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My dear Walt Whitman (Somehow the Mr does not come well before Walt Whitman).
broken ground, glad also that you find something to approve of in a work so utterly unlike your own as my
I am this morning starting with my wife & Sons on a tour to the Continent.
in an extreme hurry, packing up & after these few words must bid you goodbye, not without expressing my
London May 18, 1875 My dearest Friend, Since last I wrote to you at the beginning of April (enclosing
at Colne) I have been into Wales for a fortnight to see Percy & have looked, for the first time in my
That is the end of my long story.
My children are all well & growing & unfolding to my heart's content.
Goodbye my dearest Friend. A. Gilchrist. Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 18 May 1875
London Earls Colne Aug. 28. 1875 My dearest Friend Your letter came to me just when I most needed the
comfort of it—when I was watching and tending my dear Mother as she gently, slowly, with but little
I do not need to tell you anything my dearest friend—you know all—I feel your strong comforting hand—I
I had all my children with me at the funeral— O the comfort your dear letter was & is to me.
My children join their love with mine. Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 28 August 1875
Though it is but a few days since I posted a letter my dearest friend, I must write you again—because
I cannot help it, my heart is so full—so full of love & sorrow and struggle.
Soon soon as ever my boy has one to love & care for him all his own, I will come, I may not before, not
if it should break my heart to stop away from you, for his welfare is my sacred charge & nearer & dearer
than all to me verily my God, strengthen me, comfort me, stay for me—let that have a little beginning
I beat and pound for the dead; I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them.
white locks at the runaway sun; I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags."
It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life."
"Between my knees my forehead was,— My lips, drawn in, said not, Alas!
My hair was over in the grass, My naked ears heard the day pass."
If there is I will do it if it is in my power.
My Wife is quite sick and has been for the past two weeks. The Children are all well as usual.
weaks weeks ago last summer I was in brooklyn & I hunted for you but could not find you I mad made up my
is night now & I was agoing to the villiage tomorrow So I thought I would write A few lines to you my
halth health is good & so is my family I have got three boys & one girl the way that I came to be in
me this spring I ame am owing some debts that I no whether I can pay them or not this spring one of my
stock youre your letters was directed rite right the two firts first years of my mairage marriage my
The business would be unmixed pleasure to me were my capital larger, as I think I can serve humanity
This X is taken from my rent money, and makes us much short on rent.
with eight failures of those owing us, and many of the books that were supposed to be sold for cost by my
New York City June 8th, 1875 My dear Whitman: During my wanderings in the tropics, with my nervous system
When I was a boy I read extracts from your first book, in a "Putnam's Mag." review—the "little Captain
. & it came into my mind that I must speak to you.
Walt you know wat what good times Petter and your selfe self and me had together Walt how is Harry my
not Receved Received no answer as yet but you must tell him that you have herd heard from me and give my
love to him and take a good share your self give my love to all the Boys on the Rail Road as mr sailor
to go to the D. and so forth Walt I want you to write to me as soon as you get this you must excuse my
me George D Cole Tottenville Staten Island in care of Cap t JW Sprague how is old car no number 29 my
Copenhagen, August 18, 1875 My dear Walt Whitman.
Society, I pressed him for two years ago (when he had previously sent me some very fine articles for my
But all the striking expressions, all the elaborate work of the thought, is fading away beneath my feather
I am never saying exactly what I would say, and you know, my dear friend, that this is a great pain to
But first let me explain part of my head-line.
"But I, for my poems—What have I? I have all to make .
I wish to see my benefactor, and have felt much like striking my tasks and visiting New York to pay you
my respects.
My enemies discover fancy ones.
Joaquin Miller '75 see notes June 20 1888 Highland Falls Orange Co County New York State Sept. 5, 75 My
Do keep up my dear fellow there is lots in the tomorrows for you and I want you to live to see the Great
May 27, 75 My dear Walt Whitman Your kind letter is received and the sad news of your ill health makes
However my dear friend as you have lived from within and nor from without I am sure you will be able
request; but I cannot say to day or yet tomorrow for I am in the midst of work and am not altogether my
Till I see you my dear friend and fellow toiler goodbye Yours fitfully Joaquin Miller Joaquin Miller
Gais, Switzerland June 13 1875 My dear Sir I was very much delighted some weeks ago to receive a copy
Time does not diminish my reverential admiration for your work, nor do the unintelligent remarks of the
My permanent address is: Clifton Hill House Clifton, Bristol.
