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Jersey, U S America March 31, '76 My dear friend, (Later than my letter dispatched last evening I wish

A., corner Chestnut and Strawberry streets, on my endorsement .

&c &c sent June 8 '76 by Ex & rec'd June 1st JQA Ward 9 or 10 Vols, &c sent, by Ex My dear Mr Whitman

I inclose check for Fifty dollars ($50) my subscription for five copies of your complete works If I

Be kind enough to send them to my address.

Ap. 16. 76 My dear Walt Whitman: I met a mutual friend last evening who informed me he had just procured

And so on reflection I have decided to write you that when you receive my order through Mr.

I will only say that my Soul and my sympathy all go out toward you and I often think of you as the one

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[I just spin out my notes]

Rossetti: My dear friend, I would ask of you the favor to see, if convenient, whether the enclosed article

My new book wont won't be out yet, publicly, for a month.

It is not in my new book, & is entirely fresh.

(Returning to my pages' front once more, resuming all, Songs, sorrows, tragedies, with stalwart joys—O

A glance look —a flashing token of my‑ myself self—to future time.

Returning to my pages' front once

feel well enough to come on to Washington & make out several weeks—& we'll have a good time together, my

chicken for his dinner—then went to a nice reading room & library we have here, very handy—then home to my

own dinner chicken & nice roast potatoes—& now (2½) up stairs in my room writing this, & feeling very

what you wrote about your mother—Every thing about fellows' old mothers is interesting to me— —Give my

That he obtained your goods & service under false pretenses is perfectly certain to my mind .

would let me have some property which he had no earthly use for viz some books which had once been in my

private library a $150 bookcase which had been in my library 5 or 6 years before I thought of going

pay you $200.00 (just what was due Dec 1st '74) In another place he binds himself to carry out all my

I have done for 3 or 4 years, day & night & sunday, to get justice out of this fellow for myself & my

431 Stevens street Camden New Jersey US America Sept 8 '76 Edward Dowden My dear friend I send you by

Dowden's set was directed right—My second batch of the new edition (600 copies each Vol.) is at last

I have many things to say to you my dear friend.

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

119 Lower Baggot Street Dublin 14 February 1876 My dear Mr. Whitman, 'Bram Stoker Feb, '76.

My friend Edward Dowden has told me often that you like new acquaintances or I should rather say friends

I wrote the enclosed draft of a letter which I intended to copy out and send to you —it has lain in my

much consolation—and I do believe that your open earnest speech has not been thrown away on me or that my

a hot debate on your genius at the Fortnightly Club in which I had the privilege of putting forward my

(Now, if there were living near me, such people that I could take my Walt Whitman books with me, and

I dont don't want my your books worn out by borrow ers but I like to lend them as I feel like—sending

I see that I can get (or have) the means to come and pay my own way, first and last.

All stubbornly at my own expense. As I write this, I am not disposed to come there.

As I have exhausted my sheet, I forbear giving news of the situation with us, till such is called for

previously published in Leaves of Grass, "Passage to India" was Whitman's attempt to "celebrate in my

the P.M. don't restitute I must be allowed to pay it—not because it is important, but because it is my

affair—& business — I send you an extra copy of my little War book, same mail with this—Shall write

you soon definitely about coming on—Love to you, my friend, & to Mrs.

My dearest Friend, Do not think me too wilful or headstrong but I have taken our tickets & we shall sail

And since we have to come to a decision my mind has been quite at rest.

I have arranged for my goods to sail a week later than we do, so as to give us time.

Good bye for a short while my dearest Friend Anne Gilchrist.

but bright & sunshiny—have just read your good letter of the 22d—Nothing special or different about my

formed one, has been [ ] foot, but is now nearly [ ] been steady—I have tended it— My sister and brother

Geo: George are well—My other sisters, nieces, & brother Jeff , were well at last accounts.

