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He work'd worked at my father's, and had done so for two years.

letter as follows: "I extract the following, verbatim, from a letter to me dated September 29, from my

All other books seem to me weak and unworthy my attention.

I read, Sunday, to my wife, Longfellows verses on Summer, in the last Atlantic, and then I read your

here having a good time—Carpenter returns to Europe in Saturday's steamer—the G[ilchrist]s all well—my

All other books seem to me weak and unworthy my attention.

I read, Sunday, to my wife, Longfellows verses on Summer, in the last Atlantic, and then I read your

I want you to look over the past and I will do my best to ward toward you in the future.

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

I want to get up to see you once a week at least and have a good time, for I cant let my selfe myself

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

one to talk too unless he is here, everything is as still as the dead of night, not a sound reaches my

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

holt we puled pulled around for a short time and then I let loose on him and down he went, then came my

The folks are all well, and my-self the same.

I have a moment to think, I don't get much time to think about anyone for when I am not thinking of my

business I am thinking of what I am shielding , I want to try and make a man of my-self, and do what

I will have to stop writing now for my sheat sheet is giving out and I must on to work, so good bye.

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

I am able to get away from my work towards the middle of April, and it would be then that I should undertake

My usual address is 45 Brunswick Square, Brighton.

Your two volumes with my name written in them are my faithful companions.

Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my

Whitman is back: I wish you would put the ring on my finger again, it seems to me there is something

I think I will bring my letter to a close for I have to make out some bills for the Freight-master.

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

I hope you are feeling in good heart & physique—Your note to my sister rec'd received & read with sympathy

& love by all— We are all well—My brother is off to his labors, (which are still quite pressing)—My

sister has gone out to market—Hattie & Jessie are down stairs sewing—I am sitting up here in my 3d story

December 23, "a somewhat severe operation (under ether) to cure an injury received at the birth of one of my

Some of my friends want your books and are forwarding the money through me.

I will write again when I know my address at Sheffield (where I am going shortly), and when I know which

I had a letter from Arunachalaen—my Bengalese friend—whose photo: you have, not long ago.

I have been showing the photographs you gave me to my sister Dora —whose likeness you have.

I am finishing up my preparations for my winter course of lectures.

Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

I cannot get you off my mind somehow.

I think of it all the time, I cannot get my mind on my work the best I can do.

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

My term's work is over and I am going away for a month, to Cambridge & to Brighton.

Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my

Ed you too have my unalterable love, & always shall have.

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

The order (as you are aware) does not pass thro' my own hands.

Carpenter —who paid two long visits at my house, & whom I liked much, obtaining from him numerous details

G before now, but for incessant occupations, & in the last 2 mos. months much anxiety regarding my brother's

I shd should have said that the £4.12. was the only money now actually in my hands on your account.

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

Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my

where I wanted you to come & see me—(& still want you, if you have a chance. ) But I spend most of my

down at an old farm down in Jersey where I have a fine secluded wood & creek & springs, where I pass my

time alone, & yet not lonesome at all (often think of you Pete & put my arm around you & hug you up

dear —I still make my brother's house at Camden my headquarters, & keep my room there—address my letters

the whole, am getting along pretty well, & good spirits The new edition of my books I sell enough of

at times, that I am forced to quit my painting and take to the street: and then she assumes jealousy

, and during my absence ransacks my papers, trunks and portfolios for scraps of poetry, composition of

a date that have past my memory, and these she brings forward and reads to me, and berates me with,

She smells my coat, when I come home, my gloves, my handkerchief and declares that I have been abed somewhere

Half my time is passed in gardening, and portions the rest waiting upon her, from the grocery.

September 1st 1877 Mr Whitman My dear friend Your letter of May from Kirkwood was duly rec d received

but as I dislike writing letters, & have been pretty busy I hope you will pardon my delay.

I believe I told you in my last letter of my intention to become, if possible, an engineer, My intention

still holds good, but despite all my efforts, I have failed to obtain a situation I suppose the trouble

lies in my not being acquainted with men of that class, so for the present I will have to take things

I dont don't suppose there Has a day past over my Head without me thinking of you.

Poor Jo Adams Im I'm sorry he is a fine fellow tell him I send him my pies pious regards and hope he

Well Walt I will endevor endeavor to give you a rugh rough scetch sketch of my wanderings since I seen

You know I could not content my self in Phila.

money from the Centennial went down to my sister's she was not at home but Annie, Johnny's Wife was

The morning after my return some wretch poisoned my dog & the loss has quite up set upset me.

I have not been my self myself since.

Alcott praised my Emerson piece, but Sanborn appeared not to know anything about my writings.

I got the Library Table with Blood's sanguinary review of my book.

He evidently wanted to pitch into my Eagle, but was afraid of the claws.

Jan: January 23 1877 My dear Sir, I hardly know through what a malign series of crooked events—absence

chiefly on my part in Italy & Switzerland, pressure of studious work, & miscarriage of letters—I should

however, begging you to send me copies of Leaves of Grass & Two Rivulets , & enclosing a Cheque on my

This is now framed & hangs in my bedroom.

I do not know whether you are likely to have heard that I make literature my daily work.

