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I am very much the same—My being disabled & want of Exercise for 16 months, (and many other wants too
what the doctor calls gastric catarrh, very obstinate, causing me really more suffering & pain than my
I have bad spells enough, thank God I also have middling good ones—& as I write this have just had my
Tennyson, It is a long time since my last to you.
illness—some three months, afterward was recovering at Washington, when called here by the death of my
To-day, a cloudy & drizzly Sunday, I have taken it in my head, sitting here alone & write—follow the
Well Pete, my dear loving boy, I have just come in from a 15 minutes walk outside, with my little dog—it
Philadelphia you think I would like to see, give 'em my address—I am glad to see most any one for a change
I am still the same—am all alone in the house to-day, as my brother has gone to New York & my sister
Here is another characteristic scene of the dark and bloody year 1863, from notes of my visit to Armory
(I think I see my friends smiling at this confession, but I was never more in earnest in my life.)
A GLIMPSE FROM MY NOTES.
I can say that in my ministerings I comprehended all and slighted none.
It has given me my plainest and most fervent views of the true ensemble and extent of the States.
sunny to-day here, though middling cool—I am sitting here in the parlor alone—it is about 10—I have had my
off—they go by constantly—often one right after another—I have got used to them & like them— —Did you see my
Nash—& to Parker & Wash Milburn—& in short to all my friends— Your old Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle
Dear boy Pete, Nothing particular or new in my condition—I have been to the Doctor's to-day—had quite
Good bye my loving son. I will try to do better next week.
My dear friend It is just dawn, but there is light enough to write by, and the birds in their old sweet
My first knowledge of you is all entangled with that little garden.
My chief reason for writing (so I put it to myself) is that I can't help wishing you should know that
Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my heart
And for my sake you must not mind reading what I have written.
womanly beauty & development—I always thought it in her to do so—Nelly, when you next see her give her my
love—I return Willie's picture—dear child—it has pleased me much—I held it a long time in my hand &
I have overlooked—or forgotten—any request to that effect in the letter sending it)— I send my love to
Brownell—also to Garry Howard when you see her—(what you say of her in your letter I fully endorse as my
, but the day has been so beautiful & the charm of the open air so great that I could not long keep my
My bees are working like beavers & there is a stream of golden thighs pouring into the hive all the time
I spend all my time at work about the place & like it much.
[am] feeling decidedly better than usual this morning—I have spent an hour in the bath room, (quite my
For I suppose you know that my condition is very tantalizing in its fluctuations—Like today as I write
G. of 7th March is my last no. —did you get it?
Saw the doctor (Grier) day before yesterday—he made a careful ausculation of my heart—pronounced it all
Drinkard , a great talker, & very demonstrative)— Nelly, you needn't send the photos of my nieces back
Thanks for your letter of 20th—give my love to Mrs.
Thanks for your letter, statement of acc't. account , of my books Leaves of Grass &c. which have just
Forty One Dollars, fifty-four cents, on acc't of sales of my books, in 1873.
Pete I thought I would send you a little change enclosed—all I have by me to-day—(but I have plenty at my
with the frogs & lilacs in the spring—I keep a bully good heart, take it altogether—& you must too my
afew a few lines that you may now know i I have you in rememberance remembrance yet you were kin to my
hospital afriend a friend in need is a friend indeed Bethuels father has gone to his home to rest and my
abolished one of the third class clerkships in the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, and upon my
It is, therefore, my duty to inform you that your services will not be required from and after the first
April 10, 12 M Dear Pete, 74 Nothing very new or different in my condition, or any thing else—have hardly
Not much of a letter this time, my loving boy—as I dont don't seem to be able to write much—though, as
My father & mother is still living in Bridgeville But myself & my little Family live near the capital
Without any thing very definite at this moment, my idea is of a poem, fitting in not unappropriately
All the pay I would want would be enough to pay my expenses, transportation &c., probably between 30
Immediately after my return from Germany (28 February) I did write to you and sent you a long article
If my thoughts did not weaken and wither, when I try to give them expression in the English language,
something rotten in the state of Denmark, still are true, I have the greatest belief of the vitality of my
peasant on Fijen (one of our fertile isles) wrote to me in the spring for two years ago to thank me for my
Clausen, termed in Schmidt's letter "my old friend and countryman," corresponded with Schmidt after he
man—so careful in all business matters, but I have so written it, both for information and to amuse my
Whitman who has done me the greatest honor of my life.
I know the style of my letters is queer, but if you had thought them absurd insincere you would not have
Johnson one with the greatest pleasure—(it is one of Brady's photos)—I wish you to give my best respects
inaction—but upon the whole not so severely—& I think very decidedly gradually growing less—The worst is my
—(Unfortunately it was, however, at a time when I was feeling almost at my worst.)
