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A glance at the Sunday Times notice recalls to my attention a sentence therein I sh.d should perhaps

30, 1868, Whitman informed Ralph Waldo Emerson that "Proud Music of the Storm" was "put in type for my

My dear Sir, Your letter of 22 Novr. reached me the other day thro' Mr. Conway .

I think the most convenient course may be for me first to state the facts about my Selection.

publisher told me that he projected bringing out a selection from your poems, & (in consequence of my

My Prefatory Notice explains my principle of selection to exactly the same effect as given in this present

I had previously given it a title of my own, "Nocturn for the Death of Lincoln"; & in my Prefatory Notice

editorial decisions, which included editing potentially objectionable content and removing entire poems: "My

I know I am glad that your selections were put into my hands first, so that I was lifted up by them to

As he told you, there is a chance—not as yet more than a chance—that I may make my way over the Atlantic

—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.

been in frequent written com munication on this subject, &, if I hear from you in terms to warrant, my

trip with some friends, one of them being the daughter, whom I had known from childhood, of one of my

My wife is greatly interested in you & what concerns you, & bids me not fail to say that she "admires

that her sister, then perhaps barely 17 years of age, seemed more fascinated with your poems, when my

Last month I for the first time in my life faced a public audience (in Birmingham) to deliver a lecture—on

criticism . . . after full retrospect of his works and life, the aforesaid 'odd-kind chiel' remains to my

My own sympathy (far unlike that of most Englishmen) was very strongly with the Commune—i.e. with extreme

chance of enlisting purchasers at such high prices much diminished, I shd should already have drawn up my

My dear Mr.

gladly avail myself of so tempting an opening for saying that I am the same—& shall feel confident that my

indeed it cannot have needed telling—that you were a very principal subject of our discourse, & of my

friends amply share my feeling.

My vol. volume of Selections from American Poets doesn't seem likely to be published yet awhile.

editorial decisions, which included editing potentially objectionable content and removing entire poems: "My

Cozens, without waiting for actual receipt of the money— wh. which , as before stated, is in my hands

The only reason why, contrary to my usual practice, I have so long delayed sending it on to you is that

I enter into all these tiresome details because an explanation of my delay is due to you: but I fear

Adams my last news of your health, & enclosing also a copy of my last circular (summer of 1876) regarding

I can but repeat my delight in this prospect, were it to be realized, & my wife's hope & my own that

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

Since I wrote last to you little sums have been accumulating in my hands: I enclose an account of them

Rossetti of November 30, 1885, he has little positive to say about his health: "nothing new with me, only my

It escaped me to mention in my previous letter that a Mr.

Specimen Days vol. volume right thro: finding various new things, & continual pleasure in reviewing my

My mother is still with us—aged nearly 85: health & facul ties sound on the whole, but naturally bowed

I have also scanned with a good deal of attention (that of complete re-reading) my old & constant admiration

, the Leaves of Grass I observe that some edition (I think the Philadelphia edition is named, but my

is not under my hand at the moment for reference) is mentioned as the only final & complete form of Leaves

Whitman, late in life, said to Horace Traubel: "[I] take my Ruskin with some qualifications."

October has been with me some little while, during wh. which my leisure has been of the scantiest.

You say: "I suppose you got my postals on sending the books to J.A. Rose."

To the best of my recollection I never did get these: I am aware however that as a matter of fact Rose

I feel ashamed for my colleagues the English men of the press that the Editor of the Examiner sh d .

all that he says about you: the rest of the book I have had to leave unread as yet, in the press of my

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

I look round the circle of my acquaintance for her equal.

I shall always esteem it a privilege to have borne my small share in testifying the respect & gratitude

My wife & children are away at Ventnor (Isle of Wight), as the London winter threatened to be too much

for my wife's delicate chest.

The order (as you are aware) does not pass thro' my own hands.

Carpenter —who paid two long visits at my house, & whom I liked much, obtaining from him numerous details

G before now, but for incessant occupations, & in the last 2 mos. months much anxiety regarding my brother's

I shd should have said that the £4.12. was the only money now actually in my hands on your account.

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

Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my

Dear Whitman, This note is written beforehand, in expectation of my paying-in tomorrow at a Post-Office

the ￡33.16.6. wh. which I named to you in my recent letter.

The postal order, on my obtaining it, will be enclosed herein, & dispatched to you.

Since the date of my last something further has come in: it will be accounted for at a future opportunity

On 13 Jany I expect to leave London, & stay some four weeks with my family at the Clarendon Hotel, Ventnor

The sums which have as yet come into my hands as Treasurer are £22.2.6.

Aldrich (1828–1908) was an ornithologist, a member of the Iowa House of Representatives, an infantry captain

My dear Sir.

think of you, and I am sure that it affords me much more than that to give this personal expression to my

say entirely my own way, and put it unerringly on record."

