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Those fellows have one virtue—they always use good paper: and on that I manage to do a good deal of my

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."

I do indeed feel proud to have it direct from the Author, & to have my name written in it by himself.

Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my

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 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

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.

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

smoke Some vast soul, like a planet's, bound, arrested, tied, Watching the distant, shadowy sails, the 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

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

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

I break down allmost almost to hysteria at times, from exhaustion but my appetite remains steadfast,

does not; is averse to having our clothes put to laundry; their condition is so bad: beside to keep my

house free from embarressment must beware of debt; for pay day comes at last, and my habitation is a

professional labours and endurance; my devotion—yet so many have imperative needs of their.

George should help us, all he can: Han's friends or relatives are known: and my embarressments embarrassments

Whitman I am very anxious not to leave this country without paying my respects to you, and bearing to

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

Dear Sir— I shall go to Boston Tuesday and will endeavor to get a portrait of my father—I have none here

Dear Sir— I have tried in vain to obtain a good portrait of my father for you and am reduced to this

not read) containing poor copies of the good portraits that are in some secure, forgotten place among my

traps—stored in garret or cellar of my new house where all things are at sixes and sevens.

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

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

Since I first read your poems years ago now they have always had a great influence on my thoughts and

I have found out the truth of your words too from my short experience of life in deed as well as in thought

Your Leaves of Grass I keep with my Shakespeare and my Bible and it is from these three that I have got

My Dear Sir: In Baldwin's Monthly for July there was quite a long article relating to yourself, written

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

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.

Walt Whitman: I came across your, and now my, Leaves of Grass when I was eighteen, that is a year ago

I took it to my mother and "wheedled" her as she says, and got her to give the "leaves" to me.

At the page where you breathed on and pressed your hand, I also pressed my hand and so we have had a

condition of London and I am working hard to get out of it and back to America, where I shall bury my

And you have done my brothers & sisters, the race, good.

I believe that the picture will make my name as an artist, a few months will show!

from want of love for you, not because I am not always in communion with you:— that I am, & so are all my

friends; there is a fine young fellow, son of Col Brackenbury, lying dead now in my neighbor's house

No: it is not that I do not love you, & do not dwell with you, that I have sent no token of my work.

You will see that I have stamped my two books of Sonnets with the heraldic coat borne by my ancestors

I will send you photos of my house, myself (done by Clifford), & 3 of my daughters.

Pennsylvania , Dec. 29 th 188 4 Walt Whitman Esq Camden, New Jersey Dear Sir: My friend Col.

My publishers still stick to me for a book & say that if I am not content with the usual 10 per cent,

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.

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

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

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

Dear Walt Whitman, "That my soul embraces you this hour, and we affect each other without ever seeing

Yes, and how "utterly quelled and defeated" too I have felt to find my strength so much less than my

each one the core of life, namely happiness, is full of the rotten excrement of maggots," and so in my

Leaves of Grass laid on my lightstand, and I opened to "Song of the Universe."

fast the world moves to me when I read such thoughts, and how slow when I carry them with me among my

Minchen is quoting from Whitman's poem "Who Learns My Lesson Complete."

But I must not make my letter longer—I shall look forward to seeing you soon, and I hope you will be

Sheets.loc.00218xxx.00384My 71st Yearabout 1889poetryhandwritten1 leaf18.75 x 20.25 cm; A proof sheet of My

My 71st Year

Sheets.loc.00340xxx.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.02503xxx.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.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

"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.

EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT THE CENTURY MAGAZINE UNION SQUARE NEW YORK Marion, Mass My dear Mr.

My dear friend, Can you not come over Friday and stay till Monday with me?

Borrowdale, Cressington Park Sep 29 To Walter Whitman, Esq r Sir, To my only Brother, who for nearly

has been a helpless sufferer in Santiago, I am sending a specially prepared Birthday Book: and it is my

very earnest wish to obtain for insertion in my Book the name of your most honored self.

I trust you will graciously pardon my freedom in asking the favour of your sign-manual on enclosed slip

EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT THE CENTURY MAGAZINE UNION SQUARE NEW YORK Walt Whitman, Esq., My dear Sir: We are

In my opinion, it marks a new era in American Literature; and is to stand out more and more prominently

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

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

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

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

Dresden My Dear Walt— I write to tell you how things are going now about the translation, &c.

First I translated all I am going to give as well as I could out of my own unassisted resources and handed

over the M.S. manuscript to my colleague.

my preface to the work and Freiligrath's article from the Allg.

My address then will be Glasshouse, Shinrone, Ireland. This indeed is always sure to find me.

his January 16, 1872 letter to Rudolf Schmidt, Whitman wrote that Freiligrath "translates & commends my