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Camden N J Dec. 18 '81 My dear Ben: Ticknor Thank you for your (& O'Reilley's O'Reilly's ) suggestion
My friend seems to speak in a very recommendatory manner of D.
Camden New Jersey May 20 '81 My dear Mr Osgood Yours rec'd received , & accordingly I am fixing up the
very anxious I should know of the bad illness of a particular friend of mine, & so wrote to Kirkwood—My
Give my love to your father & mother, & to Harry, Ed & all.
Wilkins, two students of Trinity College, Dublin, were the first to draw my attention to your poetical
Dear W Whitman Your letter of May 8 reached here during my absence.
things & times—this beautiful day among the rest—(now toward sundown, & I am writing this alone up in my
visit from 4 to 6½—But today it is raining & blowing at a great rate, & I am staying in writing,—give my
had a strange chill, rattled me for two hours lively—one or two since but milder—the doctor thinks my
silent thoughts of God, & death—& not at all in what he says , nor in Sunday or prayer meeting gas —My
Camden Feb: 22 Evening My dear friend I still keep around & have been over to Philadelphia this afternoon
My Dear Whitman, On receipt of your card, to-day, stating the time of your intended start, I telegraphed
there is just now a lively little thunderstorm coming on, (& over almost as soon as on)—I must finish my
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey June 4 '81 My dear Mr Osgood Yours of yesterday rec'd received ,
I have been trying, since my return to Germany, to find out that essay you allude to in the N.A.
My 'Encheiridion' ought to be out very soon as I have sent in the last proof sheets.
I notice that is the way you always use me, but I will get square with you when I go off on my lecturing
"There spake my brother; (Lord Bacon) There my father's grave Did utter forth a voice!"
My notion would be that we should sell an Edition there, if possible, printed here from our own plates
We have left Bad-Elster, the baths having perfectly restored my wife's health to our great joy.
—And then I never in all my life had money that done me so much good. I have some of it yet.