My berry crop & other crops were much injured.
I think I shall send my wife down there this winter; in the mean time I wish you would look into it.
week and I was glad to hear from you This leaves me all well hopeing hoping it may find you the same My
with a paper that I received from there some time ago you want me to write all the particulars about my
just to let you know that I have not for goting forgotten you I am enjoying good health as well as my
but very sorry to hear of your loss of health & bereavement this liaves leaves me and family all well my
through the winter and have not quite caught up yet I have got a little Buisness Business out side of my
Do you remember meeting a yong young Lady with me at the corner of Fulton and Court Sts once that is my
to hear that you have sick so long I have been sick with the Chills & Fever I have had wine to day my
20 of June so I am alone I am at the same employment yet I have plenty of work but the pay is small My
well before he went away he has been better cine they have been there they are near the Salt water my
wife is well the young Lady you met with me at the Cor Corner of Fulton and Cart Sts Streets that is my
Wednesday I went to Hartford to the reunion of the Vetrans Veterans and spent two days I met a good many of my
after f line, build dood house on top will togedder together laugh to old how out of money— we put my
bring big fiddles too, for play Dixie Den Then if noder another war tomes comes we will be taptains captains
conventions" and even other Philosophers and Poets shall not "master"—And so I ask you, did I not conduct my
(My last before this were July 18 and Aug 14 I will relieve you of any fears that I shall (of myself)
Along with the parcel of papers which you sent me after getting my baby's letter I got the picture and
I have yet on hand two big bales of my cotton crop intended for spending money for the —sold other of
my crop (three more big ) on one credit to get interest.
might think, except that I have been almost insane about yours because you have so well expressed " my
(Please don't other hunter come down my dilapidated dwelling ) John Newton Johnson Ala Alabama for the
Besides numerous other "good" people as almost everybody else would call them, I have in my mind the
instance of my first wife—a girl whom I became acquainted with at a school I attended in my 15th year
in the business of could keep her really contented with out ing my principles.
When it became necessary in order to retain my home that reconstruct my family, I preferred to be content
me "one bit" , and few of my near relatives lost their lives or otherwise badly "hurt".
Walt Whitman— Dear friend— ui gust (of a degree) with my sur take write what may yet be of entertain
make previously plowed d for g and hoeing, (the first in months,) I went to our p a view writing to my
So as I had to pass by there way to in law's home (where my d I stop k to show to my own folks No father
I left him with a statement your work, and the wond chan ge in my estimate of it change.
What I said about my and my wrecking us, was immediately occa apparent ect and danger of a severe inistered
buildings which form so common a style of residences of the moderately "well-off" Southerners—especially of my
In the other sub-valley (my term) the big, broad mountain and gentle undulations of the valley itself
grown men The Negroes are mostly in two c lusters about two or three miles northeast and southwest of my
My mother was married at 26 and died 29, the day I was born—she of a family of ters from Virginia —her
audiences—you can that disposition to give away all you —you can travel, see more of the world, see me and my
I had mined that if writing for a while corres pondent except my son in T exas I would wait a good long
My interest, profit and pleasure have been much distracted by fruit-rotting so generally of years.
cause you one bit of sorrow or anxiety if bad luck should befall us in any way— still, myself, children my
(My & Wife's dreadful "tempers" may wreck us any time—so care not much for us.
I would not recommend my section for a Northern man to make a fortune except in raising clover or other
My Dear Friend, I think I have all of your books (2 or 3 Editions of some) except the last, —specified
in my former note, —which alone I intended to ask for.
ltter letter for me when I first came to the hospital I am glad to from eny one anyone write again my
friendly gifts in time of need may god help you throu through this world of trouble I had bad luck with my
others . . . want but I am glad to get along and be most well I can allways always find work again My
all right it has allways always seemed to me since our Son came home that some of us should to you my
hard place indeed you have seen some of the hardship of it perhaps all you wish to see or even hear of my
and stay with me this winter they are with me this winter Joseph is in the lumberwoods this winter my
health is very good iwas I was not well for about one year after my husbands husband's death almost
to see you wemay we may see eachother each other yet sometime if you Canot Cannot read this send you my
eachother each other yet our Children are anxious to see you the picture you sent Bethuel looks some like my
grandfather Deen that is my fathers father's father if Harvy Allen and Sally should go to philadelphia
about two miles from glensfalls Glens Falls iwent I went to meeting one Sunday evening and enjoyed my
fashioned hymns and old tunes it seemed like old times when young idont I dont now know as you can read my
riting writing but we feel anxious to hear from you and how you get along god bless you with my best
It was there that I hastened to seek my old friend Walt Whitman on the first morning after my arrival
when the federal troops occupied the village of Falmouth on the Rappahannock river, the house owned by my
father, where my early life was passed, was used as a hospital, and it was in that house that Walt began
On the day after my call, Walt came to see and dine with me, and I had many hours' conversation with
I went the other day by appointment to visit him at his home in Camden, and after my usual quantum of
A few commonplace words and I settled my mind to business.
