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Camden New Jersey Sept. 8 noon Thanks, my friend, for your kind invitation—but am not able to accept
328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey Nov: 30 '85 My dear Wm Rossetti Yours of Nov: 13 with 31 pounds 19
shillings has been received—the third instalment of the "offering" —my thanks are indeed deeper than
been writing to Herbert Gilchrist ab't his mother, & am filled with sadness—nothing new with me, only my
328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey Nov: 25 '85 My dear W R T Thanks for the $5. "remembrance."
My sight is better—walking power slim, almost not at all—spirits buoyant. Glad to get your letters.
Thanks—I am getting along, but lack any thing like strength or alertness—No probability of my visiting
Boston—pleasant weather as I write seated here & my little canary bird singing away like mad.
MS—It has a magnificence of strength, originality & suggestion —& I adhere fully to what I advised in my
This letter is endorsed: "on MS of my | 'Poet As A | Craftsman.'"
III. of my "Walt Whitman."
scientific American point of view—as it certainly is the highest & deepest (complimentary) statement of my
gone—Spirits buoyant & hearty— —The December sun is shining out wistfully as I finish, & I am going out in my
stroke two weeks ago—makes me weak since (legs and bones like gelatine)—but I guess I am recuperating—My
Phila: publisher McKay was just over here to pay me the income on the last six months' sales of my two
who observed fervidly in August: "Your confidential item ab't royalties also makes me glad & wrings my
He enclosed $5, which, he declared, "is a pure business debt. $5000. represents my soul indebtedness
.: "I shall cherish the memory of that blessed January 2nd '85 to the end of my days.
My dear Whitman—I want you to regard me as a sort of son; tell me whenever I can do anything for you;
This manuscript contributed to American's Bulk Average, which first appeared in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891
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?
The Manhattan is going to be revived shortly and is to print my paper, called "Hamlet's Note-Book", the
New Haven Conn: July 1, 1885 PO Box 489 My dear Whitman: I see by the papers that you may be going to
Specimen Days vol. volume right thro: finding various new things, & continual pleasure in reviewing my
My mother is still with us—aged nearly 85: health & facul ties sound on the whole, but naturally bowed
I have also scanned with a good deal of attention (that of complete re-reading) my old & constant admiration
, the Leaves of Grass I observe that some edition (I think the Philadelphia edition is named, but my
is not under my hand at the moment for reference) is mentioned as the only final & complete form of Leaves
Whitman, late in life, said to Horace Traubel: "[I] take my Ruskin with some qualifications."
Since I wrote last to you little sums have been accumulating in my hands: I enclose an account of them
Rossetti of November 30, 1885, he has little positive to say about his health: "nothing new with me, only my
The sums which have as yet come into my hands as Treasurer are £22.2.6.
Aldrich (1828–1908) was an ornithologist, a member of the Iowa House of Representatives, an infantry captain
It escaped me to mention in my previous letter that a Mr.
thought of your cordial invitation to me to write to you, but I have waited until I have got settled into my
Without much trouble I found a sunny room in Cambridge and having at last got my books within reach I
It is pleasant to be my own master again, and to be able, for the present at least, to follow my inclinations
—But I must stop, first, because you may find my garrulity tedious, and second, because the clocks have
Commemoration Ode," which has often, since its publication, been contrasted with Whitman's own tribute, "O Captain
My Captain!" For further information on Whitman's views of Lowell, see William A.
He asked what had become of my article. Paper (Camden) Thanks aff affectionately W.S. Kennedy.
I send you by this mail my paper—"The New Ars Poetica" I want you to read it, &, if you think best, ask
strange feeling of the educative and epoch-making nature of your style (poetical); & I am confident that my
What do you think of my performance? I wish the libret might even be bound.
Belmont Mass Dec 2 '85 My Dear Whitman— Maugre yr your wholesome advice, (exc. that I put in a page on
you & Hugo—parallelism of poetic-technique en-avant freshness &c) I have done gone & published my essay
I set up every stick of it mesilf indade , & corrected my proofs ( wh. which I'll have you know) were
Well, I have learned just enough to set up this & my poems (Heaven bless the mark—"poems" quotha,—I wd'nt
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
Belmont Mass Aug '85 My Dear Friend: You are very kind to remember Kennedy— yr your son by adoption &
My indebtedness to you—estimating values by all that makes life high & noble—is simply boundless.
Your confidential item abt about royalties also makes me glad & wrings my heart at the same time.
The $13. is a pure business debt. $5000. represents my soul indebtedness to Walt Whitman, who is the
the Universe as a whole I can sympathize as to copyrights; I have not rec'd received a cent yet for my
volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My