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appeared uncorrected in the 5 January 1884 issue of the Critic with the title, A Backward Glance on My
combined with two other pieces of journalism (How I Made a Book, Philadelphia Press, 11 July 1886; My
Sheets.loc.00218xxx.00384My 71st Yearabout 1889poetryhandwritten1 leaf18.75 x 20.25 cm; A proof sheet of My
My 71st Year
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My 71st Year was first published in 1889. My 71st Year
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My 71st Year was first published in 1889. My 71st Year
Sheets.loc.02504xxx.00384My 71st Yearabout 1889poetryhandwritten1 leaf11.5 x 15 cm; Proof sheet of My
My 71st Year was first published in 1889. My 71st Year
Sheets.loc.02505xxx.00384My 71st Yearabout 1889poetryhandwritten1 leaf11.5 x 15 cm; Proof sheet of My
My 71st Year was first published in 1889. My 71st Year
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
acknowledges Whitman's influence in the following statements: "I find it difficult to imagine what my
'Leaves of Grass' 'filtered and filtered' my blood; but I do not think I ever tried to imitate it or
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
Those fellows have one virtue—they always use good paper: and on that I manage to do a good deal of my
My Dear Whitman— I return the J. Burroughs Book. & the pamphlet with thanks.
The Burroughs book fed me on my journey home, so that I had to buy no other reading.
I shall cherish the memory of that blessed January 2nd '85 to the end of my days.
I must send you my N. Orleans articles. My Creole article in Lit.
it be the means of my being able to publish it. Dr.
It is like a great ship that comes to windward of me & takes the breeze out of the sail of my little
He does not do full justice to Emerson as I hope to show in my essay.
"A Backward Glance on My Own Road," The Critic, 4 (5 January 1884), 1–2.
[Whitman wrote to ask that copies of "A Backward Glance on My Own Road" be sent to Edward Dowden, John
"A Backward Glance on My Own Road."
Whitman on December 21, 1883, sent "A Backward Glance on My Own Road" to The North American Review and
Whitman wrote this note on an offprint of "A Backward Glance on My Own Road."
Sunday Jan 13 [1884] 1½ p m I am going out to a small dinner party of friends, & am sitting here in my
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
My publishers still stick to me for a book & say that if I am not content with the usual 10 per cent,
Walt Whitman, Dear Sir:— Since the completion of my late work on "Nests & Eggs of Birds of the U.S.,"
Anything else that you would like to appear, will be given a place, if you will call my attention thereto
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.
On February 10 he informed the poet that he was suffering from an "abcess in my neck," and asked for
m Dear friends I send the within letter just rec'd from Harry—I am about as usual, & nothing new in my
time—better luck next time—It is heavy and bad outside, the wind blowing a gale—(I should like to put on my
W W London Feb 10—84 Dr Dear Old Friend: Am quite well with the exception of the abcess on my neck, it
Most of my friends appear to have forgotten me or think me of too little importance to drop a line.
84 My Dear Mr.
that—well, it is no blemish of course in magnificent strain of elemental music, But you might consider my
For my own part, it (the Republican article) made me marvel.
I cannot make my belief square with such a notion. Au revoir .
I am up to my ears in office work, wretchedly unwell, and wish I could be away.
Dear Walt: Just a line to give you my changed address.
My friends the Fearnehoughs have come with me, and we are employing one or two extra hands beside, just
takes its name; very quaint old wooden wheels and cogs—the stream which feeds it runs at the bottom of my
.], quite 'uneducated' in the ordinary sense... but well-grown and finely built" (Edward Carpenter, My
passed, & that I shall be better in a day or two—I feel so today already—& soon about as usual— No my
I wish dear Alys would take This side the earliest convenient opportunity to give my excuses & love to
very lonesome here—If I had not been born with a happy-tending natural disposition (I inherit it from my
heaviness to me—As it is, the ennuyeed hours have been the rare exceptions— Then about the shows of life & my
strong, with weightiest animality & appetites, or I should go off in a balloon—Well luckily for you my
Camden March 10 Evn'g I am getting better—slowly but decidedly—my young friend died yesterday at noon
my love to a living soul.
