This is the seventh volume of the daily record, over the last four years of Walt Whitman s life, of his conversations with his young friend and literary executor Horace Traubel.Traubel managed Whitman s literary and personal affairs and assisted him in the preparation for publication of the final (Deathbed) edition of "Leaves of Grass. "Each evening he wrote down a brief description of how Whitman appeared to him that day and then recorded all the...