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Whitman I am very anxious not to leave this country without paying my respects to you, and bearing to
Pennsylvania , Dec. 29 th 188 4 Walt Whitman Esq Camden, New Jersey Dear Sir: My friend Col.
Christmas—1884—'5 328 Mickle Street Camden N J Thanks my loving young friends for the magnificent chair—so
I break down allmost almost to hysteria at times, from exhaustion but my appetite remains steadfast,
does not; is averse to having our clothes put to laundry; their condition is so bad: beside to keep my
house free from embarressment must beware of debt; for pay day comes at last, and my habitation is a
professional labours and endurance; my devotion—yet so many have imperative needs of their.
George should help us, all he can: Han's friends or relatives are known: and my embarressments embarrassments
comfortable, elderly couple to keep house for you was a good hearing—for "the old shanty" had risen before my
My poor article has so far been rejected by editors—so I have laid it by for a little, to come with a
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
Camden NJ Dec. 16 '84 Dear friend Please convey to the Marquis de Leuville my thanks for his beautiful
and the introduction, called "Entre-Nous," begins, "I had therefore better make some apologies for my
A-1127 328 Mickle Street Camden Dec. 14 '84 My dear friend Upon the whole I shall have to beg off from
Give my friendliest greetings & wishes to Miss Terry & Mr Irving—Should they, or either, feel any day—say
from want of love for you, not because I am not always in communion with you:— that I am, & so are all my
friends; there is a fine young fellow, son of Col Brackenbury, lying dead now in my neighbor's house
No: it is not that I do not love you, & do not dwell with you, that I have sent no token of my work.
You will see that I have stamped my two books of Sonnets with the heraldic coat borne by my ancestors
I will send you photos of my house, myself (done by Clifford), & 3 of my daughters.
328 Mickle street Camden Evn'g Nov. 18 '84 My dear friends Your kind letter (Eva's) came this afternoon
every day, I don't go any distance—havn't been away this past summer, only one short trip to Cape May —My
before I shall be unable to get around at all——General health otherwise about the same as usual—Eva, my
affairs—not much sale for my books at present, or for the last fifteen months—Harry your Mother call'd
little most every day—sell a piece once in a while—Maintain good spirits and a first-rate appetite—My
I send my love specially to Alma and the girls & the new Mrs J— Nothing very new with me—I am ab't as
Portrait —have already outlined & partly prepared it—you shall have it soon — I am writing this up in my
floor all around horribly litter -rary, but a cheery wood fire in the little stove—& I comfortable in my
But I must not make my letter longer—I shall look forward to seeing you soon, and I hope you will be
(1884) 328 Mickle street Camden Monday 3 pm Nov 10 Thanks my dear friend for the nice chicken—I have
just had a part of it for my dinner—& the honey in the comb just like that is something I like—I had
request of a fine jolly young Englishman who is visiting there for a few days, & told me much about my
considerably better, more able to get around since the cool weather has set in—had rather a bad summer—my
Camden Thursday Evn'g, Nov: 6 My dear friend I should like to come over Saturday, be there about noon—will
the weather good, we may have a (longer or shorter) drive, before supper—will leave the question of my
Dr Lund is attending her steadily; he is a good physician: Asks no fee, but I shall pay him in my way
I have to meet my annual interest next week 15 dollars; that paid I shall have a year before me to housekeeping
Since I first read your poems years ago now they have always had a great influence on my thoughts and
I have found out the truth of your words too from my short experience of life in deed as well as in thought
Your Leaves of Grass I keep with my Shakespeare and my Bible and it is from these three that I have got
My dearest Brother How very good you are to send me so much,—It was a great surprise, I dont don't know
know you feel so much interest in me, but Walt dear I shall mind fearfully your spending more money on my
—I have always thought if I was dangerously sick, my greatest wish would be to see you.
I am alone, my being sick has been bad for him I know '84 Hannah Whitman Heyde to Walt Whitman, 20 October
My condition is drawing genera l attention, and the old querie query is asked me; "has she no friend?
Respecting public opinion of my services toward her, a neighbour neighbor of twenty years lately remarked
328 Mickle Street Camden Oct: 13 My dear Williams I should like the little Presidential canvass poem
328 Mickle Street Camden Oct 12 pm My dear Williams After I sent your note in answer yesterday—& reading
328 Mickle Street Camden Oct 11 '84 My dear friend Thank you for your kind & warm invitation to write
Walt Whitman I enclose my last screed in the Critic Walt Whitman to Talcott Williams, 11 October 1884
Thursday P M Oct: 9 '84 My dear Williams I leave you this in hopes you can use it in to-morrow's paper
Camden New Jersey October 1 1884 Received from Critic Fifteen Dollars for my piece " What Lurks " &c—
I believe that the picture will make my name as an artist, a few months will show!
Borrowdale, Cressington Park Sep 29 To Walter Whitman, Esq r Sir, To my only Brother, who for nearly
has been a helpless sufferer in Santiago, I am sending a specially prepared Birthday Book: and it is my
very earnest wish to obtain for insertion in my Book the name of your most honored self.
