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factories of the Spragues, & so to Olneysville &c &c—as interesting a ride & exploration as I ever had in my
Evarts, does not seem likely to affect my position here.
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,"
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
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
My dear Sir, I write a line to jog you about the proofs of Personalism . Is it being put in type?
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
—Mat has worried about my not giving it to you ever since we came away—you must thank her for it not
more after that I am kept pretty busy the little questions of all kinds coming up require nearly all my
—[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 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.
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 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.
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.
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
i received your Papers last monday i have been Very anxious to write to you but the Death of one of my
about ten minutes ago cant Explain explain the Pleasure pleasure experience from your letters Farewell my
. & if there is any chances of getting into the Fire Department also to give my respects to all inquiring
Feb. 1, 68 My dear friend, I have but a moment in which to write to you, if I save the mail.
My object is to ask you, in behalf of Hotten, whether it is consistent with your will that the selection
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
editorial decisions, which included editing potentially objectionable content and removing entire poems: "My
propose would of course be adopted by me with thanks & without a moment's debate, were it not that my
My dear Walt, I regret to say I was unable to do anything with the proof of Personalism.
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
editorial decisions, which included editing potentially objectionable content and removing entire poems: "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!
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
3 March tuesday Tuesday noon My dear walt i have just got your letter with 5 dollars and i got the one
1868 march 11 evening My dear Walt i have nothing to write this week i have got all out of news) but
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
impeachment of Johnson '68 april April 7 My dear walt Walt we are having an awful rain storm and george
i feel better to day than i have for some time i have been troubled with the dissiness dizziness in my
1868 tuesday Tuesday 24 march March My dear walter Walter its it's quite a spell since i have written
about the peice piece till i see it and then i had to think where i had heard of it and then it came to my
Brooklyn May th 5 1868 My dear Walt it seemed quite a treat to get your letter you are the only correspondente
to look at any more houses but was going to wait for something to turn up i am quite lame in one of my
Brooklyn 19 Aug 1868 wensday Wednesday evening My dear Walt i recieved received your letter yesterday
—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
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
says he had telegraph to you i wish i could know the thruth truth about her) it made me feel bad with my
Brooklyn 18 Nov. 68 My dear Walter I got your letter monday Monday with the contents all safe I should
coming poor jeff Jeff I feel sorry for him and sorry for matty Matty and sorry for myself – I have my
11 Nov. 1868 My dear Walter i got both of your letters one the last of last week and the other on monday
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
Brooklyn 25 Nov '68 N ovem 25 My dear Walter i received your letter to day wensday Wednesday and the
She wrote: "I am so anxious about my hand I fear I shall lose my thumb I cant see it gets & feels or
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
novem November 16 My dear Walt i have got your letter this morning and likewise one from george he dident
single line or verse picked out here and there from the midst of his descriptions:— "Evening—me in my
room—the setting sun, The setting summer sun shining in my open windows window , showing the swarm of
take one breath from my tremulous lips; Take one tear, dropped aside as I go, for thought of you, Dead
I meant that you should discover me so, by my faint indirections; And I, when I meet you, mean to discover
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
Robert Buchanan's new vol. of "Essays" placed in my hands.
Should our second attempt not be satisfactory, I will cheerfully avail my self of your offer. Mr.
My dear Sir: Mr.
30, 1868, Whitman informed Ralph Waldo Emerson that "Proud Music of the Storm" was "put in type for 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.
Broadway" you sent me, and was so well pleased with it that I expect to order the following numbers until my
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
Published Monthly OFFICE OF THE GALAXY No. 39 Park Row, New York , May 2 186 8 My dear Sir: To be in
Published Monthly OFFICE OF THE GALAXY No. 39 Park Row, New York , May 15 186 8 My dear Sir: After thinking
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
June 17 th , 68 My dear Walt, Your letter of inquiry and of the good old feeling has this moment reached
My heart warms towards Mr. Burroughs for his friendly words. I know I should love to meet him.
Don't fail my dear friend to call on me when you come to New York.
My dear old friend I love you—I shall be proud to hear from you at all times, and quick to reply— Charles
My picture, of which I sent you a notice will rest in somnolence during the summer.