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Rolleston's son, Captain C. H.
Rolleston, informed Horst Frenz in 1950: "I do not think there can be any doubt that my Father's schoolmaster
January 15 th My dear dear Walt Your altogether good letter came to hand yesterdy yesterday morn: old
The chiming of church bells float musically up Haverstock Hill greeting my ears pleasantly as I sit here
nations no longer go to church & church bells cease chiming, but I needn't worry for it wont be in my
explained the good points wch which a violin should possess: as a musician he praises the conception of my
431 Stevens Street Camden Jan: 18 '82 My dear Mrs Childs Yours & Mr Childs', inviting me to dine & meet
an invalid—just suffering an extra bad spell & forbidden to go out nights this weather— Please give my
hearty salutation & American welcome to Mr Wilde— I much desire my friend to briefly report & give my
March 1, 1882, in which he quoted Swinburne's praise of Whitman: "I have by no manner of means relaxed my
great fool —don't you know every 'cute fellow secretly knows that about himself—I do)—God bless you my
25 1882 Dear Walt: I wrote to Osgood and asked him how Leaves of Grass was selling and he rejoices my
Camden Jan: 26 '82 My dear friend Yours just rec'd received & indeed welcomed —A wretchedly dull forenoon
431 Stevens Street Camden Jan: 26 '82— Evn'g Evening Thank you, my dear friend, for sending Washington
12 Well Road Jan January 29, '82 1882 My Dearest Friend: Your letter to Herby was a real talk with you
As I write this I am sitting to Herby for my portrait again—he has never satisfied himself yet: but this
that what with memory & photograph & the studies he made when with you, he will be able to put you & my
spell I must write to you—I don't have any such spells—& seems to me it is time you grew out of them—my
write you something cheerful—I have been in all day—quite a deep snow & the wind blowing—I here in my
American country & the west — Nothing very new with me—I am well as usual for me—As I write I am up in my
moderate snow & ice on the ground, but sun shining bright—quite a good deal of sleighing— —I am busy with my
writing in moderation—write four or five hours every day—My new book is doing reasonably well (better
pages 166 to 168) after an interval I am satisfied with it, and am willing to let those sections of my
This draft letter is endorsed: "Letter sent Dr Bucke—with his return'd MS | My letter to Dr Bucke | Feb
Camden New Jersey Feb: 9 '82 My dear Madam — Yours of 9th rec'd received —I should be pleased to send
you the book—the price is $2—My Photo & auto[graph] are sold by the Camden Children's Home , Haddon
'82 29 Lange Strasse Dresden Tuesday Feb 14 My dear Whitman So you have had a visit from the Aesthete
I enclose herewith a page of my translation of the Leaves of Grass—you needn't save it as I don't want
Well, if I was to unburden all my mind on this weary subject I should go on till—till things got better
My wife knows them well too.
York has given very high praise to my Encheiridion.
1267 Broadway, New York My Dear Dear Walt— Swinburne has just written to me to say as follows.
As sincerely can I say, what I shall be freshly obliged to you if you will assure him of in my name,
that I have by no manner of means relaxed my admiration of his noblest works—such parts, above all, of
New Jersey March 7 '82 Dear Madam Returning here last evening I have mailed to you the two Volumes of my
write to you lately—or rather I have written so many letters, business affairs mostly, connected with my
Camden N J March 19 '82 Dear Sirs I have been expecting response to my letter sent you some twelve days
I re-affirm my suggestions and disposition of March 8 — Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to James R.
431 Stevens street Camden New Jersey March 21 '82 My friends I believe you have in MS one or two clusters
of my Notes — yours —they are paid for—I think I would like to look over them & touch them up to date
seen them, they are quite creditable) has gathered a variety of biographical information—criticises my
a volume ( It at least will not be liable to any District Att'y Attorney episodes—) comprising all my
be three Volumes gyrating together, the L of G—the S D & T—and Dr Bucke's book— Upon the whole, & as my
English stock & birth, but grown up in Canada and the California regions of America, & combining in my
Walt Whitman My last three letters to you have been One of March 8 (or 7) " " 19 & the present one find
To give you a definitive idea of what I meant in my notes of March 8 and March 19—& of course stick to—I
The whole thing would not involve an expense of more than from 5 to $10— My proposition is that we at
U S A Down here again spending a few days—nothing very different—pretty much the same story of all my
Philadelphia to-day for store goods—Do you know of David Bogue, bookseller, Trafalgar Sq: Square who publishes my
Camden New Jersey April 2 '82 My dear Dana Yes I am willing you should make extracts—Enclosed (suggestions
211 Tremont St Boston No I cannot consent to leave out the two pieces I am only willing to carry out my
But a few moments ago in an unknown country paper a paragraph with a "fling" at your poetry attracted my
undefined purpose of assuring you of the love and reverence in which you are held by thousands, I took up my
next N A North American Review (June number) will have a piece A Memorandum at a Venture signed by my
name in which I ventilate my theory of sexual matters treatment & allusion in Children of Adam —I shall
reprinting Burroughs's letter of May 1, Traubel interpolated an explanation of the loan: "This was money in my
I enclose my ck. check for the amt. amount you ask for, $100. What a blank there in New England!
