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cm; These lines appear to be very early ideas connected with the poem first published as Come, said my
first published in the New York publication Truth on 19 March 1891 and was later reprinted in Good-Bye My
1Drift Sandsloc.04185xxx.00310[Sands on the Shores of my 64th year]about 1883poetry1 leaf6 x 14 to 20.5
x 16.5 cmhandwritten; Trial titles and notes, including Sands on the Shores of my 64th year.
[Sands on the Shores of my 64th year]
1Drift Sandsloc.04229xxx.00310[Sands on the Shores of my 60th year]about 1879poetry1 leaf6 x 14 to 20.5
x 16.5 cmhandwritten; Trial titles and notes, including Sands on the Shores of my 60th year.
[Sands on the Shores of my 60th year]
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
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
It has been my intention, as you are aware, that no inconvenience or expense should be imposed upon you
Browning, my predecessor in office. That opinion was transmitted to the Hon. J. M.
1870 Janry January 19 My dear walt Walt i am like you this week i dont don't seem to have any thing new
worst of it was they had two dogs and before they could get them away i thought they would have torn my
a stir about the small pox ordering every one to be vasinated vaccinated ) well walter Walter dear my
Dear sir: I do not see that my being Attorney General requires or enables me to give you assistance or
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.
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
will get a nice black silk) i gess guess mrs price is like many others short of funds sometime walter my
Take my hand Walt Whitman" "Lift me close to your face Till I whisper " "What you are holding is in reality
"Here take from my lips this kiss" "I give it especially to you .
Cooly, composedly, whilst the hot lava inwardly boiling, rages through my breast.
You are my child—Lord & Ideal.
I wish they could see my Soul. Would they deem it lovely. I do not bother much about the exterior.
My friends: I send you a page & a half piece—" A warble for lilac-time "—if available for the April Galaxy
. /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
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.
You will please accept my thanks for the manner in which those services were rendered.
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
febuary February 23 My dear walt i have just got your letter and was glad to hear from you and received
Jeff Whitman wrote that Mason "used to be in my party on the Water Works" (see his February 10, 1863
up this way are very modest so I got off quite an Elaborate elaborate address in which I expressed my
Phellow fellow Phelinx to the best of my abilities & wished the cause of Temperance Everlasting progress
interrupted with "hear" "hear" and any amount of cheering & in the midst of the cheering I brought my
I am still improving in health getting more blooming Every day Day people who saw me on my way here &
you will know it Just to see if you will recognize the Boy who left Washington some time ago got over my
for St Louis this afternoon he was very sorry that he could not see you. but I am certainly coming on my
that I will get there in the evening and I have no doubt when I call on Masons they will insist on my
Wilkins requests me to send you the enclosed papers from the files of my office—informing me that you
Charles my younger boy and all the child we have left lives at home with us though it seems somewhat
16 th dear Walt i will resume my corresspondence correspondence again haint you missed my letters very
tea and i got it with such pain that i could hardly keep from groaning the matter is i have been on my
Louis, Mar 18th 1870 My Dear Mother Mattie arrived all right on Wednesday abt about 3 ocl —in the afternoon—We
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.
| May 1870 march March 23 My dear walt Walt i have just got your letter with the money in it i received
is dead i will write to george George i feel very sad of course if he has done ever so wrong he was my
institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it in my
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
28 March 1870 monday Monday My dear walt Walt i received your letter and paper with Jesse death in it
institutionalizing Jesse because, according to her December 25, 1863 letter, she "could not find it in my
March 30th 1870 Dear respected friend Feeling assured that any information of my doings and whereabouts
will meet with only the kindest reception from you, I venture once more, after my long silence, to address
If any excuse be neccessary necessary , let my respect and esteem be that excuse.
himself"; but I note telling you facts) and have just entered upon the study of Law; In conseq uence of my
Though we enjoyed our homeless life in Washington I think I have enjoyed my more wandering life since
L OUIS March 30th, 18 70 My dear Walt I suppose you think strange that I hav'nt written you before but
work goes on well we have delightful weather here everything looks like Spring I am glad I put off my
been ample and I should have enjoyed a visit with Mrs O Conner very much indeed Please convey to them my
love and express to them my hearty thanks for their kindness—also say to Mrs O C and family that we
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
I am numbed with the frigid manners of the Christians; barbarism has given me the fullest joy of my life
If I could only know that it has pleased you I should bless my stars fervantly.
sure of your friendship and I should try to life live the real life there for your sake as well as for my
(my address always ) Charles Warren Stoddard to Walt Whitman, 2 April 1870
My address is at this office.
well as usual—still work in this office—still board at the same house in M Street—& I suppose hold my
I will not write a long letter this time—but send you my love—& charge you to write more regularly in
branches, I came home from Washington and applied myself, as soon as possible, to school and to study…My
5 April 1870 Brooklyn Apri l April 5 My dear Walt i have just received your letter and the order all
walter Walter dear its it's in your power to deal so generously to your mother) i am rather better of my
and from the facts which I have ascertained, I do not consider that it requires any further action on my
My life since we parted that July day upon the Treasury steps, has been one of hard work and little recreation
I have written so much of myself simply because you asked me of myself— My Dear Friend I hope and believe