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and I1886 or 1887prose22 leaveshandwritten; A late-stage draft, with printer's notes, of the essay My

My Book and I

OV 2Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), Manuscript draftloc.05454xxx.00459Good-Bye My Fancyabout 1891poetryhandwrittentypedprinted78

78 pages of text numbered by Whitman, and is housed along with other materials related to Good-Bye My

, Lingering Last Drops, Good-bye My Fancy, On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!

s Purport (which includes three poems originally composed separately, My task, Death dogs my steps, and

Good-Bye My Fancy

OV 2Good-Bye My Fancy (1891), Manuscript draftloc.05452xxx.00459Good-Bye My Fancyabout 1891poetryprosehandwrittenprintedabout

10 leaves; Manuscript and corrected print material that was included in Good-Bye My Fancy (1891).

Good-Bye My Fancy

1891poetryhandwritten1 leaf28 x 22 cm; Manuscripts of the following four poems, written neatly with slight corrections: My

task, L of G's Purport, Death dogs my steps, and For us two, reader dear.

My Task

s Purport (only two lines of the twelve-line poem of the same title first published in 1891), My task

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

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 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.

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

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!

eye-works have resumed operations pretty nearly same as before—I see out of both now & a great blessing in my

getting along comfortably—the weather has been bad as can be & the traveling ditto, for three weeks past, my

last half-annual return of royalties for both my books just —$20.71cts —the death of Mrs.

she had the finest & perfectest nature I ever met—Glad to hear ab't about the Channing's —Give them my

love—I am scribbling in my little front room down stairs—the parrot has been squalling & the canary

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

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.

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

delighted to have been the means of giving to future generations a portrait of you that is certainly one of my

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

If my accumulation of shoes—my cast-off shoes—like wine and Old Daubs were increased in value by cobwebs

Vault Company in the land boasted a receptacle wide and deep and strong enough to house and protect my

My only sorrow at this moment is in that: its the last drink in the bottle and two blocks to where my

But first of all in its protestations of undying love—which, even to the remotest corners of my heart

It will be my first appearance in this Annual.

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

My dear Mr. Whitman: Allow me to introduce to your acquaintance, my young friend, Mr. E. H.

I remember with great pleasure my visit to you last March, when I was on my way home from Johns Hopkins

I am, my dear Sir, Very truly yours.

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

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

March 30 1886 My dear Sir: I have sent through my publishers a vol. volume of my essays on Poetry & Poets

I hope you may have seen & cared for some of my own work in poetry.

knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my

own And I know that the Spirit of God is the brother of my own And that all the men ever born are also

my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers And that a kelson of the creation is love." . . . .

Only my brother is now upon the old farm.

I have to go back there at least twice a year to ease my pain.

my heart has always been!

To-day is my birth-day, too, I am 49 today. I hope spring finds you better.

My book "Signs & Seasons" will be out this month.

delighted to have been the means of giving to future generations a portrait of you that is certainly one of my

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

April 9th 188 6 My dear Walt Whitman I distributed the papers and magazines you sent me to every body

and Talcott Williams are the instigators of it all—(I am receiving great & opportune Kindnesses in my

old days—& this is one of them) — The printed slip on the other side I just cut out of my Phila: Press

January 21 O'Connor reported to Whitman that "the New York publishers have uniformly refused to publish my

White, even at my expense."

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

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

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

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!"

half-way to England—I have rec'd John Burroughs' new book —warm sunny day here—I am going out with my

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!

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 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.

—Glad to hear from you, & would send you my writings, gladly.

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

to write special letters of thanks &c. to you & T[alcott] W[illiams] for your kindness & labors in my

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.

I have now told my publisher to send another copy to your correct address.

I formerly sent you some of my poetry, but it was early work.

My debt to you is great. Would that I could express it in person!

I'll send a copy too of my last book, "Songs of the Heights & Deeps" see notes June 28 1888 Roden Noel

I am prompted to take this liberty by a sense of my indebtedness to you, and I feel sure that you will

It is one of the desires of my life to look upon your venerable face in the flesh, and to be taken by

the hand of my loving Comrade; and I am not without the hope of one day being thus honoured by him who

has done so much to enrich my life and to rescue my Soul from its quagmire of Doubt and Despondency.

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

I have already begun it—I am as well as usual with me—up, and at my window, as now—get out with the horse

& wagon every afternoon but shall not to-day—nothing new in my affairs—get along quite comfortably—have

day—I wish I could have you here to eat a bite of dinner with me, & chat for the afternoon—Several of my

On May 25, 1886, O'Connor sent the powder for Whitman's constipation, and reported, "My special trouble

gift—for your letter with the £45 which has just reached me— We have fine weather here, & I am enjoying it—My

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

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

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

necessary arrangements and we will move Northward as soon as convenient after I get across the water—My

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

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