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Or it may be my words have led you to do me some kind of injustice in thought,—& then I could defend
only might, but ought, on pain of being untrue to the greatest, sweetest instincts & aspirations of my
own soul, to answer it with all my heart & strength & life.
out life giving warmth & light to my inward self as actually as the Sun does to my body, & draws me
to it and shapes & shall shape my course just as the Sun shapes the Earth's.
May 20 th /73 My dearest Friend Such a joyful surprise was that last paper you sent me, with the Poem
& by thoughts you have given me blent in & suffusing all: No hope or aim or practical endeavour for my
For there is not a line nor a word in it at which my spirit does not rise up instinctive and fearlessly
draught that I know is for me, because it is for all—the love that you give me on the broad ground of my
Good bye my best beloved Friend. Annie Gilchrist.
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
Earls Colne Halstead August 12, 1873 My dearest Friend The paper has just been forwarded here which tells
My Darling—let me use that tender caressing word once more, for how can I help it, with heart so full
My darling.
around, returns once more, as I have every summer for five & twenty years, to this old village where my
in fact, the old Priory they have inhabited ceased to be a Priory at the dissolution of monasteries—My
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
Sept 4–1873 I am entirely satisfied & at peace "my Beloved—no words can say how divine a peace.
My Darling! take comfort & strength & joy from me that you have made so rich & strong.
When my eyes first open in the morning, often such tender thoughts yearning ineffably pitying sorrowful
—my hands want to be so helpful, tending, soothing, serving my whole frame to support the stricken side
My children send their love, their earnest sympathy.
not think hard of me for not writing oftener, especially the last seven months—If you could look into my
his letter to Anne Gilchrist of August 18, 1873, a ring: "The enclosed ring I have just taken from my
finger & send you with my love."
, 1873, she wrote about her children; and on December 18, 1873, she said of his health: "Perhaps if my
I turn my face to the westward sky and before I lie down to sleep, deep & steadfast within me the silent
50 Marquis Rd Camden London Nov. 3/'73 My dearest Friend, All the papers have reached me—3 separate packets
(with the hand writing on them that makes my heart give a glad bound).
May you be steadily though ever so slowly gaining ground, my Darling!
My children all continue well in the main.
And how that line will gladden my eyes Darling! Love from us all. Goodbye.
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
Dear Sir When my friend, Mr.
The "Leaves of of Grass" have become a part of my every-day thought and experience.
Often when I have been alone in the company of one or other of my dearest friends, in the very deliciousness
My dear M r Whitman, Thank you for the kind thought which sent me the newspaper containing good news
under all feeling which the fact of your illness produces lies the one feeling (which the growth of my
Burroughs would be willing to take the trouble; (& he would add to my gain if he would mention to me
My wife joins with mine her love & both go to you together. We are well.
It has always seemed to me more my proper work than prose, but if a sufficient experiment proves the
am so much afraid you have been worried about me I hope not—for I care as much about your health as my
How is Eddy I send ever & ever so muc much love to you my dear and to all Han Hannah Whitman Heyde to
Burlington Tuesday Morning March 4 1873 My Dear Brother How are you this morning.
little I feel glad when its it's bright pleasant weather I think maybe you will gain faster,—I know my
from him and the dear little girls Do you remember Walt some years ago, what a bad time I had with my
back (I think it was neuralgie neuralgia of the spine) anyway I was well only my back I could not walk
do like that young fellow that is so kind to you, Peter Doyle I shall always remember him Good bye my
1873 Saturday Afternoon June 7 My dear Brother I wish I had written to you before, but first I could
here as anywhere and I will like to have you here, it wont won't make a straws straw's difference in my
new, all strange, & very mixed; but I am now fairly master of the situation, & though I do not expect my
I was so warm & snug & my nest was so well feathered; but I have really cut loose & do not expect to
My greatest loss will be in you my dear Walt, but then I shall look forward to having you up here a good
to close up this bank, then I shall make me another nest among the rocks of the Hudson and try life my
I hope you are well & will write to me, & will go up & see my wife.
My nephew, Chancy B. is with me for a few days but leaves to-morrow; so does Sulic for Kingston.
