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Ferry, I dashed off the enclosed Sonnet, which I take the liberty of send to you, the rather to gratify my
My wife was indignant , and I should not wonder if she wrote a reply to it. W. W.
Sunday Night Aug 31/62 My Dear Walt, I feel just like writing to you.
I together with my dear wife have had lots of hard experiences—ill health, sickness of children and my
is my last night at home.
My friends told me my chance for a berth in the P.O. was one in a thousand.
My heart is in the war & I ache to do something. But I can't.
Forest Hill April 19/61 My Dear Walt.
True I might not prove strong enough for much hard work but I could fire my gun once and die, for my
My dear Walt I am not yet conquered .
I have everything external to crush me and stinging poverty to freeze my heart, but my day is coming
God bless you my dear man.
My copy was loaned round, till I fear it is lost. Hope you have a copy.
It was at my invitation that Mr.
My wife has arranged to go among her folks on Tuesday, so that day we will probably be out of town.
As Monday is my press day (getting the Register printed & mailed) could not get to meet you that day
Walter Whitman— Sir i take my pen in hand to let you know that i am well and i hope that these few lines
may find you the same i have not got a way yet from this hospittle but i think that my papers will be
home. i am sorry that i did not think to tell you to not mind what he told you Well i must [close] My
Walter Whitman My Dear Friend: After the laps lapse of over 8 years, & to let you know that your memory
is yet fresh in my mind; I am mooved moved to write you this letter—I Came to this state after being
My health is not good & has not been since I was in the army—My family is well, & children going to school
Howard Lake June 28, 1874 My Dear Friend I Receivied received your kind & Most Welcome Letter A Short
Well My Health I But Verry Very little Better But If I Had Stayed In W Va West Virginia dont don't Suppose
when I went In the army I had a Com fortable Home Was a good Lover My Mother Leives Lives In My Father
Not Seen Her For 8 year My Brothers & Sisters Lives too I Will Close My letter By Saying I Hope you
kindness And Care to me My Children Sends their Love to you Now My Dear Friend I Hope you will write
Howard Lake, Minn Minnesota July 21, 1875 My Dear Friend Walt I was glad to hear from you But Sory Sorry
to know that your Health was not Improving But glad that you remember me My health's Failig Failing
I am trying for an Envelid Invalid Pentian Pension I have Now only the Need of to two witnesses of my
M D Halans is my agent St.
Paul Howard Lake is Improving Fast I wished you would come and visit this place My wife sends her Best
minnesota Wright Co Howard Lake may 12 1874 Walt Whitman my dear friend I received yours dated April
be good for your the there are some comming coming from the different Stats states for their health. my
friend Whitman I love you when I think of the kindness you shew show to me my heart is swelled with
gratitude to you may the lord preserve you and giv give you a home in heaven my friend i have bin been
in a bad stat state of health for 10 months I have the dropsy of the heart I am getting better & my
suppose his idea is that people will buy L. of G. more if they are not given the passages in question in my
I might have added to my list of great Holland–born men Beethoven. He was Van Beethoven.
Belmont Mass Aug '85 My Dear Friend: You are very kind to remember Kennedy— yr your son by adoption &
My indebtedness to you—estimating values by all that makes life high & noble—is simply boundless.
Your confidential item abt about royalties also makes me glad & wrings my heart at the same time.
The $13. is a pure business debt. $5000. represents my soul indebtedness to Walt Whitman, who is the
the Universe as a whole I can sympathize as to copyrights; I have not rec'd received a cent yet for my
volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My
Dear Friend: I have just read through again more carefully "Good-Bye my F."
To the Sunset Breeze and the last "Good-B my F" (did you notice that you had two of the same title?)
Give him my congratulations!
Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short
Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892
For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman
Whitman's poem "Good-By My Fancy!"
was the concluding poem in the poetry section of Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), and when those poems were
I am trying to get a picture of old Boston 100 years ago in my mind.
Sunset Breeze" first appeared in Lippincott’s Magazine (December 1890) and was reprinted in Good-Bye My
poems & prose pieces bit by bit, stealhily stealthily to-day, having the book (disguised by cover) in my
Hurd, literary editor, or kept till my return. Had grand visit of 3 days with Dr. Bucke.
I fear I can't see you on my return, as my ticket takes me back (excursion ticket, via northern N.
I have offered & agreed to return her $5.00—one of Wm's subscriptions, thinking one of my books w d be
My dear Friend, I am very curious to get a fuller idea of Ingersoll's dinner speech.
Am getting ready for my Western jaunt on July 7th. Saw item abt yr will.
With the full-perfumed love of my soul, I close, W S Kennedy William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman,
"Ingersoll's Speech" of June 2, 1890, was written by Whitman himself and was reprinted in Good-Bye My
I wont weary you by saying more than to express my heartfelt sympathy & thankfulness & good wishes .
Gardner of Paisley, accepting my MS. "Walt Whitman the Poet of Humanity."
suppose his idea is that people will buy L. of G. more if they are not given the passages in question in my
He bites hard—says "it wd be a vast pity if the book were to fall through," owing to my obstinacy I suppose
March 7: '88 I was really astonished to hear my quondam college mate—young Henry Norman —was the one
I was in the first flush of my enthusiasm for you; had just read you for the first time, & after a while
matter increases my esteem.
Charity, charity, man, I keep saying (& think of my own grievous sins).
I send you a Transcript marked, and also send you my love in unlimited quantities.
My Dear Whitman— I return the J. Burroughs Book. & the pamphlet with thanks.
The Burroughs book fed me on my journey home, so that I had to buy no other reading.
