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My purpose was to kill two birds with one stone—get well and fix up the "Carpenter", but I fear neither
I never was so tired in my life, and am so sleepy that I drop off in slumber if I sit a few minutes in
beard grow down all over the rocks like sea-weed, and cover the sea, and my hair spread backward over
Give her my best love.
I heard that Higginson did not like my "Good Gray Poet." This is sad.
his January 16, 1872 letter to Rudolf Schmidt, Whitman wrote that Freiligrath "translates & commends my
Hart got on my car last night on my last trip.
others You may not be interested with his affairs so i will come to close excuse this short letter as my
car is going [to] start & i want [to] put this in the mail good bye My Dear friend Pete i will write
If you see him, tell him I have not forgot him, but send him my love, & will be back in Washington again
Oct 8th 1868 My Dear Friend Walt Whitman Your kind note and paper came duly at hand. Col.
often do in our reading circle there) and to feel that I may claim the honor of his friendship This is my
My studies are History, Grammer Grammar , Theory of Teaching, Algebra, and Latin This school is an institution
with us I love all seasons of the year, but particularly do I fall in love with golden leaved autumn My
It seems but a day or two since I left Wash, yet I am now on the fourth week of my furlough.
As I was on my way home in a 2d av. car between 12 & 1 o'clock we got blocked in by a great part of the
your last letter so long that I am most ashamed to write to you now but I know that you will excuse my
My little baby Walt is well & Bright as a dollar. with Love to yourself I will close for the present.
Broadway" you sent me, and was so well pleased with it that I expect to order the following numbers until my
Dear friend, I suppose you received my letter of September 25. The letters to me from A.
Did you see John Swinton's warm ¶ about my illustrious self in N. Y. Times , 1st instant?
Give my best love to John Burroughs, & show him this note to read. J.
I send my love to Charles Eldridge—By a wretched oversight on my part I missed an appointment with him
Nelly, my dear friend, I send you my best love—in which my mother joins me—We are all well.
, above the salutation appeared the following: "ask about the office—Ashton—has Andy Kerr returned —my
If you see him, tell him I have not forgot him, but send him my love, & will be back in Washington again
I thought I would just drop you a line for yourself—but no doubt you keep fully posted about me by my
letters to Pete, as I am willing you or any of my particular friends who wish to, should read them.
afternoon—altogether they make up a show that I can richly spend a month in enjoying—for a change from my
Thompson, conductor, you would say I sent him my love, & have not forgot him.
I wish you to tell John Towers, conductor, I sent him my love, & we will see each other again one of
Oct 2 Dear boy and Comrade You say it is a pleasure to you to get my letters—well, boy, it is a real
write to you—I just write off-hand, whatever comes up, and, as I said before, mostly about myself & my
Dear Pete, with all my kind friends here & invitations, &c., though I love them all, & gratefully reciprocate
Take care of yourself, & God bless you, my loving comrade. I will write again soon.
I send you my love—& to Charley the same—Mention how Charley's young one is getting along— I will now
bid you good bye for this time, my loving friend, & God bless you, dear comrade, & keep you all right
I will write a line to No. 6, & will speak to the other boys in my next.
My dear mother I find in unusual health & spirits, for one of her age.
My brother George is well & hearty. Eddy the same. Mother sends her love to you & Nelly.
quite a part of my pleasure here.
I am writing this in my room at Mrs. Prices.
A. said "Give my love to Mrs. O'Connor, she is a woman I like—Mr.
I could convey no idea to you of how it affects my soul.
: "Swinton's discovery of the resemblance in form between Leaves of Grass and Blake's poetry, is in my
My dear Dr. Channing: I yesterday received your kind note.
My leave of absence continues for some time yet, & I should probably like to visit you for a few days
I send my best respects & love to Mrs. Channing.
I wish you & wife to read my last piece in The Broadway London Magazine for October.
. & if there is any chances of getting into the Fire Department also to give my respects to all inquiring
I suppose you got my second letter last Wednesday.
I put down off hand, & write all about myself & my doings, &c. because I suppose that will be really
what my dear comrade wants most to hear, while we are separated.
I am doing a little literary work, according as I feel in the mood—composing on my books.
Among the pilots are some of my particular friends—when I see them up in the pilot house on my way to
My dear and great Walt. As you did not come up yesterday afternoon I did not expect you to day.
I could convey no idea to you of how it affects my soul.
I salute you as the poet of my heart my intellect, my ideality, my life.
At Montreal I came to the end of my purse and was obliged to remain at the St.
supervisorships, so that Seymour shall get half the patronage of the treasury, an institution which my
about ten minutes ago cant Explain explain the Pleasure pleasure experience from your letters Farewell my
consist of Washington Georgetown & Alexandria it is supposed that Mr Colfax will address the meeting In my
other letter i wrote you that my mother was sick i am happy to state that she has got entirely well.
I have excellent health, eat my rations every time, and am I suppose full as fat and brown and bearded
While here I spend much of my time with my dear Mother, in Brooklyn—she is hearty & cheerful, though
My address, for some four weeks to come, will be as at the heading of this letter.
Byron, I send you my love & friendship, dear soldier boy—and now that we have found each other again,
I suppose it would be best to have it done by my agency, and I suggest that I write F.
