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A scotch mist this morning so I could not go on as usual with my out-door painting but the afternoon
Expect to stay in the neighborhood another week, when I shall shift my diggings as my bedroom window
will not open: a small cottage, otherwise to my mind.
. | & wrote postal card August 14th/82 29 Lange Strasse Dresden My dear master I wish you could send
We went over one glacier, where my friend distinguished himself by falling into a crevasse.
Shall introduce quotations liberally & see what they think of my translation.
A shameful business altogether, which makes me thankful that I am not an Englishman except against my
well—have had a very fair summer, (though so much hot weather)— I commenced publishing L of G in June on my
He did not even ask about your health, or any other human thing, & made me feel that my call upon him
Aug 12 188 2 My dear Walt— Nine years ago, I delivered before a German Society of New York City a lecture
forced to remember another son of the people, Robert Burns, and one involuntarily thinks of his "O, my
Love's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June: O my Love's like a melodie That's sweetly
(I loved a certain person ardently and my love was unreturned, Yet out of my love have I written these
hardly patience with a man who could offer the public lines like these, and call them poetry: "I tucked my
trowser-ends into my boots, and went and had a good time."
In your letter to me of Sept. '81, (herewith enclosed) you tallied all my several copyrights for " Leaves
I sent you yesterday a copy of my paper containing the lecture Keep off the Grass.
The whole edition of my paper is still held at the Post Office awaiting decision from Washington as to
As in my next number I shall have the whole history of this infamous impertinence and audacity in print
I am however loath to intrude my self on public personages— as I know that much of their valuable time
I have never for a moment wavered in my belief in this truth since it burst upon me a veritable sunrise
Philadelphia ed'n edition L of G. will be ready ab't about 26th or 7th —(I like it best of all my ed'ns
He has just done an astonishing thing—printed my private letter in his paper—the letter in which I asked
could have wished—though as I get along with them, & versed, I am well satisfied with R W & Co. and my
My L of G plates having been sent on there from Rand & Avery's, Boston—& I shall begin on "Specimen Days
Philadelphia , July 6 1882 My dear friend If entirely convenient I wish you would find out whether there
you can keep posted, & make whatever mention, if any, accurately— but would rather not myself only my
In connection let me state that I am putting a new book in type, my Prose Works , called Specimen Days
, & Collect , about 380 pages—gives a lot of random typical days, diary fashion, during my life—& then
swoops pell mell my past literary papers, essays &c. in the Collect , (like fish in a net)—is to be
a companion Vol to my Poems—Is to be pub. published by Rees Welsh & Co: 23 South 9th st.
for him, in a whirl of bitter work and many cares, a long helter-skelter sort of an introduction, for my
He thought my prolegomena good, and I was sorry I could not make it better, but if Rees, Welsh & Co.
publish his book, I will strive to refurbish my contribution and make it better.
The thing for a pamphlet will be my letters upon Oliver Stevens and company, when we get to a stopping
Postmaster General, with my assistance, and we will put in a copy of this letter of Chainey's.
Philadelphia , June 28 1882 My dear Ben: Benjamin Ticknor I wish you would do me the favor to have the
They are to publish L of G. same style as O[sgood]'s ed'n edition , same price, from my plates, & pay
me 35 cts cents a copy royalty—They are also to publish immediately my prose writings, Specimen Days
before him—perhaps has already decided—I keep well— W W The Boston Herald has articles strongly in my
431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey June 26 '82 My dear friend — I to-day mail you a copy of "Leaves
O'Connor "judged it prudent to withhold my reply to 'Sigma.'"
My aim is to attack Marston, terribly , and I don't want to be led off into a side show by an anonymunculus
I am pretty well—& all goes well enough to be thankful for in my affairs.
Sent Rees Welsh & Co June 20 '82 Let me make my propositions as plainly as possible.
June 19, 1882 Dear Walt: I have yours of yesterday, and am happy in the thought that you find my second
That is what they will try to do, and my reply to Chadwick will make it harder than ever for them.
On the other hand, The Tribune invites my attention to Sigma's "assertion" about the "disgusting Priapism
," which is, of course, a disgusting lie, and I I have to make up my mind whether the point is worth
shows a desire to put in something as a makeweight, and to seem biased against me, while admitting my
./82 Dearest friend, I like with all my heart (& head too) "A memorandum at a venture".
I have never for a moment wavered in my belief in this truth since it burst upon me a veritable sunrise
He has gone just now to my favorite Haslemere, in quest of nightingales—& I hope will make the acquaintance
your proposals—I have had several—For one point I should like some publishing & radiating spot near my
own locality—for another to retain control of my book & personally advise in selling & publishing it—Will
I want to publish my Prose writings in a companion volume to L of G—Then there is a Canada man who has
My first taste of the country was at Alloway, Burns' birth place.
Engine House & Depot, five engines burnt, bad luck— —Van, show this letter to your father and mother—my
1882 June 10th 29 Lange Strasse Dresden My dear Whitman I learn to day to my great surprise that the
This will perhaps lead to my finding a collaborateur for the translation—said translation owing to press
of other business has not been very rigorously pursued lately, but after this month I shall take off my
Yet then, and always, that was the cause that had my affection & interest—only I saw such obstacles in
Now all that has changed itself in my mind.
