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328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey U S America May 30 1886 My dear friend Yours of May 17, enclosing

which I indeed, indeed thank you, and all—We have beautiful sunshiny weather here, & I am sitting by my

I send best respects & love to my British contributor-friends—they have done me more good than they think

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey U S America Aug: 26 '86 My dear Edward Dowden Herbert Gilchrist has

I think of collecting together my prose & verse of the last five years, & printing a little Vol: under

the title of "November Boughs"—also of bringing out a complete budget of all my writing in one book.

Kennedy again lauded his book ("Walt Whitman, the Poet of Humanity"): "I have completed (rough finish) my

My dear Walt: I received yr your post-card this week, and frwrd forwarded it to Leonard M.

You make no allusion to my Book or my little confidences thereon: do you care for a copy?

I am glad to say that my interest is not confined to the books written about you.

My love for them is growing constantly, and my gratitude to the friend who first made you known to me

My dear Walt You will be glad to hear that I am going to republish some of mothers essays; giving some

present thinking over her life is the only thing that I take pleasure in: indeed I am unable to get my

Giddy is fairly well and so is my brother Percy, his wife and chubby boy (Alexander G.)

I am getting back to my painting again and feel a little bit more together, but not much: never did son

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

I look round the circle of my acquaintance for her equal.

I shall always esteem it a privilege to have borne my small share in testifying the respect & gratitude

My wife & children are away at Ventnor (Isle of Wight), as the London winter threatened to be too much

for my wife's delicate chest.

the whole MS. pretty well—with an eye to correction of dates & statistics—have a very few times made my

own comments & suggestions (from my own point of view, or feeling, or knowledge)—you follow the suggestions

Merchantville, in "the leafy month of June," I took occasion, one bright Sunday morning, to call and pay my

visiting Philadelphia, two or three times taken the same liberty and enjoyed the same pleasure; once with my

On my last visit to you, I was glad to see you so, apparently, much better in health than I had anticipated

you an epigram which on a certain occurrence in 1882—a proceeding disgraceful to one of These States—my

I remain, my dear S ir, very truly, your friend, (if you allow me to call you so,) L. Shoemaker.

quite a while—I fear he is, medically, in a bad way—I am sailing along ab't as usual—have just had my

light dinner—Cool & raw weather here—my canary is singing blithely, as I write— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman

monotonous & lonesome, as I can hardly get around at all—often remain in the house all day, most of my

time in the big chair by the window—afternoons are the worst & most tedious—happily my spirits keep

I got your letter of last May, but have not been well able to write with my half-paralyzed hands and

My little book overwhelmed me with letters, and I have felt stung not to be able to answer many of them

My faith is not shaken. Life seems to have almost stopped still with me.

am still here & nothing very new or different—I suppose you rec'd the Press with a brief report of my

Lincoln lecture in Phila: April 15—I go out every day with my mare & rig—sometimes to Phila.

328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey April 13 '86 My Dear Prof: Carson Yours rec'd recieved —The copy

to have seen you—I am ab't about the same in health &c—(nothing at all to brag of)—I read publicly my

st—Camden — March 26 Am ab't the same as usual—Had a bad spell two weeks ago, but am now around after my

the same (a letting down a little peg, if no more, every time)—Yes I have had superb treatment from my

cloudy warm forenoon, I feel that I would just like to write a line (quite purposeless no doubt) sending my

love & thanks to you & yours—Do you know this is the anniversary day of my receiving the present through

June 11, 1886 My dear Walt Whitman: Some weeks after I had made my last remittance to you I received

328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey U S America March 20 1886 My dear Ernest Rhys Thank you for the little

the same as of late years—Keep up pretty good spirits & buoyancy—that makes the best of it all—Give my

Louis, Nov 9th 1886 My dear Walt Two or three times within the last half dozen days we have seen (and

As good luck would have it we have had a splendid fall as regards weather—and too my work has been of

short time) this does occur, and of course she gives way to her feelings, poor child, but I am doing my

Return at my expense by ditto. Take yr your time. I am dissatisfied with the thing.

