Calder, Ellen M. "Personal Recollections of Walt Whitman." Atlantic Monthly 99 (June 1907), 825-34. [O'Connor's widow recalls her acquaintance with Whitman beginning in 1862: his hospital work, conversations at the O'Connor home, habits, personality, opinions (on book reviews, Emerson, "Free Love," marriage, the institution of the father, hatred of war, unfitness of blacks to vote), various anecdotes. As a protest against the double standard, he proclaimed the goodness and purity of all in nature. His tremendous optimism was uplifting, with faith in the triumph of right and justice.]