Letters by Whitman

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/biography/correspondence/index.html

This resource is an item from the Walt Whitman Archive and looks specifically at Walt Whitman's correspondence throughout his life. By examining this, it is possible to get a better understanding of who Walt Whitman was as well as the detailed ongoings of his personal life. These letters are chronologically organized into his daily, Civil War, and Reconstruction-era correspondence. This is important because the reader can get a look at what influenced Whitman within his 600 letters that were written and received during the Civil War, as well as other important letters such as those written to Ralph Waldo Emerson asking him to support Whitman and possibly assist him by getting him a literary job while he was going through family struggles. These are just a few examples of some of the major events that took place during Whitman's life that have effected his writing, and more specifically the creation of Leaves of Grass.