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Kirkwood N J New Jersey Monday afternoon Aug August 20 My dear friend, I forward you the accompanying
The other two will you please take, or mail to my sister in Camden, soon as you have read?
Nothing particularly new in my affairs.
bath—it is about 90 rods distant, & I walk there & back—Love, love, love, Your old Walt I still make my
Dear Walt Whitman: Pray forgive my long silence. I have been deep in troubles of my own.
I know the purity and righteousness of your meaning, but that does not alter my regret.
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
thing is quiet & secluded here—all winter too, the snow white & deep in every direction—as I look from my
window, river & mountains & trees & rocks—far & vast— I only write a hurried line to let you know my
I was so much obliged to you for your good letter about my sister & all, & your kind invitation to my
City . we are all well as usual I have just returned home from Red Bank where I w illed to se see of my
Dear frend friend you can judge of my feelings better than I cn can discribe describe them. we shall
Sunday 21th old man i got your kind and welcom welcome letter last week and was glad to hear from you my
would like to see you and have a talk i love you Walt and all ways always will so may god Bless you is my
My wife has arranged to go among her folks on Tuesday, so that day we will probably be out of town.
As Monday is my press day (getting the Register printed & mailed) could not get to meet you that day
Your poems have come to me anew —here in Rome—and have revived and deepened my consciousness of great
I have my studies here—for I am a painter.
Street Camden Tuesday Aug August 7 Dear Comrade & Dear Son Your letter came this morning, & as I think my
Good bye for a couple of days, my own loving boy.
want you to tell (above every one) your mother and father I have written to you & that I send them my
On 1st of July the Bd of Water Com. abolished my office and consequently it left me out in the cold—it
am sincerely glad that she is getting well again It is sad to think of how she must have suffered My
I are very thick—then there are two grown daughters—the eldest one is a first class trump , she is my
so that we can have some good times together on land or water—I used to think of having a shanty of my
Camden Tuesday noon Jan 2 The snow is so heavy & the ferry obstructed so by ice I defer my coming for
Walt Whitman Esq My dear Sir Many thanks for the Copy of the Two Rivulets."
Camden New Jersey U S America Oct October 5 — I have to-day today sent by mail same address as this card my
White horse N J Jan 19 My dear friend I jaunted down here last evening, to spend a couple of days.
431 Stevens street | Camden N J Jan 23 '77 My dear Kilgore Do your folks intend having a Paine meeting
(My address though is still at Camden) I am still keeping pretty well, for me— W.
Camden May 1 My dear friend I have come up from White Horse, & think of visiting you tomorrow Wednesday—towards
evening from a week's stay at White Horse —am feeling pretty well for me—heard of your call during my
street June 14—11 a m Dear friend I am afraid to venture out much in the heat of the day (as part of my
send by Adams's Express three copies of the only edition of Leaves of Grass , of the few copies at my
My dear Walt Miss Annie T.
—in good spirits, & excellent well, and have had a jolly good visit both to you & yours & over here—My
with the money—& yesterday I sent you by Adams' express, paid, to same address as this letter a set of my
431 Stevens Street Camden Sunday afternoon My Dear Herbert Though I am pretty well physically it is very
Jan January 24 '77 My dear Damon Kilgore | & Mrs Kilgore I will be at the Commemorative meeting.
could be offered for them, as the Magazine has been neglected of late, and has only recently come into my
solitary woody pond, (half the time naked or half-naked)—am now quite fat & all tanned & red—Love to you, my
November 4. 1877 My dear Walt Whitman I send you by this mail a copy of one essay of mine which is just
pretty cold—Still it is spring here—evidences every way, every day—Much singing of birds, on some of my
interesting—It looks like winter here, snow 8 inches deep in every direction—but I like it much—a far view from my
N J New Jersey July 23 '77 F Leypoldt Dear Sir In answer to your circular I send you the following— My
acquainted with it, & examine it—seems to me indeed a true bit of nature —I miss the creek & spring—Miss my
Maybe while there are so many with you I had better sleep over in Camden, & Herby & Mr Burroughs take my
I, myself, represent "falsehoods," and "the sale of slaves"—4 or 5 years before my father and mother
little gradually came to writing a great deal—the sermon always in writing styles Mr Sanders only " my