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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.
My Dear Friend: I get a few good letters on my little essay on the poets.
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
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
Wonders will never cease, and after all Houghton consented to publish my little work "Hamlet's Note-Book
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 find on carefully reading the "Quarterly," that I should greatly qualify my first impression of its
At present my brain is just mud—I have a heap of letters unanswered.
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." . . . .
My last visit to Camden was early in October, before I went abroad.
An autograph letter of Walt's was sold in this city last Spring for $80 to my knowledge."
my Captain! our fearful trip is done.
Leave you not the little spot Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain!
my Captain! rise up and hear the bells! Rise up!
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still: My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse
But I, with silent trade, Walk the spot my Captain lies, In this and in "President Lincoln's Funeral
I always have enough to supply my daily wants, thanks to my kind friends at home and abroad, and am in
My friends in Great Britain are very kind, and have on several occasions recollected me in little acts
"Regarding the insinuation of my being in want of the necessaries of life, I will state that I make it
You can see for yourself my present condition. Yes, I will say I am not in want.
My health is reasonably good.
WSK 328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey July 8 '86 Dear W S K I have returned from my jaunt to the Jersey
I am not at all afraid of my handwriting appearing on the printer's copy— Walt Whitman to William Sloane
Kennedy again lauded his book ("Walt Whitman, the Poet of Humanity"): "I have completed (rough finish) my
Whitman is referring to his article "My Book and I," which was published in Lippincott's (January 1887
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!"
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
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
the stew gravy)—Every thing from you rec'd & welcomed—dull weather, the ground covered with snow—(but my
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 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
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 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
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
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
Nothing very different with me—I go out by my own volition not at all, as my power of walking &c. is
Review for November—(they pay quite well, & Redpath is very good to me) —Have a paper "My Book & I" in
Lippincott's for Jan. next —will send it you in printed slip—Shall probably get ready my little concluding
Whitman is referring to his article "My Book and I," which was published in Lippincott's (January 1887
half-way to England—I have rec'd John Burroughs' new book —warm sunny day here—I am going out with my
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 March 26 1886 Dear Sir Yours of 26th rec'd—I send my heartiest thanks
too when awake) of Hattie—& of how it must be there with you & Jess —but keep on much the same, with my
night—She told me many little particulars I was glad to hear, though all is so sad—Nothing special in my
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
to write special letters of thanks &c. to you & T[alcott] W[illiams] for your kindness & labors in 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
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
328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey July 27 '86 My dear friends If you can use this, the price would
New York, June 14th 188 6 Walt Whitman Esq Trusting that the intelligence conveyed will plead for my
Tennyson & the new Locksley Hall, &c: —intended for your first page if you wish—ab't the usual length of my
I shall keep them carefully in my own hands until I see "Father Taylor" printed in the Magazine —If I
Send me a line acknowledging them, as I have a little uncertainty ab't my P O messenger.
My reading for the last two or three days (limited) of the articles in Century about Kearsarge and Alabama
going for two weeks to write special letters of thanks &c to you & T D for your kindness & labors in my