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Where day and night I wend thy surf‑beat shore, Imaging to my sense thy varied strange suggestions, Thy
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.
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.
It is in the Critic of Sept. 27 —Dry and warm and often oppressive weather here—a long spell—My lameness
Whitman wrote this note on an offprint of "A Backward Glance on My Own Road."
Camden NJ Dec. 16 '84 Dear friend Please convey to the Marquis de Leuville my thanks for his beautiful
and the introduction, called "Entre-Nous," begins, "I had therefore better make some apologies for 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.
Whitman: "Because you have, as it were, given me a ground for the love of men I thank you continually in my
My guess would be that when fairly afloat it might have quite as much sale here in the United States
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.
Please give me, (as under Section 6 of your Copyright Directions of 1882), the 14 years renewal of my
Thursday P M Oct: 9 '84 My dear Williams I leave you this in hopes you can use it in to-morrow's paper
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
328 Mickle Street Camden Oct: 13 My dear Williams I should like the little Presidential canvass poem
328 Mickle Street Camden Oct 12 pm My dear Williams After I sent your note in answer yesterday—& reading
328 Mickle Street Camden Oct 11 '84 My dear friend Thank you for your kind & warm invitation to write
Walt Whitman I enclose my last screed in the Critic Walt Whitman to Talcott Williams, 11 October 1884
(1884) 328 Mickle street Camden Monday 3 pm Nov 10 Thanks my dear friend for the nice chicken—I have
just had a part of it for my dinner—& the honey in the comb just like that is something I like—I had
request of a fine jolly young Englishman who is visiting there for a few days, & told me much about my
considerably better, more able to get around since the cool weather has set in—had rather a bad summer—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
Camden Thursday Evn'g, Nov: 6 My dear friend I should like to come over Saturday, be there about noon—will
the weather good, we may have a (longer or shorter) drive, before supper—will leave the question of 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 Dear Bolger Here is an article I have reeled off for you if you want it your telegram recd recieved
serviceable present, from Mary & Alys Smith & Mrs S. nice new sheets & pillow and bolster cases for my
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
"A Backward Glance on My Own Road."
Camden New Jersey October 1 1884 Received from Critic Fifteen Dollars for my piece " What Lurks " &c—
I send my love specially to Alma and the girls & the new Mrs J— Nothing very new with me—I am ab't as
Portrait —have already outlined & partly prepared it—you shall have it soon — I am writing this up in my
floor all around horribly litter -rary, but a cheery wood fire in the little stove—& I comfortable in my
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
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
328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey September 16 1884 My friends Can you use this in the C[ritic]?
& 20 copies of the number—& of course I should want to see proof—(reserving the right to include in my
Whitman on December 21, 1883, sent "A Backward Glance on My Own Road" to The North American Review and
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
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
Sunday Jan 13 [1884] 1½ p m I am going out to a small dinner party of friends, & am sitting here in my
On February 10 he informed the poet that he was suffering from an "abcess in my neck," and asked for
328 Mickle street Camden Evn'g Nov. 18 '84 My dear friends Your kind letter (Eva's) came this afternoon
every day, I don't go any distance—havn't been away this past summer, only one short trip to Cape May —My
before I shall be unable to get around at all——General health otherwise about the same as usual—Eva, my
affairs—not much sale for my books at present, or for the last fifteen months—Harry your Mother call'd
little most every day—sell a piece once in a while—Maintain good spirits and a first-rate appetite—My
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.
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
that fills the bill)—But the volume is more helpful to me (in touches, corrections, guidance &c to my
328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey Aug: 21 '84 My dear Sir First begging your pardon & hoping "I dont
the magazine market—or rather have written—a reminiscence of the actors & plays & "the old Bowery" of my
youthful days—the chief figure in it being your father—by far the greatest histrion I have ever seen in my
get things for myself—or I wouldn't trouble you— Won't you allow me to send you an autograph copy of my
in Booth's words, "poor copies of the good portraits that are in some secure, forgotten place among my
Christmas—1884—'5 328 Mickle Street Camden N J Thanks my loving young friends for the magnificent chair—so
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
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."
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
My dear Walt— I got your second letter yesterday, forwarded here from Dresden.
I have mentioned it in my preface.
I sent with my M.S. manuscript a copy of Freiligrath's article, & did all I could to secure a favourable
But I think I can rely on my father's helping me to the extent needed.
He & my mother are greatly delighted with the two grandchildren we have brought them home.
his January 16, 1872 letter to Rudolf Schmidt, Whitman wrote that Freiligrath "translates & commends 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
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
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