I project the future—depend on the future for my audience.
I know perfectly well my path is another one. Most of the poets are impersonal; I am personal.
In my poems all revolves around, radiates from, and concentrates in myself.
I hope that you will not be offended at the imperfect way in which I have tried to express my faith in
This last pleasure has been denied me; but one of the pleasantest memories of my life is the recollection
Aug 20, 1875 Aug 16 th 1875 Dear Uncle Walt I received your Postal Card. but I was away to work when my
will say that we are well as common I am going to California in November if the Lord will permit that my
I had an auction yestarday yesterday 4 of March to sell my Personally personal troperty property as I
told you in my other letter I have rented my farm of 35 acers acres for 5 years I would like to see
Why can not you com come & see my family I have a wife & littel little Girl 5 years old this month When
the house I felt proud of it myself I will have to get a frame for it and hang it up on the wall Walt my
We move about half a mile from this place my Post office will be the same (address) your in hast haste
My dear Walt Whitman, I write you these lines from a little village two miles from Weimar, where I have
If the language did not impact my fancy and ideas I should have a great deal to tell you.
I noted the French Review—fain would I have read it, but alas I can only read my own tongue.
meaning of much I see in other tongues, but alas though I often call up spirit alas—comes to aid me at my
of real Kinship between your two natures I felt sorry to find you had not fully grasped the hand of my
I find in my travels and talks with men, many of their poor hard toiling souls to whom his Poems are
least try. we are far apart that is true. yet even here something I might do as a manifestation of my
criticism . . . after full retrospect of his works and life, the aforesaid 'odd-kind chiel' remains to my
so that my reference to it will not be of use to you. I help all I can here its circulation.
"the Gita" is one of my favourite Books, it is the gem of all Indian lore. it is as wide in its teachings
—but what is it that is not so. and to Carlyle and my own nature too and lastly to you and your teachings
I pause in my thoughts on all such, and gaze on them in wonderment—even with awe and silence too.— How
Will my subscription to your New Edition of your works, if sent you direct to America, be of any real
criticism . . . after full retrospect of his works and life, the aforesaid 'odd-kind chiel' remains to my
Louis, July 5th 1875 My dear Walt Although you hear from us so seldom yet we do not forget you—I expected
myself in memory of Poe, which I have obeyed; but not the slightest impulse to make a speech, which, my
Even my own objections draw me to him at last; and those very points, with his sad fate, will make him
That figure of my lurid dream might stand for Edgar Poe, his spirit, his fortunes, and his poems—themselves
Walt Whitman My brother & sister well—brother full of business— The following are responsible for particular
In my condition they are trebly welcome.
My tedious prostration continues—primarily and mainly an obstinate & baffling cerebral affection, on
Yes, I shall, unless prevented, bring out a volume this summer, partly as my contribution to our National
—Pete there is nothing new in my case, & no prospect more than usual of anything sudden —but it seems
may-be there is something more favorable ahead—I busy myself a little every day writing—I want to fix my
I still keep a little at work—there is a printing office here, where I am doing my work—they are young
considerate & respectful to me—fix every thing in type, proof, &c. just to suit me—I am leisurely preparing my
Come when you can, my darling boy.
Dearest Son, I saw the RR. smash the first thing in the paper in the morning, & run my eyes over the
others , of such accidents, is because they run such a route, over a single track —you may remember my
still I have a sort of feeling not to give it up yet—keep real good spirits—don't get blue, even at my
weather is bright & pleasant here to-day, but cool for the season, & the most backward I have ever known—My
—love to my darling son— Walt Walt Whitman to Peter Doyle, 30 April [1875]
Captain "Tim" Buchanan, a conductor on one of the trains, was hospitalized.