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But my chief reliance is on my pen at present.

In the mean time, calmly, toilingly, ohne hast, ohne rast, working away on my literary chef-d-oeuvre,

"Whitman, the Poet of Humanity,"—here in my idyllic, noiseless home-cottage.

Wish I cd could send you some of the pinks, accept my love instead in return for yours, as something

You renovate & cheerify my ethical nature every time I visit you. WS Kennedy.

My Dear Whitman,— Don't you thik think it would be well for you to give me a line to Prof.

Dowden, telling him that you have read the bibliography of my forthcoming book, and that you think you

I am afraid they will be but dilatory in taking hold of the matter on my request alone,.

For my part, I dislike to ask anyone for to serve as go-between, but you seemed to think it would be

My roses are superb; have pitched a tent in my yard. Aff. Affectionately W. S. Kennedy.

have been 2 weeks in a fever of parturition & have gone over all the notes writings, & literature of my

past life in relentless search for material to enrich the book on my hero.

Please don't tell anyone of my project yet— wd would you?

But my chief object is to propagandize.

My Puritan training as a Calvinistic ministers son hindered it for a long time.

Belmont Mass April 19. '86 My Dear Poet: Your postal rec'd. received I have completed (rough finish)

my seven chapters on you.

It is the most scholarly, fiery, and heavy-artillery piece of work I have yet done; took all my strength

I have got in my cellar, Walt, about 50 bottles of elderberry cordial—fine, smacky, made by myself last

My grand poet, my friend Yours as ever W.S. Kennedy How's the pony? Paper also!! good!

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

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

LIPPINCOTT'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE Philadelphia, Sept 16th. 188 6 My dear Sir: Your article, "My Book and

I have been purposing to call over to see you, but my days are pretty well engaged and I am afraid of

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.

Dear Whitman, This note is written beforehand, in expectation of my paying-in tomorrow at a Post-Office

the ￡33.16.6. wh. which I named to you in my recent letter.

The postal order, on my obtaining it, will be enclosed herein, & dispatched to you.

Since the date of my last something further has come in: it will be accounted for at a future opportunity

On 13 Jany I expect to leave London, & stay some four weeks with my family at the Clarendon Hotel, Ventnor

written you long before, as well as after, but have been in a wretched condition with the "misery in my

I don't improve in my back and legs as rapidly as I ought, and am nearly as lame and heavy as you are

I got a copy of Kennedy's pamphlet from him, and but for my bad condition would have written to him,

Often as I have read it, I can't keep the tears out of my eyes."

White, even at my expense! Reason, Shakespearean hostility to the subject. This is a pretty note!

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.

I find on carefully reading the "Quarterly," that I should greatly qualify my first impression of its

Wonders will never cease, and after all Houghton consented to publish my little work "Hamlet's Note-Book

At present my brain is just mud—I have a heap of letters unanswered.

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

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

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

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

Camden New Jersey April 17—noon— I have rec'd the Indexes— thanks—I send you a paper—I read my Death

After the lecture Whitman read "O Captain! My Captain!"

I am not at all afraid of my handwriting appearing on the printer's copy— Walt Whitman to William Sloane

Whitman is referring to his article "My Book and I," which was published in Lippincott's (January 1887

the stew gravy)—Every thing from you rec'd & welcomed—dull weather, the ground covered with snow—(but my

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

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

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

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

greeting to you, & to Mr C —also to Dr Bucke Best love to your father, mother & Logan I to-day enter on my

close, but we are having a warm spell here—(now the fourth day of it) —I am ab't as usual in health—my

yesterday —Your letter of Nov. 12 has been read & re-read, & quite gone the rounds—much admired—I send you "My

as usual—took a long drive by myself midday yesterday—basked in the sun & drove slow—Have just had my

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

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

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

This article, with "A Backward Glance on My Own Road," "How Leaves of Grass Was Made," and "My Book and

I am much the same as of late—made out very handsomely with my lecture April 15th—$674—have seen Gilder

sending the book to Whitman on April 3, Burroughs commented: "I do not think much of it—the poorest of my

My reading for the last two or three days (limited) of the articles in Century about Kearsarge and Alabama

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

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

there any situation in the Press establishment, (counting-room or writing staff,) that could serve for my

notes about Whitman's activities, and on December 27 he asked Richard Maurice Bucke whether he wanted "my

usual—havn't been anywhere (though several invitations)—I keep good spirits, but grow clumsier & clumsier, & my

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

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

going for two weeks to write special letters of thanks &c to you & T D for your kindness & labors in my

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

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

New York, June 14th 188 6 Walt Whitman Esq Trusting that the intelligence conveyed will plead for my

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

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.

WSK 328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey July 8 '86 Dear W S K I have returned from my jaunt to the Jersey