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I know I am glad that your selections were put into my hands first, so that I was lifted up by them to
As he told you, there is a chance—not as yet more than a chance—that I may make my way over the Atlantic
. /70 Dear friend Walter I now take my pen in h and to let you know how I am getting along.
received your letter of the Eight & was very glad to hear from you. we have been Stoping stopping at my
I am going to buy a fraim frame for your Picture I have it up in my room I wou ld like to see you very
Boss Mr Hawkins is going to leave the firm the first of march & my friend Oliver Allen & I thought we
My Dear friend Walt I now take my pen in hand to let you know how I am getting along I am in very good
health at present & I hope you are the same. my father is not very well at present he has been Laid
I bought some medicine for a freind friend of my fathers & he gave me the money to pay for them & I Spent
Robbins & then I will be Disgraced & Discarged Discharged I asked my Sister to lend three & she would
New York June 1/70 Friend Walter I now take my pen in hand to write to you I am in good health at Present
not want to lend me the I asked for, why Did you not write and say so—not to make out you Did not get my
of it when you was I though thought I would put you in—mind of it if I would be man Enough to keep my
I would not mind if you would give me my Clothes now as I need them very I cant can't go out any wear
My dear friend, I have just received your letter of the 7th inst.
A new edition of my book will be printed this fall, with another small volume in prose.
I send you my love—Write whenever you can.
duplicate printed copies of a poem I have written, "Passage to India," in which I endeavor to celebrate in my
price, time, selection of magazine, and in fact all the points of that sort, I leave absolutely to you— My
Nothing new or very different with my affairs. I remain in good health & spirits.
My dear friend, I am here a while on leave—am in good health as usual—have been engaged in electrotyping
a new edition of my book in better form—You sent me word a year or more ago of some Boston publisher
, or bookseller, who was willing (or perhaps wished) to sell my book —Who was it?
biography, The Ferry Boy and the Financier (Boston: Walker and Wise, 1864); he described their meetings in My
O'Connor in 1867: "Every year confirms my earliest impression, that no book has approached the power
There is nothing new or noteworthy in my own affairs.
I keep fashioning & shaping my books at my leisure, & hope to put them in type the current year.
You speak of my prose preface to first "Leaves of Grass."
I am writing this at my desk in the Treasury building here, an immense pile, in which our office occupies
From my large open window I have an extensive view of sky, Potomac river, hills & fields of Virginia,
I gaze at the Sea while I eat my food and think of thee. . . . and often while I gaze thereon I think
while said this morning—"Why Walt you are fatter & saucier than ever"— but I will close by sending my
love, to my darling son—& to him I shall always be the same old Walt.
to-day to be what you are, than to be him, with his $10,000 a year—poor thin-livered cuss that he is— My
It is likely that this will shorten my leave, & that I shall have to come back & do my work myself, about
I don't write, I thought I would send a few lines—they would be better than nothing— God bless you, my
Ned Stewarts Stewart's —When you write tell Ned I am here in Brooklyn, loafing around—& that I send my
fine—warm through the middle of the day, & cool mornings & nights— I fall in with quite a good many of my
you & me—no women in the house—he is single—he wants me to make my home there—I shall not do that, but
that night—My dear loving boy, how much I want to see you—it seems a long while—I have rec'd a good
loving son, & give my respects to any of the boys that ask about me.
the hot weather, & especially since I left Washington—so I read & write as little as possible, beyond my
printing matters, &c—as that occupies several hours, & tires my eyes sometimes.
distinction however—I admire & love the French, & France as a nation—of all foreign nations, she has my
is—to say nothing—only a good smacking kiss, & many of them—& taking in return many, many, many, from my
Milburn, or any of the railroad boys, or other friends that may inquire after me, that I send them my
best respects—not forgetting my friends Mr. & Mrs.
every thing lovely—It will not be long now before I shall be back—Till then, take care of yourself, my
Dear Son, I am sitting here in my room, having just eat a hearty dinner with my mammy , (who has this
month entered on her 76th year, but to my eyes looks young & handsome yet.)
c—he has one fault, & a bad one—that is he will drink, & spree it—which spoils all—True it is none of my
would give it up, & find his pleasure in some other way—Pete, should you see Allen again, give him my
Nothing very new or different in my affairs.
here in Atty Gens office—same posish position —have good health—expect to bring out new editions of my
books before very long—how is the little boy—I send my love to him, & to your wife & parents.
wrote but then deleted: "O if we could only be together now even if only Dear Boy, dear, dear friend, my
In 1888 Walt Whitman commented to Horace Traubel about this letter: "I can't live some of my old letters
My dear friends, N. M. and J. B.
you word, in advance—The picture of the dear daughter will be welcome—I should also like another of my
dear loving boy Alfred, as soon as he gets any late ones, if he does so— So good bye & God bless you, my
dear friends, & my love to all.
