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Dear Walt Whitman; I have received your books and MS. and send, with my hearty thanks, a New York check

My boy, ten years old, said to me this morning, "Have you got a book with a poem in it called 'O Captain

My Captain!' I want to learn it to speak in school."

its wings to you I am faithfully yours John Hay from John Hay, acknowledging & paying for MS of "Captain

, O Captain!"

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey March 10, '87 My dear John Hay, I send the two sets of books you

requested—Also a MS copy of "My Captain"—also a little Vol: containing my Dartmouth College Commencement-Poem-address

O'Connor is now in Southern California, sick— I send you my remembrance love & thanks— Walt Whitman the

The copy of "O Captain! My Captain!"

copy of the book for any purpose, I shall feel honored if you will allow me to send it to you with my

Mountain Side," "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," and "O Captain

My Captain!"

beautiful & interesting Bugle Echoes which has just reached me—Please send this to F F Browne with my

Mountain Side," "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," and "O Captain

My Captain!"

My dear Mr Whitman: Am glad to see by a morning journal that you are well enough to undertake a visit

If you have no better place to go, I shall be happy to give you shelter under my roof no 15, East Seventy-fourth

In any event, I hope to hear your address, and to see you at my office.

I am anxious to have one or more contributions from you for my Cyclopedia for which we pay ten dollars

Just as he was about to recite 'My Captain,' a little girl, the granddaughter of Edmund Clarence Stedman

acknowledged receipt of the books on March 12, 1887 and sent the poet $30 as thanks for a copy of "O Captain

My Captain!" that Whitman copied by hand and sent along with the books to the historian.

Whitman I intended writing to you to wish you good bye, but have just heard there is a chance of my seeing

Will there be any chance of my getting to speak to you?

Just as he was about to recite 'My Captain,' a little girl, the granddaughter of Edmund Clarence Stedman

Dillingham Co: New York), he writes of Whitman: "Whitman gave a few readings under my management during

Just as he was about to recite 'My Captain,' a little girl, the granddaughter of Edmund Clarence Stedman

It gives me quite a new conception of my own importance in the world.

(Give him my hearty greetings!)

Just as he was about to recite 'My Captain,' a little girl, the granddaughter of Edmund Clarence Stedman

here, but cold enough outside frozen hard— O why hast thou bleach'd these locks, old Time yet left my

1844, that is about "an aged man" who meets a young man and tells him, "I was like thee, once gay, my

son, — / Sweet pleasure filled my heart," but "conquering time / Hath bleached my locks so gray."

Johnston on September 1, 1887, "He advertises...to sell my photo, with autograph.

Johnston on September 1, 1887, "He advertises . . . to sell my photo, with autograph.

Whitman, late in life, said to Horace Traubel: "[I] take my Ruskin with some qualifications."

30, 1868, Whitman informed Ralph Waldo Emerson that "Proud Music of the Storm" was "put in type for my

But I have not suggested or exprest expressed myself well in my book unless I have in a sort included

I was very happy—I don't think I was at my best with him—he always did most of the talking—I am sure

E. and all, I consider not only a victor-event in my life, but it is an after-explanation of so much

My dear friend, I think I know R.W.E. better than anybody else knows him—and loved him in proportion,

that "Emerson inspired the first poems of Whitman," and that Whitman had confided to him in 1860: "My

Those fellows have one virtue—they always use good paper: and on that I manage to do a good deal of my

My friend of whom I spoke is in the cutlery trade, a razor grinder—very warmhearted free & natural.

I still keep the place going at Millthorpe, & spend part of my time there—and it is good to get out into

.], quite 'uneducated' in the ordinary sense... but well-grown and finely built" (Edward Carpenter, My

morning May 3 '87 Dear friend I got home all right Sunday afternoon—had a nice enjoyable ride—enjoyed my

visit anyhow—Yesterday I felt pretty dry, up in my room, & made a glass of drink, water, sugar & vinegar—from

that bottle you gave me—such as I remember my dear mother making sixty years ago, for my father, of

a hot day, when I was a little boy—& my drink went well too—Nothing new of any importance with me—Send

have just written him a few lines—told him ab't Harry —Warm & sunny to-day & I am sitting here with my

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

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

You should see my old mother— spry today, gets about without a stick, not bowed, nor over much wrinkled

They all came down, my brothers, sister, & the three children, & didn't get back to bed again till past

I find my brother a very democratic individual—rather opinionated & too "damn sure" to get on easy with

The first my brother said when I showed him the Hicks picture was—"He's the man who said the blood of

Traubel he later said: "I can see defects; this forehead, for instance, is not quite as it should be; but my

Johnston on September 1, 1887, "He advertises . . . to sell my photo, with autograph.

Johnston on September 1, 1887, "He advertises . . . to sell my photo, with autograph.

Camden May 6th 1887 Major Pond has written to me fixing dates for my proposed Boston (including I believe

Dillingham Co: New York), he writes of Whitman: "Whitman gave a few readings under my management during

Johnston on September 1, 1887, "He advertises . . . to sell my photo, with autograph.

I am not over my bad spell yet, but a little better perhaps—Harry is getting along very well —was up

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

Then he quietly chuckled: "But that's not surprising, not exceptional: my schemes never came to anything

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

deal of energy in starting off as he does, & as to his courage it is simply sublime , & he puts all my

I send all but had to separate the bundle, as it was too thick for my envelope.

