W.W. Written Impromptu in an Album

1. Detailed Contents
2. Specimen Days
3. A Happy Hour's Command
4. Answer to an Insisting Friend
5. Genealogy—van Velsor and Whitman
6. The Old Whitman and Van Velsor Cemeteries
7. The Maternal Homestead
8. Two Old Family Interiors
9. Paumanok, and My Life on It as Child and Young Man
10. My First Reading—lafayette
11. Printing Office—old Brooklyn
12. Growth—health—work
13. My Passion for Ferries
14. Broadway Sights
15. Omnibus Jaunts and Drivers
16. Plays and Operas Too
17. Through Eight Years.
18. Sources of Character—results—1860
19. Opening of the Secession War
20. National Uprising and Volunteering
21. Contemptuous Feeling
22. Battle of Bull Run, July, 1861
23. The Stupor Passes—something Else Begins
24. Down at the Front
25. After First Fredericksburg
26. Back to Washington
27. Fifty Hours Left Wounded on the Field
28. Hospital Scenes and Persons
29. Patent-Office Hospital
30. The White House by Moonlight
31. An Army Hospital Ward
32. A Connecticut Case
33. Two Brooklyn Boys
34. A Secesh Brave
35. The Wounded from Chancellorsville
36. A Night Battle Over a Week Since
37. Unnamed Remains the Bravest Soldier
38. Some Specimen Cases
39. My Preparations for Visits
40. Ambulance Processions
41. Bad Wounds—the Young
42. The Most Inspiriting of All War's Shows
43. Battle of Gettysburg
44. A Cavalry Camp
45. A New York Soldier
46. Home-Made Music
47. Abraham Lincoln
48. Heated Term
49. Soldiers and Talks
50. Death of a Wisconsin Officer
51. Hospitals Ensemble
52. A Silent Night Ramble
53. Spiritual Characters Among the Soldiers
54. Cattle Droves About Washington
55. Hospital Perplexity
56. Down at the Front
57. Paying the Bounties
58. Rumors, Changes, Etc.
59. Virginia
60. Summer of 1864
61. A New Army Organization Fit for America
62. Death of a Hero
63. Hospital Scenes—incidents
64. A Yankee Soldier
65. Union Prisoners South
66. Deserters
67. A Glimpse of War's Hell-Scenes
68. Gifts—money—discrimination
69. Items from My Note Books
70. A Case from Second Bull Run
71. Army Surgeons—aid Deficiencies
72. The Blue Everywhere
73. A Model Hospital
74. Boys in the Army
75. Burial of a Lady Nurse
76. Female Nurses for Soldiers
77. Southern Escapees
78. The Capitol by Gas-Light
79. The Inauguration
80. Attitude of Foreign Governments During the War
81. The Weather—does It Sympathize with These Times?
82. Inauguration Ball
83. Scene at the Capitol
84. A Yankee Antique
85. Wounds and Diseases
86. Death of President Lincoln
87. Sherman's Army's Jubilation—its Sudden Stoppage
88. No Good Portrait of Lincoln
89. Releas'd Union Prisoners from South
90. Death of a Pennsylvania Soldier
91. W. W. The Armies Returning
92. The Grand Review
93. Western Soldiers
94. A Soldier on Lincoln
95. Two Brothers, One South, One North
96. Some Sad Cases Yet
97. Calhoun's Real Monument
98. Hospitals Closing
99. Typical Soldiers
100. "Convulsiveness"