I shall cherish the memory of that blessed January 2nd '85 to the end of my days.
I must send you my N. Orleans articles. My Creole article in Lit.
it be the means of my being able to publish it. Dr.
—However, with all my deep chagrin, I c but laugh (long & well), over little Stedman & Holmes (I suppose
You say in it "as to my alleged opinion of Stedman: I have no such opinion.
My feeling toward S. is one of good will & thanks markedly—O'C says he is a good fellow, & I say so too
Stedman w never forgive my trying to comfort him . Ha! ha!
I think I shall now pitch overboard fr my book the Hartmannian lading (supplement) entirely.
I get an extra copy of the paper laid on my desk every evening & so mail yours without breaking wrapper
. & I will bring out my book on you sometime , perhaps sooner than we any of us know. I wrote fr.
London Canada, to Fred k Wilson, peremptorily ordering him to return my MS to me.
I have abt 10 minutes a day to my self!
Wilson has my MS now. Am going to take a vacation in a month.
Do drop me a line dear & revered papa, & relieve my anxiety abt you. W. S. Kennedy.
have been 2 weeks in a fever of parturition & have gone over all the notes writings, & literature of my
past life in relentless search for material to enrich the book on my hero.
Please don't tell anyone of my project yet— wd would you?
But my chief object is to propagandize.
My Puritan training as a Calvinistic ministers son hindered it for a long time.
I gave it draining regards that fixed it in my mind.
I regard it as a noble work, & am very glad of this rich honor done to my poet, & I want to congratulate
It is a fine, nay a great, work, in my opinion.
Fairchild & her husband are going to drive out & see my Cox photo, some time.
(my book). Glad to hear of yr your new books. Am still reading proof.
WS Kennedy I don't see much prospect of my work on you seeing the light soon, But—.
Sent you my love by him. W.S.K. William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 4 July 1891
Wilson will tackle in some way my Whitman .
I keep touching deeper & not before understood tho'ts with my plummet in reading you,—espec. in these
It is a book separate "the words of my book nothing, the [trend] of it everything Sadikichi seems to
Kennedy is alluding to Whitman's line in the poem "Shut Not Your Doors": "The words of my book nothing
Whitman's preface was also included in Good-Bye My Fancy (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1891), 51–53.
They have made my summer glorious. My love of that man is something strong as fate.
Indeed I believe the ties of blood draw me to him & Scotland—my "forbears" being Scotch-Irish (on one
Belmont Mass Oct 3. 89 Dear Old Quaker Friend of the horse-taming sea kings of Long Island: My thorn
He drew those pictures of yr home for my book; but takes the blackguard view of you.
My dame laid him out flat after calling on you. She can do such things, is keen as steel.
White's pitiful parody of L of G. in my face & thot he had floord me, he said he ahd heard that Edwin
I have to do it for my writings now.
You perhaps saw my ⅓ col. column of Ingersoll's speech with remarks by me, in last Sat.'
Bluebirds (a pair) building in my box. Also robin & golden woodpecker nesting in lane.
might insure the publication of the book; for purchasers of L. of G. are of all most likely to buy my
Whitman's book Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) was his last miscellany, and it included both poetry and short
Thirty-one poems from the book were later printed as "Good-Bye my Fancy" in Leaves of Grass (1891–1892
For more information see, Donald Barlow Stauffer, "'Good-Bye my Fancy' (Second Annex) (1891)," Walt Whitman
Houghton, Mifflin, 1892), for which Whitman wrote the Preface (which he later included in Good-Bye My
My dear father-confessor, I feel a strong desire to be clasped closer to yr your breast, to know my friend
—Well, there, my eye lights on my memorandum of it.
I have not time to copy out my translation. affec. as always W.S.
I offer my congratulations in advance.
that item about my reading proofs) before I give him the MS.
It took me several days to absorb it and make my extracts &c.
(I fear my digestion must be poor to-night judging from the tone of the foregoing!)
I keep toiling away kicking my MS into shape, adding touches &c &c W S Kennedy William Sloane Kennedy
My window hyacinths in fragrant bloom. (honey bunches) W. S. K.
I send you a little box of confections by Adams Exp. with my love.
Critic of November 28, 1890 (p. 282) printed a paragraph about Whitman's forthcoming volume Good-Bye My
Belmont My Dear Walter (as poor Emerson wd would say) I some weeks ago devised a cunning scheme for getting
I took up the idea & having my time at my disposal, I am going to work you up a lecture.
Do you think you will be able to come by that time, my dear friend?
I have never heard you either read or lecture & shall be a thousand times repaid for my trouble. aff—
"Last of Ebb" is my favorite. William Sloane Kennedy to Walt Whitman, 28 August 1888
My yard is looking finely. 2 doz. hyacinths out. bye bye W. S. K.
Belmont Oct 27 '89 To Walt Whitman I am immensely pleased (tickled) with the result of my little Wifekin
I rubbed my hands in glee after quoting some of the good great fellows (in England & America) who stand
She says, "I saw with my own eyes, his nobility & manners," &c.
Give my love to Dr. B.
My Dear W Whitman, Yr letter & papers both rec'd with thanks.
My article is scientific , I even reverently analyze Shakespeare's technique & prove that he inclined
I had been reserving this piece of work until I moved into my new house.
I sent my article on poetry to the Century. They ordered an article on E.E. Hale, wh.
Dont get down-hearted, my boy, say I! We read yr strong verse in November Century.
Whitman's poem "My 71st Year" was published in the November 1889 issue of Century Illustrated Monthly