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I was speaking to you in regard. to my appointment for Sailmaker in U.S. Navy.

looking after it for me. and see what you can do towards getting it for me For it has been the height of my

Will put me out of misery. and my mind content any further information Any of the clerks in the Sec of

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

Sir: Your letter of the 15th Dec. inst. calls my attention to a certain course of proceedings of Mr.

Your letter also calls my attention to the supposed authority which you had, in consequence of or in

In a personal interview during your visit to Washington immediately after my reception of your letter

of making good the assurances of the government, in this sense and to this extent, I considered it my

I beg to enclose a copy of my letter to the Dist. Attorney, for your information.

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

Washington. 18 My Dear Sir, Your wishes admit of easy compliance, since Mr Browning has resolved to make

of pardon clerk and the opportunity will not be lost to add in the professional force of the office—my

My dear Sir: In reply to your note of 12th inst., desiring, as counsel for the Commercial Nav'g'n Co.

, an interview with me during my expected visit to New York, I beg to say that I shall be pleased to

Feb 1868 wensday Wednesday 19 My dear Walter i thought i would just write a few lines and send you marys

wait till next week i dident didn't hardly know how to spare the envelope i have been looking over my

stock and i find i have got three more i suppose you have got my letter to day in answer to yours of

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

Letcher, came to my hands only this morning, in consequence of my absence from the city.

that he will be in attendance at the Court in Richmond, prepared to make the arrangement suggested in my

The term commences on Monday, the 23d inst., I learn, and not the 25th as has heretofore been my impression

My health keeps good, & work easy.

I often think of you, my loving boy, and think whether you are all right & in good health, & working

As I told you in my previous letter, this city is quite small potatoes after living in New York.

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

would (I quote) like to keep & use an original poem—three-page poem—sent him from me, but demurs to my

I repeat, that I distinctly reserve the right of printing the piece in a future edition of my poems.

the city i have taken the liberty of addressing you a few lines i am the wife of Henry Reynolds and my

son is called after you, my husband went out West about a year and a half ago since which time we have

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

My friend Years have gone past since I have seen that face of my friend dear Walt. Whitman.

editor, would, (I quote,) like to keep & use an original three-page poem sent him from me, but demurs to my

I repeat that I distinctly reserve the right of printing the piece in a future edition of my poems.

My vacation is nearly done, & in four or five days more I shall be back in Washington.

here in Providence—I have been with him a good deal—he is not very well, but goes around—Will finish my

But I must tell you the news which is the cause of my writing For, this bright beautiful day gave birth

I am still engaged in perfecting my invention by repeated experiments.

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

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.

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 position in reference to the case, as having been consulted in it in my private professional capacity

March 13, 18 68 My dear Doctor, Your note has just come to hand, stating that you intend a visit to Washington

My friend, if that is your sole object here, & you depend upon any thing of that kind, (unless you have

My dear mother is living & well; we speak of you. I wish you to give my best respects & love to Mr.

I shall have to try a head of him presently for my American Gallery: Emerson, Thoreau, and Walt" (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.

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

Sir: Your letter of the 26th ultimo submits for my opinion this question: May a Consul retain for his

After an examination of the statutes relating to the subject, and to which you have directed my attention

The piece appears in printed form because I have had it put in type for my own convenience, and to insure

correctness—I forgot to say, above, that I scrupulously reserve the right to print this piece in future in my

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

My friends: I have now just ready an article intended as the third & concluding one to the two already

I have, of course, treated the subject in my own way—certain parts strong & earnest—but there is nothing

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

My purpose at present is, to request that you will send me, if you still have connection with this matter

S. shall be taken in the matter, without communicating with me, and receiving my instructions.

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

Dear Sir: I thank you for the copy of my poems sent by you. It has just reached me.

Swinburne my heartiest acknowledgements for the copy of William Blake, (which has reached me)—& for his

6 March 1868 friday Friday the 6 My dear Walt i thought i would write again this week to tell you i had

coal but it held out till after the storm got a little settled and i got some) with the 5 that came in my

do he will stay till mr Lane sends an inspector out and then he is to inspect the new main he paid my

I have already transmitted to you, with my communication of the 29th November, referred to above, a copy

of my letter of instruction to the District Attorney of this District, which, with the other papers

My friends, I have now ready the prose article—(will make, I should think, about 14 printed pages)—which

The name of my piece is Personalism Don't be alarmed at the (perhaps at first sight) oddity of the word

asked several times where your books could be obtained & as I had sent the paper with Col H's letter to my

With kind regards of my family to you I am truly Yours &c Will W Wallace Will W.

Channing forthwith—& fulfil my promised visit to them also, before I return here—which will be about

—[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

I should like to know who wrote the piece in the Morning Star —it flushed my friends & myself too, like

Rossetti to whom, meantime, please offer my friendliest, truest regards.

B. " 25 seq p 155 my duty to pronounce any opinion upon the expediency of issuing a pardon upon such

I can only say that upon a careful examination of all the papers submitted for my consideration, it does

; 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

I told her I would mark passages for her in the copy I meant to send on my own book, but didn't send

How shall I thank our poet for the beautiful book, and for my name written in it by his own hand so near

Jack, you must write often as you can—anything from my loving boy will be welcome—you needn't be particular

Dear Jack, I send you my love. Walt Whitman.

Tuesday 1868 November 10 My dear Walter i have received your letter to day although it was short it was

suffered very much so pressed for breath poor little boy it made me feel real sad he and Janey was up in my

in this office, is one in which the importance of the questions involved makes it proper to embody my

United States, in conformity to the provisions of the Civil Rights Act, it would be expedient, and in my

I shall doubtless return about the 26th—as my leave expires that day.

I am writing this in my room at Mr. & Mrs. Davis's.

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

My object is, to ascertain whether a resort should not be had in all cases by parties interested, to

If so, information to that effect would satisfy my present inquiry.