But in this case I feel particularly blue—after all my rooster-crowing—for anything put beside writing

Robert Browning (1812–1889), known for his dramatic monologues, including "Porphyria's Lover" and "My

I should accept with thanks from your hands any contribution from my Irish friends (Prof.

Yes, I should like to see the article in the Quarterly My late bad spell of sickness seems to have passed

Dear Sir, Please accept my enclosed check for one hundred dollars.

I am your debtor for the pleasure I derived from reading your poems, last month, on my return voyage

328 Mickle street Camden June 16 '86 My dear friend Enclosed I send my piece in Thorndike Rice's just

Monday p m All ab't about the same with me—I took dinner with the Scovel family Sunday & a ride with my

W W My Dear Friend: I get a few good letters on my little essay on the poets.

I am so grateful to thee for seeing him—I suppose it was my letter he presented?

He has been a very intimate friend of my husband's since their College days, but I do not know him very

I have an accumulation of 20 letters to write today—so I must make my first one short.

My dear friend: I have been thinking very often of you lately, and wishing that something might be done

Lovering, the Member of Congress from my district, 6 th Massachusetts, and influential member of committee

This one is devoted to some of your poems and is partly written by me, partly by my friend W. Q.

but I must not wait any longer now, though there is a fog outside & a fog or something of the sort in my

Llwyngwril, a primitive little village, quite away from town- ways & fashions, I stayed for four weeks with my

Having it in my drawer or on the table as I write, it makes me feel as if you yourself had been in the

For my own sake, as well as yours, I wish it were!

thought over it very seriously, besides asking Dr Bucke's opinion about issuing a 2nd Edn at all of my

My dear Sir: I recd received your favor of April 13th and the book, which I'm delighted to have.

Pardon my delay in acknowledging, due to illness.

April 15. 1886 My dear Mr.

Furness 50 J B Lippincott Co. 25 175 and my own check for one hundred & twenty-nine, (129) dollars, in

My Dear Friend: I get a few good letters on my little essay on the poets.

[London, Ontario] 4 Dec [188]6 My dear Walt The "After All" parcel came to hand last evening to my great

January 6 '86 My dear friend I am sitting here in my little front room down stairs writing this—a good

328 Mickle Street April 16 '86 My dear T.W., yours with the $304 safely rec'd received by me this afternoon

Received from David McKay, 18th December, 1886, One Hundred and Twenty 01 | 100 Dollars, for royalties on my

Mickle Street Camden New Jersey July 20 '86 Dear Sir I hereby give you permission to include any of my

Street Camden New Jersey US America Dec. 21 '86 Thanks for the six copies of your beautiful Edition of my

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey March 26 1886 Dear Sir Yours of 26th rec'd—I send my heartiest thanks

photograph & letter—but the book has not yet reach'd reached me—Yes, indeed, I consider you one of my

328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey July 27 '86 My dear friends If you can use this, the price would

328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey Dec 1 '86 My dear Gilder If entirely convenient have the magazine

Send me a line acknowledging them, as I have a little uncertainty ab't my P O messenger.

Tennyson & the new Locksley Hall, &c: —intended for your first page if you wish—ab't the usual length of my

I would like to exchange with you—I to send you my two volume Centennial Ed'n Leaves of Grass and Two

tenacity—of course a capital sign—I will send a few suggestion–notes— W W This card relates to the ms of my

from 328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey U S America June 20 1886 My dear Sir I write a line to introduce

My health is nearly as usual—Slowly declining— Walt Whitman Walt Whitman to Elisa Seaman Leggett, 8 June

I shall keep them carefully in my own hands until I see "Father Taylor" printed in the Magazine —If I

too when awake) of Hattie—& of how it must be there with you & Jess —but keep on much the same, with my

328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey U S America Feb: February 11 '86 My dear K C I send you the two Volumes