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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 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.

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.

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

Broadway" you sent me, and was so well pleased with it that I expect to order the following numbers until 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.

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

I already begin to think about my return to Washington. A month has nearly passed away.

Then about the Broadway drivers, nearly all of them are my personal friends.

So I try to put in something in my letters to give you an idea of how I pass part of my time, & what

which it is my present plan to do the ensuing winter at my leisure in Washington.

I send you my love, & so long for the present. Yours for life, dear Pete, (& death the same).

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

Mother is well, & my brothers the same. I am going to-morrow to Providence, R.

My friend O'Connor is quite unwell, and is absent from Washington away down on the New England coast.

I believe I told you I was finishing up about 230 copies of my book, expecting to sell them.

Dear boy, I send you my love. I will write you a line from Providence. So long, Pete.

Walt I have been debating whether to get my leave extended, & stay till election day to vote—or whether

.: "My purpose was to kill two birds with one stone—get well and fix up the 'Carpenter,' but I fear neither

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

i received your Papers last monday i have been Very anxious to write to you but the Death of one of my

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

Dear Pete, According to announcement in my last, I have made a movement & change of base, from tumultuous

I suppose you got my last letter, 14th, from N. Y. I expect to return to N. Y. about the 22d.

Last night, when I went up at 11 o'clock to my room, I took up three great bunches, each as big as my

It is quite a change here from my associations & surroundings either in Washington or New York.

I send you my love, dear Pete. So long . Will write from N. Y. soon as I return there. W W P.S.

As I left my overcoat in Washington, I have been compelled to get something here—so I have bought me

Then away late—lost my way—wandered over the city, & got home after one o'clock.

& heft, to say nothing of my reputation, is doing pretty well.

Then I thought I would come up & sit a while in my room.

So long, dear Pete—& my love to you as always, always.

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.

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.

factories of the Spragues, & so to Olneysville &c &c—as interesting a ride & exploration as I ever had in my

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

I write this early in the forenoon, sitting in my room in 55th street, after breakfast.

As to getting my leave extended so that I might stay to vote, I have settled (as I spoke of in a former

I am now going out down town, & across to Brooklyn, to spend a few hours with my mother.

I don't know whether I told you that my sister with her two young children from St.

My idea is that Matty has the possibilities of consumption in her system—but that with ordinary good

I return to Washington to-morrow, as my leave is up. The little girls are hearty as ever.

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

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

says he had telegraph to you i wish i could know the thruth truth about her) it made me feel bad with my

Clay having brought to my notice the subject of the proceedings, now or heretofore pending against you

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

11 Nov. 1868 My dear Walter i got both of your letters one the last of last week and the other on monday

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

novem November 16 My dear Walt i have got your letter this morning and likewise one from george he dident

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

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

trial, with such counsel as shall represent the defendant there, in conformity to the suggestions of my

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

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

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.

for naval purposes, I have to inform you that, the title to this property having been passed upon by my

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

Nov. 24, 18 68 Dearest Mother, I suppose you got my letter last Saturday, 21st—All goes along at present

last—To-day it is very fine—I should like to be with you on Thanksgiving, Thursday—I shall take dinner at my

Benedict told me yesterday to bring any of my friends to dinner I wanted to—I still have the same room—I

the office that keep me hard at it— Love to you, dearest mother—& to all— I have had to scratch off my

letter in a hurry, but I wanted you to have something, according to promise in my last.

Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of the 16th inst. calling my attention to the case of Hosmer v. the

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

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.

as District Attorney during this vacancy, I have no person to address to accomplish the objects of my

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

What I may find it possible, or think it my duty to do, in regard to a personal participation in the

matter at Richmond, it is quite out of my power at present to determine; as my preparations for the ensuing

term of the Supreme Court of the United States, on special assignment, requiring my personal attendance

—The object of my present communication is to advise you of the probability of such a rule requiring