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Well, my dear comrade, I believe I have told you all the news—of Eicholtz, the German sergeant with the
You will make the same disposition of these arms as was indicated to you, in a former case, in my letter
I have now to say that your resignation is accepted,—& I feel bound to add that my confidence in your
My dear Whitman, I received this morning from an old friend (Mr.
I do not know what they cost, but my impression is, that it was somewhere in the neighborhood of $800
"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
Tell Charley that I have not forgotten him—I send him my love, & hope we may meet again one these days
[My ambition is] to give something to our literature which will be our own; with neither foreign spirit
I send my love to Jeff & George & Mat & all. Walt.
Sir: My attention has been called by the Secretary of the Treasury to the probable fact of the custody
Then I feel sure it tells the meaning better than any of the former editions—My enemies, & those who
fight—I carry an umbrella, and if the sun gets to fall on me good & strong, any of the real hot days, my
For the last two days I have felt a good deal better—My head is much better, & I feel more like myself
children is extremely well mat has has very much to doo do she is going to have a girl to work give my
How long have I been a stranger to this foreign land in which I have wandered—foreign, and yet within my
his health had improved: "it is very healthy here this summer—I havn't been troubled by the heat yet—my
When last in the dooryard the lilacs bloomed [sic]," "Chanting the Square Deific," and "As I lay with my
Phantoms welcome, divine and tender, Invisible to the rest, henceforth become my companions; Follow me
Perfume therefore my chant, O Love! immortal Love!
For that we live, my brethren—that is the mission of Poets.
the sisters Death and Might, incessantly softly wash again, and ever again, this soil'd world. … For my
where he lies, white-faced and still in the coffin—I draw near; I bend down and touch lightly with my
that as the sentence, on that comparatively mild 7th count, was a cruel & heavy one—& that, waiving my