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would have made me feel miserable were it not that before then the matter had already been set right, & my
My first letter to you was written too much from the impulse of the moment; &, finding soon after from
Not one syllable of any one of your poems, as presented in my selection, will be altered or omitted:
To be by your friendship is as great a satisfaction & distinction as my life has presented or ever can
acquiesce in the express views he takes of late years of particular questions wd be simply to abnegate my
My dear Sir, Allow me with the deepest reverence & true affection to thank you for the copy of your complete
My selection was settled more than a month ago, & is now going thro' the press .
I shall always hold it one of the truest & most prized distinctions of my writing career to be associated
My dear Sir, Your letter of 22 Novr. reached me the other day thro' Mr. Conway .
I think the most convenient course may be for me first to state the facts about my Selection.
publisher told me that he projected bringing out a selection from your poems, & (in consequence of my
My Prefatory Notice explains my principle of selection to exactly the same effect as given in this present
I had previously given it a title of my own, "Nocturn for the Death of Lincoln"; & in my Prefatory Notice
editorial decisions, which included editing potentially objectionable content and removing entire poems: "My
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
My dear Walt: I duly got your letter of May 5th and was very glad to hear from you.
Part of it is about my coming upon the Times —a sort of hankering treatment of the subject, but no offer
, which of course he couldn't well make, not knowing exactly how useful or available my talent would
Give my loving remembrance to all, especially your mother.
March 19, 1867 Dearest mother, I got both your letters last week, & they were a relief to my mind—I want
Mother, all the news I have to write about my affairs, is the same old thing—we have had another long
this week—they have carried all their measures successfully over the President—I am writing this at my
hear—But, Mother, you must not worry about it—it will be arranged some way— There is nothing new in my
I write this at my desk—spring is quite advanced here—it is a damp, misty, cloudy forenoon—but pleasant—I
already—the grass & trees are beginning to look green—they have made a large flower garden right in front of my
idea for days & days, & of course suffered awfully—One of the watchmen of the Treasury, (formerly a Captain
Walt If Mary & the girls come, you must give them my love, & tell Mary I shall send her a small package
James Gray, Bookbinder 16 Spruce st. 4th floor, is the custodian of the sheets of my Leaves of Grass,
See John Townsend Trowbridge, My Own Story (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903), 265–67.
My dear Sir: I send the article on Democracy. If satisfactory I should like $100 for it.
Y. on a visit to my mother, but I am now back here again, and am well as usual, and working in the same
There is nothing very new in my affairs.
—it is quite pleasant—mostly young people, full of life & gayety—then I go to my work at 9, & leave at
I wish you to give my love to your father & mother. They do not seem at all like strangers to me.
And now Alfred I must bid you farewell for the present, my loving boy & comrade.
Simpson My dear Sir: I have been absent in New York & Brooklyn & only returned three days ago.
At present, I can only say that if you are going into publishing & if you feel like taking hold of my
My address is at this office.
…One of my reasons for securing your friendship is my appreciation for you as a man, with knowing your
My dear loving boy, I wish things were situated so you could be with me, & we could be together for a
I must put something to you better than that in my letter.
So I will cheer my boy [&] tell you again, Benton, that I love you dearly, & always keep you in mind,
I am a married man but I am not happy for my disposition is not right.
1867 letter, Wilson acknowledged Walt 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
In reply to your note of some days since, in reference to acting as my agent, for sale of "Leaves of
As to me & my fortunes I am in pretty good health, thank God—& I am working in the Attorney General's
I send you my love, dear friend & soldier, & I hope this will find you well in health & in good spirits
next to Lewis Brown's in Armory Square Hospital in 1862 and 1863, and recalled Walt Whitman's visits: "My
My address is at the Attorney General's office here. (New York house, please forward this to Mr.
