Simply enter the word you wish to find and the search engine will search for every instance of the word in the journals. For example: Fight. All instances of the use of the word fight will show up on the results page.
Using an asterisk (*) will increase the odds of finding the results you are seeking. For example: Fight*. The search results will display every instance of fight, fights, fighting, etc. More than one wildcard may be used. For example: *ricar*. This search will return most references to the Aricara tribe, including Ricara, Ricares, Aricaris, Ricaries, Ricaree, Ricareis, and Ricarra. Using a question mark (?) instead of an asterisk (*) will allow you to search for a single character. For example, r?n will find all instances of ran and run, but will not find rain or ruin.
Searches are not case sensitive. For example: george will come up with the same results as George.
Searching for a specific phrase may help narrow down the results. Rather long phrases are no problem. For example: "This white pudding we all esteem".
Because of the creative spellings used by the journalists, it may be necessary to try your search multiple times. For example: P?ro*. This search brings up numerous variant spellings of the French word pirogue, "a large dugout canoe or open boat." Searching for P?*r*og?* will bring up other variant spellings. Searching for canoe or boat also may be helpful.
| Entering in only one field | Searches |
|---|---|
| Year, Month, & Day | Single day |
| Year & Month | Whole month |
| Year | Whole year |
| Month & Day | 1600-#-# to 2100-#-# |
| Month | 1600-#-1 to 2100-#-31 |
| Day | 1600-01-# to 2100-12-# |
My Dearest Friend: Your card (your very voice & touch, drawing me across the Atlantic close beside you
) was put into my hand just as I was busy copying out "With husky, haughty lips O sea" to pin into my
I think, after all, that my former objections to giving the English of the L. of G. with the translation
We go for a month or so into the country soon, and from the time you get this till the end of June my
My dearest Brother How very good you are to send me so much,—It was a great surprise, I dont don't know
know you feel so much interest in me, but Walt dear I shall mind fearfully your spending more money on my
—I have always thought if I was dangerously sick, my greatest wish would be to see you.
I am alone, my being sick has been bad for him I know '84 Hannah Whitman Heyde to Walt Whitman, 20 October
If I am so fortunate as to regain my health I hope to weaken the force of that statement, at least in
sofar as my talent & training will permit.
My artistic enthusiasm was never so thoroughly stirred up as by the indians They certainly have more
A-1127 328 Mickle Street Camden Dec. 14 '84 My dear friend Upon the whole I shall have to beg off from
Give my friendliest greetings & wishes to Miss Terry & Mr Irving—Should they, or either, feel any day—say
London Feb 10—84 Dr Dear Old Friend: Am quite well with the exception of the abcess on my neck, it has
Most of my friends appear to have forgotten me or think me of too little importance to drop a line.
Dr Lund is attending her steadily; he is a good physician: Asks no fee, but I shall pay him in my way
I have to meet my annual interest next week 15 dollars; that paid I shall have a year before me to housekeeping
gave him the letter to print—I enclose you the slip—how well & off-hand it reads —I am living here in my
Lay (my housekeeper) was attacked with cholera infantum & brain trouble a week ago—the doctor insisted
I am getting on—my heart is in my work—& though I have been long about it, it won't be long—but I think
occurred to me that your moving may make it desirable to have some extra cash just now, and so I send you my
Alma was sorely disappointed at my not bringing you home with us Sunday and hope you will very soon visit
I have read "As a strong bird on pinions free" and can hardly express my admiration for your poetry.
if you would be kind enough to put your autograph in it and I hope you will not think it immodest in my
Counting the tally of the surf‑suggestions wordless utterance of these liquid tongues And To pass within my
utterance tale of subterranean toil and wrongs Unf For once Seems here C c onfided to me * To pass within my
old way—am pretty well, so far this winter—(they say I am fatter & more red-faced than ever)—I spent my
boys are all curious to know about you—all wish you luck, sincerely—Well good bye for the present, my
My condition is drawing genera l attention, and the old querie query is asked me; "has she no friend?
Respecting public opinion of my services toward her, a neighbour neighbor of twenty years lately remarked
84 My Dear Mr.
that—well, it is no blemish of course in magnificent strain of elemental music, But you might consider my
Camden March 10 Evn'g I am getting better—slowly but decidedly—my young friend died yesterday at noon
My Dear Bolger Here is an article I have reeled off for you if you want it your telegram recd recieved
Private 328 Mickle st Camden May 27 My dear friend If convenient & you can print the following, just
[Whitman wrote to ask that copies of "A Backward Glance on My Own Road" be sent to Edward Dowden, John
Camden New Jersey October 1 1884 Received from Critic Fifteen Dollars for my piece " What Lurks " &c—
Christmas—1884—'5 328 Mickle Street Camden N J Thanks my loving young friends for the magnificent chair—so
Dear Sir— I shall go to Boston Tuesday and will endeavor to get a portrait of my father—I have none here
comfortable, elderly couple to keep house for you was a good hearing—for "the old shanty" had risen before my
My poor article has so far been rejected by editors—so I have laid it by for a little, to come with a
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
My dear friend, Can you not come over Friday and stay till Monday with me?
Thursday P M Oct: 9 '84 My dear Williams I leave you this in hopes you can use it in to-morrow's paper
request I cheerfully agree to it—As far as I have power to do so I hereby grant you the right of setting my
328 Mickle Street Camden Oct: 13 My dear Williams I should like the little Presidential canvass poem
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT THE CENTURY MAGAZINE UNION SQUARE NEW YORK Marion, Mass My dear Mr.
My Dear Sir: In Baldwin's Monthly for July there was quite a long article relating to yourself, written
Please give me, (as under Section 6 of your Copyright Directions of 1882), the 14 years renewal of my
that fills the bill)—But the volume is more helpful to me (in touches, corrections, guidance &c to my
Whitman I am very anxious not to leave this country without paying my respects to you, and bearing to
328 Mickle Street Camden Oct 12 pm My dear Williams After I sent your note in answer yesterday—& reading
In my opinion, it marks a new era in American Literature; and is to stand out more and more prominently
Pennsylvania , Dec. 29 th 188 4 Walt Whitman Esq Camden, New Jersey Dear Sir: My friend Col.
It is in the Critic of Sept. 27 —Dry and warm and often oppressive weather here—a long spell—My lameness
smoke Some vast soul, like a planet's, bound, arrested, tied, Watching the distant, shadowy sails, the My
Sunday Jan 13 [1884] 1½ p m I am going out to a small dinner party of friends, & am sitting here in my
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT THE CENTURY MAGAZINE UNION SQUARE NEW YORK Walt Whitman, Esq., My dear Sir: We are
My guess would be that when fairly afloat it might have quite as much sale here in the United States
Where day and night I wend thy surf‑beat shore, Imaging to my sense thy varied strange suggestions, Thy
My publishers still stick to me for a book & say that if I am not content with the usual 10 per cent,
But I must not make my letter longer—I shall look forward to seeing you soon, and I hope you will be
I believe that the picture will make my name as an artist, a few months will show!
"So my friends tell me, but I never met him." "Don't you think, Mr.
But renewing the old fires of the rebellion was not to my taste.
Whitman says "no one will get at my verses who insists upon viewing them as a literary performance, or
After celebrating and singing himself, he continues: "I loafe, and invite my soul."