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that no matter affecting the Guano Islands in the Pacific Ocean, alleged to have been discovered by Captain

I advise that Captain Craig enter into personal communication with the District Attorney on the subject

Loring, Captain 3d Michigan Volunteers, on account of "two and three years Volunteers."

I have directed that he apply for information to Captain Loyd Wheaton, of the 20th Manitoba expedition

Sir: Your letter of the 12th instant enclosing a communication from Captain Gillespie, Engineer of the

Newcomb, amounting to $101, for expenses incurred in securing the deposition of Captain James Speed,

Tennessee—and that the act on account of which he is prosecuted was done during the rebellion, while he was Captain

Remak seems to have been made in good faith by Captain Hagen, and that the services were cannot pay S

South Norwalk Ct April 9th 1876 Walt Whitman My Dear Sir You may and doubtless will think very strange

I think you will understand my motive well enough to think this emanates from a sincere feeling of admiration

Hine is referencing the poem that Whitman would eventually title "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?"

more daily work than ever has fallen upon me to do the current season, & though I am well & contented, my

I too send you my love. And do you feel no disappointment because I now write but briefly.

My book is my best letter, my response, my truest explanation of all.

In it I have put my body & spirit. You understand this better & fuller & clearer than any one else.

…I am yet young enough to bear thee children, my darling, if God should so bless me.

And would yield my life for this cause with serene joy if it were so appointed, if that were the price

Johnny, you say you should like to see me—Well, no more than I should to see you, my darling boy.

Walt Whitman at this point deleted "Jack" and "my darling."

The first reading was "my loving boy."

Walt Whitman excised "Johnny" and "my dear son."

firm was in bankruptcy, Redfield noted that the balance due Whitman ($63.45) "will have to go in with my

I think my estate will pay 50 cents on the dollar: hope so at any rate."

Vinnie Ream, My dear friend, I would like to call on you, with an acquaintance of mine, John Swinton,

I could convey no idea to you of how it affects my soul.

I got it, looked into it with wonder, and felt that here was something that touched on depths of my humanity

even more than I should otherwise have done, to feel myself obliged to say at once that I do not see my

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

My Dear Mr Whitman: I have many messages for you from your friends in Europe which I promised and so

to come to you, but now I shall not see you till I return; for I am tired of towns and tomorrow set my

My address for a time will be San Francisco and since I cannot see you I should be proud of a letter

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

judson Judson came with her poor woman i felt great sympathy for her if i had had 5 doller dollars in my

paper concerning you and they thought so strange they hear from you i feel pretty smart only quite lame my

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman originally wrote, "my sympathy for her strong."

She then canceled the word "my" and the phrase "for her strong."

She inserted "i felt great" above the canceled word "my."

Clausen) your letter of 19th October, from Kopenhagen—& I cheerfully forward you my poems "Leaves of

I also enclose several articles & criticisms written about my books in England & America within the last

Please accept my best, brotherly good will.

Clausen, termed in Schmidt's letter "my old friend and countryman," corresponded with Schmidt after he

My Dear Mr.

…My brain is too sensitive.

Sept. 14, 18 71 My dear John Swinton: I have rec'd your note & enclosures.

I got it, looked into it with wonder, and felt that here was something that touched on depths of my humanity

soul's passionate yearning toward thy divine Soul, every hour, every deed and thought—my love for my

children, my hopes aspirations for them all taking new shape new height through this great love My Soul

Oh for all that this love is my pride my glory.

My soul must have her loving companionship everywhere & in all things.

I am yet young enough to bear thee children my darling if God should so bless me.

have been, & are, having a cold easterly rain storm here—I enclose, on loan, the last two photos of my

October 10, 1871, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman wrote to Walt Whitman: "george and loo and Jeff insists on my

Rossetti: Dear Sir & friend; Please accept these copies of my latest edition.

address is still there—(& always, always glad to hear from you, my friend.)

My " Leaves of Grass " I consider substantially finished, as in the copies I send you.

To " Democratic Vistas " it is my plan to add much, if I live.

Indeed, my friend, I wish to hear from you oftener.

Brooklyn, Friday, July 14. 1867 or '8 Dear Pete, It is pretty much the same with me, as when I wrote my

former letters—still home here with my mother, not busy at any thing particular but taking a good deal

letters that every thing goes on right with you on the road—give my best regards to my friends among

the drivers & conductors—Dear son, I shall now soon be coming back, & we will be together again, as my

Love to you, my dearest boy, & good bye for this time Walt.