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

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

rec'd—Major Pond has sent me $250—I came thro' Friday Evn'g in good order & am now here—Chewing on my

Dillingham Co: New York), he writes of Whitman: "Whitman gave a few readings under my management during

On this date Whitman recorded the following in his Commonplace Book: "To day I begin my 69th year—almost

Whitman is thinking here of the hymn sometimes called "Calvary," beginning "Come, O my heart," with the

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

19 Ap Harry has been here—is in good spirits & is surely getting along very well—I am getting over my

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

Dillingham Co: New York), he writes of Whitman: "Whitman gave a few readings under my management during

volumes of Horace Traubel's With Walt Whitman in Camden (various publishers: 1906–1996) and Whitman's "My

is at its height and bitter cold here now, the earth hard and covered with ice and snow, as I sit by my

God bless my British friends assisters—(from the first they have come in when most wanted)— Walt Whitman

Pall Mall Gazette devoted a great deal of space to Whitman in 1887: January 10, excerpts from "My Book

Advertiser Office Boston Aug. 1 1887 My dear Sir: I have lately been spending happy days with my dear

Returning home I found on my table the papers and pamphlet, and photogravure photograph of yourself,

The portrait hangs now on my wall in my little book-lined den at Waltham, where I may see it whenever

I raise my eyes from my work.

With profound gratitude for your especial notice of my faulty work, and a deep sense of obligation for

My best help however has come in my old age & paralysis from the Br: Islands.

into fiction of a very little amt of fact—in spirit it is altogether, & in letter mainly untrue (abt my

My income from my books, (royalties &c.) does not reach $100 a year.

I am now in my 69th year—living plainly but very comfortably in a little wooden cottage of my own, good

Best thanks and love to all my British helpers, readers & defenders. Walt Whitman to William T.

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to

friend Yours rec'd & welcomed, as always—I send Vol. of "Specimen Days and Collect," with emendations—My

" by Walt Whitman for title page— making two books — But I leave the thing, (after having expressed my

one made there, if you prefer to have your own as you may—Write me often as you can—I am tied up in my

corner by paralysis, & welcome friends' letters—bad cold raw weather—my bird is singing furiously—I

She is an American, & my best friend— Walt Whitman to Ernest Rhys, 2 February 1887

I for my part will advise him to collect and send on the whole amount as soon as he possibly can.

I am sure we shall all be quite satisfied with yr plans, for my part I am pleased that you are going

arranged that my contribution be my expenses to Camden & board bills there helping you get domicilled

(I built my own study out in Ohio when a lad).

But I shan't impart my surmise to any one else.

Room 56 Borden Block, Chicago, Feby 3d 188 7 My dear and honoured Walt Whitman:— It is less than a year

I was attracted by the curious title "Leaves of Grass", opened the book at random, and my eyes met the

In the "Spring Song" and the "Song of the Depths" my orbit responded to the new attracting sun.

Imagine that I have expressed to you my sincere conviction of what I owe.

The essay is my "first effort," at the age of 30.

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey May 3, '87 Your letter rec'd & welcomed as always—My visit to N Y

was a hasty flash only—I am more & more wretchedly physically disabled, & feel better off here in my

G—but I doubt whether it contains much (or any thing) for you—I can loan you my copy if you wish—I will

certainly keep you posted ab't myself, or any literary movement or change or happening of my work— Walt

shape like "Fancies at Navesink"—that ("November Boughs") is the name, by the by, I think of giving my

summer cottage fund —(dear Boyle, if you see him say I sent my best love & thanks)—I wish you fellows

be put of course to that definite single purpose, & there I shall probably mainly live the rest of my

tainted here, five or six months in the year, at best —As I write Herbert Gilchrist is here sketching in my

oil painting—I hear from Dr Bucke often—nothing now of late from O'Connor , who is still in So: Cal—My

My Dear Walt, As you see by my address I am staying with a great friend of yours.

I posted a copy of my book to you about a week ago: I hope that you will read it and tell me how you

As yet, I have not taken my passage, but I hope to come early in May, and to spend a nice slice of my

White Hall, Ky. 7-9-1887 My dear Mr.

I enclose my address at Yale University delivered before the Alumni & whole College .

As but 15 minutes were allowed, I have barely been able to state my views without discussion.

I have but the moment to return you my thanks—I wish you all happiness. Truly C. M.

front room down stairs, well wrapt up—for though bright & sunny it is a cold freezing day—have had my

usual—ups & downs—had rather a bad day yesterday—lay on the lounge most of the day—now better—the worst is my

time—Spirits & heart though mainly gay, which is the best half of the battle —Love & comfort to you, my

friends—your wives & all—Write often as you can—(monotony is now the word of my life)— Walt Whitman

last three or four weeks, & before returning to London tomorrow I should like to tell you something of my

Before beginning about myself, though,— many thanks for the Lippincott's article.— My Book & I , which

North Sea Interlude," and so it was natural that I should go down to the sea-shore a good deal during my

—then, two or three days ago, I went over to Browney Valley, to see my old friends the coal-miners &

Believe this, of yours most affectionately Ernest Rhys After to-day my address is again Sq.

Camden Oct 26, '87 early P M —have just had my dinner, (plain boil'd beef, potatoes & a roast apple—all

relish'd well) & am now sitting here in my big chair in the little front room —Cold & cloudy out—looks

fuller details)—The Pall Mall Gaz. letter you speak of appears to have erased a sentence or two (showing my

of home helpers) —but even as it is I hope it doesn't bear the construction you speak of—I enclose my

328 Mickle Street Camden New Jersey June 20 '87 Thank you my friend for the delicious chocolate—I have

it for my breakfast frequently, & enjoy it—Please accept a copy of my little book "Specimen Days" London

My Dear Walt, As you see by my address I am staying with a great friend of yours.

I posted a copy of my book to you about a week ago: I hope that you will read it and tell me how you

As yet, I have not taken my passage, but I hope to come early in May, and to spend a nice slice of my

Whitman occasionally referred to Stafford as "My (adopted) son" (as in a December 13, 1876, letter to