It arises in my mind, as I write, to say something of that kind to you— I am not a little comforted when
I learn that the young men dwell in thought upon me & my utterances—as you do—& I frankly send you my
I am numbed with the frigid manners of the Christians; barbarism has given me the fullest joy of my life
My address is at this office.
Nov 5 18 70 My dear Mr.
Huntington: I write to say I would like to postpone the pleasure of my visit to, & breakfast with, you
Walt Whitman I send the Galaxy with one of my last pieces —as I am not certain whether I sent it to you
entitled to a cancellation of the bond, nor to a discharge from the payment of the tax; and you ask my
—If, on a reëxamination of the case, you still desire my opinion, I shall be happy to give it; but as
it can easily be submitted to a court for its decision, if my opinion of it is not necessary for purposes
Justice of a Territory to leave his official post of duty to attend to them at Washington, I shall give my
It has been my intention, as you are aware, that no inconvenience or expense should be imposed upon you
Dear sir: I do not see that my being Attorney General requires or enables me to give you assistance or
Browning, my predecessor in office. That opinion was transmitted to the Hon. J. M.
In my letter to Mr.
Tracy, which you refer to me, relates to a matter over which my Department has no control.
believe that this is a sufficient answer to what you ask in your letter, and with the assurance of my
I have given no official opinion in writing relating to the affairs of Georgia, and have not in my possession
It would give me great pleasure to render you any assistance in my power in regard to your discharge
of your judicial duties, but as it is not my official duty to do so, and as I am doubtful of its propriety
You ask my opinion upon the correctness of these charges. I referred the bill to Benj.
The question you ask me whether further detention of the witnesses is, in my judgment, necessary, I will
I should be glad to give the Committee any aid in my power, if I had any knowledge or opinion upon the
Tenn. dated the 8th inst. in relation to his claim for bounty, with your endorsement thereon, asking my
I hope, therefore, that you will excuse me from undertaking a service beyond my official duty.
On that day, the Solicitor of Internal Revenue came into my office and said to me that the Supervisor
—There is in my Department no list of U. S.
With the facts you state in your letter, I understand very well what impression my telegram made upon
You will please accept my thanks for the manner in which those services were rendered.
Wilkins requests me to send you the enclosed papers from the files of my office—informing me that you
It is no part of my official duty to vindicate the rights of individual citizens, who have their remedy
In accordance with what was orally said by you to my Assistant, Mr.
opinion, and should think that I ought to give it, I shall endeavor to do it at as early a date as my
I must beg to observe upon this,— supposing of course, it is my Department to which you refer—nothing
It is my rule to give notice to the officer concerned of any charges affecting his reputation as a man
more safely drawn the conclusion, when you learn that charges have been filed, that they did not, in my
Commissioner in Michigan, which you referred to me, and which bears the endorsement of my clerk.
My department has no control or supervision of the Commissioners, who are officers appointed by the Courts
and from the facts which I have ascertained, I do not consider that it requires any further action on my
My dear Sir: The case involving the naturalization question was reached to-day in the Supreme Court,
Sir: Since my letter of the 18th inst. yours of the 17th inst. has been received.
May 21, 1869, from the then Secretary of War to me transmitting those papers, in which he requests my
prohibited by the Act of February 21, 1867, I have to say that, in accordance with your oral request made to my
The case is under the charge of my Assistant, Mr.
Sir: I have received your letter of the 31st ult., calling my attention to your claim as informer in
My only wish is, that your rights to be adjudged informer shall be fully and fairly investigated and
No other course will, in my opinion, be satisfactory to the Department of War, and I do not think it
Sir: Your reply of the 6th to my letter of the 4th inst. in regard to the employment of counsel for the
As I have already stated, my inquiries addressed to you were made at the request of the Secretary of
Esq.,—undertake the management of this defence, a reasonable compensation, founded on the basis of my
return herewith the papers transmitted to me with your letter of the 7th of April last, requesting my
If Captain Cullen is a man of such worth and general good repute as seems probable from the telegram.