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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.

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

"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."

Walt Whitman Esquire My Dear Sir: I take pleasure in soliciting your literary cooperation in an enterprise

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.

Am laid up just now with a kick from my horse—luckily nothing very bad—he struck me (accidentally in

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."

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

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

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

I am asked to invite you to come & read on one of the days, & I add to this my own earnest request that

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

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

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.

a better account of your health yet, hoped that you were beginning to get around as usual, and like my

Alma Tadema the most celebrated artist over here has written to congratulate me over my last picture

It is rather a feather in my cap—and will perhaps prove a turning point in my artistic career, who knows

I lead a quiet but moderately varied life and am able to enjoy my work and possess one or two friends

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

Whitman referred to Rossetti's edition as a "horrible dismemberment of my book" in his August 12, 1871

Aldrich (1828–1908) was an ornithologist, a member of the Iowa House of Representatives, an infantry captain

Camden NJ 5th 12th 85 Walt Whitman Esq Dear Walt: I fear you do not fully appreciate my relations to

deal of writing about it, between them & me—and about two weeks ago I sent on a red-hot interview of my

And I want you to go at it or let me have my MSS . so I can get it off by next Saturday night.

Camden NJ 4th 7th 85. 12 midnight Walt Whitman My Dear Walt Your letter did not reach me: till tonight

God knows & Walt knows that I am as slow as the wrath of God—to take offense especially at what my friends

(2) To start right again I think you had better send me my MSS—and let me do as I d—m please with it

OFFICE OF Special Agent Treasury Department, Camden NJ 5.7., 1885. 10 am My Dear Walt.

I will call on you on my way back to New York.

But I write now to tell you why, because my visit will be on business I believe you have never met Mr

Whitman: I got your letter when I was in Washington and fully expected to stay over and see you on my

Now, my dear Walt Whitman, won't you go to work at once because Rice is chained lightning in a dress

My Dear Walt Whitman: I am very, very sorry to learn that your physical condition is so low and that

stands in the way won't you please state what you will ask for it, and then I shall have the matter off my

So my dear old friend I have protected your interests to the best of my judgement and if you want me

I also would like you to answer my letters.

During my employment of seven years or more in Washington after the war (1865-72) I regularly saved a

great part of my wages; and, though the sum has now become about exhausted by my expenses of the last

three years, there are already beginning at present welcome dribbles hitherward from the sales of my

And that is the way I should prefer to glean my support.

In that way I cheerfully accept all the aid my friends find it convenient to proffer.

I go early in the morning (Sunday) to see Mary—my wife at Atlantic —but Monday will see you at 7 .

I shall talk to my Dr Doctor about you when I see him again, but if I were you I would adopt such a diet

as would make my blood as thin as possible, & so lessen the arterial strain This is common sense, &

Well, my time has come—that is all. You see, I am somewhat of a fatalist!"

May 18, 85 Dear Walt: I have set my house & heart in order for a visit from you before these May days

You would enjoy the country here now, & it would add to the length of my days to see you here again.

I have just sent off the copy for my new vol volume : think I shall stick to "Signs & Seasons" for the

He wanted my opinion about the argument of the essay, so I told him that I never felt like quarreling

In the summer of '80, my oldest son (of this, my second wife,) being then a well-grown, strong, and healthy

Since that young man was taking a law advantage of myself and other creditors of my dead son, after he

My kin, always recognized as of superior honesty, have shown themselves in all this matter immeasurably

My kin are much allied with those bad people by marriages.

I have lived as yet but eighteen years: yet in all the constant thoughts and acts of my last few years

, your words have been my guides and true oracles.

spirit of self-assertion: but that I should feel shame for myself, were I not to show the reality of my

gratitude to you, even through the weakness of words—you, whom I thankfully acknowledge for my veritable

Walt Whitman Esteemed Sir, Will you permit me to offer you, as emphasizing my appreciation of the melodies

its every drop distills something of the warm appreciation your exceptional creations have kindled in my

Dec 6th 188 5 Mr Walt Whitman My Dear Old Friend.

I often see your name mentioned in the various papers, and I have your address in my Memorandum Book.

I am living with my Son in law his wife (my daughter) and their 2 children.

signature, might suffice and I would be pleased to hold a letter from you, one who I esteem, one who knew , my

Samuel Harris Smith (1829–1864) was a captain of the Union army and served alongside his brother Palin

Steel of South Carolina in 1880 that read: "At the battle of the Mine, at Petersburg, 1864, I was Captain

Company I, Seventeenth Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers, and in this desperate hand to hand fight, a Captain

Sims, of a New York regiment (I think from Brooklyn), as he mounted the breastworks immediately before my

My plan is that sometime (any time) before the 1 st June John Burroughs should run down to Philadelphia

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

to you—to give you any notion of the good you have done me & again I think I speak for hundreds of my

Louis, July 31st 188 5 My dear Walt— I enclose a check for ten dollars payable to your order—the money

say the heat was greater on the street level than it has been since 1838—it was 102 in the shade at my

Louis, Feb 23rd 1885 My dear Walt I have had such hard work for the last six weeks that I have hardly

books as soon as he can get a little money ahead—but I would like to give him this one  He has read all my

keep pretty well and we all get on in the regular old way A few weeks ago Willard Arnold called at my

Louis, Sept. 11th 188 5 My dear Walt Enclosed please find check for $10—payable to your order  This check

My Dear Walt.

All of us well—especially my two little boys, who enjoy the country life very much.

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