In Whitman’s closet in the upstairs hallway: “a dark sack coat, with dark gray waistcoat and trousers, low shoes, and grey woolen socks;” “six new [cotton] shirts” Mary Davis had made for him, one of which she’d decorated with lace around collar and cuffs; “his unclasped, antiquated arctics,” cane, and hat with the brim pushed up in front.

 

          N. Y. Tribune quoted in Elizabeth Leavitt Keller, Walt Whitman in Mickle Street (New York: Mitchell Kennerly, 1921), p. 70; “six new [cotton] shirts:” Keller 45,70; “his unclasped, antiquated arctics:” Keller 13.