Tribune of last Saturday (19th ) had the 2½ column synopsis of my new book, pretty full & fair —I suppose

26 , & of the 29 May, previously acknowledged) All gives me entire satisfaction & comfort—arousing my

I have not yet my pay for the little Man-of-War-Bird in nor the prose piece on the War in the Examiner

lately to T., as I supposed him abroad on the continent—but I intend to write soon—& send him a set of my

T. sees my poems —but I do his , & strongly, (& there perhaps I have the advantage of him)—but I think

Kent —Has the Secularist my address?

Ap 21, 1876 My dearest Friend, I must write again, out of a full heart.

"The Two Rivulets" has filled it very full—Ever the deep inward assent, rising up strong, exultant, my

Ever the sense of dearness —the sweet subtle perfume, pervading every page, every line to my sense—O

nor what answering emotion pervades me, flows out towards you—sweetest deepest greatest experience of my

Do not dissuade me from coming this autumn my dearest Friend —I have waited patiently 7 years—patiently

Dear friend, Nothing very notable to write about, but I thought I would send you a line—This is one of my

last night—breakfast & dinner to-day with appetite—still get out a little most every day as formerly—my

give me three hours or so occupation (lazily) every day when I am not too ill —and then the baby , my

future—As it may be that out of this hubbub some one in London may take a notion to rush & crudely reprint my

books—I send you (same mail with this) full & corrected copies of my two volumes, prepared for the printers

My dear friend, I authorise authorize you to make any arrangement about publishing, terms, &c. you think

grave illness, I gather up the pieces of prose and poetry left over since publishing a while since my

For some reason—not explainable or definite to my own mind, yet secretly pleasing and satisfactory to

And thee, My Soul! Joys, ceaseless exercises, exaltations!

Thee for my recitative!

Roll through my chant with all thy lawless music!

Dublin, 18/2 187 6 My dear Mr Whitman I send you an order for 39/= for a copy of your works the $10 edition

I must say that I only know Mr Dowden casually—a person of my world cannot aspire to much acquaintance

My knowledge of literature is very slight—I have not the critical insight into things that he has Dear

My having been obliged to give up all idea of a separate life for myself beyond the grave, forces me

In the spring, when commencing to plow, I was feeling poorly, and my 13 year old boy to g .

me the pleasure I have had with Walt Whitman's books and to the books also—I'll (Please excuse all my

—I claim a patent right for the my old terms "champion of nature" and "good-enough man" &c &c If you

feel a little desire to "dig at the ribs" of demoralizing superstition) Why didnt didn't you notice my

t to doubt whether my friends get unmistakably true " Philosopher" JNJ John Newton Johnson Send only

Walt Whitman Esq My dear Sir: I ask you to excuse me for neglecting so long to answer your note.

It came to my house instead of the office and was consequently overlooked. It was Mrs.

134 East 38th St New York April 24, 1876 My dear Walt— Please send 3 sets on account of my list of 5.

431 Stevens st Camden N Jersey July 11 My dear Philip Hale I have rec'd received your p o post office

order for $10 for my books—for which hearty thanks.

My dear friend, I have recd received your postal handshake, and am glad to find that you appreciate my

My second letter naturally turned the tide of contributions in his direction, as I desired, deeming him

You must forgive me for my blunder the price of your books.

living by his pen—and you should certainly never want anything your heart craved; but all I can do in my

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

If it doesn't come with this it will be because of my being compelled to go down to Washington as a witness

If by reason of my absence it should be overlooked, pray remind me of it.

431 Stevens street Camden Nov 21 My dear Herbert I had a safe little jaunt home yesterday afternoon —

Upon talking more fully with my sister about the colored woman Rosy, I am convinced she would not do

I also enclose a slip better describing "the situation", (which I wish my friends to bear in mind more

Hope I may yet meet you personally—& your brother, (whom I have heard of lately by my friend John Burroughs

here—still just holding on—sometimes (perhaps a quarter of the time) tolerably fair—the rest, by the skin of my

My new edition 2 Vols Volumes is out & bound, & pictured & autographed .

