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In respect to the interest of Captain Goodwin, no difficulty is perceived.

It is not perceived that Captain Goodwin is to blame for this, but it is equally difficult to see how

My arm has come out in a sore were where one of the balls struck it it is so bad that it gives me much

urge him to give me a posison position I have some recomdation recommendation from Curtain of Pa & my

Captain.

Captain W. H. Dietz, Kingston, Tenn.

that Court in favor of the State of Georgia, against yourself, General Meade, General Ruger, and Captain

Stanton that he, as well as yourself, wished me to appear in my official capacity to argue the motions

Upon the present motion, I feel no sort of embarrassment in resisting it in consequence of my known opinions

every week since I received your letter that I would write to you and as often I have failed to keep my

Mother & My Wife send their regards to you.

I am a married man but I am not happy for my disposition is not right.

21, 1867, Wilson acknowledged Whitman's reply of April 12, 1867: "I do not want you to misunderstand my

motives in writing to you of my Situation & feelings as I did in my last letter or else I shall have

to be more guarded in my letters to you.

I wrote so because you wanted me to write how I was situated, and give you my mind without reserve, and

, Dear Sir: Won't you do me the very great favor to write me a few lines regarding the condition of my

Though we have never met personally, I have heard of you from my mother & sister.

My sister in a late letter, wished me to write you & thank you for your great kindness to her.

Thayer I believe thinks all my thumb wont get well.

…be pleasant to Charlie while I am sick on my account" (The Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, Duke University

Traubel read this letter in 1889, Whitman commented on Heyde: "He is a cringing, crawling snake: uses my

was a plain everyday scamp I'd not feel sore on him: but in the rôle of serpent, whelp, he excites my

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

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

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

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

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."

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

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.

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

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 dear Conway, Your letter of February 1st has just come to hand. I am willing that Mr.

I wish to send my sincerest thanks & personal regards to Mr. Rossetti.

To have had my book, & my cause, fall into his hands, in London, in the way they have, I consider one

Remember my request to Mr.

I feel prepared in advance to render my cordial & admirant respect to Mr.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

earliest convenience, to return my answers thereto in writing.

Before my appointment to my present office, I was a lawyer.

In my youth, before my first entering the public service, I had not adopted a permanent occupation. 5

I was educated by my parents, and by solitary study. 6.

The law clerk's hours are similar to my own.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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 dear Sir: Mr.

30, 1868, Whitman informed Ralph Waldo Emerson that "Proud Music of the Storm" was "put in type for 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.

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

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 Sir, Your friendly note of the 26th has just come to hand, and yesterday came your noble paper

on Personalism —for both of which attentions you have my thanks.

friend has sent me from time to time appreciative notices of yourself, knowing by some supreme instinct my

I know how fully he shares in my appreciation of yourself and works.

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.

Syracuse Dec 27th/68 Walt Whitman Dear Friend I suppose you will think by this time that I have forgotten my

Dear old Friend by my long silence & neglect to answer your letter, or acknowledge the receipt of your

think of you & promise myself that I will not delay writing to you any longer but as often I break my

My health is very good. Father has been quite sick for a week but is improving now.

York next summer & cannot come up and make me a short visit let me know when you are coming and if my

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.

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

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,

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

Oh, my God! my God!"

Oh, my divine Redeemer! Oh, my Friend, my Saviour!"

own husband, my first, my only love, my love forever!

"O my God—my boy George!"

boy, my George; my saved and ransomed George; my son, my son!

I got the thumb of my right hand in to some Cog Wheels and smashed it pretty fine so that I have not

My thumb is very Painful so that I can not write much at present but will do so as soon as it gets well

My family are all well. Write soon Yours with Love B. H. Wilson. B H Wilson Benton H.

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.

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 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.

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.

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!

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, Washington, March 4, 1868 My dear Mr.

I can fully join in the same testimony, as he treated, as physician or surgeon, many a case under my

I send you, dear sir, my friendliest respects & well wishes, Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to W. O.