I trust you will graciously pardon my freedom in asking the favour of your sign-manual on enclosed slip
It is in the Critic of Sept. 27 —Dry and warm and often oppressive weather here—a long spell—My lameness
328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey September 16 1884 My friends Can you use this in the C[ritic]?
& 20 copies of the number—& of course I should want to see proof—(reserving the right to include in my
My dear Walt— I got your second letter yesterday, forwarded here from Dresden.
I have mentioned it in my preface.
I sent with my M.S. manuscript a copy of Freiligrath's article, & did all I could to secure a favourable
But I think I can rely on my father's helping me to the extent needed.
He & my mother are greatly delighted with the two grandchildren we have brought them home.
his January 16, 1872 letter to Rudolf Schmidt, Whitman wrote that Freiligrath "translates & commends my
My dear friend, Can you not come over Friday and stay till Monday with me?
that fills the bill)—But the volume is more helpful to me (in touches, corrections, guidance &c to my
Dear Sir— I have tried in vain to obtain a good portrait of my father for you and am reduced to this
not read) containing poor copies of the good portraits that are in some secure, forgotten place among my
traps—stored in garret or cellar of my new house where all things are at sixes and sevens.
Dear Sir— I shall go to Boston Tuesday and will endeavor to get a portrait of my father—I have none here
328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey Aug: 21 '84 My dear Sir First begging your pardon & hoping "I dont
the magazine market—or rather have written—a reminiscence of the actors & plays & "the old Bowery" of my
youthful days—the chief figure in it being your father—by far the greatest histrion I have ever seen in my
get things for myself—or I wouldn't trouble you— Won't you allow me to send you an autograph copy of my
in Booth's words, "poor copies of the good portraits that are in some secure, forgotten place among my
My guess would be that when fairly afloat it might have quite as much sale here in the United States
My Dear Sir: In Baldwin's Monthly for July there was quite a long article relating to yourself, written
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT THE CENTURY MAGAZINE UNION SQUARE NEW YORK Marion, Mass My dear Mr.
Dresden My Dear Walt— I write to tell you how things are going now about the translation, &c.
First I translated all I am going to give as well as I could out of my own unassisted resources and handed
over the M.S. manuscript to my colleague.
my preface to the work and Freiligrath's article from the Allg.
My address then will be Glasshouse, Shinrone, Ireland. This indeed is always sure to find me.
his January 16, 1872 letter to Rudolf Schmidt, Whitman wrote that Freiligrath "translates & commends my
I am getting on—my heart is in my work—& though I have been long about it, it won't be long—but I think
Please give me, (as under Section 6 of your Copyright Directions of 1882), the 14 years renewal of my
gave him the letter to print—I enclose you the slip—how well & off-hand it reads —I am living here in my
Lay (my housekeeper) was attacked with cholera infantum & brain trouble a week ago—the doctor insisted
I do indeed feel proud to have it direct from the Author, & to have my name written in it by himself.
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
Walt Whitman: I came across your, and now my, Leaves of Grass when I was eighteen, that is a year ago
I took it to my mother and "wheedled" her as she says, and got her to give the "leaves" to me.
At the page where you breathed on and pressed your hand, I also pressed my hand and so we have had a
condition of London and I am working hard to get out of it and back to America, where I shall bury my
And you have done my brothers & sisters, the race, good.
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT THE CENTURY MAGAZINE UNION SQUARE NEW YORK Walt Whitman, Esq., My dear Sir: We are
If I am so fortunate as to regain my health I hope to weaken the force of that statement, at least in
sofar as my talent & training will permit.
My artistic enthusiasm was never so thoroughly stirred up as by the indians They certainly have more
Dear Walt Whitman, "That my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing
Yes, and how "utterly quelled and defeated" too I have felt to find my strength so much less than my
each one the core of life, namely happiness, is full of the rotten excrement of maggots," and so in my
Leaves of Grass laid on my lightstand, and I opened to "Song of the Universe."
fast the world moves to me when I read such thoughts, and how slow when I carry them with me among my
Minchen is quoting from Whitman's poem "Who Learns My Lesson Complete."
I have read "As a strong bird on pinions free" and can hardly express my admiration for your poetry.
if you would be kind enough to put your autograph in it and I hope you will not think it immodest in my
My Dear Bolger Here is an article I have reeled off for you if you want it your telegram recd recieved
serviceable present, from Mary & Alys Smith & Mrs S. nice new sheets & pillow and bolster cases for my
request I cheerfully agree to it—As far as I have power to do so I hereby grant you the right of setting my
am pretty much as usual again after quite a long siege—I am here in a little old house I have bought—my
a couple of elderly folks, acquaintances of mine, Mr and Mrs Lay, they live in the house, & I take my
all ever so much better than the Stevens Street business—Am not doing any thing lately, & the sale of my
Private 328 Mickle st Camden May 27 My dear friend If convenient & you can print the following, just