No report has, within my knowledge, been made to you from this office, in relation to any violations
Sir: I have the honor herewith to transmit my opinion as to the proper course to be taken in reference
Tapara, which you have brought to my notice since that opinion was prepared, does not seem to me to authorize
compensation allowed to counsel upon employment by this office, I feel that I am scarcely warranted in giving my
the suggestion that you reduce it to the sum I have indicated, which, being done, I will promptly add my
As a claim against the United States, it is clearly without my official province, & I must therefore
Sir: In accordance with your request, I have the honor to transmit herewith a copy of my letter of January
Rider, and that in my opinion, no public object now exists which could be promoted by the proposed attempt
Sir: A few days since I gave to the Secretary of the Interior my opinion in favor of the payment of your
to direct you to take the same course in regard to the Fenian arms at Rouse's Point, as indicated in my
the 6th inst. relative to proceedings pending in your District "to confiscate the property of the Captain
I should be glad to know whether you are aware of any objections to my complying with the request of
Hartwell, was yesterday advanced by the Supreme Court, on my motion, and that the second Monday in January
me of the 1st November 1867,— whereupon the whole matter was treated as having been withdrawn from my
consideration, and all the papers relating to it, were, with my letter of 5th Nov. 1867, transmitted
That he acted at the instance of the United States, however, is sufficient to authorize my consent to
My dear Madam: I have received your letter of the 9th instant, and in reply beg to say that if you will
Ohio, enclosing a copy of Governor Tod's letter to you, I have the honor to enclose herewith a copy of my
making Appropriations for the current and Contingent Expenses of the Indian Bureau," by which it is made my
examination and to state that what proceedings, &c. relative to said stocks and investments, are in my
On the third point of inquiry, in my opinion, the various law officers now attached to the other Departments
This preliminary action was made necessary by my imperfect knowledge of the circumstances.
Y., sought to be acquired for Customs' purposes; and to state that, in my opinion, the proposed conveyance
Now I laugh content, for I hear the voice of my little captain,(says my grandmother's father;) We have
my Captain!
O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! 1 O CAPTAIN! my captain!
Leave you not the little spot, Where on the deck my captain lies.
Fallen cold and dead. 2 O captain! my captain!
What do my shouts amid lightnings and raging winds mean?)
Give me the drench of my passions! Give me life coarse and rank!
self myself from my companions?
songs in Sex, Offspring of my loins.
voice—approach, Touch me—touch the palm of your hand to my Body as I pass; Be not afraid of my Body.
SCENTED HERBAGE OF MY BREAST.
O blossoms of my blood!
WHAT THINK YOU I TAKE MY PEN IN HAND? WHAT think you I take my pen in hand to record?
MY LIKENESS! EARTH! my likeness!
THAT SHADOW, MY LIKENESS.
I call to the world to distrust the accounts of my friends, but listen to my enemies—as I myself do;
WHO learns my lesson complete?
as every one is immortal; I know it is wonderful—but my eye-sight is equally wonderful, and how I was
And that my Soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing each other, and
Whoever you are, now I place my hand upon you, that you be my poem; I whisper with my lips close to your
O lips of my soul, already becoming powerless! O ample and grand Presidentiads! New history!
(I must not venture—the ground under my feet men- aces menaces me—it will not support me;) O present!
it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself—As if it were not indispensable to my
AS I sit with others, at a great feast, suddenly, while the music is playing, To my mind, (whence it
if that were not the resumé; Of Histories—As if such, however complete, were not less complete than my
poems; As if the shreds, the records of nations, could possibly be as lasting as my poems; As if here
only out of the inimitable poem of the wo- man woman , can come the poems of man—(only thence have my
arrive, or pass'd on farther than those of the earth, I henceforth no more ignore them, than I ignore my
good as such-like, visible here or anywhere, stand provided for in a handful of space, which I extend my
arm and half enclose with my hand; That contains the start of each and all—the virtue, the germs of
WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleased with the sound of my own name?
sake, Of departing—of the growth of a mightier race than any yet, Of myself, soon, perhaps, closing up my
My Days I sing, and the Lands—with interstice I knew of hapless War.
; Or rude in my home in Dakotah's woods, my diet meat, my drink from the spring; Or withdrawn to muse
place, with my own day, here.
My comrade!
my intrepid nations! O I at any rate include you all with perfect love!
steamers steaming through my poems!
to my bare-stript heart, And reach'd till you felt my beard, and reach'd till you held my feet.
My voice goes after what my eyes cannot reach; With the twirl of my tongue I encompass worlds, and volumes
My ties and ballasts leave me—I travel—I sail—my elbows rest in the sea-gaps; I skirt the sierras—my
We closed with him—the yards entangled—the cannon touch'd; My captain lash'd fast with his own hands.
Now I laugh content, for I hear the voice of my little captain,(says my grandmother's father;) We have
daughters, sons, preluding, The love, the life of their bodies, meaning and being, Curious, here behold my
cycles, in their wide sweep, having brought me again, Amorous, mature—all beautiful to me—all wondrous; My
wondrous; Existing, I peer and penetrate still, Content with the present—content with the past, By my