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I have been looking through the G[ood] G[ray] P[oet] as Dr B sent it in his copy, & it comes to my soul
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.
Peking, February 3rd— 188: My dear Mr.
have read was a mere newspaper exaggeration, and in sending you this wish, I send the assurances of my
cooking—Otherways I have been here in C. all the time, have done a little work writing, but nothing much,—My
little talk—did me good to meet them—I dont don't think Jersey has two nicer looking boys—I was on my
got there I found the elder A. was dead & buried —so I have just had to write the sad intelligence to my
round—over the ferry & up Market street, Phila Philadelphia , & stop occasionally at 23 south 9th st. where my
Now that my two books, prose and the poems, are out, I hardly know what to strike for—what to look forward
republished in Scotland & L. of G. is being translated in Germany — Tuesday night 10½— I am finishing my
letter—Never mind, Harry, dear—we'll make it all right when we meet—I have just written to your mother—Well my
431 Stevens street Camden N J Jan: January 25 '83 My dear friends Would "the Bible as Poetry" suit you
My acquaintance with 'Leaves of Grass' dates from my early university days some ten years ago, when having
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.
29Queries to My 70th Year (1888).
The lines were revised and published as Queries to My Seventieth Year in 1888. [Here fretful]
.00004xxx.00319My Canary Birdabout 1888poetryhandwritten1 leaf; This is a manuscript draft of the poem, My
My Canary Bird
17unc.00012xxx.00486Then my mother hastening1883-1888prose1 leafhandwritten; This manuscript contains
Then my mother hastening
1888poetryhandwritten1 leaf; Draft of a poem later revised and published under the title Queries to My
My Seventieth Year