ated possible “eunuchoidism,” attributable to an androgen de¤ciency. See also
WWBB, 31–33.
- Ernest Rhys, Everyone Remembers (New York: Cosmopolitan, 1932), quoted
in Myerson, Whitman in His Own Time, 328; New York Times, January 26, 1890, 1:4. - On the periodical coverage of Whitman’s death, see Allen, Solitary Singer,
541–542. On Whitman as a photographic subject, see Folsom, Whitman’s Native Rep-
resentations, 147 and passim; for an impressive photograph of the mourners gathered
before Whitman’s house on Mickle Street, see Loving, Walt Whitman, following 368. - On Whitman’s tomb and his funeral, see WWC, 6:146–147, 210–212; Loving,
Walt Whitman, 479–481. His friend and literary executor Thomas B. Harned paid
$1,500 toward the cost of the tomb (see Reynolds, Walt Whitman, 572); Barrus, Whit-
man and Burroughs Comrades, 296, 341. William Roscoe Thayer, among others, ob-
jected to Whitman’s pretence of poverty while setting aside money for his tomb;
see Thayer’s “Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman” (1919), reprinted in Myer-
son, Whitman in His Own Time, 304. On the destruction of Whitman’s brain by
the American Anthropometric Society, see Brian Burrell, “The Strange Fate of
Whitman’s Brain,” WWQR 20 (2003), 103–133; Philip W. Leon, Walt Whitman and
Sir William Osler (Toronto ECW Press, 1999), 194–205.
79.WWC, 8:483. - Longaker, “Last Sickness and Death,” 103.
- John L. Coulehan, review of Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler: A Poet
and his Physician, by Philip W. Leon, Academic Medicine 71 (1996), 930. - Lozynsky, Richard Maurice Bucke, 185. Bucke repeated this sentiment in let-
ters to various friends. On Burroughs’s remarks, see Barrus, Whitman and Burroughs
Comrades, 299. Burroughs was surely aware of Whitman’s several comparisons of his
persona to that of Christ in Leaves of Grass. - Bucke, Cosmic Consciousness, 257. “At the Graveside of Walt Whitman,” Con-
servator (memorial issue, April 1892). - “At the Graveside of Walt Whitman,” cited by Scott Giantvalley, Walt Whit-
man, 1838–1939: A Reference Guide (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1981), 114. - Traubel felt, or perhaps imagined, that in a ¤nal gesture Whitman had made
him his heir-designate. In a rather awkward poem about the poet’s last hours he
wrote that as he sat bedside his “dead comrade”:
I sat by your bedside, I held your hand;
Once you opened your eyes: O look of recognition! O look of bestowal!
Reaching through me, through others through me, through all at last,
our brothers,
A hand to the future.Quoted in Walker, “I Knew Walt Whitman,” 73.
- See, especially, Joann P. Krieg, “Without Walt Whitman in Camden,” WWQR
14 (1997), 85–112. Three more examples follow: In 1892 Julian Hawthorne’s American
literature text characterized Whitman as “incontinently” showing off “like a bull in
a china shop”; Max Nordau’s widely circulated Degeneration called him “mystically
274 / Notes to Pages 239–241