101. Three Years Summ'd Up
102. The Million Dead, Too, Summ'd Up
103. The Real War Will Never Get in the Books
104. An Interregnum Paragraph
105. New Themes Entered upon
106. Entering a Long Farm-Lane
107. To the Spring and Brook
108. An Early Summer Reveille
109. Birds Migrating at Midnight
110. Bumble-Bees
111. Cedar-Apples
112. Summer Sights and Indolencies
113. Sundown Perfume—quailnotes—the Hermit-Thrush
114. A July After-Noon by the Pond
115. Locusts and Katy-Dids
116. The Lesson of a Tree
117. Autumn Side-Bits
118. The Sky—days and Nights—happiness
119. Colors—a Contrast
120. November 8, '76
121. Crows and Crows
122. A Winter Day on the Sea-Beach
123. Sea-Shore Fancies
124. In Memory of Thomas Paine.
125. A Two Hours Ice-Sail
126. Spring Overtures—recreations
127. One of the Human Kinks
128. An Afternoon Scene
129. The Gates Opening
130. The Common Earth, the Soil
131. Birds and Birds and Birds
132. Full-Starr'd Nights
133. Mulleins and Mulleins
134. Distant Sounds
135. A Sun-Bath-Nakedness
136. The Oaks and I
137. A Quintette
138. The First Frost—mems
139. Three Young Men's Deaths
140. February Days
141. A Meadow Lark
142. Sundown Lights
143. Thoughts Under an Oak—a Dream
144. Clover and Hay Perfume
145. An Unknown
146. Bird-Whistling
147. Horse-Mint
148. Three of Us
149. Death of William Cullen Bryant
150. Jaunt Up the Hudson
151. Happiness and Raspberries
152. A Specimen Tramp Family
153. Manhattan from the Bay
154. Human and Heroic New York
155. Hours for the Soul
156. Straw-Color'd and Other Psyches
157. A Night Remembrance
158. Wild Flowers
159. A Civility Too Long Neglected
160. Delaware River—days and Nights
161. Scenes on Ferry and River—last Winter's Nights
162. The First Spring Day on Chestnut Street
163. Up the Hudson to Ulster County
164. Days at J. B.'s Turf-Fires—spring Songs
165. Meeting a Hermit
166. An Ulster County Waterfall
167. Walter Dumont and His Medal
168. Hudson River Sights
169. Two City Areas, Certain Hours
170. Central Park Walks and Talks
171. A Fine Afternoon, 4 to 6
172. Departing of the Big Steamers
173. Two Hours on the Minnesota
174. Mature Summer Days and Nights
175. Exposition Building—new City Hall—river Trip
176. Swallows on the River
177. Begin a Long Jaunt West
178. In the Sleeper
179. Missouri State
180. Lawrence and Topeka, Kansas
181. On to Denver—a Frontier Incident
182. An Hour on Kenosha Summit
183. An Egotistical "Find"
184. New Senses: New Joys
185. Steam-Power, Telegraphs, Etc
186. America's Back-Bone
187. The Parks
188. Art Features
189. Denver Impressions
190. I Turn South and Then East Again
191. Unfulfilled Wants—the Arkansas River
192. A Silent Little Follower-The Coreopsis
193. The Prairies and Great Plains in Poetry
194. The Spanish Peaks—evening on the Plains
195. America's Characteristic Landscape
196. Earth's Most Important Stream
197. Prairie Analogies—the Tree Question
198. Mississippi Valley Literature
199. An Interviewer's Item
200. The Women of the West
201. The Silent General
202. President Hayes's Speeches
203. St. Louis Memoranda
204. Nights on the Mississippi
205. Upon Our Own Land
206. Edgar Poe's Significance
207. Beethoven's Septette
208. A Hint of Wild Nature
209. Loafing in the Woods
210. A Contralto Voice
211. Seeing Niagara to Advantage
212. Jaunting to Canada
213. Sunday with the Insane
214. Reminiscence of Elias Hicks
215. Grand Native Growth
216. A Zollverein Between the U.S. and Canada
217. The St. Lawrence Line
218. The Savage Saguenay
219. Capes Eternity and Trinity
220. Chicoutimi and Ha-Ha Bay
221. The Inhabitants—good Living
222. Death of Thomas Carlyle
223. Carlyle from American Points of View
224. A Couple of Old Friends—a Coleridge Bit
225. A Week's Visit to Boston
226. The Boston of To-Day
227. My Tribute to Four Poets
228. Millet's Pictures Last Items
229. Birds—and a Caution
230. Samples of My Common-Place Book
231. My Native Sand and Salt Once More
232. Hot Weather New York
233. Custer's Last Rally
234. Some Old Acquaintances—memories
235. A Discovery of Old Age
236. A Visit, at the Last, to R. W. Emerson
237. Other Concord Notations
238. Boston Common—more of Emerson
239. An Ossianic Night—dearest Friends
240. Only a New Ferry-Boat
241. Death of Longfellow
242. Starting Newspapers
243. The Great Unrest of Which We Are Part
244. At Present Writing—personal
245. After Trying a Certain Book
