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Asylum for the Insane, London, 31 st Dec. 18 81 My dear Walt Just a line to tell you that we have another
Whitman's poems, though possessing individuality of their own: "Primary chief bard am I to Elphin, And my
I was with my Lord in the highest sphere, On the fall of Lucifer into the depth of hell; I have borne
been in Asia with Noah in the ark; I have seen the destruction of Sodom and Gomorra; I have been with my
whole universe; I shall be until the day of doom on the face of the earth; And it is not known whether my
Echoes of camps, with all th[gap] Trooping tumultuous, all[gap] bending me powerless[gap] Entering my
My satisfaction with your proposed German trans[lation] increases the more you unfold it, and I think
In the whole matter I freely trust to your intuitions and 'cuteness as to meanings, my dear friend—you
My letter to Mr Lee was also as a preface to the Russian translation.
much of the internationality element (sentiment) which I have intended as one of the leading fibres of my
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Dec 21 '81 My dear W S K Yours rec'd received & glad to hear from
L of G—have just sent you a package by express of the late & other editions & Vols. of poems &c. as my
Jersey U S America— Dec: 20 1881 Dear Sir Your letter asking definite endorsement to a translation of my
And as my dearest dream is for an internationality of poems and poets binding the lands of the earth
closer than all treaties or diplomacy—As the purpose beneath the rest in my book is such hearty comradeship
Camden N J Dec. 18 '81 My dear Ben: Ticknor Thank you for your (& O'Reilley's O'Reilly's ) suggestion
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S America Dec: 18 '81 My dear Rudolf Schmidt Yours of Nov: 27
too mourn the death of Elster —though unknown I had formed a liking for him—I shall forward one of my
book will not be published for some months—perhaps a year—I send you, same mail with this, a copy of my
is Sunday, just before sunset—& we have had a fine day—indeed a fine mild winter so far—have been in my
new edition is David Bogue, St Martin's Place, Trafalgar Square— I have heard that my book is to be
Dozens of pages of his rhythmic prose are not worth "My Captain," which among all his compositions comes
If Whitman, after the same length of time, proves more fortunate, it will be because he wrote "My Captain
My Dearest Friend: Your welcome letter to hand.
Indeed all that sympathy and warm & true words of love & sorrow & highest admiration & esteem for my
Please give my love to your sister, and tell her that her good letter spoke the right words to me & that
are famous everywhere; and, though later efforts have been less happy, the one exquisite song, "O, Captain
My Captain!" written on the death of Lincoln, would make him one of our honored poets forever.
future," "You do not understand me, you cannot understand me, but I can wait hundreds of years for my
— The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
"Not objecting to special revelations, considering a curl of smoke or a hair on the back of my hand just
very anxious I should know of the bad illness of a particular friend of mine, & so wrote to Kirkwood—My
Jersey Dec: 10 '81 Dear Sirs Please send me here by express fifteen free copies Leaves of Grass for my
sheets are sent)— Then another thing: I have a few copies remaining (between one & two hundred sets) of my
mostly in England —which I should like to sell whenever applied to—price $10— You have no objections to my
good than harm to it—but is not of much importance any how—only (to me) as putting a few dollars in my
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S America Dec: 8 '81 First, thanks, heartfelt thanks, my friend
My friend seems to speak in a very recommendatory manner of D.
London Dec 6 th —81 To my Dear Friend M r Whitman, I sit now in my hall on duty, to write you these few
I gus guess I will bring my letter to a close, By sending the Love of all the asylum Employies Employees
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey Dec: 3, '81 Dear Sir I send you a fair proof of my Emerson article
I, the Titan, the hard-mouthed mechanic, spending my life in the hurling of words.
in the Feinberg Collection, Whitman wrote in 1886 or 1888: "Have had this little Vol. at hand or in my
—And then I never in all my life had money that done me so much good. I have some of it yet.
Wilkins, two students of Trinity College, Dublin, were the first to draw my attention to your poetical
Nov. 28 [1881] 29 Lange Strasse Dresden My dear Whitman Yesterday I received all your dispatches—viz,
Still I am very glad that I have it complete in my old .
This volume, with its new poems, etc. offered a field of "pleasant exploration" and renewed my sense
I have ordered my book to be sent to the American papers you mentioned.
You should have recd. received a copy of my Encheiridion by this. Thomas W. H.
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S America Nov: 28 '81 My dear friend, Have time & its influences
My brother & sister are well. The Staffords the same.
I am writing this in the sunshine up in my old 3d story room—Best best love to you & to Herby & Grace
The intensity of her grief is visible in the lines of an undated and unsigned letter: "My dear Children
be resigned—but remorse—that I should have left her; that is like an envenomed wound poisoning all my
O the love for her shut up in my heart" (Charles E.
apologized for not remembering his birthday: "it was past & I had not written one word—not just put my
I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air.
