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Boston: Published By Laurens Maynard At 287 Congress Street, 1897. First (trade) edition, first issue, following a limited edition of 35 large-paper copies, signed by Dr. Bucke, of which 25 were for sale. Myerson A14.1.b1. In addition to the letters by Whitman, who died in 1892, this book contains a very interesting interview with Peter Doyle, conducted by Bucke and Horace Traubel in 1895, in which "Mr. Doyle is reported almost absolutely in his own words." Presentation copy, inscribed at the top of the front free endpaper: "Patrick Dougherty With the regards of Pete Doyle". Walt Whitman's relationship with Peter Doyle was the deepest and the longest of his erotic-romantic relationships with younger men, the only such long-term relationship that Whitman ever enjoyed. It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of their relationship in either man's life. They met in 1865 and within a couple of years, Whitman's friends (e.g. William Douglas O'Connor) began to comment on how powerfully… Read More

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, Paternoster-Row; And Edward Moxon, Dover Street, 1835. First edition. Presentation copy to the poet's patron, William Lowther, the Earl of Lonsdale, inscribed "From The Author" on the half-title page. With the bookplate of the recipient's descendant Hugh Cecil, Fifth Earl of Lonsdale, on the front endsheet, & with the Lonsdale coat of arms on the front cover of the binding. Sonnet 43 on p. 229 is dedicated "To The Earl of Lonsdale"; & the recipient of the poem "Lines Written in the Album of the Countess of _______ Nov. 5, 1834" on p. 237 is identified by a pencil annotation in the blank as "Lonsdale". Wordsworth's great long poem, "The Excursion" (1814) was dedicated to William, Earl of Lonsdale, Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland & Westmorland, whom Wordsworth supported politically on numerous occasions, but particularly in the election of 1818, in which Wordsworth published Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmorland, "which helped seal the fate… Read More