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& now I am paying the penalty of the exposure to the severe cold in another attack of neuralgia in my
I have just sent off my MS. to Briton.
If I can devise a better title I shall do so, but I think my readers will understand this one; the great
public does not care for my books anyhow.
J., Fey February 7 18 79 My Dear Walt Friday has come & gone —& no report as the dinner with the author
Richard Maurice Bucke, one of his literary executorsI have found my authority hereabout 1879prose1 leafhandwritten
I have found my authority here
Traubel Camden, July 3, '79 To W.W My dear friend, I'll write you a few words again—for this warm weather
My curiosity has not abated by one jot and I would esteem it a favor if you would let me know at least
My bias is for Dickens. I like a good aim of pathos in a novel—nothing maudlin but all natural.
I think I referred to it in one of my last letters. Write soon! Yours hastily, H. L. T.
My regards to —— those : Emerson, Whitman, Major Stearns , , and the rest of the good fellows!
I know that it will please you to hear that I have gained tenfold facility with my brush since the autumn
Three of my pictures are nicely hung at the Water Colour Exhibition Academy of Design, the first time
This morning being Sunday, I took my skates to the Park.
Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to
Captain Vandoren Townsend was married to Patience, George Stafford's sister.
disagreeable , if he has written & you will mind it, you would understand why if you had Dear Brother in my
hurry I made a mistake, thought this was written on I hope with my whole heart that I have not said
I think a great deal of my home with all my troubles I have only spoke of myself & could not help it
today Good bye Han Give my love to all Hannah Whitman Heyde to Walt Whitman, 2 January [1879]
one could fail then [during the War] to admire his zeal and devotion, and I am afraid that at first my
gossiping in the candle light" that resonates with the beginning of the second paragraph of the article My
Please remember me to all the Staffords & give my especial love to Mrs. Stafford. Also to Mrs.
My Dearest Friend: Herby has told you of our difficulties in getting comfortable quarters here—and also
B. was always my friend—that his allusions were always kind—that he quoted 'Leaves of Grass' without
My Dearest Friend: You could not easily realize the strong emotion with which I read your last note and
I have my dear little grandson with me here—as engaging a little toddler as the sun ever shone upon—so
wish I could write to some of them, but what with needlework, an avalanche of letters, the care of my
dear little man—the re-editing of my husband's life of Blake, to which there will be a considerable
Per. & my nephew & the "Process" have made a great stride forward.
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
My Dearest Friend: Are you never coming? I do long & long to see you.
My Dearest Friend: It seems quite a long while since I wrote, & a very long while since you wrote.
I am beginning to turn my thoughts Philadelphia-wards that we may have some weeks near you before we
My Dearest Friend: We set foot on dry land again Wednesday morning after a good passage —not a very smooth
Dearest Friend: I am sitting in my room with my dear little grandson, the sweetest little fellow you
Giddy and Norah (my 3d third daughter) are gone into Durham to do some shopping.
It is about the only thing I have read since my return.
hardly realized till I left it how dearly I love America—great sunny land of hope and progress—or how my
Give my love to those of our friends whom you know & tell them not to forget us.
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
My Dearest Friend: I hope you are enjoying this splendid, sunshiny weather as much as we are—the atmosphere
experience he thinks very highly, to study in Duron's Studio in Paris for a year, that I have made up my
mind to go back, for a time at any rate, this summer; but I shall leave my furniture here, and the question
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
Arthur Holland, one of the family who were so very friendly to me & made my stay so pleasant both in
Holsman Mansion Passaic, New Jersey 9 June '79 My dear Mr Whitman, I got yours of the 24th ult. & also
I enclose a copy of the selections you made from my journal, and also an account of the information Miss
for those loose sheets which I used sometimes to resort to, partly because I was accustomed to write my
, & it strikes me I have in my portfolios much that is better than that, unprinted.
office in the city, as my letters are forwarded every day.
New York 7th June 1879 My recollection of what Miss — told me on the Friday evening, just one week after
well, & recollect asking Miss — at what point in it the tragedy occurred, but her answer has escaped my
part of the stories told I knew from competent & trustworthy sources & also, in a small measure, from my