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

Cozens, without waiting for actual receipt of the money— wh. which , as before stated, is in my hands

The only reason why, contrary to my usual practice, I have so long delayed sending it on to you is that

I enter into all these tiresome details because an explanation of my delay is due to you: but I fear

Adams my last news of your health, & enclosing also a copy of my last circular (summer of 1876) regarding

I can but repeat my delight in this prospect, were it to be realized, & my wife's hope & my own that

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

431 Stevens Street Camden Oct October 2 My dear girls (for this letter is for you both) I will just write

you a few lines without formality— It is evening—has just struck 8—I am sitting up in my room alone—I

pleasant ride out to the Park in the open car, this afternoon— return'd returned about an hour ago, & had my

get along pretty much in the old way— To-day Today I rec'd received an order for five full sets of my

books from England, accompanied by the money —(which of course doesn't hurt my feelings a bit)— havn't

all alone in the house , & have had a good time—fine bright warm day—been out twice for short walks, (my

little dog accompanying me)—rest of the time up here alone in my 3d story south room—done up & sent

off my two books to a subscriber in England —Eat my dinner alone, wished you could be with me then, &

them—About coming on I cannot say now, but I shall come , & before long —Love to Mr and Mrs Nash—Love to you my

Kirkwood N J New Jersey May 17 Dear John Burroughs I am passing a good part of my time down here at the

Still keep well for me & jolly—am all tann'd tanned & sunburnt—Eat my rations every time— I was up yesterday

to Camden to get my mail—& found the book —read it all over with appreciative & I think critical eyes—my

have just been reading your Monday's note for the second time—& will write a line in rejoinder, with my

out of the gurgling brook, just as I sit here, half shade, half in the warm sun, as I sit here after my

I am still pretty well,—Still enjoy my natural days here, by the creek—(but they are now drawing to a

Herby is well & brown—Shall be up in good time to be with with my dear neices nieces & all of you—I wonder

Mendocino Co., California Aug. 2. 1877 Walt Whitman My beloved.

I know it was especially for me You will take my kisses and love as from me that knows you and can never

John Burroughs more than any one anyone that I know, fitly expresses my thought of you.

never met that seemed to have the faintest understanding of you so I keep you all to myself locked in my

Whitman; Dear Sir My desire to address you springs from a question addressed me by a member of my class

to secure a volume of Leaves of Grass, which I understand are your earlier poems— I should feel that my

Should you pardoning my presumption, and my candor, be kind enough to explain the points to which I have

Whitman I was away from England when your volumes reached me, & since my return (during the last six

This must account for my delay in writing to thank you for them & to express the great pleasure which

I intend to put into my envelope a letter to you with some verses from one of your great admirers in

It is my nephew— the second son of my sister who married Sir Edward Strachey, a Somersetshire baronet

431 Stevens Street Camden Sunday noon July 22 Dear Herbert Here I am at my room & haunts in Camden, so

(Yet I attribute my feeling pretty well now to my visits for the last year & a half to the creek & farm

, & being with my dear friends the Staffords.)

afternoon and Stay all night With you and home on the Sunday morning train. i love you Walt and Know that my

Cattell My Love to you Walt, i think of you in my prayers old man Every night and Morning Edward P.

October has been with me some little while, during wh. which my leisure has been of the scantiest.

You say: "I suppose you got my postals on sending the books to J.A. Rose."

To the best of my recollection I never did get these: I am aware however that as a matter of fact Rose

I feel ashamed for my colleagues the English men of the press that the Editor of the Examiner sh d .

all that he says about you: the rest of the book I have had to leave unread as yet, in the press of my

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

received —Shall be very glad to go up with you Friday for a couple of days or so —Should like to fetch my

boy Harry Stafford with me, as he is my convoy like—We occupy the same room & bed— We had another reception

but can't stand these things long—Dull half rainy day here—have been in all day—sitting muchly for my

I did not get my load of cabbage sold, had to leave them with a commissioner, over in the city, I got

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

I have thought of it and cannot get it off my mind, so I have come up to ask your forgiveness.

I know that it is my falt fault and not yours.

give you up, and it makes me feel so bad to think how we have spent the last day or two; and all for my

I enjoyed my visit so much I would to go to Camden often.

Governor will be our next President. if the Democrats get up a muss I am ready to sholder shoulder my

Give my respects to Frank Post Please accept my sincere thanks for the present you sent me.

will find you the same Business is very dull Here now and crops is ruined for the want of rain. all of my

worment torment of of mind and toil of body is of no avil avail feafuly fearfully in want now and when my

future looks dark But may come out Better than I amagn imagine I will Buy some Hogs on a credit and feed my

Camden Dec 13 '77 Dear Bee My sister told me at breakfast to say to you she would be happy to have you

thinking much the few hours past of what Mr Eldridge told me of a young Mrs Needham (an intimate friend of my

a lunatic asylum —just from sheer overwork, & too intense concentration, ardor, & continued strain —My

I have taken this liberty at the suggestion of my uncle Mr Symonds, to whom I showed the verses, and

by whom I was assured that my sending them would not be looked upon by you in the light of an impertinence

single line they are just as I wrote them two years ago some few weeks after your book first fell into my

Owing to my want of a public-school training, I have not as yet been able to do much in the way of athletics

received —I have some copies of John Burroughs's Notes on W W as Poet & Person , 2d 2nd edition under my

Of my own works, complete edition, the enclosed circular will give you the particulars.

rec'd received —I have some copies of John Burroughs's Notes on WW as Poet & Person , 2d edition, under my

Of my own works, complete edition, the enclosed circular will give you the particulars.

Then as to my corn , planted on very much "spotted" ground, upon taking a "first-day loaf" with a neighbor

I think I had better stop my off the you some facts of my spiritual or "religious" experience.

well, I was beginning to walk two miles to school before the first person (the schoolmaster ) put into my

What a fall was there my countrymen!

My personal experience in childhood, then, enables me to "see through" the claim that religious ideas