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My opinion that the book is a success (in the most important requisites) is to-day more decided than

Did you see my article in Critic of Nov. 24?

My Dearest Friend: Lazy me, that have been thinking letters to you instead of writing them!

But they do: I am as sure of that as of my own existence. When will men begin to understand them?

of the sea and I seem to remember such a place near Lynn Regis, where I was thirty years ago, when my

My little book on Mary Lamb just out—will send you a copy in a day or two.

not finding me at McKay's come right over here, as it is only 20 minutes to get here, & the cars pass my

door—look'd for you all the afternoon—the sorest pinch is I feel now it is all my bungling fault.

New Jersey Sept 21 st Dear Walt: I am down here for a week or two, under the direction of my Dr, taking

Now mainly what I write for is this, to ask you to come up & be my guest for a week.

you can particularly the adverse ones —You do not say anything about sending copies as I asked you in my

I take it for granted meantime that you will attend to this—and also that you will have balance of my

My lameness is very bad, and I am very exhausted before many hours pass each day.

My special trouble now is what they call schlerosis —an induration of the lower part of the spinal cord

I have never been troubled with costiveness in all my life, but now, like yourself, I have a partial

paralysis of the bowels, and must, under medical orders, resort to artificial means, and this is my remedy

If the appendix is wholly composed of my compositions, and if Dr.

, but we writing-fellows think no small beer of ourselves, and I don't propose to be singular among my

a visit to very kind Quaker folks, particular friends of mine —had a good time—good grub—a horse to my

I am well as usual—nothing very new with my affairs (but the last six or eight months has kind of gone

obliged to you for the trouble you have taken, and deeply interested in the book, for which I shall write my

I presume that my name in the book is in the author's handwriting, if so I shall value it the more.

struck out half a dozen absurd lines at the end of the Properly speaking, I suppose I ought to retain my

A line has been dropped from my reply to Lanman.

reprint "Encyclopædia Brittanica"—I send you by express a little package of books—the three Vols. of my

me—mainly because it satisfies me best, upon the whole —What you say about Mrs Spofford's say lubricates my

.— The old house in which my father's grand parents lived, (and their parents probably before them, )

—Some of them are yet represented by descendants in New England My father's grandfather was quite a large

—My father's father I never saw.— Mother's family lived only two or three miles from West Hills—on a

—Her mother 's (my great grandmother's) maiden name was Mary Woolley, and her father Capt: Williams,

the lampblack and oil with which the canvass covering of the stage was painted, would make me.— After my

My acquaintance with 'Leaves of Grass' dates from my early university days some ten years ago, when having

Camden April 14 My dear friend I wish you would apply to the Librarian of Congress's office for the copyright

I am just starting for two or three days down in my Jersey woods retreat.

London Ont Ontario Canada Dec December 17th 83 1883 My Dear Old Friend: Your postals came "OK" and found

Haven't heard from home directly but once since my arrival.

never mind, I appreciate them gratefully —I am well as usual this summer—nothing very new ab't about my

books or literary fortunes— I shall make a permanent move from Camden before many months—as my brother's

.— I enclose you my professional card.

after a fair trial I do not succeed in earning a living in this way I shall probably drift back into my

stay here perhaps the ensuing week—The family, (& a fine one they are) are at Newport for the summer—my

combination of character from any you ever saw—& one I am sure you would like—And then the father himself, my

am only middling well—seem to be getting clumsier than ever, more loguey —rheumatic & other ailments—My

I am rejoiced at what you say of my contribution, but feel dreadfully at the prospect your letter opens

, of my paragraphing being changed.

I could bear with equanimity anything but that—especially the breaking up of my running account of the

Besides, you told me I was to have my way. I will write you again after I get the revise.

I returned to-day from a three days visit to my Quaker friends at Germantown—they have tip top horses

—Sometimes I think you must be sick— —I am about as usual—I am writing this after 9 at night up in my

Saturday afternoon 14 July '83 My dearest Brother I rec'd received your card and Book, some little time

I took a notion all at once to send my pictures, I have not been very prompt have I Walt about the pictures

with the right direction so you can write to Harry London Ont Ontario Canada Dec December 17th 83 1883 My

Haven't heard from home directly but once since my arrival.

Camden New Jersey December 18 '83 Yours of 17th with the pay ($10) for my piece has come safely to hand

Evn'g Evening Dear neices nieces I have received the beautiful book-knife—Just the thing, & will be in my

Camden Feb 23 p m I have just come back from my delightful Quaker visit—& find your MS roll, all right—It

"A horse, a horse—my kingdom for a horse!" WDO'C William D.

America Dec. 8 1883 In compliance with your late request & remittance (safely received—thanks) I forward my

Chew on what I said in my last —the position you occupy in your printed books is just what it should

getting the Critic of June 16, for which Brentano sent for me, and find that the item I copied into my

Camden N J Dec 9 '83 A young workingman & engineer, Edward Doyle, (brother of my dear friend Peter D.

"The later years of the last century," he tells us, "found the Van Velsor family, my mother's side, living

My father's side—probably the fifth generation from the first English arrivals in New England—were at

"In February, 1873," he tells us, "I was stricken down by paralysis, gave up my desk, and emigrated to

And it is to my life here that I, perhaps, owe partial recovery (a sort of second wind, or semi-renewal

young hickory sapling out there—to sway and yield to its tough-limber upright stem—haply to get into my

Would you forgive my suggesting, as a sufficient reply to your adverse critics, the the insertion of

March 25, 188 3 Walt Whitman My old time friend Do you ever think of the boy that you found sick in the

431 Stevens Street Camden New Jersey March 6 '83 My dear Stoddart I have rec'd received your letter enclosing

Camden Monday Evng Evening Feb 26 '83 At the breakfast table this morning we all agreed—my sister most

431 Stevens street Camden N J Jan: January 25 '83 My dear friends Would "the Bible as Poetry" suit you

Dear Walt: I have been so ill, and so burdened with the office charge, being scarcely able to hold my

of Bacon's Promus —a strong anti- Shakespere Shakespeare document—which hurt the book immensely, and my

Walt Whitman (Don't forget to return my Times article sometime.) William D.

If you have time & patience to read my review I should be extremely obliged if you would tell me whether

with regard to the above question, I shall esteem it a great kindness; & in any case I assure you of my

New York Sept 14 '83 My dear Sir; Dr.

I am at present very busy as I want to complete my critical history of American literature as soon as

431 Stevens Street Camden, New Jersey Nov. 23, '83 My friends I am puzzled considerably—Nov 12 I sent

am well as usual—always glad to hear from you—hope we shall be together again one of these days—give my

It is a very warm Sunday afternoon—as I write up in my third story south room— W W Walt Whitman to Anne

Philadelphia —( Pub'r Publisher of my books) I will send you one soon as it is out—I am well, for me—have

My essay has not much translation in it, but I think of appending a complete transl. translation of some

I feel the confidence of me of those friends that you will find no presumption in my writing thus, &

New York, March 14, 188 3 My Dear Mr Whitman Enclosed please find CK check for $12.

from you quite a while ago (from Johnstown, Pa: Pennsylvania ) you mention some German translations of my

country, house, large library, garden—the family (they too special friends of mine) all away at Newport—my

Another on page 74 (very bad) where my sturdy "I vaunt it and I stand by it," is spoiled by being rendered

Whitman I am writing to ask you to send me the two volumes of your writings which you sent my sister