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I am home here in Brooklyn, having the usual sort of a time—Mother is only middling this summer—My brother
My dear Mr.
With regard to re-printing my book in full in England I can only say that of course it would be gratifying
copyright might be legalized here—If so, this might be worth considering in reference to the reprint of my
February or March, I am not certain which, I understand it has a criticism on my book, from a believer
My address is Solicitor's Office, Treasury, Washington, D. C.—U.S.A.
My dear Mr.
train from here—shall get to Camden by or before 8—I am well as usual—nothing new— I have sent George my
out—(George turned 'em out for impudence to mother)—I write every other day, & send papers & stuff—My
like to come on, according to your invitation, & pay you a good visit, but it is doubtful this time—My
But I should like to have a good long visit home, & be with mother—my getting leave does not work yet
as I hoped—but I expect to fix it somehow, & go home before very long—I am very well this winter—My
Dear sister Mat, & Hatty & California, love to you all—I am writing this at my desk, toward noon, very
My dear Linton, Your kind letter came duly to hand.
My dear Linton: How do you get on with the picture?
I am back here at work at my desk, for the fall & coming winter.
Brooklyn, New York March 14 My dear Mr.
Linton, I think of wanting this engraved (exactly this size, and general design) for a frontispiece for my
Clausen ) my poems "Leaves of Grass"—and little prose work "Democratic Vistas"—also a piece I recited
My verse strains its every nerve to arouse, brace, dilate, excite to the love & realization of health
Meanwhile, abroad, my book & myself have had a welcome quite dazzling.
Freilegrath Freiligrath translates & commends my poems.
For all, accept my friendliest good wishes. Direct Walt Whitman Washington, D. C.
Clausen, termed in Schmidt's letter "my old friend and countryman," corresponded with Schmidt after he
Washington May 28, 1872 My dear Rudolf Schmidt, I have rec'd yours of April 25.
I shall have much to say about it in my next. I send you two or three humorous American works.
be published, forming part of a little book—which I will send you—During June I shall be home with my
Clausen, whom Schmidt termed "my old friend and countryman," corresponded with Schmidt after he left
Rudolf Schmidt, Dear Sir & Friend, Your magazine with the article on my book has safely reached me—&
I will write to you thence more fully, & hope to continue having letters from you—My address will be
My dear Rudolf Schmidt, I have sent you some books by Mr.
get of it, in advance, it is going to prove the grandest response & praise yet given anywhere to me & my
Clausen, identified by Schmidt as "my old friend and countryman," corresponded with Schmidt after he
My dear Rudolf Schmidt, Your letter of 17th August has just reached me—also the Dagbladet , (four no's
I am now back here at work for the fall & winter—My address is permanently here—I get all your letters
I have lately rec'd received a paper from Pesth, Hungary, with a feuilleton about my poems.
Clausen, termed in Schmidt's letter "my old friend and countryman," corresponded with Schmidt after he
My dear Burritt: This article " Walt Whitman in Europe " set close, would make about two-thirds of a
Dear friend, I send by same mail with this, my latest piece, copied in a newspaper —& will write you
I suppose you duly received my former letters (two)—I ought to have written something about your children
in your letter of last summer, July 23d, which I have just been reading again)—Dear boys & girls—how my
I am still living here in employment in a Government office—My health is good—Life is rather sluggish
Rossetti quite a long letter —My present address is Solicitor's Office, Treasury, Washington, D. C.
My dear friend , Your letter is rec'd received , having been sent on to me from Washington.
My address still remains Solicitor's office, Treasury there.
I have been stopping for two months, (Feb. & March,) home with my Mother , & am writing this home.
finely, & is cheerful hearted—will probably soon give up her housekeeping & go to live with one of my
brothers, who is married —My father died seventeen years since.
On April 12, 1872, Gilchrist objected to this warning: "it hurts so, as seeming to distrust my love.
that sooner or later you will not be able to help stretching out your arms towards me & saying 'Come, my
be satisfied with a gossipy letter about his affairs, she really wanted more: "And if you say 'Read my
leave without pay—I want to come home for a while, both to be home, & to see about the new edition of my
come home, (if nothing happens more than at present known) and stay two months, & then return here to my
Saturday though I have little or nothing to write about—I am sitting here alone in the office, writing by my
suppose the weather—& Nelly, half-sick, & Jennie about the same (but she will soon spring up)—aroused my
My sister Martha at St.
months ago —she has since no trouble with the cancer, (or supposed cancer)—Jeff & the children well—My
I send you, by same mail with this, in a little book, my piece lately delivered for Dartmouth College
With best respects & love, Walt Whitman My address continues the same, Solicitor's Office Treasury, Washington
University of Virginia, who is preparing an edition of Tennyson's letters, has graciously consented to my
New York, May 13 th 187 2 Walt Whitman I now take my pen in hand to let you know how I am getting along
My dear Mr.
gladly avail myself of so tempting an opening for saying that I am the same—& shall feel confident that my
indeed it cannot have needed telling—that you were a very principal subject of our discourse, & of my
friends amply share my feeling.
My vol. volume of Selections from American Poets doesn't seem likely to be published yet awhile.
editorial decisions, which included editing potentially objectionable content and removing entire poems: "My
included in any subsequent editions of Leaves of Grass, Whitman did include it in the 1891 volume Good-Bye My