My dear Sir: Mr.

that he had brought your books with him from America, a gift from you, and that they were lying in my

London chambers; Whereupon I wrote back to him, begging him to bring them himself to me at my country

I have now just called at my London lodgings, and found them on the table.

I had previously met with several of your works and read them with interest and had made up my mind that

writing at a venture to propose to you the publication, in a moderate-priced volume, of a full edition of my

poems, Leaves of Grass, in England under my sanction.

I make this proposition not only to get my poems before the British public, but more because I am annoyed

at the horrible dismemberment of my book there already & possibility of something worse.

Should my proposal suit you, go right on with the book.

which I wrote you Sept. 6th after I had received the precious packet, a letter in which I opened all my

I know too my own shortcomings, faults, flaws.

Love & Hope are so strong in me, my souls high aspirations are of such tenacious, passionate intensity

But I cannot like you clothe my nature in divine poems & so make it visible to you. Ah foolish me!

I felt as if my silence must kill me sometimes.

My Dear friend Walt Whitman I have written so many letters to you dictated by Charles that I feel a painful

although I thought he was likely to die any time, still I find I was unprepared for his departure & my

I look at my three children & think what a work I have got left to perform.

My Mother from Massachusetts is with me for a few days and it is a great comfort.

New Haven, Conn see notes Dec 18 1888 from Mrs Hine | ab't my dear friend C.H. Mrs.

to file a map of their route, etc., has been withdrawn, and that therefore there is no necessity for my

This Opinion was then considered by me as my final action upon the subject.

argument upon such facts, not intending to reëxamine the questions unless such facts should be brought to my

Co. not at any request, but, as I suppose, for my convenience in the event that cause for revising the

My consent to hear further argument on new facts was not intended as a recall of the Opinion, or as a

My dear Sir, When a man has ventured to dedicate his work to another without authority or permission,

This must be my excuse for sending to you the crude poem in wh. which you may perchance detect some echo

Grass in a friend's rooms at Trinity College Cambridge six years ago till now, your poems have been my

What one man can do by communicating to those he loves the treasure he has found, I have done among my

I fear greatly I have marred the purity & beauty of your thought by my bad singing.

evening March 8 Dear son, I thought I would write you just a short letter, if no more, as you are in my

I sometimes come to the office nights, to read, it is so quiet—and now I am sitting here at my desk,

So I thought of my dear boy, and will send a few words, though nothing particular to say.

Johnny, I send you my love, & good night for this time—the mail closes at 8, & it is some after 7 now

Willard, would in any degree affect my official action in that matter.

Perhaps it is not possible for one in your circumstances to view such cases as they appear to one in my

so disproportioned a share of attention given to it, and which was cheerfully given, (on account of my

But this was only a passing impulse on my part, and I desire you to feel that I retain no unkindness

or the mere addition of respectable names to the list of petitioners, will not produce a change in my

Dear Mr Whitman Please pardon my intrusion but as I am a great lover of literature especially poetry,

Miller's muse If you will be so kind as to answer my critical questions I will thank you very much.

volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My

My sister Martha at St. Louis was not in good health at last accounts.

will tell you further—Beulah asked much about you & William, and Jeannie— Nothing special with me or my

As it turns out, my death by railroad smash permeated the lower orders, (I suppose at second & third

My true love to you both—Jeannie, my darling, a kiss for you—good bye, Nelly dear— Walt The following

1871 febuary February 9 My dear walt Walt i write a few lines to say i received your letter yesterday

Hudson River horror is awful in the extreme it is enoughf enough to make one shudder) i am better of my

cold but are quite lame it seems as if the pain and lameness is all settled in my left knee i can walk

but yesterday i was quite bad but i think it will be better in a day or two i have had a weakness in my

right hand and wrist you can see by my writing it looks some like yours when your thumb was so bad how

For some days past my mother has been ill—some of the time very ill—and I have been nurse & doctor too

, as none of my sisters are home at present—But to-day she seems over it, if the favorable symptoms continue

they are now hanging up in mother's front room—& are the delight & ever-increasing gratification of my

I too wish to be with you once more—though it will be but so briefly — Much love to you, my dear friend

Furzedown, Streatham Surrey Sunday April 23. 1871 My dear Mr.

