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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

sun—I have got along pretty well, but it has been awful hot—& continues so, though as I write here by my

nothing new in the office—the same old story—I have rec'd a number of papers from England with notices of my

George is well, & having good times—I see him every day as I have his picture tacked up on the door of my

April 7, 1868, Louisa Van Velsor Whitman said that she was "troubled with the dissinessdizziness in my

If you see him, tell him I have not forgot him, but send him my love, & will be back in Washington again

My address is Attorney Gen's office, this city.

Washington March 24, '68 My dear Mr.

conversation between us a few days since, allow me in candor to say, that I should decidedly prefer to retain my

Record Clerk, the duties of which I feel that I can fulfil properly—& that I would therefore, as far as my

Browning's part, would I deem it my duty to waive the preference mentioned, & obey your commands.

Dear Sir: I have been very much occupied, since I saw you—& wish you to accept my apoligies apologies

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.

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.

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

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.

reached me, I have to say that I accept the proposal made in it respecting your English publication of my

that you have the privilege of selling that publication in the United States, on payment to me, or my

My book has never been really published here at all & the market is in a sort vacant of supplies.

Accept my thanks for the William Blake .

And now, my dear sir, please accept with my trust in the success of the enterprise my kindest respects

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

Please send me, by express, 30 copies of the number, when ready, to my address here.

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

Please accept my respects to editor & house—with thanks to yourself for promptness.

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.

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.

I have had it put in type for my own convenience, & to insure greater correctness.

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

Nov. 2, 18 68 My dear Sir, As you have not found the little piece "Ethiopia Commenting" available, allow

My dear Sir, I write a line to jog you about the proofs of Personalism . Is it being put in type?

I send my friendliest remembrances & good wishes. And to my ever dear friends, Mrs.

—We have had a snowy day—as I look out of my window the ground is white in every direction—William has

bad cold, has not been down to work to-day, but has just come down town, & is this moment sitting by my

are going to have exciting times generally—but I guess no appeal to arms— I have heard lately from my

dear mother—she is well as usual—Emma Price can tell you more directly about her, as I hear, (to my

William is here—which adds much indeed to the pleasure of my visit—William has not recovered from an

Price & her girls are well & in good spirits—I am enjoying my vacation agreeably, but moderately—as becomes

a gentleman of my size & age.

Give my love to Mr. and Mrs.

My last letter to William was also to you—though I suppose you did not see it yet.

Routledge In my note of January 17 last, sending "Whispers of Heavenly Death," I included a request for

If agreeable therefore, please request the New York house to send by express, at my expense, thirty copies

of the "Broadway" containing the piece, to my address, Attorney Gen's office, here.

compliance with request in your name in letter from George Routledge & Sons, New York, of December 28th & my

For my own convenience & to insure correctness I have had the MS. put in type, & thus transmit it to

It is to be distinctly understood that I reserve the right to print it in any future editions of my book

Hoping success to the Magazine, & that my piece may be found acceptable for it, I remain Respectfully

&c yours, Walt Whitman My address is at Attorney General's Office, Washington City, U.S.A.

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.

Sent May 9—'68 My dear Charles Hine, I received with gladness the authentic sign & proof that you are

Believe me, my friend, I have not forgotten you, nor your old kindness & friendliness. Also Mrs.

In the meantime, I send you by same mail as this a copy of my last edition, also a little book, written

Burroughs, (a second Thoreau,) and a newspaper, with letter —the book & letter all about my precious

General's office—have a pleasant berth, moderate pay, but sufficient— I am well, weight nearly 200, & eat my

…My dear old friend, I love you."

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,

in the two lists of sheets on hand—yours had it that Sheet B, 2d consisted of only 225 sheets—while my

1868, Walt Whitman informed Ralph Waldo Emerson that "Proud Music of the Storm" was "put in type for my

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

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.

Evarts, does not seem likely to affect my position here.

factories of the Spragues, & so to Olneysville &c &c—as interesting a ride & exploration as I ever had in 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 dear friend, I rec'd your first letter of about a month ago, (March 9)—I enquired of a friend in the

it miscarry,) but let that go— The changes in the Attorney Gen's office have made no difference in my

Browning—I couldn't wish to have better bosses—& as to the pleasantness & permanency of my situation

My dear friends, I often think about you all—Helen & Emily in particular, & wish I could look in upon

you, Sunday afternoons—I warmly thank you for your hospitable offers—Give my best respects to Mr.

; 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 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

more after that  I am kept pretty busy  the little questions of all kinds coming up require nearly all my

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.

—Mat has worried about my not giving it to you ever since we came away—you must thank her for it not

—[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

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

do I not see my love fluttering out there among the breakers?

Loud I call to you, my love!

who I am, my love.

Hither, my love! Here I am! Here!

But my love no more, no more with me! We two together no more!

are not, in any respect, worse than undetected persons— and are not in any respect worse than I am my

has yet to be known; May-be seeming to me what they are (as doubtless they indeed but seem) as from my

results—and I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death; And I will thread a thread through my

O harsh surrounding cloud that will not free my soul!

Softly I lay my right hand upon you—you just feel it; I do not argue—I bend my head close, and half-

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