246. Final Confessions—literary Tests
247. Nature and Democracy—morality
248. Collect
249. One or Two Index Items
250. Democratic Vistas
251. Origins of Attempted Secession
252. Prefaces to "Leaves of Grass"
253. PREFACE, 1855 To first issue of Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, N.Y.
254. PREFACE, 1872 To As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free Now Thou Mother with
255. PREFACE, 1876 To the two-volume Centennial Edition of Leaves of Grass
256. W. W.
257. Poetry To-Day in America Shakspere—the Future
258. A Memorandum at a Venture
259. Death of Abraham Lincoln Lecture
260. Two Letters
261. I to — — — London, England
262. W. W.
263. II to — — — Dresden, Saxony
264. W. W.
265. Notes Left Over
266. Emerson's Books, (the Shadows of Them)
267. Ventures, on an Old Theme a Dialogue—
268. British Literature
269. Darwinism—(then Furthermore)
270. "Society"
271. Democracy in the New World
272. Foundation Stages—then Others
273. General Suffrage, Elections, Etc.
274. Who Gets the Plunder?
275. Friendship, (the Real Article)
276. Lacks and Wants Yet
277. Rulers Strictly Out of the Masses
278. Monuments—the Past and Present
279. Little or Nothing New, After All
280. A Lincoln Reminiscence
281. Freedom
282. Book-Classes—america's Literature
283. Our Real Culmination
284. An American Problem
285. The Last Collective Compaction
286. Appendix
287. Pieces in Early Youth
288. 1834-'42
289. Paumanok.
290. One Wicked Impulse
291. The Last Loyalist
292. Wild Frank's Return
293. The Boy Lover
294. The Child and the Profligate
295. Lingave's Temptation
296. Little Jane
297. Dumb Kate
298. Talk to an Art-Union
299. Blood-Money
300. Blood-Money
301. II · Look forth, first-born of the dead
302. Wounded in the House of Friends
303. Sailing the Mississippi at Midnight
304. November Boughs
305. Our Eminent Visitors
306. Past, Present and Future
307. The Bible as Poetry
308. Father Taylor (and Oratory)
309. The Spanish Element in Our Nationality
310. Walt Whitman.
311. What Lurks Behind Shakspere's Historical Plays
312. A Thought on Shakspere
313. Robert Burns as Poet and Person
314. A Word About Tennyson
315. Slang in America
316. An Indian Bureau Reminiscence
317. Some Diary Notes at Random
318. Negro Slaves in New York
319. Country Days and Nights—
320. Central Park Notes
321. Plate Glass Notes
322. Some War Memoranda
323. Jotted Down at the Time
324. Washington Street Scenes
325. The 195Th Pennsylvania
326. Left-Hand Writing by Soldiers
327. Central Virginia in '64
328. Paying the 1St U. S. C. T.
329. Five Thousand Poems
330. The Old Bowery
331. Notes to Late English Books
332. PREFACE TO THE READER IN THE BRITISH ISLANDS—"Specimen Days in
333. Additional Note, 1887
334. PREFACE TO "DEMOCRATIC VISTAS" WITH OTHER PAPERS—English Edition
335. Walt Whitman,
336. Abraham Lincoln
337. New Orleans in 1848
338. Small Memoranda
339. Thousands lost—here one or two preserv'd
340. Note to a Friend
341. W.W. Written Impromptu in an Album
342. W.W. the Place Gratitude Fills in a Fine Character
343. Last of the War Cases
344. Memorandized at the time, Washington, 1865-'66
345. Endnotes (such as they are) founded on
346. Elias Hicks
347. George Fox (and Shakspere)
348. Good-Bye My Fancy
349. An Old Man's Rejoinder
350. Old Poets
351. Ship Ahoy
352. For Queen Victoria's Birthday
353. American National Literature
354. Is there any such thing—or can there ever be?
355. Gathering the Corn
356. A Death-Bouquet
357. Pick'd Noontime, early January, 1890
358. Some Laggards Yet
359. The Perfect Human Voice
360. Shakspere for America
361. "Unassail'd Renown"
362. Inscription for a Little Book on Giordano Bruno
363. Splinters
364. Health, (Old Style)
365. Gay-Heartedness
366. As in a Swoon.
367. L. Of G.
368. After the Argument.
369. For Us Two, Reader Dear.
370. Memoranda
371. A World's Show
372. New York—the Bay—the Old Name
373. A Sick Spell
374. To Be Present Only
375. "Intestinal Agitation"
376. "Walt Whitman's Last 'Public'"
377. Ingersoll's Speech
378. Feeling Fairly
379. Old Brooklyn Days
380. Two Questions
381. Preface
382. An Engineer's Obituary
383. W. W. Old Actors, Singers, Shows, &C., in New York
384. Some Personal and Old-Age Jottings
385. Out in the Open Again
386. America's Bulk Average
387. Last Saved Items
388. Walt Whitman's Last {49}

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