Phil. 1893 (supplementary to Dr. Bucke's Walt Whitman, 1883). Contents: Love and Death: A Symphony by J. A. Symonds, Walt Whitman and his Poems by Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, An English and American Poet by Walt Whitman, Notes from Conversations with George W. Whitman (1893) by H. L. Traubel, A Woman's Estimate of Walt Whitman by Anne Gilchrist, The Man Walt Whitman by R. M. Bucke, Letters in Sickness (Washington, 1873) by Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman and his Recent Critics by J. Burroughs, Walt Whitman at Date by H. L. Traubel, "The Good Gray Poet," Supplemental, by W. D. O'Connor, Walt Whitman by Gabriel Sarrazin (tr. fr. French), Dutch Traits of Walt Whitman by W. S. Kennedy, Poet and Philosopher and Man by H. L. Traubel, Quaker Traits of Walt Whitman by W. S. Kennedy, Walt Whitman by Karl Knortz (tr. fr. German), Walt Whitman, the Poet of American Democracy, by Rudolph Schmidt (tr. fr. Danish), " Leaves of Grass" and Modern Science by R. M. Bucke, Liberty in Literature, by R. G. Ingersoll, Walt Whitman by T. W. Rolleston (tr. fr. German), Round Table with Walt Whitman by H. L. Traubel, Walt Whitman and the Cosmic Sense by R. M. Bucke, Immortality by Walt Whitman, The Poet of Immortality by T. B. Harned, Walt Whitman and the Common People by J. Burroughs, My Summer with Walt Whitman (1887) by S. H. Morse, The Last Sickness and Death of Walt Whitman by Daniel Longaker, Last Days of Walt Whitman by J. W. Wallace, At the Graveside of Walt Whitman by H. L. Traubel (addresses by Harned, Brinton, Bucke, Ingersoll), Poems and Minor Pieces. CAMDEN'S COMPLIMENTS TO WALT WHITMAN May 31, 1889, Notes, Addresses,

Letters, Telegrams, ed. by Horace L. Traubel, Phil. 1889. Frontispiece: photograph of Whitman's bust from the clay model by Sidney H. Morse, 1887. Contents: Autobiographic Note, Response, To Walt Whitman (poem) by Ernest Rhys, "Recorders Ages Hence" by H. L. Traubel, Addresses by Gray, Harned, Gilchrist, Williams, Clifford, Garrison, Armstrong, Gilder, Hawthorne, Garland, Bonsall, Eyre; Letters from Tennyson, Rossetti, William Morris, Dowden, Carpenter, Burroughs, Stedman, Howells, Whittier, Aldrich, Furness, Childs, Mark Twain, Carleton, Curtis, and others; Telegrams and Postscript.

WALT WHITMAN, by William Clarke, London, 1892, with portrait of Whitman. Contents: Personality, Message to America, Art, Democracy, Spiritual Creed.

WALT WHITMAN, A Study, by J. A. Symonds, with portrait and four illustrations, London, 1893. Contents: Notice of Walt Whitman's Life, Study of Walt