With the people of Canada, as a whole, he was well pleased. He liked their benevolent care for the weak and infirm in body and mind; and thought them in every respect worthy of the destiny which he believed that he foresaw--the destiny of citizenship in the Republic. FOOTNOTES: [557] _Comp. Prose_, 150. [558] The incidents may not all belong to this visit. [559] Bucke, 213. [560] _W. W. Autobiographia_, 205 n. [561] _Comp. Prose_, 311, 312; Donaldson, 29-31. [562] _Comp. Prose_, 519. [563] Bucke, 215, 216, etc. [564] _Cf._ _Comp. Prose_, 75. [565] MSS. Wallace. [566] _Comp. Prose_, 75. [567] MSS. Wallace. [568] _Comp. Prose_, 96-98. [569] _Comp. Prose_, 91, 92, 98. [570] _Ib._, 84, 94, 116; _cf. supra_, 230. [571] _Ib._, 193. [572] MSS. Diary; Calamus, 170. [573] _Anne Gilchrist_, by H. H. G. [574] See _supra_, 225-7. [575] Gilchrist, 190. [576] _Ib._, Preface. [577] MSS. Diary. [578] _In re_, 370. [579] _Comp. Prose_, 270. [580] Bucke, 216, 217. [581] _Comp. Prose_, 277 n. [582] Tom Swan's _Edward Carpenter_, 1902, and article by E. C. in _Labour Prophet_, May, 1894. [583] Carpenter (_a_). [584] G. Gilchrist, _op. cit._; _cf._ Carpenter (_b_). [585] Calamus, 10 n. [586] MS. of Dr. E. P. Bucke, and _W. W.'s Diary in Canada_, v. [587] Bucke, 50; _Whit. Fellowship, Memories of W. W._, by R. M. B. [588] MSS. Diary. [589] _Comp. Prose_, 106, 122. [590] _Ib._, 506. [591] _Comp. Prose_, 132, 149. [592] _L. of G._, 358. [593] _Comp. Prose_, 134. [594] _Comp. Prose_, 136. [595] _Ib._, 140. [596] Calamus, 170-72. [597] Bucke, 63. [598] MSS. Berenson (_a_). [599] _Comp. Prose_, 146. [600] _L. of G._, 157. [601] _Comp. Prose_, 153-58, and _Whit. Fellowship Memo. of W. W._ (Bucke); Bucke, 48. [602] _L. of G._, 325. [603] _Comp. Prose_, 154. [604] _Diary in Canada_, 10, 11. [605] _Comp. Prose_, 132. [606] Bucke, 49. [607] _Diary in Canada_, 41. CHAPTER XVII THE SECOND BOSTON EDITION After a winter in Camden, Philadelphia and the country, among friends old and new, Whitman paid his second visit to Boston. The house-tied stationary years of 1873 to 1876 had been succeeded by a period of considerable activity, both mental and physical. On the 14th of April, he gave his lecture on the "Death of Abraham Lincoln," at the Hawthorn Rooms.[608] It was the third year of its delivery; on the two previous occasions it had been read in New York and Philadelphia; and he purposed thus annually to commemorate an event which appeared to him as perhaps the most significant of his time, an event which the American people could ill afford to forget.