Give my love to your mother.
his January 16, 1872 letter to Rudolf Schmidt, Whitman wrote that Freiligrath "translates & commends my
I am really pleased that you can accommodate me, & make great reckoning of being with you, & of my room
, &c—but wish [to] have it distinctly understood, in all friendship, that I pay for my room , &c, just
lots of money—in fact untold wealth —& I shall not feel right if you undertake to alter this part of my
programme—I am feeling well & hearty—I wish you to read my piece in the "Broadway London Magazine,"
My friend Years have gone past since I have seen that face of my friend dear Walt. Whitman.
—[these] are the two questions that are in my mind just now— Mattie has a bad cough and I have had several
I do not think it worth while to risk everything in trying to "stick" it out in a bad bargain— Give my
Sir: Referring to my letter of the 3rd instant, enclosing a telegram from the United States Marshal for
were obstructed on the occasion mentioned, which give full particulars of the occurrences mentioned in my
is out of this world of sin & trouble—& I don't know as we have any cause to mourn for him— Mother, my
for somehow I feel as if I wanted to throw off everything like work or thought, for a while—& be with my
is pretty well over—they say the folks are coming home from the country, &c—I am glad I didn't take my
fine day—I am feeling well— Well, I have a long job of copying to do for Ashton, so I will wind up my
Evarts, does not seem likely to affect my position here.
the matter of the Government subsidy to the Union Pacific Railroad in a few days, as I have formed my
In the meantime, the result to which I have come enables me to say that, in my opinion, the conditions
My dear Mr. Alden: Would the enclosed be considered opportune—& of use to you for The Citizen ?
Should you print the piece, I wish you to do me the favor to send ten copies by mail to my address here
Brooklyn 19 Aug 1868 wensday Wednesday evening My dear Walt i recieved received your letter yesterday
tuesday Tuesday evenin evening My dear Walt i received your letter to day with the nice envelopes all
to any place where they live a long time) i am pretty well now i have been trouble d with a pain in my
Walt Whitman had written, "I have not been satisfied with my boarding place—so several weeks ago, I tried
another place & room for a couple of days & nights on trial, without giving up my old room—Well, I was
glad enough to go back to my old place & stay there" (see his August 24, 1868 letter to Louisa Van Velsor
in Atlantic street, on some accounts, but there is always something—I have not been satisfied with my
several weeks ago, I tried another place & room for a couple of days & nights on trial, without giving up my
old room—Well, I was glad enough to go back to my old place & stay there—I was glad enough I hadn't
Louis, August 23rd 1868 My dear Mother, Having a half hour to spare I thought I could not better employ
yet—I was glad that the draft came all right—and by the way is that car stable yet on the lots opposite my
"My Acquaintance with Planchette," Lippincott's Magazine, 1 (1868), 217-18.
Miller, who has been appointed as my successor, has not yet qualified, and I have been informed that
Louis, August 20th 1868 Dear Brother George I must beg pardon for my seeming delay abt sending the enclosed
stands it like a good fellow—dont grumble a bit I hope you have been occasioned no inconvenience by my
write me occasionly and I often wonder why Mr Lane or McNamee does not write me—certainly they are in my
To the President: Sir: I find on file in my office certain charges against Luther C.
My position in reference to the case, as having been consulted in it in my private professional capacity
dear boy—and though you must now be indeed quite different from the little child I used to lift up in my
In response to your letter I send—not my whole volume of Leaves of Grass —but Drum-Taps , a part of it
published by John Burroughs, who, being a great friend of mine, views every thing relating to me & my
—I send you my love, & I wish you to give my friendliest remembrances to your parents.
sun—I have got along pretty well, but it has been awful hot—& continues so, though as I write here by my
more after that I am kept pretty busy the little questions of all kinds coming up require nearly all my
are not, in any respect, worse than undetected persons— and are not in any respect worse than I am my
Brooklyn 8 July 1868 July th 8th My dear Walt i have received your letter to day wensday Wednesday dident
any change in your place but we must take things as they come no more this time walter Walter dear) my
hand is letter lame that the letter is wrote quite bad give my love to an mrs Mrs. oconor O'Connor and
Walt Whitman was proud of Dutch ancestry on his mother's side: "I may say I revel, even gloat, over my
Louis Packet Company, is submitted to me for my opinion on the questions of law arising in the premises
of them, and that I would with pleasure consider the questions of law in the case, should he desire my
Solicitor of the Treasury, requesting my advice upon certain questions arising upon the claim of the
My predecessors have repeatedly declined to give opinions at the instance of other officers than those
Should you desire my opinion upon the law of the case, it will afford me pleasure to consider the questions
involved, and communicate to my views in regard to them.
; Or rude in my home in Dakotah's woods, my diet meat, my drink from the spring; Or withdrawn to muse
He even dates from the United States era; in 1856, he writes: In the Year 80 of the States, My tongue
place, with my own day, here.
List close, my scholars dear!
I approached him, gave my name and reason for searching him out, and asked him if he did not find the
results—and I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death; And I will thread a thread through my
Sir: After my letter of yesterday, relative to the case of United States, vs .
The circumstances which I mentioned in my former letter on this subject, however, render it practically
Sir: I have the honor to refer you to your letter of the 25th April last, and my reply of 6th May following
suspend the case of Christian Priesendantz for a few days—but enclose for your information a copy of my
—1868 July 1 My dear Walt i got your letter yesterday and the money order and magazine and two papers
well if not better than i was last summer i dont don't take any kind of medicine now only bath bathe my