I have an article A Memorandum at a Venture 5 or 6 pages signed by my name in the forthcoming June number
although hastily written & eligible to great additions, I consider a sort of rallying point or key note to my
some proof copies, & will send you two or three soon as I get them—(It is a paid for contribution, my
MY DEAREST FRIEND: Herby went to David Bognes David Bogue about a week ago: he himself was out, but H
His father was the publisher of my husband's first literary venture & behaved honourably.
Also my own longing is always for a chronological arrangement, if change at all there is to be; for that
Without these faculties at ready command my dear Gabriel would not have been himself."
Whitman with my love, or if you prefer to keep both, I will send her others.
of to do is to have the correspondence just forwarded me by O'Connor printed with some comments of my
Please let me know at once what you think of my plan Your friend R M Bucke Richard Maurice Bucke to Walt
I am at work on my Tribune letter, which I hope will prove satisfactory.
My Dear Sir On the 3d of Dec '81 I wrote you a letter kindly asking if you would not oblige me with your
magazines—the more necessary now as quite a set-back & very bad piece of luck has happened to me in my
one's mind that no words or writing can describe—I wish Jo and Debby to see this letter—& I send them my
back here again by nine o'clock, in time to finish the piece I have under way—Tell Mrs Rogers I send my
pleasure the nice visit & dinner in Linden Street—I have not forgotten Jane either — Susan you speak of my
It was conducted by a gentleman and his niece, free—I tell you it opened my eyes to many new things—makes
Marston is the target for you —If I learn more I will notify you— WW Have you seen my N A North American
O'Connor on May 20 approved of Whitman's "magnanimous" attitude toward Osgood & Co., he believed that "my
In his reply on May 20, O'Connor said that he had "focussed all my fire right upon Oliver Stevens, who
plates of Leaves of Grass now in your charge have been transferred to me, & are henceforth subject to my
My article has gone to the Tribune with a note to Whitelaw Reid, and we await the result.
My object is to smoke the hidden movers in this business out of their holes, and I kept this in mind
Marston was behind the Boston attorney, I took care not to even mention his name, but focussed all my
It is all right for you to take such an attitude as you do toward them—for you personally; but my part
—I hope my letter will appear and be satisfactory to you.
I have loved you for years with my whole heart and soul.
I am too impetuous; I feel my subject too deeply.
And yet I am a writer and make my living by my pen.
hand your beautiful grey hair, and possibly feel your arm about my waist.
It is nothing to me who sees them; I am proud of my feeling for you.
mail me the (brown paper bound) copy of "Leaves of Grass" I sent on about a month ago —I mentioned my
Camden May 23d My dear Reid Couldn't you feel to print the above say for instance in the Bits of Criticism
Walt Whitman Respected Sir: I have just read your 'Memorandum at a Venture' and wish to express to you my
I am a student at the above institution and while studying my text books I have also studied the times
your book on the market advertised as the suppressed edition, and invite the authorities to dispute my
Morse, Quincy, Mass., the sculptor, whom you know, and who has long been one of my intimate friends.
He does not know of my design in this matter, but he will tell you that I am thoroughly reliable, and
Camden May 25 My dear friend Yours of 20th recd received —At this present writing I don't think the Tribune
Scribner article a year or two ago the extracted half a column of his condemnatory views & opinions on my
often presents & in all primal poetry & attempt at returning to Creation's birth-innocence—let alone my
technical esthetic & conventional & technical literary points applicable—But you know, dear friend, my
It shall have a place of honor on my walls at home where you are read and loved.
I should not want to leave to my children the name of a Stevens or a Marston .
Street Camden New Jersey May 26 '82 Dear Sir Yours rec'd received —I accordingly mail you a copy of my
You must excuse m my writing & spelling for I am in a hurry to get off to the park.
let me know how you are I will try & write a little more abou about thing next time I write & send my
synopsis of it I can recall—quite certainly the same in amount as I told you while it was fresh in my
memory—the which with hasty scribblings on my relations with Emerson—I hope (working in as from yourself
even passionate well-wishing, which I felt then and feel to this hour the gratitude and reverence of my
And my arriere and citadel positions—such as I have indicated in my June North American Review memorandum
with Emerson, in this particular (it was not needed any where else) that goes on with many other of my
clerical blackguard, who has the audacity to accuse me of wilfully and consciously lying, and I shall do my
Though a stranger to you, in your Book you have been my friend, and so I salute you.
own heroic measure (or a poor attempt to imitate it) by one of the members of the Melancholy Club, my
Next best, is your admiration of my lightnings.
Of course, I was delighted, for my article puts the matter just in the shape I wanted it to appear—gives
I think John will be delighted with my sword-play.
pleased with me, and the poignant and perfumed little note of thanks I sent him after the appearance of my
My task is to do this, and thoroughly, the first time. No after claps.
O'Connor wrote: "I have freely used the memoranda you sent, and got in as much of it as I could see my
From to-day I enter upon my 64th year.
I easily tire, am very clumsy, cannot walk far; but my spirits are first-rate.
or boat, hundreds of miles—live largely in the open air—am sunburnt and stout, (weigh 190)—keep up my
But the principal object of my life seems to have been accomplish'd accomplished —I have the most devoted