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My Dearest Friend: Your welcome letter to hand.

Indeed all that sympathy and warm & true words of love & sorrow & highest admiration & esteem for my

Please give my love to your sister, and tell her that her good letter spoke the right words to me & that

Jersey U S America— Dec: 20 1881 Dear Sir Your letter asking definite endorsement to a translation of my

And as my dearest dream is for an internationality of poems and poets binding the lands of the earth

closer than all treaties or diplomacy—As the purpose beneath the rest in my book is such hearty comradeship

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Feb: 6 '81 My dear J L G I send you the Carlyle piece as requested

forget to mention before (& perhaps is not strictly needed any how) I reserve the right to print any of my

invitation to write an article on Longfellow for the World —but I shall have to decline—I cannot get my

forthcoming number of the N A North American Review for February, in which I have ventilated some of my

reading it—suddenly remembered your birthday—that it was past & I had not written one word—not just put my

I was then (when I should have written—middle of May just preparing & starting on my journey to the north—first

I enjoyed everything—the being with Norah (who is like one of my own) & the dearest jolliest little man

wonderful colours & sweet odors of the sea—everything is best except the keenness of the wind which made my

It tickles my diaphragm to see you run huge subsoil prairie plough so deep down under the feet of the

My heart, at least, swells with gladness & pride on account of honors this winter.

I can't for my poor self at any rate.

havn't haven't heard from you all now in a fortnight— I came on yesterday from Boston —As I told you in my

last every thing went on there satisfactory —& my treatment from Osgood has been of the best—the prospect

contains only some MSS and stuff—also there may come a roll of printed matter for me, to be put up in my

over here)—very hot indeed here the last four days, & continues still—I am standing it well—I take my

meals at Mrs Wroth's & find it a very good place—it was a good move, my going there—Mrs W is very kind—Tip

afraid something was the matter with him— I am busy five or six hours yet every day with the copy of my

all through February, but am coming round, same as before—I go down three or four days at a time to my

Reminiscences so well & strongly praised in the Herald , the Critic & every where, don't confirm or add to my

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey May 29 '81 My dear Mr Osgood I suppose you rec'd received the copy

You already have my plan—a volume of say 400 pages, (not over 450) handy size, first class (but I know

25 Chesham Street S.W 31 January 1881 My good friend, It was a kind thought of yours sending me your

I will not trouble you with more of my views of this subject!

have not stirred out—the roads and rivers here all block'd blocked with snow and ice—the last week my

Rice, to me about a week after the piece appeared, one of the most eulogistic, solid acceptances of my

Boston, Sept: September 24 1881 Dear Alma Every thing is going on & has gone on satisfactorily—My book

plate-casting, & if things turn out wrong any way I shall have only myself to blame, for I have had my

Camden Sunday afternoon Jan: 30— My dear friend, I rec'd received your good letter some days since, &

write you—it is now ½ past 2, after dinner, & I have been writing & fixing up a composition alone in my

It will be the whole expression of the design which I had in my mind When I Began to Write.

Now, that is the way it has been with my book. It has been twenty-five years building.

"My poetry," continued Mr.

But I have accepted it all as a part of my work.

Many of my friends have no patience with my opinion on this matter.

Mott avenue & 149th Street Station L New York City Aug: August 8 '81 1881 My dear Baxter Yours rec'd

Osgood & Co: are going to publish a complete & new volume of my poems, & I am coming on to see to & oversee

thing to say — I have been staying alone here in the house, as the folks have gone off on summer trip—My

sister is at the White Mountains—I take my meals at Mrs Wroth's 319 Stevens—I like it—An old lady I

dinner—two hours—every thing just right every way—a dozen people there, (the family & relatives)—for my

done & will be in the market in a month or so—all about it has proceeded satisfactorily—& I have had my

Now my lectures are over I am spending the summer helping in the garden and any odd jobs about the place—and

—I can't keep my fingers off it—but still that takes only a small fraction of the week & leaves plenty

These friends that I have here and my more natural open air life seem to have made a difference to me

It has been my plan to have you up here for the summer if I could pursuade persuade you to come, But

I have always had my opinion of him.

MY DEAREST FRIEND: I have just been sauntering in our little but sunny garden which slopes to the South

My breath is so short I cannot walk, which is a privation.

I hope you received the little memoir of my husband all right.

November 9, 1881 I send you my new book (it is due you, you know) same mail with this. . .

suppose you know all about it & have had the same—I still keep well & in good trim, thank the Lord—eat my

—Mrs G appears to be about well again— It is now 12½ Sunday—it is moderated, & the sun has come out—my

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Dec: 3, '81 Dear Sir I send you a fair proof of my Emerson article

Rand & Avery's 117 Franklin st: street Please send my mail, by bearer, & please send the same down to

No, I have had no call to deliver my Lincoln lecture in New York or Brooklyn this Spring—& no arrangements

Asylum for the Insane, London, 31 st Dec. 18 81 My dear Walt Just a line to tell you that we have another

Rand & Avery's Monday noon Sept: September 5 '81 My dear friend Although it is abominable for me to back

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Feb: 20 '81 My dear Mr Longfellow A friend in Canada—to whom I am

My copy will come in about 400 pages of it—perhaps a trifle more.

431 Stevens street Camden New Jersey May 26 8 p m My dear Osgood Just returned from a week down in the

Sir Yours of yesterday rec'd received —in response to which—without further ceremony—I forward you my

May 24, 1881 My dear Mr.

August 3 '81 My dear Sir I send you a letter for Summer Leisure column —say for the paper of to-morrow—the

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Feb: 22 '81 My dear Eustace Conway I am sorry I was out when you

Jany January 22 188 1 Walt Whitman Esq My Dear Sir: I take great pleasure acknowledging the receipt of

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Jan: January 8 My dear Miss G Yours of yesterday rec'd received

I send my two Vols: Volumes Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets , by mail same address as this note.

compliance with your request in letter of 28th I this day send you by mail to same address as this card my

8 Bullfinch Place Wednesday Evening September 7th My dear Mr.

Stevens street Camden New Jersey U S America Dear Sir I send you by same mail with this the circular of my

I used to read your "Leaves of Grass" to my children.

Once with my back to the door entering the parlor, in a large chair, my children before me on the sofa

Camden Wednesday noon April 27 My dear Jeannie Yours just rec'd received here sent on from Boston—Yes

of last Critic here—also send the little slips of the poem here, unless already sent —I like to see my

Ontario, Canada —and one to John Burroughs, Esopus-on-Hudson, New York — I write in N Y, but the above is my

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey April 9 '81 My Dear Miss Gilder Thanks for the slips of No: Number

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S America Dec: 8 '81 First, thanks, heartfelt thanks, my friend

impressions (proofs) & send me—direct to me, care of J H Johnston Jeweler, 150 Bowery —that will be my

Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S America Nov. 10 '81 I send you same mail with this the circular of my

get out of the house—but with Spring & good weather shall no doubt be all right again—I truly hope, my