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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.
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
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
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.
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.
My friend Years have gone past since I have seen that face of my friend dear Walt. Whitman.
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
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!
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.
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
Published Monthly OFFICE OF THE GALAXY No. 39 Park Row, New York , May 15 186 8 My dear Sir: After thinking
Published Monthly OFFICE OF THE GALAXY No. 39 Park Row, New York , May 2 186 8 My dear Sir: To be in
Broadway" you sent me, and was so well pleased with it that I expect to order the following numbers until my
the papers presented to me by Senator Dixon, copies of which are herewith transmitted, I deemed it my
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
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
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.
for naval purposes, I have to inform you that, the title to this property having been passed upon by my
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 dear Sir: Mr.
30, 1868, Whitman informed Ralph Waldo Emerson that "Proud Music of the Storm" was "put in type for 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.
subordinate, the chief of the secret service division—and other papers, together with a memorandum of 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.
Captain W. H. Dietz, Kingston, Tenn.
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 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.
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
—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
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
1868 march 11 evening My dear Walt i have nothing to write this week i have got all out of news) but
11 Nov. 1868 My dear Walter i got both of your letters one the last of last week and the other on monday
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
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
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
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
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
Brooklyn 19 Aug 1868 wensday Wednesday evening My dear Walt i recieved received your letter yesterday
3 March tuesday Tuesday noon My dear walt i have just got your letter with 5 dollars and i got the one
says he had telegraph to you i wish i could know the thruth truth about her) it made me feel bad with 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
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
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
Miller, who has been appointed as my successor, has not yet qualified, and I have been informed that
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
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
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