This is the first letter I have written for weeks, and I am afraid I write rather obscurely, for my hand
did not answer and acknowledge them I regret to have done so; but if you knew how great the mass of my
My first task is to write to you.
sent you myself one copy in loose sheets ( to two of those small parcels) and the editor has during my
My own opinion I wrote you in a letter the last summer. I hope, that you have received it.
With poor Clausen I sent you my picture. If you have not got, then ask it from his widow.
Clausen, who Rudolf Schmidt called "my old friend and countryman," corresponded with Schmidt after he
paper—I have thought much of it, through the interesting account you gave—Indeed death has been much in my
Graphic first number just out—ask Charley to get it for you—In my next—anent of Bull Run—I mention Mrs
August 5 Dear Nelly, Your good letter came all right—it is pretty much "the same subject continued"—with my
square frame, with thin strip of gilt inside, & good plate glass)—I shall look for Charles Eldridge— My
From the first I found it necessary to systematize my doings, and, among other things, always kept little
note-books for impromptu jottings in pencil to refresh my memory of names and circumstances and what
But before entering on my personal memoranda of the war, I have one or two thoughts to ventilate before
ABRAHAM LINCOLN—MY FIRST SIGHT AND IMPRESSION OF HIM.
It reads: 'I cannot survive the loss of the liberties of my country.'") THE EVE OF A LONG WAR.
all night afterward—But this morning as I write, (9 o'clock after breakfast—fish, Graham bread, tea, my
in the parlor alone by the window, it is very pleasant—soothing—it is a sweet balmy, not hot morning—my
—Still I go out some, though very stiff—& lately some spells in my head rather bad & queer.
What I have said in former letters about my general strength still holds good—otherwise I am in a bad
feeling quite an improvement, or let up, the last two days & nights on the bad spell I spoke of in my
think if I was fixed so that I had you with me every day, I should get well—good bye for this week, my
heart, lungs, kidneys—(those, according to him, are all right)—thinks it indeed not improbable that my
dear baby— Walt Whitman Frank, I wish to be remembered to Arnold Johnson in the office—tell him I sent my
Walt Whitman Esq Dear Sir I will Sell My Lot on Royden St—for $450—all clear of incumbrance.
Jersey Friday afternoon Jan January 30, 2 o'clock Dear Pete, I am having another of my bad spells to-day—but
folks, every one I know—I am feeling as well as usual, as I finish this letter—Good bye for this time my
Though some bad spells still, things decidedly more favorable in my condition. I shall get up yet.
June 5 Am getting along somewhat better last two days—As I write this, (3 p. m.) have had my dinner—&
Clark Dear Sir, In answer to your note I send enclosed a copy of my poem for Tuft's College on the 17th—which
The let up & somewhat favorable condition mentioned in my letter of Sunday still continues.
Sir: Yours of June 30, informing me of the necessity of terminating my services in the Solicitor's office
criticism—when it comes I shall have it carefully translated to me—if you communicate with him, please give him my
Clausen, who Rudolf Schmidt called "my old friend and countryman," corresponded with Schmidt after he
I am not sure you will remember me, or my occasional salute to you, in Washington.
Dear son, I send you my letter a day ahead this week —Nothing new with me—rec'd the letter of last Sunday—also
plate are ready —I shall be coming along—will send you word when— I have hardly any thing to tell about my
Who would suspect that this comic strain proceeded from the author of "My Study Window," and "Among my
I'm dull at prayers: I could not keep awake Counting my beads.
I love my fellow-men: the worst I know I would do good to.
Now, when storms of fate o'ercast Darkly my Present and my Past, Let my Future radiant shine With sweet
The "In Memoriam" explains itself,—the "Watchman of Ephriam," as Osee says, "was with my God."
two weeks ago it took ago a new bridge as easily as I am flowing a feather away with the breath of my
Your answer to my letter from Garsdal I duely duly received.
Do you understand my bad English?
MY VISITS AND DISTRIBUTIONS.
Looking from any eminence and studying the topography in my rambles, I use them as landmarks.
I have already distributed quite a large amount of money, put in my hands for that purpose by benevolent
I regularly carry a haversack with me, and my coat has two of the biggest kind of pockets. [ To be Continued
I am alone at home, with my brothers—Papa & Mother are gone visiting to Uncle John's Father's-in-law.
look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books : ; "You shall not look through my
beautiful, curious, breathing, laughing flesh is enough; To pass among them, or touch any one, or rest my