Johnstons (in 10th street)—his jewelry store is at 150 Bowery, cor Broome—call & see him—quite a lull in my

book selling, & in my affairs, & literary doings, generally— W W The following are responsible for particular

the warmth of a loving heart and universal charity so beautifully expressed —that which leans towards my

ask if he got the pretty little printed articles of a Georgia Poet Fruit -Growing which I sent him in my

trouble or spells of unhappiness we are a discordant household , and will (of course) say it is not my

relative of yours and daughter of Elizabeth Burroughs nee Wheeler, I guess you will pardon the liberty my

you would come and make us a visit you when in Woodside some. by sending love of the united family My

Whitman papers sent July 25 I thank you heartily for my share in your Custer poem, which I have just

My address is now 506 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, and I would be very much obliged if you would spend

America Jan 27 76 My dear Rudolf Schmidt It is now some time since I have written to you, or heard any

I still remain here laid up unwell from my paralysis—but keep much the same—no worse.

The only American prophet to my knowledge who enjoys a fame in England not accorded him in his own country

, strolling tides, Companions, travelers, gossiping as they journey; And he sends it out 'partly as my

And thee, My Soul! Joys, ceaseless exercises, exaltations!

Thee for my recitative!

Roll through my chant with all thy lawless music!

well fortified does he think himself in his cobweb Gibraltar, that he blandly imagines the force of my

passionate, well-wishing, which I felt then, and feel to this hour, the gratitude and reverence of my

And my arriere and citadel positions—such as I have indicated in my June North American Review memorandum—were

as a statement “of all that could be said against that part (and a main part) in the construction of my

On the contrary, without waiting to understand what he has read, he talks about my letter to you being

to here hear from you very much This leaves me well thank God but I have been sick most all winter my

wife is sick at presant present But the Lord has been good to me in past and I know if I put my trust

—See my other letter, & address answer Care of Strahan & Co, 34 Paternoster Road.

Robert Browning (1812–1889), known for his dramatic monologues, including "Porphyria's Lover" and "My

of what is intended; meanwhile for the time I have been absorbed by the news of the death of one of my

This brings with it the additional pang to me that it will probably prevent my intended journey to the

Dec 1st 76 My Dear Sir: Yes, I received the letter, with the picture & printed slips last year, & meant

have a 10 acre farm here on the banks of the Hudson near Po'keepsie Poughkeepsie , I spend some of my

Dear Nelly: About me, my ailments, no great difference. (A queer old doctor here—did I tell you?

as I write—the baby fine, fat, bright today, but raising his voice lustily just this moment—You got my

Camden New Jersey U S America Oct 24 — I send you to-day, to same address as this card, my Two Volumes

Walt Whitman— My Dear Friend: I enclose a P.O. order for $10, in payment for a copy of your last book

, New Jersey—US America Sept September 7 — I send you to-day by mail, to same address as this card, my

Camden, N Jersey—US America Sept September 7 — I send you to-day by mail, to same address as this card, my

.— "Thou seest all things—thou wilt see my grave, Thou wilt renew thy beauty, morn by morn; I, earth

How can my nature longer mix with thine?

Coldly thy rosy shadows bathe me, cold Are all thy lights, and cold my wrinkled feet Upon thy glimmering

My first glimpse of Whitman was under such circumstances that I could not easily forget him.

As I sat listening to the arguments of Andrew and Sewall in my behalf, and of Woodbury against them,

431 Stevens st Camden New Jersey Sunday afternoon Dec 31 '76 My dear Johnston Supposing you may receive

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey April 18—pm— I have just mailed to you my two Volumes, Centennial

I have to-day forwarded by Adams' Express prepaid to same address as this card— one set, Two Vols. my

I send to-day by Adams express (address same as this card) my Two Vols. new edition . . . will try to