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My mother's health is but sadly, but it is wonderful what she manages to do, continuing always to think
My sister's voice is developing and her art is beginning to be admired.
My picture in this year's Royal Academy was a good deal noticed, and has done my reputation good: in
fact I am getting on my feet, slowly.
Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871
Dear Walt The lovely spirit fled on Sunday afternoon at five o'clock.....My darling mother's life has
Some day next year I am going to send you a photograph from my last picture of mother I painted it this
I and brother (Percy Carlyle Gilchrist ) placed her semblance in my father's grave this morning at Kensal-Green
She died in my arms.
My dear Whitman, The Voice of the Rain does not tempt me, and I return it herewith with thanks.
My dear Whitman, I have your kind favor of the 11th with the enclosed poem—or series of poems, rather
passage used in a note (entitled "Another Note") to the poem An Ended Day published in 1891 in Good-Bye My
Vermont Christmas Afternoon My Dear Brother I thank you with all my heart you are so kind I dont don't
Rose one of my near neighbors just, now, came to the window and wants me to come in, to see her Chrs
the undulation of your one wave, its trick to me transfer W C ould you but breathe one breath upon my
I am asked to invite you to come & read on one of the days, & I add to this my own earnest request that
You should see my room.
more, by looking you in the face, recover memories of the past that will refurnish the lost beats of my
Whitman later included this poem in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). For Queen Victoria's Birthday
series of poets was last year begun by Walter Scott the publisher under the occasional editorship of my
and in their list a month or two after my arrival in London as a student of life & letters this year,
I saw rather to my astonishment your name amid the rest, & feeling that in some ways I had a special
As for my own share, all I really care about is to procure a serviceable popular edition, giving all
I feel very much inclined to say a great deal more about my hopes and ideals, but to-night perhaps it
reminiscences of the actors & actresses fifty years ago —Tho' I am not personally known to you—& as far as my
not yet an Octogenarian or even a Septuagenarian—I being but 66 at the close off this month—I date my
perfection & not the genius of acting—I never witnessed Forrest acting but the houses were jammed, my
look & utters with electrical effect "Maral I hate thee"—I can never forget it—it was imprinted in my
recollect Signor de Begnis (—with perhaps the exception of Lablach —whom I have heard frequently on my
Macbeth, Act V, where Macbeth says, "I have liv'd long enough: my way of life / Is fall'n into the sere
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."
Am laid up just now with a kick from my horse—luckily nothing very bad—he struck me (accidentally in
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.
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
Walt Whitman Esquire My Dear Sir: I take pleasure in soliciting your literary cooperation in an enterprise
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
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.