Still at times my thoughts will go back & hover & nestle about the little home & the many familiar places
I graze in them with my eyes daily. Grass like this is never seen so far south on the Potomac.
summit, & could see the Catskills 50 miles to the North, & peaks that I recognized as visible from my
I have plenty of time on my hands now, but do not seem able to turn it to any account in a literary way
I can't get back my ruminating habit.
was sick, and when I was taken sick, she very kindly stayed with us, and has taken all the care off my
30 Jan 73 My dear darling walt Walt I have just got your letter i am glad my dear you are as well as
Walter dear remember me to peter write just as you are say you are better than you are god bless you my
Camden Feb. 1873 febuary February 27 My dear walt Walt i have been waiting till this thursday Thursday
28 Feb. 1873 Saturday noon My dear dear walt Walt i have just got your letter the money came all safe
Saturday My dear Walt i have received severall several paper s this week but no letter that has been
of company this week mostly girls from the place where she used to work all have to be taken up in my
got hans Han's letter and Jeffs Jeff's poor matt i feel so bad about her i cant can't keep her out of my
monday Monday afternoon My dear walt Walt as i am here in the sellen salon or dining room as its called
My dear Walt i received your letter yesterday we got the papers you send walter Walter dear i am glad
1873 march March 4 5 oclock o'clock dear walt Walt i suppose you have got my letter i wrote last saturday
and mrs Mrs. buckly be a kind of mother to me and little poor hattie Hattie it made the tears come in my
hot weather i think it would us both good so we must both get so we can walk without limping good bie my
8 April 1873 My dear walt Walt i got your letter of sunday Sunday and monday Monday and the papers all
fereplaces fireplaces and its much cheaper to have stove pipes than firplac es what do you think of my
For the poem that he enclosed, see "Sea Captains, Young or Old," published in the April 4, 1873 issue
confined comments on his condition to two brief remarks, that he did "not feel very well" and that "My
My dear walt Walt its another monday Monday morning and edd Edd and me is alone george George has gone
i have been better of the rheumatism this winter untill until a week or so ago i got quite lame in my
knees so i could hardly get down stairs but i think i took cold going out to the privy getting my feet
hardly realize she is gone as her picture hangs here and looks so much like life it brings the tears to my
21 April 1873 monday Monday My ever dear walt Walt i thought i would write to you to day as i dident
the best and the largest sometime i feel bad enoughf enough if i was younger i should show some of my
getting along if you think you cant can't get a house for us to live in worry about me i shall live my
words "dignity" and "now" Louisa Van Velsor Whitman canceled the phrase "it would bee all good to have my
21 March 1873 M 21 My dear darling walt Walt i receeved received your letter yesterday likewise the gra
mention her name matti Matty was a kind daughter to me i have cause to regret her death) good bie give my
our house you must send your love to her also when you write i wish you would write to them this is my
sometimes you are writing at your desk well i am writing this down stairs all alone i have been on my
though maybee maybe i would come but i havent haven't had a word from her since she dident didn't get my
letter) write as often as you can dear and say if you got my letter of Louisa Van Velsor Whitman to
difference but i doo do feel sometimes if i could have something except the regular fare i should like it as my
My dear walt Walt i received your letter to day its a great consolation to get your letters nearly all
the comfort i have) as i have no one to talk too to about any of my own i get letters from helen price
without hearing mine they think Lou is in the family way and therefore she has to be kept up stairs in my
since i got up this morning till i come up to writ write this letter i have had very little good of my
Now wait till I get my dress fixed and Papa waited and then she fell over & never spoke another word
volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My
If my article on you should appear in any american magazine, I should like to have sent a copy.
