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his health had improved: "it is very healthy here this summer—I havn't been troubled by the heat yet—my
I have been about sick with a cold on my lungs, and after my days work was done I did not feel like writing
I am going to give up my place the first of Ap r .
My health will not admit of it.
Often when my mind wanders back to the days that I spent in Armory Square, I can but cry.
My Hearts desire is that you may live a long and happy life and when you leave this Earth you may be
Louisville, Octo. 17 th 1866 My dear Mr Whitman; Herewith you will three dollars, the price of the copy
I have deeply regretted the fact, that I did not know your place to be temporary till after my resignation—I
Walt Whitman, My Dear friend Your kind favor of the 11th inst came duly to hand, and was followed next
Accept of my thanks for both it was more certainly than I could expect from a comparative stranger to
last "long roll" is called in which there will be no "missing" may we be found in the ranks of the Captain
While doing garrison duty with my regiment the 2nd New York Arty on the works South of the Potomac I
I left the regiment in the trenches in front of Petersburgh, my term of Service having expired, after
I stowed it away in my knapsack but loosing that I lost your gift.
Grass were now in the possession of Horace Wentworth, a Boston publisher, whom Thayer characterized as "My
I do not know what they cost, but my impression is, that it was somewhere in the neighborhood of $800
My dear Whitman, I received this morning from an old friend (Mr.
When last in the dooryard the lilacs bloomed [sic]," "Chanting the Square Deific," and "As I lay with my
of Bascom 242 F Street stating that our testimony did not agree with the company rolls in regard to my
Clair my best wishes to you and Mrs.
Mr Abbot offered to assist me if necessary if he is there perhaps he can use his influence in my favour
If she brought a half loaf of bread to my house, she took butter or tea away in return for it, and I
Nothing of me, or of the future to arise for me, out of my labour, and progressions.
My idea was, that, if I did go to Europe, "to let her board, in the most comfortable manner, and raise
How long have I been a stranger to this foreign land in which I have wandered—foreign, and yet within my
earth, she cried—I charge you, lose not my sons!
d; And you trees, down in your roots, to bequeath to all future trees, My dead absorb—my young mens
coffin that slowly passes, I give you my sprig of lilac.
And how shall I deck my song for the large sweet soul that has gone?
And what shall my perfume be, for the grave of him I love?
"Song of my Cid" is an epic poem of the mid-12th century and the earliest surviving work of Spanish literature
My days I sing, and lands Lands —with interstice I knew of hapless war War .
Inflating my throat—you, divine average!
Open mouth of my , uttering gladness, Eyes of my , seeing perfection, Natural life of me, faithfully
received one letter from you but when I wrote again I received no answer and supposed you had not received my
correspondents for I would really like to hear from you very much for I formed an attachment for you during my
My Friend Hamilton started for Leavenworth Kansas last week to see his Brother, who has been jammed up
I am a married man but I am not happy for my disposition is not right.
On April 21, Wilson acknowledged Whitman's reply of April 12: "I do not want you to misunderstand my
motives in writing to you of my Situation & feelings as I did in my last letter or else I shall have
to be more guarded in my letters to you.
I wrote so because you wanted me to write how I was situated, and give you my mind without reserve, and
A few days ago I picked up a paper through my Friend Hamilton containing an article regarding Walt Whitman
I would like very much to read your works for I have heard my Father speak a few days ago of your Leaves
I must draw my letter to a close for this time, and hope I shall hear from you soon again.
Dec. 2, 1866 My dear Whitman: I find your book and cordial letter, on returning home from a lecturing
I have had the first edition of your Leaves of Grass among my books, since its first appearance, and
frankly, that there are two things in it which I find nowhere else in literature, though I find them in my
There is not one word of your large and beautiful sympathy for men, which I cannot take into my own heart
I say these things, not in the way of praise, but because I know from my own experience that correct
Nov. 12, 1866 My dear Sir: I send to you by the same mail which takes this note, a copy of my last poem
The age is over-squeamish, and, for my part, I prefer the honest nude to the suggestive half-draped.
"One doubt nauseous undulating like a snake, crawl'd on the ground before me, Continually preceding my
and near, (rousing, even in dreams, a devilish exultation, and all the old mad joy, in the depths of my