My special word to thee. Hear me illustrious!
woodedge, thy touching-distant beams enough, or man matured, or young or old, as now to thee I launch my
lengthening shadows, prepare my starry nights.
make the only growth by which I can be appreciated, I reject none, accept all, then reporduce all in my
For the great Idea, That, O my brethren, that is the mission of poets.
describes himself well enough in the lines, I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable — , I sound my
He says (p. 31): Clear and sweet is my soul, and clear and sweet is all that is not my soul.
His tribute to Abraham Lincoln (p. 262), beginning "O Captain! my Captain!"
Bless the Lord,O my soul!
my special word to thee. Who can be a companion of thy course!
lengthening shadows, prepare my starry nights.
my Captain! our fearful trip is done.
O,the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
There is a lawless saying, fit only for the wise, but full of meaning for poets and great captains,—
I loafe and invite my soul. I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of sum- mer summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here from
stuck up, and am in my place.
Now comes a passage remarkable for its nobility: "With music strong I come, with my cornets and my drums
I beat and pound for the dead, I blow through my embouchures my loudest and gayest for them.
treated me kindly, and the young people made a great deal of me, but, perhaps, that was on account of my
printing-house, and superintended everything, even the type in which the book was printed, and they made my
"I spent considerable time in New York," he adds, "and a number of weeks on Long Island, my native place
S o many of my good friends are here that I must call it my home."
At the marriage of a German prince with an English princess, when the bridegroom said, "With all my worldly
Me, master, years a hundred since from my parents sundered.
Stevens Street Camden New Jersey U S America Nov. 10 '81 I send you same mail with this the circular of my
Me, master, years a hundred since from my parents sundered.
November 9, 1881 I send you my new book (it is due you, you know) same mail with this. . .
Stevens street Camden New Jersey U S America Dear Sir I send you by same mail with this the circular of my
I spent considerable time in New York and a number of weeks on Long Island, my native place.
So many of my good friends are here that I must call it my home.
There are men and women—not here though—who bear my intuition and understand by their hearts.
in his "den" surrounded by a litter of books and papers: "When Osgood wrote me, offering to publish my
I must overlook the work myself and you must humor me in letting me have things my way.'
things & times—this beautiful day among the rest—(now toward sundown, & I am writing this alone up in my
It still maintains: I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable; I sound my barbaric yawp over
communed to- gether together Mine too such wild arrays, for reasons of their own; Was't charged against my
Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance
That sport'st amid the lightning flash and thunder cloud, In them, in thy experiences, had'st thou my
Ontario, Canada —and one to John Burroughs, Esopus-on-Hudson, New York — I write in N Y, but the above is my
I wish to see my benefactor, and have felt much like striking my tasks and visiting New York to pay you
my respects.
The air tastes good to my palate.
Was't charged against my chants they had forgotten art?
Another song on the death of Lincoln, "Oh Captain! My Captain!"
last July & August and then for the last two months have been in Boston, seeing to the printing of my
complete poems "Leaves of Grass" in one volume—which is all done to my satisfaction, & the book will
did have some jolly times I tell you— The Saturday evening before I came away I gave a reception to my
all right—I should be real glad to see them & Deb too—When Harry comes home Sunday tell him I sent my
—Well it is growing twilight & I must stop— Walt Whitman my address here for ten days will be Mott av
havn't haven't heard from you all now in a fortnight— I came on yesterday from Boston —As I told you in my
last every thing went on there satisfactory —& my treatment from Osgood has been of the best—the prospect
contains only some MSS and stuff—also there may come a roll of printed matter for me, to be put up in my
Whitman recited "John Anderson, my Jo, John."
BOSTON,__________188 Monday noon Oct: October 10 '81 My dear friend Yours rec'd received , & thanks—I
still linger along here—the printing of my book is finished—but one or two little things I want to see
word a day beforehand—I am well as usual—Have had a very pleasant time here, & the book printed &c. to my
O'Grady | sent photos to him Dec 24 '81 11 Lr Lower Fitzwilliam St Dublin October 5, 1881 Dear Sir, My
My impressions regarding this literature I have published in various works.
poems & tales into a complete whole & so the student can never be exactly certain what is & what is not my
In the revolt of Islam he has a fine Panegyric on the future of America Fr For my own part I put him
I do not meet in you the expression of every changing ideal punctuating even the remotest parts of my
who have set up & electrotyped a new, complete & markedly fuller edition (with several new pieces) of my
at once, with the request that you will immediately have the book entered for copyright & secured in my
I am under many obligations in the past to my friend your Josiah Child, & should like to have this matter
My dear Mr Mr.
Spofford If convenient won't you inform me soon as possible by letter here, of the dates of my copyrights
Boston, Sept: September 24 1881 Dear Alma Every thing is going on & has gone on satisfactorily—My book
plate-casting, & if things turn out wrong any way I shall have only myself to blame, for I have had my
dinner—two hours—every thing just right every way—a dozen people there, (the family & relatives)—for my
done & will be in the market in a month or so—all about it has proceeded satisfactorily—& I have had my
I have been trying, since my return to Germany, to find out that essay you allude to in the N.A.
My 'Encheiridion' ought to be out very soon as I have sent in the last proof sheets.