How did Walter get Gale’s book?

It’s pretty straight up, Gale lent him a copy, in his most nerdy way, must have had with him in the lab or his car. He definitely got it after that one cook with him.

How did Walt get the Walt Whitman book?

Gale Boetticher had given Walt a copy of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, a collection of poems, which has been seen several times since. Prior to giving this gift, Boetticher, an avid Whitman fan, recites “When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer”, one of the poems found in Leaves of Grass.