In another place the feeling of pride leads to this exclamation: "My Book and I—what a period we have

These snowy hairs, my feeble arm, my frozen feet, For them thy faith, thy role I take, and grave it to

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

My position in reference to the case, as having been consulted in it in my private professional capacity

To the President: Sir: I find on file in my office certain charges against Luther C.

the matter of the Government subsidy to the Union Pacific Railroad in a few days, as I have formed my

In the meantime, the result to which I have come enables me to say that, in my opinion, the conditions

Clay having brought to my notice the subject of the proceedings, now or heretofore pending against you

Letcher, came to my hands only this morning, in consequence of my absence from the city.

trial, with such counsel as shall represent the defendant there, in conformity to the suggestions of my

Sir: Your letter of the 26th ultimo submits for my opinion this question: May a Consul retain for his

After an examination of the statutes relating to the subject, and to which you have directed my attention

that he will be in attendance at the Court in Richmond, prepared to make the arrangement suggested in my

The term commences on Monday, the 23d inst., I learn, and not the 25th as has heretofore been my impression

Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of the 16th inst. calling my attention to the case of Hosmer v. the

My purpose at present is, to request that you will send me, if you still have connection with this matter

S. shall be taken in the matter, without communicating with me, and receiving my instructions.

as District Attorney during this vacancy, I have no person to address to accomplish the objects of my

What I may find it possible, or think it my duty to do, in regard to a personal participation in the

matter at Richmond, it is quite out of my power at present to determine; as my preparations for the ensuing

term of the Supreme Court of the United States, on special assignment, requiring my personal attendance

—The object of my present communication is to advise you of the probability of such a rule requiring

Come directly to my house. Please answer by telegraph when I may expect you. Wm. M. Evarts.

Sir: Your letter of the 15th Dec. inst. calls my attention to a certain course of proceedings of Mr.

Your letter also calls my attention to the supposed authority which you had, in consequence of or in

In a personal interview during your visit to Washington immediately after my reception of your letter

of making good the assurances of the government, in this sense and to this extent, I considered it my

I beg to enclose a copy of my letter to the Dist. Attorney, for your information.

the representative of the claimants, to agree upon such a presentation of the facts as will raise for my

Should this anticipation be realized, it will be my pleasure as well as my duty, to give early consideration

the court to advance it for argument, & named the first Tuesday in February as the earliest day that my

previous engagments in court would permit of my attention to the argument, and as being probably as

Egins is strongly pressed upon my attention as justly requiring the interposition of the Executive clemency

I should not take the liberty of again referring the subject to you, after your reply to my former reference

examination of the affidavits presented to me, on behalf of the prisoner made a considerable impression upon my

I am unwilling however to proceed upon my own impression in this regard, notwithstanding my respect for

I regret that other occupations have prevented my giving earlier attention to the application.

rendered in relation to the title of League Island, sent to me in your letter of the 5th ultimo for my

opinion as to the reasonableness of the charge; and to say that in my opinion Fifteen hundred dollars

have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 11th ultimo, requesting me to give you my

While I would be very happy to give my individual opinion upon this subject, if I were possessed of the

which is one of fact and not of law, and therefore not within the scope of the authority and duty of my

Joseph Conrad, Captain 29th U. S.

If your Department, however, should not regard it proper to pay this judgment, I should deem it my duty

City The subject to which your letter refers had received my official attention some days since, and

My dear Sir: I have received two communications from you, having date, respectively, January 28th, ult

the 4th inst. that you have some purpose of publishing these letters—and you intimate a desire for my

either officially or personally, I cannot consent to be made a party, and should decline, if I had my

It is not in my power to assign you so early a day. Will write by mail. Wm. M.

together with a Report thereon by the Examiner of Claims in your Dept., and requesting an expression of my

This reference presents, as I conceive, purely a question of fact for my determination, and such a question

the Court of Claims, which has been dismissed with your consent, pursuant to the advice contained in my

Gomez, omitted in my communication of the 13th inst. I have the honor to be, &c. &c. &c. Wm. M.

Before undertaking to comply with the requisition upon me of this Resolution, which it would be my pleasure

—It will, therefore, be entirely out of my power to furnish any part of this information concerning convictions

information, sought for the means of comparison between the convictions and pardons, & as it is wholly out of my

to the Senate to submit myself to its direction as to whether the partial information which it is in my

My letters to Mr. Courtney of the 2d and 21st of November last are hereto annexed, marked A and B .

The prosecutions referred to in my letters were for frauds upon Internal Revenue, as I then understood

Upon my inquiring whether he was expecting to obtain the consent of these accusers to the submission

Attorney Courtney— and these, and these alone, were the reasons for my direction of the suspension or

Eckel, and until my examination of the case, and my final directions thereupon, that the indictment in