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mail me the (brown paper bound) copy of "Leaves of Grass" I sent on about a month ago —I mentioned my

211 Tremont St Boston No I cannot consent to leave out the two pieces I am only willing to carry out my

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey June 26 '82 My dear friend — I to-day mail you a copy of "Leaves

Wilde came to see me early this afternoon," said Walt, "and I took him up to my den, where we had a jolly

things I said was that I should call him 'Oscar;' 'I like that so much,' he answered, laying his hand on my

the æsthetes, I can only say that you are young and ardent, and the field is wide, and if you want my

My idea is that beauty is a result, not an abstraction."

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

received —and I send you some thoughts of mine on Burns—(a much belabored subject—but I wanted to have my

Philadelphia , July 6 1882 My dear friend If entirely convenient I wish you would find out whether there

Philadelphia , June 28 1882 My dear Ben: Benjamin Ticknor I wish you would do me the favor to have the

In your letter to me of Sept. '81, (herewith enclosed) you tallied all my several copyrights for " Leaves

I am pretty well—& all goes well enough to be thankful for in my affairs.

Camden N J June 2 '82 Dear Baxter My friend John Sands, a veteran magazine & newspaper writer, has just

of type, binding, general appearance &c. with L of G—same price—As I write (Sunday afternoon) up in my

thanks for your thought & deed in sending me "Nineteenth Century" criticism—you have probably seen my

My Dear Sir On the 3d of Dec '81 I wrote you a letter kindly asking if you would not oblige me with your

with the $10, hereby receipted — I appreciate the "Dogberry" article not only for its bearing on me & my

suppose you have rec'd received the "Specimen Days" I sent a while since —I am well as usual—reeling out my

Camden Dec: December 21 '82 My dear friends Yes I will give you the autograph name & perhaps a sentiment

Camden Jan: 26 '82 My dear friend Yours just rec'd received & indeed welcomed —A wretchedly dull forenoon

plates of Leaves of Grass now in your charge have been transferred to me, & are henceforth subject to my

Evans said 'you shall not live in my house then' she was greatly distressed but finally agreed to go

I am writing by this post to Eustace Conway, my lawyer friend in New York, a gay young spark, a fine

25 1882 Dear Walt: I wrote to Osgood and asked him how Leaves of Grass was selling and he rejoices my

this—that just now the liver is the seat of, & concentrates, that markedly defective enervation which my

write to you lately—or rather I have written so many letters, business affairs mostly, connected with my

Aug 12 188 2 My dear Walt— Nine years ago, I delivered before a German Society of New York City a lecture

My aim is to attack Marston, terribly , and I don't want to be led off into a side show by an anonymunculus

He has just done an astonishing thing—printed my private letter in his paper—the letter in which I asked

His text is—and it is a stalwart text: "I stand in my place, with my own day, here!" II.

"I resist anything better than my own diversity," he says.

Clifford in his essay on "Cosmic Emotion:" "I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled far-

"My sun has his sun, and round him obediently wheels, He joins with his partners a group of superior

Hence from my shuddering sight to never more return that Show of blacken'd mutilated corpses!

But soon I shall be freer, and my first act shall be to collect the Oliver Stevens letters into a pamphlet

Engine House & Depot, five engines burnt, bad luck— —Van, show this letter to your father and mother—my

Sent Rees Welsh & Co June 20 '82 Let me make my propositions as plainly as possible.

great fool —don't you know every 'cute fellow secretly knows that about himself—I do)—God bless you my

I enclose my ck. check for the amt. amount you ask for, $100. What a blank there in New England!

My translation I hope to get finished by Spring.

unknown before our time) can take and adapt & shape for him or herself—I send you the "Critic" with my

I am at work on my Tribune letter, which I hope will prove satisfactory.

language: "As I have looked over the proof-sheets of the preceding pages, I have once or twice feared that my

here—said: "Only that while I can't answer them at all, I feel more settled than ever to adhere to my

past—that I have always invoked that future, and surrounded myself with it, before or while singing my

My first taste of the country was at Alloway, Burns' birth place.

For illustration, he gives utterance to phrases like this: "I effuse my flesh in eddies and drift it

He himself says, "Nor will my poems do good only, they will do just as much harm, perhaps more."

In my youthful ardor, I am rejoiced at the interdiction . It will make the revolution the greater.

I have not read anything of the man himself yet—though I find that my reading & thinking for long past

Sometimes I took up my quarters in the hospital, and slept or watch'd there several nights in succession

excitements and physical deprivations and lamentable sights,) and, of course, the most profound lesson of my

barefooted every few minutes now and then in some neighboring black ooze, for unctuous mud- baths to my