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. — I have come on here, for a few days on my jaunt to the Thousand Islands at the mouth of St Lawrence—shall

will do me good)—This is a splendid city, right on Lake Ontario—I shall be back in September—I enjoy my

Walt Whitman My Dear "Old Boy" I was so full, Sunday, of the "ample ether, and the divine air" of your

If you want me further, you know how to "whistle" & "I will come to you my lad .

London Ontario Canada August 21 '80 My dear Sir Some six months ago, you wrote me (I was then laid up

ill in St Louis) that you had purchased the electrotype plates of the 1861 Boston ed'n edition of my

and I thought it my Duty to answer it soo soon as possible.

the Compliment hopping hoping that this Letter will find you in the Best of spirits and helth health my

London Ontario Canada June 17 '80 My dear Reid Herewith find a letter for the paper.

—& having a good time—fine country, many fine people here—I go all about leisurely but this will be my

Kirkwood (Glendale) New Jersey U S America April 24 — Down here on one of my visits —Mr and Mrs S and

it was good fun for me, grave as the subject was—I sent you a short report—I am surprised about B —my

S.W. 15 June 1880 My dear Friend You see I venture to salute you, & to write to you in the same strain

His son, & my son-in-law, Lionel Tennyson, lives in London for some ten months out of the twelve, at

She is re-editing the Life of Blake, & I have a few of his letters, & she has been once or twice in my

the comradeship—friendship is the good old word—the love of my fellow-men.

As to the form of my poetry I have rejected the rhymed and blank verse.

everything of the kind from my books."

I said, "Perhaps not, my dear, in the way you mean, and yet, maybe, it is the same thing."

He said: "It is my chief reliance." He talked of death, and said he did not fear it.

WASHINGTON, D.C., Mch March 25 18 80 Walt Whitman Esq Esquire My Dear Sir: For years I have been your

I have taken the liberty to send you three small volumes of my own You may not agree with me.

London Ontario Canada July 13 p m My dear friends all I am still laid up here quite sick —last week has

been about the same as the previous one with me—I am up & drest, but dont go out—the weather is in my

beautiful with hay & wheat—they are just now in the height of harvest for both, & I watch them from my

6 th 21 1880 My Dear Walt: I send you my political letter from the Post — Tell me how you like it Johnson

of these paid for & 10 to be acct'd for & 4 TR Asylum for the Insane, London, Feb February 6 18 80 My

I delivered my lecture in Chatham the other day and this is some of the result—I shall probably have

Asylum for the Insane, London, March 23 d 18 80 My dear Walt The two copies of "Leaves of Grass" came

vols volumes —Do not mail the books to Anderson as I told you on 18 but mail them to —Please answer my

W. 3 July 1880 My dear Friend I write you one line to ask you if you can do me a little favour favor

A few of my friends, who are poets, have been pleased to do honour to themselves & to Scott, & they have

July 10 th 1880 My dear Walt Whitman.

I remain My dear Walt Whitman Yours Faithfully Josiah Child Josiah Child to Walt Whitman, 10 July 1880

Ontario June 29 th 1880 My dearest Friend, Perhaps you thought I had forgotten you, but I have not much

Please give my love to all and as I have told you all I know I will close here.

I believe I sent you a month ago a little paper with my late piece "Riddle Song."

enjoying it, even heat and all—I live on the banks of the Delaware river like—I wish you could know my

Asylum for the Insane, London, March 18 18 80 My dear Walt I send you today a London paper with a sample

—Please let me know at once if this plan meets your approval Many of my friends have an extraordinary

I found your letter and Mrs Gilchrists and Mr Carpenters on my return, and we were much alarmed at first

I can hardly tell about my trip, but when you return, it will be as well, and you have passed over so

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

Joe was very sick two or three weeks ago, but is better now; and I am enjoying my usual good health.

Browning Haddonfield With love from Joe and my self Deborah V.

I think never since that hour can I read my well-worn "Leaves of Grass," without that vague imagined

request, I shall have the name of the man whose writings I most admire, in his own hand, and it will be my

Surface 40 contains, among other notes, a cancelled line reading "yet my soul-dearest leaves—the hardest

dinner—the shoemaker has been over for his pitcher of cider—and there I hear Ruth calling me to come to my

dinner—so I must bid good bye to you for the present, & God bless you, my darling son— W W I think of

New Jersey Dec: December 28 '80 Dear Sir I shall be glad to supply you with a set (Two Volumes) of my

Please accept my sincere thanks for your favor. Very gratefully yours Hannah L.

Yes, my friend, I will supply you with some little out-door sketches—three, possibly four—for your paper

My address for six or eight weeks to come will be care of Dr Bucke , London Ontario Canada .

Camden New Jersey Oct: 30 '80 I to-day forward by mail (same address as this card) my two Vols: according

this fine sunny crispy day—cross'd the Delaware—walk'd up Chestnut st—every thing lovely—look'd in at my

Camden New Jersey March 12 pm—Yours duly rec'd—I send you by mail to-day, to same address as this card, my

Camden New Jersey Nov: November 4 '80 Yours rec'd received with enc: enclosed —thanks—I forward my two

Nov 15 188 0 Walt Whitman Esq Dear Sir: Will you please send to my address by Express the two volumes

Don't bother ab't about that matter —it is in hands that have already put it in fair train—You have my

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S America March 21 '80 I send today same address as this card, my

Sir Thanks for your kind letter, just rec'd received & read with greatest interest & pleasure—I sell my

Yours rec'd received with Enc: enclosure thanks—I forward to day by mail (to same address as this card) my

London Ontario Canada Aug August 16 — Am back again here all right after my Quebec and Ha-ha bay trip—Have

Excuse my thus troubling Respectfully W.J. W. J. Forbes to Walt Whitman, [1880]

I have listen'd listened to his preaching so often when a child, and sat with my mother at social gatherings

became acquainted with your writings but your book but I am just out of college, and as yet I can count my

condition a point of honor —If used please send me the pay here, also the paper, as this place will be my

condition being a point of honor —If used, please send me the pay by mail here, as this place will be my

My dear Walt Mother has been very ill; but is a little better now: & with grt great care will I hope

S—population, 4½ millions, very advanced, very sound, a good race, ⅔ds English ⅓ French)—I am now on my

I received your book some three weeks ago when I was preparing for my half yearly examinations and as

Coan's letter books sent $10 due from Century Club THE CENTURY 109 EAST 15TH STREET November 22 d 1880 My

Asylum for the Insane, London, Jan January 19 th 18 80 My dear Walt I am going to ask a great favor of

in the London Journal and the promise of a bit of your writing for me to frame with the picture of my

But in my little intellectual life "Leaves of Grass" had been so much to me that I could not meet and

The circumstance passed from my mind but a few days since one of the gentlemen referred to the occurrence

If you have not received it, may I send it to you again, when I will explain my wishes?