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: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th instant, transmitting, for my

My Dear Mr.

…My brain is too sensitive.

Department of Justice Washington sent Sept. 17, 18 71 I send herewith the copy of my American Institute

I think an ordinary 12 mo would be best, and send you a sample, my idea of size of page, and sort of

My percentage &c. I leave to you to fix—I should expect two or three dozen copies.

Newcomb, amounting to $101, for expenses incurred in securing the deposition of Captain James Speed,

Sept. 14, 18 71 My dear John Swinton: I have rec'd your note & enclosures.

I got it, looked into it with wonder, and felt that here was something that touched on depths of my humanity

Loring, Captain 3d Michigan Volunteers, on account of "two and three years Volunteers."

The poem of yours that I read over with the most satisfaction is your Burial Hymn of Lincoln —But as my

My dear Whitman, I have been voyaging amid the Hebrides,—strolling amid the Highlands,—loafing by the

Sea,—trying to extract from two or three weeks' vacation some vigour vigor and virtue for my work, which

(If you see him tell him that his accompanying letter got lost in my absence or it shd should have been

await us—you must (letting me know beforehand the Ship by which you sail from America) come straight to my

of the 5th instant, referred to the Attorney General by your endorsement of this date, has received my

the subject of a supposed murder of two Indians, near Alexandria, Minnesota, and to enclose a copy of my

Sir: Referring to my letter to you under date of the 24th ult. relative to the escape from jail of the

I write now to say that my omission to answer it immediately was from no indifference to the affairs

Sir: Your letter of the 16th ultimo asks for my opinion whether the keeper of the harbor Light House

of the assets of the bank for ratable distribution, or is the property of the Government, should, in my

careful perusal, it fails to satisfy me that I should reverse the determination I expressed to you in my

Sir: In order that there may be no mistakes as to my position in regard to a rehearing upon the questions

presented by the Interior Department, p. 225 for my opinion in relation to the asserted rights of the

made by that time, I cannot promise to hear it at all, in view of the engagements which press upon my

however, I should find no cause for such suspicion, the opinion already prepared may be considered as my

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 5th inst., inviting my attention

M. for the War Dept., and requesting my views as to the reasonableness of the same.

Sir: On the 6th day of Aug. 1871, you requested my opinion upon the question whether Henry S.

8 Montenotte Cork, Ireland , Sept. 5, 1871 My dear Sir, It was very kind of you to send me the photographs

There is my brother (a clergyman) who finds his truth halved between John H.

The company is dissatisfied with my opinion, and asks a rehearing.

Louisiana, for falsely personating one Brown, a soldier to whom bounty money was due—and requesting my

Sir: I have just returned from Philadelphia, and find your letter of the 16th instant upon my desk. salary

Cochran, of the 28th inst. with my certificate, as required by law. Very respectfully, &c. A. T.

Sir: The case of John Pierce, brought to my notice by your letter of the 23d inst. shall receive immediate

Sir: There is no fund under my control appropriated for paying such services as are described in your

Sir: Referring to my letter to you of July 19, 1871, in reference to the Internal Revenue Compromise

Superintendent of Mail Depredations, Post Office Department, enclosing for my information copies of correspondence

Department, enclosing for my information copies of correspondence in relation to James Gilmore, an escaped

Sir: I have received your letter of the 23d instant, asking whether my attention had been called to the

even more than I should otherwise have done, to feel myself obliged to say at once that I do not see my

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

judson Judson came with her poor woman i felt great sympathy for her if i had had 5 doller dollars in my

paper concerning you and they thought so strange they hear from you i feel pretty smart only quite lame my

Louisa Van Velsor Whitman originally wrote, "my sympathy for her strong."

She then canceled the word "my" and the phrase "for her strong."

She inserted "i felt great" above the canceled word "my."

My dear Ramsdell , Perhaps it may hardly be necessary, but I feel to write you a line of caution about

You might do well to put in about my intended appearance before the American Institute, at its 40th opening

, Sept. 7th in New York, and that the curiosity of both my friends & foes is extremely piqued, &c &c.

Such things are very common, and my only advice on the subject is that you pay no attention to them.

Willard, would in any degree affect my official action in that matter.

Perhaps it is not possible for one in your circumstances to view such cases as they appear to one in my

so disproportioned a share of attention given to it, and which was cheerfully given, (on account of my

But this was only a passing impulse on my part, and I desire you to feel that I retain no unkindness

or the mere addition of respectable names to the list of petitioners, will not produce a change in my

suit in Baltimore different from the first impression which a verbal statement of the matter made upon my

Sir: The enclosed copy of a letter addressed by me this day to the Secretary of War, shows my views of

I am sure that if no unexpected business comes to this office, and my health holds out in this hot weather

investigation to be instituted in the Treasury Department, and if anything should be produced which changes my

writing at a venture to propose to you the publication, in a moderate-priced volume, of a full edition of my

poems, Leaves of Grass, in England under my sanction.

I make this proposition not only to get my poems before the British public, but more because I am annoyed

at the horrible dismemberment of my book there already & possibility of something worse.

Should my proposal suit you, go right on with the book.

I desire, therefore, that you will prepare for my signature the proper papers withdrawing the appeal.

But there may be, in this case, circumstances of justifiable exception to my general rule—and if such

appeal from the Court of Claims, No 2662 on the docket of Court of Claims, and you will prepare for my

building of the "Grande Admiral," from the year 1853 to 1856, I regret to inform you that it is out of my

Howell, & Rice, to which you called my attention. Very respectfully, A. T.

parties supposed the arrangement to have been effected, I have not undertaken to form a judgment of my

My Dear friend Walt Whitman I have written so many letters to you dictated by Charles that I feel a painful

although I thought he was likely to die any time, still I find I was unprepared for his departure & my

I look at my three children & think what a work I have got left to perform.

My Mother from Massachusetts is with me for a few days and it is a great comfort.

New Haven, Conn see notes Dec 18 1888 from Mrs Hine | ab't my dear friend C.H. Mrs.

After my distinct personal announcement to you that such delinquencies must not be repeated, this conduct

to take this step until the present moment, in the hope that your course would enable me to gratify my

skeleton, faculties good, but voice only a low whisper—I returned last night, after midnight —Well bub, my

time here is short—I have had a good quiet visit—the best in some respects yet—& I feel satisfied —My

Rossetti: Dear Sir & friend; Please accept these copies of my latest edition.

address is still there—(& always, always glad to hear from you, my friend.)

My " Leaves of Grass " I consider substantially finished, as in the copies I send you.

To " Democratic Vistas " it is my plan to add much, if I live.

Indeed, my friend, I wish to hear from you oftener.