I glory in my mutability and my vast receptivity; I glory in having no unalterable opinions.
I glory in my invincible supremacy over prejudice, my superb contempt for custom.
He is the author of all my suffering, but he hath redeemed my soul. (And alas!
Nor am I less thine equal on account of my years.
I could not but warmly respond to that which is actually personal: I do it with my whole heart."
Camden Thursday 4 afternoon Thank you for the nice chicken—had some for my dinner—was glad to see Van
& to hear from you all— I am getting over my bad spell of health—but very slowly—& have been depressed
know yet what move I shall make—but shall have to do something in a few days—If it hadn't been for my
just rec'd his postal card from Haddonfield that he would try to come up early next week—I send him my
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
328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey March 27 —I am getting well towards my usual (late year) state of
health —have had a bad time ever since I saw you in Phila —my own illness, confinement to the house
On March 27 Whitman wrote in his Commonplace Book: "Am writing this in my new premises in Mickle Street—slept
I got too the paper with translation from my essay, for which I owe the editor & translator deep thanks
Bucke about my lecture.
is progressing well, though the necessity of taking pupils which I am under now costs a good deal of my
The essay alluded to is probably Whitman's "A Backward Glance on My Own Road" in the January 5, 1884
smoke Some vast soul, like a planet's, bound, arrested, tied, Watching the distant, shadowy sails, the My
Where day and night I wend thy surf‑beat shore, Imaging to my sense thy varied strange suggestions, Thy
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
April 5 th . 28 Terrassen Ufer Dresden My dear Master I have to tell you that the plan of the translations
I have begun working at my translation with a German friend who is fully competent to help & has holidays
I shan't let my own name appear, lest the fact of my being a foreigner might prejudice people against
My Dearest Friend: Those few words of yours to Herby "tasted good" to us —few, but enough, seeing that
here as by a kind of natural destiny that has to be fulfilled very cheerfully, could I make America my
I say how very highly I prize that last slip you sent me, "A backward glance on my own road"?
"A Backward Glance on My Own Road," The Critic, 4 (5 January 1884), 1–2.
endorsement of your friendly enterprise, translating and publishing in Germany, some of the poems of my
It has not been for my own country alone —ambitious as the saying so may seem— that I have composed that
One purpose of my chants is to cordially salute all foreign lands in America's name.
months but am now better & shall soon be ab't as of late years—I have moved into a little old shanty of my
wistful thoughts" that, "were not I & mine bound here by unseverable ties, . . . could I make America my
[I approve of your attempt to translate certain of my poems into the German tongue.
Indeed, arrogant as the statement may seem, I had more than my own native land in view when I was composing
I had also in mind, as one of my objects, to send a hearty greeting to these lands in America's name.
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
Now I am out here, and circumstances contrary to my wishes, will keep me here indefinitely.
This is one of my homesick days, and I have been thinking over what there is in the north that I would
When I read I say "Yes, I am she, O you wise poet," and sometimes I think I must put out my hand for
and I am sure that we have gone together down that brown road a great many times; and perhaps it was my
I am very glad my eyes found the message you hid away for me—hid so deeply, though, that I barely found
In my opinion, it marks a new era in American Literature; and is to stand out more and more prominently
Private 328 Mickle st Camden May 27 My dear friend If convenient & you can print the following, just
serviceable present, from Mary & Alys Smith & Mrs S. nice new sheets & pillow and bolster cases for my
request I cheerfully agree to it—As far as I have power to do so I hereby grant you the right of setting my
am pretty much as usual again after quite a long siege—I am here in a little old house I have bought—my
a couple of elderly folks, acquaintances of mine, Mr and Mrs Lay, they live in the house, & I take my
all ever so much better than the Stevens Street business—Am not doing any thing lately, & the sale of my
My Dear Bolger Here is an article I have reeled off for you if you want it your telegram recd recieved
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."