day—I have been very, very much occupied & intensely busy one way & another arrears of work claimed my

attention for you know I am not a "briefless barrister" & latterly my work has increased but I have

determined that this glorious spring time shall not pass without my carrying out the my my intention

smell of the flowers, the clouds the rainbows & sun lights as I see them & hear them all from this my

Sir: In order that there may be no mistakes as to my position in regard to a rehearing upon the questions

presented by the Interior Department, p. 225 for my opinion in relation to the asserted rights of the

made by that time, I cannot promise to hear it at all, in view of the engagements which press upon my

however, I should find no cause for such suspicion, the opinion already prepared may be considered as my

—I don't well know when my American Selection will be out: my work on it is done, & the rest depends

I sent on the copy of your works transmitted for "The Lady," after some little delay occasioned by my

seems very considerably impressed with the objects & matter of interest in London: I wish it might be my

previously published in Leaves of Grass, "Passage to India" was Whitman's attempt to "celebrate in my

…My brain is too sensitive.

Rossetti I am drawn toward, and though my first impression of him was that he was a high flown literary

as Assistant Secretary Richardson has impressed me into his service here & proposes to retain me & my

I have seen enough of cities, & streets & art and pictures & museums to stand me all the rest of my days

, and am in a hurry to set my face westward.

fried eggs on a perfumed napkin, and the napkin on beautiful tissue paper & the whole on a china plate (my

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

…My brain is too sensitive.

My dear Ramsdell , Perhaps it may hardly be necessary, but I feel to write you a line of caution about

You might do well to put in about my intended appearance before the American Institute, at its 40th opening

, Sept. 7th in New York, and that the curiosity of both my friends & foes is extremely piqued, &c &c.

Pete, I am sitting in my room home, finishing this—have just had a bath, & dressed myself to go over

Foul Play" —if not, I have one here I will send you— Dear son, I believe that is all this time—I send my

love, dear son, & a good loving kiss—I think of you every day—Give my best regards to all enquiring

friends, & inform them I expect to be back in about three weeks— Good bye, my darling boy—from your comrade

I refer to this simply to show my indisposition to advise the removal of an officer upon unproved charges

The transaction which has been lately brought to my notice in the Thomas case obliged me to suggest to

I was not moved in the slightest degree by any thing in the Stokes and Beatty case, but my action was

taken from my own views of propriety, without any suggestion whatever any suggestion whatever from the

30 Sept 1869 thursday Thursday afternoon my dear i have to write again you kno w i said in my letter

couldent couldn't get the money i was going yesterday but just as i was going i had quite an increase in my

You misunderstand my position.

According to my information, this was not the case until the 25th of October.

books and furniture here some two weeks before, I feel at liberty to pay from the time indicated in my

In my opinion, the appointment of such an officer is desirable for many considerations.

Since my connection with the Department of Justice, I have had occasion to observe that a large proportion

in the views expressed by you to the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and have the honor to add my

Department of Justice Washington sent Sept. 17, 18 71 I send herewith the copy of my American Institute

I think an ordinary 12 mo would be best, and send you a sample, my idea of size of page, and sort of

My percentage &c. I leave to you to fix—I should expect two or three dozen copies.

see notes July 5 1888 Maybury Working Station Surrey England Nov 3 1871 My dear sir, I send by this mail

the second part of my study of your works.

And may I again repeat the hope I expressed to you in a former note (when I sent you my own vol. of poems

10 Oct '71 tuesday Tuesday morning O c 10 My dear walt Walt i had company yesterday so i dident didn't

daughters has their own to attend to which is perfectly natural) george George and loo and Jeff insists on my

but houseroo m at any rate i shant shan't break up as long as i can get around if i lo s e the use of my

suppose they do it for the best they think i live so lonesome) but worry about me breaking up i have had my

clever people, & have invited me to Newport next summer— I am writing this in the office, (alone in my

& Lou are with you—(I hope you will all take a glass of the Spanish wine)— I believe I told you in my

Mother, I will send the order in my next—The bells are all ringing for 7 oclock church—there is a chime

My dear Whitman, I have been voyaging amid the Hebrides,—strolling amid the Highlands,—loafing by the

Sea,—trying to extract from two or three weeks' vacation some vigour vigor and virtue for my work, which

(If you see him tell him that his accompanying letter got lost in my absence or it shd should have been

await us—you must (letting me know beforehand the Ship by which you sail from America) come straight to my