In my youthful ardor, I am rejoiced at the interdiction . It will make the revolution the greater.
Walt Whitman Your "Leaves of Grass," has just been placed in my hands.
things, say so; if not, let it " werk " as the little boy said, but I warn you that, Sans-Culottism to my
My old fencing-master, Boulet, (no better ever lived; he taught once at West Point,) taught me always
to cover my breast with hilt and point, even in the lunge, and I think of his lessons when engaged in
I have freely used the memoranda you sent, and got in as much of it as I could see my way to employ,
I hope my new letter will be as successful with you and the public as my first.
Watch the for my anti-Chadwick. I hardly think it will fail to bring him down.
with the $10, hereby receipted — I appreciate the "Dogberry" article not only for its bearing on me & my
Camden N J June 2 '82 Dear Baxter My friend John Sands, a veteran magazine & newspaper writer, has just
From to-day I enter upon my 64th year.
I easily tire, am very clumsy, cannot walk far; but my spirits are first-rate.
or boat, hundreds of miles—live largely in the open air—am sunburnt and stout, (weigh 190)—keep up my
But the principal object of my life seems to have been accomplish'd accomplished —I have the most devoted
O'Connor wrote: "I have freely used the memoranda you sent, and got in as much of it as I could see my
Though a stranger to you, in your Book you have been my friend, and so I salute you.
own heroic measure (or a poor attempt to imitate it) by one of the members of the Melancholy Club, my
Next best, is your admiration of my lightnings.
Of course, I was delighted, for my article puts the matter just in the shape I wanted it to appear—gives
I think John will be delighted with my sword-play.
pleased with me, and the poignant and perfumed little note of thanks I sent him after the appearance of my
My task is to do this, and thoroughly, the first time. No after claps.
You must excuse m my writing & spelling for I am in a hurry to get off to the park.
let me know how you are I will try & write a little more abou about thing next time I write & send my
synopsis of it I can recall—quite certainly the same in amount as I told you while it was fresh in my
memory—the which with hasty scribblings on my relations with Emerson—I hope (working in as from yourself
even passionate well-wishing, which I felt then and feel to this hour the gratitude and reverence of my
And my arriere and citadel positions—such as I have indicated in my June North American Review memorandum
with Emerson, in this particular (it was not needed any where else) that goes on with many other of my
clerical blackguard, who has the audacity to accuse me of wilfully and consciously lying, and I shall do my
It shall have a place of honor on my walls at home where you are read and loved.
I should not want to leave to my children the name of a Stevens or a Marston .
Street Camden New Jersey May 26 '82 Dear Sir Yours rec'd received —I accordingly mail you a copy of my
your book on the market advertised as the suppressed edition, and invite the authorities to dispute my
Morse, Quincy, Mass., the sculptor, whom you know, and who has long been one of my intimate friends.
He does not know of my design in this matter, but he will tell you that I am thoroughly reliable, and
Camden May 25 My dear friend Yours of 20th recd received —At this present writing I don't think the Tribune
Scribner article a year or two ago the extracted half a column of his condemnatory views & opinions on my
often presents & in all primal poetry & attempt at returning to Creation's birth-innocence—let alone my
technical esthetic & conventional & technical literary points applicable—But you know, dear friend, my
mail me the (brown paper bound) copy of "Leaves of Grass" I sent on about a month ago —I mentioned my
Camden May 23d My dear Reid Couldn't you feel to print the above say for instance in the Bits of Criticism
Walt Whitman Respected Sir: I have just read your 'Memorandum at a Venture' and wish to express to you my
I am a student at the above institution and while studying my text books I have also studied the times
I have loved you for years with my whole heart and soul.
I am too impetuous; I feel my subject too deeply.
And yet I am a writer and make my living by my pen.
hand your beautiful grey hair, and possibly feel your arm about my waist.
It is nothing to me who sees them; I am proud of my feeling for you.
My article has gone to the Tribune with a note to Whitelaw Reid, and we await the result.
My object is to smoke the hidden movers in this business out of their holes, and I kept this in mind
Marston was behind the Boston attorney, I took care not to even mention his name, but focussed all my
It is all right for you to take such an attitude as you do toward them—for you personally; but my part
—I hope my letter will appear and be satisfactory to you.
plates of Leaves of Grass now in your charge have been transferred to me, & are henceforth subject to my
Marston is the target for you —If I learn more I will notify you— WW Have you seen my N A North American
O'Connor on May 20 approved of Whitman's "magnanimous" attitude toward Osgood & Co., he believed that "my
In his reply on May 20, O'Connor said that he had "focussed all my fire right upon Oliver Stevens, who
magazines—the more necessary now as quite a set-back & very bad piece of luck has happened to me in my
one's mind that no words or writing can describe—I wish Jo and Debby to see this letter—& I send them my
back here again by nine o'clock, in time to finish the piece I have under way—Tell Mrs Rogers I send my
pleasure the nice visit & dinner in Linden Street—I have not forgotten Jane either — Susan you speak of my
It was conducted by a gentleman and his niece, free—I tell you it opened my eyes to many new things—makes