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Isabella F. was here a couple of weeks ago, and one of my sisters at the same time.
O'Connor that he was "laid by with lameness—added to by a fall two months ago & turning my ankle in."
It is night, clear a nd cold: Han has just left my room; gone to t he east apartment: She p refers much
Lou sent her some time ago a box of underclothing, at my suggestion: She was badly off: I purchased a
She tried to sew a little to day: I was away 3 hours this morning, to Union to get subscribers to my
My father was a sea captain; sailed from Philadelphia to France was wrecked, lost at sea: rember remember
She had been married to a sea captain but was widowed when he was lost at sea.
Walt Whitman Esquire My Dear Sir: I take pleasure in soliciting your literary cooperation in an enterprise
"My young friend you ask me a difficult question.
"I would like to go on record as having a feeling of the utmost friendliness to all my fellow poets.
As to my works, I am in a peculiar position.
My works 'Leaves of Grass,' and my prose work, 'Specimen Days,' are printed and on sale, but still I
As I grow older I become the more confirmed in my adherence to my original theories.
Grant, in which are embodied all my original theories.
"What's all this about, my boy?"
"Is it a patent of nobility, or is it an address from a lot of my young friends?"
My paralysis has made me so lame lately that I had to give up even my walks for health, let alone my
rambles in the country, and my constitution has suffered for exercise.
TO EASE MY DECLINING YEARS.
I have known that Cleveland is a reader and admirer of my books, but I really don't know anything at
Did I ever tell you the caution my doctor gave me when I left Washington?
"My eyes are feeling pretty badly, and yesterday and to-day I consulted Dr.
I have lost my poise in walking and cannot promenade at all.
I go out every day in my carriage, and a friend of mine, Willie Duckett, a neighbor's little boy, always
I still retain my hopeful, bouyant spirits. I feel better to-night than I have for several days."
ferry boats & enjoy the beautiful broad river & the sky & the throngs of people as of old—you are in my
—I cannot help grieving over public affairs too—never in my lifetime has old England been in such a bad
I could not get my article into any of the magazines I most wished.
was interested also in a little paragraph I found about Pullman town, near Chicago, which confirmed my
My Dearest Friend: A kind of anxiety has for some time past weighed upon me and upon others, I find,
My love, dear Walt. Anne Gilchrist. Anne Gilchrist to Walt Whitman, 20 July 1885
R Bedford Penn a Pennsylvania July 31st 85 My Dear Mr Whitman I am here in these mountains and all around
I will follow in the footsteps of my parents as in their young days they did the very same thing.
Having been told so many times at my mothers knee of how she did these things when she was young.
Soul to do these things over again as my parents did them.
I see many friends and many who were friends of my Father and Mother.
This manuscript contributed to American's Bulk Average, which first appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891
It was publised with the revised title in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). Interpolation Sounds
It was reprinted, without the subtitle, in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891) and in the Good-By my Fancy annex
passage used in a note (entitled "Another Note") to the poem An Ended Day published in 1891 in Good-Bye My
leaf; A draft entitled This Journey (the manuscript suggests Whitman was also considering the title My
reciting (published as Old Chants in 1891), Grand is the seen (first published in 1891), Death dogs my
in his "Second Annex," titled Good-Bye My Fancy, to the 1891 edition of Leaves of Grass.
The pencil note "Sail Out for good, Eidólon Yacht / Good Bye My Fancy / Page 7" appears in the lower
manuscript also contains two clippings (with handwritten revisions) of the essay A Backward Glance on My
How I Made a Book, A Backward Glance on my Own Road and My Book and I (which was published in Lippincott's
Whitman later included this poem in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). For Queen Victoria's Birthday