Clausen, who Rudolf Schmidt called "my old friend and countryman," corresponded with Schmidt after he
was in bankruptcy, Redfield noted that the balance due Walt Whitman ($63.45) "will have to go in with my
I think my estate will pay 50 cents on the dollar: hope so at any rate."
your Mother telling me of your very severe illness in wich which you have our Heartfelt Sympathy (Both my
poor hand at it—and the trouble with cousin-Sarah she writes her letters so plainly—you must excuse my
that interests me just now and I will tell you all about—it is to take place this month) to two of my
wifes that can grace the parlor or grace the kitchen (if need be) this is the kind of wife, men in my
I could have written a more sympathetic letter (But then my heart is so full of my own sad Afflictions
look—We would like to pop in on you some evening—what a jolly time we would all have would we not Give my
Walt Whitman after she added this postscript: "Write to poor Mat Walter dear i am about as usual my
dear, dear, sister Matty—O how I have been thinking of you, & shall all day—I have not now the use of my
Louis, Feb 7th 1873 My dear Mother I wrote you a few days ago apprising you as to Mattie's health I
Louis, March 30th 1873 My dear Walt Although I have written two or three letters to you, and Hattie one
Louis March 26th 73 My dear Mother I received your latest letter—I was glad indeed to hear from you—yet
acknowledged on March 13 that "the principal trouble is yet in the head, & so easily getting fatigued—my
whole body feels heavy, & sometimes my hand" (Edwin Haviland Miller, ed., The Correspondence [New York
Louis— Apl 24th 1873 My dear Mother— Your letter was handed me just as I was leaving the city to go to
My health, and that of the Children continues first-rate we get along nicely at Mrs Bulkley['s] and
I am ashamed that I have not been more thoughtful in this respect—but what with Mat's sickness and my
Louis, Monday Feb 24th 1873 My dear dear Mother Since Matties death I could not write you before—there
she was cheerful to a degree and at noon of the day she died sat up in her chair and directed how my
and then took my horse and buggy arriving at the house abt 3ck—I found Mattie dressed—furs &c on—sitting
awaiting me—I took her in my arms and carried her out to the buggy as I sat her in—she said "wait now
'till I fix my dress"—these were the last words she spok—She then fell over on her side I immediately
Louis May 9th 1873 My dear Walt I received your letter and I do not think you can form an idea how very
sincerely hope that you are right in your theory that the slow recovery indicates permanency—I hope to God, my
to keep house without stopping Hattie's schools and I did not wish to do that—but I shall not sell my
them away as I best may and hope as soon as Hattie gets a couple of years older we will try again Well my
thinking or wondering about you—I have often thought how I would like to see you and if I can so arrange my
Dear Charley, My condition continues favorable—& if I dared to hope this will last & improve in proportion—indicates
Eldridge that he had paid Godey, my substitute, the money I sent on for his October pay."
same way this fragment does: "I am still doing as well as when I last wrote" on October 24, 1873, and "My
My head does not get right, that being still the trouble—the feeling now being as if it were in the centre
I keep pretty good spirits, however, & still make my calculations on getting well.
They are the rooms in which my mother died, with all the accustomed furniture, I have long been so used
I have written to Harry Douglas, my fellow clerk in the office, asking him to send me my letters here
My lift at the Ashton's was a great help to me—the change from the 15th st. rooms, & then the weather
I was so warm & snug & my nest was so well feathered; but I have really cut loose & do not expect to
I have just written to the Postmaster at Washington, asking him to forward my letters here, as I suppose
In my case there is no notable amendment—& not much change—I have irregular spells of serious distress
the day or night only, with intervals in which, (while I remain still,) I feel comparatively easy—but my
C[lerk] at which I am truly pleased —Nelly, as I suppose you will see this letter, I will send you my
& did he say any thing new about my sickness or symptoms?
Trübner & Company, Dear Sirs, Please make out acc't account of sales of my books, Leaves of Grass &c.
for the closing year, & remit me am't amount due, by mail here, by draft payable to my order.
please—the editor consenting—take two impressions, (proofs) similar to this & send me in this envelope for my
So they are off my mind." The poems appeared in the March 1874 issue (524–25).
you the Graphic, with piece by me, about the Capitol, which I suppose you rec'd—also same paper with my
& criticism by "Matador" —I have rec'd a letter lately from Eldridge—nothing new at Washington, in my
—Love to both of you—I am writing this up in my room—it is growing dark—I am going out to tea, to an
Dear friend, I suppose you got my postal card.
try to get around—have better spirits than I could expect—but on trial, the least exertion confuses my
But I am sitting here at present in my room, comparatively comfortable—& feel every hope that I shall