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, and My Picture-Gallery, are 14 words of notations in Whitman's hand.
Floyd, Dear Sir, As far as I can tell by my impression—which is a very vague one, for I have never seen
I am still unwell from my cerebral trouble—but still looking for better times, & counting on them.
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
My dear friends, John R. & Rebecca B.
I wonder if you either of you have any idea how the otherwise monotony of my Camden existence has been
. & it came into my mind that I must speak to you.
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 Linton; I want you to have printed very nicely for me 1000 impressions of the cut, my head, to
I hope you will excuse me for not writing sooner I have been laid up with a pain in my back ever since
I am agoing going to have it framed if nothing happens I want that Picture to remain in my family as
hopeing hoping this may find you improving in health .. also with much love & many thanks from myself & my
ltter letter for me when I first came to the hospital I am glad to from eny one anyone write again my
Walt Whitman My brother & sister well—brother full of business— The following are responsible for particular
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
friendly gifts in time of need may god help you throu through this world of trouble I had bad luck with my
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
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
March 19 Think I am getting round to my former state—(Still some bad spells)—go out when the weather
Sunday , March 28 Dear Linton, My note of yesterday, (or day before,) asking for the bill was written
To-day, better, I have just taken up yours to read a second time, (as I generally do with my friends'
or giving any very deep or elaborate analysis of them, in connection with the Emerson question, (as my
brain is in a state not allowing thought, argument or study)—but still I will give you my first impressions
Manuscript as first rate , (including the opening part)—My opinion is that you had perhaps better work
it all over, & leave out at least half— About the allusions to me, my off–hand thought is that my name
might be brought in, in one or two places, as foil or suggestive comparison— but my name only , without
I could convey no idea to you of how it affects my soul.
I got it, looked into it with wonder, and felt that here was something that touched on depths of my humanity
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
just to let you know that I have not for goting forgotten you I am enjoying good health as well as my
trip with some friends, one of them being the daughter, whom I had known from childhood, of one of my
My wife is greatly interested in you & what concerns you, & bids me not fail to say that she "admires
that her sister, then perhaps barely 17 years of age, seemed more fascinated with your poems, when my
Last month I for the first time in my life faced a public audience (in Birmingham) to deliver a lecture—on
criticism . . . after full retrospect of his works and life, the aforesaid 'odd-kind chiel' remains to my
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
Walter Storms April 26—75 Pascack Apr. 20 1875 My dear Friend, Mr.
to hear from you so soon after writing nevertheless, I was just as glad to hear from you, I wrote in my
inches of snow and people rode with the sleigh, there are no gardens made yet, but I have plants in my
I am not much of a young man yet, I am 17 years old, all but a few days, but very small for my age I
, but up—yours of March 5 rec'd and welcomed—O how I should like to see you, every day , dear Mitch—my
On March 5, 1875, Farwell, who owned a farm in Michigan, wrote: "Walt my dear old Friend how I would
Philadelphia by cars & ferry—but bad, very bad spell all night—Eat my breakfast this morning, & here
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
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
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.
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.
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
To Burroughs on June 9, 1875, Dowden admitted that "my article on Victor Hugo is only partially satisfactory
The business would be unmixed pleasure to me were my capital larger, as I think I can serve humanity
—My book Leaves of Grass as now printed, is in its permanent form—My other Vol. of equal size Two Rivulets
, (i.e. of Real and Ideal) will comprise all my other writings, Prose & Verse , & is now being put into
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".
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
Box 1188 May 19, 1875 My dear Whitman, Why have I not written to you? Why has not Spring come?
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
As a further clue to my identity, I may tell you that I am editor of this paper and English correspondent
Yes, I shall, unless prevented, bring out a volume this summer, partly as my contribution to our National
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
My general strength, however, from fair to middling.
Dont feel to leave my anchorage here, just now—but hope yet to take advantage of your affectionate &
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.
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
June 17, '75 1875 My dear Stedman, I have rec'd received your kind note, & am pleased that you remember
I shall select some scrap of my MS. & send you soon.
Real and Ideal) all sorts of things, prose & (my) poetry.
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.
—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
Louis, July 5th 1875 My dear Walt Although you hear from us so seldom yet we do not forget you—I expected
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.
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
Howard Lake, Minn Minnesota July 21, 1875 My Dear Friend Walt I was glad to hear from you But Sory Sorry
to know that your Health was not Improving But glad that you remember me My health's Failig Failing
I am trying for an Envelid Invalid Pentian Pension I have Now only the Need of to two witnesses of my
M D Halans is my agent St.
Paul Howard Lake is Improving Fast I wished you would come and visit this place My wife sends her Best
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.